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What Are Key Ingredients in the AR Marketing Stack?

AR Insider

AR marketing gets lots of attention including things like virtual product try-ons. But what are the moving parts that bring it all together. We examine the AR marketing stack in our latest report excerpt. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Steam VR Fest Serves Up Deep Discounts on Top PC VR Titles

Road to VR

Steam VR Fest is in full swing, offering deep discounts on PC VR titles that may just give you another pretty valid reason to stay indoors this winter. While you won’t be able to nab Half-Life: Alyx (2020) on the cheap this time around, there are a host of top games on sale to buy or gift to a friend for the holiday season. That’s great news if you have a PC VR headset, but even greater news if you have a VR-ready PC and Meta Quest thanks to the new dedicated Steam Link App which ma

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Arizona Sunshine 2 Review: Reanimating A Dying Genre In The Best Possible Way

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On a cold February evening in 2016, Arizona Sunshine changed my life. Well, kind of. Despite being a gamer for 30 years at that point, I had never heard of VR. When my wife bought me tickets to an immersive zombie experience, I had no idea that I had unwittingly stumbled into a 30-minute interactive ad for the HTC Vive that culminated in an eight-minute session of Arizona Sunshine.

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Intel Wins Appeal on VLSI Case, $2.18B Judgement Reversed

Anand Tech

A U.S. appeals court on Monday overturned a 2021 patent infringement ruling against Intel that awarded patent holding company VLSI $2.18 billion over multiple patent violations. In a two-part decision, the court reversed a previous verdict that found that Intel violated a frequency management patent, while affirming the violation of a second patent on memory voltage reduction – but sending it back to a lower court on the grounds that the damages were improperly calculated in the original t

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The Future of eLearning in 2022: A Sensitive Eye for Authentic Translation and Localization

Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

To avoid awkward and sometimes disastrous learning content, instructional designers must use authentic translation in the right context to get optimal results. For example, even a simple phrase like “got milk” translates to “are you lactating” in Mexico. Can you imagine what a straight translation might do to your course? With over 317 million people in the US and over 6.7 billion potential customers in the world, personalizing training seems logical.

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Beat Saber Gets OST 6 & 120Hz Mode On Quest 3

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Beat Saber gets 120Hz support on Quest 3, joined by OST 6 adding four free songs on all platforms. Available now as a free update, Beat Saber receives two new features for Quest 3. The biggest change is an experimental performance toggle that lets you pick 90Hz or 120Hz, though the announcement doesn't specify trade-offs. Newly retextured obstacles promise visual quality and fidelity improvements, while the level editor received "a ton" of new quality-of-life features.

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I Do, and I Understand – How Does XR Empower Experiential Learning?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Experiential learning remains a cornerstone of immersive training and a key advantage of using virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) solutions. With these theoretical techniques, institutions, companies, and organisations can rapidly upskill and onboard new hires, reskill current employees, and prepare the workforce for future vocational training.

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Snap Earns $20m Grant to Back California Tech Industry

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

California has awarded Snap Inc a massive fund worth $20 million USD. Comprised of grants and tax credit incentives, lawmakers have awarded Snap funding to help the company expand its offices globally and boost its augmented reality (AR) smart glasses manufacturing capacity. Additionally over 12,000 entities have earned or been awarded the programme’s incentives, leading to the creation of nearly 165,000 jobs since the initiative’s inception in 2013, the Los Angeles Business Journal

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Meta, IBM Rally XR Community for Global AI Alliance

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Meta Platforms and IBM have launched the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Alliance, it was revealed on Tuesday. A leader in AI development for virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) solutions, Meta’s latest involvement in the AI Alliance will help facilitate an ethical framework for the emerging technology. The organisation will rally some of the world’s leading organisations to back “open innovation and open science in AI,” it said in a press release.

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Bobak Tavangar (Brilliant Labs) on the Power of Combining Open Source AR Hardware and Multimodal AI

The AR Show

Bobak Tavangar is the co-founder and CEO of Brilliant Labs, a company creating an open-source AR glasses hardware platform and pairing that with powerful generative AI models to help you engage with the real world. Bobak studied at George Washington and Georgetown universities before completing a graduate degree at Cambridge University. Bobak is a serial entrepreneur with a core theme running through his entrepreneurial experiences: how to create better ways for people to find and utilize inform

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How to Train Employees 65% Faster With Virtual Reality

With a rapidly changing economy, Avangrid Renewables looked to virtual reality to develop a standardized form of immersive training in order to onboard and upskill technicians faster than ever before.

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Exciting New Features in Dynamics 365 Guides

CraneMorley

Back to Blog Page Dynamics 365 Guides is back with a bang, introducing three game-changing features in Version 9.0. Let’s dive right into how these improvements are making mixed reality training and collaboration a breeze. Object Anchors: The Future of Precision Object Anchors are the highlight of this update. Say goodbye to QR codes and physical markers; now, you can instruct your HoloLens 2 to recognize objects and overlay holographic content on them with pinpoint precision.

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‘Beat Saber’ Launches Original Soundtrack 6 Featuring Lindsey Stirling, DragonForce, & More

Oculus

’Tis the season of gift-giving, and the Beat Saber team has a little something special for your virtual stocking with today’s free launch of Original.

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Boz to the Future Episode 16: 10 Years of FAIR with Guests Joelle Pineau + Yann LeCun

Oculus

Welcome back for another episode of Boz to the Future, a podcast from Reality Labs. In today’s episode, our host, Meta CTO and Head of Reality Labs Andrew “Boz” Bosworth is joined by Meta VP of AI Research Joelle Pineau and Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of FAIR, Meta’s Fundamental AI Research team.

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Become a Ninja Assassin in ‘Arashi: Castles of Sin - Final Cut,’ Out Now

Oculus

It’s been just shy of six months since Skydance Interactive announced that it was bringing the award-winning stealth-action VR game Arashi: Castles of Sin to.

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Are You Still Watching? How to Create Engaging Presentations for Virtual Learning

Speaker: Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon

Remote meetings are here to stay - and many are BORING. If you are trying to engage your learners (or any audience), compelling content is critical. But trying to create stimulating content with the same tools you’ve always had is hard, right? Thankfully, wrong! Terrific tools in PowerPoint along with visual assets help you create the kind of dynamic content you need to capture your remote audience’s attention, with functions that allow for interactive sequences and navigation.

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Meta Horizon Worlds v139 Release Notes

Oculus

Meta Horizon Worlds v139 is here! This week, we’re expanding access to members-only worlds. We also made some improvements to pause and the quick actions.

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