VRScout
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
“You’re a wizard, (insert name here).” Warner Bros. Games’ highly-anticipated Hogwarts Legacy game hasn’t even been officially released yet and modders are already hard at work bringing the action-adventure RPG to life in 6DoF VR. Hogwarts Legacy VR Mod (Praydog’s Upcoming UE VR Mod) It’s been a dream of mine to explore Hogwarts in VR one day (you might say I’m a fan, I even proposed to my wife with a Golden Snitch ).
ARPost
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
Virtual store builder Emperia recently announced a new funding round, as well as hints at how that funding round will impact their roadmap going forward. In the meantime, PINKO is joining the list of retailers showing us what Emperia is already capable of. PINKO’s Virtual Store From Emperia Emperia isn’t a Harry Potter spell, it’s a tech company that “marries the reach and accessibility of e-commerce with the impact of physical customer service shopping experience.
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VRScout
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
Finally, a functional AR device that’s perfect for the opera. The augmented reality (AR) market is poised to explode over the next decade with companies such as Apple and Meta supposedly working on their own respective AR glasses for consumers. Then there’s Brilliant Monocle, a unique-looking AR device from Brilliant Labs designed to work with your existing eyewear.
Road to VR
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
Slated to arrive on all major VR headsets later this month, The Light Brigade is well positioned to make a name among the top VR roguelikes, as it follows most visibly in the footsteps of bowshooter In Death (2018) in all the right ways. In our hands-on, we got to see just how Light Brigade is setting itself apart though with a strong focus on an array of realistic WWII-era weapons and magical upgrades galore.
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.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
This Monday, the FTC lost its lawsuits against Meta, accusing the Menlo Park-based firm of anti-competitive practices. The fillings come following Meta’s attempted purchase of virtual reality (VR) fitness application Within in 2020 for a rumoured $400 million. The FTC claimed that Meta was unfairly buying competition on its Quest digital storefront instead of building first-party applications.
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Bernard Marr
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
It’s that time of year again – we’ve piled on a few extra pounds thanks to Christmas turkey and a week or so of lazing around and generally taking it easy. Thoughts inevitably start to turn towards fixing some of the damage and, particularly for the geeks among us, how technology might be able to help us to do it. Health and fitness technology is big business – the market for fitness tracker devices alone is forecast to come close to $100 billion by the end of 2025.
Charlie Fink
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
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Upload VR
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
The popular VR basketball Gym Class announced a licensing relationship with the National Basketball Association (NBA) today, which will let users play on virtual replicas of NBA team courts and use team-branded apparel and balls in-game. This relationship will begin with the launch of the ‘NBA Bundle’ for Gym Class this winter, which will be available for $19.99 and “includes a virtual replica of an NBA team’s court, two different sets of team-branded apparel, and a team-brande
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
Premium location-based virtual reality (LBVR) experience firm Sandbox VR has announced on Wednesday a massive collaboration with Netflix for a novel VR gaming experience. The company’s joint venture with Netflix will allow fans to immerse in a bespoke Squid Game VR experience. The series has received over 1.65 billion viewing hours and has become the streaming platform’s most-watched TV show in history.
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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
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
Sandbox VR is creating a location-based Squid Game VR experience with Netflix, which arrives in late 2023. Best known for creating full-body VR experiences based on brands like Star Trek: Discovery Away Mission , Netflix’s popular series is the next Sandbox VR adaptation. Released in September 2021, Squid Game quickly became the streaming platform’s most-watched TV series, amassing 1.65 billion viewing hours across 142 million households.
Charlie Fink
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
This Week XR Is Partying Like It’s 2021.
Upload VR
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
Barbaria charges onto Quest 2, Quest Pro and PC VR today. Read on for our full Barbaria review. Violence is in no short supply in VR. Looking at the most popular genres of the medium, physics-based combat simulators consistently rank high. Offering a visceral experience that real life should (hopefully) never provide, virtual reality allows players to live out their deepest Russell Crowe fantasies from the comfort and safety of their own living rooms.
metamandrill
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
Virtual reality in the hospitality industry is one of the best things to happen to travel since the creation of the Internet. The connection isn't always obvious. But imagine how people's idea of travel, and related industries like hospitality, would change if they could instantly gaze into any destination on earth. Now prepare to see [.] The post Virtual Reality in the Hospitality Industry; VR Examples & More appeared first on Metamandrill.com.
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.
Upload VR
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
Cosmic Overdrive promises a challenging procedurally generated sci-fi runner, which takes off later this year on PC VR and Quest. Developed by a two-person team, VRGE Studios gave UploadVR a breakdown of Cosmic Overdrive’s gameplay loop. It tasks you with progressing as far as possible without crashing, maneuvering a spacecraft with “classical steering, lateral thrusting, and boosting forward.” You must master each movement type to avoid environmental hazards, reaching portals
Bernard Marr
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
Technology can be amazing and can change the world in positive ways – take breakthroughs that have been made in medicine that save lives, for example or new developments in industrial automation that save us from having to risk our lives doing dangerous jobs or just waste them on routine and mundane activities. However, it can also be scary – whether it’s worries about the privacy implications of computers and the internet or more existential fears such as robots taking over the world and damagi
VRGames
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
Today, we’re thrilled to announce that Meta and Within have joined forces in order to help push the potential of virtual reality (VR) fitness to a whole new level. As two respected industry leaders, this collaboration marks an exciting opportunity for both companies as they merge their expertise in creating top-notch immersive experiences.
Bernard Marr
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
New gadgets, gizmos, and devices are constantly hitting the market, all promising to make our lives easier, more fun, or simply more hassle-free. Increasingly, manufacturers are leveraging cutting-edge technology trends such as artificial intelligence (AI) and the internet of things (IoT) to create gadgets that are smarter and more easily integrated into our lives.
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.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
Watch on YouTube XR Today’s Rory Greener hosts Rama Oruganti, Chief Product Officer of Realwear.
VRGames
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
On February 8, 2023, Meta Platforms officially announced its acquisition of Within, the startup behind the popular VR fitness service Supernatural. This deal was initially reported in October 2021 but faced challenges when the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) opened an antitrust probe into it.
Oculus
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
Mars, the red planet. Dusty and cold and lifeless. Inhospitable to human life. But could we change that? Could humanity one day transform Mars into.
VRGames
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
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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?
Oculus
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
Not many games give you the option of playing as both a warrior and a powerful deity that can smite their foes from above. But.
Oculus
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
With PowerBeatsVR, the high-intensity VR fitness app from Five Mind Creations, you can take control of your workouts.
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