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Apple has announced its first VR headset

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Apple Vision Pro won't solve the problems with virtual reality

Apple’s Vision Pro headset announced at WWDC 2023 blends virtual and real-world experiences together. But it still has many of the same problems as other headsets

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Smart glove that gives electro-tactile feedback

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Smart glove enhances your sense of touch in virtual reality

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BFA2A1 Fancy Rat, Brown rat (Rattus norvegicus domesticus, Rattus norvegicus domestica), six weeks old animal held in one hand

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Rats can move objects in virtual reality using only their thoughts

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Mechanical backpack boosts the sensation of jumping in virtual reality

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Person on a bus wearing a VR headset and moving their fingers

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Play VR games on a bus by wiggling your fingers as if they were arms

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Trajectory-wise image rendering results. Our final rendering results present better quality, structural consistency, and diversity, over the competing method GSN [2]. Each group of images is rendered within the same voxel world using a shared global style code, while GSN shares the same global latent vector in each group. https://hubert0527.github.io/infinicity/

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AI generates virtual 3D cities that extend infinitely in any direction

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A woman's hand using a touchscreen display

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Ultrasound illusion could make buttons on a touchscreen feel real

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A man man playing videogames

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AI is listening in on gamer chat for toxic and abusive language

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The HapticPuppet drone

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Drones on strings could puppeteer people in virtual reality

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Author Neal Stephenson onstage at the 2022 SXSW Conference and Festival

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Sci-fi author Neal Stephenson wants to build a metaverse open to all

The science-fiction author who coined the term metaverse in his 1992 novel Snow Crash is going head-to-head with Meta and Microsoft to create an open-source platform for creating virtual worlds

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Sensory trick makes objects seem heavy or light in virtual reality

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Virtual reality mask adds realism by making it harder to breathe

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VR racket uses compressed air to simulate hitting a ball

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Virtual ‘answering machine’ records the real world while you are in VR

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