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Assemble 3D Puzzles In VR With Puzzling Places On Oculus Quest

VRScout

Volumetric 3D capture adds a whole new dimension to the classic jigsaw experience. Available now free on Oculus Quest headsets, Puzzle Places offers a fresh take on the conventional jigsaw experience, allowing users to assemble an intricately-detailed three-dimensional VR scene captured using volumetric photogrammetry—a unique form of 3D capture which involves taking a large number of photos and stitching them together to form realistic 3D models.

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Facebook’s Non-advertising Revenue ‘primarily driven by Oculus,’ up 80% to $297M

Road to VR

In Facebook’s Q1 2020 earnings call today, the company overviewed its latest financial situation and noted that Oculus products were a major contributor to $297 million in non-advertising revenue. While Facebook makes the vast majority of its revenue from advertising, the company also separately reports non-advertising revenue which includes the sale of Oculus hardware and software, Portal video calling products, and more.

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Arizona Sunshine’s Latest Oculus Quest Expansion ‘The Damned’ Is Its Biggest Yet

VRScout

The celebrated zombie shooter is now available on Oculus Quest in its entirety. Arizona Sunshine’s final story expansion “The Damned” is now available on Oculus Quest, marking the end of five months of scheduled content releases from developer Vertigo Games. In that time we’ve been introduced to new weapons, horde maps, missions, and protagonists, but nothing quite as ambitious as “The Damned.” For those of you who may be out of the loop, here’s a quick

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John Legend, Tinashe to Play Live Shows in Social VR Platform ‘Wave’

Road to VR

Wave isn’t your garden variety social VR platform. With an emphasis on virtual raves, replete with immersive visualizations and regular live performances, it’s become the de facto concert platform for VR users. Now Wave says it’s bringing more artists this summer via its One Wave concert series, which will include artists such as John Legend, Tinashe, Jauz, Galantis, and more.

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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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Voting is Open for AWE’s XR Technology Auggie Awards

ARPost

With the annual Augmented World Expo (AWE) going online this year, they’ve taken the XR technology awards show Auggie Awards with them. Nominations closed last week and public online voting is now open. The initial idea for this article was to write a review of all of the nominations. However, when public voting opened, a striking 208 companies, applications, games, and devices had been nominated.

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EON Reality’s Global Emergency Initiative Expands to Italy with New Partners and 2,400 Students

EON Reality

The new expansion will begin with lessons created by faculty and students from the Aldini Valeriani Institute. EON Reality, the world leader in Augmented and Virtual Reality-based knowledge and skills transfer for industry and education, is proud to announce a new addition to the Global Emergency Initiative through its Classroom 3.0 partnership in Bologna, Italy.

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Rhythm-shooter ‘Pistol Whip’ to Launch on PSVR This Summer

Road to VR

Pistol Whip (2019) , the VR rhythm-shooter from Cloudhead Games, has been available on Oculus Quest and SteamVR-compatible headsets since late last year. However it seems PSVR owners will soon be able to get into the stylish shooting action too. Cloudhead hasn’t said specifically when it will arrive on PSVR this summer, however the studio says it will continue supporting the game in the months following its release on PSVR with fresh content updates, new levels, customization options, R

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The Future Of Showbiz Is No Game

Charlie Fink

Travis Scott’s “Astronomical” on Fortnite suggests experiences may supplant stories on new platforms.

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Month in AR -April 2020

Zappar

This month we celebrate the work that has been created to help during these challenging times.

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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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Mozilla Hubs Cloud is the foundation of the free metaverse

The Ghost Howls

Virtual events and meetings are the topic of the moment. As a consultant, I am receiving many requests for remote collaboration tools now during the lockdown, and with my partners Massimiliano Ariani and SIDI , I am also hosting some workshops in VR. For this reason, I gained a good expertise in immersive collaboration tools, and one of the VR platforms that I love the most in this sense is Mozilla Hubs.

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‘Arizona Sunshine’ Releases The Damned DLC on Oculus Quest

Oculus

Return to face the zombie horde once more! Arizona Sunshine on Oculus Quest is back with The Damned DLC, an all-new chapter in this apocalyptic.

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3 Proof Points for AR Advertising

AR Insider

This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. Find out more or contact us to participate here. Authors’ opinions are their own. . 3 Conversion Metrics That Prove the Impact of Augmented Reality. by Liz Kindt. Augmented reality in 2020 is more than just a trend. It has yielded real results for brands, and kept consumers coming back for more.

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