VRScout

JANUARY 4, 2022

Rumors are circulating that the highly-anticipated console VR headset could be available for purchase this holiday season. According to a report by ????008, a respected Chinese supply chain analyst, Chinese hardware manufacturer Goertek will soon begin mass production of Sony’s PlayStation VR 2 headset. According to hardware analyst Brad Lynch, the company will be in charge of the production of not only the PSVR 2, but Project Cambria—Meta’s upcoming non-Quest VR headset—

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ARPost

JANUARY 4, 2022

Artificial intelligence is a versatile piece of technology that encompasses a wide aspect of our daily lives, including emerging technologies such as augmented reality , virtual reality , and mixed reality. It’s used in various fields, including medicine, education, marketing, gaming, and manufacturing to automate workflows and processes, offer more personalized experiences to consumers, predict market patterns, and develop self-driving smart vehicles.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 7, 2022

At the turn of a new year, it's a good time to examine the status and trajectory of spatial computing. When looking across the spatial spectrum, from AR to VR where is the value today, and what's the potential tomorrow? We dive in. The post XR Talks: Sizing Up the Spatial Future appeared first on AR Insider.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 5, 2022

Today during Sony’s CES 2022 press conference the company not only confirmed a bunch of PSVR 2 specs , but also announced Horizon Call of the Mountain , a new made-for-VR game that will take players inside the world of Horizon , one of the company’s most popular PlayStation exclusive franchises. More than five years after the launch of its original PSVR headset, Sony is just starting to ramp up marketing ahead of its next-gen VR headset, PSVR 2.

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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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VRScout

JANUARY 3, 2022

LG Display’s concept fitness bike is straight out of The Jetsons. LG Display recently unveiled the LG Virtual Ride, a next-gen stationary bike designed to immerse riders in their workouts. The indoor fitness device is equipped with three vertical 55-inch OLED displays which connect to form a large curved screen that extends from the ceiling above the rider.

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Slashgear

JANUARY 5, 2022

Shiftall is expanding its virtual reality options with four devices, including a new VR headset. The company unveiled the devices on Wednesday during CES 2022, and they’re all set to arrive throughout 2022. First up on the list of new devices is Shiftall’s MeganeX, an ultra-lightweight and high-resolution VR headset. The lighter weight should help with headset fatigue, which is … Continue reading.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 5, 2022

HTC unveiled a new VR tracker device at CES 2022 today, this time targeting its $1,300 enterprise-focused standalone headset, Vive Focus 3. It’s slated to go on sale sometime early this year, starting at $129. Unlike its SteamVR-compatible Vive Tracker, the new Vive Wrist Tracker is a wrist-worn device which hooks into Vive Focus 3’s inside-out tracking system.

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VRScout

JANUARY 5, 2022

The PS VR2 will feature a 4K HDR resolution, 110-degree FOV, and smooth frame rates of 90/120Hz. This week Sony unveiled new information regarding the highly-anticipated follow-up to its PlayStation VR headset. During the company’s official CES press conference yesterday, Sony officially unveiled the PlayStation VR2, a new VR headset designed specifically for the PlayStation 5 game console.

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ARPost

JANUARY 6, 2022

XR gaming brings real-world elements and virtual elements together to create interactive 3D experiences. It encompasses all immersive technologies that bring the physical and virtual worlds together. It covers everything from virtual reality and augmented reality to mixed reality. Despite recent challenges, the world of XR gaming continues to flourish.

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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.

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Slashgear

JANUARY 5, 2022

HTC is ready to expand the arsenal of add-ons available for its Vive Focus 3, starting with the new Vive Wrist Tracker. Built specifically to work with the Vive Focus 3’s inside-out tracking, the Vive Wrist Tracker features one-button pairing for easier connectivity. HTC says that the tracker is also 85% smaller than the controller for the Vive Focus 3, … Continue reading.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2022

Wolf3D, the Estonian startup behind web-based avatar creator Ready Player Me , has closed a $13 million funding round. The company says it will use the funds to further build out its avatar creation tools and eventually allow developers to earn money through the sale of in-game assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Ready Player Me studio Wolf3D has secured a $13 million Series A funding round, which was led by Wise and Teleport co-founders Taavet+Sten, and features participation from GitHub co-

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VRScout

JANUARY 6, 2022

Customize your futuristic war machine with over 9,000 configurations, from tank chassis and weapons to skins and modules. Brought to us by developer MPLEX , Core Disruption is an upcoming VR multiplayer game that has you stepping behind the controls of a futuristic tank and battling players from around the world. At the core of the game is a motion sickness reduction system designed specifically for more sensitive players.

