ARPost

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The sixth annual Perkins Coie XR Report is out. The theme: “The Rise of Web3 Technologies to Accelerate XR.” While some people are skeptical of some of the goings-on in Web3, new ideas about connecting people are putting immersive technology into a context that highlights its value. Is Web3 the Same as the Metaverse? So far, ARPost has been largely silent on the idea of “Web3” because it brings in a lot of ideas that aren’t really central to immersive technology while not necessarily bringing in

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 21, 2022

While Oculus doesn’t offer much publicly in the way of understanding how well individual games & apps are performing across its Quest 2 storefront, it’s possible to glean some insight by looking at apps relative to each other. Here’s a snapshot of the 20 best rated Oculus Quest games and apps as of December 2022. Some quick qualifications before we get to the data: Paid and free apps are separated.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Adobe recently announced that it will bring its Substance 3D modeling tool to Meta Quest headsets. And this week it announced it will be available in Steam VR. What will this integration mean for creating 3D models in VR? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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DECEMBER 21, 2022

Quest 2’s GPU performance is now 7% higher than before. The Quest OS dynamically adjusts the GPU clock frequency to give apps the performance they need without wasting battery when they don’t need it. In a software update today, Meta increased the maximum frequency from 490 MHz to 525 MHz. This appears to be an automatic update applied to all headsets, not a new full system update you’d need to wait for.

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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 - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Augmented reality (AR) has come a long way since the early days of Pokémon Go, and WebAR is about to take things even further. According to industry experts , AR has the power to change the world. WebAR, more specifically, has a low barrier to entry that allows clients to leverage the technology efficiently. In a conversation during 2022’s XR Sumit, experts in WebAR explained how due to emerging demands for immersive content, there is a “huge need” for WebAR content.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 21, 2022

XR Today is tackling the confusing subject of extended reality (XR). This up-and-coming technology seamlessly blends virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR), namely for enterprise use. Additionally, immersive firms leverage XR to build solutions for engineers, soldiers, medical professionals, and even pilots. These professionals use new devices to merge the physical and virtual worlds with creative, engaging immersive content.

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DECEMBER 21, 2022

The Take Control update for Unplugged: Air Guitar is now live, adding over 20 new songs and expanded controller support. First released last year, Unplugged: Air Guitar is one of VR’s more notable hand tracking games. While controller support was previously introduced for Valve Index , the new Take Control update greatly expands your options for PC VR.

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Voices of VR

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats is a landmark immersive documentary that seamlessly integrates so many different immersive storytelling techniques and XR modalities earning it the IDFA DocLab Award for Immersive Non-Fiction. You’re transported back into the 1989 Underground Acid Rave Scene in Coventry and West Midlands where you go on an epic journey retracing the convoluted steps to avoid detection by the police in order to make it to a warehouse of dancing bodies.

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DECEMBER 21, 2022

Primal Hunt, a brutal retro-futuristic action game from Phaser Lock Interactive, releases on Meta Quest and Pico next month. Set across prehistoric biomes, Primal Hunt calls itself a “first-of-its-kind” VR hunting game, featuring 24 different dinosaurs and creatures. Between Raptors, Triceratops, and a huge Tyrannosaurus Rex, targets become increasingly deadly as you progress, armed with cybernetic implants like machine guns and rocket launchers.

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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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Ryan Schultz

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Once again this year, the popular Bento head creator LeLutka has teamed up with over 50 other Second Life stores to offer you a bounty of Christmas gifts! This year, the Holiday Special runs from December 20th to 30th, 2022. However, please note that last year, all the freebies were unavailable on the final day listed on the poster advertising the event, so I strongly recommend that you do NOT wait until Dec. 30th to pick up these wonderful presents for your avatar!

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Looking for that festive cheer in AR? Niantic’s See Santa Fly hopes to provide the answer with a new AR experience. Powered by Niantic’s WebAR platform, See Santa Fly is a new browser-based AR experience from the Pokémon Go developer. As you’ve probably guessed, this lets users worldwide use their smartphone camera to see Santa fly.

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metamandrill

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In this series, we interview the founders and CEOs behind Metaverse companies. The metaverse is fully in development, and many different technologies are involved in this process. These inspiring people are at the frontier of developing a future where the online and physical worlds merge. In this interview, we get to talk with Rooom [.]. The post Interview with Founder Hans Elstner of Rooom appeared first on Metamandrill.com.

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VRGames

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Adobe’s Substance 3D Modeler is now available to buy on Steam. The app supports both VR and non-VR modes, and comes with official support for Valve Index headsets and its controllers, though other SteamVR headsets may work too depending on controller bindings. A one-time purchase of $150 (or discounted to $100 until 17th October), the […].

