Fri.Sep 23, 2022

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Metaverse and Investing – Opportunities for Retail Investors Part 1: Hardware

ARPost

The metaverse has fast become a buzzword. Articles have been written on every possible related aspect. But I feel there is a certain lack of pieces on the investment opportunities that Web3 offers. Premise. Let’s take a step back. What is the metaverse? This encompassing term indicates several things. The following subcategories are considered part of the metaverse: Virtual reality; Augmented reality; NFT; Crypto; Blockchain; Gaming platforms (this is far-fetched, but it is true that the w

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XR Talks: TikTok Puts a New Spin on AR

AR Insider

What does it take to go viral with TikTok effects? And how does that differ from Snap and Meta? These questions were tackled in a recent panel of TikTok AR creators, which we break down for this week's XR Talks. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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New ‘Bonelab’ Trailer Reveals Surprise Release Date, Unique Avatar-swapping Gameplay

Road to VR

Bonelab the anticipated followup to VR physics sandbox adventure Boneworks (2019) , is due to launch next week after a surprise release date announcement from developer Stress Level Zero. Along with the game’s release date, new Bonelab gameplay shows a unique avatar-swapping mechanic. Developer Stress Level Zero has been quietly toiling away on Bonelab over the last few years… perhaps too quietly.

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ENGAGE XR Report Confirms Enterprise Metaverse Release Window

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Last Tuesday, ENGAGE XR (extended reality) developers of immersive education and collaboration platforms released its H1 financial report. The report highlights the firm’s recent success and provides information regarding Link, its upcoming enterprise-grade Metaverse platform. ENGAGE’s unaudited interim results record the company’s finances, where it reported a €4.9 million net cash flow for the first fiscal half of 2022 along with a 41 percent increase in total revenue year-on

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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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Meta AI Research: Quest 2 Body Tracking Estimation Without Trackers

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Meta researchers demonstrated Quest 2 body tracking without extra trackers. Current VR systems ship with a headset and held controllers, so only track the position of your head and hands. The position of your elbows, torso, and legs can be estimated using a class of algorithms called inverse kinematics (IK), but this is only accurate sometimes for elbows and rarely correct for legs.

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Bytedance Reveals Full Pico 4 XR Headset Specs

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Pico Interactive has revealed in a tweet on Thursday its upcoming Pico 4 headset along with a series of specifications for the head-mounted display (HMD). Imagination, the only limitation #PICO4. PICO 4 is well-equipped to provide an enhanced #VR experience without compromising comfort. Let us know which features you love the most! Click [link] to learn more!

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TikTok Company's New VR Headset Competes with Meta on Price and Privacy

GizModo VR

Meta is terrified of TikTok’s domineering presence in the social media market, and now it seems the company behind the app, ByteDance, is coming for Meta’s own stake in the Metaverse with a headset that’s the closest we’ve seen in price to the Quest 2. Read more.

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Pico Is Planning A Horizon Worlds Clone For Early 2023

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Pico says it is planning a world-building toolset for making content in VR much like Meta’s Horizon Worlds. In Pico’s announcement video today, immediately after confirmation that Rec Room is coming to Pico 4, the company showed what looked like conceptual mockups for the tools. You can see them below around the 56-minute mark. Labeled “Project Pico Worlds”, the work is pitched as offering avatar customization and world-building tools.

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This Week In XR: Breylon Raises $15 Million For Immersive Monitors, Taqtile $5 Million For Enterprise AR, Pico 4 VR Launch

Charlie Fink

Bytednace's Pico 4 VR Launches in Europe, Japan and Korea next month.

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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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Opera Browser Debuts Web3 Services

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

This Thursday, interoperable web browser provider Opera introduced plans to add blockchain services to its Crypto Browser to enable decentralised applications (dApps) for its 300 million user base. Opera Crypto Browser plans to integrate the Elrond blockchain into the platform and its digital wallet due to its flexibility. Previously, the browser integrated Ethereum, Bitcoin, Polygon, and BNB Chain to provide users with a multichain Web3 and crypto ecosystem.

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How Program-Ace Participated in CGC11 — The Main Blockchain Games Conference

Program Ace

The post How Program-Ace Participated in CGC11 — The Main Blockchain Games Conference appeared first on Program-Ace.

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Pace Verso Debuts Danil Krivoruchko NFT Art

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Pace Verso, a web3 tech hub from New York’s Pace Gallery, has teamed up with Snark.art’s OG.Art platform for designing and hosting non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in a major project with Random International. Immersive artist and art director Danil Krivoruchko. The latter is an experimental art collective that creates large-scale and interactive art instalments, including its immersive Rain Room, with creative designs from Ukrainian artist Danil Krivoruchko.

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Little Cities Attractions Update: A Fantastic Addition To A Great Game

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Today, nDreams and Purple Yonder announced the Little Cities Attractions Update, available now on Quest 2. We’ve gave the update a try earlier this week and spoiler alert: we think it’s pretty neat. Released earlier this year , Little Cities focused on distilling the city simulator experience into a small package that put intelligent and native VR design first on Quest 2.

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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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Pace Verso Debuts Random International, Danil Krivoruchko NFT Art

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Pace Verso, a web3 tech hub from New York’s Pace Gallery, has teamed up with Snark.art’s OG.Art platform for designing and hosting non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in a major project with Random International. Immersive artist and art director Danil Krivoruchko. The latter is an experimental art collective that creates large-scale and interactive art instalments, including its immersive Rain Room, with creative designs from Ukrainian artist Danil Krivoruchko.

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Horizon Worlds Spotlight: Welcome to Bad Burger

Oculus

Welcome back to our weekly spotlight on the people building for Horizon Worlds and their amazing creations.

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VR Could Lower The Need For Sedation During Surgery

VRScout

Who needs drugs when you can meditate in a serene meadow during surgery? We’ve seen immersive technology used for a variety of medicinal purposes over the years. This includes everything from augmented reality (AR) glasses EMTs can use to convey critical information to health centers to VR hospital tours designed specifically for children. We’ve also begun to see immersive technology used as an alternative to anesthetic drugs, which can sometimes cause adverse side effects.

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Strategic Sci-Fi FPS ‘Guardians Frontline’ Deploys on Meta Quest 2 in Early 2023

Oculus

A wise man once said that the only good bug is a dead bug, and VirtualAge Games seemed to take that to heart while making.

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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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Niantic Deploys Lightship VPS AR Tools for Web

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Niantic has released its Lightship Visual Positioning System (VPS) for the Web, providing developers access to its augmented reality (AR) tools designed by 8th Wall, it announced on Thursday. The new platform anchors webAR and virtual content across physical locations by adding depth and realism to immersive experiences anywhere in the world using its AR map, allowing precise, centimetre-level accuracy across global locations, with just a mobile browser and no app required.

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Pico 4 vs Quest 2 Specs & Features: Weight, Resolution, Field of View, Passthrough & More

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Today Pico 4 was officially announced with some seriously impressive specs & features. Here’s how it compares to Meta’s Quest 2: Quest 2. Pico 4. Release. October 2020. October 2022. Visor Weight. 470 grams. 295 grams. Display Per Eye. 1832×1920 LCD. 2160×2160 LCD. Max Refresh Rate. 120Hz. 90Hz. Lens Type. Fresnel. Pancake. Lens Separation. 3-Stage (58mm / 63mm / 68mm).

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