VRScout
AUGUST 8, 2023
Train like a pro while dressed as one. VR sports training provider, Sense Arena, today announced that it has partnered with the National Hockey League (NHL), to launch NHL Sense Arena , the first-ever interactive NHL VR platform. First launched back in 2018, the Sense Arena hockey platform immerses you in a variety of virtual challenges and drills designed to test your skills on the ice and help improve your performance.
ARPost
AUGUST 8, 2023
Immersive technologies bridging the gap between the physical and digital worlds can create new business opportunities. However, it also gives rise to new challenges in regulation and applying real-world laws to XR spaces. According to a World Economic Forum report , we are relatively slow in innovating new legal frameworks for emerging technologies like AR and VR.
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VRScout
AUGUST 8, 2023
The device pairs with Rokid AR glasses to provide a portable entertainment experience. Earlier this year, Rokid unveiled its latest pair of augmented reality-powered, Rokid Max. With a 50% larger display area than the Rokid Air, the company’s previous AR glasses, Rokid Max features an impressive 215-inch boundaryless screen from 6 meters away, offering cinephiles a new to enjoy their favorite films and TV both conveniently and privately.
AR Insider
AUGUST 8, 2023
Beyond AR glasses themselves, there’s a tech stack forming. Like other computing categories, AR needs hardware, software, silicon, and all points between. We examine the evolution of the spatial stack. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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.
Road to VR
AUGUST 8, 2023
Imaging company Almalence has released a trial plugin for its Digital Lens technology which makes use of eye-tracking to purportedly increase the resolving power and clarity of XR headsets. Almalense argues that the lenses on most XR headsets today aren’t being used to their fullest potential. By taking advantage of eye-tracking and smarter calibration, the company says its image pre-processing technology can actually increase the resolving power of a headset, including expanding the ̵
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Upload VR
AUGUST 8, 2023
Pistol Whip will receive two further scene collections into early 2024, as Cloudhead Games begins development on its next VR project. With Overdrive Season awaiting its final scene following last week's ' Majesty ', Cloudhead Games unveiled a new 2023-2024 roadmap for Pistol Whip to celebrate its 10th anniversary. Following Overdrive and the Pistol Mix level editor, fall 2023 will introduce the 'Elixir Of Madness' collection, adding a "phantasmagoria of ghastly delights" across three new electro
XR Today - Augmented Reality tag
AUGUST 8, 2023
Brilliant Labs announced on Tuesday the release of its arGPT smart glasses platform. Compatible with Apple’s iOS operating system, it will enable ChatGPT artificial intelligence (AI) on smart glasses and wearables. The next-level solution for human-computer interfacing (HCI) aims to provide hands-free access to global knowledge bases using voice prompts.
Upload VR
AUGUST 8, 2023
The Wall Street Journal reported last week that less than 10% of purchased Ray-Ban Stories glasses are being "used actively" by their owners. The statistic comes from "a [Meta] document from February reviewed by The Wall Street Journal." The Journal also reports Meta is nonetheless planning to release a second generation of the Stories with Ray-Ban either this fall or next spring, "according to people familiar with the matter.
Anand Tech
AUGUST 8, 2023
Today we are taking a look at the Pure Rock 2 FX CPU cooler from the aptly-named and acoustics-focused Be Quiet! One of the company's latest CPU air coolers, the Pure Rock 2 FX is intended to compete in the packed mainstream cooler market as a competitively priced all-rounder. Always a careful balancing act for cooler vendors, the mainstream market lives up to its name by being where the bulk of sales are, but it's also the most competitive segment of the market, with numerous competing
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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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AUGUST 8, 2023
A release candidate build for Pavlov Shack is now available on App Lab for Quest, with a full store release 'imminent'. Pavlov Shack in Meta quest has an update in the RC channel, it will replace the default chanel later this month. Store Release imminent — davevillz (@davevillz) August 9, 2023 This is definitely not the first time we've heard that Shack is coming 'soon' to the official Quest store – it was initially meant to arrive on there all the way back 2021.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
AUGUST 8, 2023
Vicon, a major provider of computer vision and motion capturing (mocap) technologies, revealed it had struck a partnership with visual effects (VFX) solution provider Artanim. Set to debut at the SIGGRAPH 2023 from 8 to 10 August, the partnership will see the former supply the latter with its markerless mocap technologies. At SIGGRAPH, Artanim, Dreamscape Immersive’s research division, will unveil its machine learning (ML)-capable markerless technologies.
