We provide you with a list of handpicked stories, best practices, startup showcases and fresh tools to build the Metaverse and the next version of the web!
Hi šš¼,
Welcome to the last edition of 2021. It wasnāt the year we all wished for but we end it stronger than ever to fight this pandemic in the coming year. This week, we celebrate all the achievements the Metaverse brought and mostly put up questions for 2022.
If we donāt see each other in one of the NYE parties at AltspaceVR or VRChat, thanks for joining us today, weāll be back for more next week!
Itās only been a couple of months since Facebookās rebrand, but itās hard to overstate how much itās already driven the conversation about āthe metaverse.ā For starters, nearly everyone describes it asĀ theĀ metaverse ā when the reality is that there is no singular metaverse in the sense that we talk about ātheĀ internet.ā
Does your child love to draw? Ever wished that characters in their drawings could ācome to lifeā and move around the page? Using AI, weāve developedā¦
Beat Saber, Job Simulator, AudioShield, BoxVR, and many more games are engaging and very immersive. But they havenāt been accessible for everyoneā¦ until now.
From active shooter trainings to flight simulations, Jeremy Bailenson, founding director of Stanfordās Virtual Human Interaction Lab, argues that virtual reality is at its best when used for situations that are counterproductive, expensive, or dangerous in the real world.
One of the most common uses of VR is gaming because it gives players an incredibly immersive experience. VR can be a fantastic medium for education, letting adults and children alike feel immersed in the subjects theyāre exploring, whether thatās a historic city or human anatomy.
In this paper, the authorsintroduce E3XR, a framework that serves as an analytical lens to determine the ethics, learning theory and human flourishing aspects of an XR design.
Equipment for full body tracking in VR can cost you a handsome sum of money. In this article, we look at pros and cons of investing in that technology.
Many social VR platforms are playing host to informal New Yearās Eve parties, with users banding together to ring in the new year. VRChatĀ is going the extra mile this year though to put on a 24-hour NYE bash that includes ball drops on the hour and live music so everyone can celebrate!
For more than 50 years, CESĀ® has been the global stage for innovation. And the all-digital CES 2021 continued to be a platform to launch products, engage with global brands and define the future of the tech industry. Attendees were able to participate in all the awe-inspiring moments of CES wherever they were in the world.
On March 23, 2021, Rec Room announced that they raised $100M with a valuation of $1.25 billion, which makes them the first VR software company to achieve āunicornā status.
Once again, if you have any comments, questions, articles or topics to share with us, or if you want to just talk about XR, you can reach Luis Bravo Martins and Anesio Neto quick and easy.
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