Wed.Nov 30, 2022

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AR Artwork Is Inspired By Conversations With A Robot

VRScout

You can purchase the AR installation as an NFT for a cool $99,000. Those who attended Art Basel Miami Beach 2022 or the Decipher 2022 Conference in Dubai this past week were in for a treat as renowned new media artist Nancy Baker Cahill debuted a groundbreaking new augmented reality (AR) art piece inspired by her conversations with Sophia the Robot, a human-like robot powered by artificial intelligence (AI).

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Varjo Releases XR-3 Retooled for Training and Simulation

ARPost

Passthrough is turning VR companies into AR companies. But, it isn’t perfect. Often, the AR view of the world offered via passthrough has less visual fidelity than the VR view. This poses a problem when an AR experience relies on fine details in the physical environment like in simulation and training. Varjo has a solution. That solution is a modified version of the company’s already awe-inspiring mixed reality headset XR-3.

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Gorilla Tag Launches On The Quest Store Next Month

VRScout

One of the most popular VR games ever is finally heading to the Meta Quest Store. After over a year on App Lab , everyone’s favorite VR ape simulator Gorilla Tag is set to make its official launch on the Meta Quest Store next month. Originally released back in 2021, the VR ape simulator was an immediate hit among players thanks in large part to its unique movement system and lo-fi visual aesthetic.

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Google Advances its Geo-local AR Play

AR Insider

Google's latest geo-local AR play lets users hold up their phones to a given streetscape to search and discover nearby businesses. Think of it as a visual intelligence layer for your urban adventures. 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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Indie VR Hit ‘Gorilla Tag’ is the Most-rated Quest Game Ever, and Only Just Coming to the Main Store

Road to VR

Indie VR hit Gorilla Tag has been staggeringly popular despite only being available thus far on Quest’s App Lab. Now set for release on the main Quest store on December 15th, it will launch as the most-rated game on the entire store, even surpassing Beat Saber , one of VR’s best known apps. App Lab is Meta’s ‘unlisted’ app store for Quest, which allows developers a way onto the platform but precludes them from being promoted or easily found through the main Quest

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Watch the International VR Awards Via Livestream on December 1st

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For the first time in history, the VR Awards will be holding the ceremony live in Rotterdam, Netherlands, this December 1st in collaboration with Immersive Tech Week, formerly known as VRDays Europe. The 6th International VR Awards Livestream is brought to you by AIXR and Vertigo Games, supported by Sensorium, PICO, and Andromeda Entertainment. Watch [.].

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Reject Humanity: Gorilla Tag Comes To The Quest Store

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Gorilla Tag is launching on the Quest Store after gathering more than 4.5 million monkeys and nearly 46,000 reviews without a public store listing. The free-to-play game from Another Axiom launches officially on the Meta Quest Store on December 15, just in time to make monke Christmas on countless new Quest 2s being opened through the holidays. We already awarded it best competitive multiplayer game of last year even without official release, and in the year since it has continued to win over pl

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Redefining Corporate Structure with Workplace XR Opportunities

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Watch on YouTube. XR Today’s Rory Greener hosts the Co-Founder of headroom, Sean Keogh. In this session, we discuss the following: Helping team members at all knowledge levels take part in workplace XR opportunities. What problems are enterprise teams facing with XR hardware and software onboarding? Helping clients apply the correct immersive solution to a cooperate structure or use case?

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Websites Can Now Add A Link To Launch A WebXR Experience Onto Your Quest

Upload VR

Websites can now add a button to let you remotely launch a URL on your Quest. This can be done from any browser on your phone, laptop, PC, tablet, or other device with a modern browser. Clicking the link will navigate to an ‘Open in VR’ interface on Oculus.com asking which headset you want to launch on. The chosen URL can be a regular website or an immersive WebXR experience.

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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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Sony Unveils Mocap System for XR Creatives, Avatars

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Sony has released a set of motion capture (mocap) wearables in time for the holidays, the company announced in a press release. Sony’s Mocopi mocap system uses six coloured tracking devices, which people can wear on their bodies. Users can place them on ankles, wrists, the head, and the hip to capture and monitor real-time movements to control avatars.

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Megan Thee Stallion VR Concert Experience Available Now On Quest

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Available today on Quest through App Lab , AmazeVR and Megan Thee Stallion’s VR concert ‘Enter Thee Hottieverse’ is the blueprint for a properly immersive, made-for-VR concert experience. VR concerts come in many forms and so, for the most part, are a pretty mixed bag. The most common form is those found in Horizon Venues, which can sometimes be 2D video streams of live concerts projected onto a large screen in VR for you to watch by yourself or with others.

