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Snapchat Turns Real World into AR Scavenger Hunt with Nearly Instant Object Recognition

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While Snapchat is no stranger to location-based AR scavenger hunts, the app's new world-facing game adds some environmental understanding to the mix. This week, Snapchat launched a new Snappables game dubbed Scavenger Hunt. However, while most Snappables games use the front-facing camera to insert users and their friends into the game, Scavenger Hunt flips gameplay to the rear camera.

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Mojo is Making Contacts Smarter with Its Incredibly Tiny Microdisplay

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Mojo Vision is a company that’s working to produce smart contact lenses, which it hopes in the near future will let users have a non-obtrusive display without needing to wear a pair of smart glasses. CNET’s Scott Stein got a chance to go hands-on with a prototype at CES 2020 earlier this month, and although the company isn’t at the point just yet where it will insert the prototype tech into an unsuspecting journalist’s eyeballs, Mojo is adamant about heading in that direc

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Mojo Vision’s Smart Contact Lens Puts An AR Display Directly On Your Eyeball

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Our mad descent into a cyberpunk dystopia continues with the Mojo Lens. Earlier today, augmented reality start-up Mojo Vision announced its development of the Mojo Lens, a smart contact lens that promises to revolutionize the way we interact with the world and each other. . Focusing on an eyes up experience the company refers to as “Invisible Computing,” the Mojo Lens is designed to provide users with relevant information without having to look down at a separate device like a smartphone or comp

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How Augmented Reality Can Be Used for Writing Prompts

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Augmented reality is a form of technology that enhances the real-world environment around us with computer-generated images and information, creating a hybrid scenario which can add to all manner of experiences, including learning. See Also: Can Augmented Reality Shorten the Learning Curve? AR can be utilized through devices such as tablets that are equipped with an easy-to-download AR app.

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The Future of eLearning in 2022: A Sensitive Eye for Authentic Translation and Localization

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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ARtillery Briefs: 3 Spatial Predictions for 2020

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ARtillery Briefs is a video series that outlines the top trends we’re tracking, including takeaways from recent reports and market forecasts. See the most recent episode below, including narrative takeaways and embedded video. 2019 was a “table-setting” year for the spatial future we all envision. There were some flameouts and lessons learned but also some real bright spots.

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Rec Room Laser Tag Finally Available On Oculus Quest

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The “On Again/Off Again” Update brings a new minigame and various creator tool improvements to standalone VR. After a grueling wait, fan-favorite Rec Room minigame Laser Tag is finally available to Oculus Quest users as part of the VR social platforms’ latest free update. Revealed yesterday in a Reddit post made by Rec Room developer u/magglerockk, the “On Again/Off Again” Update allows Oculus Quest players access to both Laser Tag maps, “Hangar” and CyberJunk City,” for cross-platform pla

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A New Controller May Improve Select VR Experiences

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One of the biggest challenges for VR has been how to incorporate controls into the VR experience. After all, immersive experiences aren’t just about what you see and hear. If you’ve ever played PSVR with one of their adapters rather than with a standard controller, you know that when your hands are doing something that matches the action you’re seeing, it can really enhance a VR experience.

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XR Talks: Notes From an AR Legend

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XR Talks is a series that features the best presentations and educational videos from the XR universe. It includes embedded video, as well as narrative analysis and top takeaways. Speakers’ opinions are their own. For a deeper indexed and searchable archive, subscribe to ARtillery PRO. There are few people in the AR sector that have a rap sheet to rival Avi Bar-Zeev.

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Magic Leap Lawsuit Against Nreal on Hold as Mediation Begins & Court Sets Tentative Trial Date

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This week, the beginning of an epic legal battle was set to begin between augmented reality players Magic Leap and Nreal, the small China-based startup accused by the former of stealing trade secrets. However, a new wrinkle has emerged in the legal skirmish that could change everything. Don't Miss: Magic Leap Patents Signed Over to JPMorgan Chase as Collateral Just Months After Major Funding Push If you're just getting up to speed on the case, the background is that Nreal co-founder and CEO Chi

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How to Train Employees 65% Faster With Virtual Reality

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.

