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Niantic Shows Off Mixed Reality ‘Pokémon GO’ Demo Powered By HoloLens

VRScout

Microsoft debuts its Mesh mixed reality platform during its Ignite conference alongside a Pokémon proof-of-concept. Earlier today, John Hanke, CEO and founder of Niantic ( Pokémon GO , Harry Potter: Wizards Unite ), joined Microsoft Technical Fellow Alex Kipman on stage during the Microsoft Ignite conference where the two showcased a Pokémon GO proof-of-concept powered by Microsoft Mesh, a brand new mixed reality platform powered by Microsoft Azure that allows users to connect and collaborate re

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Immersive Technology for Education: How Virtual Reality Will Change the Learning Process

ARPost

Sponsored content. Sponsored by cheappaperwriting.com. The rapid development of technology could not but affect the educational process. Although virtual reality technology is not that new, it is being used in education since relatively recently. There are several reasons for the spread of virtual reality technology in education: Reduced price of technical equipment.

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‘Deep Nostalgia’ Brings Old Family Photos To Life Using Artificial Intelligence

VRScout

Add realistic animation to historical photos in less than a minute with this free-to-use tool. Best known for its digital family trees and genetic testing services, online genealogy platform MyHeritage is offering its users yet another way to connect with their ancestors with its impressive—yet somewhat unsettling—Deep Nostalgia technology, which allows users to quickly animate old family photos using artificial intelligence in a manner of 10 to 20 seconds.

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Google Adding Stereo Depth Support for Dual Cameras to ARCore Starting with Pixel 4 & 4XL

Next Reality AR

In response to Apple's implementation of LiDAR sensors in iPad Pro and iPhone 12 Pro models, Google is looking to leverage the dual-camera setups in recent flagship devices as depth-sensing components. In recent updates to Google's ARCore, as well as the app that installs the AR toolkit on compatible Android devices, the company quietly added mentions of support for "dual camera stereo depth.

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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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Microsoft Announces Mesh, a Foundation for Building Multi-user XR Applications

Road to VR

Today during the Microsoft Ignite developer conference, the company announced Mesh, a new cloud-based service which Microsoft says will streamline the creation of multi-user XR applications. Soon to be offered under Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing arm, Mesh is a foundation for building multi-user XR applications. The tool will offer developers a framework for connecting users into shared instances which support spatial voice communication, cloud-based asset management, persistent scenes,

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Microsoft & Niantic Show Off Multiplayer ‘Pokémon Go’ Prototype on HoloLens 2

Road to VR

If you’ve been dreaming of a proper immersive AR experience from Pokémon GO , you’ll be happy to know that Microsoft and Pokémon Go developer Niantic are experimenting with the idea. Today during Microsoft Ignite, the companies showed off a proof-of-concept for a multiplayer version of Pokémon Go running on HoloLens 2. To demonstrate the capabilities of the newly announced Microsoft Mesh , Niantic CEO John Hanke took to the Microsoft Ignite keynote stage to show off a proof-of-conc

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Is “Camera Marketing” AR’s Revenue Leader?

AR Insider

O ne striking realization about spatial computing is that we’re almost seven years into the sector’s current stage. This traces back to Facebook’s Oculus acquisition in early 2014 that kicked off the current wave of excitement….including lots of ups and downs in the intervening years. That excitement culminated in 2016 after the Oculus acquisition had time to set off a chain reaction of startup activity, tech-giant investment, and VC inflows for the “next computing platform.

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‘Star Wars Pinball’ Coming to All Major VR Headsets Next Month, Trailer Here

Road to VR

Star Wars Pinball (2013) has been available on console, mobile, and PC for a while now. Developers Zen Studios recently announced the game is being adapted to VR for all major headsets, and it’s landing next month. Star Wars Pinball VR not only includes eight pinball tables, but also mini-games and plenty of familiar faces. You’ll also be able to “build the ultimate fan cave,” the studio says in an Oculus blogpost.

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Immersive Technology for Education: How Virtual Reality Will Change the Learning Process

ARPost

Sponsored content. Sponsored by cheappaperwriting.com. The rapid development of technology could not but affect the educational process. Although virtual reality technology is not that new, it is being used in education since relatively recently. There are several reasons for the spread of virtual reality technology in education: Reduced price of technical equipment.

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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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‘Farpoint’ Studio Impulse Gear Announces a New VR Game Coming This Year

Road to VR

Impulse Gear, the studio behind the stellar PSVR exclusive Farpoint (2017) , announced today that it has been developing a new VR game which it plans to release this year. Following a handful of post-launch updates to Farpoint , we’ve heard very little from studio Impulse Gear on what’s next. Today, more than three and a half years after the launch of Farpoint , the studio confirmed that it’s been in development of a new VR game.

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Microsoft Mesh makes future meetings shared, augmented, virtual experiences

Slashgear

Microsoft Mesh is the next big thing from Microsoft, utilizing the next generation in augmented reality and high-speed internet connectivity to connect people around the world. People “feel like they are in the same room as each other even when they’re on different continents” as they interact digitally in real time. Microsoft introduced “Mesh-enabled apps” that’ll work across any platform … Continue reading.

