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Google Announces Android XR Operating System Alongside Samsung MR Headset

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Samsung’s newly announced headset, codenamed Project Moohan, will be the first MR headset to launch with Android XR next year. Google TV, for instance, can be watched on a large, curved screen, with info panels popping out of the main window for better use of real-estate. Check out our early hands-on with the headset.

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What is Metaverse Real Estate: Building Digital Property 

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Real estate in the metaverse essentially gives buyers access to an infinitely flexible environment, where they can construct anything from digital twins of office spaces to virtual reality worlds. Here’s everything today’s digital pioneers need to know about metaverse real estate. What is Metaverse Real Estate?

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Enquire AI Gears Up for Metaverse Shift, Purchases Virtual Land

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These enterprises include PwC, JP Morgan, Samsung, and Adidas. Both platforms allow users to explore, build, and purchase digital assets like virtual real estate. See Also: OVR’s Take on World-Scale Metaverse. Both allow designers and developers to create virtual experiences that can be accessed by other users.

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Vision Pro Games Are Starting to Blend 3D with Flatscreen-native Gameplay

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The UI floats above makes full use of the free real estate too. It still allows for co-op across those devices in addition to Vision Pro soon, but you’ll notice as you smash your way through levels, that coins and blocks fly out of the game’s window and onto the floor. Input is also entirely hand-tracking based.

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

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In fact, games only account for 35% of projects underway, as the rest are focused on fields like psychology and neuroscience (12%), education (7%), tourism (7% ), and architecture and real estate (6%). image courtesy VR First.

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5 Potential Gear VR ‘Killer Apps’ Demonstrated During Samsung Contest

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The Gear VR Killer App contest hosted by Samsung at the Upload Collective earlier this month brought in a hundred-plus technophiles eager for a chance to check out the finalists — and to find out which (if any) deserved “killer app” status. “[It] – Disclaimer: This is a sponsored post paid for by Samsung.

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Big XR News from Meta, Samsung, Varjo, Lenovo

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Meta has stated that the supported XR features can create solutions for the education, tourism, and real estate sectors. Roh also confirmed that the device is coming “later this year,” despite Samsung not revealing a release window; the pair appeared confident about the potential XR device’s 2024 debut.

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