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NASA Crowdsourcing User-Generated Content for a Mars VR Simulator
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has partnered with Epic Games to create a hyper-realistic virtual reality version of Mars. The VR Mars simulator replicates the harsh conditions on…
Cannes Film Festival Coming to the Fortnite Metaverse
Cannes, the world’s biggest film festival, will be accessible on Epic Game’s Fortnite thanks to the festival’s new partnership with the international media app Brut. The festival will debut in…
Meta Brings Event Platform Venues to Horizon Worlds
Meta is transforming the events app Horizon Venues and merging it into Horizon Worlds. From next month, Venues will have its own dedicated space in Horizon Worlds thereby expanding the…
Spatial VR Now Supports Full-Body Avatars
Virtual Reality workrooms app Spatial has added support for full-body avatars which provides greater realism in VR. Being immersed in the computer-generated worlds of virtual reality often feels like some…
Toyota Material Handling Adopts Multiplayer VR Training for US Dealer Network
Toyota's heavy and commercial vehicle division has adopted multiplayer VR training for its repair and maintenance staff at the Toyota Material Handling. The VR training program was designed and developed…
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…
Flirt in the Metaverse and Hook Up in the Real World With ‘Flirtual’ Dating App
VR meetups and VR dates are already a thing. In fact, we are already grappling with some real-world dating challenges in the metaverse such as groping of avatars in the…
Researchers Demonstrate Body Tracking via Modded VR Controllers in Meta Quest 2
A research team has showcased an experimental body tracking technique that uses the cameras on the virtual reality controllers. How does this 'modding' work? Let’s have a look. Conventional virtual…
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…
An Italian Serie A Match To Be Broadcast Live on the Metaverse for the First Time
What will life in the metaverse look like a few years from now? Well, if you are an ardent soccer fan, it might mean strapping on a virtual reality headset…