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Niantic’s “Real-World Metaverse” Comes to WebAR via 8th Wall

ARPost

The “real-world metaverse” is a term promoted by Niantic to describe the emergence of geographically anchored XR experiences. Niantic has long been behind the movement which has welled into their gradual development and rollout of the Lightship VPS. There’s another growing movement in AR – WebAR, for maximum accessibility and ease of use. You know where this is going.

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VR Fitness App Liteboxer Adds Full-Body Workouts

VRScout

VR fitness continues to evolve at a rapid pace. Liteboxer , the VR fitness app for Meta Quest 2 headsets, today announced the launch of Total Body, an all-new full-body workout led by Liteboxer professional trainers. Whereas previous workouts focused primarily on boxing, Total Body has you performing a variety of different movements designed to work the entirety of your body.

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Metaverses 101: present & future of the top-hype phenomenon of 2022

ARVR

Hi there, This is JetStyle. We have been a bit too quiet for a while, but it’s going to change: we have so much to share with you. Lately we’ve been engaged in research & development of Metaverses and XR, so there’s a lot of content coming your way. We spoke to Alex Markin, JetStyle co-founder and Creative Director of JetXR, a division working solely with XR technologies, to elicit answers to most frequently asked questions about the phenomenon.

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Bonelab Takes VR Gaming On Quest 2 To A New Level

VRScout

Stress Level Zero’s latest mind-bending action game is an absolute must-play. After long last, Bonelab is now available on Meta Quest 2 and PC VR headsets. The latest VR game from developer Stress Level Zero ( Boneworks, Duck Season ), the experimental action experience takes you on a physics-driven adventure through an eclectic mix of environments filled with enemies to fight, secrets to unlock, and challenges to complete.

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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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Meta Quest 3 Apparent Design & Key Features Leaked

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Apparent schematics of Meta Quest 3 were leaked to YouTuber SadlyItsBradley (Brad Lynch). In May apparent schematics of Quest Pro were also leaked to Lynch. The validity of that leak was effectively confirmed earlier this month when a hotel worker found an engineering sample. The rear angle appears to show pancake lenses that look very similar (if not identical) to Quest Pro ‘s lenses.

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VR Air Bridge: USB Dongle For Quest 2 Wireless PC VR Officially Announced

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D-Link officially announced VR Air Bridge , a dedicated USB dongle for Quest 2 wireless PC VR. It leaked back in April when a software engineer found code in the Oculus PC drivers referencing it, then the manual was somehow uploaded to Manuals+. The existing Air Link is a Quest feature that lets the device act as a wireless PC VR headset via your Wi-Fi network.

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XR to Retell Tale of Saudi Arabia, Midwam CEO Says

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Midwam, a startup company from Saudi Arabia, joined the Immerse Global Summit (IGS) 2022 Europe on Thursday to discuss how the Middle Eastern nation facilitated digital storytelling by tapping innovative, immersive technologies. Khalid al-Muawad, Chief Experience Officer at Midwam. Khalid al-Muawad, Company Co-Founder and Chief Executive , spoke in a keynote speech at the event in Madeira Island, Portugal about how his enterprise designs and tailors bespoke immersive experiences for some of the

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Bonelab Review: Unrelenting Intensity Meets Mainstream VR On Quest 2

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Bonelab, the sequel to the 2019 hit Boneworks from Stress Level Zero, is available now on Meta Quest 2 and PC VR. Does it live up to the hype? Here’s our full Bonelab review. As one of the most anticipated VR releases of the year, Bonelab has some pretty big shoes to fill. Its predecessor Boneworks may not have been perfect , but it was incredibly popular and is often regarded as a seminal VR title.

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How the Metaverse Can Transform the Enterprise with Maxim Jago

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

In this session, we discuss the following: 1) How enterprises will digitally transform with the Metaverse. 2) Defining the Metaverse and what it entails from a technical perspective. 3) Methods businesses can leverage the Metaverse with innovative solutions. If you’re looking for more information on this topic visit The Creativity Conference at [link].

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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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Quantlabs Technologies Announces MetaDurgotsav 2022 Durga Puja in the Metaverse

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Quantlabs Technologies today announced that they would be celebrating the Indian festival of Durga Puja on their Metaverse platform, Versez, this year. #DurgaPuja is a major Indian festival celebrated in the Eastern and Northern parts of the Indian subcontinent. It is especially popular in the city of Kolkata, India. Durga Puja committees sometimes spend upwards of a USD 100000 creating impressive pandals to mark the celebrations.

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VNCCII Debates Web3 Creativity at IGS 2022 Europe

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Digital content creation has led to many questions over the distribution of wealth for artists and companies working in the future Metaverse, with current technologies requiring clear definitions for paying creatives and promoting immersive artworks across the rising spatial communications platform. Speakers included Sami Tauber, Founder, Multimedia Artist, and Chief Metaverse Officer for VNCCII , João Miguel Caldeira Monsanto Fonseca, Chief Executive for LarM Publicidade , and Pip Brignall, Co-

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Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 Review

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Despite the colossal failure of its first pair of smart glasses back in 2014, Google’s latest wearable device, the Glass Enterprise Edition 2 , marks a significant turning point for the XR industry. Google designed the smart glasses specifically for business use cases and offers several upgraded features to enhance collaboration, mobility, performance, and efficiency compared to its predecessor.

