Tue.Nov 15, 2022

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Ballast’s VR Water Slides Are Getting A Major Upgrade

VRScout

The waterproof VR headsets feature a gaze-based system that lets you collect coins as you zip down a waterslide. Ballast VR is an insanely cool waterpark attraction that uses special waterproof VR headsets to immerse you in a variety of exciting experiences while zipping down a water slide. Available across the globe, the park is now introducing PLAY, an interactive version of its VRSlide and DIVR attractions.

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QReal Launches Multi-Brand, Multi-Category AR Virtual Try-On App TRYO

ARPost

Virtual try-on is not an entirely novel concept. Converse, for one, first offered this shopping experience back in 2010 through The Sampler iPhone app which leveraged augmented reality. However, limitations on technology and devices hampered the adoption of virtual try-on. With the rising popularity of online shopping today, virtual try-on is getting the spotlight.

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HTC’s Next VR Headset May Have Just Leaked

VRScout

A new report states that the device could feature a unique modular design. XR hardware analyst Brad Lynch has released a new video revealing what he claims to be HTC’s next VR headset. The information, according to Lynch, comes from “many industry sources,” most of which from the supply chain. Lynch once again partnered with product designer Marcus Kane to provide realistic 3D renders of the product based on black-and-white photos shared by his sources.

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Report: Apparent HTC Leak Reveals Slim & Modular VR Standalone

Road to VR

HTC has been teasing its next VR headset over the last few weeks, showing off bits of the device at a time which the company promises will be “something big… we mean small.” Now it appears the design and some of the specs have been leaked, with the details gathered courtesy of VR analyst and YouTuber Brad Lynch. Info surrounding the headset—still nameless at the time of this writing—was gathered by Lynch from sources “mostly in the supply chain,” he says.

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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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Is AR on a Collision Course with Social Commerce?

AR Insider

There’s a trend towards all things being shoppable. We’re talking buy buttons on everything from YouTube videos to Instagram Stories. Elsewhere is a separate trend: AR shopping. These trends are on a collision course to reinvent shopping. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Can we deploy VR solutions reasonably?

ARVR

As game designers, our team at 302 Interactive uses the technology and techniques from game development and applies them to “everything else”. From healthcare and education, to attractions and concerts?—?we aim to improve all aspects of life by enabling a lifestyle of play. But, in our variety of projects, one of my favorite technology marvels has continued to challenge our ability to deploy and scale as a solution?

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Apparent Leak Reveals New HTC Vive Headset With Slim Modular Design

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YouTuber SadlyItsBradley (Brad Lynch) shared renders of a new HTC Vive headset based on images leaked to him. HTC has been teasing a new headset in a series of cryptic tweets for over a month now with captions such as “go small or go home”, and hinted it will be sold to consumers. HTC Vive’s Twitter bio was recently changed to “ Be a part of the next step in premium VR.” Lynch said the images leaked to him were black & white, but sharing them would reveal the so

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Nike Opens SWOOSH Web3 Community Platform

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Nike, one of the world’s biggest sportswear brands, unveiled its.SWOOSH Web3 platform to host digital creative content. Powered by the blockchain, the novel platform will provide visitors with a digital space for creatives, consumers, and athletes., it announced on Monday. Nike will host the website as a community for learning about Web3 technologies, including digital creations such as shoes and jerseys, for visitors to collect and wear in games and other experiences.

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Among Us VR, Bonelab & More Nominated For Best VR At The Game Awards 2022

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It’s that time once again – The Game Awards are back on December 8 and the nominations for 2022’s Best VR/AR titles were revealed this week. There’s five nominees in total, though much like last year, none of them are AR games. First is After The Fall from Vertigo Games, which launched last December but narrowly missed the 2021 cutoff. Schell Games’ Among Us VR is next, a game that was first revealed at last year’s ceremony.

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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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Luru City- The Bengaluru Metaverse

XROM

Luru-Bangalore's Metaverse to be unveiled today at the Tech Summit 2022 Luru is an initiative by #UnboxingBLR and is powered by #GMetriXR. An immersive virtual rendition of the city of Bengaluru - modeled on the streets, hubs, hotspots that make the city truly unique. Luru is envisioned to cover all of Bangalore in a phased fashion. Built for, by and with the citizens of this uniquely amazing city - Namma Bengaluru.

