VRScout
OCTOBER 14, 2022
No menus, no instructions, and no artificial locomotion. HOST is an insanely creepy room-scale VR experience set inside an alien organism, making it the perfect game to celebrate the 2022 Halloween season. Think of HOST as the Midsommer of VR games. If you’ve never seen that movie, I highly recommend checking it out. It’s a total mind trip. This is actually the second chapter in the ongoing HOST trilogy.
ARPost
OCTOBER 14, 2022
ARPost has covered awareness months before as the XR industry turns its many many lenses on important issues like emotional health. However, November may become “National XR Month,” thanks to an initiative by the Reality Caucus and the XR Association. National XR Month, You Say? Late last month, Reality Caucus member, Representative Darrell Issa, proposed that November be recognized as “National XR Month.
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Road to VR
OCTOBER 14, 2022
Meta announced that Quest users will soon be able to watch YouTube content inside Horizon Home, the first-party social VR space that’s finally making it easy to hang out in VR with friends. Meta is slowly… painfully slowly… building out the core social features of its Quest series of headsets that first launched all the way back in 2019.
AR Insider
OCTOBER 14, 2022
What are Quest Pro's "pros" and cons? We round up the device's top video reviews for this week's XR Talks, sprinkled in with our analysis of the device's positioning and strategic value for Meta's XR lifecycle. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
OCTOBER 14, 2022
Mesmerise is a virtual reality (VR) consultancy firm that provides enterprise-grade immersive simulation technology to many clients, including Lenovo, MKT, and Time Magazine. The company’s technology allows enterprises to use VR solutions for large-scale meetings, events, and conferences with the power to host 1000s of people via its Gatherings remote meeting solution.
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XR Today - Virtual Reality
OCTOBER 14, 2022
Truly immersive experiences in Extended Reality rely on the ability to engage multiple senses in an environment which looks, feels, and sounds similar to real-life. During the early years of XR development, many innovators focused heavily on the quality of the visuals produced for digital interactions. However, while what we can see in AR, MR, and VR is important, it’s not the only factor.
Road to VR
OCTOBER 14, 2022
Google’s Project Starline is an experimental system for immersive video chatting that aims to close the distance between people without needing an AR or VR headset. At Google’s annual Cloud Next conference, the company announced it’s rolling out the booth-sized device in early access to select enterprise partners, officially taking it beyond the walls of Google’s offices for the first time.
Upload VR
OCTOBER 14, 2022
Apple’s upcoming headset will have leg tracking and iris scanning, The Information reports. Last year Bloomberg , The Information , and supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo released reports claiming Apple is preparing to release a premium headset for VR and AR with ultra high resolution color passthrough. Kuo claimed this headset will be noticeably lighter than existing VR headsets and feature dual 4K OLED microdisplays.
Anand Tech
OCTOBER 14, 2022
In a short post published on NVIDIA’s website today, the company has announced that it is “unlaunching” their planned GeForce RTX 4080 12GB card. The lowest-end of the initially announce RTX 40 series cards, the RTX 4080 12GB had attracted significant criticism since it’s announcement for bifurcating the 4080 tier between two cards that didn’t even share a common GPU.
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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.
Upload VR
OCTOBER 14, 2022
Some Pico 4 preorders in Europe will be delayed, Pico says. The standalone VR headset is set to launch on Tuesday, October 18th in Europe, Japan & South Korea for €429, and is already available in China. The ByteDance-owned company blamed “ unprecedented global demand”, saying it’s “working tirelessly” to ensure that preorders are shipped by the end of October.
Anand Tech
OCTOBER 14, 2022
As part of this week’s Microsoft Ignite developers conference, Microsoft’s DirectX team has published a few blog posts offering updates on the state of various game development-related projects. The biggest and most interesting of these is an update on DirectStorage, Microsoft’s API for enabling faster game asset loading. In short, the long-awaited 1.1 update, which adds support for GPU asset decompression, is finally on its way, with Microsoft intending to release the API to d
Upload VR
OCTOBER 14, 2022
At launch in 2020, Marvel’s Iron Man VR was a fantastic PSVR game that let you truly embody Tony Stark and his iconic suit of armor. However, the game was also hindered in places by the hardware it ran on. With Iron Man VR flying onto Quest 2 next month , it looks like developers Camouflaj are able to fully realize their original vision for the game. “The team really tried to punch above its weight,” said Camouflaj founder Ryan Payton, reflecting on the PSVR launch. “We
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
OCTOBER 14, 2022
The ongoing Microsoft Ignite 2022 event is showcasing many of the Redmond, Washington-based tech giant’s prolific solutions from 12 to 14 October. Many company executives have joined to offer their knowledge along with partner firms, analysts, and others to global audiences for the three-day gathering. One such company, Infosys, is a major provider of FSM solutions that explained how its technologies transformed the customer experience (CX) with Microsoft’s Dynamics 365, Teams, and P
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.
Upload VR
OCTOBER 14, 2022
Quest 2 controller-free hand tracking is getting another significant quality update. Hand Tracking 2.0 arrived on Quest 2 in May and the original Quest this month , bringing dramatic improvements to using your hands without controllers. Meta said its researchers and engineers “developed a new method of applying deep learning to better understand hand poses when the device’s cameras can’t see the full hand or when the hand is moving quickly”, describing the result as “a step-function improvement
AIXR
OCTOBER 14, 2022
Design Best Practices for Enterprise VR Training. There is no doubt that virtual reality training is effective, but the design process comes with nuances that are often overlooked. The pre-production and design phases of any virtual reality project are crucial, and it’s important to ensure that proper attention and time is allotted for a successful and effective deployment.
Upload VR
OCTOBER 14, 2022
Quest Pro supports Eye Tracked Foveated Rendering, but exactly how much does it improve performance? If you’re not familiar with the term, eye tracked foveated rendering (ETFR) is a technique where only the region of the display you’re currently looking at is rendered in full resolution, thus freeing up performance since the rest is lower resolution.
Oculus
OCTOBER 14, 2022
Eli Roth has some new Halloween haunts up his sleeve, and they’re coming to home to roost on the Meta Quest Platform. Presented by Crypt.
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.
Program Ace
OCTOBER 14, 2022
The post Program-Ace at Meetup: Elevating Experience in the Cyber Security Field appeared first on Program-Ace.
Oculus
OCTOBER 14, 2022
Today we’re excited to announce our latest Meta Quest Flash Sale!* Now through October 16 at 11:59 pm PT, you can score deep discounts on.
Oculus
OCTOBER 14, 2022
Welcome back to our weekly spotlight on the people building for Meta Horizon Worlds and their amazing creations.
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