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Finland unveiled its strategy to be a metaverse global leader by 2035
The Immersive Wire - 4 December 2023 (Monday Briefing)
Tom Ffiske
December 04, 2023
Executive summary
Welcome to your weekly briefing on the metaverse and spatial computing. Here are your snippets to sound smarter in meetings this week:
Headline: Finland unveiled its strategy to be a metaverse global leader by 2035.
Awards: The VR Awards unveiled the final winners across all categories. The VR Lifetime Achievement Award went to Myron W. Krueger.
Interesting read: The dos and don’ts of styling for the metaverse.
Other stories: HTC unveiled the Vive Ultimate Tracker with inside-out tracking, and Solwey Consulting launched an app where you can see the International Space Station via AR (more stories below).
Immersive Tech Week was great fun; it genuinely feels like meeting all my pen pals all at once.
Analysis
Finland unveiled its strategy to be a metaverse global leader by 2035.
How? The strategy aims to surpass €30bn in annual industry turnover by 2035, and aligns with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. It will focus on setting up research areas, promoting business cooperation, and attracting talent.
Separately, EU lawmakers voted on a report advocating the development of metaverse technologies so that the bloc is not reliant on countries outside of the EU.
Jani Vallirinne, who spearheads the initiative, went into further detail with Metaverse.EU: “The initiative will start five new Metaverse In Action programs, each with its targets. Two programs, Business Networks and Technology Enablers, form the base for the other three application programs. The application programs are Metaverse Society, Metaverse Health and the Industrial Metaverse. In all these programs, companies and research organisations will apply for research projects and create business opportunities together.”
More details on the report can be found here.
Other notable stories
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HTC unveiled the Vive Ultimate Tracker with inside-out tracking.
I tried this at Immersive Tech Week, and it was very good! I can see it being rolled out further.
Not For Broadcast: VR, a chaotic television simulator, hits PSVR 2 on 14 December.
Solwey Consulting launched an app where you can see the International Space Station via AR.
Steam Link now connects with Meta Quest 3.
Vrgineers received $6m in funding.
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Note: The Immersive Wire is run by Tom Ffiske, who also works within Accenture’s metaverse group. The contents of the newsletter should not be regarded as Accenture’s views.