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Avantis is the creator of ClassVR, an all-in-one VR/AR headset and content platform designed specifically for K-12 classrooms. Used by more than 2 million students in 200,000 classrooms in 90 countries, it includes all hardware, software, tools, training, support and implementation services needed to deploy VR/AR in the classroom. It also provides access to the Eduverse platform, ClassVR’s library of content which gives teachers access to hundreds of thousands of pieces of VR and AR content and resources to enhance lessons and engage students more deeply in their learning.

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For Google, the AI boom's arrival is perfectly timed for an AR revival. Internally, the company has been consolidating efforts to move faster, hoping to spark partnerships for a range of head-worn devices. At the same time, it faces an uphill battle in convincing customers, partners, and employees that it's prepared to make it work. Internally, Google teams are heavily focused on Android XR, a new software that Google hopes hardware partners will want to build devices on.

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Whether it's luck or uncanny foresight, here are 21 times The Simpsons predicted the future.

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Zero waste is the new normal, and it feels good. So good, in fact, that psychologists have invented a new word, “zerophoria,” to describe the positive emotion that defines life in a zero-waste society. Zerophoria is a combination of joy, pride, and resourcefulness. It’s a lightness of being that comes from wasting nothing and leaving no trace behind. This new feeling is a healing balm for the days of climate change anxiety.

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What if a digital twin of Earth existed? What if a twin that is exactly like the real Earth could be recreated in virtual space?　And what if changes in weather, disaster conditions, or urban activities could be updated in real time? Herein lie Associate Professor Yokoya’s goals and dreams.

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Charlie was 15 when his life inexplicably shrank to fit within the frame of his lower bunk bed in his family's cramped Hong Kong apartment.

“I felt very depressed, confused, like I didn’t know what I wanted,” said Charlie, who’s now 19 and still learning how to navigate the world outside.

Charlie is among millions of hikikomori, a Japanese term for people who cut themselves off from society, sometimes for months or years – often Gen Z and Millennials in the prime of their youth.

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Saga's Holobike offers an interesting solution for immersive indoor cycling with its 3D hologram technology. Instead of a VR headset, the trainer uses a 27-inch screen that protrudes from the handlebars. This projects stereoscopic holograms that are visible to the naked eye and create a feeling of actually being out on the trail.

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The official Welsh governmental tourism board has debuted a browser-based Metaverse experience to promote the region’s cultural destinations ahead of a traveller’s journey. Metaverse platform provider Spatial is powering the Welsh Metaverse. The immersive service is highly accessible to demographics who may not be familiar with Metaverse platforms. By leveraging Spatial’s framework, Welsh officials can provide a browser-based experience ready for anyone using a smartphone, tablet, laptop, computer, or Meta Quest headset.

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Digitizing the real world involves the tedium of real-world processes. Three-dimensional models are created using lidar and photogrammetry, a technique in which hundreds or thousands of photographs of a single object are stitched together to produce a digital reproduction.

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Science fiction widens the frontiers of our aspirations. It introduces us to new technologies that could shape the world, and new ideas and political systems that could organize it. It’s difficult to be an architect of the future without a pioneer’s vision of what that future might look like. For many, science fiction blasts that vision open.

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