The Adeia Blog

The Future of Interactive Video: From Zoom to the Metaverse

March 9, 2022

We probably don’t think of it this way, but interactive video is already a big part of our lives. Most of us can’t go more than a couple days without joining a Zoom call or Teams meeting. And while you may think of that as just video conferencing, these technologies – which have become features of daily life – are forms of interactive video.

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Spatial Mapping: Empowering the Future of AR

March 2, 2022

In the broader context of AR, VR and The Metaverse, we’re talking about a few different types of experiences. We can think of the virtual side as a fiction-versus-nonfiction paradigm. Some of our virtualized experiences will take place in virtual worlds that are entirely fictional, while other virtual worlds will be “non-fictional” digital twins of real-world spaces. But in an augmented or merged reality (AR/MR) context, virtual objects can be placed into and manipulated within a given space in our AR-assisted visualization of the real world.

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Is Metaverse the Future of VR?

February 23, 2022

From Science Fiction to Commercial Reality Ever since Facebook rebranded as Meta last year, there’s been a lot of buzz about The Metaverse, and a renewed interest in virtual worlds. It’s looking like a hot topic for the next several years, because despite the long history of the concept of virtual reality (VR), the technology is only now beginning to really deliver on its promise.

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