Starting in April, Yuushi Kokusai High School will start recruiting transfer students from Japan’s credit-based metaverse high school. In the “Metaverse Students” program, students can graduate from high school with an avatar of a student’s preference. They would, however, attend
Meta has updated its VR framework to include tongue movement tracking for avatars. This development is part of the company’s efforts to enhance facial recognition capabilities within virtual reality, aiming to offer more lifelike avatars through accurate representation of speech
UK tech startup Freeaim Technologies is testing wearable shoes that enable users to walk “infinite distances in virtual reality (VR) in any direction” while staying within a small play space. Dubbed ‘Freeaim VR Shoes,’ the device uses AI-powered motorized treadmills
Reddam House schools are leading the charge in a rapidly evolving educational landscape by seamlessly integrating virtual reality (VR) and the metaverse into their classrooms. This approach, which has already succeeded in five international schools, is now being embraced by
Despite declarations of its demise, Meta’s new photorealistic avatars prove that the metaverse is not dead after all. In a ‘Metaverse interview’ on the Lex Fridman podcast, Mark Zuckerberg demonstrated Meta’s new lifelike Codec virtual reality avatars. Developed by Meta’s
Meta has added legs to its Quest Home avatars after almost a year of waiting, in what is seen as a step closer to a more human-like metaverse. This development was initially announced in 2022 at the Connect Conference. The
Tech giant Apple is desperate to embrace the metaverse with the launch of its Reality Pro mixed-reality headset as soon as possible, reports the Financial Times. Apple is set to launch its first metaverse product this year, after spending years
Evrthn.com (pronounced everything) is a new search engine targeting the metaverse with a promise to deliver more detailed search results, particularly for non-text metaverse (XR) content. This is an area in which dominant competitor Google is considered to be lagging.
Japanese virtual reality (VR) firms are aiming to conquer the metaverse with anime avatars leading the charge. This was apparent at the Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies (CEATEC) show in Japan, with a number of exhibits featuring cutesy wide-eyed avatars
As another step toward developing the metaverse, the company Meta said on Friday that it will be adding an upgrade to its Quest 2 headsets that will allow users to more easily interact with one another in virtual reality. According
A virtual metaverse allows students and faculty to meet and walk around virtual spaces. UMGC will test virtual and augmented reality learning environments during the fall 2022 semester using Oculus Quest 2 headsets, which have spacial audio and the ability
In the global post-epidemic era, VR virtual space service has entered people’s life as a new form of business communication. Facebook’s Horizon Workrooms and Microsoft Mesh for Microsoft Teams have started providing virtual office services. Hangzhou Virtual Human Technology also
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