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Taking a Virtual Spin Around The Solar System

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After demoing it myself, I also got my seven-year-old niece try it, and even though by now she’s a bit of a VR veteran (using your family members as guinea pigs is standard practice in my household), the experience still had her shouting out in excitement, and – most tellingly – incorporating space exploration themes into her play afterward.

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Take A Virtual Tour Around The Solar System With ‘Overview’

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After demoing it myself, I was able to get my seven-year-old niece try it, and even though by now she’s a bit of a VR veteran (using your family members as guinea pigs is standard practice in my household), the experience still had her shouting out in excitement, and – most tellingly – incorporating space exploration themes into her play afterward.

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Bungee Jumping with Untethered VR, featuring Happy Finish’s Daniel Cheetham

XR for Business Podcast

It was in the context, we were chatting -- watercooler moment -- chatting about how we could make some noise about untethered VR, particularly around the Oculus Quest. We a couple of guinea pigs who put their hand up first, but I did try it in the end. I mean, there's VR collaboration tools and stuff, but 99.9 Alan: Yeah.

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Bungee Jumping with Untethered VR, featuring Happy Finish’s Daniel Cheetham

XR for Business Podcast

It was in the context, we were chatting -- watercooler moment -- chatting about how we could make some noise about untethered VR, particularly around the Oculus Quest. We a couple of guinea pigs who put their hand up first, but I did try it in the end. I mean, there's VR collaboration tools and stuff, but 99.9 Alan: Yeah.

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Virtual Reality Headset Demos for Newbies: Some Do’s and Don’ts

Ryan Schultz

The standard Vive controllers feel more like tools, as opposed to hand extensions, and I can only imagine how much more of a newbie learning curve setting up the Knuckles controllers would be, given how much fidgeting and adjusting I have to do to get my set at home to work “just right”).

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Bungee Jumping with Untethered VR, featuring Happy Finish’s Daniel Cheetham

XR for Business Podcast

It was in the context, we were chatting -- watercooler moment -- chatting about how we could make some noise about untethered VR, particularly around the Oculus Quest. We a couple of guinea pigs who put their hand up first, but I did try it in the end. I mean, there's VR collaboration tools and stuff, but 99.9 Alan: Yeah.

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Future Trend: The Use of Artificial Intelligence Companions and Chatbots in the Metaverse (and I Decide to Test Out the Replika AI Chatbot)

Ryan Schultz

There’s also an Early Access version on the Oculus Store for the Meta Quest 2 ; I checked and it is not available via Steam, which means that I sadly cannot use Replika on my trusty Valve Index headset. (I You can also share pictures and photographs with her, which she identifies using image recognition deep learning tools.

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