Unity held a ‘Building Next-Gen Games for PSVR2’ session at this year’s Game Developers Conference and the company appears to be as excited as many developers about the upcoming VR hardware. Bria Williams, Senior Product Manager at Unity, says, “PSVR2 takes
FitnessVR, the first health and fitness metaverse powered by patent-pending Scorpio Metaverse Engine, has successfully opened in Dubai. The plan is to launch the early alpha and beta of FitnessVR metaverse in Q2 and Q3 of 2022. FitnessVR is dedicated
Microsoft says it is adding 3D avatars and virtual environments to its Teams chat system as part of its push into the “metaverse.” It claims that its “Mesh” platform will enable people to meet in virtual space. Either with or
Interest in the metaverse exploded when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg changed the name of the social media company to “Meta” in 2021, a rebrand that focused on building the metaverse. Since then, a lot has happened in the space. MetaNews
Everybody and their aunts are producing metaverses these days. While the tech is relatively new, a number of projects have already started to take off when it comes to number of users. Here are ten of the most talked-about metaverse
Meta, a leader in mixed-reality hardware, is now showing off its capabilities in VR software. To promote AR/VR services and apps, Meta Platforms announced that it would make its Quest headset operating system available to outside hardware manufacturers. Also read:
The Elder Scrolls Online creative director Matt Firor says the metaverse is nothing new and people should stop pretending it’s an innovation. According to him, the gamers have been participating in connected virtual worlds for decades. Firor says the current
University students in Miami and India are holding lectures together, thanks to the metaverse, which allows them to make presentations in class using their avatars. The students engage with each other from their respective countries in a course that is
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, at the BUIDL Asia conference in Seoul, critiqued the prevailing concept of the Metaverse. He argued it’s more a brand than a product, often misinterpreted, and likened its need to a simpler form of technology. BUIDL
Mark Zuckerberg believes the absence of motion blur on the Meta Quest 3, coupled with its lower price, places his company’s virtual reality headset in a better position to outperform Apple’s Vision Pro. The Meta CEO made a bold declaration
German electronics firm Rohde & Schwarz is testing animated avatars that use augmented reality (AR) to make video calls in the metaverse and other extended reality-based applications. Calls leverage an advanced form of 5G technology and are made using a
The Walt Disney Company has revealed Holotile Floor, a new technology that the media conglomerate says could help people move around in any direction in virtual and augmented reality. The floor was developed by Lanny Smoot, a Disney researcher with
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