Thu.Nov 17, 2022

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Mixed Reality FPS Turns Your Home Into A Battlefield

VRScout

Battle an onslaught of virtual intruders in this mixed reality shooter for Quest 2 and Quest Pro. With the launch of Meta Quest Pro comes full-color passthrough technology, opening the doors for a whole new generation of immersive mixed reality games and apps. Despite having released less than a month ago, Meta’s latest VR headset already features a solid lineup of mixed reality content, from I Expect You To Die: Home Sweet Home to Wooorld.

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Valo Motion Officially Launches Mixed Reality Playground ValoArena in the US

ARPost

When people turned to the virtual world to connect with each other at the height of the pandemic, MMOs and other multiplayer games got a boost in popularity. Multiplayer XR games also began growing as a new genre of immersive cooperative play. While these games have the same basic goal of allowing multiple players to share experiences in the same virtual environment, they continue to evolve and develop into games that go beyond entertainment.

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Nreal AR Glasses Now Support PS5, Xbox, Steam Deck

VRScout

Nreal announces three big updates for its Nreal Air AR hardware. Nreal, a leading provider of consumer-ready augmented reality (AR) glasses, has announced that the chic-looking Nreal Air glasses now support major video games consoles such as the Xbox Series X/S, PS5, and Steam Deck thanks to a new firmware update. Nreal has also released beta versions of its Nebula app for Mac as well as YouTube AR experiences through its TV app.

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Reality Bytes: TikTok, Twitter & FTX

AR Insider

This week on Reality Bytes, we discuss which platforms could ‘replace’ Twitter, the criminal crypto dumpster fire that is FTX, and TikTok gets serious about shopping. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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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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How VR is Revolutionizing Medicine

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Healthcare and technology have always been intertwined. Pacemakers, electrocardiograms (EKGs), CAT scans, and, increasingly, robot-assisted surgery are all hallmarks of clinical care. The pandemic accelerated the use of telemedicine to diagnose and occasionally treat patients. Increasingly, patients are taking health into their hands through wearables that can track heartbeats, blood pressure , and other vital signs. .

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Virtual Reality in Healthcare and Compliance Meets Enterprise Training

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Extended reality (XR) is making a substantial impact on how companies train and upskill their employees. Combining virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR), firms can empower teams with bespoke, targeted immersive experiences. Virtual reality (VR) in healthcare, training, and remote guidance provides enterprises with impressive tools needed to reach clear targets.

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Sony Patents Blockchain System amid PSVR2 Release

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Last Thursday, global technology giant Sony released a patent for an in-game blockchain infrastructure that supports the trading and selling of digital assets. Sony’s blockchain allows participants to purchase in-game items or characters. The system will also enable users to capture gameplay moments such as video clips or images and distribute them as NFTs.

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Metaverse Law: Unravelling the Future of Online Interactions

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Many individuals and groups are making Metaverse laws, best practices, and legal standards to regulate and standardize the growing Web3 landscape. Similar to the rise of social and user-driven Web 2.0, where laws regulated elements of its online interactions like eCommerce transactions, copyright, and harassment. Many organizations are working to make legal infrastructure to support the various elements that empower spatial communications, such as eCommerce, blockchain, and intellectual property

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ForeVR Pool Arrives For Quest 2 & Quest Pro

Upload VR

ForeVR Pool is available now for Quest 2 and Quest Pro. ForeVR already has Bowl , Darts , and Cornhole available, with 1 versus 1 8-ball pool now joining the lineup of classic games Meta’s standalone VR headsets. Support for the original Quest headset isn’t listed. ForeVR Pool features 50 different cues with five different halls to play inside.

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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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What is RT3D? An Introduction to Real-Time 3D

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The way we view and interact with visual content has evolved significantly in recent years. As the world has grown increasingly “digitised”, consumers have begun relying on 3D content to help them realistically visualise ideas, wherever they are. In the past, rendering 3D content was a complex, labour-intensive, and often expensive process. However, the rising popularity of the XR market, alongside other new technologies, has paved the way for new rendering and development tools.

