Fri.Aug 12, 2022

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How To Build AR App for Your Business Without Coding

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Augmented reality is one of the most popular features for mobile apps. Users enjoy manipulating holographic items as if they were real-world objects. AR is useful in various industries, from logistics to healthcare , gaming , and shopping. According to market statistics, AR/VR market size is projected to reach over US$454 billion by 2030 and is rapidly expanding into new sectors and industrial applications.

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How Will the ‘Metavearth’ Materialize?

AR Insider

Though immersive game-like experiences are associated with a prospective metaverse, more value could be in the 'real-world metaverse' Infusing digital depth to the physical world around us. We examine the dynamics. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Tennis League VR For Quest Could Help Improve Your Game

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Love. Set. VR. Tennis League VR is an insanely cool tennis experience you can use to improve everything from your forehand and backhand swing to your overall form. Developed by AnotherReality along with their funding partner Health Improvement Solutions , a free early access demo of the game is available now on Meta Quest headsets. The game offers multiple modes for tennis fanatics of every skill level. .

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This $145 VR Manga App on Quest 2 is a Better Deal Than it Seems

Road to VR

As I was perusing Quest App Lab for interesting games, a VR manga app priced at a whopping $145 caught my eye. Surely it must have been a mistake… or a scam? While we’ve seen pricey apps on Quest’s official unlisted ‘App Lab’ store before , almost all of them are some sort of medical or training app that’s not intended for general audiences.

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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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Case Study: Bolle Boosts Brand Image with AR

ARVR

AR continues to evolve and take shape. Like other tech sectors, it has spawned several sub-sectors that comprise an ecosystem. These include industrial AR , consumer VR , and AR shopping. Existing alongside all of them?—?and overlapping to some degree?—?is AR marketing. Among other things, AR marketing includes sponsored AR lenses that let consumers visualize products in their space.

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Vince Gilligan Confirms A Breaking Bad VR Experience Almost Came To PSVR

Upload VR

A Breaking Bad VR experience was once in development for PSVR, confirmed Vince Gilligan in a recent interview. Back in 2017, Variety reported that a Breaking Bad experience was in development for PSVR. However, the game was never officially announced and we heard nothing more about it, until now. Speaking on the Inside The Gilliverse podcast, Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul writer and creator Vince Gilligan confirmed that there was indeed once an attempt to create a Breaking Bad VR experience

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Does Google Think Gen Z Is the Answer to Its Green Text Woes?

GizModo VR

This week, alongside a massive unveiling of brand new foldable devices and accessories from Samsung, Google put out its own ad campaign in an attempt to rally the troops against Apple’s tyrannical reign on messaging. Google’s #getthemessage campaign hopes to stoke the flames of millions of bothered Android fans so… Read more.

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XR Gaming Case Study in Focus: MLB Home Run Derby and VIVE

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

As the world of extended reality grows increasingly “mainstream”, we’re seeing a host of companies experimenting with the engaging, and entertaining aspects of the technology. While there’s more to XR than just the potential for amazing games, the novel and fun experiences offered by immersive technologies allows all kinds of companies to reach their audience on new levels.

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Now You Can Pop Into Stadia Directly from Google Search

GizModo VR

Google is working on making cloud games easier to find on its search page. The company hasn’t officially announced the feature publicly, but Ars Technica and The Verge have confirmed that the new Play Now ability showed up for them in separate instances. Read more.

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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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XR Chipmaker GravityXR Completes pre-A Fundraiser

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Chinese chipmaker GravityXR has wrapped up an angel-round investment and pre-A financing round totalling hundreds of millions in Chinese yuan over six months times, Pandaily reported on Friday. Investors such as Gaorong Capital, Sequoia Capital, Jinshajiang Venture Capital, and IDG led the funding round along with Lenovo Capital & Incubator Group.

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All the Weird and Wonderful Tech and Game Commercials That Live Rent Free in My Head

GizModo VR

A well-edited trailer can make any movie look good, but Hollywood has several minutes to convince a movie theater’s captive audience that a flick is worth seeing. Advertisers limited to just 30 seconds of broadcast TV, when viewers are eager to do anything but pay attention, have a much harder job. But that just… Read more.

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RealWear to Become Platform Solution Firm, CEO Says

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Last Tuesday, RealWear launched a cloud-based solution to assist frontline industrial workforces in managing fleets of augmented reality (AR) wearables. Today @realwearinc launched #RealWearCloud – moving us further from h/w focused to #solution focused w/ a #platform that scales. Easier #deployments. Better #analytics. Superior #insights. Easy #configuration and set up.

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More AI image generation

Life at the Feeding Edge

Tweet. I have carried on experimenting with the wonderful Midjourney app on Discord. My previous post had some images and a degree of explanation, but as a reminder. This is one of the new generation of publicly available of AI based image generation from text. Just watching the flow of requests and the range of styles and images that appear constantly is fascinating.

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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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How Nreal Amplified the SuperCup 2022 and Premier League

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Last week, global smart glasses vendor Nreal teamed up with Immersiv.io to showcase “Personalized 3D”, a system that displays augmented reality (AR) visualizations for live broadcasts. In a video posted last week, Nreal, Immersiv, and the Devon Football League (DFL) came together to give viewers at home an AR-ready live stream of the SuperCup 2022.

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Meta Quest 2 Games Dominate Nominations for the 2022 VR Awards

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This month the finalists for the 6th International VR Awards were announced by AIXR with numerous games and experiences across the Meta Quest 2 library.

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NVIDIA Unveils Open Metaverse Tools at SIGGRAPH 2022

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NVIDIA delivered a speech on Tuesday at the SIGGRAPH 2022, revealing a fresh lineup of metaverse solutions to audiences, including virtual world-building, digital twin, and avatar platforms. In his speech, Jensen Huang, Founder and Chief Executive of NVIDIA , said in a statement the combination of artificial intelligence and computer graphics would “power the metaverse, the next evolution of the internet.” I recommend watching @nvidia ‘s #SIGGRAPH talk featuring some open Metav

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Horizon Worlds Spotlight: JoleneSugarbaker

Oculus

Welcome back to our weekly spotlight on the people building for Horizon Worlds and their amazing creations.

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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.