VRScout
JULY 27, 2022
The future of tabletop gaming is looking bright thanks to VR. All On Board is a mod-based VR platform currently in development for Meta Quest and PC VR headsets that allows you to play an ever-expanding catalog of multiplayer board games built by the community for the community in VR. . The game is designed to recreate the feeling of getting together with your friends for an evening of classic tabletop gaming.
The Ghost Howls
JULY 27, 2022
While yesterday the VR community was on fire because of the new anti-modding update of VRChat and the price rise of the Quest 2, I was discovering a little gem of VR gaming , suggested to me by my friend Dario of Cybermachine Studios. The game is called “Rock Life: The Rock Simulator” and it promises to be a little revolution both for VR and for pancake gaming.
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ARPost
JULY 27, 2022
Virtual reality is all the rage right now. You need it for some blockchain games, metaverse, or simply if you want to shop at an immersive virtual store. It’s an incredible technology that allows you to experience things that you never could before. However, there are some limitations to VR as it exists currently. One of the biggest issues is that it can be quite isolating.
AR Insider
JULY 27, 2022
What are best practices for enterprises to implement AR and realize strong ROI? This is the topic of ARtillery Intelligence’s recent report and the focus of the latest AR Briefs episode. We have the video and takeaways. . This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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.
Road to VR
JULY 27, 2022
Sony has fully revealed PlayStation VR 2 at this point, but the company has still kept the PSVR 2 release date under wraps, with many wondering if it will come in 2022 or 2023. Well the company says it’ll finally reveal that info “soon.” Earlier this week Sony revealed some new software features coming to PSVR 2. Subtly tucked into the same announcement were some teases that the company will “soon” share the last essential details everyone wants to know: PSVR 2 rele
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Road to VR
JULY 27, 2022
VRChat , one of VR’s most popular social games, released an update this week has struck a nerve with its community. The long-running social VR application, VRChat has cultivated a large community of dedicated players since its release in 2017. And while the studio behind the project has largely made steady and welcomed improvements to the platform, this week it struck a nerve with its community.
VRScout
JULY 27, 2022
New headset owners can pick up a copy of Beat Saber free for a limited time. Beginning August 1st, the price of all Meta Quest 2 headsets will increase by $100. The 128GB model will be available for purchase at $399.99 and the 256GB model for $499.99. According to Meta, one of the primary reasons for the price increase is rising production and shipping costs.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
JULY 27, 2022
Meta Platforms has begun raising prices $100 on its Meta Quest 2 headsets, media reported on Tuesday, citing an announcement from the Oculus blog. According to the Menlo Park-based tech giant, the price increase would allow it to “invest for the long term and keep driving the VR industry forward” with its games, research, and hardware innovations.
GizModo VR
JULY 27, 2022
Leaked documents from within TikTok reveal how the company games out responses to tricky questions — and highlight what the company thinks its biggest public perception problems are. Chief among them: China. Read more.
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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.
Upload VR
JULY 27, 2022
Meta’s Reality Labs revenue grew 48% year-over-year in Q2 2022, while costs grew 19%. Reality Labs is the division of Meta responsible for Quest VR hardware & software, Portal video calling appliances, and the Ray-Ban Stories camera glasses – as well as researching and developing AR glasses and other future AR and VR devices. This is the first quarter since the company began breaking out Reality Labs revenue where quarterly revenue grew more than costs year-over-year.
GizModo VR
JULY 27, 2022
When we think about sci-fi , about marching out into the stars and encountering aliens, we think of the future, of a time decades or centuries from now when humanity has technologically evolved to the point of interstellar travel. Stargate , however, took a shortcut. This was a franchise which asked, “what if we could… Read more.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
JULY 27, 2022
Munich-based metaverse company METAYO has recently joined Dubai’s new metaverse strategy to collaborate on building the tech plan’s ecosystem of software solutions, it was announced on Wednesday. Dubai’s Crown Prince Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammad Bin Rashid al-Maktoum recently unveiled the city’s metaverse programme, which hopes to attract 40,000 digital professionals and grow the city’s economy by $4 billion USD over five years’ time.
