Tue.Aug 16, 2022

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Tokyo Game Show VR 2022 Will Feature A Virtual Dungeon

VRScout

The virtual exhibition will include Kojima Productions, Square Enix, Capcom, and others. The annual Tokyo Game Show is set to return next month in Chiba, Japan, offering attendees a closer look at a variety of highly-anticipated video games. Alongside the standard in-person event, organizers will once again host a virtual exhibition visitors can attend remotely. ?

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Hands-On Review: AI and AR Art Instruction App Cupixel

ARPost

Cupixel is a new app that uses AR and AI to help anyone realize their artistic potential. You’ve probably heard that line before, but you probably haven’t seen it done like this. ARt History. One of the first articles that I wrote as an official contributor to ARPost was about AR apps for aspiring artists. There’s a reason I haven’t done another article like that in the last four years.

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Free Arena VR Sports Game Ultimechs Coming Next Month

VRScout

The mech-powered sports game will be available on Meta Quest 2, PC VR, and Pico VR headsets on September 15th. Resolution Games ( Demeo, Blaston, Angry Birds VR ) today announced the official price and release date for its upcoming multiplayer VR sports games Ultimechs. Coming next month to popular VR headsets, this futuristic competitive experience will have players going head-to-head in mech-powered soccer matches.

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Case Study: MAC Cosmetics Augments Makeup Try-Ons

AR Insider

MAC Cosmetics’ New York concept store delivers virtual try-ons via smart mirrors. We examine the shopper experience and revenue impact in the latest AR marketing case study. 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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Can Niantic Drive Local Business Foot Traffic?

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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Jules Verne-Inspired Mini Golf Courses Coming To Walkabout

Upload VR

The developers of Walkabout are building mini golf courses inspired by the pioneering science fiction works of Jules Verne. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea launches first in September on Quest and Steam followed in 2023 by Journey to the Center of the Earth and Around the World in Eighty Days. The announcement from developer Mighty Coconut comes shortly after the developer launched its first licensed course inspired by the classic 1980s film Labyrinth.

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Inu-Oh's Gender Politics Are Anime Performance Art

GizModo VR

As Inu-Oh rocks theaters, I keep thinking about Tomona Dan-No-Ura, whose narrative ostensibly begins and ends the film. As he passes through all the stages of his life, becoming Tomoichi when he joins the Biwa priests and then Tomoari when he begins his own musical theater sect, his art becomes intimately tied to his… Read more.

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13 Easy Steps To Improve Your Critical Thinking Skills

Bernard Marr

With the sheer volume of information that we’re bombarded with on a daily basis – and with the pervasiveness of fake news and social media bubbles – the ability to look at evidence, evaluate the trustworthiness of a source, and think critically is becoming more important than ever. This is why, for me, critical thinking is one of the most vital skills to cultivate for future success.

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Universal Studios Orlando Horror Nights Original House Line-Up Packs Stronger Punch Than Their Franchise Frights

GizModo VR

Universal Studios Orlando just unveiled its full slate for Halloween Horror Nights 2022 , and it’s scary good. This year includes 10 haunted houses, five scare zones, two live shows, as well as an after-hours selection of the theme park’s ride attractions (Petition to keep E.T. Adventure open during the event). 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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Ultimechs Launches For Free On September 15 For Quest, PC VR & Pico

Upload VR

Resolution Games’ next title has a release date — Ultimechs launches September 15 on Quest 2, SteamVR and Pico platforms. Announced late last year, Ultimechs will mix mechs and Rocket League to create a new competitive multiplayer VR title. Until recently, it was only confirmed for release on PC VR and other “major VR platforms.” Today, Resolution confirmed the game will also launch on Quest 2 and Pico devices.

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China's Mysterious Spaceplane Still Hasn't Landed Yet

GizModo VR

China recently launched a secretive reusable spaceplane, and the mysterious spacecraft is still flying around with no information on when it is meant to land. The experimental spaceplane missed an opportunity to land early Monday as it flew right over its landing site, and has now flown higher and longer than before. Read more.

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Meta launches Horizon Worlds in France and Spain

TechCrunch VR

In an effort to expand its social platform for virtual reality, Horizon Worlds, Meta is launching it in France and Spain today — building on the existing three markets including the U.S., Canada, and the UK where it was already available. In a Facebook post, Mark Zuckerberg announced the launch with an unappealing photo and noted that it plans to expand the platform to more countries.

