Microsoft and Meta announced yesterday on their blog that they will join forces and bring new immersive experiences to the world of virtual reality. It's a partnership where Microsoft sees an opportunity to bring Teams and other of its products to VR headsets, and Meta gets a key partner in its grand metaverse creation plan. … Read more
Mark Zuckerberg today unveiled the new Metin VR/MR hedset on his Facebook profile. It is a new, advanced hedset that was made with the aim of “expanding the possibilities of virtual reality”. The Hedset comes with virtual (VR) and mixed reality (MR) capabilities and is equipped with facial expression tracking sensors, internal tracking controllers, and … Read more
From the safe training of people engaged in dangerous occupations to college, VR devices have undoubtedly proven to be a versatile and very useful tool. But VR technologies are also more and more present as a pastime in everyday life. VR gaming is an increasingly common occurrence due to the unique experience it provides to … Read more
Horizon Worlds is Meta’s social VR platform for Quest hedset users. The platform is similar to Rec Room or Vr Chat. There have been “personal spaces” in it for some time. They are something like your virtual apartment or house. It’s about the zones you first find yourself in when you turn on your hedset. … Read more
User Dung3onlord recently posted an interesting video on Reddit in which he demonstrates how you can insert 3D models from Google Maps into your XR project. In the video, we can see how the user “takes” 3D models of familiar places from the toolbar and literally throws them out the window, after which these models … Read more
The PlayStation VR 2 (or PSVR 2 for short) is Sony’s latest VR headset. It’s the long-awaited successor to the PlayStation VR for PS 4. It’s a hedset that will work exclusively with PS 5 consoles. Thus, the PSVR 2 will not be a standalone VR hedset, but, in order to function, it will have … Read more
Pico Interactive, a manufacturer of VR headsets, last week announced their new, standalone VR headset – Pico 4. Let's remember, Pico presented their Pico Neo 3 – VR hedset primarily intended for VR enthusiasts in Europe in April this year. Now, after just over 5 months, they are releasing Pico 4 on the market. Many … Read more
Mete CEO Mark Zuckerberg has confirmed that their next VR headset will arrive in October this year. Zuckerberg participated in Joe Rogan’s podcast in which he said the device (almost certainly a hedset codenamed “Project Cambria”) would be launched in October, presumably somewhere around Connetz – an event meta organizes every year. “For our next … Read more
Mixed Reality (MRI) – a brief overview of mixed reality Of all the different types of augmented reality (XR) available to us today, mixed reality (MRI) often brings with it the most confusion. For years, people interested in the future of digital technology have viewed mixed reality as a kind of additional extension of refined … Read more
A metaverse is a virtual space that is accessed using an avatar that can be used for various purposes. In it you can work, buy and sell virtual real estate, earn money by providing various services and more. But maybe no single thing you can do in the metaverse is as important as simply socializing … Read more