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Spatial Beats: Nreal, CES & VR Nightlife

AR Insider

Welcome back to Spatial Beats, AR Insider's weekly series that features observations and insights of author and futurist Charlie Fink. This week, we look back on weekly spatial happenings and forward to CES. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Every Game Getting a Free PSVR 2 Upgrade

Road to VR

The lack of backwards compatibility between PSVR 2 and the original PSVR is a bit of a double-edged sword. On one hand, we’re getting a ton of games for Sony’s next-gen VR headset that have been specifically built or overhauled to make use of the new hardware, but it also means a lot of games in your PSVR library will forever be stuck in the past.

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How Much Do Consumers Spend on Mobile AR?

ARVR

Like many analyst firms, market sizing is one of the ongoing practices of AR Insider’s research arm ARtillery Intelligence. A few times per year, it goes into isolation and buries itself deep in financial modeling. The latest such exercise zeroes in on mobile AR revenues. This takes the insights and observations accumulated throughout the year and synthesizes them into hard numbers for spatial computing ( see methodology and inclusions/exclusions).

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Lynx R1 ‘Ramping Up Production’ As First Headsets Ship

Upload VR

Highly anticipated mixed reality headset Lynx R1 is starting to ship to its earliest backers. Lynx creator Stan Larroque told UploadVR over direct message that “we’re ramping up the production” and that there are a couple hundred devices prepared. “ Kickstarter backers will be shipped first, as well as experienced developers to showcase cool experiences on the Lynx-R1,” an update from the company noted in December 2022. “First shipment of headsets leaving the

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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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Can Google Jumpstart AR Shopping?

ARVR

Like many emerging technologies, AR is feeling its way around and growing into its own skin. It’s not going to revolutionize everything, as once touted, but it will be meaningfully disruptive to several aspects of life and work. And with that comes business opportunity. One of those opportunities showing early promise is AR shopping. It gives consumers more visual dimension when considering products, especially in eCommerce.

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Augmented VS Virtual VS Mixed Reality: The Great Debate

ARVR

Let’s be clear. I’m a huge fan of all things XR (Extended Reality). Bias confirmed. I’ve led multiple VR (virtual reality) projects for the Department of Defense, specifically for mission rehearsal of fighter jets and other aircraft. I’ve created and licensed mobile-based AR (augmented reality) projects for weddings and restaurants. I’ve also ideated and strategized MR (mixed reality) healthcare training apps, including a project called HoloScenarios that was named the Best Invention of 2022 by

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Meta Metaverse; All the Ways Meta Is Building the Metaverse

metamandrill

Meta metaverse comes up a lot these days. It's little wonder given that it describes an enticing, futuristic, virtual landscape created by one of the world's biggest tech giants. But getting the most out of it means understanding what it is and where it's going. And that's exactly what you're about to learn about as [.]. The post Meta Metaverse; All the Ways Meta Is Building the Metaverse appeared first on Metamandrill.com.

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Who’s Using VR and How Often?

ARVR

VR traction over the past few years has been slower than many had anticipated. But it’s still finding small wins and is growing at a fairly healthy pace. So the question is how well it’s landing with consumers today, and are those sentiments trending in the right direction? So we set out for answers. Working closely with Thrive Analytics , ARtillery Intelligence authored questions to be fielded through its established survey engine to more than 98,000 U.S. adults.

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Discovering New Dimensions: The VR Verse Podcast With RealitiesVR!

VRGames

This week’s Between Realities VR Podcast highlighted the launch of their new website, VR Verse. This website is dedicated to reviewing a range of products and games in Virtual Reality. The team behind this venture include Grumpyduck, Mrs Grumpyduck, Your_Pal, and LimitedFragz whose input has been instrumental in creating this platform for people interested in […].

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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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A VR Game MADE ME CRY!!! New HTC Vive XR for $1400, & More Ep. 86

Full Dive Gaming

VR Podcast: Quest 2 Games, VR News, NEW HTC Vive XR $1400 headset, Quest 2 Sale and so much more!! GET LUNA: [link] 0:00 VR Podcast Intro 0:50 Quest 2 Future Vs. PSVR2? 4:07 Who Do you Think You Are?? 5:04 Is Bacon the BEST FOOD?? 6:46 AI and the future of VR 12:00 A VR Headset "keeps you warm at night" 12:50 Upcoming VR Headsets 15:30 Rumble VR?? Earth Bender VR?

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The XR Week Peek (2023.01.02): HTC’s new headset is the Vive XR Elite, Meta buys Luxecel, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

HAPPY 2023! I wish you all that your dream may come true in this new year. And I know that one of your dreams was having a weekly roundup of the best XR news… so… here you are! Top news of the week. (Image by HTC Vive). HTC’s new headset may be called Vive XR Elite. Thanks to the support of the community member Inscothen, I have discovered that the Korean website of HTC may have leaked the info about the upcoming headset that the company should unveil at this CES.