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SenseGlove’s New VR Gloves Feature ‘Palm Feedback’

VRScout

Feel virtual objects in the palm of your hands with the company’s latest force-feedback gloves. SenseGlove, a leading provider of haptic feedback technology, this week unveiled the latest addition to its lineup of force-feedback gloves, Nova 2. The second generation of SenseGlove Nova, Nova 2 promises even more realistic interactions with virtual objects by allowing you to “feel” their size and stiffness in more detail thanks to the use of Active Contact Feedback.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.05.30): Quest 3 preview, XR journalists invited to WWDC, and more!

The Ghost Howls

This will be a newsletter written on the road: I’ve prepared the material in Italy, I’m currently writing these words from the Frankfurt airport (Germany), I will keep writing on the plane across the ocean and I will finalize everything in Sunnyvale (California, USA). I’m traveling to the US to attend AWE, but this is not stopping me from telling you what are the most relevant XR news of the week!

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Niantic’s New Mixed Reality Game Features An AI Owl

VRScout

The creator of Pokémon GO launches its first mixed reality experience powered by the 8th Wall platform. Niantic, the creator of popular location-based augmented reality (AR) games like Pokémon GO and Pikmin Bloom , today launched Wol , an educational mixed reality experience powered by the 8th Wall platform’s Metaversal Deployment and artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

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Elon Musk’s Brain-chip Startup Approved by FDA for Testing on Humans

Road to VR

Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain-machine interface (BMI) company, has announced that it has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to conduct its first tests on humans. The company is developing minimally invasive brain chips which it hopes to use to restore vision and mobility for people with disabilities. Neuralink says it doesn’t have immediate plans to recruit participants, however the FDA approval marks a significant step forward after a previous bid was re

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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 Magic Leap AR’s Comeback Kid?

AR Insider

One of AR's recent milestones was the return of Magic Leap. this time with an enterprise focus. To maximize impact, this pivot was coupled with a second swing at AR glasses: Magic Leap 2. We break down the strategy. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Valo Motion Celebrates RPM Raceway’s ValoArena Success and “Stomp Squad” Launch

ARPost

Finnish game company Valo Motion is rousing the immersive reality industry with two exciting updates. With the remarkable success of RPM Raceway’s ValoArena installations and the introduction of Stomp Squad on ValoJump, Valo Motion is solidifying its position in physically active and fun immersive experiences space. Let’s dive into these developments and explore the impact they have on the world of interactive entertainment.

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RoundTable Learning, Lenovo, Qualcomm Secures Future of Learning

XR Today - Virtual Reality

This Tuesday, Roundtable Learning, a VR training solution for enterprise end-users, announced that it would partake in Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.’s Snapdragon Spaces Pathfinder Program to help establish Lenovo’s ThinkReality VRX headset as a front-running workplace tool. The partnership sees Roundtable Learning join the Pathfinder Program as part of its customer portfolio of Fortune 100 businesses ready to leverage Lenovo’s upcoming immersive device for creating solutions whic

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How AI Is Helping Us Create A More Sustainable Future

Bernard Marr

Climate change is an existential threat, but AI might be our secret weapon against its most destructive impacts. Read on to find out how AI is transforming our approach to renewable energy, carbon capture, policy development, and more. As climate change continues to pose an enormous threat to our planet, we must explore innovative solutions that can help mitigate its impact.

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Asus Details ROG Matrix GeForce RTX 4090: Liquid Cooling Meets Liquid Metal

Anand Tech

Asus has introduced a new flagship RTX 4090 graphics card that uses an all-in-one liquid cooling system combined with liquid metal thermal interface. Dubbed the ROG Matrix GeForce RTX 4090, Asus says that its advanced cooler combined with extremely efficient thermal interface will ensure the maximum boost clocks possible, with Asus taking clear aim of producing the fastest gaming graphics card on the market.

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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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How Mercedes-Benz Uses Virtual And Augmented Reality to Sell Cars, Train Staff, And Create New Customer Experiences

Bernard Marr

As the manufacturer of some of the world’s most sophisticated cars, as well as a champion in the world of motorsports, Mercedes-Benz is no slouch when it comes to cutting-edge technology. However, there is one area of technology where the German carmaker has been particularly enthusiastic in recent years, and that’s the field of virtual reality and augmented reality (VR/ AR) – sometimes collectively referred to as extended reality (XR).

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Corsair Unveils Dominator Titanium DDR5 Kits: Reaching For DDR5-8000

Anand Tech

Corsair has introduced its new Dominator Titanium series of DDR5 memory modules that will combine performance, capacity, and style. The new lineup of memory modules and kits will offer DRAM kits up to 192 GB in capacity at data transfer rates as high as DDR5-8000. The Dominator Titanium DIMMs are based on cherry-picked memory chips and Corsair's own printed circuit boards to ensure signal quality and integrity.

