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XR + Ecology = 404 error?

For a long time, those involved in XR and digital creation have been sailing at a dead end: what is the environmental impact of digital equipment or infrastructures? What is the footprint of a work, from production to distribution? These are particularly complex questions, given the many variables that need to be integrated into calculation methods. And yet, these impacts need to be estimated, because the underlying problem is so powerful: is XR really compatible with environmental issues? A number of recent announcements offer a first glimpse of the picture.…