The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

They both serve a similar purpose, that is blending the virtual and the real : if wearing a Varjo XR-1 headset you go to a greenscreen room, you will see the virtual world in the places where there is the green color and the real one in the other parts of your view. Google MediaPipe can now track 3D objects.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2017

Watch YouTube in VR with your friends, Google pours resources into shared social VR experiences, upcoming standalone headsets will be wireless, the Snapchat vs. Facebook continues, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… You can enjoy the full audio recording below: WATCH YOUTUBE IN VR… WITH YOUR FRIENDS!

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Image by Google). Google completely opensources Cardboard. With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard. Google affirms that Cardboard has been a huge success to introduce people into VR, and more than 15 million headsets have been distributed.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2019

Google releases an opensource library for hand tracking. Google has released opensource a library for tracking your hands on a mobile device. The solution is part of Mediapipe, the framework to create machine-learning-based solutions , and offers 21-points hand tracking on your mobile phone. Decentraland is growing.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Back in the time, there were already some virtual worlds having interoperability between them, there has already been written a document about avatar rights, and there were already big concerns about privacy. Learn more. Learn more (OpenBrush reaching v1.0) Learn more (Icosa announcing the 1.0 Les Mills BodyCombat.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The aim in developing the PanguVR engine was to equip content producers to create immersive and interactive content, in UE4 (Unreal VR Engine), automatically meaning without any learning curve. PanguVR lets you see your new home in virtual reality (Image by Pangu VR). How do you achieve that?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2019

VR just passed the thorough of disillusionment and is here to stay thanks to investments in the AR/VR market by Facebook, Google and Apple. Hyper-reality or mixed reality means creating a world around, it’s the merging of real and virtual worlds, where physical and digital objects interact with each other in real-time.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 12, 2022

NVIDIA delivered a speech on Tuesday at the SIGGRAPH 2022, revealing a fresh lineup of metaverse solutions to audiences, including virtual world-building, digital twin, and avatar platforms. Covers neural graphics advancements, digital twins, & virtual humans: [link]. Kent Bye VoicesOfVR (@kentbye) August 9, 2022.

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Bernard Marr

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

And I’m not just talking about formal education in schools, colleges, and universities – but also workplace learning and lifelong learning. Extended reality (XR) Technologies Will Make Learning More Immersive XR encompasses the spectrum of immersive technologies, including augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR).

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Just like it sounds, it’s AI that can create, from words and images to videos, music, computer applications, and even entire virtual worlds. What makes generative AI different and special is that it puts the power of machine intelligence in the hands of just about anyone.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 19, 2024

Unfortunately, NeRFs are difficult to train and limited in enabling navigation in virtual worlds. Adobe, Apple, Google, and Meta are incorporating the technique into their enterprise apps. For instance, even in apps like Google Street View, you still need to jump 15 feet from one place to the next to see a new scene.

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Hypergrid Business

JULY 16, 2017

Kitely was in second place with 1,520 new registered users followed by InWorldz with 1,048, Emilac with 801 and Virtual Brasil with 412. Adreans-World grid lost 218 registered users. OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. VirTec vending machine network loses ground.

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Building the Metaverse

MAY 9, 2022

Disco Diffusion is an online tool that runs inside Google Collab, a platform that lets you execute Python programs that can run on cloud-based GPUs. It uses a learning model that results in startling “creative” artwork. are we just going to let the machines take over? Elden Ring Art in 5 minutes? AI Music Videos?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2018

One thing that I’m trying to do is continuing my daily job and at the meantime learn as much as I can about AR and VR. Machine Learning has become a key part of the product, now. The company is going good and those awesome people have changed my life. And then, along the road, a lot of amazing investors arrived.

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NVidia VR

MARCH 18, 2024

We’re going to train it with multimodality data, not just text on the internet, we’re going to train it on texts and images, graphs and charts, and just as we learned watching TV, there’s going to be a whole bunch of watching video.” We call that virtual world Omniverse.” “We need even larger models,” Huang said.

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ARVR

MARCH 9, 2022

As for Virtual Reality (VR), it’s a complete immersion into a virtual world, shutting off the physical world entirely through special VR devices like HTC Vive, Google Cardboard, and Oculus Rift. Virtual Reality is used for entertainment purposes like games and in more serious fields, like healthcare.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 23, 2023

Many elements contribute to Web3’s infrastructure, notably real-time 3D (RT3D) augmented, virtual, mixed reality (AR/VR/MR) immersive experiences. Although extended reality (XR) and Web3 experiences exist thanks to other integrated elements like AI, Machine Learning, Blockchain, and Geo-tagged content.

