GeekWire
JUNE 27, 2023
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.
The Verge
DECEMBER 2, 2021
Project Starline is essentially a 3D video chat booth that aims to replace a one-on-one 2D video conference call with an experience that feels like you’re actually sitting in front of a real human being. Image: Google. Audio is another challenge, as the system needs to make it sound like a person’s words are coming from their actual mouth.
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The Verge
OCTOBER 11, 2021
HTC is planning to release a new VR headset this week and is also working on its own metaverse-like virtual world, according to a report from Protocol. However, it won’t ship with controllers and will be less powerful than the Oculus Quest 2, Protocol reports. A promotional image for HTC’s upcoming event. Image: Engage.
The Verge
APRIL 11, 2022
Most notably, a “handful” of Horizon creators will be able to sell virtual items and effects in the worlds they create for others to explore. With this test of “in-world purchases,” Meta is following in the footsteps of other 3D social platforms like Roblox and Rec Room, which both let creators sell items that they make.
The Verge
JANUARY 6, 2021
Sony has announced that it’s going to start selling a series of modular displays that can be used to create digital movie sets ( via The Hollywood Reporter ). That’s useful if you’re trying to create a virtual set out of displays. Image: Sony Electronics. They get quite bright.
Computerworld Vertical IT
MAY 31, 2023
The metaverse has been described as the next phase of the internet: interconnected and persistent 3D spaces where we will work, play, and, so it seems, purchase virtual real estate. Sales of VR and AR headsets have fallen short of expectations. To read this article in full, please click here
The Verge
JUNE 2, 2021
With photogrammetry, hundreds of still photos can be transformed into an incredibly realistic 3D model of a real place on Earth — assuming you capture them all. 3D Scan will come to the company’s $10,999-and-up Skydio X2 drone later this summer as well. Skydio says it doesn’t know for sure.).
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