XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 14, 2025

As organizations like Varjo create more intuitive solutions for building digital twins of specific spaces, the opportunities companies have to create dedicated virtual environments for specific employees are growing too. With VR, workplace productivity and collaboration gets an instant boost. Fortunately, VR offered a solution.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

Spice up your live stream with this customizable virtual environment. introduced a brand new green screen room to its social VR platform Bigscreen VR , allowing users to customize their virtual environment for a variety of use cases, from VR podcasts and live streams to video conferencing and more. Bigscreen Inc.

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VRScout

MARCH 1, 2021

Airmen and their spouses are taught how to comfort distressed individuals in a virtual environment. Air Force video by Nicholas Pilch. Air Force video by Nicholas Pilch. “We Air Force video by Nicholas Pilch. The US Air Force has been no exception. Image Credit: U.S. Image Credit: U.S. Feature Image Credit: U.S.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 9, 2024

General Keyboard Tracking Alongside a more seamless virtual desktop setup, another improvement on the way is keyboard tracking to create a cut-out of your keyboard on your desk, even while you’re in a virtual environment. Quest has supported keyboard tracking for a while, but only for select keyboards.

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VRScout

MAY 10, 2023

A little entertainment can go a long way during a lengthy commute, as shown by Reddit user manicmastiff81 who this week shared a video of them watching YouTube from the cockpit of a VR spaceship in the popular open-world science-fiction game No Man’s Sky.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 15, 2025

Virtual reality headsets and applications, such as Horizon Workrooms by Meta, Microsofts Immersive Spaces, and custom-built metaverse environments, are helping to bridge the gaps between teams. Virtual reality doesnt just give employees a better sense of shared presence than video conferencing tools and traditional apps.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

.” To understand the technology better, here is a quick introduction to the top Metaverse components, ideas, and technologies: Metaverse Avatars are a user’s digital embodiment in a virtual environment or game world, and may include hyper-realistic 3D representations powered by artificial intelligence (AI). Decentraland.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Well it all depends on your definition of “work” While it’s true you can physically move throughout your virtual environments via inside-out tracking, your controllers will not be along for the ride, making it virtually impossible to interact with games and apps. So, does the Oculus Quest 2 work outside?

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 13, 2025

With XR, Credit Agricole created deeply collaborative training sessions for teams, bridging the gaps between distributed employees and shared virtual environments. The training strategy has completely replaced video instruction options and Excel spreadsheets, resulting in streamlined work and reduced team errors.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Apple delivered optimised MR features, including improved spatial capture, hand-tracking, key productivity enhancements, virtual environments, avatars, and more. The mouse integration also comes with Magic Keyboard optimisation that reveals the location of the physical keyboard when fully immersed in a virtual environment.

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ARPost

APRIL 28, 2020

This year, the event was canceled, due to coronavirus, to be replaced with a series of live stream videos. The 40-minute rambling video included definitions of terms that anyone who could find the video already understood. (We We know what “video calls” are.) 360 Video Backgrounds. What’s to Come.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Bigscreen, the social screen-sharing app for VR, is striding into new territory with its new green screen environment, which aims to let creators repurpose their avatars for anything from Zoom chats to YouTube videos. Using Bigscreen’s Green Screen.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In the video provided, we see how the system immerses users in different combat scenarios against various drone types, from reconnaissance to payload delivery. “Operator’s solutions are enabling defence and law enforcement to rapidly train for these new situations in realistic, virtual environments.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2020

How to use passthrough in your Oculus Quest Home – Video Tutorial. I made a fancy video where I show you how to activate this feature, and some nice experiments I conducted with it. After that, you will see all the 2D elements of the Oculus Home floating around your real environment. I have speeded-up the video a bit.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Animators can create more complex imagery while they are immersed in virtual environments. They can integrate 360 videos and animation data with ease. VR surpasses the limitations of 2D animation with functionalities that enhance spatial understanding.

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VRScout

JANUARY 10, 2021

Oxford Medical Simulation offers VR medical training to remote students. // Video Credit: Oxford Medical Simulation. HistoryMaker VR lets students step into the shoes of famous figures. // Video Credit: VRScout. Multiplayer VR experience challenges users to survive the harsh conditions of Mars. // Video Credit: SPREE Interactive.

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VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2020

Kindona Limited, a small group engineers and designers lead by Izuchukwu Okongwu, is currently in development of a VR-enabled bike controller that will allow you to navigate virtual worlds from the seat of your real-world bicycle.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Mobile Mixed Reality is a new feature coming soon to the Oculus app that will allow you to capture immersive mixed reality video directly from your smartphone without the need for any additional equipment or post-production. Here’s everything we have to look forward to with update v35 for the Meta Quest: MOBILE MIXED REALITY.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2024

Let me explain what I mean using the example of the magic mirror I recently did: I could have done this video in two ways: the naive one would have been to put the virtual mirror as a root game object in my Unity Scene , with the absolute coordinates of the physical mirror in my room, with the same dimensions of the physical mirror.