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Multisensory feedback for VR/AR, a Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal University & Interhaptics…

ARVR

Interhaptics collaborates with Simon Frübis on a multisensory feedback study for AR/VR Interhaptics collaborates with Simon Frübis and Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal University on multisensory feedback for VR /AR and how to integrate sound into haptics with the Haptic Composer from Interhaptics. Source: Simon Frübis (2020) First virtual wearable prototype build with Unity3D and MRTK.

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Abigail Allwood's Hunt for Alien Fossils on Mars Has Begun

GizModo VR

When the NASA Mars rover Perseverance was dramatically airlifted through the Red Planet’s atmosphere and touched down on the iron-rich soil, geologist and astrobiologist Abigail Allwood was at home on Earth, watching the events unfold via livestream like the rest of us. Speaking over the phone the next day, her… Read more.

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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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XR Talks: Projecting VR’s Near and Far Future

ARVR

One of the constructs to understand VR’s endgame is the metaverse. Inspired by fiction such as Neil Stephenson’s Snow Crash and other works, it envisions virtual domains where synchronous and multi-user virtual interaction take place. This is the VR everyone’s waiting for. We have early versions of this already, considering social and synchronous environments like Altspace VR, VRChat and RecRoom.

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Twitter Launches Five-Strike System to Ban Users Who Spread Covid-19 Lies

GizModo VR

Twitter will ban users who spread misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic and covid-19 vaccines under a new five-strike system, according to a new blog post from the social media company. Twitter bans all medical information that’s “demonstrably false or misleading and may lead to significant risk of harm.” Read more.

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Microsoft debuts its AR/VR meetings platform Mesh

TechCrunch VR

Today, at a special AR/VR focused event held inside its virtual reality community platform Altspace, Microsoft showcased a new product aiming to provide their AR HoloLens platform and VR Windows Mixed Reality platform with a shared platform for meetings. The app is called Microsoft Mesh and it gives users a cross AR/VR meeting space to interact with other users and 3D content, handling all of technical hard parts of sharing spatial multi-player experiences over the web.

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Cuttlefish Are Able to Wait for a Reward

GizModo VR

Perhaps the most unsung members of the cephalopods, a group that counts octopuses, squid, and nautiluses among their ranks, the cuttlefishes is left with a lot to prove. Recently, a crew of six common cuttlefish ( Sepia officinalis ) did just that, focusing their sinusoidal pupils and collective 48 arms and 12 tentacles… Read more.

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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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The Future of Vision: Augmented reality contact lenses will make you bionic

Digital Trends

Smart contact lenses are finally becoming a reality. And the future of this intriguing technology is nothing like what you might expect. .

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Disney's CEO Is 'Not Sure There’s Going Back' to the Way Movies Were Released

GizModo VR

Between states across the U.S. now vaccinating people against covid-19 , and the fact that many aspects of everyday society—like movies being released —only ever really slowed during the ongoing pandemic, there’s a way in which some people have begun to think things might be returning to “normal.” As a reminder, it’s… Read more.

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Best cheap PlayStation deals for March 2021

Digital Trends

We've gathered some of the best PlayStation deals that are available online, including offers for games and accessories for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5.

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Exiled WallStreetBets Mods Want to Make a Blockchain-Based Hedge Fund

GizModo VR

As praises from celebrity investors and movie deals rained on the subreddit/memestock trading floor WallStreetBets, its two contingents of its moderators went to war, each accusing the other of profiteering off the community’s newfound fame. Now, those beaten in the squabble intend to start a competing community… Read more.

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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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How to increase your privacy and security in Zoom

Digital Trends

Worried about Zoom's privacy and security concerns? Learn how to stay safe while using the videoconferencing service with software updates and settings changes.

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Microsoft: Chinese Hackers Have Been Exploiting Our Email Product to Steal Data

GizModo VR

In the latest in a string of security-related headaches for Microsoft, the company warned customers Tuesday that state sponsored hackers from China have been exploiting flaws in one of its widely used email products, Exchange , in order to target American companies for data theft. Read more.

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VR Game Release Highlights March 2021

VR Game Critic

We are nearing the end of the year’s first quarter and with that, we will hopefully see a few more announcements or updates about games which promised us an early 2021 release. For now, we will have to be content with a smaller line-up, but good selection of various genres, from Racing and Horror, to Climbing and more traditional Shooters. And while we aren’t aware of any new releases for PSVR (yet), sci-fi shooter Farpoint is included in this month’s PlayStation Plus selection

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Cloud Gaming's Missing Piece Is 5G

GizModo VR

When my brother and I were kids, our family took a lot of road trips. We loved the end destinations, but getting there was a major drag. We had Game Boy Colors and other handhelds, but we had already played the games we owned way too many times. Consoles and desktop PCs aren’t exactly portable, so we often got bored… Read more.

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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?