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HTC Announces Vive Flow Business Edition, Optional 3DOF Controller

3 years ago
InternetNews
Vive Flow, HTC’s compact VR headset, is targeted at travelers and consumers looking for casual VR experiences and media consumption. Now the company has announced it’s marketing a Business Edition of Vive Flow alongside an optional controller which should make navigating in-headset a bit easier for first-time users. Vive Flow Business Edition is being pitched […]

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KPMG Joins Metaverse for Crypto, Web3 Journey

3 years ago
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Consultancy firm giant KPMG has embarked on its own metaverse journey in its first-ever hub for meetings and collaboration, it was announced on Wednesday. The company, one of the world’s top four consultancies, will provide the metaverse space for its US and Canadian clients, employees, and networks to explore growth opportunities across global sectors, the […]
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NVIDIA to Debut Digital Twin Tech

3 years ago
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NVIDIA is announcing a new extended reality (XR) design tool via its AI Research branch this week. The company’s latest tool is 3D MoMa, a service for creating rich digital twins of real-world objects. During this week’s Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, the firm is introducing the new technology and its accompanying research […]
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Dissecting MetaHuman – A Realistic Avatar Framework

3 years ago
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Epic Games, the parent company of the popular real-time 3D (RT3D) development suite Unreal Engine 5, recently released MetaHuman, a framework for creating highly realistic digital human avatars. The firm is debuting its MetaHuman creator toolkit as a free cloud-based service that anyone can try out today as part of an early access program. Epic […]
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Metaverse Standards Forum to Unite XR Leaders

3 years ago
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The Metaverse Standards Forum, which unites major global standards organisations and firms to build interoperability for an open-source Metaverse, announced its opening on Tuesday. The Khronos Group has hosted the groundbreaking consortium of Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs) to explore methods to remove obstacles to a future open-source Metaverse. All organisations are welcome to the forum […]
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Twitter Announces the Re-Launch of its ‘Chirp’ Developer Conference

3 years ago
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The conference will bring together developers and members of Twitter’s team to discuss the latest developments and answer technical queries.

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Elon Musk Outlines Final Steps Required to Consummate Twitter Deal

3 years ago
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Elon says that three things need to happen before his Twitter takeover push can proceed.

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Meta Implements New Changes to Housing, Employment and Credit Ads to Eliminate Potential Discrimination

3 years ago
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Meta will implement new processes to better address potential bias in its ad targeting systems.

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Google Adds More Insights to its ‘All In’ Marketing Accessibility Resource

3 years ago
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Google’s ‘All In’ mini-site provides tips and insights to improve marketing accessibility.

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Tim Cook On AR Headsets: “Stay Tuned And You’ll See What We Have To Offer”

3 years ago
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When asked about AR headsets, Apple CEO Tim Cook said he “could not be more excited” and hinted “stay tuned and you’ll see what we have to offer”.
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3 Key Elements to Effectively Target Gen Z with Social Media Advertising

3 years ago
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Let’s cut straight to it. How the heck do we reach Gen-Z through social media advertising? It’s already halfway through 2022 and approaching this generation seems like the most daunting task.  Gen-Z knows the ins and outs of the latest trends, are hyper-focused on digital, and undeniably has the shortest attention span of any other […]

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Apple Quietly Released One of The Most Impressive AR Room-mapping Tools

3 years ago
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Apple has barely mentioned augmented or virtual reality in its big keynotes lately, however at WWDC 2022 earlier this month, the company quietly released probably one of the best 3D room-mapping tools for mobile AR yet. Called RoomPlan, the ARKit Swift API uses the camera and LiDAR scanner on recent iPhones and iPads to create […]

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Space Gardening, Digestion, and Robotics Top Crew Schedule

3 years ago
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Space gardening and the human digestive system were at the top of the science schedule aboard the International Space Station on Wednesday. The seven Expedition 67 residents also worked throughout the day filming their activities, inspecting station hardware, and testing a new robotic arm. Space agriculture is a way to sustain healthy astronauts on future …
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AR Metaverse takes over New York’s Time Square

3 years ago
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Psychic VR Lab, a developer of the Metaverse content creation suite STYLY, is hosting an extended reality (XR) NFT art exhibition at Times Square, New York. Psychic VR Lab currently hosts the event alongside Japanese event partners Animoca Brands KK Corporation, Ucollex International Limited, and Madworld Hong Kong. The event also showcases and expands the […]
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HTC To Unveil VIVE Flow Business Edition Goggles

3 years ago
InternetNews
HTC VIVE announced on Tuesday it will expand the availability of its VIVE Flow compact VR goggles with a novel Business Edition version. The devices are set to train, work, collaborate remotely, and enhance classroom interactions for its users across sectors, including education, healthcare, and many others, HTC VIVE explained. According to a study from […]
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Emplomind To Launch First-Ever Mental Health Metaverse

3 years ago
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Emplomind, a global provider of accessible, on-demand mental health coaching, recently announced it was set to launch a first-ever Metaverse Mental Health Hub. According to the company, roughly 75 percent of young people failed to receive sufficient access to mental health support, sparking demand for new mental health solutions. Emplomind aims to provide such facilities […]
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Apple’s Tim Cook Discusses Augmented Reality

3 years ago
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Tim Cook, Apple’s Chief Executive spoke about the potential of augmented reality (AR) on Apple devices at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) on Tuesday last week. Tim also complimented technological innovations led by Chinese application developers, he said in an interview with China Daily. In the chat with China Daily Reporter Ma Si, Tim explained, […]
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Reddit Announces New Partnership with DoubleVerify to Offer More Assurance on Ad Metrics

3 years ago
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Reddit’s new partnership with DoubleVerify will provide additional insights on Reddit ads performance.

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Twitter Announces ‘Innovators’ Ad Agency Awards for 2022

3 years ago
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The awards celebrate the best agency-led campaigns in the app.

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LinkedIn Adds New Event Engagement Options, Simplified ‘Repost’ Process

3 years ago
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LinkedIn’s rolling out some new engagement options.

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Meta Implements New Policies to Protect Consumers and Businesses from Fraudulent Reviews

3 years ago
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The new rules will offer more protection against review attacks and false positive feedback.

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30+ VR Games Still To Come In 2022: Quest 2, PC VR & PSVR

3 years ago
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It’s been a good year for VR so far, but there’s much more to come.

Here’s 30+ games releasing for Quest, PC VR and PSVR in the second half of 2022.

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Conquest VR preview: high-quality audio comes to Quest

3 years ago
InternetNews

At AWE, I have finally been able to try the upcoming Conquest VR audio accessory. It’s a while since I

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Major XR Players Join New Metaverse Forum to Cooperate on Foundational Standards

3 years ago
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Khronos Group, the consortium behind the OpenXR standard, is helping to assemble other XR industry players in service of cooperatively building interoperability standards for what it hopes will be an “open and inclusive metaverse.” The so-called Metaverse Standards Forum was founded by platform holders, hardware companies, engine/tool creators, and users, with participants including companies such […]

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Crew Works Biomedical Science and Hologram, Robotics Tech

3 years ago
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A host of biomedical studies filled the Expedition 67 crew’s day as NASA and its international partners continue exploring how living in space long-term affects the human body. The residents aboard the International Space Station also set up a 3-D hologram device and tested a new robotic arm. The orbiting lab’s four astronauts took turns …