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Metaverse Basketball Game Raises $8 Million
IRL Studios has raised $8 million that will go into the development of its virtual reality basketball app Gym Class VR. In this VR game, you put on a VR…
Consumers To Spend 4 to 5 Hours a Day in the Metaverse in Next 5 Years
The metaverse is gradually permeating our lives and is being embraced by everyone, ranging from comic creators to the healthcare industry. Still, the metaverse is still not regarded as something…
Welsh Company Building a Mediverse Metaverse Platform for Training Healthcare Professionals
A Welsh company is building a healthcare training metaverse platform dubbed the “Mediverse.” The system is already being used by a number of medical institutions in South Wales. The Mediverse…
US Soldiers Ready Themselves for Battle With VR Combat Goggles
Army’s 82nd Airborne Division paratroopers have been testing a new Integrated Visual Augmentation System that has been designed to assist soldiers in making quick decisions with the help of mixed…
VR Shooter Shock Troops Coming to Quest 2 This Week
Garage Collective’s new virtual reality shooter Shock Troops is arriving on Quest 2 this week. Shock Troops was first announced in September 2021 and is inspired by classics such as…
Polycam 3D Scans Preserve Ukraine’s Heritage Amidst Atrocious War
The war in Ukraine is grinding on into its fifth month and has been accompanied by the wanton destruction of Ukraine’s heritage and material culture including landmarks, cultural sites, monuments,…
Microsoft Shifts to a Software-Led Metaverse Strategy
Microsoft boss Satya Nadella has confirmed that the company is pivoting from hardware to a software-led metaverse strategy. This shift may not bode well for the company’s hardware projects such…
Dubai to Create 40,000 Metaverse Jobs Within 5 Years
Dubai is ramping up its metaverse efforts with the launch of the Dubai Metaverse Strategy which aims to create 40,000 metaverse jobs in the next five years and catapult the…
Meta Codec Avatars Now Have Very Photorealistic Clothing
Meta’s Codec Avatars already have very convincing faces. Now they are about to get very photorealistic VR clothing thanks to new research work. Meta has shared details of its new…
This Startup Transforms Your Car into a VR Driving Simulator
A Vienna-based startup has developed simulators that transform any car into an immersive XR driving simulator. The startup, Nekonata XR Technologies (NXRT) develops mixed reality simulators that convert any ride…