VRScout

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Scent-based VR technology continues to evolve at a rapid pace. A team of psychologists based out of Stockholm University has developed a piece of technology that allows players to smell the virtual world. According to a paper published in the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies , the Nosewise Handheld Olfactometer (NHO) can discretely house a variety of liquid scents that can be triggered at certain moments during a VR experience.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Can the metaverse – though still early and undefined – transform the future of work? Meta clearly thinks so. and so does generation Z. 51% expect to be working in the metaverse in some capacity by 2024. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Because motion controllers are so 2020… The popular VR social platform VRChat yesterday announced experimental hand and finger tracking support for Meta Quest 2 and Meta Quest Pro, allowing standalone VR players to ditch their motion controllers and interact with the in-game world using their own two hands. In a video accompanying the announcement, we learn exactly how the experimental feature works.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Taqtile is releasing a free app, Manifest Maker, for digitizing and augmenting work instructions. The app is more than just a trial of the more robust Manifest platform , but also lacks some of the functionalities and features of that full-fledged service. ARPost got an advanced release, a sneak peek at the program, and an interview with Taqtile co-founder and CTO John Tomizuka.

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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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AR Insider

OCTOBER 27, 2022

This week on Reality Bytes, we discuss Meta's accelerator program in partnership with L’Oreal, Disney’s Web3 immersive music emporium, and Google allows users to control their ad experience. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Anand Tech

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Currently the majority of high-end processors are monolithic, but design methodologies are slowly but surely shifting to multi-chiplet modules as leading-edge fabrication technologies get more expensive to use. In the coming years multi-chiplet system-in-packages (SiPs) are expected to become much more widespread, and advanced 2.5D and 3D chip packaging technologies will gain importance.

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Everything VR & AR

OCTOBER 27, 2022

This week’s episode features Sean Hurwitz, Founder & CEO of PIXO VR. PIXO VR's platform is an all-in-one solution for virtual and augmented reality training. With PIXO VR, Sean has been helping companies transform their training programs and usher in new advancements in workplace education. Listen Here: [link] Check out these links if you want to dig deeper after listening to the episode.

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Charlie Fink

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The press already had their knives out before the stock dropped 20%.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Meta Platforms reportedly saw earnings fall 4 percent in the third fiscal quarter (Q3), or $27.7 billion USD compared to the same period last year at $29 billion, its Wednesday quarterly report revealed. News of the losses triggered a massive Wednesday sell-off of stocks and fall in shares. As of Thursday, Meta’s shares plunged 22 percent. According to Meta, it expects its Q4 revenues to reach $30 to 32.5 billion USD, with current foreign currencies hitting a roughly 7 percent “headw

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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.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 27, 2022

A new Synth Riders update is available now, celebrating Halloween with a free song and spooky-themed decals. Following last month’s League of Legends music pack , Synth Riders is back once again with another free update. Celebrating Halloween early, this update adds a new free song, Riot by Dance With The Dead, to the Synthwave Essentials collection.

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Anand Tech

OCTOBER 27, 2022

While always an interesting topic by default, corporate earnings reports in the tech industry have become especially important in the last few months, as the industry prepares to weather what’s expected to be the biggest downturn in demand in the last several years. Intel’s brutal Q2’22 report, which found the company losing money on a GAAP basis for the first time in 5 years, seems to have been a herald of things to come for the largest industry, with AMD and other companies s

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 27, 2022

This Wednesday, Taqtile released its Manifest Maker application, an augmented reality (AR) remote guidance software for enterprise and industrial environments. Taqtile’s free solution provides a suite for on-site experts to create custom digital, step-by-step instructions for deskless and dispersed workers. Manifest Maker version 1.0.0 is available for head-mounted AR devices and iPads via Apple’s online storefront.

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Voices of VR

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Grant Maxwell’s book Integration and Difference: Constructing a Mythical Dialectic looks at the problem of the opposites through the lens of 13 philosophers who mostly fit within a constructivist stream of pragmatist, speculative, or process thought. This Voices of VR podcast episode is a 2.5-hour, philosophical deep dive providing an overview of each of these thinkers and how their ideas fit into the broader context of experiential design, perception, embodied experience, consciousness, and the

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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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Oculus

OCTOBER 27, 2022

t’s Halloween time and there’s tons of scary VR experiences that will get your heart racing. But don’t worry if horror’s not your cup of.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Steam is looking to knock the cobwebs from your wallet this week by offering up some very spooky savings on PC VR games. Here’s a look at our favorite games currently on sale that are sure to give you a fright this Halloween. Steam’s Scream Fest takes place from now until November 1st. You’ll find hundreds of games on sale , but these are ten of our favorite horror, thriller, and spooky survival games that you should consider picking up: Blair Witch VR.

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TechCrunch VR

OCTOBER 27, 2022

While Meta tries to convince users to attend virtual work meetings in its metaverse , ForeVR Games , a VR gaming startup with casual games like bowling, darts and cornhole, is a reminder that virtual reality is supposed to be fun. ForeVR announced today a $10 million Series A funding round, which is being put toward building its gaming portfolio and cementing itself as the “Wii Sports of VR.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Quest Pro is here and brings with it some welcomed hardware improvements but a dubious value proposition that’s highly dependent on someone else making the right apps. There’s two ways to look at Quest Pro: A better and more expensive Quest 2. A headset with new features that wants to transform the way you work. The former is pretty straightforward.

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 27, 2022

sThe Future of Privacy Forum, a major organisation advocating privacy and data protection, unveiled a new data flow infographic on the top use cases for technologies employed in extended reality (XR). The new data aims to educate lawmakers, public policy experts, and industry regulators on how numerous XR technologies operate along with potential data privacy risks.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Norway’s government has begun its own Web3 venture after launching a metaverse-based tax office. The move aims to connect with Gen Z and Millennials and build Web3 technologies, it announced on Wednesday. Norway’s central register and tax authority, or Brønnøysund and Skatteetaten, respectively, announced the news at the Nokios conference it had partnered with Ernst and Young (EY), one of the world’s Big Four consultancy firms, to open its tax office on Decentraland’s met

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