Tue.Sep 27, 2022

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Niantic Brings Its Real-World Metaverse To Browsers

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Lightship VPS for Web promises to catapult web-based AR technology into a brand new era. Niantic is making the web an even more powerful place for augmented reality with the launch of Lightship VPS for Web. This first-of-its-kind browser-based technology will connect the real world with the virtual world by anchoring WebAR (browser-based augmented reality) content to locations and enabling virtual objects to interact with the physical world.

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Pico 4 VR Headset Announced in Europe

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Pico announced their next-generation VR headsets, Pico 4 and Pico 4 Pro, at a hybrid event in Berlin and streamed live last Thursday, September 22. As well as the completely redesigned headsets and controllers, the event showcased news software including an updated operating system, launch titles, apps and integrations, and more. Let’s take a look. Introduction From President Henry Zhou.

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Play The Trombone In VR With This Hilarious Mod

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Guitar Hero meets band camp in this off-beat rhythm game. Earlier this week, Trombone Champ launched on PC via Steam , offering players the “world’s first” trombone-based rhythm music game. The one-of-a-kind game features over 20 tracks in which to perform as well as a free-play mode where you can improvise and toot to your heart’s content.

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Spatial Beats: ByteDance, Meta & Walmart

AR Insider

Welcome back to Spatial Beats. Now ByteDance wants Meta’s Metaverse business, too. Having taken on the social media empire formerly known as Facebook in social… Continue reading → Spatial Beats: ByteDance, Meta & Walmart. 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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VR Fitness App Supernatural Adds Disney Workouts

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Burn calories while enjoying some of your favorite Disney tunes. Supernatural , the popular VR fitness app for Meta Quest headsets, today received a new workout playlist featuring some of the most iconic Disney music of all time. Subscribers to the platform can now access two new 17-minute workouts as part of the “Disney Hits” series. “ @getsupernatural is dropping a brand new workout series — Disney Hits: Heroes vs Villains!

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Bonelab Quest 2 Gameplay Teased In New Video

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Stress Level Zero is amping up the hype for Bonelab’s release later this week with new video of its player abilities captured on Quest 2. The latest video posted by Stress Level Zero’s Brandon J Laatsch shows fast-paced gameplay captured on Quest 2, which is promised to run at 90Hz on the standalone headset. Abilities shown include dual wielding with a tool to build obstacles in the environment for blocking enemies and a gravity pull to grab far away objects.

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XR Shines Bright at the Immerse Global Summit 2022

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

In this session we discuss the following: 1) What’s expected at the Immerse Global Summit in Madeira, Portugal. 2) How the IGS Europe 2022 will differ from previous events. 3) How the global tech sector is mobilising the latest solutions for the Metaverse and Web3. If you’re looking for more information on this topic visit the IGS Europe 2022 at their website.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.09.26): Pico 4 announced, RTX40 cards revealed, and more!

The Ghost Howls

This is the first newsletter of the Autumn! It is not my favorite season of the year, but it is going to bring with it many cool pieces of VR news, and many cups of hot chocolate, so I guess I will be very happy in the upcoming weeks…. Top news of the week. (Image by Pico). Bytedance launches Pico 4, directly challenging Meta Quest 2. The announcement of the Pico 4, the first consumer-oriented headset by Bytedance, has been much more disruptive than I expected.

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Matt Miesnieks, Dennis Crowley, John Gaeta (LivingCities) on Laying the Foundation for the Future of Social Expression - Part 2

The AR Show

Today’s conversation is a continuation of my discussion with Matt Miesnieks about LivingCities. Joining us for part 2 are co-founders John Gaeta and Dennis Crowley. John won an Oscar for his visual effects work on The Matrix movies, and after many additional creative and visual effects projects, including Speed Racer, he went on to co-found ILMxLAB as part of Lucusfilm.

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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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Into the Radius Quest 2 Review: Immersive Survival Horror, Disappointing Port

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First released for PC VR in 2020 , Into the Radius is now available on Quest 2. But does this survival horror release from CM Games hold up on standalone VR hardware? Read on for our full Into the Radius Quest 2 review. Into the Radius, when it’s firing on all cylinders, is an incredibly immersive survival/horror game with some of the creepiest sequences in the genre today.