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7 pieces of advice if you have to remotely work as a VR developer from China

The Ghost Howls

There is not only the problem of the timezone but also the unknown of the internet connection and the inability of reaching Western websites like Google. While still in Italy, I verified that Microsoft Teams, Unity, and Github were accessible from China. I still call them VPNs, where the acronym stands for Very Party Networks).

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Metaverse To Target 3 Key Destinations, Unity Says

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

John A Cunningham, Head of Government & Aerospace at Unity. Most companies and people with current websites would have “Metaverse-like destinations” in the future, he said, adding that, according to Unity, would result in three primary categories. Three Categories of Metaverse Destinations.

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Rethinking Digital Twins

ARPost

How Unity talks about digital twins – real-time 3D in industry – I think we need to revamp what that means as we go along,” Unity VP of Digital Twins Rory Armes told ARPost. Unity – which is a game engine at heart – isn’t shying away from digital twins. That’s where the game engine starts.”

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Crytek-Incubated ‘VR First’ Program to Double Number of Academic VR/AR Labs in 2017

Road to VR

While the program was principally incubated by Crytek, students working in VR First labs tend use Unity (48%), followed by Unreal (20%) and then CRYENGINE (14%). Through its Lab Renovation Program, VR First is promoting the adoption of these new standards by lab partners, governments and science parks. image courtesy VR First.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.24): Facebook login gets imposed on Quest and the community riots, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Someone invokes saviors like Google and Amazon, but even if they managed to succeed, they are other data-harvesting companies , so in any case, we are f**ked. While the community protests against Facebook in the West, it seems that in China the government is working for a real name policy in gaming.

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The 2nd Annual AR/VR Policy Conference

ARPost

This problem in perception and policy was discussed by former Federal Trade Commission Acting Chairwoman Maureen Ohlhausen, NIST ’s Dylan Gilbert, and Google ’s Karim Mohammadali. How AR/VR Will Reshape National Defense, Government Services, and International Relations. We don’t expect the government to come in and solve everything.”.

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My predictions for augmented reality in 2021

The Ghost Howls

As a long-time AR enthusiast, and one of the first to have tried Google Glass in Italy, I have to admit that I will consider AR mainstream only when it will be on glasses that we will wear all day , when we’ll live in a completely shared mixed reality world (the AR Cloud). Or is it just a talk about glasses?