How we describe the metaverse makes a difference. Today's words could shape tomorrow's reality and who benefits from it
Quick, define the word "metaverse."
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Consumer & Gadgets
Hayo will enable magical moves to control your connected home
(Tech Xplore)—What if you had some virtual remote control for your home, no screen, physical remote, no yelling across the room?
Robotics
The feel of the future: Elevating haptics with advanced dual-rate sampling
Haptic feedback stands as a cornerstone for the authenticity and depth of engagement in virtual reality and teleoperation systems. Yet, existing haptic devices have grappled with the fidelity of replicating tactile properties, ...
Jul 31, 2024
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Facebook eyes 10,000 EU jobs to build 'metaverse'
Facebook on Monday announced plans to hire 10,000 people in the European Union to build the "metaverse", a virtual reality version of the internet that the tech giant sees as the future.
Oct 18, 2021
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Engineering
Team develops platform for design of hydropower hub buildings
A research team has developed a platform based on building information modeling (BIM) technology for use in the design of hydropower hub buildings. The platform, called HydroBIM, combines BIM technology with geographic information ...
Oct 12, 2023
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Faith in the metaverse: A VR quest for community, fellowship
Under quarantine for COVID-19 exposure, Garret Bernal and his family missed a recent Sunday church service. So he strapped on a virtual reality headset and explored what it would be like to worship in the metaverse.
Jan 31, 2022
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Metaverse builders grapple with sex harassment conundrum
Nina Jane Patel felt confined and under threat as the male avatars closed in, intimidating her with verbal abuse, touching her avatar against her will and photographing the incident.
Apr 1, 2022
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'Virtual influencers' are here, but should Meta really be setting the ethical ground rules?
Earlier this month, Meta announced it is working on a set of ethical guidelines for "virtual influencers"—animated, typically computer-generated, characters designed to attract attention on social media.
Jan 31, 2022
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Virtual reality brings portable Taser training to police
A combative man approaches, moving quickly toward a police officer who pulls out a Taser. The man is wearing a heavy jacket, which could mean the prongs that would generate an electronic current and send him to the ground ...
May 24, 2022
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Business
Editing memories, spying on our bodies, normalizing weird goggles: Apple's new Vision Pro has big ambitions
Apple Vision Pro is a mixed-reality headset—which the company hopes is a "revolutionary spatial computer that transforms how people work, collaborate, connect, relive memories, and enjoy entertainment"—that begins shipping ...
Jan 30, 2024
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