Metaverse
Extended reality headset sales to grow to $20bn 2033
Virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) devices promise to revolutionise the way we interact, acting as gateways to the metaverse. Despite these technologies already achieving limited adoption, extensive headset hardware development is required to meet the demands of becoming a ubiquitous computing platform.
Five ways IoT will be a Metaverse enabler
The Metaverse: since Facebook announced its strategy pivot and company name-change to ‘Meta’ in October last year, the concept has been met with a barrage of confusion, including every definition under the sun – from a never-ending video game to a fully digital world, to the internet of the future. Sindu Manickam, Senior Industrial IoT Technologist, Digital Catapult further explores.
OMNIVISION announces smallest shutter image sensor
OMNIVISION, a global developer of semiconductors, including advanced digital imaging, analogue, and touch & display technology, have announced the three-layer stacked BSI global shutter (GS) image sensor.
NVIDIA announces GTC keynote, AI luminary speakers
NVIDIA has announced that it will host its next GTC conference virtually from the 19th to 22nd September 2022. Featuring a news-packed keynote by founder and CEO Jensen Huang, and more than 200 sessions with global business and technology leaders.
NVIDIA release Omniverse with USD connectors and tools, simulation technologies and developer frameworks
NVIDIA announced a range of developer frameworks, tools, apps and plugins for NVIDIA Omniverse, the platform for building and connecting metaverse worlds based on Universal Scene Description (USD).
NVIDIA and partners accelerate industrial metaverse and next wave of AI
NVIDIA has announced a broad initiative to evolve Universal Scene Description (USD), the open-source and extensible language of 3D worlds, to become a foundation of the open metaverse and 3D internet.
Virtual assistants and digital humans with NVIDIA’s omniverse avatar cloud engine
NVIDIA has announced NVIDIA Omniverse Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE), a suite of cloud-native AI models and services that make it easier to build and customise lifelike virtual assistants and digital humans.
pax.world launches first public land sale
pax.world announces its first-ever public land sale on 26 July, ahead of the virtual world's public launch, scheduled for September 2022.
Siemens, NVIDIA unite to create industrial metaverse
Siemens and NVIDIA have joined forces to create an industrial metaverse to increase use of AI-driven digital twin technology that the companies say, “will help bring industrial automation to a new level.”
Swave raises €7m to deliver AR/VR experiences to the metaverse
Swave Photonics, an innovator in Holographic eXtended Reality (HXR) technology to bring the metaverse to life, has announced a €7m seed round.