Psychic VR Labs raises 1B Japanese Yen (~$7.8M) to further develop its VR and XR technology....Psychic VR is one of Japan’s leading extended reality (XR) firms and previously collaborated with Animoca...The company also operates the VR/XR platform STYLY, which is used by a reported 50k artists and has 5M...

Thirdverse raised $15M to further develop VR and Web3 games....Game Updates VRJAM announced the launch of its blockchain-powered VR metaverse experience.

Kickstarter campaign from 2012, it was unclear what the catalyst would be for the wave of commercial VR...For those of you curious about the insane fusion of disciplines and technologies that drive VR/AR and...Whilst COVID has had a major impact on the VR industry with most headsets being totally sold out for...worlds from most non-VR devices.

Here’s how it works: a human operator uses controllers (joysticks, VR rigs, or motion capture equipment...together funds, each guild can purchase additional robots and invest in specialized equipment (e.g., VR...

It includes AR, VR, and speech-to-text functionality that can run in a web browser, providing the tools...

Tengoku is an immersive metaverse built with Unreal Engine 5 that will feature VR interactions and physical...

The firm leverages AI models to scout prospective investments and focuses on Web3, AI, and AR/VR tech...

Digital garments can be “worn” in our photos, videos, and using AR/VR technology.

With the growing adoption of gaming and AR/VR technologies, this economic protocol [virtual goods] is...

We finally seem to be at a tipping point in AR / VR.

...inference chips like Groq accelerating video-model cost curves like Sora to fuel experiences on AR / VR...

...scale applications, such as the Beautiful Spaces showcase in partnership with architect Zaha Hadid VR...

...make us slaves, deepfakes will destroy all human-made content, dopamine loops will lead us to rot in VR...

Just like bandwidth scaled first to facilitate text, then images, then video, and now VR, we should expect...

Um, you know, and then the VR, Okay. Space and headset space I’m less familiar with.

...this day when I got this, when I went through this experience, it was the day when I bought the first VR...many years ago and, uh, uh, gifted me this, uh, made me a gift, uh, this, um, uh, PlayStation, uh, VR...There was one game which was called, uh, Batman Arkham VR. Oh yeah, I know it. Oh my god.

And the only way out is they get these like neural links that allow players, kids, like fighting in a VR...

So the more I think about it, the more I think that AI, VR, AR type narrative thing isn’t fully done...

...they tried multiplayer when that became a thing, for many people; it’s the first time you put on a VR...think when I started moving a little bit out of games, I was a VFX producer on the Childish Gambino VR...at the same time bring forward real-time technology with Unreal Engine doing this massive, massive VR...

Maybe some of it is eventually going to end up in VR or AR....The answer is not the metaverse, and it’s not in VR, but it is in-person, at parties.  44:53 · Alex It...