VRScout

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

All aboard! In a video shared on Reddit earlier this week, independent game studio Foggy Box ( Startenders, Brunch Club ) shared footage of a prototype VR game called Infinite Trainset which uses the Meta Quest 2’s Passthrough technology to bring virtual train sets to life in the real world. Using the Touch controllers, players can lay down virtual tracks around their real-world environment to build complex circuits that interact realistically with flat surfaces such as walls and ceilings.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The past few months have seen the standard run of summer developer conferences, including lots of AR action. So we’re summarizing and synthesizing the top AR updates for our XR Talks series… continuing this week with Niantic. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The IVAS system offers 360-degree situational awareness on the battlefield. Last month the United States Army conducted a two-day demonstration of its Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) being used in tandem with its Stryker armored vehicles, offering everyone from the drivers to the passengers 360-degree situational awareness on the battlefield.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Welcome to Road to VR’s first ever ‘VR Modding Monthly’, a series of article to keep you up to date about all the exciting things going on in the wonderful world of the Flat2VR Modding community! What’s the Flat2vr Modding Community and Why Should You Care? We are a passionate community of modders bringing our favorite rich flatscreen games (often with thousands of hours of content) into full 6DOF VR.

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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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Digital fashion house and Metaverse production studio, The Immersive Kind, is debuting “The Other World,” an event on 4 September in conjunction with the New York Digital Fashion Week 2022. Metaverse Fashion adventures in Central Park #NY continue for the summer! @DgtlFashionWeek Delighted to bring “The Other World” Central Park to #NYDF2022 !

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Meta Platforms Inc has declined to comment on its slated plans to open new Reality Labs offices in Durham, North Carolina amid a major downturn in the immersive tech branch’s operations, The News and Observer reported on Friday. The news comes weeks after the Menlo Park-based tech giant listed several jobs on LinkedIn to hire in North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park hub.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

This Friday, Meta announced a long-term partnership with global chipset manufacturer Qualcomm to provide custom components for its upcoming virtual reality (VR) hardware. @cristianoamon , President and CEO @Qualcomm , is taking the stage at #IFA2022 for the opening keynote! Watch it live: [link]. All keynotes: [link]. Hall 23 pic.twitter.com/r4v8XlMLnU. — IFA Berlin (@IFA_Berlin) September 2, 2022.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Meta & Qualcomm are partnering to build custom chips for next generation headsets. The partnership is described as a “a multi-year broad strategic agreement” which will involve both companies’ product & engineering teams working together to develop next generation Snapdragon XR chipsets. Mark Zuckerberg said the chips will be used “for our future roadmap of Quest products” However, Qualcomm confirmed to UploadVR the chips won’t be exclusive to MetaR

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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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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Thanks to the internet, sometimes unnecessary planetary damage is gleefully filmed and proudly posted. On TikTok, the ever-growing social media behemoth that teens love , trends come and go quickly—but some of them can’t vanish soon enough. Here are a few of the worst bad-for-the-Earth fads that have swept through the… Read more.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Meta accounts are now supported in Horizon Workrooms, essentially clearing the biggest roadblock to the software’s adoption as remote work and meeting solution. Since launch in August 2021 Horizon Workrooms used a separate Workrooms account and team management system for logging into the service and managing access. This sign-in flow threw up roadblocks and caused confusion for people who wanted to join meetings across Quest 2 VR headsets and traditional video chat.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Honor, a major tech brand for smartphones, tablets, computers, and accessories, announced its Gateway to the Future initiative to leverage augmented reality (AR) to preserve cultural heritage. The Shenzhen-based firm revealed the new programme at the 2022 Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) Berlin, where two artists recreated Hamberg’s Wasserschloss landmark with AR technologies.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Live Nation, the company behind some of your favorite concerts, wants you to know that it has a soul. The events promoter and venue operator pledged $5 million to TURN, an environmental startup, to bring their high-tech, reusable cups to its events and shows. Read more.

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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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Everything VR & AR

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

This week Tyler and Sophia are joined by good friend Nils Pihl. Nils is a “Swedish entrepreneur, behavioral engineer and social transhumanist specializing in the intersection of modern technology and human behavior.” Listen as Nils takes us on a three part series discussing the human element of technological innovation. Listen Here: [link] Check out these links if you want to dig deeper after listening to the episode.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Caveman Studio’s Contractors – the popular fast-paced VR multiplayer shooter – has a big update available now which adds a variety of new features as well as updates to the modkit to allow even more customization. On top of that, the modkit adds some new features to give modders more tools to create the experience they want. There are 5 new game modes coming alongside some new custom weapons too.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The ongoing global upskilling challenge has forced companies and organisations to explore innovative solutions, many of which have unleashed the impressive potential for human resources (HR) and training firms dedicated to meeting the demands of a rapidly shifting global workforce. Virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) tools have met such obstacles with equal force, providing a new generation of insight, analysis, and promise for HR professionals seeking to build and keep workforces o

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Mark Zuckerberg’s recruiting some help to inch his metaverse vision closer to reality. Read more.

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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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Charlie Fink

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

This week Snap laid off 1200 employees, 20% of its workforce.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

A new Synth Riders music pack is now available, featuring a team up with League of Legends. This isn’t the first time we’ve seen a League of Legends crossover in a rhythm VR game either. Following Beat Saber ’s free update with K/DA’s POP/STARS back in 2018, Synth Riders now brings us a paid DLC music pack for Riot Games’ hit MOBA. This includes a new Synth Riders Experience for ‘Legends Never Die’ too, which takes inspiration from gameplay and characters of League of Legends and fea

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Conquest VR is almost ready to bring its HD audio VR headset adapter to market. After talking with CEO Raghu Bathina last month , the company invited me to try out their product ahead of the public release. A Refresher on Conquest VR. Conquest VR made its first public appearance with hands-on demos at the Augmented World Expo this spring. I was supposed to have demoed the product then, but literally got lost on the expo floor.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Snap just laid off 20% of its staff. How affected is its AR Spectacles project? Spectacles was revealed over a year ago. It’s a standalone device with two cameras to perform spatial tracking of the world as well as hand tracking and video capture. It reaches an impressive 2000 nits of brightness, making it one of the only AR devices usable outdoors.

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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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Ryan Schultz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

This afternoon, Linden Lab (the makers of virtual world Second Life) made an announcement : Wouldn’t it be cool if you could animate your avatar in real time? What if you could wave your arm and your avatar could mimic your motions? Or imagine if your avatar could reach out and touch something in-world or perform animations? Linden Lab is exploring these possibilities with an experimental feature called “Puppetry.”.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Tilt Five is one of the most promising AR headsets available on the market right now. Consumer AR headsets still have a long way to go. The industry is several years from solving key technical problems that complicate the path to lightweight and general purpose AR eyewear. Some of the biggest companies in tech – Meta, Google, Apple and Microsoft – are making progress, but they’ve yet to deliver a product available at a consumer level.

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