VRScout
APRIL 17, 2023
Interact with stadium-wide games during live matches using the power of immersive technology. Fans who attend a Cleveland Cavaliers game at the Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse during the 2023 NBA Playoffs are in for a treat. The championship-winning team has partnered with fan engagement platform ARound to transform their home stadium into an augmented reality (AR) powered multiplayer arcade.
AR Insider
APRIL 17, 2023
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 at Microsoft Teams' new Snapchat integration and other news from the spatial spectrum. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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ARPost
APRIL 17, 2023
After the COVID-19 pandemic made most event organizers cancel their live AR/VR events or host them virtually, in the past year more and more live events are making a comeback. Even the immersive industry needs a real-life environment to discover gadgets and try AR/VR content. And we will tell you exactly where you should go if you want to try the most exciting discoveries and devices.
The Ghost Howls
APRIL 17, 2023
This hasn’t been the most interesting week ever for XR, because we had no big news. But we had many interesting small pieces of news that are worth a read. And guess where you can find them? Yes, here below, personally curated by your favorite ghost! Top news of the week (Image by Valve) Valve confirms it is working on a VR headset Speaking with the Korean magazine This Is Game, Valve’s product designer Greg Kumar has answered the explicit question about their work on a VR headset with the follo
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.
AR Insider
APRIL 17, 2023
One of AR's biggest opportunities is to broaden itself beyond our current connotations. It's not just about cartoon monsters and social lenses, but should include any meaningful augmentation of reality. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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Upload VR
APRIL 17, 2023
In an interview with the Korean gaming outlet This Is Game, Valve product designer Greg Coomer seemingly reaffirmed that the company is working on a new VR headset. The interview was published in Korean on the This Is Game site last December, but has been shared recently in light of translated transcripts that indicate the outlet asked Coomer about a new Valve headset.
Road to VR
APRIL 17, 2023
Beat Saber (2018) , the popular block-slashing rhythm game, has undoubtedly been a standout success for VR. Now a Wall Street Journal report alleges the game has generated over a quarter billion dollars. Citing documents viewed by the Wall Street Journal , Meta has allegedly generated over $255 million as of October 2022. While not stated explicitly in the report, this ostensibly includes base game unit sales and DLC sales across all supported platforms, which includes Quest, Quest 2, the origin
Bernard Marr
APRIL 17, 2023
Cloud computing, multi-cloud, and hybrid-cloud are all terms we’ve become used to hearing. Now we can add “super cloud” and “sky computing” to the list of terminology that describes the computing infrastructure of the coming decade. Although it’s hard to believe, given how ubiquitous it is today, cloud computing as a practical reality has only been around for the past decade or so.
Road to VR
APRIL 17, 2023
Pimax announced that Portal, its hybrid VR headset based on a Nintendo Switch-style console, is almost ready for launch, as the company prepares to ship to all Kickstarter backers in April 2023. Over the years, the Beijing-based company has been known for its wide field-of-view (FOV) PC VR headsets which include large, high-resolution displays and wide FOV optics, making Pimax one of the few to offer such devices directly to consumers.
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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.
Upload VR
APRIL 17, 2023
Five years after its original announcement, Myst developers Cyan Worlds announced that Firmament will reach PC VR on May 18. Revealed back in 2018 with a Kickstarter campaign arriving soon after, Firmament is the latest adventure game from Cyan, whose previous efforts include 2020's Myst VR remake and Obduction. Set in an abandoned steampunk world, Firmament is a new puzzle adventure that sees you exploring three realms, joined by a clockwork companion and mysterious apparition.
Road to VR
APRIL 17, 2023
Last month we got an eyeful of Cyan’s upcoming VR puzzle adventure Firmament in an extended preview trailer that showed off some of the game’s impressively looming set pieces. Now, prepping for the game’s May 18th release on PC VR, the studio released its first look at some of the game’s puzzle mechanics. There are a few new things shown in the video that we haven’t seen before, notably what appears to be the final version of the most important tool to your puzzle-a
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
APRIL 17, 2023
Microsoft announced last week it plans to update its HoloLens 2 devices to Windows 11 to level its performance and standards. According to the Redmond, Washington-based firm, it would test the update with Windows Insiders to release the optional feature at a later date. The release will upgrade the HoloLens 2 to the operating system’s 22621 build.
XR Today - Augmented Reality tag
APRIL 17, 2023
Da Vinci Eye is an AR smartphone application for artists, amateurs, and professionals that leverages immersive visualisations to project guides onto real-world surfaces allowing users to trace or copy images. The firm designed its application for artists at all levels. Although, the service is also getting usage by enterprise market end-users, including catering/bakers, leather workers, and healthcare employees.
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.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
APRIL 17, 2023
While intrinsically linked to hand and eye-tracking , attention tracking allows headset solution developers to create ‘heatmaps’ of human behaviour. These psychological blueprints create quantitative and qualitative analyses of human-computer interactions, leading to a greater awareness of measurable behavioural responses to stimuli. According to sources, such technologies create the Internet of Behaviour (IoB).
VRGames
APRIL 17, 2023
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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
APRIL 17, 2023
Apple is set to reveal its long-awaited Reality Pro mixed reality (MR) headset at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on 5 June, news reports revealed on Sunday. In his newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported that the WWDC would unveil the new immersive device. The company aims to move to a new era of advanced solutions while carrying the torch for its existing products.
Oculus
APRIL 17, 2023
Today, InnerspaceVR and Vertigo Games revealed that Another Fisherman’s Tale will release on Meta Quest 2 + Pro on May 11. Don’t lose your head—or.
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.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
APRIL 17, 2023
As manufacturing and industrial companies continue to deal with ever-growing demands from their customers, the need for innovative technology in the industry is greater than ever. Capable of assisting with everything with crucial training initiatives to faster prototyping, extended reality represents a phenomenal opportunity for brands in the industrial sector.
VRScout
APRIL 17, 2023
The creator of the 4th Wall AR app uses immersive technology to deliver a powerful statement. Nancy Baker Cahill, a new media artist and the developer of 4th Wall , a popular augmented reality (AR) smartphone app, recently shared a video featuring her latest thought-provoking installation: a virtual uterus projected over the United States Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C. using AR technology.
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