British AI startup beats humans in international forecasting competition ManticAI ranked eighth in the Metaculus Cup, leaving some believing bots’ prediction skills could soon overtake experts #ai #forecasting www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

🧪Step into Marie Curie’s shoes in VR. 🧪 Experience the journey of a woman who overcame adversity to become one of the world’s greatest physicists. Solve puzzles to unlock special items. Engage in science. Get 50% off M. Curie in Meta Connect Sale. Now thru Sept 22. www.meta.com/en-gb/experi...

A Sleep No More-style immersive theater experience is taking over a single hotel room in Greenwich Village this fall www.timeout.com/newyork/news... #immersiveexperiences

Amazing XR news in this weekly roundup: Amazon plans to launch its smartglasses, the Virtual Boy is back, Meta wants to open its own stores... and much more! skarredghost.com/2025/09/15/a... #VirtualReality #AugmentedReality #MixedReality

From Sci-Fi to Reality: New Breakthrough Could Bring #Holograms to Your Phone "...the creation of a new optoelectronic device that combines Holographic Metasurfaces (HMs) with Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (OLEDs)." scitechdaily.com/from-sci-fi-...

'Yokai Come to Life' Museum in Nagoya — An Interactive Art Experience of Japanese Culture Until Sept. 23, 2025 #interactive #art #museums #exhibitions #projectionmapping #holography www.cbs42.com/business/pre...

Teaching Sept. 11 Using Virtual Reality Seeking a way to convey the import of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to students too young to remember them, Adam M. McMahon writes that he turned to virtual reality. #xr #vr #mr #September11 #edtech www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

Venice Immersive 2025: Everything We Saw In Italy www.uploadvr.com/venice-immer... #immersiveexperiences

IBC 2025 Preview: Immersive and interactive experiences take center stage #xr #vr #mr #ar #interactive #immersivestorytelling #virtualproduction www.newscaststudio.com/2025/09/04/i...

Porsche Used Colocated Apple Vision Pro Headsets To Showcase Its New Drivetrain www.uploadvr.com/porsche-appl... #avp #spatialcomputing

Designing wonder: the emerging role of immersive story ideators "...where these traditions intersect, demanding hybrid expertise that can orchestrate story, space, and technology into experiences that leave lasting emotional impact." #xr #vr #mr #ar blooloop.com/immersive/op...

New technologies tackle brain health assessment for the military news.mit.edu/2025/new-tec... #cognition #vr

It's a lot more fun than a wand. All you have to do is flick your hand. Superpowers! 😆

Creating a version of "The Golden Toad" with only hand tracking. It means conjuring some new mechanics... the hand ray is fun. Just used a custom hand pose to shoot a laser. #xr #vr #mr #unity3d #immersivestorytelling

Virtual reality merges with robotics to create seamless physical interactions techxplore.com/news/2025-08... #vr #robotics

Virtual workout partners may not be real but they still feel real enough to boost your exercise #xr #vr #mr #exercise #fitness www.psypost.org/virtual-work...

This artist's premise is that virtual and real world never perfectly align. It's the areas where they don't align that are fertile ground for exploration. Interesting!

Feel Ghostly Presence in This Setup Created with Portalgraph's #Hologram Technology Presence is part of Tsukamoto's #exhibition called Superposition, which "seeks to explore the boundary between #virtual space and #physical space..." #xr 80.lv/articles/fee...

Invisible Mobile Robots Can Make Deliveries To VR & AR, Princeton Researchers Show #xr #vr #mr #ar #Robotics www.uploadvr.com/invisible-mo...

Emerging Children’s #EdTech Brand Seedpace Launches First Interactive Player for “Play-and-Learn” Storytelling markets.financialcontent.com/wral/article...

Merlin unveils new immersive attraction concepts for US blooloop.com/immersive/ne... #immersiveexperiences

Thx Marjorie! Plodding away... 😘

Snow scene came together nicely!

