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Full Sail University to Create Virtual Production Studio

ARPost

We usually think about extended reality in terms of display. However, extended reality is also being used in the production of media that may or may not be viewed immersively. As varying factors make these means of production more popular, the small number of people knowledgeable in virtual production come into higher and higher demand. Full Sail University is stepping up to meet these needs and provide more value for future students by investing in its own virtual production studio.

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Everything We Know About The PlayStation VR2

VRScout

The PS VR2 will feature a 4K HDR resolution, 110-degree FOV, and smooth frame rates of 90/120Hz. This week Sony unveiled new information regarding the highly-anticipated follow-up to its PlayStation VR headset. During the company’s official CES press conference yesterday, Sony officially unveiled the PlayStation VR2, a new VR headset designed specifically for the PlayStation 5 game console.

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HTC Announces Wrist Tracker for Vive Focus 3, Releasing in Early 2022 for $129

Road to VR

HTC unveiled a new VR tracker device at CES 2022 today, this time targeting its $1,300 enterprise-focused standalone headset, Vive Focus 3. It’s slated to go on sale sometime early this year, starting at $129. Unlike its SteamVR-compatible Vive Tracker, the new Vive Wrist Tracker is a wrist-worn device which hooks into Vive Focus 3’s inside-out tracking system.

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Will the Real Metaverse Occur in the Real World?

AR Insider

In all the metaverse mania, most discussion has targeted online virtual worlds. But what about digital dimensions in the physical world? This could be the more meaningful metaverse. Guest author William Wallace breaks it down. The post Will the Real Metaverse Occur in the Real World? 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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PSVR 2 is Getting a Made-for-VR Game in the ‘Horizon Zero Dawn’ Universe

Road to VR

Today during Sony’s CES 2022 press conference the company not only confirmed a bunch of PSVR 2 specs , but also announced Horizon Call of the Mountain , a new made-for-VR game that will take players inside the world of Horizon , one of the company’s most popular PlayStation exclusive franchises. More than five years after the launch of its original PSVR headset, Sony is just starting to ramp up marketing ahead of its next-gen VR headset, PSVR 2.

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Mojo Vision Raises Additional $45M to Put Smart Contacts in the Eyes of Athletes

Road to VR

Mojo Vision announced it’s raised an additional $45 million in its Series B-1 investment round, something the company says will support further development of Mojo Lens , its early stage smart contact lens. Mojo Lens is ostensibly years away for commercialization, however the company announced at CES 2022 that it’s taking a step forward by partnering with a number of fitness brands to explore how to better integrate its smart contact lenses into sports and training.

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HTC’s new Vive Wrist Tracker makes VR more immersive

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HTC is ready to expand the arsenal of add-ons available for its Vive Focus 3, starting with the new Vive Wrist Tracker. Built specifically to work with the Vive Focus 3’s inside-out tracking, the Vive Wrist Tracker features one-button pairing for easier connectivity. HTC says that the tracker is also 85% smaller than the controller for the Vive Focus 3, … Continue reading.

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TikTok Star Who Sells Her Farts in Jars Starts Selling Fart NFTs

GizModo VR

A reality TV star who sells her farts in jars has decided to stop selling them, despite making $1,000 per jar. But fans of her work shouldn’t worry too much. She’s still going to sell her farts as non-fungible tokens, more commonly known as NFTs. Read more.

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PS VR2 is coming to PS5 with Horizon Call of the Mountain as an exclusive

Slashgear

The PlayStation 4 brought virtual reality (VR) to consoles for the first time and fans have been wondering exactly what Sony has in store for the PS5. The PS5 has been on the market for over a year now and it was way back in March of 2021 that Sony took the wraps off the new PS5 VR controllers. Sony … Continue reading.

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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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Report: Russian Hacker Who May Have Documents Proving Kremlin Election Meddling in U.S. Custody

GizModo VR

A Russian businessman and accused hacker may have critical information on Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, according to a recent report from Bloomberg. Luckily for U.S. authorities, the businessman in question was arrested and recently extradited to the U.S. on unrelated criminal charges. Read more.

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Ouch! Amagami Ham Ham bit my finger

Digital Trends

Amagami Ham Ham is the collective name for a pair of plush robots that are designed to nibble the tip of your finger in a cute and reassuring fashion.

