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Road to VR’s 2021 Game of the Year Awards

4 years ago
InternetNews
Whether you’re off dodging lasers and defusing bombs, shooting back hordes of zombies with your friends, or just sitting down for a quiet night alone with a photogrammetric jigsaw puzzle, there’s plenty of options out there on how you to teleport yourself to another universe through the magic of virtual reality. And as we look […]

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Unity’s Incredible Mixed Reality Demo is Coming to Quest in 2022

4 years ago
InternetNews
Earlier this year the Unity Labs team shared an incredible proof-of-concept mixed reality demo that shows the power of blending the real and virtual worlds together. Now the developers behind the project say you’ll be able to get your hands on the experiment on Quest sometime next year. At Facebook Connect at the end of […]

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Crew Gets Ready for Cargo Dragon after Visitors Leave Station

4 years ago
InternetNews
SpaceX has rolled out its Falcon 9 rocket with the Cargo Dragon vehicle attached to the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Falcon 9 is due to lift off at 5:06 a.m. EST on Tuesday placing the Cargo Dragon into orbit for a docking at the International Space Station at 4:30 a.m. …
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Trio of Russian, Japanese Station Visitors Back on Earth

4 years ago
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Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin along with spaceflight participants Yusaku Maezawa and Yozo Hirano landed on Earth around 10:13 p.m. EST Sunday, Dec. 19 in Kazakhstan (around 9:13 a.m. Monday, Dec. 20, Kazakhstan time). The trio departed the International Space Station in their Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft at 6:50 p.m. Misurkin, now a three-time space visitor, commanded the Soyuz …
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NASA TV Covers Soyuz Crew Ship Trio Landing Soon on Earth

4 years ago
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NASA Television, the agency’s website, and the NASA app are now broadcasting live coverage of the return to Earth of a veteran Russian cosmonaut and two Japanese private citizens. The Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft carrying Russian  cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin will join spaceflight participants Yusaku Maezawa and Yozo Hirano will make its deorbit burn at 9:18 p.m. …
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Russian, Japanese Visitors Leave Station and Head Home

4 years ago
InternetNews
The Soyuz spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station at 6:50 p.m. EST, carrying three people back to Earth. Live coverage on NASA TV, the agency’s website, and the NASA app will resume at 9 p.m. for the deorbit burn and landing of the spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin along with spaceflight participants Yusaku …
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STYLY Introduces Real-World AR Overlaying

4 years ago
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This week, Psychic VR Lab, the team behind the STYLY creative platform announced support for augmented, mixed reality (AR/MR) content creation and distribution. Typically, extended reality (XR) creators using STYLY could create a variety of immersive virtual reality (VR) experiences that cover many use cases such as remote meetings, collaborative spaces, product showrooms, virtual events, […]
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Big XR News from IEEE, CORDIS, Huawei, Meta, and VictoryXR

4 years ago
InternetNews
XR Today has stepped into the industry to speak to figures from some of the world’s top organisations and follow some of the hottest trending topics across the sector. The IEEE and European Commission, as well as major firms such as Meta, VictoryXR, and Huawei topped headlines for last week’s high-performing XR stories. In case […]
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Rise of Vertical World To Split Metaverse, Futurist Says

4 years ago
InternetNews
Fault lines in the technology sector have sparked tensions and polarisation among firms, governments, and organisations. As the Metaverse race becomes a key focal point of the global extended reality (XR) community, firms will need to consider how it will develop amid these renewed tensions. In this featured interview, XR Today spoke with Abishur Prakash, […]
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Spark AR Review: Facebook’s New AR Studio Suite

4 years ago
InternetNews
Of all the extended reality opportunities appearing in today’s digital environment, augmented reality is perhaps the most accessible. Suitable for use with or without a dedicated headset, AR applications have already made their way into our tablets, smartphones, and computer screens. Everywhere, developers and business leaders alike are beginning to discover the potential of AR. […]