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Check Out ValoArena’s Full-Body Mixed Reality Games

VRScout

Punch rubber duckies and avoid scolding hot lava in unique mixed reality experiences. ValoArena launches today at the IAAPA Expo trade show , and the new immersive mixed reality indoor arena from Valo Motion will absolutely blow your socks off with mind-bending physical gameplay that doesn’t require any additional hardware in order to play. With support for up to six players at one time, ValoArena features all the fun of playing with friends (or strangers) with a mixed reality twist.

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The Second Coming of North Focals

AR Insider

North Focals were a highly wearable – if slightly underpowered – set of AR glasses. Now, the company's spirit lives on after being acquired by Google in 2020. How is that showing signs today? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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The Just For Laughs Comedy Series Is Heading To VR

VRScout

Visit Horizon Worlds next month to catch a virtual performance featuring renowned comics. Founded in 1983, Just for Laughs is a popular comedy festival held every year in Montreal and Quebec that brings together well-known comics from around the world for a celebration of all things hilarious. This year, event organizers have partnered with Meta to bring the long-running event to life in VR on Meta Quest 2 headsets.

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Case Study: Boeing Streamlines Aircraft Assembly with AR

ARVR

Though we spend ample time examining consumer-based AR endpoints, greater near-term impact is seen in the enterprise. This takes many forms including brands that use AR to promote products in greater dimension, and industrial enterprises that streamline operations. These industrial endpoints include visual support in areas like assembly and maintenance.

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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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Taliban Claims It's Upgrading Afghanistan to 4G Despite Ongoing Online Censorship

GizModo VR

The Taliban wants to expand high-speed internet connectivity in Afghanistan despite a history of online censorship and internet blackouts to thwart protests against the militant group. Read more.

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How To Buy NFTs: A Super-Easy Guide For Anyone

Bernard Marr

There is a lot of hype around NFTs and the vast fortunes that are regularly being made – and lost – by investing in NFTs. NFTs – Non-fungible Tokens – are unique tokens that live on a blockchain and can be securely traded or used to prove ownership of connected assets. Like any unique asset, this means they have the potential to become collectable, desirable, and grow in value.

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Southwest Pilot Threatens to Turn Plane Around if Unruly Passengers Keep AirDropping Nudes

GizModo VR

A cabin full of Southwest Airlines passengers recently tried to recreate a scene from Snakes on a Plane IRL, except they replaced the snakes with unwanted dick pics. Read more.

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OBAC Opens Second Black Accelerator Cohort

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The OYA Black Arts Coalition (OBAC), a major Ontario-based organisation promoting talent from Black and minority groups, has partnered with the Canadian Film Centre’s Media Lab (CFC Media Lab) and immersive firm Dark Slope to open applications for its second cohort, it was recently revealed in August. The selection process for the joint effort’s Scale Up Immersive accelerator kicked off on 28 August and is set to close on 7 October, with the cohort’s projects launching in mid-N

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Crypto.com Gave a Woman a $10.5 Million Refund and Now It Wants It Back

GizModo VR

What would you do if a company accidentally sent you millions in dollars you never asked for? Well, Australia-based news outlet 7News reported Tuesday that Crypto.com, one of the most high-profile crypto platforms in the world, had made an extremely expensive whoopsie last year after a woman living in Melbourne,… Read more.

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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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Oculus Mobile App Renamed Meta Quest

Upload VR

An update rolling out to iPhones changes the name of the Oculus mobile app to Meta Quest. The update represents one of the last pieces of the former Oculus brand to take the new Meta name. The process started almost immediately after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the branding change last October, but it has taken almost a year to complete. Over that time we’ve seen the headset itself go from Oculus Quest 2 to Meta Quest 2, a new logo slapped on both the front of the device and at

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TV's Crypto Hype Man Worries People on TV Are Hyping Crypto Too Much

GizModo VR

Jim Cramer, the TV clown your grandpa watches when he can’t find the remote, had some horrifying news for viewers of his CNBC program Mad Money on Tuesday. Apparently there are people on TV who are over-hyping crypto, according to Cramer. Yes, you read that correctly. Read more.

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The Latest on South Korea’s Hyperconnectivity Plans

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Since January, the South Korean government has been moving forward with a hyperconnectivity roadmap that includes extended reality (XR), 5G, and metaverse solutions. Samsung Electronics announced plans on Tuesday to build dedicated 5G networks across the region for five government public and private agencies with dedicated 4.7GHz and 28GHz 5G frequency bands.

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15 Times Companies Had to Pay Up for Alleged Privacy Blunders

GizModo VR

August 2022 was an expensive month for tech companies. While the industry as a whole continues to reel from a major tech downturn, Meta, Snap , and TikTok all agreed to pay out settlements to put to rest lingering privacy lawsuits. Combined, those payouts total well over $100 million dollars. Read more.

