VRScout

MARCH 6, 2023

Immersive technology is for more than just gaming. Researchers based out of the Ohio State University College of Medicine have created a disaster response training program that uses VR technology to prepare first responders for various mass casualty emergencies, according to an official release. Developed in collaboration with the Ohio State University Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design , the program immerses users in an underground subway complex after a bomb detonation has resu

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 6, 2023

This week is going to be great because I’m going to attend the SXSW (I will write a dedicated post about it). Before traveling, I’m trying to finish a few tasks for my job and I was hoping that this week there wasn’t much to write in this roundup so that I could write this newsletter fast. But actually, lots of interesting things happened, so there’s a lot to write about!

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VRScout

MARCH 6, 2023

Get your hands dirty in this adorable-looking game coming soon to VR headsets. Anyone familiar with life in the city can tell you just how stressful urban living can be. From the busy traffic to the crowded public spaces, the chaos of downtown can grow tiresome quickly. Thankfully, we have VR technology to help us escape the city to experience a different kind of living.

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ARPost

MARCH 6, 2023

Virtual reality in the classroom is one of the many uses of immersive technologies. And, wherever it is in use, it has proven to be a great success. The latest educational organization to adopt it is Jackson Public Schools in Mississippi. The second-largest school district in the Magnolia State, comprising seven high schools, 10 middle schools, 31 elementary schools, and four special program schools, has recently announced that its students will now be able to learn using 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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Road to VR

MARCH 6, 2023

Samsung announced last month it was partnering with Google and Qualcomm to develop an XR device, something the company said at the time was “not too far away.” While we’re still left guessing as to what sort of headset the Korean tech giant has in store, a new trademark filing has come to light which may suggest the headset’s naming scheme.

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 6, 2023

(Image by Maria Korolov via Midjourney.) I can’t tell if he’s just being tone deaf, or trying desperately to do some damage control, but after releasing ChatGPT without any warning on an unsuspecting world late last year, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is now calling for slow and careful release of AI. If you remember, ChatGPT was released on November 30 of 2022, just in time for take-home exams and final papers.

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AR Insider

MARCH 6, 2023

Though mobile AR continues to be challenged in gaining mainstream traction, there are bright spots. Revenue continues to gain momentum in advertising, commerce, and enterprise productivity. We go behind the numbers in the latest AR Briefs episode. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 6, 2023

(Image by Maria Korolov via Midjourney.) Florida-based Avalon Corp. has raised $13 million to build a platform for games capable of taking advantage of the metaverse, featuring a universe of interoperable worlds with various intellectual properties, to be built using technologies including blockchain and game engines. According to the press release , Avalon Corp is uniquely experienced to solve problems that will face creators and designers in the near future, and is building the tools, framewor

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Upload VR

MARCH 6, 2023

Bigscreen just launched its Avatar 2.0 update. Bigscreen is a social VR app designed around cowatching video content remotely. It supports YouTube, Disney+, Amazon Prime, movie rentals, and its own TV channels for shows like Rick & Morty. The new avatars now have necks and estimated arms (no current VR headset has built-in arm tracking). They also have a wider range of skin colors, body types, hairstyles, gender-agnostic outfits, facial features, and more accessory options. before (above) an

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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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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 6, 2023

Chinese electronics manufacturer Xiaomi has debuted its Wireless AR Glass Discovery Edition, leading to the company’s first-ever wireless augmented reality (AR) smart glasses. Unveiled at the Mobile World Congress 2023 , the new device includes a trove of innovative features such as a “retina-level” electrochromic adaptive display, lighting adjustment, Snapdragon Spaces tethering, and hand tracking, among others.

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Anand Tech

MARCH 6, 2023

The transition to 2.5Gbps Ethernet has not been an easy one for Intel. The company's I225/I226 2.5 GbE Ethernet controllers (codename Foxville), a prevalent choice on Intel platform motherboards for the last few years, has presented a fair share of issues since its introduction, including random networking disconnections and stuttering. And while Intel has been working through the issues with multiple revisions of the hardware, they apparently haven't hammered out all of the bugs yet, as

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Upload VR

MARCH 6, 2023

FusionPlay revealed its upcoming VR farming sim, Across the Valley, arrives on PSVR 2 and PC VR next month. First revealed during the Upload VR Showcase Winter 2022 , FusionPlay’s latest game is a big departure from its previous VR title, Konrad’s Kittens. Placing you inside a virtual farm, Across the Valley tasks you with picking fresh fruit and vegetables, keeping your livestock happy through mini-games and using your profits to expand the farm.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

MARCH 6, 2023

The extended reality (XR) industry continues to build its technological renaissance by developing fresh virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) solutions. The Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2023 in Barcelona, Spain, provided a premier backdrop for the immersive and emerging technologies industry. Numerous firms showcased their latest creations amid the event, which took place from 27 February to 2 March.

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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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Ryan Schultz

MARCH 6, 2023

My oldest Second Life avatar, with the legacy name of Heath Homewood, was created on March 20th, 2007, which means that in a couple of weeks he will be sixteen years old! (And yes, I can blame a work committee at my university library for falling down that particular rabbit hole; more details here in a blogpost I wrote in 2017.) This evening, on a whim, I loaded Heath up, opened up the landmarks folder in his voluminous, never-cleaned-out-in-sixteen-years inventory, and tried teleporting into va

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Full Dive Gaming

MARCH 6, 2023

VR Podcast: We're discussing Quest 2 and Pro Price Drops, PSVR 2 games, and SO MUCH MORE VR!! Thank you to @mkbhd FOR VALIDATING My Issue with Conquest Headphones!! 0:00 VR Podcast Intro 1:03 YOUR Questions Answered! 2:53 Does E3 Still Make a Difference?? 7:23 Quest Accessory HACKS!! 9:15 MKBHD Validated ME 11:25 Is LIVING IN VR More Possible Now?? 14:40 PSVR 2 Passthrough and Others 18:00 VR NEWS 18:23 Quest 2 & Pro Prices DROP 24:20 20 MILLION Quests Sold!!

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VRGames

MARCH 6, 2023

Marc Laidlaw, the former writer of Half-Life and Valve employee, has revealed why the Borealis VR game was cancelled in a recent interview.

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