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Ryan Schultz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Curious people outside the tech industry could line up to interact with a variety of alluring and mysterious machine interfaces, and what they saw was dazzling. AI is now being used to create virtual worlds, or “metaverses”, that are populated by digital avatars and objects that can be manipulated in real-time.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. It allows people with no technical skills to quickly and cheaply create virtual worlds, and then teleport to other virtual worlds. Lessons learned are then incorporated into core code, and benefit all grid owners.

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Bernard Marr

MAY 19, 2023

If you think about it, most of the sites we use today are owned by major corporations (like Meta, Google, and Amazon) and – to some extent – are controlled by government regulations. And many of the virtual worlds that will ultimately form part of the metaverse (places like the Decentraland virtual world) are built on blockchain.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 19, 2017

This year Flock (video above) will expand upon some of the concepts of Holojam with a multi-user untethered virtual world “designed to get people to move, shake, and flock together.” Panels and presentations will also be offered allowing visitors to learn more about the projects. Learn more from the Lytro team.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

All across the planet, our technologies are breaking out from behind the screen and into the physical world around us. Simultaneously, the people, places, and things in our world are being digitized and brought into the virtual world, becoming part of the digital domain. One where the Web becomes the World.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 18, 2023

A workplace trainee can learn how to use or repair a piece of equipment using a digital twin; some solutions allow trainees to take apart complex digital objects, like an engineer, to see the inner component – saving a lot of time, usually reserved for clean-up.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Allen discussed the benefits of immersive learning platforms, citing a company study on the return on investment (ROI) for clients via VR training. Regarding upskilling challenges across multiple verticals, Allen discussed the costs and expenses of creating immersive learning experiences. Oberon Technologies.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

I know you guys have been working– well, you specifically have been working in the 3D virtual space for many years now. How did you get involved in VR and learning? There was something called people avatars and virtual worlds, that was very popular around 2007. It is transforming education by experiential learning.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

I know you guys have been working– well, you specifically have been working in the 3D virtual space for many years now. How did you get involved in VR and learning? There was something called people avatars and virtual worlds, that was very popular around 2007. It is transforming education by experiential learning.

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Ryan Schultz

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

HOUSEKEEPING NOTICE: Yes, I know this blogpost is somewhat off-topic for a blog about “news and views on social VR, virtual worlds, and the metaverse,” but hey, my blog, my rules. Backup Strategy : Set up a backup strategy using Time Machine or a third-party backup solution to ensure your data is protected.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 18, 2025

They sold this money machine to focus on a technology that is currently not making any relevant money. The approach chosen by Meta is similar to the one that Google promised to take with Android XR. This will let Google enrich its content library pretty fast. Its a big bet on the bright future of XR.

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Trenzi VR

JANUARY 10, 2024

Metaverse is a 3D virtual world where the virtual avatars of billions of people can live, work, shop, learn and interact with each other without moving away from their couch. Google, Microsoft, Nvidia and Qualcomm followed the steps and invested billions of dollars in that concept.

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Trenzi VR

JANUARY 10, 2024

Metaverse is a 3D virtual world where the virtual avatars of billions of people can live, work, shop, learn and interact with each other without moving away from their couch. Google, Microsoft, Nvidia and Qualcomm followed the steps and invested billions of dollars in that concept.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Image by Google). Google is reportedly working on an AR operating system. In some of my past newsletters, I warned you that we shouldn’t forget about Google/Alphabet in the race to our mixed reality future. Now we have finally an official confirmation of the fact that Google is working on an AR device. Tilt Brush).

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

I know you guys have been working-- well, you specifically have been working in the 3D virtual space for many years now. How did you get involved in VR and learning? There was something called people avatars and virtual worlds, that was very popular around 2007. It is transforming education by experiential learning.

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Bernard Marr

AUGUST 5, 2024

Today, the online experience is built around apps, devices, streaming services and virtual worlds. Thanks to advances in augmented reality (AR), we even see it encroaching into the real world. The internet and the virtual world will be all around us, entwined with the real world – which is perhaps an even scarier concept!

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

We’re figuring out what those experiences are going to be, not pulling out a crystal ball and deciding how people are going to interact out in the real world. There’s a lot to learn about how we can start to blend these different experiences into the world. Ellsworth: On top of that, machine learning is going to be huge in AR.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

We're doing a lot of work in immersive learning. I like to say, if it's too dangerous, too difficult, or too expensive to do the training in the real world, why wouldn't you do it in a virtual world? So next thing in here, you talked about immersive learning. There's really wide range here.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

We're doing a lot of work in immersive learning. I like to say, if it's too dangerous, too difficult, or too expensive to do the training in the real world, why wouldn't you do it in a virtual world? So next thing in here, you talked about immersive learning. There's really wide range here.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

We're doing a lot of work in immersive learning. I like to say, if it's too dangerous, too difficult, or too expensive to do the training in the real world, why wouldn't you do it in a virtual world? So next thing in here, you talked about immersive learning. There's really wide range here.

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