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Is AR on a Collision Course with Social Commerce?

AR Insider

These trends are on a collision course to reinvent shopping. There’s a trend towards all things being shoppable. We’re talking buy buttons on everything from YouTube videos to Instagram Stories. Elsewhere is a separate trend: AR shopping.

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Novelist Jules Verne Gets His Own VR Minigolf Courses

VRScout

Walkabout Mini Golf , one of the most popular multiplayer VR games currently available on the Meta Quest, this week announced three new minigolf courses inspired by famed novelist Jules Verne. Most recently, Might Coconut released a new course inspired by the Jim Henson film LABYRINTH.

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‘Immerse’ Brings Live Spanish Courses to Quest 2, More Languages Coming in 2023

Road to VR

” The studio also released a 6-minute video to show off the app, and some of the things you can do with it: News VR Education immerse immerse vr language learning vr language course vr language learning vr spanish

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GOLF+ Is Getting One Of The World’s Most Iconic Courses Next Week

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A new course is coming to GOLF+ on Quest 2 , and it’s based on a real world course that’s regarded as one of the best in the world. The Ocean Course at Kiawah Island Golf Resort is a stunning course that gives players an expansive panoramic view of the Atlantic Ocean, while also providing players with tough wind conditions for the same reason. It follows on from the fictional Alpine course, which was released last month as a free update.

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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. Join Chris Paxton, President of D3 Training Solutions, to walk through simple strategies step by step.

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GOLF+ Unveils PGA TOUR Partnership, Adding New Courses In 2023

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GOLF+ unveiled an exclusive partnership with the PGA TOUR, bringing licensed tournament courses into the VR golf sim from early 2023. Released in 2020 as Pro Putt by Topgolf before being renamed , this isn’t the first time we’ve seen iconic golf courses arrive in GOLF+.

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FundamentalVR Is Offering A Free Ventilator Course For Health Professionals

VRScout

The platform’s data dashboard tracks hundreds of data points to provide a high level of analysis to course directors or trainees. The post FundamentalVR Is Offering A Free Ventilator Course For Health Professionals appeared first on VRScout.

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Udacity Launches a ‘Learn ARKit’ Course Created in Collaboration with Unity

Road to VR

Now Udacity , the for-profit online education site that was spawned from free Stanford University computer science classes, has created a course that says will take you one month to complete so you can start making your own AR apps for iOS. Udacity maintains the Unity course, a result of a direct partnership with Unity Technologies , is “the fastest way to learn ARKit.”

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‘Walkabout Mini Golf’ is Getting a Course Based on ‘MYST’ This Fall

Road to VR

Walkabout Mini Golf (2020) has been tempting us lately with the upcoming release of a course based on Jim Henson’s ’80s fantasy film LABYRINTH (1986), which is coming at some point this summer.

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Training for the Future: AR Marketing Course at Brock University in Canada

ARPost

Future marketing specialists can start their career specializing in the latest technologies thanks to a new AR marketing course offered by Brock University in Canada. Why the Need for an AR Marketing Course? What Will Students Learn While Attending the AR Marketing Course?

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Immersing the Curious Mind in VR: Why You’re Missing Out on Proven ROI!

Speaker: John Blackmon, eLearning Brothers CTO, CenarioVR® Creator

Join John Blackmon, eLearning Brothers CTO and creator of the award-winning VR course builder CenarioVR®, to find out why organizations choose immersive learning and how they've used innovative approaches.

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‘Walkabout Mini Golf’ Lets You Explore the Deep in New ‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea’ Course

Road to VR

Now developer Mighty Coconut has released a new paid DLC, this time bringing to the game a course inspired by the classic Jules Verne novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1870).

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You Can Take a Free Coursera Course on XR from the University of Michigan

ARPost

One of the fruits of this outreach is a free online course by Assistant Professor Michael Nebeling. ARPost spoke with Nebeling, as well as with The University of Michigan’s XR Initiative Director Jeremy Nelson about the course, and about XR in education. How the Course Came to Be.

