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Meta Quest 2 Is One Of Oprah’s Favorite Things 2022

VRScout

Meta’s Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses also made it on the list. Oprah Winfrey—the famed American talk show host and philanthropist—is back with yet another holiday gift guide featuring her favorite products of the past year. Earning a spot on Oprah’s Favorite Things gift list is generally considered an honor, which is why it’s so cool to see Meta Quest 2 make the cut.

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Case Study: How Can AR Transform Surgery?

AR Insider

The worlds of medical imaging and emerging digital tech come together with AR. And one practitioner operating at that intersection is Medivis. We examine its innovations in AR-guided surgery in the latest case study. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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China Wants To Ship 25 Million VR Headsets By 2026

VRScout

The country appears to be going all-in on immersive technology. According to Reuters , China plans on shipping over 25 million VR headsets by 2026 as part of a five-year plan to strengthen the country’s digital economy. The ambitious action plan was published by five Chinese government ministries led by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and includes augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality technologies.

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Flex NBA: The AR-Enabled Basketball-Themed TCG That’s So Much More

ARPost

Flex NBA is a new basketball-themed trading card game that brings augmented reality to the sport’s biggest names. In addition to checking out the game itself, we talked with Sequoia Games founder and CEO, Daniel Choi, about how the company and the game came to life. What Is Flex? Flex is a lot. It’s collectible trading cards. It’s also augmented reality artwork and cinematics.

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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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Qualcomm Says Multiple Snapdragon XR2+ Devices Will be Announced by Year’s End

Road to VR

Semiconductor giant Qualcomm says its latest XR chipset, the Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 1, will find its way into multiple virtual and mixed reality (MR) headsets by the end of 2022. We know of at least two headset that already feature Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon XR chipset: the recently launched Meta Quest Pro and Lenovo ThinkReality VRX , both of which are VR standalones capable of augmented reality interactions thanks to color passthrough cameras (aka ‘mixed reality’).

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IIoT World 2022 Probes Disruptive Industrial Metaverse

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The industrial metaverse is rapidly developing, both as an emerging technology for reshaping global supply chains, but also for transforming future products and infrastructure. To date, companies capitalising on the industrial metaverse face significant challenges in applying solutions. These firms aim to receive tangible returns on investment (ROI), streamlined logistics and production processes, and deploy novel technologies capable of delivering higher-quality products.

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Flickplay: What are Immersive NFTs?

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Watch on YouTube. XR Today’s Rory Greener hosts Pierina Merino, CEO of FlickPlay. In this session, we discuss the following: Insight into Flickplay’s experience developing and deploying Web3 content at scale. What are “social media” NFTs ? What B2B and marketing opportunities exist within the Flickplay ecosystem? Experience with the Disney XR Accelerator and the benefits of working with major media partners.

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Are Holograms the Future of the Enterprise?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Holograms could soon become the next wave of communications, connecting people with spatially-designed virtual objects to add depth, realism, and emotional impact to face-to-face communications. Over the last few years, technology has advanced significantly by reconnecting how people communicate. Phone calls became video calls, namely amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and allowed millions of people to meet and do business despite national lockdowns.

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RealWear Launches Voice-Controlled Thermal Camera

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Manufacturers of immersive industry 4.0 solutions RealWear launched a hands-free, voice-controlled thermal camera attachment for its Navigator 500 augmented reality (AR) headset. The new add-on allows Navigator 500 operators to capture high-resolution visible-spectrum, thermal, and colour images. This feature enables a RealWear worker to identify temperature anomalies in industrial equipment like pumps, pipes, wiring, and motors.

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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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Voxels & Its Evolution as a Uniquely Powerful Metaverse Platform

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Voxels is one of the hottest topics among metaverse enthusiasts. This is partly because the platform uses an innovative mix of metaverse and Web 3.0 technologies. But the system also highlights the myriad ways that the metaverse can mirror real-world infrastructures like roads and buildings. And you'll soon see how to enjoy Voxels for yourself. [.].

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Mixed Reality, Internet of Things, and Digital Twins

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Back to Blog Page. In the past we have individually covered what Mixed Reality , Internet of Things , and Digital Twins are and how they are used. In a previous blog we also explored how Mixed Reality and Internet of Things are used together. Now we will dive into the powerful combination with the use of Digital Twins. The use of Digital Twins with Mixed Reality and Internet of Things opens a new realm of possibilities.

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Meta Quest 2 + Ray-Ban Stories Selected as Two of Oprah’s Favorite Things 2022

Oculus

Last year, Meta Quest 2 was included as part of Oprah’s Favorite Things holiday gift list—and today, the honor is twice as nice, with both.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.11.01): Quest Pro gets released, Quest 3 slated for 2023, and more!

The Ghost Howls

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE! Even if it is not part of the Italian tradition, probably Halloween is the right festivity for me, since I’m a ghost :). And in fact, for me, this one has been a pretty cool week: HTC Vive has selected me as one of the top 100 VR influencers (whatever this word means), Adello magazine featured me in its online publication , and today my company Vrroom will be a host of the afterparty of the Unity Unite event , with a concert of Blu DeTiger inside VRChat (Look for Unite2

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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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The Five Most Interesting VR Haptic Technologies I’ve Seen in the Last Five Years

Road to VR

Next to sight and sound, haptics are one of the lowest hanging fruits for creating immersion in VR. But beyond the rumble we have in today’s VR controllers there’s lots of other immersive haptic tech yet to be widely adopted. Over the years I’ve had the fortune to see a wide range of VR haptic solutions ranging from the ‘amazing but impractical’ to the ‘simple and somehow unadopted’ Here’s a look at the five most interesting haptic demos that have

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