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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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Voices of VR

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Polymorf's Symbiosis is a multi-sensory VR experience that uses soft-body haptics, a bespoke, microdose smell dispersal system, and different tastes. The piece debuted at IDFA DocLab 2021 (see my previous interview here), and it has a sold out run in Portland, Oregon from November 12 to February 12 at the Portland Art Museum's Center for an Untold Tomorrow (PAM CUT).

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VRGames

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Today, nDreams announced that it has acquired long-term development partner Near Light. This marks the publisher’s first acquisition in nearly 16 years and is intended to deepen their relationship with each other. Co-founded by Paul Mottram and Ben Hebb in 2016, Near Light will join existing nDreams teams both remotely as well as offices in […].

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Voices of VR

DECEMBER 21, 2022

With These Hands is a VR installation that “shares challenging, complex and under discussed stories of sexual assault and recovery. It explores the role of listening in the recovery of both survivors and those responsible for sexual harm.” It was produced by Tessa Ratuszynska in collaboration with Survivors Leading Essential Education & Change (SLEEC), which is a “survivor-run organization that changes systems, supports survivors and dismantles the roots of male violence.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Data protection and privacy are major concerns for metaverse companies, developers, and users alike. For users, it could mean violating their personal privacy, potential identity theft, and other types of fraud. Companies that fail to factor in data protection and privacy rights in the metaverse could face heavy penalties in the long term. With the Metaverse and other immersive technologies presenting new methods of data communication, extended reality (XR) firms and end users must consider new

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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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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 21, 2022

(Image by Maria Korolov via Midjourney.). Ever since Vivox announced last year that it was planning to discontinue its free voice service for OpenSim , the community has been searching for an alternative. The goal is to find a free or open source system that offers positional audio and works for Windows, MacOS, and Linux viewers. Unfortunately, the most viable Vivox alternatives are facing funding and resource difficulties.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Bang! Bang! Pull Your RevolVRs: LBE Game Development At JetStyle we believe that VR gaming has got incredible potential for growth, as headsets are becoming more affordable for the general public. RevolVR 3 is a multiplayer VR shooter designed for 6DOF headsets. Staged in a robotic version of the Wild West world, it provides many social activities for player interaction.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Espire 2 received a voice chat update and its 2023 roadmap confirms the stealth action game’s heading to “new VR platforms” in 2023. Published by Tripwire, Digital Lode’s Espire 1 sequel first appeared last month, bringing a new single-player campaign and secondary campaign with co-op support. Following update 1.1 last month, which added further campaign polish and bHaptics support, update 1.2 is now live for Espire 2.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 21, 2022

(Image courtesy OpenAI.). The company that released the popular Dall-E 2 AI text-to-image generator now has a 3D text-to-image AI that anyone can try. OpenAI on Tuesday open-sourced Point-E, its newest picture-making AI that creates 3D point clouds from text commands. The code is available on GitHub for those who want to try out the new AI. You can also read a paper on Point-E published last week that gives more details on the system and the methods used to train it.

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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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Anand Tech

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Ubiquiti Networks is a popular vendor of networking-related equipment in the SMB / SME space. Their gear is immensely popular among prosumers too, thanks to the combination of ease of use and the ability to customize for specific requirements. I have been running an Ubiquiti UniFi installation at home for the last five years or so, and recently had the opportunity to create a new deployment in another country.

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Voices of VR

DECEMBER 21, 2022

New Update Available – Version 2.1 is a VR installation piece that blends contemporary audio documentary recordings of computer help sessions for the elderly, but then recreates these… New Update Available - Version 2.1 is a VR installation piece that blends contemporary audio documentary recordings of computer help sessions for the elderly, but then recreates these characters in VR within a speculative future where elders gather together within a virtual space in Metaverse with avat

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EON Reality

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The latest update adds EON AI Assistant, which changes the way users interact with Artificial Intelligence IRVINE, CA, December 21, 2022 – EON Reality, Inc. (“EON Reality”), a global leader in Virtual and Augmented Reality (“XR”) industry and education solutions powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI), announces the release of EON AI Assistant. EON AI Assistant is an AI tool that revolutionizes the way users create and interact with the 3D world.

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Voices of VR

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The book Collective Wisdom: Co-creating Media for Equity and Justice by the MIT Co-Creation Studio founder Kat Cizek & MIT Open DocLab founder William Uricchio was the named as the recommended book of 2022 by IDFA. They held a launch party during DocLab as well as a couple of different sessions, and I had a chance to catch up with Cizek and Uricchio in Amsterdam on the day of the launch party to get an overview of what they’re covering in their book.

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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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