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Google Invites Us To "Daydream" In Virtual Reality

Forrester IT

Importantly, the controller is aware of where it is in 3D space, allowing users to interact more richly with their controller than, say, an unseen controller. Reference design for headset and controller. Google also announced a reference design for both a headset and a controller (see photo). Applications and Google Play distribution.

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Zillow starts using AI for virtual home tours

GeekWire

Zillow’s Listing Showcase combines media and immersive virtual viewing to present a home’s features and layout. Seamless toggle between photos, the interactive floor plan and a virtual tour. Zillow users can jump to any selected panorama in a 3D home tour using the interactive floor plan, at right, in a Listing Showcase.

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Federal Government Signals Interest In Several Key Leading Edge Technologies

CTOvision

3D Printing Design & Implementation. VirtualizingVirtualized infrastructure is an enormously important component in a successful software development organization. Virtualizing might mean renting from a major public cloud provider like AWS, or investing in your own private cloud. IT Virtualization.

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Facebook’s new virtual meeting app is ‘great news’ and ‘validating’ for these Seattle entrepreneurs

GeekWire

Facebook today unveiled its vision for the future of work: a virtual reality experience called Horizon Workrooms that uses avatars and VR headsets to replicate in-person collaboration. “It will cause more people to experiment with virtual workspaces and consider using them as a key part of their remote or hybrid teams.”

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Acer’s new SpatialLabs tech brings 3D content to laptop screens

The Verge

Acer has announced SpatialLabs, a new 3D technology that will debut on the company’s ConceptD laptops. Plainly, it’s a set of tools that makes 3D work look very realistic and cool without requiring special glasses to see it. You can swap between 3D mode and 2D mode (where you’ll see two images side by side). Image: Acer.

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What is the metaverse, and do I have to care?

The Verge

It’s partly a dream for the future of the internet and partly a neat way to encapsulate some current trends in online infrastructure, including the growth of real-time 3D worlds. Neal Stephenson famously coined the term “metaverse” in his 1992 novel Snow Crash , where it referred to a 3D virtual world inhabited by avatars of real people.

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Virtual reality check: Futurists dissect Amazon’s new ‘Upload’ TV series, and its digital afterlife

GeekWire

The new series “Upload” on Amazon Prime Video is set 13 years from now, depicting a future in which people can choose a virtual reality afterlife. Her overall impression of the show was that the 2033 culture hasn’t changed enough from the present day. “The virtual reality part we can do. ” she said.