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PSVR 2 Pre-Orders Open From Today

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Sony is now accepting pre-orders for the PlayStation VR2 headset. People who expressed interest ahead of time via Sony’s official website received emails with pre-order windows, and many have already placed their pre-orders. We’re seeing a few reports, though, of empty inboxes and frustration. We placed a pre-order in the United States for the PS5-powered system with the delivery window listed as between February 22nd and February 28th.

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QReal Launches TRYO Virtual Try-On Platform

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

This Monday, The Glimpse Group subsidiary Qreal launched TRYO, a multi-brand, multi-category virtual try-on platform for smartphones. The service contains a vast library of 3D digital twins of real-life products from major clothing brands, which the firm updates weekly. Clients can integrate TRYO as a website display, allowing users to access the virtual try-on platform without leaving the brand’s homepage.

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Myst Island Multiplayer Mini Golf Launches In Walkabout

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Myst island is no longer a solitary experience. Mighty Coconut, working with Cyan’s blessing, launched its multiplayer mini golf theme park version of the island for virtual reality today. The $2.99 paid add-on course is now available in Walkabout Mini Golf on Quest and Steam. The original game’s puzzling experience defined the era of CD-ROM games from 1993 onward with its one-scene-at-a-time views into a mysterious island.

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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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The State of XR in Retail and Ecommerce for 2022

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

The retail world has changed drastically in recent years. For some time now, digital shopping experiences have been growing more appealing to the wider consumer market. Many businesses have been forced to embrace a “hybrid” approach to sales, where they can interact with, support, and serve their customers both offline and online. XR (Extended Reality) solutions provide retailers with a unique ability to enhance the buyer journey for their target audience.

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How Does V-Nova’s LCEVC Boost Immersive Video Streaming?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

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CraneMorley Wins Two 2022 MarCom Awards

CraneMorley

Back to Blog Page. (Irvine, CA, Release: November 15, 2022). For Immediate Release. CraneMorley is honored to win two awards, for the 19 th annual Marcom Awards. The MarCom Awards recognizes outstanding achievement by creative professionals. Winners are selected from over 600 entries in Print, Web, Video, and Strategic Communications. Competitors are judged by Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals.

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DIGITALNAUTS VBEEE RUNNER UP AT IDEASUK IDEA OF THE YEAR COMPETITION 2022

Digitalnauts

DIGITALNAUTS VBEE RUNNER UP AT IDEASUK IDEA OF THE YEAR COMPETITION 2022. Digitalnauts announced runner-ups at IdeasUK Ideas of the Year Competition with sustainable construction virtual reality experience called the VBEE. WHAT IS IDEASUK: SHARED VALUES AND BRINGING INNOVATION FORWARD. For 35 years ideasUK has brought innovation and idea management specialists together to reinvigorate and share their knowledge , each learning and collaborating across corporate boundaries and cultures to gain new

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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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The Putting Age: ‘Walkabout Mini Golf: Myst’ Out Now on the Meta Quest Platform

Oculus

Myst Island is iconic and has captivated players for almost 30 years now—but never quite like this.

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Healthcare Case Study in Focus: ManageXR and OVR

XR Today - Virtual Reality

ManageXR (extended reality) is a hardware administration service for deploying virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (AR/VR/MR) devices and software across a dispersed workforce. The service helps with immersive hardware distribution by assisting businesses in adopting modern solutions enabling industry 4.0, digital transformation, and XR workflows in the wake of hybrid work environments.

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OpenAR brings accessible augmented reality to students and developing countries

The Ghost Howls

At AWE Europe one of the projects I loved the most has been OpenAR. It is an association that tries to create affordable open-source headsets, which are far from being perfect but could be very important for students and professionals in developing countries to start experimenting with immersive realities. OpenAR Thumb Controller. While I was walking around the AWE show floor, I stopped at the Spatial8 floor because there I saw my friends Olli Tiilikainen and Teemu Ollilainen with which I intera