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Qatar Airways has introduced ‘Sama’, the industry’s first-ever MetaHuman cabin crew, inviting website users on a virtual journey of discovery ahead of their next trip. Qatar Airways has entered the metaverse by launching QVerse, a novel virtual reality (VR) experience for visitors to the airline’s website.
Roging on the change in community engagement
The initiative is a cooperation between Sensorium, a virtual reality startup, and Humanity 2.0, a Vatican-led NGO that, according to a press release by the former.
Sensorium, a leading metaverse developer, leveraging the latest artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and NFT solutions
The gallery, which will be accessible via virtual reality headsets as well as on desktop computers, will be ready later this year.
TAG HUER
Ambient Information Visualisation Concept (AIVC) as a new form of storytelling, which can enhance the communication and interactivity between museum visitors and exhibits by measuring and sustaining an optimum spatial environment around the user.
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Possibility of replicating this for education in the handicraft sector to conduct workshops, training.
Simulated Experience
Gamechange : a virtual reality system developed by Dr. Daniel Freeman and his colleagues at the University of Oxford is using VR to treat psychosis using a form of medical technology known as digital therapeutics or DTx.
The retail giant is looking to sell in the virtual world, provide its own currency and even allow customers the opportunity to buy and sell NFTs.
Three recent filings with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office indicate Walmart is getting deeper into the metaverse. It plans to create its own cryptocurrency and to offer digital versions of its products via NFTs. Does this signal broader consumer adoption of digital assets and virtual experiences? Meanwhile, new partnerships and fresh acquisitions suggest that old-school and new-school companies are getting ready to service more consumers.
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CRITICAL :
Meta’s research lab for AR/VR headsets cuts down the amount of funding towards AR/VR by few billions and the implications of the same in product lines and potential reasons are under speculations which includes moving of the timeline of the release of Meta’s AR glasses and related product and services