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IKEA Teams With Meta To Launch An In-Store AR Game

VRScout

The experience is available for a limited time in 21 IKEA stores throughout Sweden. Earlier this month, IKEA Retail Sweden launched a new augmented reality (AR) experience at select IKEA stores in Sweden. Developed in collaboration with Meta and Warpin Reality, Lilla Äventyret is an educational AR game inspired by IKEA’s BLÅVINGAD , a collection of underwater-themed toys made partly of recycled PET and plastic cleaned from the ocean.

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Sandbox VR and Netflix Preparing Squid Game VR Experience

ARPost

With 1.65 billion hours viewed, Squid Game is Netflix’s most-watched series. And soon, Squid Game fans will be able to do more than just watch their favorite show. Netflix has announced a partnership with Sandbox VR to create a fully immersive Squid Game VR experience. Thus, everyone will be able to become an actor and experience the action in the show in a premium location-based VR experience.

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Snap’s Lensathon Competition Teases The Future Of AR

VRScout

This year’s lineup features everything from AR fashion to AR gaming. Snap Inc. has announced the winners of its 2022 Build the Future Lensathon, during which Lens Creators from around the world competed for a whopping $200,000 in prizes. This year’s competition featured over 3,000 developers working on a variety of augmented reality (AR) Lenses powered by the Snapchat app.

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VRTUOLUO talks about its FBEC event and the VR ecosystem in China

The Ghost Howls

VRTUOLUO is one of the leading VR publications in China : let’s say it’s a bit like the Chinese version of Upload VR. When I was in Shenzhen, everyone was talking about them to me, and then I had also the pleasure to meet them and have a coffee with them (they’re very nice people!). I also went to their lab to try a few of the many headsets they have.

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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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‘Gorilla Tag’ Creator Hints at ‘Echo VR’ Spiritual Successor as Next Project

Road to VR

Another Axiom, the indie studio behind wildly successful VR game Gorilla Tag, hinted that it’s now pursuing a project inspired by Echo VR. Kerestell ‘LemmingVR’ Smith, the lead creator of Gorilla Tag , originally started working on the game thanks to his love of Echo VR, the zero-g sports game created by the Meta-owned studio Ready at Dawn.

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Apple, China’s Luxshare Partner for AR Smart Glasses

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Apple Inc has reached out to Chinese manufacturing firm Luxshare to develop its upcoming augmented reality (AR) smart glasses, Nikkei Asia reported on Thursday. Luxshare is rising in the ranks of Chinese industry. According to five anonymous sources familiar with the matter, the company recently acquired China’s AR powerhouse in Shanghai, which Taiwanese firm Pegatron previously owned.

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Synapse Dual-Wielding Shooter Coming To PSVR 2

Upload VR

One of VR’s most experienced development studios, nDreams, revealed its upcoming shooter Synapse for PSVR 2. Coming 2023, the game will arm players with both telekinetic powers and weaponry that “evolves Fracked’s acclaimed run and gun gameplay” with “Motion-controlled, 1:1 telekinesis with eye-tracking-enhanced aiming that equips players with the power to launch, levitate and smash enemies through destructible environments”, according to nDreams. “Players har

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VIRNECT, DigiLens to Deliver Industrial Immersive Solutions

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

This Month, augmented reality (AR) solutions provider VIRNECT entered a strategic partnership to integrate its enterprise-grade immersive software onto the DigiLens ARGO smart glasses product. The move enables VIRCENT to offer its customers improved user experience, performance, and affordability. The firm’s partnership with DigiLens also creates more hardware options for its content.

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Hellsweeper PSVR 2 Release Confirmed, Coming Later This Year

Upload VR

Upcoming dark fantasy combat game Hellsweeper VR will release on PlayStation VR2 later this year. It’s a new title from Mixed Realm, the team behind Sairento, and will be published by Vertigo Games, known for Arizona Sunshine, A Fisherman’s Tale and more. Hellsweeper was originally set for release on PC VR and Quest 2 in late 2022, but in November a delay was confirmed, pushing the game to Q2 2023.

