Tue.Dec 06, 2022

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This VR Game Turns Math Into A Fun Adventure

VRScout

VR technology makes learning fun. As someone who has struggled with math in the past, I’ve always appreciated edutainment solutions designed to make learning fun. This is where Math World VR comes in. Available now on VR headsets, this edutainment experience teaches you the basics of math arithmetic in a uniquely engaging way. The game features a variety of interactive mini-games, each of which is designed to educate you on a different type of mathematics.

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GigXR Continues Content Rollouts and Partnerships

ARPost

GigXR creates and hosts some of the most mind-blowing educational experiences in what spokespeople call “the mediverse.” Through partnerships with some of the world’s best educational institutions and the world’s most innovative technology companies, the company is helping to bring medical education into the 21st century. Catching Up With GigXR. GigXR was founded three years ago specifically to take on XR projects from textbook publisher Pearson.

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What’s Instagram’s AR Play?

AR Insider

After laying the groundwork in earlier installations of this series, we now switch gears to drill down into the players at the intersection of AR and shopping. And what better place to start than the bastion of fashion-forward product discovery: Instagram. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Snapchat Is Adding Paid Power-Ups To AR Lenses

VRScout

Additional monetization options are on the way for Snapchat’s augmented reality Lenses. Today marked the start of Lens Fest 2022 , Snap’s annual developer conference centered around its global community of augmented reality (AR) creators. The company kicked things off with a bang earlier this morning with the reveal of a new feature that allows select developers to sell premium upgrades to their AR Lenses.

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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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Meta Shows How Quest Pro Uses Shared Point Clouds for Local Multiplayer

Road to VR

Meta hasn’t rolled out colocation services for the entire Quest platform yet—meaning a pair of Quest 2 headsets can’t automatically ‘see’ each other in the same physical playspace—although that’s not entirely true for its latest headset, Quest Pro. Meta published a quick explainer video recently showing off how local multiplayer works between two Quest Pros.

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DSCVR is the Leading Web3 Service with 14,089 Daily Users

XR Today - Virtual Reality

This Monday, Immersive Industry Analyst Tom Fiske reported that web3 social network DSCVR holds roughly 14,089 active daily users. The total is notable due to DSCVR hosting approximately 150,000 sign-ups. In these terms, the sign-up number means that the DSCVR service is the largest Web3 service currently available. The daily users may initially appear low compared to traditional social media or Web2 services.

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Google Advances its Geo-local AR Play

ARVR

Though it’s a mature product with a dominant market share, Google Maps’ roadmap resembles that of a younger, nimbler product. Part of that includes its AR navigation feature known as Live View. And its latest update is to make Live View more searchable (it is Google after all). As background for those unfamiliar, Live View offers urban walking navigation through 3D directional overlays on an upheld smartphone.

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Unity Reflects on Industrial Metaverse at IGS 2022 Miami

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The rise of the industrial metaverse has become a key player in developing a viable, unified spatial communications platform. As companies seek to reach targeted outcomes with immersive technologies, industry leaders have leveraged their world-building technologies, in the real world. Dave Rhodes, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Digital Twins for Unity , delivered a keynote speech at the massive immersive tech event on Monday morning.

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Virtual Reality in the Movie Industry

ARVR

Filmmakers today are exploring virtual reality technology to increase immersive viewing dramatically. In traditional 2D and 3D movies, the audience is just a spectator, but in VR movies , the audience no longer sees the predetermined picture. Their every move has an interactive effect. However, the most exciting thing about VR in Hollywood isn’t what’s on the screen.

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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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Apple’s Headset May Be Delayed To Later Next Year

Upload VR

Apple’s AR/VR headset may be delayed to later next year. TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is known for predicting Apple products & moves over a year in advance using his supply chain sources. Apple Track gives him a 72.5% accuracy rating. Last year Kuo claimed Apple’s headset will launch in late 2022, as did Taiwanese news outlet DigiTimes.

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AR Finds its Place in Home Renovation

ARVR

Houzz has launched a new feature that lets home-service pros visualize finished bathroom projects in the very spaces they’ll occupy. Using the new feature through a smartphone or tablet, they can help homeowners walk through and visualize design choices on the fly. Its latest move builds from the AR features already offered in the Houzz Pro app, now extended to bathrooms.

