VRScout

AUGUST 6, 2023

The VR sports app Xtadium will also be live-streaming fights in 180 degrees. Meta this week announced that it’s teaming up with the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), one of the largest professional mixed martial arts (MMA) promotions, on an original experience in Meta’s social VR metaverse, Horizon Worlds. Here you’ll be able to watch immersive 180-degree matches in 4K resolution alongside fellow MMA enthusiasts.

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AUGUST 6, 2023

Meta will deepen its UFC partnership with a dedicated UFC zone coming to Horizon Worlds later this year. Last October, UFC began streaming Fight Pass MMA events through Horizon Worlds. It kicked off the partnership with a bantamweight world title fight between Muin “Tajik” Gafurov and Diego “Magrinho” Silva, available with a 180-degree panorama view.

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VRGames

AUGUST 6, 2023

The Riese Project, developed by Polish developer Real Invented Studio, has arrived on SteamVR! Using Unreal Engine 5 with Nanite and Lumen photo scanning technology, the game seeks to uncover an elusive Nazi German construction project between 1943-1945 in Poland’s Owl Mountains and Książ Castle.

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AUGUST 6, 2023

In this week's episode of the Between Realities VR Podcast, Alex and Skeeva host the creator of the LucidVR haptic gloves, Lucas VRTech. Lucas shows off his newest DIY haptic glove prototype. Other topics include the importance of haptics in VR, ethical concerns with emerging technologies, and the future of AI and VR.

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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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VRGames

AUGUST 6, 2023

This week has been an exciting one for Meta Quest! We released multiple titles and updates across the Meta Quest platform, with plenty of interesting new features to explore. To begin, we launched a brand-new title that lets players build their own virtual city: City Road Adventure.

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