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HaptX Gloves G1 Open for Pre-Orders

ARPost

HaptX has been one of the most promising XR hardware companies to watch. Their gloves for more immersive XR experiences and interactions are one of the most promising pieces of kit in the ecosystem. However, while the company has released two generations of developers’ kits, a mainline product has yet to arrive. Until now. (Sorry gamers, it is an enterprise device.).

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Case Study: AR Gets Big Rigs Back on the Road

AR Insider

Peterbilt Motors Company developed an AR-guided repair system that overlays 3D models of truck systems for technician guidance. It’s been deployed on iPads across 200+ dealerships. What are the results? we dive in. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Sci-Fi Adventure ‘Hubris’ Coming to PC VR Headsets in December, Quest 2 & PSVR 2 in 2023

Road to VR

Belgium-based 3D animation and VR studio Cyborn today announced its sci-fi adventure Hubris is finally set to launch on PC VR headsets on December 7th. In Hubris you serve as a recruit of the Order of Objectivity on your way to the Twin planet system to search for agent Cyana. Making your way through a hostile world in the midst of being terraformed, the game puts heavy focus on environmental storytelling as well as shooting, swimming, climbing, and jumping.

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Meta Quest Pro Ships Today, Bringing Color Mixed Reality To Standalone VR

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Meta Quest Pro ships today for $1500. Meta formerly referred to Quest Pro as “Project Cambria” – the codename given when it was teased at last year’s Connect. It’s neither a successor to nor a variant of Quest 2. Instead, it’s the first in Meta’s new “high-end” product line targeted at professionals, early adopters, developers, and businesses.

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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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‘Demeo’ Mixed Reality Update Arrives Today Amid Launch of Meta Quest Pro

Road to VR

Resolution Games’ popular turn-based strategy game Demeo (2021) is getting an update today that lets you play the immersive VR tabletop game in passthrough AR mode on Quest 2 as well as the newly launched Quest Pro. As with all mixed reality games on Quest 2 the headset’s passthrough capabilities only provide a monochrome view of your room, which decidedly focuses today’s Demeo update on the launch of Meta Quest Pro—at least if you’re looking for the most immersive mixed

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Top Takeaways from the AWE 2022 in Lisbon

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The Augmented World Expo (AWE) 2022 concluded last week in Lisbon, Portugal with a massive gathering of tech giants, professionals, thought leaders, and enthusiasts for the two-day event. Taking place 20-21 October, the world-renowned event saw companies showcase their latest products, speak to the media, deliver keynote speeches, and offer networking opportunities.

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New Haptic G1 Gloves From HaptX Ship Late 2023, $5,500 Per Pair

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HaptX says it is moving on from developer kits and taking pre-orders for its next generation haptic gloves targeting release in Q3 2023. The G1 Gloves from HaptX start at $5,495 per pair along with an air compressing backpack expected to weigh around 17 pounds. The backpack pushes air into “hundreds of microfluidic actuators that physically displace your skin,” according to the company.

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Vitruvian VR Showcases Training Product at AWE

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

In this session, we discuss the following: 1) Vitruvian VR model & roadmap. 2) Military applications and benefits. 3) Cost & efficiency savings. Thanks for watching! If you’d like more like this, don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE to our channel. You can also join in the conversation on our Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook pages.

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Hubris Launches December 7 For PC VR, Quest 2 & PSVR 2 Coming 2023

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Cyborn announced its upcoming action-adventure VR game Hubris will release on December 7 for PC VR. Hubris is a sci-fi action adventure title that will see you traverse through some stunning space vistas while climbing, running and swimming through environments and fending off enemies with your blasters. The game was originally scheduled for a late 2021 release, but got pushed back into 2022.

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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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Zoe No Code Content Creation App Launching Quest

Charlie Fink

A collaborative game engine on training wheels.

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Meta Quest Pro Hits Store Shelves

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Storefronts and stockrooms opened sales of the Meta Quest Pro on Tuesday for immediate purchase, offering customers a firsthand experience with the novel enterprise device. Still thinking about the sleek new #Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 1 powered @Meta Quest Pro. Who’s getting one? — Snapdragon (@Snapdragon) October 24, 2022. Meta Quest fans can now leverage the cutting-edge headset for their productivity and creativity needs in the age of immersive, web3-based content with the following specifications,

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New HaptX G1 Gloves For Enterprises

Charlie Fink

Compressed air microfluidics make the gloves feel more normal, and cost less.

