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Immersive Frontiers: Spatial Computing, XR, and the Metaverse

This is Apple's week
This week is all about Apple. The Vision Pro is reaching customers' hands, and Apple has also secured an intriguing new patent.
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Prof. Thomas Metzler, Ph.D.
Return to the Office is Dead & Apples Vision Pro
Will Spatial Computing, as Apple calls it, become the tool for remote working & fuel the work-from-home trend?
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Prof. Thomas Metzler, Ph.D.
The Quest for Immersion
Humans' quest to immerse themselves in experience, to engage fully in moments and feelings, is a timeless endeavor.
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Prof. Thomas Metzler, Ph.D.
Apple Vision Pro & Meta Quest 3
Wow, the last few days have been quite something.
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Prof. Thomas Metzler, Ph.D.
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Privacy in the Metaverse: An Oxymoron?
It is obvious that there are privacy challenges with VR goggles like the Meta Quest 2, and with the technological development, these will become even…
Metaverse: Hype or inflection point?
The Metaverse - is it hype or an inflection point marking the dawn of a new age? A commentary...
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Prof. Thomas Metzler, Ph.D.
Interview "Metaverse - the Future of the Internet?"
In the last few weeks I had the opportunity to do some content work and have some discussions in my areas of interest. One of these conversations was…
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Prof. Thomas Metzler, Ph.D.
How the Metaverse could change the way we work.
The combination of companies transitioning to remote first, high-resolution mixed reality glasses as a laptop replacement, photorealistic avatars and…
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Prof. Thomas Metzler, Ph.D.
Interview on Metaverse & NFTs
About a week ago I had the pleasure to give a talk on "Crypto, NFTs & the Metaverse - the perfect storm!?" at an event. Prior to this I gave an…
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Prof. Thomas Metzler, Ph.D.
Metaverse Fashion Week in Decentraland
Decentraland is besides Sandbox one of the big players for virtual worlds (hello Second Life!). Often Decentraland is mentioned as one of the important…
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Prof. Thomas Metzler, Ph.D.
How beliefs acquired in the past blind us to the future (Web3, NFTs, Metaverse)
I have been playing chess since I was a child. I'm not really good, but I enjoy the game. Today I play against my seven-year-old son, who (still) has…
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Prof. Thomas Metzler, Ph.D.
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