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The Vatican Hops into the Metaverse
The Vatican is just the latest mainstream institution to hop onto the metaverse hype. The Vatican wants to open a Virtual Reality art gallery in a bid to "democratize art".…
Patent Suggests Apple AR Glasses Could Be Self-Cleaning
Apple has won a patent for a self-cleaning mechanism for a head-mounted device. Apple’s work on its tech glasses has been going on for years. A newly unearthed patent shows…
Patent Suggests Apple Glass Could Have Vision Correction
Right from the word go, a major issue with VR headsets has been the difficulty of fitting the devices over prescription glasses so that people with vision problems could have…
Seoul is Creating a Metaverse Replica to Improve Service Delivery
Seoul, the capital of South Korea, is already one of the world’s smartest cities. More than 95% of its residents have 4G and 5G access and the city has free…
Sci-Fi Classic Horror Game Twilight Zone Coming to Quest on July 14
The Twilight Zone is making a comeback as a virtual reality game for Quest 2. Here is a quick look at the history of this science fiction classic. The Twilight…
Brief Project Cambria Demo Shows Its Color Passthrough Capabilities
In a demo where the headset was largely blurred, Zuckerberg showed the color passthrough capabilities of the new Project Cambria. Yesterday, as earlier promised, Mark Zuckerberg showed a short video…
Horizon Worlds Adds a Large Library of Pre-Made Assets
Horizon Worlds has added more than 100 pre-made items in its new Asset Library feature. Now users can access a massive library of pre-made assets in the virtual creation tool.…
AirRacket: Researches Use Air to Simulate Haptic Feedback in VR Sports
Over the past few years, researchers and engineers have come up with a gazillion ideas on how to simulate haptic feedback in virtual reality to improve the immersion in VR…
Fresh Details About Meta’s Project Cambria Headset Coming Out Today
Meta will be revealing details of its high-powered standalone VR headset Project Cambria later today. Mark Zuckerberg shared this on his Facebook page stating that Cambria’s color passthrough technology will…
Unreal Engine 5 Clip of Japanese Train Station So Photorealistic It’s Indistinguishable from a Real Vid
Environment artist and indie developer Lorenzo Drago shared an astonishing clip showing a photorealistic railway station in Japan that has actually been created with Unreal Engine 5 and Camera Matching.…