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Apple Bans NFT Functions on iOS

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

This Monday, Apple updated its digital storefront review guidelines to ban certain NFT functions. The App Store Review Guidelines now state that iOS applications cannot use NFTs to unlock unique in-app functions or content. The move enables Apple to keep a tighter grip on in-app purchases. Apple takes 30 percent of the revenue from platform developers who make over $1 million, and NFTs circumvent this fee.

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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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Kyle Jackson (Talespin) on Using AI and AR/VR to Enable the Future of Education and Employment

The AR Show

Kyle Jackson is the co-founder and CEO of Talespin, a company making immersive learning a reality for the future of work. Kyle is a serial entrepreneur who has worked at the intersection of technology and storytelling for over 20 years. After studying interactive multimedia design and then earning an BFA from the School of Cinema-Television at USC, Kyle has persistently been solving the hard problems around creating and distributing digital media at scale.

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Mixed Reality used to help measure forest growth

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Back to Blog Page. At Rice University graduate student Daniel Gorczynski and bioscientist Lydia Beaudrot developed a modern way to measure vegetation in the field. The proof of concept utilizes the Microsoft HoloLens Mixed Reality headset to measure plant growth for ecology and conversation efforts. Designed so “Ecologists won’t always need expensive and bulky equipment to measure vegetation in the wild.

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A Look at the Meta Quest Pro Launch Lineup

Oculus

Meta Quest Pro is now available, giving people access to immersive mixed reality experiences that provide a greater sense of social presence. Developers have been.

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Meta Quest Pro Now Available – Here’s What To Do First

VRScout

Meta’s premium VR headset has quite a bit to offer. Today marks the launch of the Quest Pro , the first in a new line of “high-end” VR headsets from Meta. The device is powered by an upgraded Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2+ chipset, offering 50% more processing power than the Meta Quest 2. There’s also eye and face tracking, full-color passthrough for mixed reality, and a suite of other interesting features.

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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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Mixed Reality For Real: Meta Quest Pro Is Now Available

Oculus

At Meta Connect 2022, we announced Meta Quest Pro, the first in our high-end class of VR headsets. Loaded with innovative features like high-resolution sensors.

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Five Cool Mixed Reality Games & Apps For Quest Pro

VRScout

With the arrival of the Meta Quest Pro comes a new wave of interactive mixed reality games and apps. Despite having only just launched, Meta’s latest VR headset already features a solid lineup of mixed reality content that take advantage of Meta’s full-color passthrough technology to blend the physical and virtual worlds. The following are five standout mixed reality games and apps you can play right now on the Meta Quest Pro, the first in Meta’s new line of high-end VR devices

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Meta Horizon Worlds v81 Release Notes

Oculus

Welcome to Meta Horizon Worlds v81! Halloween is taking over Worlds this week with a limited-edition Arena Clash map. This release also includes a mix.

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HaptX’s Latest Haptic Gloves Are Smaller and Cheaper, But Still Bulky and Expensive

Road to VR

HaptX, the company known for its haptic gloves, today announced it’s launching pre-orders for HaptX Gloves G1, a cheaper and more refined haptic glove device that’s squarely targeted at businesses. The company says the new device includes a number of improvements over its HaptX Gloves DK2 , which it launched in early 2021 for enterprise.

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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?

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Score Big Halloween Savings During the Sinister Steals Sale

Oculus

No tricks, just treats during our Sinister Steals Sale! Now through November 1 at 9:59 am PT, you can score deep discounts on dozens of.

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Quest Halloween Sale Now Live: Discounts On Demeo, Resident Evil 4 & More

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The Quest Store Halloween Sale is now live, offering discounts on Quest 2 games until the end of the month. As you would expect, Meta announced that a load of Quest content is getting discounted in the store to celebrate everyone’s favorite spooky holiday. As has been the case with previous Quest Store sales, the discounts cover a mixture of single items, bundles of apps and rotating daily deals.

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TIDAL Rising Brings Up-and-Coming Musical Artists to VR

Oculus

TIDAL Rising introduces music lovers to up-and-coming artists they might otherwise have missed. And we’re partnering with TIDAL to bring it to life in VR.

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