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What role does AR have in the Metaverse?
For emerging technology “veterans” we imagine there’s a collective eye-roll about the recent furor around Facebook (and then Microsoft, and then others’) announcements about the “Metaverse”. The idea of an alternative digital “world” has existed in various guises for a long time, so we’ve asked ourselves what’s so new that it has prompted the deluge of recent headlines. Is it the accelerated digitisation of the workplace brought about by Covid-19, the appearance of digital fashion items on gaming platforms, and the more widespread availability and adoption of blockchain technologies - prompting the boom in NFT’s - all three, or something else?
Motion Capture, Real-Time Face Animation and More: Here's What You Missed at ACM Siggraph 2019!
2019 is the second year when INDE has presented its R&D activity and products for peer-reviewed submissions at SIGGRAPH, the leading scientific conference in the field of computer graphics and interactive techniques. Last year, BroadcastAR, our core product, was exhibited in the Immersive Pavilion while this year we introduced the latest interactive version of HeroMirror in the Poster session.