Road to VR

JUNE 29, 2023

Synapse is the latest action game from veteran VR studio nDreams, built exclusively for PSVR 2. While you’ll do plenty of shooting, players are also equipped with a telekinetic superpower that feels great as a core mechanic. But does the rest of the game live up to it? Read on to find out. Synapse Details: Available On: PSVR 2 (exclusive) Release Date: July 4th, 2023 Price: $35 D eveloper: nDreams Gameplay Editor’s Note: Gameplay clips may not appear with cookies disabled, cli

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ARPost

JUNE 29, 2023

SYBO, the game studio responsible for the popular mobile game Subway Surfers , has pushed the boundaries of gaming with its first in-game augmented reality feature known as Subway Studio. The landmark expansion contributes to the growing appeal of AR gaming. Subway’s AR feature lets players bring the exciting Subway Surfers world into their own lives, giving them a way to use their imagination and creativity.

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Road to VR

JUNE 29, 2023

Apple Vision Pro is about to set a lot of expectations in the industry of what’s ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ about mixed reality, something the fruit company prefers to call spatial computing. Oculus founder Palmer Luckey weighed in on his thoughts, and coming from one of the main figures who kicked off the VR revolution of today, it means something.

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JUNE 29, 2023

Sony's full body tracking system Mocopi – which is compatible with VRChat on Quest headsets -- is launching in the United States. The Mocopi trackers come as a set for full-body tracking at $450, available to purchase now via Sony's online store. The set ships to buyers in the United States starting July 14 and the six color-coded IMU-based sensors come in a charging case.

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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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Road to VR

JUNE 29, 2023

It’s a rare treat when we get a VR game with the scope and scale of Horizon Call of the Mountain , let alone to see a much-loved IP reimagined specifically for the medium. Made exclusively for PSVR 2, the game was built collaboratively between studios Guerrilla Games and Firesprite, both part of PlayStation Studios. We sat down to speak with Alex Barnes, Game Director at Firesprite, to learn more about how Horizon Call of the Mountain came to be and how it turned out to be one of our best

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Road to VR

JUNE 29, 2023

Meta announced the high-flying superhero game Marvel’s Iron Man VR (2020) has a new permanent price, bringing it to $30. Once a PSVR exclusive, Iron Man VR on Quest 2 and Quest Pro lets you suit up as Tony Stark and take to the sky to fight evil. The action-adventure game is now available at a new price of $30, or 25% off the original $40 purchase price.

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Charlie Fink

JUNE 29, 2023

If we can't regulate the Internet, how are we going to control AI?

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Upload VR

JUNE 29, 2023

Synapse is a fine roguelite shooter that makes you feel like a gun-wielding Jedi, though it could benefit from greater variety. Developed by nDreams exclusively for PSVR 2, read on for our full review: First-person shooters in VR are a challenging field to stand out in when they remain so prolific, but Synapse makes an impression immediately. Sticking mainly to black-and-white visuals with a neon aesthetic, you are tasked with breaking into the mind of Colonel Peter Conrad (David Hayter), a form

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Everything VR & AR

JUNE 29, 2023

On this week’s episode we are joined by Nima Zeighami. Nima is the Director of Product for Leia Inc. where he architects the company’s strategy and manages development across its entire product line. Listen as we discuss how he grew into the field of immersive technology and the ways Leia Inc. is creating new innovation in our field. Listen Here: [link] Check out these links if you want to dig deeper after listening to the episode.

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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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JUNE 29, 2023

Little Cities' sandbox mode lets you sculpt your island with a new landscape editor, and that's available now on Quest. Sandbox Update marks the latest post-launch content update for Little Cities , which follows hand tracking , the Snowy Island DLC, Attractions and Little Citizens. Joining a new random island generator, Sandbox lets you shape your island more directly.

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VRGames

JUNE 29, 2023

The popular virtual reality game Among Us VR, developed in partnership by Shell Games, Innersloth and Robot Teddy has announced the Polus Point map for all players.

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JUNE 29, 2023

Journey To Foundation unveiled its voice cast featuring actors from Mass Effect, Overwatch 2 and more. Set in Isaac Asimov's Foundation universe, Journey To Foundation is a narrative-focused sci-fi adventure from Archiact. As confirmed in a press release, we now know that Hayden Bishop (Wasteland 3) is voicing protagonist Agent Ward. They're joined by François Chau (Ghost of Tsushima) as Commissioner Han Bo, Jennifer Hale (Mass Effect, Synapse ) as Vex, and Leah de Niese (Overwatch 2) as the soo

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Bernard Marr

JUNE 29, 2023

I’ve recently returned from attending Adobe’s 2023 EMEA summit. As is the case across the tech world right now, generative AI was the star of the show. As a technologist and futurist, it’s hard not to get excited about the ways that this transformative technology is being forged into all sorts of amazing tools and applications. Adobe is renowned as a world-leader in software that empowers creatives, so I was particularly keen to see what they are planning.

