Thu.Aug 03, 2023

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This Thought-Provoking VR Experience Lets You Swap Genders

VRScout

The award-winning immersive experience gives you a safe space to explore gender. Body of Mine is a 15-minute VR experience that simulates body dysphoria by allowing you to step into the body of another gender. Facial, eye, and body tracking, allow you to unlock real-life interviews with individuals who are transgender. The project aims to provoke introspection and open up discussions about gender identity and the experiences of transgender individuals all around the world.

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‘Asgard’s Wrath 2’ Video Teases ‘endless dungeon’ Mode with Asynchronous Social Gameplay

Road to VR

Meta’s Sanzaru Games released a new look at Asgard’s Wrath 2 in a developer diary video that, in addition to showing off more of the upcoming action RPG, teases an opportunity to put your combat skills to the test against other players. The studio says that in addition to its main narrative-driven quest, Asgard’s Wrath 2 is going to feature an “asynchronously social dungeon-crawling mode” where you as the Cosmic Guardian will “take part in an ongoing battle that

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Ten Questions Every Leader Needs to Ask About AI

Bernard Marr

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming industries, bringing unprecedented levels of efficiency, personalization, and innovation. As a leader, it is essential to understand how this technology can impact your organization. Here are ten questions that can help you assess AI’s implications and create a strategic roadmap. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming industries, bringing unprecedented levels of efficiency, personalization, and innovation.

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AMD to Introduce New Enthusiast-Class Graphics Cards This Quarter

Anand Tech

As part of their quarterly earnings call this week, AMD revealed that the company is getting ready to launch new enthusiast-class Radeon RX 7000-series graphics cards in the coming months. To date, the company has launched cards for the top and bottom portions of their product stack, leaving a noticeable gap for higher performing cards that the company needs to fill to fully flesh out the current card lineup. "We are on track to further expand our RDNA 3 GPU offerings with the launch of new,

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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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Second Life Steals, Deals, and Freebies: A New Comparison Chart of Six Options for Free or Inexpensive Female Mesh Bodies (Including Senra Jamie)

Ryan Schultz

Now that Linden Lab has launched the beta version of its Senra mesh starter avatars , I decided to take a stab at creating a comparison chart, comparing and contrasting six options for free or inexpensive (L$250 or less) female mesh bodies. (I will probably follow up with a similar chart for free/inexpensive male mesh bodies, female mesh heads, and male mesh heads.

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AMD Announces Radeon Pro W7600 & W7500: Pro RDNA 3 For The Mid-Range

Anand Tech

As AMD continues to launch their full graphics product stacks based on their latest RDNA 3 architecture GPUs, the company is now preparing their next wave of professional cards under the Radeon Pro lineup. Following the launch of their high-end Radeon Pro W7900 and W7800 graphics cards back in the second quarter of this year, today the company is announcing the low-to-mid-range members of the Radeon Pro W7000 series: the Radeon Pro W7500 and Radeon Pro W7600.

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Immersed Announces 'Visor' Compact Productivity Headset With 4K OLED Microdisplays

Upload VR

Immersed, the startup behind the virtual monitors app, just announced an ultra high-end headset focused on productivity. Immersed currently offers a free app for Meta Quest, Vive Focus 3, and Pico 4 that shows your PC monitors in VR and lets you spawn entirely virtual extra monitors, for up to 5 monitors in total. The startup says it already sees users spending 40-50 hours per week working in Immersed, and claims it's the "most used spatial computing software worldwide".

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Qualcomm Q3 Earnings Look to Meta, OPPO XR Partnerships

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Qualcomm has voiced increasing optimism in the extended reality (XR) market, the tech giant revealed in a third quarter (Q3) earnings call on Wednesday. The call featured Qualcomm executives such as Cristiano Amon, President and Chief Executive , Mauricio Lopez-Hodoyan, Vice President, Investor Relations , and Akash Palkhiwala, Chief Financial Officer.

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Meta Shares New Asgard's Wrath 2 Gameplay In Developer Deep Dive

Upload VR

A developer deep dive focusing on the protagonist of Asgard's Wrath 2 gives us a better look at the early hours of the game's expansive campaign. In this new overview, Senior Game Producer Mari Kyle gives a developer deep dive focusing on the protagonist of Asgard's Wrath 2 – the Cosmic Guardian. A lot of what's discussed is ground that was already trod in the initial reveal and developer walkthrough back in June, however there's still some unseen footage for keen eyes to spot.

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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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Will Apple Integrate AR AirTags for Vision Pro?

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

The Apple Vision Pro headset is coming. With it comes a new device for the firm’s ecosystem of products which has historically flipped the technology world on its head with culture-changing devices. Apple looks to repeat its storied paradigm-shifting success with its immersive device and integrate the Vision Pro device into its broader product portfolio.

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#1237: The VOID’s Curtis Hickman on his book “Hyper-Reality: The Art of Designing Impossible Experiences”

Voices of VR

The VOID was a location-based entertainment company that shut down during the pandemic and maybe coming back at some point. The VOID Co-founder & Chief Creative Officer Curtis Hickman convinced his partners to allow him to reflect upon and share the many experiential design lessons in a book titled Hyper-Reality: The Art of Designing Impossible […] The VOID was a location-based entertainment company that shut down during the pandemic and maybe coming back at some point.