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ARPost

JANUARY 7, 2022

A 3D content management system (CMS) has recently partnered with a wholesale management platform. By the nature of these services, you may not have heard of either of these companies though you may well have interacted with both of them. Let’s meet them both and talk about what their partnership means for AR and e-commerce. Meet VNTANA. VNTANA is a 3D CMS and AR platform with big-name clients including Cotton, Hugo Boss, and adidas.

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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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GizModo VR

JANUARY 7, 2022

Here’s your word scramble for the week: A gob-burning power plant that helped Sen. Joe Manchin make millions tried to pivot to mining cryptocurrency but was denied by West Virginia officials. Say that three times fast! Read more.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 4, 2022

Panasonic subsidiary Shiftall , the makers of SteamVR-compatible body tracking system HaritoraX, announced it’s releasing a lightweight consumer VR headset this year that includes OLED microdisplays and the ability to play SteamVR content. Called MeganeX, the low-profile, high-resolution headset is slated to launch sometime in Spring 2022, priced at around $900.

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VRScout

JANUARY 2, 2022

Whether you’re brand new to VR or simply looking for an upgrade, we’re here to help you choose your next device. VR has come a long way since the launch of the Oculus DK1 in 2013. What was once a niche technology is now on the verge of going mainstream, due in large part to the immense success of popular VR headsets like the Meta Quest 2 and PlayStation VR.

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Digital Trends

JANUARY 4, 2022

Norton recently launched its new Crypto feature, allowing users to mine Ethereum while their PC is idle, but it’s already drawing ire from regular users.

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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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GizModo VR

JANUARY 5, 2022

A reality TV star who sells her farts in jars has decided to stop selling them, despite making $1,000 per jar. But fans of her work shouldn’t worry too much. She’s still going to sell her farts as non-fungible tokens, more commonly known as NFTs. Read more.

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JANUARY 6, 2022

Back in October, Meta announced that it would eventually transition its home environment to ‘Horizon Home’ , giving it a fuller set of social features like being able to invite party members to visit, hang out, or launch into VR apps together. It seems we’re getting a step closer to the release of those features, as Quest 2’s recent v37 firmware is hiding a few things.

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VRScout

JANUARY 4, 2022

2022 is quickly shaping up to be the year of VR glasses. Tokyo-based IoT and mass production company Shiftall this week unveiled the MeganeX, an ultra-lightweight VR headset compatible with the SteamVR platform. Developed in collaboration with Panasonic (parent company of Shiftall), the MeganeX features an ultra-compact, lightweight design similar to that of the recently-announced HTC Vive Flow.

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Anand Tech

JANUARY 4, 2022

One of the things I look forward to every year is whether the major companies I write about are prepared to showcase their upcoming products in advance – because the year starts with the annual CES trade show, this is the perfect place. A company that’s able to present its 12-month portfolio comes across as confident in its ability to deliver, and it also gets the rest of us salivating at the prospect of next-generation hardware.

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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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GizModo VR

JANUARY 2, 2022

Apparently eager to shepherd us into a world where people proudly display their non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, on their smart TV screens, Samsung has announced that its 2022 TV lineup will include built-in support for browsing, purchasing, and showing off NFT art. Read more.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 5, 2022

Mojo Vision announced it’s raised an additional $45 million in its Series B-1 investment round, something the company says will support further development of Mojo Lens , its early stage smart contact lens. Mojo Lens is ostensibly years away for commercialization, however the company announced at CES 2022 that it’s taking a step forward by partnering with a number of fitness brands to explore how to better integrate its smart contact lenses into sports and training.

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VRScout

JANUARY 7, 2022

What started off as a joke has turned into an exciting proof-of-concept that could rock the XR fitness industry. VR fitness is having a bit of a moment. Physically-active experiences like Supernatural, Audio Trip, Beat Saber, and Space Pirate Arena offers effective cardio workouts designed to get you up off of the couch, whether it be slicing multicolored cubes to the beat of an energetic soundtrack or physically running across a virtual battlefield.

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Digital Trends

JANUARY 7, 2022

A trade court has ruled that Google infringed on Sonos-owned patents. Now, Sonos is seeking a ban on the sale of everything from smart speakers to Pixel phones.

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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

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