virtual reality in fiction
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Apple Absent From Metaverse Standards Group That Includes Meta, Microsoft, and Others
Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, Sony, and other tech giants have formed a group designed to ensure interoperability in the metaverse. Notably absent from this list of heavyweights is Apple, a company heavily rumoured to be working on its own mixed reality products.
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Meta’s New Skeleton Simulator ‘MyoSuite’ Could Help Develop Prosthetics
Meta’s AI team just announced a software to help model complex skeletal movement.
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Facebook Has Lost Nearly $28 Billion to VR Since 2020
A metaverse filled with digital worlds and avatars might be coming someday, but it won’t be cheap. Facebook parent company Meta has released its financial results for the first quarter of 2022 and it shows that this year alone, the company’s virtual reality-focused department has lost $US2.96 billion (around $4 billion) so far. This continues…
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Disney Appoints Exec to Run Metaverse and His First Job Is to Figure Out What the Hell It Is
Mike White, an 11-year veteran at Disney who previously worked at Yahoo, has been named the head of the company’s metaverse strategy, according to a report from Reuters. The appointment, which was announced through an internal email on Tuesday, suggests Disney is taking this whole metaverse thing very seriously, even if no one can quite…