AR Insider
OCTOBER 11, 2023
Phygital commerce continues to grow as consumers develop a taste for 3D product visualization. How is this coming together? We examine the evidence for AR shopping's traction among users and value to brands & retailers. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
The Ghost Howls
OCTOBER 11, 2023
A bit late, but here I am again writing for you about the best XR news of the week! The past week most of the debate has been about Quest 3 vs Apple Vision Pro, and I’m pretty sure that the battle of Meta vs Apple will be something we of the XR community will talk about a lot for the next months… Top news of the week (Image by Meta) New rumors hint at a cheap Quest 3 coming in 2024 Mark Gurman, the famous Bloomberg journalist who spread a lot of rumors and leaks about the Apple Vision Pro for mo
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AR Insider
OCTOBER 11, 2023
Pre-orders have shipped for the much-anticipated and up-leveled Quest 3. That means the latest batch of reviews are in, which go a step beyond announcement-day Meta-chaperoned reviews. We assemble and embed our favorites. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
OCTOBER 11, 2023
It feels like every time I try to get friends to have some fun in VR with me, the experience is somehow horribly painful. This time I kept a journal of the entire experience to catalogue the struggles seen by real Quest users every day. The advent of Quest was supposed to streamline the usage of VR. But what was once friction of complicated hardware and requirements has been replaced with a mess of usability issues that make people not want to come back.
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.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
OCTOBER 11, 2023
After the conclusion of the Creativity Conference , many experts from across the immersive technology landscape have continued to share their insights on the future of the industrial metaverse. Amid the rise of emerging technologies, many companies have turned to virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) solutions to initiate next-generational city planning.
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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
OCTOBER 11, 2023
What is the industrial metaverse, and is it the key to unlocking the total value of metaverse environments? In the last year or so, the sudden hype around “metaverse” technologies has begun to wane. Foremost market leaders have canceled or delayed metaverse projects. Even Meta , the company most commonly associated with the “rise of the metaverse,” seems to have lost some interest.
Bernard Marr
OCTOBER 11, 2023
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly a part of the world around us, and it’s rapidly changing our lives. It offers a hugely exciting opportunity, and sometimes, it can be more than a little scary. And without a doubt, the big development in AI making waves right now is generative AI. Just like it sounds, it’s AI that can create, from words and images to videos, music, computer applications, and even entire virtual worlds.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
OCTOBER 11, 2023
John Riccitiello, President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman, Unity Technologies , has immediately stepped down from his position at the firm. The executive decided to resign from his post after the ongoing debacle with Unity’s pricing structure change last month. Unity has appointed James Whitehurst as the interim CEO of the San Francisco-based, real-time 3D (RT3D) firm.
Ryan Schultz
OCTOBER 11, 2023
The various platforms of the fediverse, as well as other federated networks, visualised as a tree (image by Per Axbom, source ) Today, I am happy to announce that my blog has finally joined the fediverse ! I have installed a brand-new ActivityPub plug-in that was just made available today for hosted, WordPress. com blogs like this one (it’s been available for self-hosted, WordPress. org blogs for a while now).
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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.
Upload VR
OCTOBER 11, 2023
Meta Quest 3 is shipping now, but is 128GB storage enough for the new VR headset? Let's take a look. The first choice any early adopter must consider is storage. Quest 3 offers two options at launch - 128GB base model for $500 or $650 for a higher storage 512GB model. We've detailed our full thoughts in our Quest 3 review below and for anyone on a tighter budget, you might be debating the cheaper option.
XR Today - Augmented Reality tag
OCTOBER 11, 2023
Microsoft has recently been awarded a patent to install hot-swappable battery functionality into a future pair of augmented reality (AR) smart glasses, reports revealed. According to MSPowerUser, Microsoft published the patents on 5 October, revealing a potentially strong competitor to current smart glass providers with its modular design. The tech giant’s patent shows that the device includes internal charging storage, allowing users to continue using the device for extended periods even
Upload VR
OCTOBER 11, 2023
Samba De Amigo: Virtual Party supports mixed reality as it launches on Quest tomorrow. Previously announced during June's Meta Quest Gaming Showcase , SEGA's iconic rhythm series offers a VR adaptation of the flatscreen sequel, Party Central. While primarily a VR experience, a Quest 3 launch blog confirms that Samba De Amigo: Virtual Party includes an MR mode where the environments slowly become fully immersive.
