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Google Earth VR is a fun and useful way of seeing the world—it’s easy to lose yourself visiting your home town, or mapping out new adventures thanks to the company’s extensive 3D building scans. Unfortunately Google Earth VR is a PC VR only app, meaning it doesn’t work natively on Quest. That’s not set to change […]

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Varjo is Bringing Foveated XR Cloud Streaming to Its Headsets & Beyond

3 years ago

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Varjo, makers of high-end XR headsets, today announced it is introducing an XR cloud streaming service for enterprise customers. The streaming solution leverages the headset’s foveated rendering to deliver high quality XR experiences on less powerful machines. The company plans to eventually allow other headsets to make use of the service as well. Varjo today […]

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Inside VR Design: The Clever Weapons, Locomotion, & Open-world of ‘Stormland’

3 years ago

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In Inside VR Design we examine specific examples of great VR design. Today we’re looking at the clever design of Stormland’s weapons, locomotion, and open-world. You can find the complete video below, or continue reading for an adapted text version. Stormland is an open-world action-adventure game with co-op support from Insomniac Games. It’s available on Oculus […]

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Cosmonauts Wrap Up Spacewalk after Russian Module Work

3 years ago

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Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos concluded their spacewalk at 2:28 p.m. EST after 7 hours and 11 minutes. Shkaplerov and Dubrov completed their major objectives for today to ready the new Prichal module for future Russian visiting spacecraft. The cosmonauts installed handrails, rendezvous antennas, a television camera, and docking targets on Prichal, …

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Russian Spacewalkers Exit Station to Service Russian Modules

3 years ago

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Expedition 66 Commander Anton Shkaplerov and Flight Engineer Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos began a spacewalk to ready the new Prichal module for future Russian visiting spacecraft when they opened the hatch of the Poisk docking compartment airlock of the International Space Station at 7:17 a.m. EST. Coverage of the spacewalk continues on NASA Television, the NASA app, and …

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NASA TV is Live as Two Cosmonauts Prep for Station Spacewalk

3 years ago

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NASA Television coverage of today’s spacewalk with cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos is now underway and is also available on the NASA app and the agency’s website. The crew members of Expedition 66 are preparing to exit the International Space Station‘s Poisk module on the space-facing side of …

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Microsoft To Buy Activision Blizzard in Metaverse Push

3 years ago

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Microsoft is set to acquire one of the world’s top gaming development and interactive entertainment publishers in a bid to create “building blocks” for the Metaverse, the company announced on Tuesday. The Redmond, Washington-based tech giant said it planned to buy out Activision Blizzard Inc to expedite the former’s gaming business operations across PCs, mobiles, […]

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NUS Medical School Adopts Microsoft HoloLens 2

3 years ago

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The National University of Singapore’s Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (NUS Medicine) announced last week its medical and nursing students will adopt Microsoft’s Hololens 2 mixed reality (MR) headsets for clinical procedure training. As of April 2022, NUS educators will introduce Project Polaris, the university’s MR-based immersive learning platform. Polaris uses real-time 3d (RT3D) […]

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HS2 Taps VR, Digital Twins to Monitor Railways

3 years ago

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Britain’s High Speed Rail Network (HS2) has received a smart ally in the fight against service and operational issues, the company tasked with building the massive project announced on Monday. HS2 Ltd will incorporate both virtual reality (VR) and real-time sensor monitoring of network infrastructure such as power lines, railways, bridges, and others to safeguard […]

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FTC, NY-Led Group Appeal Lawsuit Against Meta

3 years ago

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This week, the Federal Trade Commission, along with US states such as New York, Tennessee, and North Carolina, are building an anti-competitive case against global virtual reality (VR) firm Meta. In a move launched by the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James, lawmakers plan to investigate the Menlo Park-based firm on accusations from […]