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Google Lens Delivers AR Try-On for L'Oreal's Garnier Products at Walmart

Next Reality AR

Sure, it's the giving season, but sometimes you've just got to treat yourself to some cosmetics. If you're shopping at Walmart, L'Oreal just made that a shade easier when shopping for Garnier hair color products with an assist from Google Lens and the Modiface AR platform. Don't Miss: ModiFace Applies Its Augmented Reality Tech to Nail Polish with Fingertip-Tracking Feature Walmart customers can use Google Lens — available via the standalone Google Lens app on Android, Google Assistant on Androi

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How to setup Oculus Link and solve some of its common problems

The Ghost Howls

These days, I am experimenting a lot with Oculus Quest because of its new amazing features. One of these is the Oculus Link, that lets you connect your Quest to your PC and use it as a PC VR headset. In my review , I highlighted how I liked it, even if it needs some improvements, especially because I had some problems in setting it up. In this post, I want to show you how to use the Link, and how to solve some common problems that may arise if it doesn’t work.

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Exclusive: First-Ever Impact Reality Summit Announces 2020 Lineup

VRScout

Vulcan Productions has teamed up with Kaleidoscope to launch the Impact Reality Summit, a two-day event celebrating the very best in “XR for Good” storytelling. The Impact Reality Summit—hosted by Kaleidoscope and Vulcan, and held at Vulcan’s Seattle Headquarters Jan. 9-10—has officially announced its lineup of content and panels aimed at exploring the next wave of socially conscious XR.

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Enter the Tomb: Explore King Tut’s Tomb in Virtual Reality

ARPost

Museums around the world are leveraging virtual reality to bring their exhibits to life. Interactive tours and immersive 360-degree videos are becoming increasingly common in galleries and museums worldwide. As the technology becomes more affordable and compact, expect more institutions to embrace immersive tour experiences. London’s Saatchi Gallery is hosting the world’s first-ever virtual reality theatre.

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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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Magic Leap Wraps 2019 with Immersive Holiday Experience

Next Reality AR

The book is almost closed on 2019, but Magic Leap has one more gift to offer its users before the new decade arrives. Now appearing in the Magic Leap "Concepts" section of the app store is an experience called Music Box that brings an immersive caroler to anyone using the augmented reality headset. Don't Miss: HyperloopTT Uses Magic Leap to Show How Elon Musk's Futuristic Vision of Transport Will Work in the US When launched, the app utilizes hand tracking by prompting you to give a thumbs-up ge

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7 of the top 10 Mobile Apps Feature AR

AR Insider

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. It’s no secret that mobile AR is where the scale is today, given 3 billion global smartphones. As for the segment that’s AR-compatible, the common industry rally cry is that there are 1 billion AR-enabled smartphones.

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Empowering Women in South Africa Through Design and VR

Oculus

TL;DR: In March of this year, Facebook was invited by non-profit organization Girls Invent Tomorrow to give two workshops on design and VR with local.

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Exploring the Vast Worlds of Immersive Entertainment, with The Stinger Report’s Kevin Williams

XR for Business Podcast

Most kids who grew up spending too much time at the video arcade wound up with fewer quarters and a few earfuls from their parents. That’s not the case for Kevin Williams, who turned his arcade addiction into a career as an out-of-home entertainment guru. He drops in to talk about how XR is taking old ideas and breathing new life into them. Alan: Hey, you’re listening to the XR for Business Podcast with your host, Alan Smithson.

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15 VR Games We Can’t Wait to Play in 2020

Road to VR

We loved 2019 for its bounty of VR games and emphasis on new hardware, but 2020 is looking to bring a host of big budget titles and polished indies alike that should not only keep us all happily strapped into the headset, but attract a steady flow of new users to VR in the process too. Here, we take a look at our top anticipated VR titles coming to the full gamut of platforms out there, which includes SteamVR headsets (Rift, Vive, Windows MR, Valve Index, etc), Oculus Quest, and PSVR.

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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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Exploring the Vast Worlds of Immersive Entertainment, with The Stinger Report’s Kevin Williams

XR for Business Podcast

Most kids who grew up spending too much time at the video arcade wound up with fewer quarters and a few earfuls from their parents. That’s not the case for Kevin Williams, who turned his arcade addiction into a career as an out-of-home entertainment guru. He drops in to talk about how XR is taking old ideas and breathing new life into them. Alan: Hey, you’re listening to the XR for Business Podcast with your host, Alan Smithson.

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It’s Multiplayer Mayhem for Perp Games’ Christmas AdVRent Calendar

Peter Graham

Christmas is a time for coming together and helping others, it’s why VRFocus is happy to be part of Perp Games’ Combat AdVRent Calendar event this festive season. So not only are we helping put a smile on VR fans faces with a competition but also aiding UK charity Crisis which fights to end homelessness. If you’ve been following the campaign since 1st December, then you’ll know each day has a theme based around combat, and VRFocus’ is multiplayer gaming.

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Exploring the Vast Worlds of Immersive Entertainment, with The Stinger Report’s Kevin Williams

XR for Business Podcast

Most kids who grew up spending too much time at the video arcade wound up with fewer quarters and a few earfuls from their parents. That’s not the case for Kevin Williams, who turned his arcade addiction into a career as an out-of-home entertainment guru. He drops in to talk about how XR is taking old ideas and breathing new life into them. Alan: Hey, you were listening to the XR for Business Podcast with your host, Alan Smithson.