Virtual Reality
Can Avatars Be Too Real?
As VR technology improves, these player-controlled avatars are becoming increasingly realistic with detailed facial expressions, motions, and resemblance to real people.
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Learn how Virtual Reality is transforming health, wellbeing and the future of work through immersive training, therapy, education, collaboration and more
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The Potential of Multi-Sensory Virtual Reality for Enhanced Relaxation
Traditional relaxation practices like mindfulness and meditation can be beneficial for reducing stress and increasing wellbeing. However, many people struggle to adhere to these activities due to time constraints and difficulty sustaining practice.
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Is VR Travel the Real Metaverse?
As Meta plunges billions into building their vision of a virtual reality metaverse, some are looking to VR travel experiences as the true embodiment of this next iteration of the internet.
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Is Meta Shifting its Content Policy pt2
Last week I posed the question "is Meta shifting its content policy"? Well, I think looking at Twitter (X) for the last two days we may just have had a glimpse to the answer.
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Unity Shakes Up Monetisation
This week, time folded in on itself for thousands of XR developers around the world. Unity, the popular game engine announced in the middle of Apple's keynote speech that they were altering (radically) the way they charge of the use of their platform.
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VR Rising: How Virtual Reality May Soon Eclipse Mobile Phones
Since the iPhone launched in 2007, mobile phones have become central to our work, entertainment, and social lives. But emerging immersive technologies like virtual reality now threaten to dethrone the phone's dominance.
Staying Hydrated for VR Fitness: The Best Sports Drinks to Guzzle
Is it me, or is it hot working out in this VR headset? 🥽☀️😃 Time to rehydrate me thinks!
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How Virtual Reality is Revolutionising Pain Management
Got pain? Of course you do - we all have pain in our lives, whether it's stepping on a LEGO brick or getting stabbed by a rampant syringe at the doctor's office. Pain sucks, plain and simple.
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Is Venture's Gauntlet the Future of Fitness Gaming?
I've written a few times about the future of fitness, an how playing "normal" VR games is the future. Just look at the success of Gorilla Tag and how good of an upper body workout that game is without it even being a fitness game.
Generative AI
Using VR, Generative AI and GPT4 to help Dementia Patients
My father passed away from dementia a couple of years ago, he had a great life. During the pandemic lockdowns, I would have Zoom calls with him, but while he recognized my voice, he no longer recognized my face on the screen.
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The Future of Shopping in VR and AR
Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) are poised to revolutionize the world of shopping and change the way we make purchases.
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The search for A Unified Platform for AR/VR Development
With Apple recently unveiling its Vision Pro headset and Google and Samsung working on similar devices, there is growing excitement around augmented and virtual reality. However, developers face challenges creating apps across multiple platforms due to differences in native codebases.