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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

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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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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

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…

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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.

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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 Conversation

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

The Independent UK

Surplex wants to bring body-tracking shoes to virtual reality

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

Input

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 Conversation

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.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

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.

WEKU

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

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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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Conjoined twins separated thanks to UK surgeon and virtual reality

The separation of three-year-olds Bernardo and Arthur Lima involved more than 27 hours of surgery and almost 100 medical staff

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Meta Can't Buy V.R. Fitness Company, Must Make Its Own Competing App, Says FTC

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The Independent UK

FTC acts to block Meta from buying VR company, fitness app

Federal regulators have taken legal action to block Facebook parent Meta and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg from acquiring virtual reality company Within Unlimited and its fitness app Supernatural

Evening Standard

Things to do in London this weekend (July 29-31)

Mezcal, music and mind-boggling virtual reality — it’s all happening in the capital

Daily Record

Lanarkshire software specialist teams up with booming virtual reality gaming firm

Eureka Solutions, which is based in Peel Park, employs 72 people in the field of business accountancy software.

Benzinga

Jason Silva And The Awe-Inspiring World Of Cyberdelia: NatGeo's Star Loves Mind Games, And You Will Too

By Marian Venini and Javier Hasse.

Evening Standard

Will everyone be welcome in the metaverse?

Meta must prove it’s built the right protections for users if the metaverse is to be an inclusive space

Belfast Live

Virtual reality technology to showcase best of Derry history at the upcoming festival

The festival is set to get underway next week

The Guardian - AU

No fear: the New Zealand virtual reality app helping conquer phobias

Researchers found the app, which gradually exposes people to their worst fears, can greatly reduce phobia symptoms

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