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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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VRGames

JUNE 29, 2023

UBOAT: The Silent Wolf is an upcoming VR simulator set in World War II. Players will take on the role of a submarine captain and use their skills to navigate through perilous terrain, hunt down enemy vessels, and launch torpedo attacks against hostile targets.

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Oculus

JUNE 29, 2023

Calling all logic and puzzle game fans! From Carbon Studio—the studio behind Crimen - Mercenary Tales, The Wizards, Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Tempestfall, and more—comes.

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JUNE 29, 2023

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JUNE 29, 2023

Little Cities, the relaxing city builder from nDreams and Purple Yonder, is getting a substantial free update today. Out now for all players, the Sandbox.

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Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor

With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.

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Road to VR

JUNE 29, 2023

Brilliant Labs, an AR startup working to integrate AI into daily life, announced that it has raised $3 million in seed funding which it will use to expand its team and invest in R&D for its open-source, AI-powered smartglasses. The funding round was led by Brendan Iribe, co-founder of Oculus, Adam Cheyer, co-founder of Siri, Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble, and Plug & Play Ventures, among others.

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Anand Tech

JUNE 29, 2023

AMD this morning is formally announcing the launch of the latest version of its GPU compute software stack, ROCm 5.7. Along with making several important updates to the software stack itself – particularly around improving support for large language models (LLMs) and other machine learning toolkits – the company has also published a blog post outlining the future hardware development plans for the stack.

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Upload VR

JUNE 29, 2023

The project to get PSVR 2 working as a PC VR headset got SteamVR output working by using extra hardware. PSVR 2 already does technically work on PC, without any third party tools or drivers, but only in the "cinema mode" where it shows your monitor floating in front of you, and only on specific NVIDIA 20-series GPUs. On PC, this mode also lacks positional tracking. iVRy, the developer of one of the third party SteamVR drivers for the original PlayStation VR, has been experimenting with PSVR 2 si

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Anand Tech

JUNE 29, 2023

The Asus ROG Ally game console comes with a tiny M.2-2230 SSD featuring a 512 GB capacity, which can be a bit tight for modern games. But enthusiasts from Reddit found a way to fit in a larger and more capacious M.2-2280 drive, albeit by modifying the case using pliers and voiding the handheld's warranty. Like every other portable game console, the Asus ROG Ally is a tightly packed device with almost no spare space inside, as its teardown by iFixit shows.

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Speaker: Treion Muller, Chief Strategy Officer at ELB Learning

Since when has learning and development (L&D) become such a negative experience with its intended learners? Could it be because learners have been conditioned by very poor learning experiences over the past two decades, combined with the kinks of technological innovation? Or is it because learning has typically been designed as a one-size-fits-all solution, despite the fact that humans are not clones?

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VRPlayin

JUNE 29, 2023

One of the most significant challenges brands face in today’s saturated market is capturing and holding consumer attention. However, Virtual Reality (VR) activations offer a compelling solution. In this blog post, we’ll explore how VR activations can help increase brand awareness and reach. The Impact of VR on Brand Awareness To start, let’s consider the impact of VR on brand awareness.

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Full Dive Gaming

JUNE 29, 2023

VR Podcast Rival Rides DEVS: Jay and Nat sat down with Rival Rides Devs of the VR party game on Quest 2!! CHECK IT OUT HERE: [link] Rival Rides is an exciting multiplayer VR party game taking place in an out-of-this-world theme park. Compete with your friends online in various games and wild rides, in order to collect the highest amount of golden egg trophies and become the Rival Ride’s champion!

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Oculus

JUNE 29, 2023

Sculpting in VR has a lot of advantages—it lets you interact with your creations at the right scale and get the full effect of your art in real time. But sometimes you want the precision of Desktop controls. With Adobe’s Substance 3D Modeler, you can have the best of both worlds. Substance 3D Modeler redefines 3D modeling by combining the VR and desktop experience in a single, powerful app.

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EON Reality

JUNE 29, 2023

Improved Spatial AI Look and Feel, Personalized AI Generated Experiences and Extended AI Copilot Wizard. IRVINE, CA, June 29, 2023 – EON Reality Inc., a global leader in Artificial Intelligence, Augmented and Virtual Reality-based knowledge and skills transfer for industry and education, is thrilled to announce a significant upgrade to its groundbreaking EON AI Assistant.

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Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute

The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?

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