Introduction: When the virtual becomes real In 1999, the famous science-fiction trilogy The Matrix prompted audiences to ponder the question of what they would do if it turned out that everything that they did—their work, their hobbies, and their travel—was nothing more than an illusion taki...
In that period,I made lots of experiments with mixed reality on the Vive Focus:I did some tests on Aruco marker tracking so that to have AR elements over a marker; I applied some filters on the passthrough and with Enea LeFons created Beat Reality, which made your vision pulse at the rh...
Although virtual reality has been exploited as a concept throughout the 1980s as in technoscience and in literary works, the term “metaverse” was coined in the science fiction bookSnow Crash[9]. The story depicted the interaction of humans through avatars on the street, which was space owned...