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Virtual reality grooming is an increasing danger. How can parents keep children safe?
5Feb By adminNo Comments
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Virtual reality grooming is an increasing danger. How can parents keep children safe?

[ad_1] Virtual reality (VR) headsets are increasingly popular among adults and children. They are part of extended reality environments, which “enable ever more realistic and immersive experiences”.VR provides entry into computer-generated 3D worlds and games with different environments and interactions. Sometimes this is loosely referred to as the “metaverse”. The majority of VR headsets have a lower age limit of 10–13 years due to safety concerns of extended reality technologies in general and VR headsets in particular. But VR is increasingly used by young children, even of preschool age. These immersive technologies make it difficult to monitor children's physical and emotional experiences and with whom they interact. So what are the dangers, and what can we do to keep the kids safe?...
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Immersive, 3D, and ultra-fast displays take over video games at CES 2024
14Jan By adminNo Comments
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Immersive, 3D, and ultra-fast displays take over video games at CES 2024

[ad_1] For decades, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has been the platform to announce some of the most influential innovations in gaming. 2024 is no different as big companies like Xbox, PlayStation and Samsung made some giant gamer-related announcements at the conference, which took place in Las Vegas, Nevada from 9 - 12 January.From ergonomic controllers of the future, to comfortable headrests for gamer chairs, and powerful new graphics cards, there was no shortage of slick new technology on display for the gaming community at CES. However, after the dust settled in the Las Vegas desert, perhaps the most notable theme in gaming to come out of CES was displays. We are now on WhatsApp. Click to join. Over the years, advancements in virtual reality (VR) and graphics cards have moved ...
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Vistara plans to use virtual reality, augmented reality tech for training purposes
9Jan By adminNo Comments
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Vistara plans to use virtual reality, augmented reality tech for training purposes

[ad_1] Vistara plans to use virtual reality and augmented reality technologies for certain training activities for the staff, the airline's chief Vinod Kannan said on Monday and emphasised that there is always going to be a place for human intelligence as certain situations cannot be handled by bots.The full service carrier, which will complete nine years of flying on January 9, is already using chatbots to address customer queries. To a query about the use of artificial intelligence by the airline, its CEO Vinod Kannan said there are certain things that have already been done. "We have a chatbot. We are trying to improve how we do some of our training. We are also looking at virtual reality, augmented reality. Some pilots (projects) we are doing on that front to see whether they can re...
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Qualcomm Unveils Chip for Mixed Reality to Compete With Apple’s Vision Pro
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Qualcomm Unveils Chip for Mixed Reality to Compete With Apple’s Vision Pro

[ad_1] Qualcomm Inc., the biggest maker of mobile phone processors, announced the Snapdragon XR2 chip designed for virtual and mixed reality headsets that will compete with Apple Inc.'s forthcoming Vision Pro.The San Diego-based chipmaker said the new component, which can run 12 or more high-definition cameras, will be used by Samsung Electronics Co. and Alphabet Inc.'s Google on products under development.  The market for devices that project information onto the user's view of the physical world was fired up last year by Apple's announcement that it would sell a mixed-reality headset. Qualcomm's chips have been at the heart of many of other companies' attempts to lure consumers to the category, which hasn't yet taken off.  We are now on WhatsApp. Click to join.Augmented reality impose...
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Can You Fly a Real Helicopter After an Hour in a VR Simulator?
24Oct By adminNo Comments
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Can You Fly a Real Helicopter After an Hour in a VR Simulator?

[ad_1]  The challenge for the latest episode of Hello World was this: Could I go to Zurich, sit in a newfangled flight simulator for an hour or so and then fly a helicopter the next day through the Swiss Alps? Mind you, I've never flown one before. Also, doesn't this seem like a bad idea?On This EpisodeSince I'm here writing this, the spoiler alert is obvious. You'll see that, yes, a total novice can cruise by the Matterhorn in a helicopter and survive if given the right tools ... and some help. I was trained by the people at Loft Dynamics AG. They've advanced the flight training field in a major way. Instead of surrounding a pilot with curved screens, Loft provides a virtual reality headset paired with the company's own mechanical simulator that mimics the motions of an aircraft. I've ...
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Virtual Reality Yoga App Developer to Meta: I Worked Like ‘Hell’ Only to Get Burned
13Oct By adminNo Comments
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Virtual Reality Yoga App Developer to Meta: I Worked Like ‘Hell’ Only to Get Burned

