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Hot3D Dataset: New Meta Reality Labs AI Research Could Enhance the Capabilities of Quest Headsets
Despite advancements in XR hardware and software development, these devices still fall short when it comes to understanding the interactions between humans and objects. Machine learning understanding of human-object interactions…
Meta Avatars SDK Update Adds Better Graphics and Legs
The Meta Avatars SDK which has been available for quite some time now features legs. Over the past few years, Meta legless avatars have been lampooned in various quarters including…
Meta AI Researchers Getting Closer to Realistic Avatar Legs Without Extra Tracking Hardware
Meta AI researchers have been conducting the ‘Avatar Grow Legs’ Research that now shows Realtime AI-Powered Body Pose Estimation. The researchers are coming closer to creating realistic avatar legs without…
Haptics Technology and Why It is Important for the Future of the Metaverse
Haptics is now a common term alongside emerging tech terms like the metaverse. Although research and development work in haptics along with its application in commercial products only exploded in…
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.…
NVIDIA is Researching Ultra-Thin Displays for Ultra-Slim Holographic VR Glasses
NVIDIA and Stanford University have presented a research paper on ultra-slim VR glasses capable of supporting 3D holographic images. A prototype of the holographic glasses has a depth of only…
Meta Reality Labs Research: Codec Avatars 2.0 Approaching Complete Realism with Custom Chip
Researchers at Meta Reality Labs are reporting that their work on Codec Avatars has reached a level where the avatars are approaching complete realism. The researchers created a prototype Virtual…
NVIDIA CloudXR Enables Wireless Streaming of VR, AR and MR via Google Cloud
NVIDIA is providing its CloudXR technology to the NVIDIA RTX Virtual Workstations in the Google Cloud. The NVIDIA CloudXR has been built on NVIDIA RTX GPUs and will allow for…
New Video Showcases Creal’s Light Field Display in Action
Swiss startup CREAL, which builds light-field display technology for both Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality headsets, has showcased a new through-the-lens video that shows its latest VR headset prototype in…
How Facebook Envisions the Future of Augmented Reality
Facebook’s vision of the future of human-computer interaction (HCI) is slowly taking shape. In a series of long blog posts, Facebook unpacks what it describes as a “10-year vision of…