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Bytedance announces Pico 4 for just €429, with accessories and BIG developer incentives!

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Pico has just announced today its new headset: the Pico 4. It is the first real consumer-oriented HMD released by Pico on the market with wide availability, after the Pico Neo 3 Link has been used to test the waters in limited beta quantities. And since Pico is owned by Bytedance, this is the device with which Bytedance is throwing down the gauntlet to Meta, proposing a device which is sleek, super-affordable, and with a big content catalog.

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VR and Pop Culture Merge at Upcoming FanConXR

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VR and pop culture unite! The countdown is on for what is touted to be one of the comic fandom’s most unique comic-con experiences this year – the FanConXR. This unprecedented event is a creative collaboration among three big names in the industry, namely Big Rock Creative (producers of an official Virtual Burning Man Experience ), Partikle Digital , and Golden Apple Comics.

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The Pico 4 VR Headset Is Here To Shake Things Up

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Pico’s latest standalone headset signals a new era in consumer VR hardware. Pico has announced the launch of its next-generation all-in-one VR headset, the Pico 4, which aims to make VR more accessible to beginners and experienced gamers by providing a superior VR experience with a focus on performance and comfort. During a press announcement, Leland Hedges, GM at PicoXR, walked us through some of the highlights of their new VR headset, saying, “XR can be for everyone and be a more mainstr

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Case Study: AR Helps Toyota Customers Accessorize

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Toyota's Accessory Augmented Reality (TAAR) program lets consumers visualize car accessories – maximizing customer lifetime value and tapping into the $46 billion auto accessories market. Our latest case study dives in. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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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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This Unique AR Fashion Show Features ‘No Clothes’

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The one-of-a-kind show served as a showcase for Doddz’s new AR fashion line Defy. If you’re a fan of augmented reality (AR) technology, then odds are at some point you’ve stumbled across the work of Doddz, a popular AR creator who’s worked with everyone from Disney and Facebook to Doja Cat and Drake on a variety of incredible AR experiences.

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How to Create an Augmented Reality App: Technology Guide 2022

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Augmented reality’s use and development have trended up over the past several years. This follows investments in mobile hardware capability, interest in immersive virtual experiences with the metaverse, and rising industry competition. Due to these variables, the augmented reality market is set to reach a value of $502 billion by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 62.7%, according to Research and Markets.

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Microsoft Delivering First Batch Of Wide-FoV HoloLens IVAS To US Army

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Microsoft is delivering the first batch of HoloLens IVAS to the US Army, Bloomberg reports. The delivery is the first in the US Army’s Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) program, which aims to equip infantry with AR helmets for situational awareness and convenient display of integrated sensor data. The contract is worth up to $21.88 billion over 5-10 years with a maximum eventual order of 120,000 units.

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NASA Declares Tanking Test of SLS Megarocket a Success

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A demonstration to confirm a repaired hydrogen leak appears to have gone well, with NASA declaring Wednesday’s cryogenic tanking test a success. Engineers still need to review the results, but the space agency could be on track to perform its third launch attempt of its SLS megarocket in just six days—a mission that… Read more.

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Editorial: Pico 4 Is Everything Quest 3 Should Be – Did Meta Lose Focus?

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Nearly four years after Mark Zuckerberg personally announced Oculus Quest the standalone VR market for consumers may have real competition. Backed by Chinese tech giant Bytedance, the Pico 4 standalone VR system is coming to consumers in Europe, Japan & South Korea next month starting at just €429. That’s a startlingly low price for an all-in-one VR package which undercuts Quest 2 with superior specifications while delivering new features like color passthrough, alongside a store stock

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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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How Does Walmart's New AR Virtual Try-on Work?

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Returning clothes I bought online because they weren’t what I was expecting is one of the few things in this world that really wracks me with guilt, mainly because I start thinking about the damage my returns are causing the planet, all because my lazy ass didn’t want to go to the store. Read more.

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Just Dance VR Is Pico’s First Major Exclusive

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Pico will have its first major exclusive game in 2023 with Just Dance VR from Ubisoft. The immensely popular music game franchise is coming “exclusively” to Pico next year. Though details are extremely light at the moment, the addition to Pico’s lineup promises a major rhythm game for players using Pico’s latest standalone consumer headset.

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How AR Can Be Used to Improve Efficiency in Global Retail

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The history of augmented reality (AR) started in 1968 at Harvard with the invention of the first AR head-mounted display (HMD) system. However, only in the recent decade, AR has gained the status of a technology with broad practical applicability. In 2017, Apple CEO Tim Cook , a huge augmented reality enthusiast, stating that AR could be used “everywhere” ― “in education, in consumers, in entertainment, in sports” .

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Pico 4 Ships October 18 To Europe, Japan & South Korea For €429

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Pico 4 ships October 18 in Europe, Japan, and South Korea – starting at €429. Pico is no newcomer to VR – it revealed its first headset in 2016. Last year it was acquired by ByteDance , the Chinese tech giant behind TikTok. Pico has always sold to Chinese consumers, but focused only on businesses elsewhere. This changed earlier this year with the launch of Pico Neo 3 Link to European consumers.

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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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Keeping up with T-Mobile’s XR Accelerator Programme

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Global telecommunications firm T-Mobile is moving forward with full force for its extended reality (XR) accelerator programme, which aims to match and support the modern demand for immersive talent, developers, and companies. The firm collaborates with XR developers, startups, and entrepreneurs to provide funding and resources to design 5G-ready immersive applications.

