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OCTOBER 11, 2022

Meta Connect keynote has just finished: for 90 minutes, Mark Zuckerberg and Andrew Bosworth guided us in discovering the upcoming products and partnerships that Meta is developing on its road to the Metaverse. Like every year, in a few days I will write a super big roundup of the event with EVERYTHING announced (you can subscribe to my newsletter not to miss it), but for now, let me just point out what are for me the main takeaways from the keynote.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Turn your living room into a spy-themed mixed reality escape room. When Schell Games launched the original I Expect You to Die back in 2015, it showed gamers just how incredible VR entertainment can be when done correctly. In August of 2021, the team released a sequel, I Expect You To Die 2: The Spy and the Liar. Now it appears as though we’re getting a third mini-installment, this time with mixed reality functionality.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Fashion is physical. Right? While clothing has always been material, expression has always been something more. And, digital fashion brands have been exploring that intersection. Even physical fashion brands are using XR technology to sell their hard-copy clothing. Though some are selling soft-copy clothing too. From virtual clothes to virtual stores, there’s a lot to see.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Everything you need to know about Meta’s new all-in-one VR headset. After long last, Meta has officially unveiled the Meta Quest Pro (formerly Project Cambria), a high-powered VR headset with full-color mixed reality capabilities. The first in a new line of high-end devices, the highly-anticipated standalone headset was revealed this morning at Meta Connect 2022, during which the company shared a plethora of information regarding specs, pricing, accessories, and more.

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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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Road to VR

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Today during Meta Connect the company finally revealed its high-end Quest Pro headset (formerly called Project Cambria). Priced at $1,500, the headset packs a new Snapdragon XR2+ processor along with a bevy of sensors for tracking the user’s expressions and the world around them for improved passthrough AR capabilities. Alongside new and improved controllers, the company also revealed the full Quest Pro specs, pre-order date, and release date.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 11, 2022

After covering AR's role in healthcare and aerospace, our latest case study turns attention to semiconductors. Like those other industries, the chip sector is primed for AR because fabrication involves intricate industrial processes. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Meta announced at its Connect developer conference today that the company has acquired three more VR game studios, bringing its total to nine such acquisitions over the past two years. Joining Meta’s Oculus Studios is Camouflaj ( Marvel’s Iron Man VR ), Twisted Pixel ( Wilson’s Heart, Path of the Warrior ), and Armature Studio ( Resident Evil 4 VR port for Quest 2).

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 11, 2022

On Monday, Agora, a firm designing real-time engagement (RTE) applications, took to the virtual stage at RTE 2022 to introduce updates to its software development kit (SDK). Agora is redesigning its immersive development ecosystem as a more “flexible, simple and powerful” offering, Virginia Liu, the company’s Chief Experience Officer said.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Meta’s new Quest Pro headset includes Touch Pro controllers which come with a bevy upgrades, and they’ll work with Quest 2 as well. Meta says that Quest Pro and Quest 2 will co-exist as high-end and entry-level headset lines, and there’s perhaps no clearer evidence of this than that the company has taken the time to make its new Touch Pro controllers compatible with both headsets.

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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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In the construction (AEC) landscape, immersive technology like extended reality hardware and software has the potential to transform all aspects of the workflow. Already, countless companies are investing in VR, AR, and MR solutions as a way of improving design practices and boosting creativity among team members. However, there’s another significant benefit too.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Quest Pro has finally been revealed and we were lucky enough to be among the first to get a hands-on demo with this interesting new standalone VR MR headset. If you want to see the full specs and release details of Quest Pro, see our article here. We’ve always called Quest 2 a VR headset. Because, while it has gained some passthrough AR capabilities since launch, it was still clearly far better at VR than AR—and most of its actual usage reflects that.

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OCTOBER 11, 2022

Face your fears with On The Morning You Wake (to the end of the world) in virtual reality Photo via Pixabay Imagine waking up to the text message “Ballistic Missile Threat Inbound. Seek Immediate Shelter. This is not a drill.” With your life flashing before your eyes, realistically, what would you do? The Morning You Wake (to the end of the world) Meta Quest VR app is based on a true story.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 11, 2022

At Connect 2022 today, Camouflaj and Meta announced they’re bringing Marvel’s Iron Man VR out of PSVR exclusivity and releasing it on Meta Quest 2 next month. Developed by Camouflaj and Endeavor One, Iron Man VR is officially coming to Quest 2 on November 3rd. When it launched on PSVR in July 2020, we gave Iron Man VR a rating of ‘Great’ in our full review , later awarding it with the PSVR Game of the Year in 2020 thanks to its unique mechanics, strong storytelling, and a f

