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VR warehouse where you can battle zombies is opening in Manchester

Unlike other virtual reality games, this VR experience allows players to freely roam, and explore and battle as a team

Manchester Evening News

Facebook, beware: the metaverse is really flat

In a few weeks' time, Mark Zuckerberg will announce a new virtual reality headset from Meta Platforms.

Bangkok Post

‘Each guest experience will be different’: VR and the future of theme parks

Expo in east London shows how important augmented and virtual reality will be, as attractions move with the times

The Guardian - UK

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'Plunging ten decks in a glass tube is not this new cruise ship's only thrill'

The Norwegian Cruise Line's six new ships allow you to ride a waterslide which sends you spinning round a giant bowl and fly through hyperspace in the Galaxy Pavilion virtual reality arcade

Daily Mirror

Metaverse, VR in spotlight as Tokyo Game Show opens

CHIBA, Japan: The Tokyo Game Show opened to media and industry figures on Thursday, with the general public permitted to attend in the coming days for the first time since the outbreak of the coronavirus, bringing the latest in metaverse and virtual reality titles and technologies into the spotlight.

Bangkok Post

Anti-virtual reality note included with explosive package

A law enforcement official says a hard plastic case that exploded on the campus of Northeastern University in Boston causing minor injuries to a staff member contained a rambling note that railed against virtual reality and also referenced Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, The official said Wednesday that investigators are still…

The Independent UK

5 challenges of doing college in the metaverse

More and more colleges are becoming “metaversities,” taking their physical campuses into a virtual online world, often called the “metaverse.” One initiative has 10 U.S. universities and colleges working with Meta, the parent company of Facebook, and virtual reality company VictoryXR to create 3D online replicas – sometimes called “digital…

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Open House Festival 2022: 10 of the best free-to-attend events

From art trails and gallery lates to a virtual reality record shop

Evening Standard

Meta, Qualcomm Strike Agreement on Custom Virtual Reality Chips

Meta Platforms Inc signed an agreement to have chip-maker Qualcomm Inc produce custom chipsets for its Quest virtual reality devices, the companies announced at a consumer electronics conference in Berlin on Friday. The companies' engineering and product teams will work together to produce the chips, which will be powered by…

Asharq Al-Awsat

EXCLUSIVE: The Meta Park Pass Launching This Month Can Identify Real Users In Web3

Blockchain-based virtual reality interactive platform Aftermath Islands Metaverse, along with Liquid Avatar Technologies, is launching a Meta Park Pass, a digital identity credential that allows users to prove themselves as a real pe

Benzinga

Venture into the Metaverse on Venice Immersive Island

At the Venice International Film Festival, virtual reality is only a small part of the immersive experience. On a small island just a short water shuttle ride from the main festival headquarters on the Lido, festivalgoers can step into the metaverse. They can play games, or “world hop” with a…

Asharq Al-Awsat

The Loop: COVID-19 isolation rules change, Donald Trump's team likely hid classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, and is Apple entering virtual reality?

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ABC News

Venture into the metaverse on Venice Immersive Island

At the Venice International Film Festival, virtual reality is only a small part of the immersive experience

The Independent UK

Reliance to stream AGM on virtual reality platform, five social media platforms

NEW DELHI: Reliance Industries will on Monday broadcast its annual shareholder meeting simultaneously on a virtual reality platform as well as on five social media platforms as it takes another leap in digitally connecting people for its AGM.

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Virtual Reality Revives Iraq's War-ravaged Heritage

An Iraqi museum is using computer technology and virtual reality headsets to turn back time, so visitors can explore heritage sites destroyed by militants and in battles to defeat them. ISIS extremists captured a third of Iraq in a lightning offensive in 2014, seizing the northern city of Mosul as…

The Conversation

Six benefits that the metaverse offers to colleges and universities

Even though it’s unclear what exactly the metaverse is and whether it even exists, colleges and universities have jumped onto the metaverse bandwagon. They have augmented in-person and remote video learning with features such as gamified interactive virtual worlds, virtual reality and mixed reality.

The Conversation

Virtual reality, autonomous weapons and the future of war: military tech startup Anduril comes to Australia

Earlier this month, posters started going up around Sydney advertising an event called “In the Ops Room, with Palmer Luckey”. Rather than an album launch or standup gig, this turned out to be a free talk given last week by the chief executive of a high-tech US defence company called…

The Independent UK

Is the metaverse the future of dating?

Madeleine Aggeler goes on a virtual reality date to find out if this tech could be the new way to find love

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Surplex wants to bring body-tracking shoes to virtual reality

A kickstarter campaign seeks to use 480 pressure sensors to track your every move.

The Conversation

Mobile app offers new learning tools for anatomy students. But tech isn't a silver bullet

For most people who finished school or university even a decade ago, the idea of virtual reality in the classroom probably seems like the stuff of science fiction. But immersive technologies like virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality – which all aim to marry the physical and…

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Univ. of Tokyo to open Metaverse School of Engineering

The University of Tokyo is scheduled to open a Metaverse School of Engineering in September. In the metaverse virtual reality space on the internet, members of the public, such as junior and senior high school students and working adults, will be able to attend lectures and events.

WEKU

75 years after India's violent Partition, survivors can cross the border — virtually

A virtual reality project helps survivors of India's Partition glimpse long-lost birthplaces they fled as children. Fraught relations between India and Pakistan mean they can't visit in person.

The Independent UK

From Mecca to the Vatican, exploring sacred sites with VR

Worshippers, tourists and visitors around the world are increasingly joining virtual reality spiritual trips to some of Earth’s most sacred sites

Daily Record

Scots hospice trials virtual reality equipment to help reduce patients' anxiety

Strathcarron Hospice is trialling Virtual Reality equipment with its patients. VR related equipment is being used extensively in hospice and palliative care. With its mix of reducing anxiety and pain, it can also help many other points of care. VR

Inverse

'We Met In Virtual Reality': HBO documentary offers a flawed vision of the metaverse

HBO's groundbreaking documentary on life in virtual reality is a great introduction to newcomers but ignores the active issues facing VR platforms.

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