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10 Amazing VR Games For The Quest 2

VRScout

The Meta Quest 2 VR headset has a little something for everyone. There are hundreds of fantastic titles available to purchase in the Meta Quest Store right now. Whilst it’s great to have such a wide selection, it can also be a little overwhelming when choosing what to buy. To help you decide, I’ve put together a list of 10 incredible VR games you can play right now on your Quest 2.

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Spatial Beats: Google, Sony & Meta Connect

AR Insider

Welcome back to Spatial Beats, AR Insider's weekly series that features observations and insights of Charlie Fink. This week, we look at Meta Connect, PSVR 2 Projections & news from the spatial spectrum. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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How InfiniteWorld Is Building “Web2.5”

ARPost

Extended reality technology is a part of “ the metaverse ” – a materializing virtual/physical world that seems perpetually here and perpetually around the corner. Another major part of the metaverse is “ Web3 ” – an interconnection of human and computer systems brought about by data that is more universal, more complete, and more personal.

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What’s the Sales Outlook for AR Glasses?

AR Insider

What's the projected growth in the slow but promising AR glasses sector? We drill down into unit sales projections in the latest Behind the Numbers installment, including numbers and narrative. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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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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Who’s Using VR and How Often?

ARVR

VR traction over the past few years has been slower than many had anticipated. But it’s still finding small wins and is growing at a fairly healthy pace. So the question is how well it’s landing with consumers today, and are those sentiments trending in the right direction? So we set out for answers. Working closely with Thrive Analytics , ARtillery Intelligence authored questions to be fielded through its established survey engine to more than 98,000 U.S. adults.

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How To Watch Meta Connect 2022 Live, On Screen Or In VR

Upload VR

Meta Connect is streaming tomorrow. Here’s how you can watch it. Connect starts at 10 am Pacific Time, streaming officially to Facebook and in Horizon Worlds. We’re expecting the formal reveal of the Meta Quest Pro headset alongside a lineup of major updates to the company’s efforts in VR and AR. The event will begin with the main keynote at 10 am Pacific on the Reality Labs Facebook page – this is the one to watch for the biggest announcements.

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Micron Announces 20-Year Plan To Build $100 Billion U.S. Fab Complex

Anand Tech

Now that the U.S. government has finally settled the matter of whether it would be providing subsidies to entice chip fabs to setup shop within the U.S., those fabs and chip makers are starting to hammer out their domestic investment plans. Of all of the proposals revealed so far, Micron's new proposal stands to be the most ambitious. Last week the company announced plans to build the largest chip production complex in the history of the U.S. in central New York state.

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Valve Job Listing Confirms It’s Planning To Ship A New VR Headset

Upload VR

Valve posted a job listing to “prototype, ship, and support” a VR headset with advanced tracking features: At Valve, we are pushing the boundaries of virtual reality (VR) experiences. We are looking for versatile, self-directed software engineers in computer vision who can help us achieve the next steps in VR with millions of customers world-wide.

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Meta’s Zuckerberg Discusses Quest Pro ahead of Connect 2022

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Last Friday, in an interview with Protocol , Meta CEO and Founder Mark Zuckerberg revealed details of the upcoming Meta Quest Pro device, also known as Project Cambria. The firm plans to officially unveil the device this Tuesday as part of its Meta Connect 2022 online showcase. At the event, Meta, along with its extended reality (XR) and artificial intelligence (AI) subdivisions, will highlight the firm’s most recent innovations in immersive social technologies.

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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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Samsung Foundry Outlines Roadmap Through 2027: 1.4 nm Node, 3x More Capacity

Anand Tech

Samsung outlined its foundry business roadmap for the next five years at its Foundry Forum event last week. The company plans to introduce its next generation fabrication technologies in a timely manner and intends to make chips on its 1.4 nm (14 angstroms) manufacturing process by 2027. Also, the company will keep investing in new manufacturing capacity going forward as it strives to strengthen its position in the foundry market.

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Is HTC Vive Teasing A Quest 2 & Pico 4 Competitor?

Upload VR

One day before Meta Connect HTC appears to be teasing a consumer Vive standalone headset. Last week HTC teased a new “small” headset on Twitter, sharing a dark image of the corner of what is presumably the visor. We speculated on what this headset might be, but a new Tweet from HTC today – just one day before Meta C0nnect – seems to heavily hint at the answer: Food for thought… [link] #vr #htcvive #vivefocus3 #metaquest. — HTC VIVE (@htcvive) October 10, 2022.

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Metaverse Law Standards Urged, Rose Law Group Says

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Discussions on developing best practices and legal standards for the Metaverse have become crucial over the last few years, leaving many organisations to scramble for legal frameworks dedicated to the rising spatial communications platform. XR Today spoke to Jordan Rose, Founder and President of The Rose Law Group , a Scottsdale, Arizona-based law firm dedicated to studying Metaverse law and the most recent concerns in the sector.

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Virtual Reality for Real Estate — The Essentials

Program Ace

The post Virtual Reality for Real Estate — The Essentials appeared first on Program-Ace.

