Hypergrid Business

OCTOBER 15, 2023

OpenSim land area tally is now at a new all-time-high of 131,257 standard regions, the fourth month in a row it has hit that target. Meanwhile, several grids are hosting Halloween events this month and getting ready for other fall holidays. OpenSim active users tally is, however, down this month by 3,006 despite being an active season, which can be attributed to downtime on a number of grids.

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OCTOBER 15, 2023

Apple's in-development more affordable Vision headset could use an A-series chipset and lack EyeSight. Vision Pro , Apple's first headset, is set to launch "early next year". It uses the M2 chipset also used in MacBooks and iPad Pros, and has a lenticular front display to enable a unique feature called EyeSight which shows a rendered view of your upper face to other people in the room when they're nearby.

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XROM

OCTOBER 15, 2023

In Microsoft Mesh, the immersive content you create is experienced by users on a desktop PC or in VR. Mesh does the heavy lifting to enable engagement in 3D environments by handling the avatar system, Spatial Audio, and multi-user synchronization. Development, iteration, performance optimization and publishing are facilitated through the Mesh toolkit.

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OCTOBER 15, 2023

In this week's episode of the Between Realities VR Podcast, Alex and Skeeva host Eric Masher and Jasmine Uniza, co-founders of Impact Reality XR. Eric and Jasmine explain how, together with Skeeva, they went from making VR related content on YouTube to starting a growing marketing and PR agency for VR games. Other topics include how Impact Reality XR has organically grown their team and the necessary steps to successfully launch a VR game.

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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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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 15, 2023

The video game industry is a source of constant innovation, with many of its breakthrough technologies being adopted by the business world. While virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) applications are just beginning to be used in industry, gamers have been using headsets to enter fully immersive worlds for years. The concept of the metaverse is not new to gamers either – persistent, avatar-driven digital environments and even digital currencies have long been accepted as part of mainstre

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