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End of the World Simulator in VR

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Face your fears with On The Morning You Wake (to the end of the world) in virtual reality Photo via Pixabay Imagine waking up to the text message “Ballistic Missile Threat Inbound. That above text message was the reality for the 1.4 million people living in Hawaii on January 13, 2018. Seek Immediate Shelter.

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Sketchfab Hosts 1 Million Online Scenes While Matterport Posts 250K Virtual Spaces

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Virtual reality’s web presence is heating up. The first comes from Sketfchfab — which is announcing 1 million scenes live online — and the second is Matterport — which is announcing over 250,000 spaces published in virtual reality. ” Charles Singletary contributed to this report.

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How to Analyze Virtual Reality (VR) Heatmaps and Analytics

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How to Analyze Virtual Reality (VR) Heatmaps and Analytics. Many organizations now use virtual reality as an integral part of their business. They’re making VR experiences for employee training, sales/marketing presentations, recruiting, communications and more.

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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 845 to Improve AR/VR Rendering & Reduce Power Consumption “by 30%”

Road to VR

Qualcomm introduced it’s new Snapdragon 845 mobile processor at the company’s tech summit in Hawaii this week, which Qualcomm says improves mobile AR/VR headset (branded to as ‘XR’, or ‘eXtended reality’) performance up to 30 percent in comparison to its predecessor, Snapdragon 835.

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AMD Launches RX 480, the $199 VR-Ready GPU

Road to VR

AMD today launched the Radeon RX 480, the company’s budget-friendly GPU that promises to lower the barrier of entry into virtual reality. Touted as the cheapest VR-ready graphics solution to date, the new Radeon RX 480 was made available today in 4GB ($199) and 8GB models ($239) across the web. Memory Bus Width. Processor Size.

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Hands-on: VR Goes Skydiving at iFLY – The Ultimate Haptic Simulation

Road to VR

They can choose between several different skydiving locations—like Dubai, Hawaii, or Switzerland—where iFly has recorded real skydives specifically for use in the iFly VR experience. After training and getting a feel for stable non-VR flying, customers don a purpose-built helmet which incorporates a Gear VR headset.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.11.21): Qualcomm launches AR2 chip, HTC headset gets leaked, and more!

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Let’s see what have been the most interesting things happening in immersive reality…. Qualcomm and Niantic bet on the future of augmented reality with AR2. The biggest news of the week took place in the Hawaii islands, where Qualcomm had its Snapdragon Summit event. Top news of the week. Image by Qualcomm).

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