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Toei Animation & Sony Music Solutions Bring The 90s To VR

VRScout

Relive the glory days of anime in these exclusive VRChat worlds available now on PC VR, Quest, and PC. Toei Animation, the Japanese animation studio behind popular series such as Dragon Ball and Sailor Moon , has teamed up with Sony Music Solutions to develop a series of virtual worlds available via the popular VR social platform VRChat. Designed to replicate the unorganized room of a classic 90s otaku, “Nostalgia1999” includes a variety of Sony products and anime merchandise designe

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Apple AR Glasses Put on Hold to Make Way for MR Glasses – VR and Metaverse Expert Weighs In

ARPost

Has Apple bitten more than it could chew? It appears that the long-awaited AR glasses won’t be hitting the shelves any time soon. A Bloomberg article published recently says that the Apple AR glasses are facing technical challenges, so their release has been delayed indefinitely and the project scope pared back. The report also revealed that Apple may instead opt to release a more affordable mixed reality headset.

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Snapchat Shopping Lenses: 5 Billion Served

AR Insider

At Snap's latest investor day, it rolled out several new data points that reveal AR's traction as a shopping utility. We examine the evidence and strategic implications in this week's Data Dive. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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PSVR 2 Horror Shooter ‘Switchback’ Shows Off Unique Eye-tracking Uses in New Video

Road to VR

Don’t blink, because PSVR 2’s eye-tracking may get you more than you bargained for in the headset’s upcoming on-rails horror shooter The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR, which aims to toss some extra scares your way when you least suspect it. PSVR 2 is releasing on February 22nd, and in its 100+ game content lineup is a unique horror game from the makers of Until Dawn: Rush of Blood which tosses you back into another rollercoaster thrill ride that arms you with plenty of guns t

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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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Spatial Beats: Apple, Snap & Sony

AR Insider

Welcome back to Spatial Beats, AR Insider's weekly series that features observations and insights of author and futurist Charlie Fink. This week, we look at the fall of the m-word, Apple rumors, and big moves from Snap and Sony. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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AI farms are the new content farms — and are just as bad

Hypergrid Business

In the first decade of this century, unscrupulous website owners noticed that Google had caught on to their tricks — link exchanges, invisible keywords, and meta tags. These tricks were designed to fool search engines into thinking that the websites were better and more useful than they actually were. Spoiler alert: these websites were usually completely useless, just some filler text surrounded by a sea of ads.

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Apple Headset ‘A Macintosh Moment’ – Acquired Mixed Reality Startup Founder

Upload VR

Apple’s entry to VR will be “a Macintosh moment”, says the founder of Vrvana. Vrvana was acquired by Apple in 2017. It was a startup working on Totem, one of the first headsets to use high-resolution color cameras for stereo passthrough mixed reality – a feature only now starting to arrive in consumer headsets. Vrvrana founder Bertrand Nepveu told Radio Canada “ I always say that when Apple goes into virtual reality, it will be a Macintosh moment” Nepveu claim

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Smart Glasses in the Future of Work 

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) promise to change how the world interacts with computing technology, and smart glasses are just one component of this transformation. As the rise of XR hardware continues, the tech space gives consumer and enterprise end-users an avenue to explore spatial computing. Unlike a VR headset, smart glasses focus on presenting an AR environment which overlays immersive visualizations upon a user’s location.

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What Does Generative AI Mean For Your Brand And What Does It Have To Do With The Future Of The Metaverse?

Cathy Hackl

Generative AI is transforming our content landscape. It’s prompting questions like what is art? How do AI copyrights work? Is it ethical to use generative AI for my job? Is Generative AI a fad or a useful tool for brands?

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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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Owatch 1st VR Equipment Shopping Festival

Steki Amusement

Good news! At the end of February, we will welcome the first Owatch VR Triple-2 Shopping Festival. Believe me, you will be surprised by the first watch VR Triple-2 Shopping Festival.Ready? More than 30+ Virtual Game Center Amusement Rides are waiting for you! We focus on VR Simulator Games products, such as: 9D Virtual Reality Simulator Cinema, VR Roller Coaster, VR/AR Racing simulators, VR Motorcycle, VR Shooting, VR Flight Simulators, VR Music Platform, VR Self-service Platform, Arcade Games,

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NON GAMING Things to do in VR, PSVR 2 Talk, Squid Games & MORE

Full Dive Gaming

VR Fun that is NOT GAMING, PSVR 2 Talk, Squid Games coming to VR and SO MUCH MORE on this week's VR Podcast! 0:00 VR Podcast 1:00 Black Bean Brownies!! 3:14 Will Apple's Headset Change Things? 7:13 Where's the Podcast Going? 10:03 Will Meta LEAD VR or FALL OFF?? 14:04 HAPTIC SHIRTS 18:00 NON Gaming Uses for VR 24:11 Who do we DESPISE?? 25:10 VR News Section 25:47 Will Quest 3 come 2023?

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Generative AI Learning Guide

Building the Metaverse

I’ve assembled a set of materials to get you up-to-speed on generative AI no matter what level you’re currently at. I begin with the highest-level concepts (vision, market trends, business topics), discuss many of the important use cases (games, images, 3D graphics, music, audio, code) and then move onto the material you’ll need to know if you want to read the science papers coming out in this domain: The Generative AI Canon is where it is located.

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Check Out This Frightening First Look At The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR – Coming Soon For PSVR 2!

VRGames

Supermassive Games’s upcoming horror-themed rollercoaster shooter The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR is showing positive signs to be another great addition their Anthology series.

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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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‘Street Fighter VR’ Debuts at Japanese Arcades, Delivering Brawls with Ryu, Zangief & More

Road to VR

If you’re in Japan right now, you could be the first to play the new, officially licensed Street Fighter VR arcade experience, which pits you against some of the universe’s most iconic warriors. Capcom released a trailer this week for the single-player arcade game, called Street Fighter VR Shadroo Enhancement Plan (ストリートファイターVR シャドルー強化計画).

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The XR Week Peek (2023.02.20): Bigscreen launches Beyond headset, PSVR 2 gets its first reviews, and more!

The Ghost Howls

I’ve almost fully recovered from my little flu so I can be productive again. It’s a weird period, with ups and downs, but I try to focus on the up things. Like a few days ago I had a Linkedin post with 1.5M+ views… an impressive number I had never reached before. It was of course a meme, my favorite form of expression. Top news of the week (Image by Bigscreen) Bigscreen unveils its Beyond headset I was not expecting this.