VRScout
JULY 5, 2023
The futuristic structure features 10,000 immersive chairs powered by an infrasound haptic system. Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. recently unveiled Sphere, a “next-generation” entertainment venue packed with an impressive variety of multi-sensory 4D technologies designed to immerse audiences in a number of captivating experiences.
AR Insider
JULY 5, 2023
Advances in tech often present new learning opportunities for younger generations. And that's currently the case with Generation Z. Can AR help them learn essential skills? This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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VRScout
JULY 5, 2023
Compete for a trophy and tickets to the actual 152nd Open in 2024. Last week, The R&A and Golf 5 announced The VR Open at Royal Liverpool, a virtual event based on the prestigious golf tournament. Players can log in to Golf 5 via their Meta Quest, PC VR, or Pico headset and compete in a series of qualifying events, just like the real competition.
ARPost
JULY 5, 2023
Historically, Niantic has made much of its money through in-app purchases on its free-to-play games like Pokémon Go. However, recent announcements from the company suggest that it’s exploring new monetization strategies, including through web-based experiences powered by 8th Wall. Niantic Pioneers AR Ads In-App The Cannes Lions Festival recently took place in the South of France (and in Virbela , if you got a golden ticket from PwC ).
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.
AR Insider
JULY 5, 2023
ARtillery Intelligence’s VR global revenue forecast does a deep dive on market sizing, growth drivers, and strategic takeaways. We break down the results in the latest Briefs episode. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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AR Insider
JULY 5, 2023
This week on Reality Bytes. we discover Amazon’s dark patterns, let an AI take our meetings for us, and look through the lens of Google Chrome. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
JULY 5, 2023
Looking to immerse yourself into Sword Art Online (SAO) ? While there are plenty of VR games that offer the sort of massive multiplayer immersion fans of the manga and anime series have craved over the years, a game built for Quest Pro and Quest 2 has recreated probably the best/worst part of the series: its lovably bad user interface (UI). Called Subspace Hunter , the SideQuest-only game is essentially in very early access at this point.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
JULY 5, 2023
The extended reality (XR) training market has shown massive potential with the rise of generative, no-code tools. These are empowering creatives, companies, and individuals by removing barriers to entry and driving down production costs. For firms requiring rapid, on-the-fly content production, no-code platforms are an essential tool. Turkey’s growing immersive technology community has led to a rise in virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) solutions.
Upload VR
JULY 5, 2023
John Carmack gave a succinct review of Bigscreen Beyond. Beyond is an ultra-compact and ultra-light SteamVR headset designed to enable truly comfortable long duration PC-based VR sessions. The key drivers of its tiny size and light weight are the use of OLED microdisplays and the fact that each unit is customized for the buyer's face and eyes instead of being adjustable, based on an iPhone 3D face scan.
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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 - Virtual Reality
JULY 5, 2023
XR Today reports on the latest extended reality news from around the globe, including virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality.
Upload VR
JULY 5, 2023
You can try Apple Vision Pro's eye tracking based interface on your Quest Pro with this sideloadable recreation. Supernova Technologies built the recreation with its Nova UI framework for Unity to promote the middleware. The demo places the app grid seen in the Vision Pro introduction video in front of you with Quest Pro's color passthrough as the background, and replicates Apple's gaze and pinch based interaction system.
Anand Tech
JULY 5, 2023
As Intel's slate of video card board partners has expanded over the last year, so has the variety in the ecosystem, as the newly minted partners set out to design their own unique products around Intel's fledgling GPU family. This, thankfully, is starting to include some underserved markets such as low profile vide cards, which have been left behind in the focus on bigger-and-better video cards.
Bernard Marr
JULY 5, 2023
Step into the world of freemium business models and learn how to balance free and premium offerings effectively. This guide offers key strategies for user conversion, continual improvement, and business growth when using a freemium model. Have you ever thought about running a freemium business? There are freemium apps, tools, and games everywhere these days, including some of the world’s most popular brands like Evernote, Hootsuite, Canva, and Zoom.
