Mon.Aug 29, 2022

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Fitness-Focused AR Game Lets You Earn As You Burn

VRScout

Fatten your wallet while losing fat. The CaloVerse is an exercise-centered ecosystem that allows you to earn real money as you shed away unwanted calories. The cardio-based metaverse is powered by blockchain technology and accessible on compatible iOS and Android devices. Players are tasked with completing a variety of exercise activities which earn them IFIT tokens, Calo Token, and various other in-game rewards.

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Cool VR Arcade Games to Beat the Last of the Summer Heat

ARPost

Sure you have your own VR headset , but nothing beats the experience of playing VR arcade games with your gang. The custom-designed hardware and dedicated room-scale space bring the VR game experience to an entirely different level. See Also: The Best VR Headsets in 2022 to Put on Your Wish List. Both physical and virtual environments immerse you in ultrarealistic surroundings and create a multisensory experience.

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What Types of AR Experiences Do Consumers Want?

AR Insider

After examining things like AR formats and usage frequency, we switch gears this week to examine consumer aspirations. What types of AR experiences do they want to see next? We dive into the latest consumer survey data. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Alleged Apple Trademarks Point to ‘Reality’ Branding for Long-rumored Mixed Reality Headset

Road to VR

Multiple trademark filings spotted by Bloomberg over the weekend support the notion that Apple’s long-rumored mixed reality headset will be running under the ‘Reality’ naming scheme. Trademark applications were filed earlier this month in the US, EU, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Costa Rica and Uruguay for three names: Reality One, Reality Pro, and Reality Processor, Bloomberg reports.

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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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Spatial Beats: Meta, Nike & Vuzix

AR Insider

Welcome back to Spatial Beats, AR Insider's weekly series that features observations and insights of author and futurist Charlie Fink. This week, Meta and Vuzix announce new XR hardware and Nike reaches a metaverse milestone. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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#1119: Venice Immersive Preview with Co-Curators + Expanded VRChat World Gallery Exhibition

Voices of VR

I get an overview of the Venice Immersive festival that's taking place from September 1st to 10th with co-curators Liz Rosenthal and Michel Reilhac. There are 75 total experiences with 30 experiences in competition, 10 project in Best Of Immersive section, 30 VRChat worlds in the Worlds Gallery, 3 projects in the Biennale College Cinema VR section, 2 special music events in VRChat, and a special film screening of Joe Hunting's We Met in Virtual Reality.

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AMD Announces B650 Extreme Chipset for Ryzen 7000: PCIe 5.0 For Mainstream

Anand Tech

Over the last couple of months, the rumor mill surrounding AMD's impending Ryzen 7000 processors for desktops has been in overdrive. Although Lisa Su unveiled Zen 4 back at CES 2022, it's been anticipated that the new AM5 platform would include multiple chipsets, much like AM4 has over 500+ motherboard lifespan from X370, X470, X570, and every chipset in between.

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FTC Accuses Data Broker of Letting Anyone Track Millions of Americans for Free

GizModo VR

The Federal Trade Commission announced a lawsuit Monday against a major data broker , accusing it of offering services that allow for the tracking of Americans at sensitive locations, such as addiction clinics or domestic violence shelters. Read more.

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This $5M Bugatti Was Designed Using VR Technology

VRScout

The days of old-school clay models are coming to an end. During an interview with The Drive , Bugatti Design Director Achim Anscheidt sat down with Editor-in-Chief Kyle Cheromcha to discuss how the team used conventional 3D modeling software and VR technology to create a $5,000,000 car in just nine months. According to Anscheidt, the team used the popular CAD software Blender as well as a more advanced program called Alias to create a complex 3D model of the W16 Mistral roadster which could the

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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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Jaws in 3D (Not Jaws 3D) Is Out This Weekend and Worth Your Time

GizModo VR

As the summer movie season comes to an end, a few all-time blockbusters are busting back into theaters. One is from just last year but the other is the original. The first. Maybe the best of the best. Steven Spielberg’s 1975 classic, Jaws. Read more.

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Metaverse Development — The New Normal Explained

Program Ace

The post Metaverse Development — The New Normal Explained appeared first on Program-Ace.

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Tesla Can't Prevent Its Employees From Wearing Union Logo at Work, National Labor Board Ruled

GizModo VR

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled it “unlawful” for Tesla to prohibit its employees from wearing union t-shirts or buttons at work, criticizing a company policy that required factory workers to dress in plain, black t-shirts or ones that bear the Tesla logo. Read more.

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MYND VR Is On A Mission To CHANGE LIVES!!!

Full Dive Gaming

We sit down with Chris Brickler from Mynd VR, a revolutionary VR app that is looking to heal and soothe minds in our Seniors through the power of VR! MyndVR is the leading provider of Virtual Reality solutions for senior living communities, home care agencies, Veteran homes, and individual adults aging in their own homes across the US, Canada and Australia.