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Apple Headset Display Specs Revealed By Supply Chain Analyst

Upload VR

A prominent display supply chain analyst revealed the supposed size, pixel density and brightness of the OLED microdisplays in Apple's upcoming AR/VR headset. Ross Young, CEO of Display Supply Chain Consultants, tweeted the specs today : You want more, I will give you more: Micro OLED specs for Apple's AR/VR headset: 1.41" in diagonal 4000 PPI >5000 nits of brightness — Ross Young (@DSCCRoss) May 30, 2023 Most existing headset panels have an aspect ratio of 9:10.

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Jeri Ellsworth (Tilt Five) on Perseverance and the Pursuit of Passion (Part 1)

The AR Show

Jeri Ellsworth is the co-founder and CEO of Tilt Five, a company that has created AR glasses that bring tabletop, multiplayer games to life. Prior to Tilt Five, Jeri was the founder of CastAR, which was also making an augmented reality hardware and software platform, and one that had raised $15 million in venture funding before shutting down in 2017.

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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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ARuVR Earns LPI Accredition for XR Learning Technologies

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

ARuVR , a premier extended reality (XR) training platform for enterprises, announced on Tuesday it had received learner accreditation for its immersive technologies. The Learning and Performance Institute (LPI) awarded the London-based firm Accredited Learning Technologies Provider status. LPI-granted accreditations are the most prestigious and highest accolades globally for workplace learning and development.

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#1215: Fatboy Slim’s Groundbreaking & Trippy VR Concert on EngageXR

Voices of VR

Engage XR produced a 45-minute “Eat Sleep VR Repeat” – Immersive Metaverse Concert in collaboration with Fatboy Slim’s Norman Cook that showed in a limited screening on March 30, 2023. It was an incredibly, mind-bending and groundbreaking VR concert experience that combined novel interactions and social dynamics, but also a trippy and psychedelic journey through the mind and music of Norman Cook.

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Apple, Meta Fight for The Killer XR Device

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

This month is proving a pivotal moment in the XR consumer landscape. As WWDC approaches, Apple continues to drop hints, leading spectators to assume an immersive device is coming that continues the transformative firm’s track record of distributing game-changing consumer hardware. An XR device from Apple could be massive. Apple found great success in years past with its portfolio of advanced hardware and software products such as the iPod, iPhone, Mac, and Apple TV.

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#1214: History of Engage XR’s Education & Communications Platform

Voices of VR

The Engage XR platform holds a mix of different types of gatherings in VR ranging from educational meetings, corporate communications, and virtual events and conferences. With the onset of the pandemic in 2020, then HTC started holding a number of their conferences and announcements on the Engage platform, and eventually became an investor. I had a chance to speak with the CEO David Whelan back in May of 2021 to get a bit more context and history of the Engage Platform.

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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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Metaverse vs. Virtual Reality: Navigating the Digital Landscape

Program Ace

The post Metaverse vs. Virtual Reality: Navigating the Digital Landscape appeared first on Program-Ace.

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VR Fitness Insider Podcast – Episode 13: Get PIPxr

VR Fitness

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4 Main Types of Digital Twins and Their Characteristics

Program Ace

The post 4 Main Types of Digital Twins and Their Characteristics appeared first on Program-Ace.

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Score Big Deals on Resident Evil 4 VR and More at Quest Store Before the Meta Gaming Showcase!

VRGames

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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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The Meta Quest Gaming Showcase Is Nearly Upon Us!

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? `Experience the Epic Adventures in Quest 3 – First-Hand Confirmed Features!`

VRGames

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New VR Games & Releases June 2023: PSVR 2, Quest 2 & More

Upload VR

Looking for new VR games arriving in June 2023? We’ve got the full rundown. May 2023 was an undeniably busy month for VR, offering a little something for everyone. Between Propagation: Paradise Hotel , Another Fisherman's Tale , Walkabout Mini Golf , Humanity , Rogue Ascent , Red Matter 2 , Hello Neighbor: Search and Rescue , Crimen - Mercenary Tales and Everslaught Invasion , we covered a lot through reviews.

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SK Hynix Publishes First Info on HBM3E Memory: Ultra-wide HPC Memory to Reach 8 GT/s

Anand Tech

SK Hynix was one of the key developers of the original HBM memory back in 2014, and the company certainly hopes to stay ahead of the industry with this premium type of DRAM. On Tuesday, buried in a note about qualifying the company's 1bnm fab process, the the manufacturer remarked for the first time that it is working on next-generation HBM3E memory, which will enable speeds of up to 8 Gbps/pin and will be available in 2024.

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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?