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Wolfgang Petersen, Director of The NeverEnding Story and Outbreak, Has Died

GizModo VR

If you grew up on a steady diet of Hollywood blockbusters over the past 40 years, you surely know the work of Wolfgang Petersen. He made us tense up with Das Boo t, made us fly with The NeverEnding Story , made us hate coughing with Outbreak , and made Harrison Ford the president in A ir Force One , to name only a few.… 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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Cybersecurity: XR Today Expert Round Table

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

One of the more overlooked verticals in the global extended reality (XR) industry is the rise of cybersecurity risks, where looming threats from multiple actors could potentially pose major challenges. Numerous groups, from consumers, analysts, companies, and governments, are working to address these novel concerns over key issues such as biometrics, data, security breaches, privacy, and data ownership.

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Watch Live: Russian Cosmonauts Install a Robotic Arm Outside the ISS

GizModo VR

Two Russian cosmonauts are preparing to venture outside of the International Space Station to continue setting up a giant robotic arm , despite recent threats from Roscosmos to withhold access to the handy machine. Read more.

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Meta Portal Receives New Productivity Tools

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Last Wednesday, Meta added new features to its portal lineup of smart displays for video calling. The firm is doubling down on the remote communications solution following an internal reshuffle due to disappointing second quarter (Q2) earnings and millions lost by Meta Reality Labs, its in-house extended reality (XR) research division. Meta is refocusing on its upcoming XR headset, Project Cambria, and the Portal device, rebranding it as a work-from-home tool.

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Martian Explorers Could Produce Oxygen Using Plasmas

GizModo VR

Mars: If the extreme temperatures and exposure to cosmic radiation don’t kill you, the unbreathable air certainly will. Now, a team of researchers has proposed a method of addressing the latter issue, by using plasma to split carbon dioxide—of which Mars has plenty—into carbon and oxygen. 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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Trigger XR Launches Jurassic World Dinotracker AR App

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

XR immersive experiences firm Trigger XR has teamed up with the Global Telco Alliance and South Korea’s LG Uplus to launch its Dinotracker augmented reality (AR) app to commemorate the release of Jurassic World: Dominion, the company announced on Tuesday. Leveraging Niantic’s Lightship AR development kit (ARDK), the firm has created an engaging immersive experience to celebrate the movie’s release, allowing enthusiasts of the hit franchise to explore AR dinosaurs with real-time

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Sony Might Be Going All-in on PC Gaming, Spider-Man Files Reveal

GizModo VR

With its recent high profile PC releases of formerly exclusive games like God of War and Horizon Zero Dawn , Sony seems to be making a shift to marketing its video game arm as a hybrid console-PC company. Now, newly datamined files pointing to a PlayStation PC game launcher could mean the company wants to ape Xbox in… Read more.

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Top 5 Reasons to Invest in XR Security & Privacy  

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The extended reality landscape represents a new frontier for businesses from all backgrounds. It’s an opportunity to immerse consumers in more meaningful service experiences, open new avenues for sales, and even boost productivity among teams. However, with the rise of new realities also comes the emergence of new security, privacy, and ethical threats.

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Why She-Hulk: Attorney At Law Tweaked the Character's Origin Story

GizModo VR

She-Hulk comic book fans might be a little confused later this week when the character finally makes her debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In the comics, the character’s origin happens when Jennifer Walters, successful lawyer and cousin to Bruce Banner , is shot in a mob hit. Her cousin tries to save her but… 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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8 Simple Ways To Enhance Your Data Literacy Skills

Bernard Marr

We’re living through the fourth industrial revolution (or “Industry 4.0”), a revolution that’s defined by wave upon wave of new technologies that combine the physical and digital worlds. You’ve no doubt noticed the plethora of “smart” physical devices – everything from watches to speakers to fridges – that are now connected to the internet. That’s Industry 4.0 in action.

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Russia Now Wants to Build Its Own Space Station Before Leaving the ISS

GizModo VR

Roscosmos just revealed a model of its own space station to rival the International Space Station (ISS) in a move that outlines the Russian space agency’s plans following its debated departure from the orbiting station. Read more.

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Mixed Reality Musical Art Experience

CraneMorley

Back to Blog Page. Located in New York’s Rockefeller Centre on display at the Top of the Rock. Features an empty room with a Yamaha electric piano and QR code print outs on the walls. Artist Sarah Meyohas in partnership with immersive creative studio Superbright created a unique mixed reality musical art experience. Open now until September 15 brings a brand-new musical experience for attendees.

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Hackers Attack UK Water Supplier, Apparently Send Ransom Demand to the Wrong Company

GizModo VR

Hackers infiltrated the corporate-side of a utility that supplies water to about 1.3 million people in the United Kingdom. However, the apparent data breach may not have been the one the cyber-criminals were aiming for. 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?