Road to VR

Why One of VR’s Most Valuable Companies is Shutting Down, According to Top Avatar Creator

Social VR platform Rec Room, once valued at $3.5 billion, announced earlier this week that it will be shutting down in June.

Meet the ‘Club Penguin’ superfans giving the game a second life

After Disney shut it down and fan revivals faltered, a volunteer team is quietly running a free version for a million users.

"The path to profitability has gotten tough enough that we've made the difficult decision to shut things down."

Rec Room — the virtual reality social club where you play games, hang out in the locker room, customize your appearance, and ...
Paste Magazine

Return to Varang’s fiery arms with an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at Avatar: Fire And Ash

Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and ...

The Comedy Club at the End of the Metaverse

It’s Sunday, and I'm onstage at the Soapstone Comedy Club in the metaverse. My VR avatar is clad in a black suit, tie, ...
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Voice actors as their sound alike avatars in VRChat

Voice actors bringing their sound alike avatars to life in VRChat creates a fun and immersive experience. Hearing the real voices behind characters while seeing their avatars interact makes the ...
IEEE

Instant Volumetric Head Avatars

Abstract: We present Instant Volumetric Head Avatars (INSTA), a novel approach for reconstructing photo-realistic digital avatars instantaneously. INSTA models a dynamic neural radiance field based on ...
Golf Digest

The membership at Michael Jordan’s private club, The Grove XXIII, looks to be a who’s who of golf insiders

EDITORS' NOTE—This story first ran in December 2021. For truly hardcore golf fans, the list of names playing in the Seminole Pro-Member—typically held the Monday after Honda Classic week—is highly ...