Upload VR
JULY 27, 2022
The Federal Trade Commission is seeking an injunction in U.S. District Court to stop Mark Zuckerberg and Meta Platforms from buying fitness service Supernatural. A partially redacted complain t alleges the acquisition announced last year was poised to close at the end of this month, but that it would “substantially lessen competition, or tend to create a monopoly, in the relevant market for VR dedicated fitness apps.” “Letting Meta acquire Supernatural would combine the makers
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.
GizModo VR
JULY 27, 2022
At San Diego Comic-Con 2022 , io9 sat down with the creative teams shepherding Warner Bros.’ classic Looney Tunes characters into new and reimagined cartoons. In a push led by Looney Tunes Cartoons ’ Alex Kirwan—who spearheads the franchise’s current slate of shorts on HBO Max—the beloved animation icons will soon … Read more.
Upload VR
JULY 27, 2022
Those with an original Quest headset will no longer be able to download or play Population: One from October 31, 2022. Developers BigBox VR announced that Quest 1 support will be dropped from the VR battle royale game at the end of October. We're building BIG POP1 experiences that'll push the boundaries of multiplayer VR. To focus our efforts on nextgen features and tech, we're ending Quest 1 support on Oct. 31, 2022.
GizModo VR
JULY 27, 2022
An extra dose of vitamin D probably won’t make the average person’s bones any stronger. New research from a large-scale, placebo-controlled, and randomized clinical trial out Wednesday has found no evidence that taking vitamin D supplements reduces the risk of bone fractures in healthy older adults. Read more.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
JULY 27, 2022
The widely used real-time 3D (RT3D) engine Unity has faced shocking user backlash following the significant acquisition of IronSource this month. Despite kickback and earlier staff redundancies, Unity continues to expand its RT3D product as a toolkit for creating extended reality (XR) solutions, video games, and movie VFX content. Mass Lay-Offs. The backlash came following Unity’s mass layoffs in June that saw the firm make employee adjustments, affecting roughly 200 people.
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.
GizModo VR
JULY 27, 2022
Meta —once a behemoth in the social media space—has reported its first revenue decline ever: A 1% decline in revenue in Q2 year-over-year. This decline comes along with the company’s long haul strategy of pivoting away from their time as social media titan Facebook and into the “metaverse.” Read more.
Upload VR
JULY 27, 2022
Fresh off of the reveal of a story trailer during the Upload VR Showcase, co-op shooter Gambit! has revealed yet more gameplay. Nearly a minute of footage from the XREAL-developed game was revealed along with the ‘Gun Fever’ feature in the video below. This mechanic sees players fill up a meter as they play the game. When that meter is topped they can unleash special weapons for a limited time.
GizModo VR
JULY 27, 2022
Space tourism company Space Perspective has unveiled the final design of its Spaceship Neptune—a pressurized capsule that will fly passengers to altitudes nearly 20 miles above Earth. Read more.
Digital Trends
JULY 27, 2022
Apple has just released the fourth developer beta of iOS 16, with some significant changes to curb potential abuse of its new message editing features.
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?
GizModo VR
JULY 27, 2022
After an intriguing teaser clip and literally 15 years of work, Guillermo del Toro’s The Adventures of Pinocchio finally gets a full length trailer. The film was created by stop-motion animation and was produced in part by the Jim Henson Company. Read more.
TechCrunch VR
JULY 27, 2022
The FTC filed an injunction today to block Meta’s acquisition of the virtual reality studio Within, which is best known more recently for its subscription VR workout app Supernatural. The regulatory body has had plenty of skirmishes with Facebook, now Meta, in recent years, but this is a pretty aggressive signal from the agency that they’re going to make M&A hell for Meta going forward.
GizModo VR
JULY 27, 2022
Google’s cloud-based operating system has come a long way since its inception. Every new software update seems to bring it closer to parity with Microsoft’s Windows and Apple’s Mac operating systems. A new ChromeOS update, due this fall, brings long-awaited features like native PDF and video editing. It also adds… Read more.
Digital Trends
JULY 27, 2022
Scientists have just found that using cubic boron arsenide in semiconductors could prove to be much better than silicon. Is silicon on its way out the door?
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 Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?
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