VRScout

AUGUST 25, 2022

Secret Location’s nostalgic team shooter is an absolute blast. Available now on Meta Quest 2 VR headsets, NERF Ultimate Championship is a fast-paced multiplayer shooter that has teams of colorful free runners battling it out in a variety of colorful arenas using an arsenal of authentic NERF blasters. There are multiple competitive game modes, free season passes, and a dedicated social hub complete with a practice range and free running course, offering plenty to do both on and off the batt

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ARPost

AUGUST 25, 2022

Following the success of the Blade AR glasses, Vuzix has announced the second generation of the glasses. The glasses are designed “primarily for commercial use” and cost some $500 more than the initial model, but technology has come a long way and we look forward to seeing what this edition is capable of. Under the Hood of the Blade 2. The Vuzix Blade 2 runs Android 11 with 40GB of integrated storage on a Qualcomm processor.

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VRScout

AUGUST 25, 2022

The enterprise-focused device supposedly features facial tracking and high-resolution colored passthrough. This week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg joined prominent podcast host and comedian Joe Rogan on his show The Joe Rogan Experience , during which they talked more about the company’s next Meta VR headset, codenamed Project Cambria. During their conversation, Zuckerberg quickly mentions a release window for the device, saying, “For the next device that’s coming out in October, there are a f

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AR Insider

AUGUST 25, 2022

Tried and true ad metrics like clicks and impressions don’t capture AR’s depth of engagement. Yet brand marketers are hooked on these established metrics, and need to benchmark against known quantities. What's an AR marketing campaign to do? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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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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ARPost

AUGUST 25, 2022

TeamViewer , a global provider of remote access solutions for the workplace, and RealWear , a company providing assisted reality wearable solutions, have recently expanded their partnership by integrating TeamViewer’s remote access software into the RealWear Cloud, the company’s new multipurpose software that aims to deliver assisted intelligence to its users.

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ARVR

AUGUST 25, 2022

How the Metaverse will affect the future of the Organizations Image Credit: Unit 2 Games Limited I think that if I ask most people what the Metaverse is, they will start mumbling something related to virtual reality, and some will say online meeting. Since it is still in the making, no one knows. I’ll say that Mark Zuckerburg, himself, doesn’t know, but I can say that there are many expectations regarding what it is supposed to be.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 25, 2022

NERF Ultimate Championship , a 4v4 VR arena shooter, releases today on Meta Quest 2, bringing with it wall-jumping parkour action to go along with the game’s 10 authentic NERF blasters. Created by Blasters of the Universe (2017) developers Secret Location , the studio plans on releasing multiple post-launch seasons, with Season Passes granted to all players for free.

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Upload VR

AUGUST 25, 2022

Meta’s next headset will release in October, Mark Zuckerberg revealed on The Joe Rogan Experience. Rogan said he tried the new headset before the interview, describing a demo with an alien in front of him. “When I moved my mouth, she moved her mouth. When I moved my eyes left and right, it’s tracking my eyes. When I make an angry face, it makes an angry face.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 25, 2022

A little more than a week ago, marketer Tom Orbach absolutely delighted Twitter when he unveiled his LinkedIn Viral Post Generator, a website that uses AI to ape viral LinkedIn posts, cringe and all. The internet absolutely ate it up, so much so that a company decided to pay real money to own the thing. Read more.

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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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AUGUST 25, 2022

Resident Evil 8 will be playable on PSVR 2 at the Tokyo Game Show next month. Capcom revealed the VR version of Resident Evil 8 will be playable at the TGS on PlayStation VR2. A page on Capcom’s site (translated from Japanese) says a portion of Dimitrescu Castle from Resident Evil 8 will be playable on PSVR 2 at the Tokyo Game Show. The show runs from September 15 to 18th.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 25, 2022

Privacy-minded web browser DuckDuckGo has a new, free service they’re making open for all users who like the idea of stopping companies from tracking your data through emails. Read more.

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Charlie Fink

AUGUST 25, 2022

The Estonian company’s avatars have been integrated into 3,000 apps.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 25, 2022

If you haven’t managed to snag the much coveted PS5 yet, even though the damn thing’s been out for nearing two years, you won’t be happy to learn that it will now cost you even more to snag one if you happen to live outside the U.S. Read more.

