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Audi Creates VR Sandbox Track You Can Shape And Drive Yourself

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The sand is then carefully scanned by a Kinect depth-sensing camera, from which a virtual world is rendered. With the terrain data now built into your own virtual track, you can buckle up in the new Audi Q5, which becomes a portal to the virtual world you just created. This virtual world has real depth.

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Virtually Drive Audi’s New Q5 Through Your Own Sandbox Creation

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Audi wants to use VR to give us a chance to make our childhood dreams a reality by allowing customers to test drive the new Audi Q5 on a virtual track they design in a sandbox. This virtual world has real depth,” says MediaMonks’s creative director Tom Eriksen. The Sandbox 2.0

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A Look at the World’s First Interactive Mixed Reality TV Show

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According to Bård Anders Kasin, co-Founder of The Future Group, this was an important strategic move: “We give them enough of that environment so that they can compete that challenge, and we use green screen to transfer them into the virtual world,” said Kasin during an interview with GameCrate. “Of Hopefully U.S.

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Meta Horizon Desktop Editor Now Publicly Available In Early Access

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Most worlds on it today are made inside VR, using the Touch controllers to manipulate primitive 3D shapes and rig up interactions using a spatial visual scripting system. While this allows anyone with just a Quest to build virtual worlds, the results have been widely and harshly criticized for their simplistic cartoonish appearance.

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The Future Group Raises $20 Million to Blend Real-world Video With Virtual Worlds

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The Future Group has raised $20 million for its technology that blends real-world video with virtual worlds to immerse people inside what feels like an interactive game show. The Oslo, Norway-based company came out of stealth last year and is now working on a major project with a team of more than 100 people.

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A Complete Guide to Virtual Reality

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Over the years, technology has become smaller, lighter, more comfortable, and with faster processing, breathing life into the virtual world. Also, unlike augmented reality (AR), which people can access via smartphones and smart glasses, VR relies on larger headsets and controllers to interact with fully-immersive virtual worlds.

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Kygo Unveils ‘Carry Me’ VR Music Experience

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This DJ’s virtual world will take your breath away. During the first day of VR On The Lot , a virtual reality industry conference at Paramount Pictures Studios, Sony Music unveiled a new VR experience from superstar Norwegian DJ Kygo.

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