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Survios CTO to Teach Full Semester VR Development Course in a Virtual Classroom

Road to VR

Now, Survios CTO and co-founder Alex Silkin is set to share his experience by teaching a full semester course on expert-level Unreal Engine VR development. What’s more, the course will be taught in VR, so you can connect remotely and learn from Silkin—virtual face to virtual face. Although the full semester course is priced at just under $2,500, there are also scholarship opportunities for exceptional students. Course Specifics.

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‘Walkabout Mini Golf’ is Getting First Licensed Course, Based on ’80s Classic ‘LABYRINTH’

Road to VR

Mighty Coconut announced the studio has signed a deal with The Jim Henson Company to develop a 36-hole course based on LABYRINTH, which will be released in Summer 2022. Walkabout Mini Golf (2020) consistently ranks among the top games on Quest for good reason.

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How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular

Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute

The Carbon Zero, Circular Economy, is easily the most profoundly important result of digital transformation. Industry 4.0 has a massively cumulative impact on dematerialization (in all forms) and resultant decarbonization (both emissions and embodied) throughout the economy. Join panelists Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Jimmy Jia, Fabienne Durand, and their moderator Roger Strukhoff as they discuss how bending the carbon/GHG heavy linear economy to the circular is one of the hidden benefits of digital disruption.

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Upside Town: See Walkabout’s Wild New Gravity Mini Golf Course

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The developers of Walkabout Mini Golf are taking a bigger swing with their latest Upside Town course design toying with gravity. In a city that seems drawn from Inception, Doctor Strange, or even The Matrix, Walkabout’s new course is now available for $3.99

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Walkabout Mini Golf Will Charge $3.99 For Future DLC Courses

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Starting with the upcoming Atlantis course, Walkabout Mini Golf will begin charging $3.99 ” Mighty Coconut confirmed to UploadVR this price increase won’t affect previous DLC courses like Myst Island and Jim Henson’s Labyrinth , which remain at $2.99.

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Touring Arizona Modern: Walkabout Mini Golf’s First Desert Course

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Walkabout Mini Golf is one of VR’s strongest games with a growing list of both licensed and original courses. Back when it launched in late 2020, though, the title had just four courses with the serene landscape of the southwestern U.S.

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Big ‘Walkabout Mini Golf’ Update Will Expand Multiplayer Lobbies, Add New Course Later This Month

Road to VR

Walkabout Mini Golf , one of Quest’s top multiplayer games will get its next update come July 28th, a release date which was revealed alongside a new trailer for the next DLC course. The release date comes alongside a new trailer showing off the course for the first time.

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Golf+ Adding Pebble Beach And Pinehurst No. 2 Courses

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Golf+ is getting two new courses in November and December alongside some additional updates. The pair of paid add-on courses are Pebble Beach Golf Links in California, arriving on December 9th for $11.99, as well as Pinehurst No. 2 course, which is the view embedded below.

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Touring Seagull Stacks: Walkabout Mini Golf First Course With Weather

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Developers continue building out a rapidly growing collection of available courses but, when it launched in late 2020, the game had just four of them and Seagull Stacks was one with its rocky terrain and birds flying overhead.

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‘Blaston’ Reverses Course on Testing In-game Facebook Ads After Community Backlash

Road to VR

The post ‘Blaston’ Reverses Course on Testing In-game Facebook Ads After Community Backlash appeared first on Road to VR.

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‘Jetpack Vacation’ Brings Multiplayer Jetpack Racing To VR

VRScout

News HTC Vive HTC Vive Pro Jetpack Vacation Steam steamvr Valve Index VR VR Obstacle Course VR Racing Windows Mixed RealitySoar through a tropical island paradise and challenge other players in a variety of jetpack sports.