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Triton VR Brings Multiplayer Location-Based VR To Quest, Free Alpha Available

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At-home location-based entertainment finally arrives with this standalone competitive experience. One of the most attractive aspects of the Oculus Quest is the ability to access VR anywhere at any time without the need of a bulky gaming PC or external sensors. With a large enough space, the Oculus Quest can map spaces up to 4,000 feet; larger if you turn off the Guardian completely using the developer setting.

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AR and MR Headsets and Glasses 2019 and 2020 Overview

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2019 was a big year for XR headsets, applications, and technology. Here, we’ll be taking a look at the AR and MR headsets and glasses that caught our attention in 2019 and that we’ll be keeping an eye on going into 2020. If VR is more your speed, don’t worry, we’ll have a separate article covering VR headsets. MR Headsets. Mixed reality involves a blend of virtual images and the user’s actual surroundings.

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Is the Virtual Office AR’s (eventual) Killer App?

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“Trendline” is AR Insider’s series that examines trends and events in spatial computing, and their strategic implications. For an indexed library of spatial computing insights, data, reports and multimedia, subscribe to ARtillery PRO. We’re well past the days of listing off the areas that AR will transform our lives and work. With a retracting industry that’s disappointed in terms of consumer adoption, it’s all about the more pragmatic exercise of taking lessons from product a

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Magic Leap Trade Secrets Lawsuit Against China's Nreal on Hold as Mediation Begins & Court Sets Tentative Trial Date

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This week, the beginning of an epic legal battle was set to begin between augmented reality players Magic Leap and Nreal, the small China-based startup accused by the former of stealing trade secrets. However, a new wrinkle has emerged in the legal skirmish that could change everything. Don't Miss: Magic Leap Patents Signed Over to JPMorgan Chase as Collateral Just Months After Major Funding Push If you're just getting up to speed on the case, the background is that Nreal co-founder and CEO Chi

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

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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NEWVIEW 2019 VR Award Winners Announced In Tokyo

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The international art, culture, and fashion VR competition hosted at PARCO Shibuya on Dec. 15 announces its official award winners , including a Gold Prize of $20,000. Following the announcement of 25 finalists at the end of last year, the NEWVIEW awards officially announced the winners of the competition. The awards are a joint production of co-working company Loftwork, Japanese department store chain PARCO, and Psychic VR Lab.

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Pico Comes Out of Sleeper Mode to Launch New VR Headset

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Oculus. HTC. Varjo. Pico? Most people don’t think of Pico when they think of VR companies. The company actually created the Goblin, one of the first stand-alone VR headsets. However, they’ve been flying under a lot of people’s radars for a while now. See Also: A Comprehensive Review of 2019 and 2020 VR Headsets. The company recently announced the launch of a new industry-minded headset.

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Bigscreen’s ‘VR Cinema’ Showing Interstellar, Star Trek, Transformers, & More This Month

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Bigscreen has released the latest lineup of big-name movies premiering this month in its recently released ‘VR Cinema’ feature. A virtual reality movie theater always has felt like an obvious shoe-in for VR, a sentiment illustrated by some of our earliest articles covering VR cinema pioneers and the apps they chose to build. Since then of course, VR headset owners have been given numerous ways to enjoy films alone or with others, but for the most part those movies were self-provided

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Breaking Down Best Practices in AR Advertising

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This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. Find out more or contact us to participate here. Authors’ opinions are their own. . 4 Best Practices To Keep In Mind For Your AR Advertising Campaign. by Cristina Ferrandez. AR is continuing to establish itself as a popular form of marketing and advertising, now projected to reach $8.8 billion by 2023 according to ARtillery Intelligence.

