VR/AR

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 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.

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.

Stan Schneider, CEO of Real-Time Innovations (RTI), takes us on a trip to the future!

Almost four-year-old conjoined Brazilian twins, Arthur, and Bernardo have been successfully separated with the help of virtual reality technology.

PTC has announced that, for the fourth consecutive year, it has been named the overall leader and a “Best in Class” vendor for its Vuforia augmented reality (AR) solution suite in PAC’s Innovation RADAR report.

Research by the University of Bath has used motion capture technology to assess the accuracy of Video Assistant Referee (VAR) technologies in football.

pax.world announces its first-ever public land sale on 26 July, ahead of the virtual world's public launch, scheduled for September 2022.

Swave Photonics, an innovator in Holographic eXtended Reality (HXR) technology to bring the metaverse to life, has announced a €7m seed round.

Mark Zuckerburg believes so strongly that the future is the metaverse that he changed the name of Facebook to Meta. Suddenly, an old sci-fi word has become the hottest mainstream concept with billions being invested to create its virtual worlds with hardware such as augmented reality smart glasses and full immersion artificial reality goggles.