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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Meta announced at Connect 2023 that Xbox Cloud Gaming is heading to Quest in December, meaning you’ll be able to play all of your favorite flatscreen games on offer through Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. Meta’s full unveiling of Quest 3 yesterday came with a fair bit of news, including specs, price, pre-orders and shipping dates ; long story short, you can get Meta’s $500 consumer mixed reality headset starting October 10th, with pre-orders now live.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Quest 3 is scheduled to get upper body tracking and AI estimated legs in a software update in December. All other major VR systems only track your head and hands, while some also track your eyes, and a few track facial expressions. Quest 3 doesn't have eye or face tracking, but it will get a tracking feature not seen in any other headset to date. Quest 3's side cameras face downwards.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Popular YouTube edutainment channel Kurzgesagt is teaming up with VR developers Schell Games ( I Expect You To Die, Among Us VR ) to make an exploration adventure game for Quest. Called Out of Scale: A Kurzgesagt Adventure, the fully immersive educational game is said to transform “the iconic look and feel of [Kurzgesagt’s] 2D videos for users to explore and learn about the concept of scale.” Schell Games says players use drones, scanner rays, and a multitude of other lab tool

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Project Wingman: Frontline 59 brings the acclaimed aerial combat game to PSVR 2 with a new campaign. Developed by Sector D2, we went hands-on with a preview build during Gamescom 2023. Read on for our full impressions. Three years since Project Wingman first appeared, Humble Games' Top Gun-inspired flight fantasy is back with an expanded story and optional PSVR 2 support.

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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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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Micron has reaffirmed plans to start shipments of its HBM3E memory in high volume in early 2024, while also revealing that NVIDIA is one of its primary customers for the new RAM. Meanwhile, the company stressed that its new product has been received with great interest by the industry at large, hinting that NVIDIA will likely not be the only customer to end up using Micron's HBM3E. "The introduction of our HBM3E product offering has been met with strong customer interest and enthusiasm,&

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Over the last couple of days, numerous reports have revealed that Intel's recently announced Meteor Lake SoC, primarily a mobile platform, would be coming to desktop PCs. Intel has further clarified that while their Meteor Lake processors will be featured in desktop systems next year, they won't power traditional socketed desktop PCs. Instead, these CPUs, primarily crafted for laptops, will be packaged in ball grid array (BGA) formats, making them suitable for compact desktops and all-in

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Even without updates from developers, almost all VR games run at higher resolution on Quest 3. In the Unity and Unreal engines, which almost all VR apps are made with, Quest developers don't set the rendering resolution with pixel values. Instead, they set it as a multipler relative to the default, ie. 1.0x or 1.4x or 0.9x. Alternatively, they can use Meta's Dynamic Resolution Scaling system to set a minimum or maximum scale and let the system adapt the resolution in real time relative to the cu

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Micron is sampling 128 GB DDR5 memory modules based on monolithic dies, the company said at its earnings call this week. The modules are based on monolithic 32 Gb DDR5 memory devices that the company announced earlier this summer and which will eventually open doors for 1 TB memory modules for servers. " We expanded our high-capacity D5 DRAM module portfolio with a monolithic die-based 128 GB module, and we have started shipping samples to customers to help support their AI application needs

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Developers have started showing off the graphics upgrades they're delivering on Quest 3. Quest 3 preorders opened yesterday. It's the first headset with Qualcomm's new Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 chipset, which has more than double the peak GPU performance of the original XR2 used in headsets like Quest 2 and Pico 4. The default rendering resolution on Quest 3 is 30% higher than it was on Quest 2, so almost all games will look sharper and crisper even without an update from the developer.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

How does the metaverse impact our mental well-being? Learn the benefits and side effects of the rising importance of the metaverse for our mental health.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Andrew Bosworth and Michael Abrash At yesterday’s Meta Connect 2023 event, after Mark Zuckerberg and a parade of Meta employees extolling the wonders of Meta products and services, there was a post-keynote, a conversation between Michael Abrash (the Chief Scientist of Meta’s Reality Labs) and Andrew “Boz” Bosworth (Meta’s CTO and Head of Reality Labs).

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Outta Hand is out now, offering Quest players a short, sweet and sublime campaign of charming VR platforming. Read on for our full Outta Hand review. Outta Hand is the rare type of VR experience that understands its strengths and perfectly plays to them without overstaying its welcome. It presents players with a 3-4 hour campaign that is polished at every corner, evolving the mechanics of the first-person VR platforming genre and doing so in a package that tells an appropriate story wrapped in w

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

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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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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The Meta Quest+ games for October 2023 have been announced – here's what you can download next month. Introduced back in June, Meta Quest+ is the company's recent monthly games subscription service for $8 per month. September's line-up remains available until September 30 with Red Matter 2 and Another Fisherman's Tale but from October 1, Meta confirms those will be replaced with tactical military-sim Onward and city-building simulator Little Cities.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

This Wednesday, Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta , spoke at the firm’s Menlo Park HQ as part of Connect 2023, an emerging technology and product showcase event. XR audiences eagerly awaited the event due to Zuckerberg’s promise to reveal the Quest 3 product. The firm did debut the release window and complete specifications of the Quest 3 MR headset.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Stranger Things VR will support mixed reality and hand-tracking, and it arrives November 30 on Quest. First announced last year, Stranger Things VR is a psychological horror action game from Virtual Virtual Reality developer Tender Claws. During the Connect 2023 keynote, Meta announced this Netflix series' adaptation will support MR gameplay. This lets you turn your living room into a portal to the Upside Down in mixed reality on Quest 3.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

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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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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

From LEGO Bricktales to Stranger Things, Meta Connect 2023 showcased many promising VR and mixed reality games. Here's what you need to know. It's no surprise that Meta is pushing mixed reality with Quest 3. Featuring enhanced color passthrough, a more powerful Snapdragon XR2 processor and increased resolution, CEO Mark Zuckerberg made little secret of his current focus.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Islanders became a hit on PC and console due to its intuitive approach to city building, a relaxing soundtrack, and a charming low-poly aesthetic. And.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

No More Rainbows is getting a Deathmatch mode in next week's update on Quest and PC VR. Released in June, No More Rainbows offers an adventure platformer with arm-based locomotion that sees you restoring your homeworld. Developer Squido Games confirmed a post-launch roadmap during the UploadVR Summer Showcase 2023 and this major update adds a six-player free-for-all Deathmatch Mode with six maps.

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