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The XR Week Peek (2023.12.04): Varjo announces XR-4 headset, Quest 2 sells much more than Quest 3, and more!

The Ghost Howls

More info (Varjo launches XR-4 headset) More info (Varjo’s launch on Road To VR) More info (Varjo opens up waiting list for consumers) Other relevant news Quest 3 is selling well, but Quest 2 much better Quest 3 sales are not going bad, and the headset, after Black Friday , has now already 5% of the shares of devices on the SteamVR survey.

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The Future Is Now: 2023 Metaverse and XR Predictions Worth Looking Into

ARPost

As pointed out in one of the Unity Developers’ blog posts , aside from the exponential rise of development businesses, we’re also seeing more developer tools, such as the Unity and Unreal engines, becoming more accessible. According to a PwC report , businesses are likely to become “metaverse power users.”

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Teens slow to adopt VR and more bad news for the metaverse

Hypergrid Business

Virtual reality hasn’t caught on with American teens, according to a new survey from Piper Sandler released on Tuesday. I watched the Game Developers Conference presentations from Nvidia , Unreal Engine , and Unity. And it’s not just Unreal and Unity. (Image by Maria Korolov via Midjourney.) million units.

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Is Gaming in the Metaverse the Next Frontier?

XR Today - Virtual Reality

These previously integrated objects such as 3D avatars, world-building, and observation as gameplay. As companies like Meta Platforms, Unity, and Epic Games build interconnected world-building platforms, gaming has found a new home with immersive technologies. Metaverse Gaming Examples. Games-as-Platforms. Social Gaming.

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What is the Industrial Metaverse? The Full Guide

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Defining the Metaverse: From Consumer to Industrial The Metaverse is often (mistakenly) perceived as a single, all-encompassing virtual world wherein various companies create digital experiences. The metaverse is a digital world that’s always on and operating. However, the reality is the “metaverse” isn’t one entity.

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Jeremy Bailenson talks about 1,000,000 Walmart employees training with VR, presence, and the VR “empathy machine”

The Ghost Howls

You’ve got these avatars and these virtual worlds and something just really grabbed me about a future in VR. I was lucky enough to get a job at UC Santa Barbara in a combination social psychology lab and computer science hub , where we were using VR to run experiments, to simulate the social world. This is 1999.

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5 Unreal Assets for Your Next Orion VR Project

Leapmotion

With our 2016 developer survey in full swing, we thought we’d share some great assets that you could buy with one of five $100 Unity/Unreal asset credit prizes! Whimsical fall leaves, melancholy rain, spooky fog – weather can be a powerful way to set the tone for your virtual world (or give your users Storm-like superpowers).

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