VRScout

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Once you’ve decided on a costume, you can select ‘Shop Now’ to purchase. With Halloween just around the corner, many people are in search of the perfect costume to celebrate this year’s festivities. Thankfully, Snapchat has your back. This year the social media app has partnered with costume design and manufacturing company Disguise Inc. to launch an augmented reality (AR) shopping experience that allows you to try on and purchase virtual Halloween costumes based on hit f

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OCTOBER 16, 2022

Quest owners will be able to watch YouTube together in Horizon Home, Meta announced this week. The brief mention during Meta Connect indicates people will be able to have the YouTube VR experience with friends in their Horizon Home on Quest headsets. “In the future when you’re together with your friends in Horizon Home you’ll be able to watch and share YouTube videos just like you might do together in the physical world,” Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth said. “Watch videos

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Voices of VR

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Meta Connect happened this past week on October 11th where Meta announced the Meta Quest Pro, and also released quite a lot of interesting information about their future strategies. I participated in a panel discussion with 3 other immersive journalists covering this space on the No Proscenium podcast episode #363 hosted by Noah Nelson (@noahjnelson) along with CNET’s Scott Stein (@jetscott), and LA Times games & themed entertainment journalist Todd Martens (@toddmartens).

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OCTOBER 16, 2022

In this week’s episode of the Between Realities VR Podcast, Alex and Skeeva host Anthony Graceffa and Aaron Lutes, creators of Arcaxer, a new RPG on the Quest. Anthony and Aaron give insight into the development of Arcaxer and explain the struggles of getting their game into the Quest store. Other topics include Meta Quest Pro, the importance of multiplayer experiences, and hints from HTC about a new headset. — Between Realities Links — Merch Store: [link].

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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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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Meta Connect has been the big event of the week, and as it is a tradition of this blog , I’m going to write today for you a super article where you can find inside ALL the news announced during the event! This way, by reading this article, you are sure you have not missed any one of the announcements made there. I truly hope this can be useful for all of you in the XR community… How to read this post.

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