Shuffling between #MR and #VR becomes simple as pie when using Meta's #MRUK tools/shaders. Just make sure to disable the passthrough layer when in VR mode. #xr #interactive #immersivestorytelling

Interesting, isn't it?

Handheld Virtual Reality: No Headsets, Just Phone & Tablet Greg Fodor has opened a new portal. #xr #vr #mr #ar #tablet #mobileVR 80.lv/articles/han...

ILM Evolutions: Pushing the Boundaries of #Interactive Experiences “It [VR] really is like stepping into a different world, and it feels totally natural once you’re there.”– Julie Peng #xr #vr #mr #ar #immersivestorytelling www.ilm.com/ilm-evolutio...

How the Bonds Among Virtual-Reality Furries Saved a Life, in “The Reality of Hope” A short film follows a friendship in the V.R.-furry community which turns into a radical act of generosity. #xr #vr #mr #film #immersivestorytelling www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Engineering research project combines virtual reality and the real world den.mercer.edu/engineering-... #vr

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Remember this?... how to figure out 3D, lol.

CyberTown was the hangout spot! I was so hyped about VRML at the time - I spent hours hand-coding points and polygons to make rudimentary models and worlds.

Know the feeling - learned VRML back in the day. 😁

Some historical perspective on #vr: "...David Raggett from Hewlett Packard Laboratories submitted a paper back in 1994 titled Extending WWW to support Platform Independent Virtual Reality." #xr #virtualreality hackaday.com/2025/08/07/v...

I was so excited about VRML as a teenager. As someone with no budget for expensive 3D modeling tools and limited programming experience, it was an accessible way to dive into 3D and an easy way to share with the world. I spent hours hand-coding points and polygons for rudimentary models and worlds.

Scientists Used Virtual Reality To Alter People’s Lucid Dreams In Mindboggling Feat #xr #vr #mr Study out of Northwestern U - link here: academic.oup.com/nc/article/2... www.iflscience.com/scientists-u...

Meta Just Assembled the AI Dream Team That Could Redefine XR Forever www.xrtoday.com/mixed-realit... #xr #ai

Windows on the Future: Reality Labs Research to Demo New Prototype VR Headsets at SIGGRAPH 2025 #xr #vr #mr #Siggraph25 www.meta.com/en-gb/blog/r...

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The Future Beyond Meta Quest and Vision Pro Is Coming in Glasses Form. What Will VR Look Like Then? www.cnet.com/tech/computi... #vr

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2/ Growing pool of VR natives - kids who grew up with VR - they're hopping in and out of alternate realities with nary a blink. Meanwhile VR is being used in medicine, training, education, defense, etc. The games industry has taken a hit in general - affecting VR games - but that's a niche play.

1/ Recall biz-strat meets in the 90s when trying to convince bricks & mortar CEOs to go digital/online was like pulling teeth. It took DECADES before the net became critical for survival. In the future, if you don't have the gear to plug into the metaverse, you're left behind.

Thx Marjorie... heading to the end zone! 😆

On the 50th anniversary of the atom bomb - finally completing a mixed reality format on the Manhattan Project. #xr #mr #vr #unity3d #EnvironmentArt #3D #3dmodeliing #virtualrealityexperience

Tim Cook says that Apple continues to be "very focused" on visionOS. "This is an area that we really believe in", Cook told investors:

Pain relief without pills? VR nature scenes trigger the brain’s healing switch www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... #vr

I tried NYC's new barefoot immersive theater show 'Viola's Room,' and it was unsettlingly awesome This immersive theatre experience narrated by Helena Bonham Carter leaves just one sense untouched. #immersivestorytelling #immersivetheatre www.timeout.com/newyork/news...

Circa dot-com crash in Y2K, people said the internet is a bust. A sham. Go elsewhere. For people who stayed in the ring, persistence paid off. The shift toward achieving #superintelligence doesn't nullify the #metaverse or #spatialcomputing. Predict the opposite. #xr observer.com/2025/07/meta...