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Freshly emerged from the HCI for UX program at MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, I am brimming with ideas for exploring emerging technologies. One area that continually piques my interest is the future of screenless interactions.
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WebXR is a technology that allows three-dimensional experiences directly in your browser, with or without additional devices. It streamlines access to immersive experiences by eliminating the need to download specialized applications or use specific hardware.
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In the near future, the gap between magic and technology will continue to narrow. Augmented reality (AR) will become a central part of our lives. We will share our physical space with three-dimensional digital objects, and it will be difficult and even impossible to distinguish between them and physical reality.
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Hosted on the virtual social platform ENGAGE, the “Eat, Sleep, VR Repeat” event featured everything from captivating visual effects to original animations, all of which were designed to immerse audiences in the mind of the veteran musician and record producer.
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Like self-sustaining fusion power and full self-driving cars, in the last decade virtual reality (VR) has joined the ranks of technology not quite living up to its promise. While VR headsets, games, and even workplace applications have grown in recent years, widespread adoption of this technology at the rate of something akin to smartphones is still a far cry away.
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WebXR is expanding the many ways in which we interact with the web, allowing developers to create engaging experiences that can be accessed on a wide range of devices—from a fully immersive experience on Meta Quest VR headsets to a traditional browser experience on smartphones and tablets.
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Everyone onscreen was real, sort of. The singers had human counterparts in the studio, isolated in cubicles, with headsets on their faces and joysticks in both hands. Immersed in a virtual world, they were competing to become part of (hopefully) the next big Korean girl band.
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The days of Japanese college students turning up at job fairs in staid dark business suits may be swiftly coming to an end. Welcome to the metaverse, where students armed only with a smartphone can peruse job offers and engage in online interviews from wherever they are in Japan, or even beyond.
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A recent invention by a research team led by Professor Lim Chwee Teck (Dept of Biomedical Engineering and Director of the Institute for Health Innovation & Technology, iHealthtech) promises to substantially enhance a user’s sense of touch in virtual reality (VR), with the aim of delivering a more authentic and immersive experience within the metaverse.
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There are many companies angling to make money in the metaverse at the moment, but far fewer trying to use its technology for public good. The World Economic Forum hopes to change that with the Global Collaboration Village, which will be introduced at Davos this year ahead of a full rollout. The virtual village has been designed to function—and look—like the real Swiss town, except that here the people convening in co-working spaces, attending conferences in government buildings, and browsing museums will be doing so as avatars
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