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Pico 4 Hands-On Impressions: The Quest 2 Killer?

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Today Pico announced Pico 4, its next generation VR headset. Last month at Gamescom, we went hands-on for around 10 minutes – here are our impressions. A New Form Factor. Taking in the headset from all angles, the new form factor is the most obvious and immediate change compared to the Pico Neo 3 Link. The front of Pico 4 is much slimmer than its predecessor – largely due to the switch to flat pancake lenses – and overall Pico say it sports a reduction in weight, down to 586g (with headstrap inc

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Is AR Crucial for Retailers and Brands?

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Reactive Reality is an augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) eCommerce firm reimagining the buyer’s journey. The firm is providing immersive technology solutions which enhances customer engagement. The firm is leveraging AR with its PICTOFIT end-to-end solution, which digitises commerce operations by providing clothing brands and high-street merchants with an online and in-store virtual try-on platform.

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Virtual Desktop Coming To Pico 4 For Wireless PC VR Streaming

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Pico 4 will have one of the most popular apps for wirelessly streaming PC VR games like Half-Life: Alyx and Boneworks. Virtual Desktop’s developer Guy Godin confirmed that his app “will be available on the new Pico 4 as well as the Pico Neo 3. You’ll be able to stream all your favorite SteamVR and Oculus games wirelessly.” Pico 4 will have its own method for wirelessly streaming PC VR content and Pico Neo 3 Link even offered a wired Displayport option , but Virtual Deskto

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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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Salesforces Partners with Meta Amid XR Push

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This Tuesday, Salesforce developers of customer relationship management (CRM) cloud services announced a significant partnership with Meta’s messaging platform Whatsapp to integrate its business tools into Salesforce’s product portfolio. The alliance secures Salesforce customers with Whatsapp for Bussiness cloud APIs for communications, broadcasting, and automation.

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Cubism Adds Level Editor To Make Puzzles In VR

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Developer Thomas Van Bouwel added a level editor to his puzzle game Cubism. You can check out the level editor now in the game on Quest or Steam. The editor is offline-only but puzzles can be saved as files saved to your hard drive on PC or locally on Quest. There’s instructions on how to do this on Cubism’s website. The editor works with with either controllers or hand tracking — and passthrough is supported on Quest as well — but given the technology’s limitation

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ByteDance Backed PicoVR unveils their new VR Headset

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The Extended Reality Industry is heating up with #Meta gearing up to launch its new XR headset Meta Cambria in October, #JIO is working on launching its Mixed Reality Jio Glass lite & Jio Glass Pro also in the month of October, SONY's PlayStation VR 2 is scheduled for early 2023 & so is the Rumored #apple Glasses. Meta, JIO & many others are building ecosystems to leverage the $8 trillion market opportunity of the Metaverse, #ByteDance backed Chinese company #PicoXR have just unveile

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Ghost Signal: A Stellaris Game Is A VR Roguelite From Fast Travel Games

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Fast Travel Games unveiled its next first-party title today, called Ghost Signal: A Stellaris Game. It’s coming to Quest 2 in early 2023 and we’ve already got some hands-on impressions for you. Developed in-house by Fast Travel Games, Ghost Signal is a roguelite action game set in Paradox Interactive’s Stellaris universe. In Ghost Signal, you’ll control a ship through outer space with gameplay featuring combat, narrative, resource-gathering and more.

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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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Get Your Parents to Buy You a Quest 2, Study In VR, Exercise In VR & More Ep. 81

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This week we discuss: Into the Radius launch on Quest 2, How to get your Parents to buy you VR with Librarium, Quest Pro, and so much more!!! 0:00 Intro 0:54 Q&A 1:00 Favorite VR - NOT GAMING 2:26 VR Exercise 3:13 Into the Radius & Red Matter 2 3:31 Worst Product You've Ever Reviewed 6:48 VR News 7:16 Meta Quest Pro Release 11:52 Firewall Ultra coming to PSVR2!!!

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Dyschronia: Chronos Alternate – Episode 1 Review: A Fine Start For MyDearest’s New Adventure

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Dyschronia: Chronos Alternate – Episode 1 is a promising start to this episodic adventure, building upon its predecessors where it counts with immersive gameplay and an intriguing plot. Read on for our full review. I’ve enjoyed watching the Chronos Universe’s gradual evolution. From visual novel beginnings with Tokyo Chronos to increased VR interactivity in Altdeus: Beyond Chronos , now comes Dyschronia: Chronos Alternate as a three-part episodic release.

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Solve a Bizarre Murder in ‘DYSCHRONIA: Chronos Alternate’ Episode I, Out Today on Quest 2

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Committing a crime is supposed to be nearly impossible in the sci-fi world of DYSCHRONIA: Chronos Alternate. That makes the high-profile murder at the center.

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Immerse Launches VR in a BOX for Simplified Enterprise VR Training

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Immerse just put out its latest product, VR in a BOX. The platform provider for virtual reality training knows that enterprise VR has a steep learning curve for many. According to the company, VR in a BOX is a compact, frictionless solution for enterprises that want to start using VR. It streamlines enterprise XR training programs. Streamlined VR Training.

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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?