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“Charge Into Green Hell And Get Your VR Groove On: PSVR 2 Ready To Rumble!”

VRGames

Incuvo’s survival game Green Hell VR looks to be on the brink of launch, after a recently revealed trailer seemed to suggest an August 15th release date on PSVR 2. It has since been pulled back from public sources, but by then had already made its way around various channels.

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This Week In XR: Capital For Inworld AI, Omni VR Treadmill, Hologate VR, Siggraph’s 50th

Charlie Fink

VR and the Metaverse are still very much in the game.

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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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German VR Game Center ? Ultimate Virtual Reality Experience

Steki Amusement

This is a VR indoor park located in a shopping mall in Hamburg, Germany. There are VR Racing, VR Motorcycle, VR Flight, VR Roller Coaster, VR Slides, VR Games Box and other equipment. Owatch VR is pleased to announce the opening of a new era of entertainment in Hamburg, Germany Together with you, Owatch will take you to experience unprecedented excitement and reality, and transform between the virtual world and the real world.

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Why are Aliens Fishing in Space?

Full Dive Gaming

NEW Quest 2 Game Galactic Catch is off to a GREAT START!! ENTER THEIR GIVEAWAY HERE: [link] Baobab Studio’s mission: To inspire you to dream, bring out your sense of wonder, and make YOU matter. Founded in 2015, nine-time Emmy® award-winning Baobab Studios is a world leader in independent interactive animation. Named Most Innovative Company by Fast Company (2018), the studio is creatively led by writer/director Eric Darnell (Antz and all four Madagascar films).

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“Bringing Global Action to Xtadium & Meta Horizon Worlds with UFC FIGHT PASS Events!”

VRGames

Thanks to the power of virtual reality, UFC and Meta Quest have teamed up to bring MMA action directly into your home. Now you can experience firsthand the intensity and thrills that come with watching a real-life fight from all angles – with no risk of getting punched in the face!

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Developer Diary: Become a Cosmic Guardian in ‘Asgard’s Wrath 2’

Oculus

Prior to joining Oculus Studios where she’s now a Senior Producer working with Sanzaru Games on Asgard’s Wrath 2, Mari Kyle worked on our content review team and played through over 1,000 VR games—so needless to say, she’s seen some stuff and knows a thing or two about what goes into a compelling immersive title. We recently caught up with her to talk shop and learn more about the thrilling successor to Asgard’s Wrath.

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

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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The Multiverse: What It Is, Its Benefits, and Its Role in Helping Build the Metaverse

ARPost

The metaverse continues to gain popularity worldwide. Though it depends on how you define the metaverse , it’s estimated that it has over 400 million active users monthly , and the global metaverse market is projected to surpass USD 1.3 trillion by 2030. While the metaverse is a relatively established concept, a comprehensive idea of the metaverse is slowly gaining traction: the multiverse.

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Mission Declassified: ‘I Expect You To Die 3’ Arrives on August 17 for Meta Quest 2 + Pro

Oculus

Good news, Agent: Your next assignment will be ready in just two short weeks! I Expect You To Die 3: Cog in the Machine is.

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After 6 Years in Person & 3 Remote, Why is Meta Connect Still Not Held in VR?

Road to VR

Oculus Connect. Facebook Connect. Meta Connect. Whatever the company is calling its annual XR developer conference, it’s been nearly a decade since the first Connect was held—all of them either in-person or exclusively livestreamed. Pandemic notwithstanding, they all had one important thing in common: none of the conferences used the company’s core XR technology to virtually connect people.

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Eye/Hand-Tracking: XR Today Expert Roundtable

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

An XR immersive experience employs various elements that allow it to be as fully immersive as possible for commercial and enterprise end-users. XR developers can leverage features like spatial audio, RT3D graphics, and even AI to immerse a headset user. Although, an emerging presence in the development space is hand and eye tracking. AR/VR/MR headsets are increasingly equipped with hand and eye tracking technology.

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Who C.A.R.E.S.!? How Learning Got Its Bad Rap & What We Can Do About It

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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The 10 Biggest Mistakes Companies Make When Creating an AI Strategy

Bernard Marr

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a game-changer in the business world, and this emerging technology offers a level of power and potential that’s simply too good to ignore. Regardless of the sector, having a robust AI strategy is no longer an optional extra — it’s a non-negotiable necessity. As an AI strategy consultant, I've seen companies of all sizes stumble and falter over many of the same challenges.

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What’s ‘Nex’ for the Immersive Gaming Industry?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

As the gaming industry eclipses the movie and filmmaking sector, gaming firms are leveraging their technologies to create next-level immersive experiences. Companies such as Meta, holoride , Improbable , Steam, Sony, and many others have begun tapping their serious gaming technologies to achieve this. With their innovative solutions, more and more companies and their customer bases have entered emerging technologies via mixed reality (MR) platforms.

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I Expect You To Die 3 Begins Latest Mission This Month On Quest

Upload VR

I Expect You To Die 3 releases this month on Quest, and the SteamVR version isn't far behind. Developed by Schell Games, I Expect You To Die 3: Cog In the Machine marks the latest entry in this single-player puzzle series. Set in a James Bond-inspired “spy-fi” world, this upcoming sequel features a greater emphasis on story, driven by new villain Dr.