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GE, MediView Team Up For XR Medical Imaging

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

GE Healthcare and MediView XR announced on Monday a major partnership for integrating advanced mixed reality (MR) medical imaging. It will also leverage MediView’s OmnifyXR Interventional Suite System, which combines augmented reality (AR) and MR-based remote collaboration for professionals. The solution comes as medical professionals augment their workflows and immersive solutions for patients.

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Augmented Reality 101 – Navigating the World of AR

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Augmented reality (AR) is taking the world by storm, and here is a guide to how international firms are leveraging the technology. By 2028, experts say AR will be worth roughly 461.25 Billion , with a compound annual growth rate of around 41.50%. Out of all forms of extended reality (XR) available today, AR is debatably the most accessible. In part, AR’s accessibility is thanks to its availability on smartphones meaning dedicated headsets aren’t always necessary for an AR experience.

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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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Sony’s Mocopi Is A Quest-Compatible VRChat Body Tracking Kit For Japan

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Sony announced mocopi, a Bluetooth body tracking kit launching soon in Japan. The kit includes 6 trackers: 2 for your wrists, 2 for your ankles, 1 for your hip, and 1 for your head – though presumably the head tracker isn’t needed in VR mode. Each tracker features an inertial measurement unit (IMU) containing an accelerometer and gyroscope.

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Monke Goes Mainstream: Gorilla Tag Swings Onto the Meta Quest Store December 15

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Since its 2021 debut on App Lab, Gorilla Tag has steadily grown in popularity—and indie studio Another Axiom has grown along with it, from a.

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Half-Life: 2 was MADE FOR VR! Wireless Valve Index, PSVR2 & More. Ep. 82

Full Dive Gaming

VR Podcast: We talk about Half-Life 2 in VR, Into the Radius, PSVR2 Backwards compatibility, a Wireless Valve Index, Pico 4 Details, Quest Pro Rumors, Quest 2 News 0:00 DISCLAIMER 0:23 VR Podcast Intro 1:08 Packers Kinks 2:06 Quest Pro Discount?? 3:30 PSVR2 Leading the Way? 5:15 Cereal Company VR!!! 6:14 What does a Health Potion TASTE LIKE? 7:45 PRE RELEASE Thoughts on Bonelab?

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How VR Helps Tell the Story of Cultural Preservation in Wartime Ukraine

Oculus

When war breaks out, its horrific impact touches everyone and everything in the countries where bombs fall and bullets fly. And one thing often forgotten.

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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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“Party With ‘COMPOUND’: The Must-Have Indie VR Gem Coming to Quest2!”

VRGames

Compound is an exciting new VR roguelite with a distinctive pixel-art style and loads of creative weaponry for players to enjoy. The game has been going through steady development since its initial release in 2018 and most recently released a 1.0 version, available on PC VR. Players have already given the game positive reviews, making […].

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Second Life Steals, Deals, and Freebies: Advent Calendars and 12 Days of Christmas Calendars in 2022

Ryan Schultz

Photo by Elena Mozhvilo on Unsplash. It’s that most wonderful time of the year! And I’m talking about the time where on-the-ball freebie fashionistas can scoop up dozens of free gifts from the many Second Life stores which have either an Advent calendar (running Dec. 1st to Dec. 24th or 25th) or a Twelve Days of Christmas calendar (usually running between Dec. 12th or 13th and Dec. 24th or 25th).

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“Reality-Bending Trips Await With Light Delights!”

VRGames

Are you ready to explore a world of vibrant visuals and captivating virtual objects? Light Delights offers an immersive, multidimensional experience like no other. Now available on Quest 2 and Quest Pro VR headsets, the free app combines soothing vaporwave art with dynamic interactive pieces; comprising five distinct virtual objects to inspect. With hand tracking […].

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One teacher educating a billion students in a single day: VR & AI

ARVR

“The human condition is being held back by 500,000 well-meaning average algebra teachers. Instead of 500,000 algebra teachers, going through the same motion over and over again, what you need is 1–10 really good algebra teachers, and they need to do it a billion times a day, for free. And if we do that, there’s no reason you can’t get infinite education.

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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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“Step Into the Strix!Witness ‘The Walking Dead Saints & Sinners: Chapter 2 Retribution’ on PSVR2 and Steam!”

VRGames

Skydance Interactive’s The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners is coming to Steam, PlayStation VR 2 and Quest with the release of Chapter 2: Retribution. Fans of the popular zombie apocalypse game have something new to be excited about later this year as the Chapter 1 and 2 Deluxe Edition will debut on PSVR2 come December […].

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