AR Insider
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Lowe's continues to blaze a trail for spatial commerce. Its latest play is a kitchen simulation for trying out products and educational how-to purposes. Editor-at-Large Emily Olman goes hands on. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
OCTOBER 3, 2023
Like many of Valve’s best titles, Half-Life: Alyx (2020) is a lot more moddable than your average game, which for PC VR headset owners means hundreds of new modes, missions, and mini-games. Now one of the HLA’s most talented modders announced they’ve been snapped up by Valve. Nate Grove was responsible for two of the best HLA campaign-style mods, Incursion and Re-Education—both of which are uncannily Valve-like in pacing, setting… everything.
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XR Today - Virtual Reality
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Virtual reality (VR) medical training firm Vantari VR has begun rolling out its software platform across the Middle East and Italy to help democratise medical training worldwide, the company announced last week. With the expansion, the Sydney, Australia-based firm aims to boost access for clinicians seeking remote medical training solutions and democratise the use of emerging technologies.
Hypergrid Business
OCTOBER 3, 2023
HIE Welcome Center. (Image courtesy Hypergrid International Expo.). This year’s Hypergrid International Expo kicks off at 11 a.m. Pacific Time on Friday, October 6 at the HIE’s Auditorium in Craft World grid , featuring an opening party with music from Zoree Jupiter at 11 a.m., Arianna Nightfire at 1 p.m., and Forest Azure at 10 p.m. Pacific Time. “The three artists will bring us an international mix of songs on a unique music stage built by Nyx Breen with a sort of crosswords in all lang
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.
AR Insider
OCTOBER 6, 2023
There’s a popular new heavy-metal band on social media, the Frostbite Orckings, whose animated videos rack up millions of views. There's one catch. the music is created by AI. Is this the future of music? This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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XR Today - Virtual Reality
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Jack Daniel’s opened its virtual doors to the public by commemorating urban art and the 50th anniversary of hip-hop in late September. Currently ongoing, the iconic brand has launched The Verse — the company’s first virtual reality (VR) immersive experience — under its Art, Beats + Lyrics programme. The cutting-edge immersive experience will celebrate the heritage of Black and diverse artists, creators, and musicians using a host of emerging technologies.
Upload VR
OCTOBER 5, 2023
Supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo claims Meta is set to sell significantly fewer Quest 3 headsets than originally forecast. Kuo's latest report on Meta's Reality Labs AR/VR division claims the original forecast for Quest 3 was 7 million units by the end of this year, but that has been downgraded to around 2.5 million. On Meta Store and most online retailers, the 128GB Quest 3 model remains readily available for launch week delivery, though in some regions the 512GB model is backordered two weeks
AR Insider
OCTOBER 3, 2023
After examining Google and Snap's visual search efforts in earlier parts of this series, how does Pinterest compare? Its visually-oriented discovery engine could be a perfect match for visual search. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Less than 48 hours after Meta fully unveiled Quest 3 , John Carmack, legendary programmer and former CTO of Oculus, expressed doubts about mixed reality’s ability to increase headset sales. Carmack departed Meta late last year , concluding what he called at the time his “decade in VR.” Still, it’s clear the key cohort in Oculus’ genesis story has a lot to offer when it comes to all things XR.
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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.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
OCTOBER 3, 2023
Virtualware , a Spanish virtual reality (VR) firm specialising in enterprise training solutions, has inked a massive multi-million dollar deal with a US energy firm. With its VR training platform, Virtualware will offer its services to the unnamed company to rapidly upskill its workforce for entering their on-side working environments. The five-year renewable contract will allow the energy giant to leverage Virtualware’s VR-as-a-Service (VRaaS) platform.
Upload VR
OCTOBER 5, 2023
Skydance's Behemoth, the upcoming VR action RPG, receives a slight name change and a new release window. Previously called Behemoth , Skydance Interactive tells UploadVR it has been officially renamed 'Skydance's Behemoth.' Releasing new visuals alongside this announcement, we also learned that the game received a major delay. Previously targeting a late 2023 release window, Skydance confirms it's now arriving in late 2024.