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Google Paid Apple to Stay Out of the Search Business, Lawsuit Claims

GizModo VR

At this point, it’s a bit of an open secret that Google likely pays Apple billions of dollars each year to remain the default search engine that crops up on people’s iPhones and Mac computers. Now, a new class-action suit is alleging that the tech titans’ dealings go even farther than that. An antitrust case against… Read more.

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Sony could enter EV market with its Vision-S vehicles

Digital Trends

Sony has signaled a step toward the commercial launch of its own EVs after announcing a new company that will explore the viability of such a venture.

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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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An Astronaut Travels Light Years to Find a Lost Colony in This Moving Sci-Fi Short

GizModo VR

What would it take for you to leave your whole life behind and set off into the stars in search of a mystery from the past? Bryan Tan’s short film The Emissary explores the lonely journey of an astronaut who decides the risk is worth it. Read more.

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Samsung Home Hub uses A.I. to make your home smarter

Digital Trends

Samsung's new Home Hub tablet uses A.I. to monitor your home and make it smarter. See how Matter and SmartThings are part of the new device.

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How to Cheat at Wordle

GizModo VR

In these frigid, fraught days of early 2022, a singular bright spot has emerged: Wordle. The simple online game, in which you have six chances to guess a 5-letter word, has exploded in popularity in recent months, helped along this week by a sparkly story in the New York Times. Read more.

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Bose smart speakers and soundbars are getting Chromecast built-in

Digital Trends

Android users who own Bose's smart speakers or soundbars have good reason to be excited -- Chromecast built-in will be arriving within a matter of months.

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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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What Does Hayao Miyazaki's Work Mean to You?

GizModo VR

I’ll never forget the first time I saw a Hayao Miyazaki movie. I was in college and this new animated film called Princess Mononoke was coming to theaters. The trailers looked cool and I’d tangentially heard of the filmmaker’s other films like My Neighbor Totoro —but growing up in a small town, films like that weren’t… Read more.

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Apple’s AR headset could now come with 3 immersive displays

Digital Trends

A new rumor has claimed Apple’s mixed reality headset will come with three displays instead of two, potentially dealing up an even more immersive experience.

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HTC Vive Wrist Tracker Could Solve One of VR's Big Problems

GizModo VR

HTC wants to make it easier for Vive virtual reality headsets to track the movement of a user’s hands and the tools they might be holding. The company’s solution, a blobby bracelet called the Vive Wrist Tracker, promises accurate data from the fingertips to the elbow, even when the headset can’t see the tracker or… Read more.

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CES 2022: ASUS Announce ROG Swift OLED PG48UQ & PG42UQ Gaming Monitors

Anand Tech

One of the companies that comes to CES with no shortage of new product announcements is ASUS, who has fingers in many pies across a large spectrum of the different kinds of PC hardware and peripherals. To that end, ASUS has unveiled two new ROG gaming monitors for those looking for large screens, the 48" ROG Swift OLED PG48UQ and the 42" ROG Swift OLED PG42UQ.

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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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The Fraggle Rock Reboot Looks Like 1985 All Over Again

GizModo VR

The full trailer for Apple TV+’s reboot o f Fraggle Rock is here and as you watch it, you’ll believe it’s 1985 all over again. All the same characters, costumes, and more are back, with a look that feels as if nothing has changed down at the Rock in 30 years, except a few more lights and some new Fraggle additions. Read more.

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CES 2022: ASUS Zenbook 17 Fold OLED, 17 Inch Foldable With Thunderbolt 4

Anand Tech

At CES 2020, Intel showcased its Tiger Lake hardware with an interesting 'Horseshoe Bend' 17-inch foldable laptop. Fast forward two years and ASUS has taken the concept and run with it to create what it says is the "World's first 17.3" foldable OLED laptop. The ASUS Zenbook 17 Fold OLED has a variety of features, including Intel's 'latest' processor, up to 16 GB of LPDDR5 memory, and a 17.3" foldable OLED touchscreen display capable of supporting resolutions o

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Noah Hawley's Alien TV Series Sounds Vaguely Awesome

GizModo VR

Alien director Ridley Scott may have slammed the idea , but we’re very interested in what Legion and Fargo TV show creator Noah Hawley is going to do with the Alien franchise. (Certainly more than any additional Alien movies Scott makes.) And while we’re not going to see new Xenomorph shenanigans on our TV sets for… Read more.

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CES 2022: The biggest news and announcements so far

Digital Trends

We're now officially at the halfway point of CES 2022, so we rounded up all the biggest announcements and news that have surfaced so far. Enjoy!

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How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular

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?