Meta and Pico lead the field with their VR headsets, ChatGPT continues its inexorable rise and new engine developments are pushing the boundaries of the video game experience.
While VR is still used primarily as a gaming device, it has the potential to move beyond the industry and revolutionize the way people interact with one another in the metaverse.
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If the VR industry is to experience the kind of growth that will make it worthy of the billions of dollars that have been invested in it, we need to view the metaverse as public infrastructure.
VR headsets are key to realising the Metaverse.
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The metaverse offers novel opportunities for retailers and their customers, but retailers need to be adequately prepared to overcome the challenges of new technology.
What’s the message between the lines of Tuvalu’s proposal to move to the metaverse?
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Rising sea levels due to climate change are already having severe impacts on the nation of Tuvalu. It proposes to build a digital replica of itself in the metaverse. Could it be done?
The metaverse is still unfolding, but it has been developing for more than a century. Rudimentary virtual worlds have existed – in imagination and reality – since the days of the telegraph.
Through virtual reality, students can experience environmental processes that would otherwise be invisible to them.
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