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Watch Celebrities Conquer Their Biggest Fears In VR

VRScout

The first episode will premiere on October 26th on Facebook, Instagram, and Meta Quest TV. Meta is teaming up with actor & comedian Marlon Wayans on a new comedy series in which celebrities face their biggest fears in VR using Meta Quest 2. First reported by Variety , Oh Hell No! With Marlon Wayans will premiere next week on Wayans’ Facebook and Instagram.

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New Partnerships and Products From Waveguide Manufacturer Dispelix

ARPost

You might not have heard of Dispelix, but the name is worth noting. The Finnish startup is a components manufacturer. That is to say, they don’t make headsets, they make parts that go into headsets. Specifically, they make optics. More specifically, they make waveguides and proprietary software for those waveguides. So, what has Dispelix been up to?

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5 VR Games To Get You In The Halloween Spirit

VRScout

Whether you’re looking to slay zombies or solve mind-bending puzzles, we have you covered. We’re back with yet another list of unsettling VR games perfect for celebrating the Halloween season. The following experiences range from somewhat spooky to downright horrifying, offering a little something for everyone. Here are five VR games to get you in the Halloween spirit: AFTER THE FALL.

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Unreal Engine 5’s New Rendering Tech is Beginning to Make VR Look Startlingly Real

Road to VR

Unreal Engine 5 brings two key features which stand to radically improve the realism of both 3D geometry and lighting. While the features aren’t yet fully optimized for VR, early developer experiments are showing impressive results. Unreal Engine 5 launched earlier this year, but unfortunately its two new key features—Lumen for global illumination lighting and Nanite for micro-geometry—weren’t supported for VR out of the gate.

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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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5 Ways AR is Redefining Art

AR Insider

AR is bringing art to life worldwide. This revolutionary format is changing how people experience and create artwork in their homes, museums, and even education. We examine five ways it's playing out today. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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ARWall, Soapbox Films Debut XR Virtual Production Tool

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Los Angeles-based production studio Soapbox Films successfully installed a new virtual backdrop on Tuesday that displays real-time 3D (RT3D) in-camera visualisations, enabling the studio to host extended reality (XR) film productions. Virtual production backdrops work like a greenscreen set-up, but the 30 x 12-foot LED panel enables a film production crew to render an RT3D environment live with in-camera visuals.

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Will HP End Reverb G2 Production & Exit The VR Market?

Upload VR

HP’s Reverb G2 is seeing steep discounts as rumors circulate production will end next year. Reverb G2 leverages Microsoft’s ‘Windows Mixed Reality’ PC VR platform. Despite the name, all PC WMR headsets are VR-only, and they’re compatible with most SteamVR content. The Microsoft store has only a handful of VR games and apps, and Microsoft published even its own PC VR content on Steam.

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Intel Builds On USB4 v2 for 120 Gbps Next Generation Thunderbolt

Anand Tech

The DisplayPort 2.1 specifications were officially released by VESA on Monday, and this was followed up by USB-IF's announcement of the release of the 80 Gbps USB4 v2 specifications yesterday. These have have brought to fore the significant engineering efforts put into creating a unified protocol capable of handling the external I/O bandwidth requirements of tomorrow's computing systems.

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ThinkReality VRX Hits ‘High Marks,’ Lenovo Exec Says

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Lenovo, the world’s largest PC manufacturer by unit sales, concluded its Tech World 2022 event on Tuesday, where it rallied several key executives and major partner firms to explore its latest updates. The event gathered some of the world’s top tech firms such as Accenture, Qualcomm, IBM, AMD, VMware, Intel, DreamWorks, and others, to showcase Lenovo’s lastest tech solutions and concepts.

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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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Arvizio Demos AR Instructor on Qualcomm, Lenovo Devices at AES 2022

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

This Tuesday at the Augmented Enterprise Summit (AES) 2022 in San Diego, Arvizio , a provider of augmented and mixed reality (AR/MR) industry 4.0 solutions, showcased its Instructor service, its immersive remote guidance solution on Qualcomm and Lenovo hardware. Arvizio highlighted how frontline workers could leverage the AR Instructor platform on Qualcomm Snapdragon Spaces and Lenovo Thinkreality A3 Smart Glasses, powered by a Motorola 5G smartphone.

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VITURE Earns $10m in Series A Fundraiser

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Immersive mobile extended reality (XR) startup VITURE wrapped up a Series A fundraiser worth more than $10 million, the company revealed on Tuesday. BAI Capital and Verity Ventures led funding in a bid to boost the company’s One XR smart glasses and develop its research and development (R&D). The last three fundraisers over the last year have earned the startup over $15 million in capital, leading to a Fast Company 2022 Innovation by Design Award for its One XR smart glasses.

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Fitness Service Supernatural Now Supports Single Controller Mode

Upload VR

Fitness service Supernatural now supports a single controller mode. The fitness app Meta is trying to acquire now supports a new “One Controller Mode” that “i ntelligently adjust workouts to ensure that there are no gaps or awkward sequences during the workout sets, ensuring no compromise to the fun and effectiveness Supernatural offers,” according to the company.

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Here’s Your Last Chance to View XR Summit 2022

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

XR Today’s XR Summit 2022 has already taken place, but those still interested in watching on-demand content can continue visiting the website to catch all the sessions before streaming ends on Friday. The three-day event rallied some of the world’s premier tech giants, startups, and experts from 20 to 22 September with a series of comprehensive discussions, fireside chats, and insights.

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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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Second Life Steals, Deals, and Freebies: Spend L$98 at Beauty Factory and Get 296 Items of Womenswear!

Ryan Schultz

If your female avatar likes to wear pink, then do I have a bargain for you! Every October, the Beauty Factory womenswear store has an event to celebrate Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and this year, they are giving away a big pink box stuffed to overflowing with pink outfits. Baby pink, hot pink, and every shade of pink in between! Just teleport to the Beauty Factory store , join their group for only L$98, and click on the big pink box in the centre lobby to pick up your copy ( see black arrow )

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NeuroSync Debuts PRO-SYNC Solution for Athletes

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

In this session, we discuss the following: 1. NeuroSync’s latest hand and eye-tracking solution, PROSYNC. 2. Reasons for creating the solution and why sports is a promising vertical. 3. Thoughts on the future of XR and human augmentation tools. For more information, kindly visit NeuroSync at their website. Thanks for watching. If you’d like more like this, don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE to our channel.

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6 Insightful Construction XR Cases to Read in 2022

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

It’s fair to say the construction (AEC) industry represents perhaps one of the most significant markets for XR technology. Every aspect of extended reality has a unique part to play in AEC operations. While virtual reality allows for the development of virtual blueprints and project plans, augmented and mixed reality improve access to content on-site, and enhance collaboration.

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What is an Immersive Experience?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Currently, there are vast differences between traditional user experiences and immersive experiences. More and more enterprises are adopting immersive experiences to build customer relationships. Immersive experiences extend across virtual, augmented, mixed, and extended reality (VR/AR/MR/XR). But what exactly are they, and how do they improve performance for the enterprise?

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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.