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Walkabout Mini Golf Launches 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea Course

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Walkabout Mini Golf from Mighty Coconut launched its newest paid add-on course inspired by Jules Verne’s novel 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. The course also includes a new game mechanic — steam — which pushes your ball around the holes in new ways. “We’ve

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Axon Park To Offer Expert Level In-Headset VR Design Course

VRScout

Survios CTO Alex Silkin will teach a semester-long course called Unreal Engine VR Master Class. Have you ever wanted to attend a course on VR software design from the comfort of your own headset? The course is project-based and designed to help you build a stellar portfolio piece from scratch,” the official press release states. Students do need to own an Oculus Rift or Rift S headset in order to attend the course, and there’s a tuition of $2,495 to consider.

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Jules Verne-Inspired Mini Golf Courses Coming To Walkabout

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The developers of Walkabout are building mini golf courses inspired by the pioneering science fiction works of Jules Verne. The announcement from developer Mighty Coconut comes shortly after the developer launched its first licensed course inspired by the classic 1980s film Labyrinth.

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Your Definitive Guide To Oculus & Unity’s All-In-One VR Development Course

VRScout

In an effort to bolster their catalog of available titles while helping expand and nurture the growing VR industry, Oculus and Unity have teamed up to offer developers-in-training Oculus & Unity: Design, Develop and Deploy for VR , an extensive online course that takes them step-by-step through the VR development process by having them develop, for educational purposes, an interactive VR escape room experience.

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‘Roll Or Die’ Is Basically ‘Monkey Ball’ In VR

VRScout

Similar to the hit Gamecube series Monkey Ball , Roll or Die has players carefully rolling their way throughout a series of individual courses, each featuring its own unique obstacles to overcome.

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Quixote Valley: How Walkabout’s Windmill Course Delivers Ghibli-Inspired Serenity

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Quixote Valley in Walkabout is a mini golf course that plays through a community shaped by the wind. “I’ve always hated the windmill holes, and I always just felt like it’s oh, just every course that I’d played, they had the windmill,” Martell said.

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Vortex fan engine course

EON Reality

The post Vortex fan engine course appeared first on EON Reality. In this application example, we’ll delve into the Engineering category to take a look at Vortex fan engine. Constructed and recorded with EON-XR’s 9.0

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Oculus & Unity Release Free VR Development Course with 20 Hours of Content

Road to VR

Then you may be interested in Oculus and Unity’s new intermediate level VR game development course, which is not only free, but can get you some valuable feedback from Oculus on your creation. Called ‘ Design, develop and deploy for VR ‘, the course is said to offer extensive intermediate level training that takes you through all aspects of creating a VR game by helping you build a vertical slice of an escape-the-room game.

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Walkabout Mini Golf Releases New El Dorado DLC Course

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Mighty Coconut launched the latest DLC course for Walkabout Mini Golf this week centered around the mythical city of El Dorado. Explore the forgotten civilization in the latest #WalkaboutMiniGolf Lost Cities DLC #course , El Dorado!

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Touring Cherry Blossom: Walkabout Mini Golf’s Course Inspired By Japanese Zen Gardens

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Just weeks before the Quest 2 launched in 2020 VR’s best mini golf game released on the Quest store with just four included 18 hole courses. The studio is now adding more resources to development and raised the price of future courses to $3.99

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Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course makes the whole game better

Digital Trends

The Delicious Last Course isn't just a new content drop for Cuphead -- it's a Trojan horse full of quality of life improvements. Features Gaming cuphead Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course indie games studio mdhr

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‘Walkabout Mini Golf’ Finally Set to Launch on Steam July 15th with Cross-play, New Course Included

Road to VR

The game was recently updated with its seventh course which will be included in all versions of the game. The game also offers a fun little scavenger hunt on each course by hiding a unique golf ball near each hole; each ball you find gets added to your custom ball collection.

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‘The Climb 2’ Freestyle Update Adds Hamster Wheels & Slides

VRScout

Part 2 introduces six new levels in total (Crumbling Madness, Obstacle Course, Press Me!, Similar to Part 1, which introduced “rhythm-based climbing” to the game, each of these new courses can be played in both casual and professional mode with zero checkpoints.

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