AR Insider
OCTOBER 2, 2023
When it comes to AR and VR devices, what are projected annual sales and installed bases? And which device classes are leading the way? Our latest Behind the Numbers installment dives in. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
OCTOBER 5, 2023
Blade & Sorcery , the hit physics-based combat sandbox, is moving towards its 1.0 release, which is coming with a major update slated to arrive early next year. In development by indie studio WarpFrog for almost five years now, Blade & Sorcery has basically been the go-to fantasy combat simulator for PC VR headset users, letting you live out all of the sword and sorcery dreams with suitably malleable enemies at the ready.
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.
Hypergrid Business
OCTOBER 5, 2023
It’s that time of year again when the open metaverse community comes together to share developments at the annual OpenSimulator Community Conference. The organizers have put out the call for presentation proposals for the 2023 event happening December 9 and 10. This will be the eleventh year for the community-run conference, which spotlights the latest innovations in the OpenSim virtual world platform.
Upload VR
OCTOBER 5, 2023
Which Quest 2 VR games are being upgraded for Quest 3? Here's what you need to know. As confirmed during Connect 2023 , we learned that Quest 3 won't launch with exclusive games but Meta is emphasizing a cross-generation transition between Quest 2 and Quest 3. It promised "100+ new and upgraded titles" across both headsets and over 50 of those are new games, while existing games will receive upgrades and mixed reality features.
AR Insider
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Calm tech is invisible and natural to use. It doesn’t interrupt nor get in the way of life. It happens in the background and appears when you need it. Is this AR's ultimate design target? Dr. Helen Papagiannis tells us why. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Meta announced that it’s offering new developer tools for Quest headsets to make avatars more realistic. The company also unveiled a Quest 3-exclusive upper body tracking feature that supports a much wider range of body motion. Announced at Connect 2023 late last week, Meta showed off some new features coming both to Quest 3 and the rest of the Quest platform.
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.
Voices of VR
OCTOBER 5, 2023
I interviewed Dean Takahashi, Lead Writer at Games Beat and Venture Beat, at Meta Connect 2023. See more context in the rough transcript below. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality I interviewed Dean Takahashi, Lead Writer at Games Beat and Venture Beat, at Meta Connect 2023. See more context in the rough transcript below.
VR Fitness
OCTOBER 5, 2023
Ready Player Golf, the world’s first virtual reality charity golf outing, is hosting their fourth annual charity event on November 10 in ENGAGE and Walkabout Mini Golf. Registration is open and proceeds from the event will benefit the Big Dreams Virtual Tour, a program under “Creators Against Childhood Cancer” by the Children’s Cancer Research Fund.
AR Insider
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Welcome back to Spatial Beats, AR Insider's weekly series that features observations and insights of author and futurist Charlie Fink. This week, we look at highlights and strategic implications from Meta Connect. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Bigscreen announced its thin and light PC VR headset, Bigscreen Beyond, is facing delays in production, which the company says will see shipping dates for initial preorders pushed later into October and November. Bigscreen CEO Darshan Shankar says in a blogpost that manufacturing bottlenecks have led to slower-than-expected production rates, making for what the company calls “approximately 25% of the target [production] rate” in some bottlenecks than previously projected.
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?
Anand Tech
OCTOBER 2, 2023
ASUS has formally acquired Intel's Next Unit of Computing (NUC) products based on Intel's 10 th to 13 th Generation Core processors. Asus is set to continue building and supporting Intel's existing NUCs and will, over time, roll out its own compact NUC systems for office, entertainment, gaming, and many other applications. " I am confident that this collaboration will enhance and accelerate our vision for the mini PC, " said Jackie Hsu, Asus senior vice president and co-head
Upload VR
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Meta is reportedly conducting layoffs in its custom silicon for wearables team. Reuters cites "two sources familiar with the matter" as saying employees on the team, still known as Facebook Agile Silicon Team (FAST), were notified of layoffs yesterday via Meta's internal communication platform Workplace. FAST employed around 600 people before the layoffs.
AR Insider
OCTOBER 4, 2023
This week on Reality Bytes, we see the world through Meta’s Ray-Bans, experience true immersion with U2, and hit the courts with Mr. Beast. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Program Ace
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Virtual training offers businesses flexibility, cost-efficiency, and global scalability. Discover the training techniques and the potential of modern virtual training solutions.
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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