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Meta wants its VR technology to provide realistic hands

01/30/202401/29/2024 Jennifer Goula

The Facebook parent company feels that people will respond well to having accurate virtual reality hands. Since people communicate and identify with their own unique hands, Meta is currently researching strategies to make hands as realistic and accurate as possible using their VR technology. Researchers have found that people relate very closely to their specific hands and how they look and move. A team of researchers from the Codec Avatars Lab at Meta joined those at Nanyang Technological University in presenting a new research paper unveiling URHand. The name is…

Meta takes on virtual reality behavioral problems with 4-foot “personal boundary”

02/10/202202/09/2022 L. Green

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The company will use an invisible cylinder as a default setting to keep Horizon avatars apart. The metaverse is proving that in the virtual reality world, groping and other personal space boundaries are not respected in the same way that they would be IRL. Personal space in the real world is taught from a young age, and social pressure enforces it. In the real world, people learn to respect personal space as children. It’s taught early on as an unspoken rule and enforced socially so that people will keep a…

UK ICO to question Meta over child VR safety

01/14/202201/13/2022 Stephanie Beck

UK watchdog officials are concerned that the company isn’t doing enough to keep kids protected. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the United Kingdom intends to continue its questioning of Meta over the safety of its Quest 2 virtual reality headset for children, according to a recent report in The Guardian. The ICO said that it intends to enter into “further discussions” with meta over its VR compliance. This is hardly the start of the scrutiny Meta has faced over the child safety efforts it has and has not made…

Google Cardboard has come to an end as the tech giant ceases the VR gadget’s sale

03/08/202103/05/2021 Julie Campbell

Though it remains an open source project, the company will no longer be pursuing it. The last virtual reality product from the top search engine company, Google Cardboard, has come to an end. The technology giant has ceased the sale of the VR gadget, marking the end of a lengthy phasing out of what had once been ambitious efforts in this tech category. The Google Store posted a message on its site at the end of last week, announcing the end of the device. The message posted at the Store…