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Are You Still Watching? How to Create Engaging Presentations for Virtual Learning

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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French Tax Authorities Used Google AI to Snuff Out More than 20,000 Undeclared Swimming Pools

GizModo VR

They say the only two certainties in life are death and taxes. That seems especially true in France where tax authorities have begun deploying artificial intelligence to snuff out thousands of undeclared swimming pools reportedly worth around $10 million in uncollected tax revenue. The country could soon expand its… Read more.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.08.29): PSVR 2 to launch in 2023, Meta accounts released, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Very busy day at work, but here I am during the evening writing this roundup of news for you! Before talking about the news, let me remind you that if you use this link to register to the NVIDIA GTC, you will have the chance to win an NVIDIA RTX 3080Ti graphics card, which will be assigned exclusively to one of my followers. You will find the instructions down below this newsletter… don’t miss this opportunity!

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The Universal Monsters Are Streaming on Peacock in September

GizModo VR

Peacock better watch out. It’s about to be drained of blood, turned into a wolf, wrapped in bandages, and brought back from the dead. This month, as always, the streamer is adding a bunch of new content to its service. And while there are tons of cool movies coming soon (such as The Frighteners , Candyman, Shaun of the … Read more.

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#1118: Getting 4000 Users on a Single Virtual World Instance with RP1’s Network Architecture

Voices of VR

I got a demo of RP1's single shard with 4000 users in mid-July, and then chatted with 3 team members in August to unpack their journey towards creating a scalable network architecture for the Metaverse. Their demo was built on WebXR, but it could be used on other game engines as well. There are real limitations on the client-side and VR hardware with how many of those 4000 users can been rendered within a close proximity, but having a single instance with hundreds or thousands of people could st

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

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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Jeff Bezos Is More Like a McDonald's Hamburger Than He Realizes

GizModo VR

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is the McDonald’s hamburger of humanity—an obscenely dry, flat thing that hides its own curious nature with a slathering of condiments and toppings. Both man and burger represent the incredible wealth and ubiquitous extremes of modern consumerism, neither supplying enough to aid either… Read more.

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Monday Must-Play—‘Gun Raiders’

Oculus

We’re back with our latest Monday Must-Play! This weekly article series highlights Meta Quest 2 VR games you don’t want to miss. Each week, we.

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What Did Princess Leia's Wedding Dress Look Like?

GizModo VR

One of the downsides of Star Wars Episode VII coming over 20 years after Return of the Jedi is we missed a lot of big life moments for Princess Leia, Luke Skywalker, and Han Solo. When we next saw them in the movies, life had hit them pretty hard. But Lucasfilm has been filling in those gaps in the publishing space … Read more.

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AMD Details Ryzen 7000 Launch: Ryzen 7950X and More, Coming Sept. 27th

Anand Tech

AMD’s "together we advance_PCs”l ivestream presentation just wrapped up moments ago, where AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su set the stage for the release of the next generation of AMD Ryzen desktop CPUs. Building off of AMD’s Ryzen 7000 announcement back at Computex 2022, the eagerly anticipated presentation laid out AMD’s launch plans for their first family of Zen 4 architecture-based CPUs, which will see AMD kick things off with a quartet of enthusiast-focused chips.

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Who C.A.R.E.S.!? How Learning Got Its Bad Rap & What We Can Do About It

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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AMD’s Zen 4/Ryzen 7000 Chips Are 'World's Fastest,' Coming in September

GizModo VR

AMD’s new Zen 4 desktop CPU lineup is its first since supply chains have started cleared up , but now it’s releasing in the middle of massive inflation. That hasn’t stopped Lisa Su from coming forward with what, on paper, is looking to be the world’s new fastest set of gaming chips, though. At least until competition… Read more.

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AMD Ryzen 7000 "together we advance_PCs” Live Blog (7pm ET/23:00 UTC)

Anand Tech

At long last the date is here. AMD this evening will be broadcasting their "together we advance_PCs” event, which will be focused around the upcoming launch of their next-generation Ryzen 7000 processors. AMD first unveiled their Ryzen 7000 platform and branding back at Computex 2022, offering quite a few high-level details on the forthcoming consumer processor platform while stating it would be launching in the fall.

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Slayers Features Thomas Jane as a Vampire Hunter and We've Got the First Trailer

GizModo VR

Thomas Jane is hunting vampires. Honestly, that sentence alone is likely to get you interested in his new movie. But Slayers , which is in ?theaters, on-demand, and on digital on October 21, goes beyond that. Jane’s vampire hunter needs to get into a very well-guarded vampire lair, so he uses a bunch of social media… Read more.

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Transformers Beyond Reality Launching September 1 On PSVR

Upload VR

After an indefinite delay, Transformers VR game Beyond Reality has a new release date. The game is set to launch September 1, exclusively on PSVR. Earlier this year, Beyond Reality was set for a March release on PSVR and PC VR. However, that never came to be — developers Meta4 Interactive announced in late March that the release was ‘derailed by reasons beyond [thei] control’ When the delay was announced, the team stated it would be “ta king full advantage of the extra t

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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 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?