Imagine this: you enter a VR chat room, and in place of static logos or flat banners, you see a living being—a talking, ...

When American science fiction writer Neal Stephenson coined the term “metaverse” in the ‘90s in Snow Crash magazine, who would have thought that the concept would become what it is today? But as ...

Virtual reality is a powerful, immersive tool with clear strengths but notable limits, says new research from Stanford. VR ...

The company's Hyperscape VR app will have the ability to create digital replicas of your surroundings. Photorealistic avatars may soon follow.

The avatars used in this study were created using the Daz3D software (Version 4.21) and rendered in Unity 2019 (Version 2019.4.18f1). Tsukuba, Japan—The phenomenon known as the Proteus Effect, wherein ...

JoggAI’s new Avatar X model makes it easy to create high-quality UGC-style AI avatars from just a photo and a voiceover. Whether you're showcasing a product, building faceless content, or automating ...

What's in a smile? If you're training Meta's virtual reality avatars, it could be $50 an hour. The tech giant is recruiting adults through the data-collection and -labeling company Appen to spend ...

Technology in schools tends to move in quiet steps. Chalk dust gave way to interactive whiteboards. Classrooms spilled onto the web. Now, a new tool is taking shape in everyday […] ...

The biggest reveal at Meta’s Connect event was its long-promised AR glasses, Orion. As expected, the prototype, each of which reportedly costs around $10,000, won’t be ready for the public any time ...

Loco Motion, the studio behind superhero action sandbox Superfly(2022), and publisher Fast Travel Games announced some very Avatar: The Last Airbender-inspired action is coming to Quest and PC VR ...