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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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Upload VR

AUGUST 25, 2022

Nerf Ultimate Championship feels like a competent team-based VR shooter and though the parkour-style action proves entertaining, it’s rather light at launch. Read on for our full hands-on impressions! . For a Hasbro brand of toy weapons, there’s a surprising number of Nerf video games, but Nerf Ultimate Championship might be the best yet. Launching today as a Meta Quest 2 exclusive, Secret Location’s 4v4 VR shooter has been slowly teased since its initial reveal back in June 2021 , includi

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 25, 2022

Earlier Wednesday, Facebook endured the digital equivalent of what happens when you drink one too many and your body says: “No, ma’am.” It filled users’ news feeds across the globe with very weird posts that random people had sent to celebrities like Eminem, Taylor Swift, and Nicki Minaj—stuff that wouldn’t turn up… Read more.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 25, 2022

Smart glasses and augmented reality (AR) solutions giant Vuzix Corporation announced on Wednesday its Blade 2 smart glasses, which follows two successful iterations of its Blade solution. The device provides a roster of features for remote and connected workers and feature Qualcomm quad-core ARM chips running Android 11 to support enterprise applications.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 25, 2022

We’ve all grown accustomed to hearing about foreign-seeded disinformation campaigns, but we seldom hear about America’s own covert influence operations. On Wednesday, however, social media researchers revealed details about what appears to have been a long-running U.S. disinformation effort aimed at web users in… Read more.

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 25, 2022

The ongoing global tech skills challenge poses a significant obstacle to the continued development of new technologies, extended reality (XR) innovation, and sufficient human resources for targeted plans for both startups and global tech giants. Sonya Seddarasan, Founder of UPWorlds joined Ferhan Ozkan and Rahel Demant, Co-Founders of XR Bootcamp , for a round table discussion on the benefits of XR bootcamps in tackling the ongoing skills crisis.

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Anand Tech

AUGUST 25, 2022

Today we are having a look at the new XG Plus Platinum series, the latest power supply family from prolific PC peripherals producer Cooler Master. Designed to offer a quality PSU with an extra dash of flair, the RGB fan (and RGB display) equipped XG Plus Platinum is a PSU that's not quite like anything else on the market. The XG family ranges from 650 to 850 Watts, and today we're evaluating the most powerful unit in the series, the 850W XG850 Plus Platinum.

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AUGUST 25, 2022

The landscape for extended reality is evolving at an incredible rate. By 2024, some studies indicate this diverse space could be worth as much as $300 billion. It’s not just consumers with a love of VR gaming accelerating the growth of XR, but companies and enterprises too. Countless brands are now embracing Extended Reality as a tool for productivity, collaboration, and innovation.

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ARVR Magazine Podcast

AUGUST 25, 2022

In today's podcast, I discuss the latest news from Meta. They recently rolled out their new login system called Meta Accounts, which allows users of their Quest headsets to create a separate account login, where previously they were required to have a Facebook account. Users can still opt to sign up with either their Facebook or Instagram profiles or they can just use their e-mail address.

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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?

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Full Dive Gaming

AUGUST 25, 2022

We sit down with Raghu Bathina, CEO of Conquest VR, a company looking to disrupt the Quest 2 Audio Solution field. Let's learn about their upcoming headphones. Conquest Pro is the first of its kind VR Headphones that deliver a truly immersive audio experience. With an effortless upgrade in minutes, Conquest Pro takes the VR user from ordinary sound to total audio immersion.

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ARVR Magazine Podcast

AUGUST 25, 2022

In today's podcast, I discuss the latest news from Meta. They recently rolled out their new login system called Meta Accounts, which allows users of their Quest headsets to create a separate account login, where previously they were required to have a Facebook account. Users can still opt to sign up with either their Facebook or Instagram profiles or they can just use their e-mail address.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2022

Rob Cole is back. The author of the much-appreciated XR Caliper controllers and of many tricks to improve the ergonomics of the Valve Index has just tested for me the Pimax Sword controllers , writing the most detailed review about them you will ever find on the web. More than an article, with its 10,000+ words, this is a short book on the Pimax Sword, featuring everything you may need to know about them (what is Pimax, what are the Sword controllers, how do they work… even an interview wi

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ARVR Magazine Podcast

AUGUST 25, 2022

In today's podcast, I discuss the latest news from Meta. They recently rolled out their new login system called Meta Accounts, which allows users of their Quest headsets to create a separate account login, where previously they were required to have a Facebook account. Users can still opt to sign up with either their Facebook or Instagram profiles or they can just use their e-mail address.

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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?

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