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Vuzix Ultralite Earns CES 2023 Innovation Award

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Vuzix, a major manufacturer of augmented reality (AR) smart glasses and solutions, announced on Thursday it had received a Consumer Electronics Award (CES) 2023 Innovation Award for Wearable Technology. Vuzix has won 19 consecutive awards at the prestigious event, which has received more than 2,100 submissions this year. It will offer its award-winning Ultralite smart glasses solution as an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) platform.

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Slapstick VR Game What The Bat? Available Now On Quest, PC VR

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Who needs hands when you can have baseball bats? That opening line from the launch trailer, embedded below, pretty much sums up What the Bat? perfectly. Available today on Quest headsets and PC VR via Steam, this new VR release from indie studio Triband is a hectic follow-up to What the Golf? from 2019. However, while What the Golf? was a strictly flatscreen affair, What the Bat?

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This Week In XR: Yahaha Raises $40 Million For Metaverse Building Tool, Arcturus Raises 11 For Vol Cap

Charlie Fink

Two companies dodged the investment pullback.

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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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Hide Or Seek: ‘Espire 2’ Out Now On Meta Quest 2 + Pro

Oculus

“Nobody knows you’re alive, and nobody can know.” Welcome back, agent, to the high-stakes espionage of Espire 2, out now on Meta Quest 2 +.

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The Top 5 Technology Challenges In 2023

Bernard Marr

When it comes to technology, rapidly changing conditions pose unprecedented challenges that must not be ignored. Learn the top 5 tech challenges companies need to address to survive and thrive in 2023. As 2022 draws to a close, companies must forge a path in a market characterized by unprecedented challenges and unbridled opportunities brought about by technology.

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Qualcomm announces AR2 chip to pave the road to the augmented reality glasses of the future

The Ghost Howls

At the Snapdragon Summit, Qualcomm has just made an announcement that I think will be very important for the future of augmented reality. The company has unveiled the Snapdragon AR2 Gen1 chip, which will power the next generation of slim augmented reality glasses. Unluckily I haven’t been able to go to Hawaii to enjoy the live announcement (and enjoy some drinks on the seaside), but I attended a preview of the presentation dedicated to the press, so I’m able to tell you everything I&

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Meta Horizon Worlds v83 Release Notes

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Meta Horizon Worlds v83 released this week. This release includes updates to asset spawning codeblocks, menu improvements, new sounds, as well as several bug fixes.

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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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Espire 2 Review: A Solid New Stealth Entry On Quest 2

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Three years after the release of the original , Espire 2 presents the next chapter in Digital Lode’s VR stealth franchise, available exclusively on Quest 2. Read on for our full Espire 2 review for Quest 2. When Espire 1: VR Operative released in late 2019, we called it “unquestionably the best expression of the stealth action genre we’ve seen in VR yet.

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Swing Your Way Through Life in ‘WHAT THE BAT?,’ Out Today on the Meta Quest Platform

Oculus

WHAT THE BAT? is the first VR game brave enough to explore the bold new idea of having baseball bats for hands, and it’s out.

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Second Life Steals, Deals, and Freebies: A Free Yo-Yo with Bento Animations from Pixel Arts

Ryan Schultz

But first, an apology. I have really slowed down on my previously-feverish pace of blogging, and I am sorry. Things have been very busy at my paying job, and when I come home from work, I am often exhausted. Also, I have been active on the federated microblogging platform Mastodon , working my way up the learning curve, so that has taken up a fair bit of my off-hours time, as well.

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En Garde: ‘Broken Edge’ Brings Fantasy Sword Fighting to Life on Meta Quest 2

Oculus

Sharpen your blade and study your opponent because Broken Edge is here, bringing fantasy sword fighting to life on Meta Quest 2 and Meta Quest.

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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?