VRScout

AUGUST 24, 2022

Think you have what it takes to be the first big metaverse comedian? SNL’s Kenan Thompson is partnering with Kyle Render of the VR comedy show Failed to Render Comedy to help him find the next big name in comedy for his Ultimate Comedy Experience. Kyle and his partners have produced over 400 shows in VR, hosting over a quarter million visitors in their virtual comedy club on an almost daily basis via the social VR platform AltspaceVR.

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ARPost

AUGUST 24, 2022

Niantic and Universal Pictures. Snapchat and HBO. Last week saw two big AR fan engagement initiatives around the launches of two big media franchise offerings. But, two very different approaches to getting fans involved. Here, we take a look at the Jurassic World Dominion Dinotracker AR App and the House of the Dragon Snapchat experience. We’ll look at what the experiences entail and how you can jump in.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2022

I have just finished playing Red Matter 2 , the much-awaited sequel of Red Matter , one of my favorite games for Quest. The studio behind it, Vertical Robot, launched it by claiming that it would have set a new standard for graphics on Quest. Excited by the first images and videos, I wanted to try it immediately… and after having completed it, here you are writing the review for you.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 24, 2022

The metaverse continues to be equal parts opportunity and confusion. But whatever form it takes, it’s important to consider its impact everything from societal to environmental impact. Guest author Devin Partida breaks it down. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 24, 2022

Meta Platforms has begun requiring Quest headset and Horizons users to switch to the company’s new profile structure, eliminating the need for Facebook profiles to log into devices, it announced on Tuesday. Those new to Meta VR must register for a Meta account with an email address, or they can continue to use Facebook and Instagram accounts to login while integrating their social media data for accessing Messenger.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 24, 2022

If Mark Zuckerberg wants to add Within Unlimited to his growing “ metaverse ” playpen, he’ll have to acquire the virtual reality fitness company the old-fashioned way. Read more.

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Upload VR

AUGUST 24, 2022

The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners – Chapter 2 will bring new features, weapons and locations — here are all the details and some accompanying gameplay. We recently sat in on a hands-off preview event for Saints & Sinners – Chapter 2, where developers Skydance Interactive gave us a look at some brand new gameplay and detailed some new features coming in Retribution.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 24, 2022

TikTok users may soon have access to a third section in their feed that would show local content, as the platform is experimenting with a third feed called “Nearby.” Read more.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 24, 2022

Reality as we know it has changed drastically in the last few years. An accelerated state of digital transformation is altering everything from the way we shop, to the way we work. One of the most significant technologies powering this disruption, is the XR landscape. Currently, Extended Reality is growing at a CAGR of 30.6% , towards an explosive value of $125.2 billion by 2030.

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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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GizModo VR

AUGUST 24, 2022

On Wednesdays we wear black and watch the latest behind the scenes featurette for Tim Burton’s Netflix series centering on Wednesday Addams. In it, the master of cinematic oddities like Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands discusses Wednesday star Jenna Ortega ’s take on the classic Charles Addams character. Read more.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 24, 2022

Lenovo, one of the world’s largest providers of computer and virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) devices and services, has teamed up with Xerox-owned CareAR to develop a novel 3D extended reality (XR) solution to incorporate live remote assistance, real-time 3D instructions, and analytics and insights to tackle problems for teams, it was announced on Tuesday.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 24, 2022

These days, Star Wars works better if you know Star Wars. Knowing that Obi-Wan Kenobi will let Darth Vader kill him makes the Obi-Wan Kenobi show richer. Hearing Ahsoka Tano say “Thrawn” on The Mandalorian will be that much sweeter to fans of Star Wars Rebels. The examples go on and on. And while playing to nostalgia… Read more.

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VRScout

AUGUST 24, 2022

The company continues its investment in immersive technology with a new location-based experience. World-renowned American sports brand Nike turned 50 this year, and in celebration, the company is launching a new augmented reality (AR) experience at Nike retail stores around the globe. Using their smartphone devices, visitors can scan QR codes located at participating locations to unlock 11 unique stories contained within a single virtual box.

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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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GizModo VR

AUGUST 24, 2022

Apple has finally announced iPhone 14 event time! Sure, we had a tease about the purported launch event from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, but an invite hitting our inboxes means that Apple’s confirmed the event is happening. Read more.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 24, 2022

Owlchemy Labs, the Google-owned VR studio known for Job Simulator (2016) and Cosmosmious High (2022) , teased a new multiplayer VR game that’s built from the ground-up for hand tracking interactions. The studio calls the unnamed multiplayer title their “most ambitious” project yet, underlining that the addition of hand tracking provides an “unprecedented level of communication” between players. “Bundle this new [hand tracking] technology with players experienc

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 24, 2022

Disney’s quest to create live-action remakes for all its animated classics takes another step forward with Pinocchio , which hits Disney+ on September 8 as part of the streamer’s anniversary celebration. Today’s new trailer—equal parts fantastical and sentimental, as expected—gives us our best look yet at the Robert… Read more.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 24, 2022

On November 9, 1967, a 363-foot-tall (111-meter) Saturn V rocket launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, generating 7.5 million pounds of thrust. The blast created by the Apollo 4 liftoff was among the loudest noises ever produced by our species, scientists calculated at the time. In fact, the roar was so loud that… Read more.

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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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GizModo VR

AUGUST 24, 2022

About 900 years ago, a woman between 17 and 25 years old died and was buried near the modern border of Chile and Argentina. But unlike other people buried nearby, she was entombed in a canoe. Read more.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 24, 2022

Researchers involved in a large peer-reviewed study published Wednesday say that “pre-bunking” is the best method yet developed to stop people from believing the misinformation that they see on the internet. The study was carried out by researchers with the British universities of Cambridge and Bristol, who worked… Read more.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 24, 2022

Entertainment trends are always shifting, but you can always count on more zombies , eternally heaving themselves out of the grave and invading screens large and small. While, of course, there’s a certain ( splattery ) sameness across the genre, these 10 recent projects show just how diverse zombie stories have become— a… Read more.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 24, 2022

Conditions in China are devastatingly hot and dry—and they’re dragging on. Government officials say that the heat the country has been experiencing for weeks is the most intense heat wave China has seen since modern records began in the early 1960s. The heat wave, which has now lasted for 72 days, has beaten out an… Read more.

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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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GizModo VR

AUGUST 24, 2022

I’ve always been a huge fan of NASA’s concept art—sometimes you need to see what the future might be like to get sufficiently hyped. Missions to space often involve cameras that document these journeys, and it’s always fun to compare what we thought something would look like to how it actually appears. But in cases… Read more.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 24, 2022

I either didn’t know or utterly forgot a movie adaptation of Windsor McKay’s early 20th-century comic strip masterpiece (well, minus the racism) Little Nemo in Slumberland was in the works. But thanks to Slumberland ’s first teaser, I will never forget it again, thanks to the glorious sight it contains: Jason Momoa as… Read more.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 24, 2022

Pour one out for the dugong today—the bulbous yet endearing undersea mammal has hit a worrying new benchmark of species decline. Scientists have declared the animal “functionally extinct” in part of the South China Sea, in a study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science. Hunting, the fishing industry,… Read more.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 24, 2022

Black Adam will be the only new DC movie you see in theaters this year. Warner Bros. just moved Shazam: Fury of the Gods from its original December 2022 release date to March 17, 2023, a date originally intended for Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. However, that has now been pushed back as well, to December 25, 2023, so… Read more.

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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?

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