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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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OCTOBER 11, 2022

Meta recently showed press its first in-person look at progress toward a wristband that can sense your intentions. In 2019, the company-formerly-known-as-Facebook acquired a startup called CTRL-Labs that was working on a wrist-worn device for reading the electrical activity heading toward your hand. It does this with EMG, or electromyography, which reads the activity with sensors strapped around the circumference of your arm.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Skydance Interactive, the studio behind the wildly successful zombie shooter The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners , today revealed their next VR game: Behemoth. Debuted at Connect today, Behemoth is still largely a mystery. The team says the Quest 2 and Rift S title is being “built from the ground up to showcase everything Skydance Interactive has learned about what it means to fight for your very survival in VR.” Although only pure speculation, it seems like Behemoth is a survival g

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OCTOBER 11, 2022

Quest Pro’s controllers support Quest 2, and will be sold separately for $300 later this year. The new Touch Pro controllers are included with Quest Pro. They are self-tracking, with three cameras and an onboard chipset, meaning tracking works at any angle regardless of where the headset is facing. Included stylus tips attach to the bottom so they can act as pens to draw on virtual whiteboards.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Despite a flood of leaks leading up to its official unveiling, there’s one thing we definitely didn’t know about Quest Pro before today: its battery life. And at Connect, Meta revealed we should expect between one to two hours of usage with the company’s $1,500 standalone. Meta says Quest Pro users can extend runtime by using the two-meter charging cable included in-box.

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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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OCTOBER 11, 2022

Meta Avatars are getting third-person legs soon, and a major graphics overhaul next year. They will also get support for Quest Pro’s eye tracking and face tracking later this month so your gaze, blinking, and facial expressions are mapped to your avatar in real-time. Legs will arrive in Horizon Worlds first later this year, and then be available to all developers via the SDK next year.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Meta and Microsoft today announced at Connect that starting in 2023 the Quest platform is getting a host of Windows productivity tools along with the ability to use Windows 11 via the cloud. First, here’s a list of what’s coming to the Quest platform: Microsoft Teams immersive meeting experiences for Meta Quest: Connect, share, and collaborate in Teams immersive experiences.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The global tech community has been exploring the digital frontier known as the Metaverse by developing bespoke solutions and infrastructure. Immersive technologies have demanded some of the world’s best firms to develop cloud computing, body tracking, artificial intelligence (AI), audiovisual, and gaming engine technologies capable of realising the full potential of the future communications platform.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Meta today unveiled Quest Pro , it’s next high-end VR headset which is capable of AR interactions thanks to full-color passthrough. The company confirmed Quest Pro supports Oculus Link and Air Link for PC VR play. Meta says Quest Pro includes a full Wi-Fi 6E experience in the 6GHz broadband spectrum, and can deliver up to 1.6Gbps of throughput, which is notably double the bandwidth over Quest 2 Wi-Fi capabilities.

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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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OCTOBER 11, 2022

ShapesXR, the world’s top-rated free productivity app on the Meta Store, has upgraded its platform for use with Meta’s latest enterprise device, the Quest Pro, the company announced on Tuesday. The features will enhance collaborative efforts and creativity using Meta’s long-awaited mixed reality (MR) headset. ShapesXR will offer creative content developers a new suite of tools capable of building immersive experiences for any app on MR headsets from Meta, Pico Interactive, Appl

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Among the flashy product reveals and developer talks, Meta’s annual XR developer conference Connect usually includes a few nuggets of info on how the overall app ecosystem is doing. This year the company revealed its Quest app store is apparently doing better than ever. Meta revealed that of the over 400 apps in the Quest Store, roughly 1 in 3 are making revenue in the millions.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Meta Platforms has launched a strategic partnership to integrate Microsoft Teams on the company’s latest device, the Meta Quest Pro, it was revealed at the Meta Connect 2022 event on Tuesday. Mark Zuckerberg, Meta Platforms Chief Executive and Founder , and Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s Chief Executive , announced the strategic alliance at the massive event that enterprise users of the new headset could also access Microsoft Teams in mixed reality (MR).

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 11, 2022

At Connect today Meta unveiled Quest Pro , its high-end VR headset which includes AR capabilities thanks to full-color passthrough. Before you plonk down $1,500 on the kit and caboodle though, you might actually be able to try it before you buy. Starting October 14th, you’ll be able to mess around in Quest Pro at the company’s physical Meta Store in Burlingame, California.

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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?

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