XR Today - Augmented Reality tag
OCTOBER 11, 2023
Immersive wearables firm RealWear announced on Wednesday that the North Tees and Hartlepool National Health Services (NHS) Foundation Trust had deployed the company’s head-mounted solutions. With the new wearable tablets and software, students can boost their learning retention rates and practice critical skills to secure their operating theatre training.
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
OCTOBER 11, 2023
AVO Escape Space takes VR escape rooms to outer space, arriving next week on Quest via App Lab. Created by Game Cooks, AVO Escape Space is described as a "dystopian, story-driven" escape-the-room puzzle experience. Designed in collaboration with real-life escape-the-room games, you play as PatientZ, the last surviving passenger aboard a doomed spaceship heading through a deadly meteor storm.
Bernard Marr
OCTOBER 11, 2023
The speed at which artificial intelligence (AI) evolves and integrates into our lives is only going to increase in 2024. As companies learn to unlock its potential, individuals use it to boost productivity, and legislators scratch their heads over-regulating it, AI will become increasingly omnipresent in everything we do. Hopefully, 2024 will see us making headway towards solving some of the thorny issues around this technology.
Upload VR
OCTOBER 11, 2023
Sushi Ben brings a 3D manga adventure to VR next week on Quest, and other platforms are "soon to come." Developed by Big Brane Studios, Sushi Ben is a narrative adventure game written by Hatoful Boyfriend's creator, Hato Moa. Presenting this story across 3D manga panels with full Japanese voice acting, you're tasked with convincing locals to visit your favorite sushi restaurant and save it from going out of business.
Bernard Marr
OCTOBER 11, 2023
Computer Vision (CV) is the field of research and category of applications concerned with teaching machines to see. It involves using AI algorithms to process visual information from cameras and extract understanding and insight from it. CV (sometimes called machine vision ) has huge implications for the way artificial intelligence (AI) will change our lives.
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.
Bernard Marr
OCTOBER 11, 2023
Baidu is a world leader in artificial intelligence (AI) that built its business on search. It’s often thought of as the Chinese equivalent of Google. Like its US counterpart, it’s been quick to build and integrate cutting-edge generative AI functions into its core services. This reflects the widely-held belief that the technology has the potential to be truly transformational for the way we find and use information online.
Bernard Marr
OCTOBER 11, 2023
Generative AI has the potential to revolutionize every creative industry, and the gaming industry is no exception. Game worlds are getting richer, more immersive, and in many ways closer to being simulations of our own “real” world. This means that the cost and the size of the teams needed to build them are skyrocketing, too. Generative AI tools – large language models like GPT-4 and image generation algorithms like Dall-E 2 – can help by taking the strain off artists and designers,
Bernard Marr
OCTOBER 11, 2023
We’ve all seen that generative AI tools like ChatGPT, or Stable Diffusion can create amazing text and images that very closely resemble those created by humans. But did you know there are many other potential use cases – including incredible things like potentially helping to cure cancer? Thanks to the speed and power of machine learning, it can be used to very quickly analyze vast datasets of chemical compounds, pharmaceutical trials and clinical outcomes.
Bernard Marr
OCTOBER 11, 2023
Web3 represents the next big evolutionary leap forward of the Internet – a leap that’s driven by blockchain, NFTs and cryptocurrency. In this future Internet, we’ll see more and more decentralization, meaning users will increasingly interact and transact without the need for third parties to oversee or authenticate interactions. Therefore, any business that functions as an intermediary service or middleman could be threatened by this new decentralized vision of the Internet.
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?
Bernard Marr
OCTOBER 11, 2023
There is no doubt about it: the next evolution of the internet – characterized by immersive virtual experiences – is already underway. This future internet brings many opportunities for organizations to enhance their internal processes. Here are four examples of how organizations can harness this more immersive future internet in their business operations.
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