[ad_1] Andre Elijah created a virtual reality yoga app, with avatars of top instructors teaching various poses, as well as pilates and mindfulness — all of which users will never see, he alleged in a lawsuit, because Meta Platforms Inc. killed it just before launch time.Meta canceled Elijah's AEI Fitness app days before its unveiling at Meta Connect, the world's biggest VR conference, which he says would have propelled it to the top of the VR fitness app market, eventually reaping him tens of millions of dollars. We are now on WhatsApp. Click to join. “It was hell working on it, and we got there,” Elijah said in an interview, adding that the company made a “gorgeous” trailer for its presentation at the conference. But while preparing to be part of Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg...
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The Amazon antitrust lawsuit is likely to be a long and arduous journey for the FTC
11Oct By adminNo Comments
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The Amazon antitrust lawsuit is likely to be a long and arduous journey for the FTC

[ad_1] Amazon is heading into one of its biggest sales events of the year — Prime Day — with a lawsuit hanging over its head that accuses it of preventing sellers from hawking their merchandise at lower prices on other sites.The Federal Trade Commission's long-awaited antitrust case is the agency's most aggressive move yet to tame the market power of Amazon, a company that's become synonymous with online shopping and fast deliveries. Under chair Lina Khan, the agency hasn't been shy about taking big swings against some of America's biggest companies and testing the limits of competition law to reverse what many of her supporters see as decades of weak antitrust enforcement. But that approach has also led to some high-profile setbacks, most notably in the FTC's bid to block Microsoft's t...
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Apple Vision Pro vs Meta Quest 3: The mixed reality race between two tech titans
9Oct By adminNo Comments
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Apple Vision Pro vs Meta Quest 3: The mixed reality race between two tech titans

[ad_1] Apple and Meta are two of the world's biggest tech companies, and both of them have dipped their toes into a new technology recently - mixed reality. While Meta Platforms is no stranger to mixed reality, courtesy of its Metaverse and Meta Quest lineup, it has eluded Apple so far, but not anymore. At the World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2023 on June 5, Apple took the wraps off its first-ever mixed reality headset, the Apple Vision Pro. Although both of these headsets aim to improve mixed reality, they target different demographics. Apple Vision ProDeveloped by Apple's unit called Vision Products Group (VPG) led by Mike Rockwell, the Vision Pro is a spatial computer that allows users to experience apps and features in an augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) enviro...
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AI Vincent Van Gogh says you’re wrong about his ear
3Oct By adminNo Comments
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AI Vincent Van Gogh says you’re wrong about his ear

[ad_1] AI Vincent Van Gogh is patient but unimpressed by yet another question about his chopped-off ear."I apologise for any confusion but it seems you are mistaken," says the great painter's avatar, in the sort of testy tone familiar to anyone who has toyed with AI language models. "I only cut off a small part of my ear lobe," he insists (in fact, there are multiple accounts of how the artist mutilated his ear). The artificial intelligence Van Gogh appears on a video screen at the end of a blockbuster exhibition at the Musee d'Orsay in Paris. The exhibition, running until February, is dedicated to the final weeks of his life in the village of Auvers-sur-Oise, just north of the French capital.Van Gogh shot himself with a rusty pistol in 1890 aged 37. It took him two days to die.But the ...
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Meta to signal future of AR/VR investments at annual Connect conference
27Sep By adminNo Comments
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Meta to signal future of AR/VR investments at annual Connect conference

[ad_1]  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday is set to update investors on his plan to build the immersive metaverse that he has pitched as the future of computing at the company's first in-person conference since the start of the pandemic.Announcements at Meta Connect, Meta's biggest event of the year, will indicate how Zuckerberg plans to navigate the shift this year of investor fervor to artificial intelligence from augmented and virtual reality technologies. Stakes for the event are high as investors last year slammed the parent company of Facebook and Instagram for spending extensively on the metaverse, prompting Zuckerberg to lay off tens of thousands of staff to continue funding his vision. Developers will be watching to assess what apps they might create for Meta's latest hardw...
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