Upload VR
AUGUST 8, 2023
Windup Minds, a new studio with talent from Oculus, Niantic, Magic Leap, wants to bring virtual creatures into your headsets. The studio announced a $1.6 million close of pre-seed funding today, as it prepares to launch its first experience for virtual and mixed reality devices. The studio team features "veteran talent" from Oculus, EA, PopCap, Harmonix, Bungie, Magic Leap, Niantic and more, with experience working on major VR and flatscreen releases like Bogo , First Steps , First Contact , The
XR Today - Augmented Reality tag
AUGUST 8, 2023
Said Confucius first, apparently – though many have echoed this wisdom in more recent times. Learning by doing is a problem, though, in today’s remote-first world. And furthermore, there are many intense professional situations, from the operating room to the battlefield, where learning through exposure could be deadly. XR has been the promised solution for immersive learning for many years, but the award-winning Lenovo ThinkReality A3 Smart Glasses is making this vision a reality, through
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.
VRGames
AUGUST 8, 2023
Players looking for a chill strategy-based game experience may have something to look forward to soon. Coatsink, the studio known for publishing VR games like Jurassic World Aftermath, Shadow Point and Onward is bringing Islanders – an already existing city builder – to Quest and SteamVR.
The AR Show
AUGUST 8, 2023
acine Achiakh is the co-founder and CEO of Wisear, a company creating neural interface devices for AR glasses and other wearables. They are packing their technology into normal-looking earphones and working to deliver the capabilities of the mouse and keyboard, hands free. Earlier in his career, Yacine studied mathematics and business before joining Criteo, a fast-growing tech unicorn in France.
CraneMorley
AUGUST 8, 2023
Back to Blog Page The newest use case for Mixed Reality and Microsoft HoloLens has arrived, this time aimed at helping investigate disasters and major crime scenes. The latest HoloLens application, Forensic XR, takes a scene right out of Iron Man 3’s virtual crime scene reconstruction and turns what looked like a make-believe scene in the movie with Tony Starks and Jarvis into a real-life application.
VRGames
AUGUST 8, 2023
Are you nervous around needles? Don’t let that keep you from donating blood! Abbot Laboratories and Blood Centers of America have come together to create a unique way for people of all ages to donate blood – by using Mixed Reality technology.
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.
The Ghost Howls
AUGUST 8, 2023
It’s been a bit of a crazy week for me, and I hope it has been a bit more relaxing for you. I just send you a lot of good vibes, hoping that this summery week will bring you sun, fun, and joy. Let’s leave the summertime sadness to Lana Del Rey… Top news of the week (Image by Immersed) Immersed announced Visor headset The company Immersed is well known in the VR community for its productivity application to have a multi-monitor setup for your computer in virtual reality.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
AUGUST 8, 2023
NVIDIA announced on Tuesday at the SIGGRAPH 2023 it had expanded its CloudXR software developer kit (SDK) to deliver more scalable, customisable extended reality (XR) experiences for enterprises and developers. At the event in Los Angeles, Jensen Huang, Chief Executive, NVIDIA , gave a keynote address to unveil the news. In it, he revealed a host of updates to the industrial-grade cloud streaming XR platform.
Anand Tech
AUGUST 8, 2023
At SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles, NVIDIA unveiled a new variant of their GH200' superchip,' which is set to be the world's first GPU chip to be equipped with HBM3e memory. Designed to crunch the world's most complex generative AI workloads, the NVIDIA GH200 platform is designed to push the envelope of accelerated computing. Pooling their strengths in both the GPU space and growing efforts in the CPU space, NVIDIA is looking to deliver a semi-integrated design to conquer the highly comp
Upload VR
AUGUST 8, 2023
Polyarc officially revealed Glassbreakers: Champions Of Moss today, an upcoming competitive multiplayer game. Set in the same universe as single-player adventures Moss and Moss: Book 2 , Glassbreakers takes a considerably different approach. Described as a "MOBA-like real-time battler" by Polyarc, it marks the studio's first venture into competitive VR multiplayer.
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?
Anand Tech
AUGUST 8, 2023
Colorful has quietly introduced GeForce RTX 4060 Ti graphics cards in Mini-ITX form-factor that combine compact dimensions and performance of Nvidia's latest Ada Lovelace GPUs. In fact, with the boosted performance of 22 FP32 TFLOPS, Colorful's iGame GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Mini OC is likely the highest-performing Mini-ITX graphics card that has been launched to date.
Steki Amusement
AUGUST 8, 2023
Owatch Autumn Promotion! 20% off sitewide, the discount is only available for the top 50 orders, buy now! In order to support customers to prepare for the business in the second half of the year and next year, Owatch held a big autumn promotion in August, with a 20% discount on the whole site , and you can buy more and save more. The discount is limited to the first 50 orders, and there are only 28 places left , come and buy it.
Anand Tech
AUGUST 8, 2023
When NVIDIA began to roll out their Ada Lovelace architecture to the workstation market, the company introduced its new flagship RTX 6000 Ada graphics card meant to offer the highest performance possible as well as its quite spectacular RTX 4000 SFF board that delivers formidable performance in a tiny package. The gap between the two solutions is vast, and on Tuesday, the company finally unveiled new products that fill it.
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