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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 Summit 2022 – Day Three Highlights

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Last month, XR Today held its first-ever online Summit, which gave a platform to some of the brightest minds in the augmented, virtual, and mixed reality (AR/VR/MR) industry. Featured guests joined the conversation to provide critical details on the emerging technologies that are changing the future of work, industry, and branding. The final day of the three-day XR event included sessions on core XR topics like Metaverse collaboration, building business values with AR wearables, and WebAR.

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VR Modding Monthly: Heaps of AAA Unreal Engine Games Soon to be Unlocked for VR – August 2022

Road to VR

Welcome to the August 2022 edition of VR Modding Monthly, keeping you up to date about all the exciting things going on in the wonderful world of the Flat2VR Modding community! For VR enthusiasts, the idea of picking up a brand new AAA flat game, pressing a button and then ‘magically’ being able to play that same game in full 6DOF VR natively-in-the-engine if they wanted to seems more like a thing of science fiction than reality.

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#1133: How Funique VR Supervisor Ming-Yuan CHUAN worked on 3 Venice Immersive Competition Pieces

Voices of VR

Funique VR Supervisor Ming-Yuan CHUAN worked on three projects that all finished at the same time under deadline for the Venice Immersive 2022. Red Tail is an animation piece that uses photogrammetry on built figures, and The Man Who Couldn’t Leave and All That Remains are both a stereoscopic 360 video that require an incredible amount of VFX stitching post-production work for each scene.

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HoloHub v1.1: An Exciting Era of New Features and Major Meta Quest Updates   

Digitalnauts

An Exciting Era of New Features and Major Meta Quest Updates. Digitalnauts announce HoloHub XR platform updates, Meta Quest support and web browser content uploader and more. HOLOHUB V 1.1 IS HERE! We’ve been listening to our customers, both new and existing, and we want to make sure that we’re offering you the best possible experience on HoloHub.

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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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Apple Glasses; Everything We Know So Far About Apple’s AR Device

metamandrill

Apple glasses are one of the world's most anticipated releases. Apple's primarily responsible for popularizing smartphones, smartwatches, and digital music. Most agree that it could do the same thing with smart glasses. And Apple's secrecy on their glasses has made many people even more curious. But wonder no more, you're about to discover everything currently [.].

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Is Bonelab Worth It, EVEN Without Mods? The Review

Full Dive Gaming

Bonelab VR is out on Quest 2 and PC VR!! It's from the Developer of Boneworks but it can run fully standalone on the Quest 2 and has FULL MOD SUPPORT!!! Should you spend $40 on it?? 0:00 VR Podcast Intro 0:49 What is Bonelab VR? 1:46 $40 for Bonelab??? 4:04 Released 10 Days Ago 4:24 MODDING is where it's AT! 5:27 What's the game like WITHOUT MODS? 6:11 The Game is JANKY?

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How to enable developer mode on Oculus Quest 2

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If you’re a Quest 2 owner, developer (or just looking to sideload apps!), you might be wondering how to enable developer mode on the Oculus Quest 2. In this fact sheet we’ve provided a quick guide on what you need to do. Quick navigation. Risks: When not to turn on developer mode on quest 2: How do you enable developer mode? Registering as a developer with Meta Turn on developer mode on Oculus Quest 2 headset Allowing connections to your computer What to do next Common Troubleshooti

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Tune in Tomorrow for Meta Connect 2022

Oculus

It’s t-minus 24 hours until we kick off our ninth annual Meta Connect, and we couldn’t be more excited. Here’s how you can join the.

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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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#1130: Combing Mythical Metaphors, Environmental Design, & Volumetric Cut Scenes in “Stay Alive, My Son”

Voices of VR

The Stay Alive, My Son VR experience is an adaptation of Pin Yathay's memoir of his survival of the Cambodian genocide under the Khmer Rouge. Attorney turned immersive storyteller Victoria Bousis translated this book into a spatial journey that tells a broader mythical story contrasting the different symbolic phases of Yathay's mind and heart as he searches for his son that he had to abandon.

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Meta Quest Pro: Built with Privacy in Mind

Oculus

Meta Quest Pro, launching October 25, is the first in our new advanced class of VR headsets. It introduces a wide range of immersion and.

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#1132: Using Group Discussions & Voting on Moral Dilemmas to Tell Buddhist Stories in “Mandala”

Voices of VR

Mandala: A Brief Moment in Time is an immersive theater experience for 3-6 people that uses group discussions to tell different stories from Buddhism around the themes of suffering, happiness, hungry ghosts, & living the good life. There's a moral dilemma at the end of the experience that requires half of the participants to come to some level of consensus, and there's a number of different endings based up what the group decides.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.10.11): Quest 3 may be 2x better than Quest 2, HTC teases a new device, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Hello everyone! These days I’m literally crunching for my dev job, juggling many projects at the same time. I’m also putting effort into my outreach activity. Among other things, I have written a fantastic post about the VR concerts worth millions of dollars that Pico is doing in China ; I have been interviewed in a podcast by Moonbase ; and this Saturday I will be close to Turin (Italy) speaking at a science and technology festival about my work in immersive concerts.

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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?