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VRScout

JUNE 6, 2022

This will supposedly include mysterious video content from celebrated director Jon Favreau ( The Lion King, Ironman, The Mandalorian ). Back in 2019, we talked about how the star director used VR technology to create and preview virtual environments for his 2019 remake of The Lion King.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2021

Oculus Mixed Reality Capture is a plugin that lets content creators make amazing mixed reality videos of a VR game for the Oculus Quest. Oculus MRC in Unity – Video Tutorial. My friend Alex Gonzalez is a real pro in making this kind of mixed reality videos for Quest (Image by Alex Gonzalez). Prerequisites.

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ARPost

JUNE 11, 2019

Virtual reality platform VeeR VR came up with social experiments with the help of LGBTQ individuals from China. They recorded a few videos to determine what people feel about the LGBTQ community. Then, they replicated these in a virtual environment.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 18, 2024

Netflix isn’t planning to launch a dedicated app for Apple Vision Pro, which is an odd move coming from the streaming video giant. According to a Bloomberg report, Netflix isn’t launching an app on Vision Pro, instead offering its streaming service through the web. Why all the hub-bub?

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VRScout

APRIL 7, 2019

Anyone familiar with video games probably has a story or two about a particularly infuriating NPC (non-playable character) that severely dampened their gaming experience. The sketch does an excellent job of highlighting the at-times ridiculous behavior of video game AI.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Still, the new avatar system brings a lot more flexibility to the table, which Instagram user ‘mistermavix’ shows off in a recent video: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Mavix (@mistermavix) Meta says in the most recent Horizon Worlds v182 release notes that world creators should make sure their virtual environments are ready (..)

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Later this year Apple will finally allow Mac Virtual Display for a more immersive, ultrawide screen experience, something the company says simulates two 4K displays side by side for enhanced multitasking. Trim Videos at Any Scale : Trim videos from your photo library with ease, adjusting the scale to fit your preferences.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 16, 2019

It places young patients in virtual environments, allowing them to see the people and places they love. Instead of delivering therapy in the usual constrained environment, Floreo places kids with special needs in virtual environments. One of their first creations was a program called Secret Garden.

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Road to VR

JUNE 26, 2024

There are a few great ways to market VR games, but there’s arguably none better than by showing real people immersed in virtual environments thanks to mixed reality capture. ” To boot, LIV is today releasing in beta its new SDK v2.0

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 8, 2022

I’m ChatGPT, and I’m here to tell you all about the amazing things you can do with ChatGPT in video game development and virtual reality. It’s basically like having your own personal AI assistant that can help you create realistic and engaging conversations between characters in your games and virtual environments.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

What they came up with was Teaching Space, an unlimited multi-user virtual classroom designed to help medical schools around the world who’ve been impacted by the pandemic; a virtual space where they’re able to get that crucial hands-on training while working other students in a collaborative virtual environment.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The company behind the multiplayer plugin Normcore proves the viability of a virtual office and beyond. The 2017 video from Normal VR started with an adorable, yellow, blob-like virtual avatar daintily standing in the middle of a real, physical office. It was a glimpse of the interconnected metaverse of the future.

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VRScout

JANUARY 26, 2021

Some rooms (Film Party) allow those with a webcam to stream video directly to their avatar, replacing the static image they selected before with a talking head. Proximity audio and video chat are enabled throughout the hours of 11:00 AM MT and 11:59 PM MT. Image Credit: Sundance Institute. CINEMA HOUSE.

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ARPost

JUNE 7, 2022

Dating in the metaverse will usher in a new era of virtual dating. Apps powered by advanced technologies will enable people to create real human connections in safe and secure virtual environments. The video will be immersive. And video dating will change as we know it. The audio will be spatial.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 29, 2022

During a 3D Frame Metaverse meeting, the platform allows workers to share and stream file types, including photos, videos, PDFs, and real-time 3D (RT3D) models. Additionally, a 3D Frame user can transform a 2D Webex session into a VR meeting room without leaving the application.

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Road to VR

MAY 22, 2017

Oculus recently published the first installment of their ‘Developer Perspectives’ video playlists, detailed on the developer blog. Over the coming weeks, Crytek says they they will publish some 40 videos exploring those experiments and the thinking behind them.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Quest 3 Screenshot & Video Capture Shortcut If you’re new to Quest 3 you’ll almost certainly want to capture screenshots and videos of your VR shenanigans to share with friends. You can also take screenshots and videos with Voice Commands which we’ll cover… right now.

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ARPost

MARCH 24, 2021

Options like the Oculus Quest 2 make it easy for anyone to jump right into virtual reality and VR gaming, and it’s nice to know you’re not alone. In traditional video games, adult women actually represent a greater portion of the population (33%) than boys under the age of 18 (17%). Who Is Playing Games?

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