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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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Web3 a ‘Second Chance’ for Online DE&I

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Digital diversity starts with the companies directly involved in developing Web3 and Metaverse platforms, says Cory Greiner, CEO of Geenee AR. Cory added, “We see so many tech companies that are not that diverse, maybe not that inclusive of different genders, orientations, and minorities. So, I think that it starts with the DNA of the company to put that into the virtual worlds and products that they build” In a conversation for the first-ever XR Summit, Cory, alongside Elena De Sosa

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Leaked Images of Logitech's New Gaming Handheld Hint It Supports Major Streaming Services

GizModo VR

Logitech has a new cloud-based gaming handheld in the works, and while the company seems to be reluctant to share details, a leaker has gotten his hands on a few images. What they show is that unlike many devices in the burgeoning handheld market, this streaming console seems like it is trying to offer users multiple… Read more.

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Most Innovative XR Security and Privacy Pioneers to Watch in 2022

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The rise of any new technology innovation brings with it a number of challenges and questions. Extended Reality, the umbrella term used to refer to all forms of immersive technology, from AR to VR, presents a host of valuable opportunities for consumers and brands. The right environments deliver not just phenomenal entertainment, but the potential for exceptional collaboration, productivity, and business transformation.

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Snap Becomes Silicon Valley's Latest Grim Reaper, Will Lay Off More Than 1,000 Workers

GizModo VR

The tech layoffs continue, and employees at Snap are reportedly the latest unfortunate victims. Read more.

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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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NFTs to Explore, Contribute to Web3 Economy

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The rise of NFTs in the global tech industry has remained in the domain of free market economics, but growing interest in integrating digital assets on trading platforms and businesses has fuelled a surge in their use across brands, markets, and the Metaverse – the rising global spatial communications platform. The session joined Billy Huang, Co-Founder and Chief Executive of Insomnia Labs, Leila Ismailova, Head of Curated Drops for ARTISANT , and Arsen Aharonyan, Chief Marketing Officer f

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HOUSEKEEPING NOTICE: The RyanSchultz.com Blog Will Be on Hiatus During September 2022

Ryan Schultz

Photo by GraceHues Photography on Unsplash. This is just a quick housekeeping note: my blogposts will be few and far between during the month of September! However, I will still be working with my co-producer and director, Carlos Austin, on the next couple of episodes of season two of the Metaverse Newscast (if you’re interested, you can watch episode 1 of season 2 here ).

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Quest PRO Coming, Roblox VR, PSVR2 Early 2023 & MORE! Ep. 80

Full Dive Gaming

We discuss SO MUCH NEWS: Quest PRO model, Psvr2 gets a launch date, Roblox VR is coming to Quest 2, Facebook accounts DIE, Logitech Chorus Sucks & More! 0:00 Intro 0:28 Your Hosts 0:55 Q&A 1:06 Roblox VR Quest 2 4:27 Any Past Opinions Changed? 5:27 Mac N Cheese FORK or SPOON? 6:42 PSVR2 Gestures? 8:54 Shadow Bans SUCK! 11:22 Games to help get friends BACK into VR 13:35 Onward VR, Is It FUN?

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#1120: Kevin Mack’s Procedural Worldbuilding VRChat in for Venice Immersive Competition

Voices of VR

Kevin Mack is a virtual reality artist who creates abstract and surreal art, and his first VRChat world called NAMUANKI has been selected as one of the 30 projects in competition at Venice Immersive. You take a tour through some of his organic rocks, static blort entities that offer your a psychedelic vision, and then jump through a portal at the bottom of the ocean to go into an ice world and lava world where you're met with a variety of different mythic Sumerian deities along the way.

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Who C.A.R.E.S.!? How Learning Got Its Bad Rap & What We Can Do About It

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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Mash Me Up: Holonautic Brings Multiplayer Minigames To Quest, Open Beta This Weekend

Upload VR

Mash Me Up is an upcoming online multiplayer VR game that pits players against each other in bite-sized 1v1 minigame scenarios on Quest headsets. It’s available in open beta from this weekend. Open Beta Starting This Weekend for Mash Me Up. Join for Free! #MetaQuest2 [link] pic.twitter.com/90tvYnc0kd. — Holonautic (@holonautic) August 27, 2022.

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OpenSea Boots Hackers for Claiming to Mint NFTs of Belarusian Dictator's Stolen Passport

GizModo VR

An eastern European hacktivist group claims to have hacked the passport information of every single person in Belarus, including its autocratic leader, Alexander Lukashenko, who has referred to himself as the “last dictator of Europe.” After allegedly stealing the data last summer, the gang, the Belarusian Cyber… Read more.

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Why We’re Not All Wearing AR/VR Headsets

ARPost

Are you wondering why we don’t all have a VR or AR headset on our heads? I think there are three reasons: technological, economic, and psychological. There is no revolution taking place at the moment. If we look back years ago, spatial computing (AR and VR) made great progress. But its adoption did not go from 0 to 100. It, perhaps, went from 0 to 10.

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