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Future Of Work: The 4 Biggest Workplace Trends In 2023

Bernard Marr

Workplaces in 2023 will be more diverse, distributed and virtual than ever before. Corporations and even smaller organizations will learn to adapt in order to cater for shifting employee expectations in the wake of the post-pandemic “new normal”, and behavioral trends such as the great resignation or the even-more-recent quiet quitting movement.

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Can AR Really Reduce eCommerce Returns?

ARVR

Shoppability is the new black. There’s a trend towards all things being shoppable. We’re talking buy buttons on everything from YouTube videos to Instagram Stories. This isn’t new but is one of many trends that’s been Covid-accelerated as it piggybacks on eCommerce inflections. Elsewhere — and for similar reasons — we see a separate trend: AR shopping, also known as “camera commerce.

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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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5G Networks Crucial to Metaverse Future, AT&T Says

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Telecoms have played a massive role in facilitating the expanded use of unified communications apps such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Skype, and multiple social media platforms. Fully functional networks have facilitated immense connectivity for families, businesses, and individuals worldwide, namely during the COVID-19 pandemic. The meteoric rise of virtual, augmented, mixed, and extended reality (VR/AR/MR/XR) solutions recently triggered a surge in demand for network infrastructure, forcing telec

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Drums Rock Confirmed For Release On PSVR 2

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Drums Rock is smashing its way onto another platform, with developers Garage51 confirming a release on PSVR 2. The announcement came alongside a new trailer, detailing the game options and songs that will be available at launch on PSVR 2. Drums Rock will take advantage of PSVR 2’s headset vibration to offer increased rumble when playing the drums, which should hopefully offer increased immersion so you can feel like you’re behind the kit at a roaring concert.

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XR, Metaverse to Reshape the Human Connection

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

As 2022 comes to a close, much of the tech industry has seen spectacular ups and downs. Despite this, the sector has made tremendous growth in some technological advancements and reached key milestones in immersive human connectivity across the immersive sector. The Immerse Global Summit 2022 Miami has rallied many top brands across the tech industry to reflect on both its achievements and setbacks.

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Extraordinary Windows: Visit the Meta Quest Holiday Pop-Up in NYC

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Holiday cheer is in the air, and in New York City, residents and tourists alike have the chance to get hands-on with Meta Quest 2.

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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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What Is an NFT? Non-Fungible Tokens Clearly Explained

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What is an NFT? Four simple words mean far more than most people would ever imagine. At this point, most people have a rough idea of what an NFT is. But that's also usually quite removed from truly understanding NFTs or their capabilities. You'll soon discover what an NFT is, why it's essential, and how [.]. The post What Is an NFT? Non-Fungible Tokens Clearly Explained appeared first on Metamandrill.com.

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4 beneficial Microsoft Dynamics 365 Guides features

CraneMorley

Back to Blog Page. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Guides is a great application for self-paced instruction. The uses vary from trainings to routine maintance and a checklist system to filter out any simple issues before they require valuable time from subject matter experts. The Microsoft development team has given us a long list of features that you may or may not know about.

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“Feast Your Eyes on this Gastronomic Virtual Reality Delight!”

VRGames

Mattia Casalegno’s unique installation, Aerobanquets RMX made its debut at Miami Art Week as a multisensory experience combining VR technology with high-qualilty meals from Michelin-starred chef Chintan Pandya. Guests had the option to choose between regular or vegan menus, each of which included five to seven dishes and were narrated by Top Chef judge Gail […].

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Meta Quest 2 + Meta Quest Pro Out Now in Germany

Oculus

We’re excited to announce that Meta Quest 2 and Meta Quest Pro are coming to Germany in time for Christmas! Starting today, you can purchase.

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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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“Moss Conquers Game Of The Year: Epic Victory at 2022 VR Awards!”

VRGames

Polyarc’s Moss: Book 2 has emerged a winner at the 2021 VR Awards. On this prestigious occassion, it managed to overcome stiff competition from some of the most acclaimed titles in the field such as Star Wars: Tales from Galaxy’s Edge – Last Call, After The Fall, Lone Echo 2 and Zenith: The Last City […].

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EON Reality Brings AI-Powered XR Solutions to Eduvos in South Africa

EON Reality

The deal includes a multi-campus rollout of premium EON Reality academic solutions for both students and faculty at Eduvos locations in South Africa. IRVINE, CA, December 6, 2022 – EON Reality, Inc. (“EON Reality”), a global leader in Virtual and Augmented Reality (“XR”) industry and education solutions powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI), has announced a new deal with Eduvos in South Africa.