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Meta Pay Rolls Out Across 200 Countries

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

On Wednesday, Meta announced the continued rebranding of its fintech service Facebook Pay by officially rolling out a revised version of the solution to roughly 200 countries. The rebranding sees Facebook Pay change to Meta Pay, and the firm is rolling out the solution gradually to selected regions, starting with the US. The Menlo Park-based firm does not require its existing Facebook and Meta Pay members to change their account preferences and has left the application unchanged.

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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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Walkabout Mini Golf Launches 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea Course

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Walkabout Mini Golf from Mighty Coconut launched its newest paid add-on course inspired by Jules Verne’s novel 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. Players begin on a small submersible traveling to dock at the top of Captain Nemo’s famed submarine, The Nautilus. You’ll play through 18 holes packed into the Nautilus’ decks moving downward to an encounter with the story’s memorable sea monster, a giant squid.

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Auki Labs Exec Discusses AR Privacy at IGS 2022

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Augmented Reality (AR) privacy will be a big issue very soon, Johannes Davidsson, the Head of Business Development at Auki Labs , said on Thursday at the Immerse Global Summit (IGS) 2022 in Madeira, Portugal. Davidsson took centre stage at Summit to explore how Auki Labs approaches emerging security concerns led by immersive hardware like smart glasses and virtual reality (VR) headsets.

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Hiring Professional Metaverse Developers: What to Consider

Program Ace

The post Hiring Professional Metaverse Developers: What to Consider appeared first on Program-Ace.

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Snapdragon Spaces Redefines XR at IGS Europe 2022

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Qualcomm’s extended reality (XR) software development ecosystem, Snapdragon Spaces, is gaining significant traction as a tool for professional-grade immersive content creation. On Wednesday, Senior Director of Qualcomm’s Product and Partnership Team Martin Herdina hosted a keynote at the Immerse Global Summit (IGS) Europe to highlight Snapdragon Spaces’ keys to successfully scaling XR solutions.

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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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Virtual Reality; Discover VR, Its Components, Technology, and Players

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Virtual reality has different meanings for different people. Some pair it with gaming to create a more immersive experience. Others see VR as a business tool that can help them gain a competitive advantage. Yet others still are discovering that it can make their favorite activities more accessible. But you'll soon discover the amazingly expansive [.].

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Attack on Quest Devs REVEAL a NEW GAME Coming!!!

Full Dive Gaming

VR Gaming Developer Spotlight: We sit down with Tim Sullivan of Sullivan Studios to discuss their developer Mini's Previous and future games: Attack on Quest (an Attack on Titan fan game), Outatime hoverboard game and their UPCOMING SECRET TITLE!!! Learn more about them here: We are a small VR agency based out of Australia, here is some of our experiences Attack on Quest: [link] Outatime: [link] Virtual Shop Prototype: [link] Our Website: [link] 0:00 VR Podcast Intro 0:53 Welcome Tim from Sulliv

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Let’s Get Physical: ‘BONELAB’ Blasts Onto Meta Quest 2 and the Rift Platform

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Announced during the 2022 Meta Quest Gaming Showcase, BONELAB takes place in the same universe as its surreal FPS predecessor, BONEWORKS—upping the ante with two.

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Report: Meta Quest 3 Leak Suggests Cheaper Consumer Device to Soon Follow Quest Pro

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There’s been a torrent of leaks that over the months have given us a pretty comprehensive look at Quest Pro, Meta’s next high-end VR headset likely seeing a big reveal at Connect next month. Now it appears a new device is being subject to the same leaky treatment, with a supposed consumer-focused ‘Quest 3’ headset now surfacing.

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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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Horizon Worlds Spotlight: Levfo

Oculus

Welcome back to our weekly spotlight on the people building for Horizon Worlds and their amazing creations.

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The time to harvest for us VR people is now

The Ghost Howls

A few weeks ago, I was discussing with a colleague of mine that I hadn’t seen for months, and while we were updating ourselves about each other’s lives, we started talking about our VR careers. We both are in a better situation than a few years ago, so at a certain point, he told me a sentence that made me think: “I’m finally now harvesting the fruits of the plants I sowed in the past years” This sentence remained in my head after the call, and from time to time I k

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18 Holes Under the Sea: Walkabout Mini Golf’s First Jules Verne-Themed Course is Out Now on the Meta Quest Platform

Oculus

Today marks the launch of the latest Walkabout Mini Golf course, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. We sat down with Don Carson, Senior Art Director.

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Meta Quest Debuts Walkabout VR Mini Golf Course

XR Today - VR Headsets tag

Gaming studio Mighty Coconut has released a new virtual reality (VR) board for its Walkabout Mini Golf Course based on 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, which will debut on the Meta Platforms’ Quest and Rift headsets , the company announced on Thursday. Don Carson, Senior Art Director for Mighty Coconut , spoke to Meta about the impressive design and world-building in the new release’s Labyrinth course, leading to an intersection between virtual mini golf gaming and amusement parks.

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How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular

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?