VRScout
AUGUST 18, 2023
The 2004 classic looks better than ever in VR. Crytek’s first-person shooter Far Cry can now be played in VR with motion controls thanks to a third-party mod from German developer Holger Frydrych. You may remember Frydrych for his work on the popular Half-Life 2 VR Mod , which lets you experience Valve’s iconic action shooter in 6DoF (six-degrees-of-freedom) VR.
AR Insider
AUGUST 18, 2023
VR continues to find areas of applicability as it evolves and culturally assimilates. How can it be used to advance healthcare, particularly in the emerging field of VR health clinics? This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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VRScout
AUGUST 18, 2023
Immerse yourself in a variety of trippy visuals accompanied by new music from the latest EP. Richard David James, better known by his stage name, Aphex Twin, is an award-winning musician, composer, and DJ made famous by his unique style of contemporary electronic music. This week the ground-breaking artist released a new augmented reality (AR) app that’s almost as trippy as his music.
Road to VR
AUGUST 18, 2023
Vox Machinae , the cult-favorite VR mech sim that just keeps-on kickin’, has released a new update that will give players brand new conditions for battling with their hulking metal mechs. Vox Machinae began its development journey as far back as 2014 , and eventually found its way to an early access launch on PC VR in 2018. Nine years later, the team is still honing the game to be the best it can be.
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.
VRScout
AUGUST 18, 2023
The future of indie VR gaming looks bright. SideQuest, the popular VR content platform specializing in indie games and apps, this week announced that it has partnered with mixed reality developer Creature to launch a $1 million creator fund catering specifically to independent VR developers. Creators are encouraged to submit pitches for their original VR games directly to Creature via an online application beginning on August 18th.
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VRScout
AUGUST 18, 2023
Find your zen with this “Meow-ditation” experience. The popular multinational photography company Canon has published an immersive 180-degree VR video on its official YouTube channel featuring a painfully-cute assortment of loveable felines. Canon describes the video as a “guided meditation” and the “purrr-fect way to de-stress.” The roughly seven-minute video was captured using the company’s EOS R5 C camera and Canon RF5.2mm F2.8 L Dual Fisheye Lens by
Charlie Fink
AUGUST 18, 2023
ZTX 3D virtual world raises $13M, Akkio AI Gets $15M Series A, and the Zuck Musk cage match is off.
VRScout
AUGUST 18, 2023
The “playful track-building” game is scheduled to arrive later this year. Developer Something Random this week announced Toy Trains , a new VR game coming soon to major VR platforms. Described as a “playful track-building VR game,” this nostalgia-inducing experience allows you to craft complex virtual railways and solve open-ended puzzles using your motion controllers.
Anand Tech
AUGUST 18, 2023
Zotac this week introduced two new compact desktops, both packing versions of NVIDIA's higher-end GeForce RTX 4070-series graphics processors. The Zbox Magnus One is an upgradable, desktop-style SFF machine with an 8.3-liter chassis and includes a desktop GeForce RTX 4070 card inside. Meanwhile the Zbox Magnus is a tiny machine that's close to a NUC in size and construction, and includes a soldered-down GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU.
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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.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
AUGUST 18, 2023
Digital Twins are emerging as a tried and tested business tool. However, unlike other XR and derivative technologies, digital twins are already commonplace, and the ROI benefits are becoming more widespread knowledge. But solution vendors and XR champions still have a way to prove to wider audiences the benefits of enterprise digital twins; a critical method of proving this is solid figures from positive outcomes, customer success/approval, and successful pilot programmes.
Anand Tech
AUGUST 18, 2023
As Intel continues to refocus on its core competencies, the company has been no stranger to shedding business units and jobs in the process. And while the roughly 132,000 headcount company hasn't enacted any massive layoffs, there have been numerous cuts at all levels over the past couple of years, with these layoffs now extending to R&D. The Sacramento Inno reported this week that Intel is set to lay off 140 employees, including 89 from the Folsom, California campus, and 51 from San Jos
Upload VR
AUGUST 18, 2023
The VRChat mobile alpha brings the social VR experience to new platforms, and it's out now on Android. Previously announced in March, the VRChat Android alpha will initially be limited to VRChat Plus subscribers with the optional paid subscription. While all Quest content is viewable on Android, the team states it won't necessarily be usable since it was designed for VR.
Anand Tech
AUGUST 18, 2023
Crucial introduced their X9 Pro and X10 Pro high-performance portable SSDs last month. Based on Silicon Motion's SM2320 native USB flash controller, coupled with Micron's 176L 3D TLC NAND, these SSDs promise performance suitable for power users. The company sent across their 1 GBps-class X9 Pro for review first, followed by the X10 Pro a few weeks later.
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.
Upload VR
AUGUST 18, 2023
New VR studio and label Creature promises to help developers with a $1 million Indie VR Fund provided by SideQuest. The just-announced studio is composed of some highly experienced VR developers led by Doug North Cook. The group will be managing the fund provided by SideQuest, which planned for the program as part of the company's Series A investment.
VRGames
AUGUST 18, 2023
The team-based shooter Breachers is keeping the tension high with its latest update! Titled ‘Ship’, a new map features an ESTF transport vessel that is believed to be carrying a dangerous payload.
Upload VR
AUGUST 18, 2023
Puzzling Places marks Arizona as its latest DLC destination, working with Blink Traveler to recreate The Wave. For this latest DLC, Puzzling Places is collaborating with Brink Traveler , a VR travel app that replicates real-world environments using photogrammetric captures on Quest and PC VR. The Wave is a sandstone rock formation found on the Coyote Buttes slopes around Arizona and is noted for its unusual appearance.
XR Today - Big XR News tag
AUGUST 18, 2023
This week gave an informative insight into the state of XR headsets. While no significant announcements dropped, a handful of vendor updates paint a clear picture of the future of immersive hardware and its distribution. Increasingly, it seems that MR devices may lead the way. While expensive, MR headsets allow an end user to leverage AR and VR applications from the same device.
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.
Upload VR
AUGUST 18, 2023
In the wake of Apple Vision Pro's announcement earlier this year, ByteDance-owned Pico appears to be switching its focus from controllers to hand tracking. Standalone headsets sold without controllers in the box would represent a dramatic shift for the VR industry, with Apple's $3,500 entry early next year marking the paradigm change and breaking with the "clumsy" controllers which shipped with all the consumer VR headsets of the 2010s.
VRGames
AUGUST 18, 2023
Secret agents may have jobs that seem glamorous, but the work is never done. This rings true whether you’re a secret agent in fiction or even an unlikely character thrown into the fray like Dr.
Upload VR
AUGUST 18, 2023
A new post on the PlayStation blog revealed details of Exfil, the PvE mode available in Firewall Ultra at launch. Exfil (short for Exfiltration) will see up to four players team up to gain access to three laptops spread dynamically across maps. They'll be facing off against AI enemies patrolling the area, forcing players to choose between splitting off from each other or sticking together as a group.
VRGames
AUGUST 18, 2023
Firewall Ultra, the next-gen sequel to the popular PSVR-exclusive shooter launches on August 24th, 2023 exclusively for PSVR 2.
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?
AIXR
AUGUST 18, 2023
As we stand on the precipice of a new era in the gaming world, driven by the relentless tide of Artificial Intelligence (AI), there are both monumental opportunities and daunting challenges ahead. The AI-driven Transformation The $200 billion gaming sector is undergoing a seismic shift. Across global tech hotspots, from the Silicon Valleys to the neon-lit streets of Tokyo, AI’s imprint is becoming increasingly evident.
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