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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.…
Synagogues Destroyed in the Holocaust Reconstructed in Virtual Reality
The Second World War was accompanied by the unparalleled destruction of cultural and architectural heritage in Europe. Given the antisemitic policies of the Third Reich, synagogues, many of which were…
Paire VR: The Omegle of VR Early Access in May 2022
If you are a social media fossil, then you probably remember Omegle, the chat tool that pairs you with random people for anonymous one-on-one chat sessions that either party can…
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…