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.
TechCrunch VR
JULY 5, 2023
As Meta sets its sight on introducing its virtual reality headsets to the Chinese market, Mark Zuckerberg’s contentious remarks about Beijing in the past may pose a major obstacle to his China dream. According to a recent report by the Wall Street Journal, Meta is preparing to re-enter China by selling the Oculus Quest VR headset in China. If Tesla can sell cars and Apple can sell phones in China, why isn’t Meta present there?
XR Today - Augmented Reality tag
JULY 5, 2023
This month, the Premier League will once again leverage AR to enhance its sports broadcasting for viewers at home, utilizing immersive visualizations to improve viewer engagement and retention via a smartphone application. The Premier League is partnering with Doppelgänger, a strategic and creative metaverse agency, to develop and deliver its bespoke AR visuals.
Anand Tech
JULY 5, 2023
The last few years have seen an increase in adoption of the Type-C connector. It has simultaneously been accompanied by additional technological innovations on top of it. This has created a need for devices and tools to monitor the communication over the connector - in particular, the power delivery (USB-PD) aspect. The Google Twinkie (developed in 2014) was the original USB-PD Sniffer.
Upload VR
JULY 5, 2023
Fantavision 202x will receive a physical release later this year, but copies are limited. Developed by Cosmo Machia, Fantavision 202x is a reboot of Sony's PS2 puzzle game where you catch fireworks of the same color. Previously a digital exclusive, it's receiving two releases limited to 2,000 copies each. In North America, a standard edition is being sold for $39.99 CAD ($30) at Video Games Plus.
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.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
JULY 5, 2023
This week innovators in enterprise and education architecture solutions WindsorPatania debuted the Extended Reality Lab (XR Lab), a learning institution which leverages immersive technology to improve student learning and collaboration outcomes. The site is located at Hangar 2 in Cambridgeshire, ready for the Eastern Colleges Group, UK. Moreover, WindsorPatania designed the facility to suit XR collaboration, learning, research, and education use cases.
VRGames
JULY 5, 2023
Google’s AR & VR Twitter account this week unveiled Space Invaders: World Defense, an upcoming augmented reality (AR) game for Android and iOS. Developed by Google and Japanese publisher TAITO, the spin-off of the classic arcade shooter puts players on their phones’ cameras to target and shoot aliens that have invaded Earth from another dimension.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
JULY 5, 2023
XR Today reports on the latest extended reality news from around the globe, including virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality.
Upload VR
JULY 5, 2023
Google announced Space Invaders: World Defense this week, a new mobile AR game coming soon to Android and iOS devices. The announcement came via Google's AR & VR Twitter account, embedded below, which also featured a trailer with some gameplay. ? Breaking news: #SpaceInvaders are being spotted all around the world, coming from another dimension!
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?
Steki Amusement
JULY 5, 2023
Product Discontinuation Notice Product Upgrade and Discontinuation Notice Dear customers, Thank you for your trust and cooperation with our company in the past. This is to inform you that due to product upgrades and development, Owatch VR will officially stop producing VR Chair-3rd (OS 2002), VR X-Ship (OS 3006) and VR Racing (OR 2001) in July. The latest VR 2.0 series products VR CyberX (VR C001), VR Cybertruck (VR C002) and VR Racing (VR R001) have been launched to replace them.
VRGames
JULY 5, 2023
Twisted Pixel Games, a veteran VR game studio that has made several exclusive titles for Meta, has recently posted job listings suggesting their next project will be an “unannounced VR game using the Unreal Engine” with multiplayer functionality.
Bernard Marr
JULY 5, 2023
With virtual environments becoming more prevalent every day, it’s no surprise that dating, sex, and relationships are evolving so we can connect using the latest technology. Let’s take a closer look at the way people will be using the future internet to date and have virtual sex, and how virtual reality in the dating sphere raises moral and legal questions about acceptable online behavior.
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