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Are You Still Watching? How to Create Engaging Presentations for Virtual Learning

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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Cool Down Your Valve Index With The Chilldex Smart Cooling Mod

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The sleek cooler automatically adapts to your headset heat output, offering comfortable temperatures throughout lengthy sessions. . With a 1,440×1,600 per eye resolution on LCD panels, near-field off-ear speakers capable of 3D directional audio, and a 120-hertz standard refresh rate, the Valve Index is easily one of the most powerful consumer-friendly VR headset available at the moment.

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A Comprehensive Review of 2019 and 2020 VR Headsets

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With the new year upon us, let’s take a look at the VR headsets that caught our attention in 2019. It’s been a busy year for VR, and we have a lot to work with. VR headsets are just the tip of the XR iceberg. They’re only a portion of the XR headsets on the market but they’re the most visible and most sought after. If you prefer MR or AR, don’t worry, we have a similar article devoted to AR and MR headsets and glasses.

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Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Thinks AR/VR is a Solution to the Housing Crisis

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today laid out a range of topics on which he and his company will focus over the next decade. By 2030, he says, AR and VR telepresence could allow employees to work remotely from anywhere in the world, alleviating the affordable housing crisis of increasingly populated cities. In a post on Facebook today , CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he was taking a long-term outlook on the future, emphasizing what he believes will be important areas of focus over the next 10 years.

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What Do 5 Million PSVRs Mean?

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Data Point of the Week is AR Insider’s dive into the latest spatial computing figures. It includes data points, along with narrative insights and takeaways. For an indexed collection of data and reports, subscribe to ARtillery Pro. In June, we extrapolated that PSVR is nearing 5 million cumulative units sold. That milestone has now been reached, as announced at Sony’s CES press conference.

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Who C.A.R.E.S.!? How Learning Got Its Bad Rap & What We Can Do About It

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?

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The Shared VR Of Tokyo’s TeamLab Borderless Offers A Glimpse Of An XR Future

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Last month we visited teamLab Borderless in Tokyo, and as you’d expect, we were amazed by what we saw. It’s difficult to offer a simple description of teamLab; the Tokyo-based interdisciplinary group of ‘ultra-technologists’—artists, programmers, engineers, animators, mathematicians, and architects—produce art that isn’t easily defined. Their flagship location, The MORI Building DIGITAL ART MUSEUM: teamLab Borderless (henceforth just, “Borderless”), is a two-story, 33,000

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#FoundersNotes from CES 2020

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Hi everyone, it’s Dan Lejerskar, the Founder of EON Reality. I’m back again in California following EON Reality’s outing to CES — the world’s biggest stage for innovation and one of the most closely watched events on the tech calendar. We were among the tech hordes that descended upon Las Vegas at the start of each year to find out what’s happening in this year and beyond.

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Microsoft is Aware of Significant Display Issues on Some HoloLens 2 Units

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Microsoft began shipping its latest AR headset, HoloLens 2 in November. After a slow initial rollout, devices are getting out into the hands of more developers and reports have surfaced that many units are exhibiting significant color-consistency issues. Microsoft has acknowledged the problems and says its working with customers to understand the cause.

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Industrial VR/AR Forum Examines Enterprise XR Execution

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As a media outlet, AR Insider frequently partners with industry events, which involves cross promotion ( terms are here ). No money changes hands for editorial coverage in the pages of AR Insider, such as this post. Disclosure and ethics policy can be seen here. The industrial enterprise is where XR opportunity and receptive buyers mostly exists today.

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The Key to Getting the Best Out of Video-Based Practice & Coaching

Speaker: Micah Eppler, Account Executive for Rehearsal of eLearning Brothers

Did you know that companies such as Paychex, 3M, and Honeywell are getting better results by incorporating video-based practice and coaching within their L&D strategy? From sales pitches to soft skills, learners are becoming top performers by applying and validating knowledge transfer using the unique benefits of video. Whether used as a stand-alone application or integrated with a learning platform, video-based practice and coaching platforms give learners the ultimate opportunity to repeatedly