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Facebook’s Creepy VR Avatars Look and Move Exactly Like You
Facebook has been secretly working on a sophisticated system that creates ultra-realistic virtual avatars that strikingly resemble people in both their facial features and mannerisms. While the system is not…
Harman Submits Patent for Robotic Speakers for Virtual Reality
Samsung subsidiary Harman has submitted a patent for mapping out sounds from virtual reality games and experiences onto robotic speakers for a more realistic audio output from virtual environments. The…
US Army Outfits Soldiers with Augmented Reality
The US Army is equipping soldiers with Tactical Augmented Reality (TAR), which is a new augmented display that will help them by providing deeper information. Tactical Augmented Reality –The Future…
Unreal Engine Demonstrates VR Teleportation Tech
During the Games Developers Conference, Epic Games founder and CEO Tim Sweeney talked about the challenges of creating realistic video game characters, he mentioned hair, eyes, and skin as the…
Electrical Muscle Stimulation Provides VR Haptics
A team of scientists at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Germany built a wearable that uses electrical muscle stimulation deliver sensation to player’s muscles. It works in a similar way…
ItSeez3D’s Avatar SDK – The Future of 3D Avatars
Avatar SDK is an advanced smartphone-based 3D avatar creation technology that uses to create photorealistic 3D avatars of people from a single selfie. The app uses deep learning to predict…
Disney Shows How to Catch a Real Ball in VR
Disney Research and its scientists built a motion capture system that allows people to grab a ball in Virtual Reality just as they would without a VR headset. Disney Research:…
Feel Wind & Temperature in Virtual Reality
You may think that having realistic visuals and audio is all you need for an immersive VR experience, but no, wind and temperature too, somehow. A group of researchers from…