Virtual Reality Escape Room Transport Players into New Realms of Challenges

Virtual Reality Escape Room

Escape rooms began popping up across the United States as a new form of entertainment for families and friends and even for corporate team building exercises. Escape rooms require players to solve multiple puzzles to ultimately escape the room. Some experiences are timed, and each room is themed for a …

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Amazon Augmented Reality Player Transforms Programming Into an Interactive Experience

Amazon Augmented Reality

Amazon offers streaming content via its own platform, and like Netflix and other streaming giants, Amazon has its own list of original series titles, too. However, Amazon has taken the streaming service into an augmented realm with its Amazon Augmented Reality Player (AR Player). Those with an Apple or Android …

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How Augmented and Virtual Reality Are Transforming Retail

How Augmented and Virtual Reality Are Transforming Retail

The global augmented and virtual reality market is expected to grow by over $125 billion by 2024. Experts predict that this growth will be fueled largely by the adoption of these technologies in many different industries. For example, the healthcare industry has used augmented and virtual reality technology to train …

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What’s Cooking in Facebook’s Virtual Reality Labs?

What’s Cooking in Facebook’s Virtual Reality Labs?

Back in March, Wired marked the five-year anniversary of the Oculus Rift headset with an in-depth article focused on Facebook’s virtual journey. The social media giant is a major player in the extended reality industry, but Google, Microsoft, Snap and Apple all have their own unique augmented and virtual experiences …

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Google’s Floom Lets You See Other Side of the Planet

Google’s Floom

Google has launched a new augmented reality experience called Floom that allows the user to actually create a tunnel (or portal, as Floom looks a bit like a swirling cloud) and peek on the other side. Using the augmented reality tool, users become sort of like virtual explorers. There’s only …

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COVID Has Moved Us Closer to An Industrial AR and VR Revolution

COVID Has Moved Us Closer to An Industrial AR and VR Revolution

Over the course of history, there have been three industrial revolutions that completely transformed society. The first, which began in the 1700s, was sparked by the invention of the steam engine, which was used to mechanize production. The second took place in the late 1800s and was defined by the …

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Facebook in the Virtual and Augmented Reality Market

Facebook in the Virtual and Augmented Reality Market

Virtual reality and augmented reality have become increasingly popular over the last several years. Virtual reality is technology that transports users to a simulated environment where they can explore and interact with their surroundings. Augmented reality, on the other hand, is technology that allows users to project digital elements onto …

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What is Extended Reality (XR) and How Do We Use It Everyday?

What is Extended Reality

Virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality all hold different meanings. Virtual reality includes all graphic components that exist in a separate realm and is often accessed via goggles or other headsets. Augmented reality includes graphic overlays on top of a real-world environment. And mixed reality is a mix of …

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10 Ways to Create Augmented and Virtual Reality Experiences

Augmented and Virtual Reality Experiences

Virtual reality and augmented reality are two of the most game-changing technologies in existence. Virtual reality is technology that transports users to a simulated environment, whereas augmented reality is technology that allows users to superimpose digital elements onto their real world environment. To put it simply, virtual reality replaces your …

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Virtual and Augmented Reality: The Most Disruptive Technology of the Next Decade

Virtual and Augmented Reality: The Most Disruptive Technology of the Next Decade

Historical eras are often defined by the technological developments of that period in time. For example, the 1400s were largely defined by the invention of the printing press, which made it easier to widely disseminate information to the masses. The 1800s were marked by several new technologies, including the development …

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