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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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Digital Twin Metaverse: A Groundbreaking Convergence for Business Growth

Program Ace

The post Digital Twin Metaverse: A Groundbreaking Convergence for Business Growth appeared first on Program-Ace.

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Hello Neighbor: Search And Rescue Releases On PSVR 2 In May

Upload VR

Hello Neighbor: Search and Rescue will release May 24 for PlayStation VR2. Developers tinyBuild first revealed the game several months ago, announcing a simultaneous launch on PSVR 2 and PC VR on February 22. However, a few weeks before PSVR 2 launch, the game’s release date was removed and it was seemingly delayed with no update release window.

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Greg Tarnacki, CEO & Founder of 18Loop

Everything VR & AR

Continuing on our exploration of XR technology and healthcare, we are joined this week by Greg Tarnacki. Greg is the CEO & Founder of 18Loop, a non-profit organization doing incredible work for young cancer patients. 18Loop deploys VR to children with cancer to help them tolerate treatment, recover and thrive. Listen Here: [link] Check out these links if you want to dig deeper after listening to the episode.

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This Week In XR: Mayo Clinic Backs Healium, Pico’s VR Layoffs, Roblox Stock Pops

Charlie Fink

ByteDance planned to dent Quest as TikTok did Instagram. It didn't work.

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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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How Will ChatGPT Affect Your Job If You Work In Customer Service?

Bernard Marr

OpenAI’s ChatGPT is the hottest artificial intelligence (AI) app in cyberspace right now, wowing users with its ability to come up with seemingly human text, including articles, stories, computer code, and even poetry. However, it’s more than a viral gimmick, and experts predict that it will have far-reaching consequences on many careers and industries – potentially changing the way we work forever.

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`ChatGPT Supercharging VR Training: Discover the Magic Now!`

VRGames

The dawn of a new era in soft-skill training is upon us. Virtualspeech, an online soft skill training platform, has integrated artificial intelligence (AI) language model ChatGPT into its virtual reality (VR) courses to offer users more immersive and realistic interactions.

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Inventing RP45's - Immersive Music and the Record Album

RealVision VR

The Music Industry is ripe for disruption: Every song we hear is a “story” told in 5 minutes or thereabouts and is satisfying (for an audience and production perspective/costs) An explosion in demand of Immersive Music is slated -- APPLE is already talking to Dolby for immersive audio for their VR headset and to Disney and half a dozen partners for content (which is sorely missing) No-one has innovated in Music since Napster – streaming days.

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‘Take off Into a New Meta Horizon with v98!’

VRGames

This week’s Meta Horizon Worlds update is here and while it may be a light one, there are some important bug fixes that players should keep in mind. Players can now enjoy improved lighting thanks to bug fixes related to thunder storms, which will make exploring the world more enjoyable.

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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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Mix and Slash Through a Fantastical World in ‘Mixture’ for Meta Quest 2, Out Today

Oculus

Most action games let you live out your fantasies as one powerful character. But Mixture goes a step further by letting you control two characters.

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Explore All the Awesome New Features of Quest 2’s ‘Direct Touch’ Update!

VRGames

Meta has released the v50 update for Quest 2 that brings many new and exciting features. One of these is a ‘Direct Touch’ capability, which makes hand-tracked UI navigation a more intuitive experience by allowing users to tap and swipe through the Home UI just like on a mobile device.

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‘Papaye Bang Bang VR’ Slingshots Onto the Meta Quest Platform

Oculus

If a Picasso painting and the Wild West had a neon baby, and that baby were armed with a slingshot, the end result might look.

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Report: AI is weapon of ‘mass disruption’

Hypergrid Business

(Image by Maria Korolov via Midjourney.) Generative AI is one of the world’s top three geopolitical risks this year — right after Russia and China — according to a report released last month by the Eurasia Group , a US-based risk consultancy. “This year will be a tipping point for disruptive technology’s role in society,” the report said.

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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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Guardians Frontline Arrives Next Month On Quest and PC VR

Upload VR

Guardians Frontline is almost here – Fast Travel Games confirmed that the FPS and RTS hybrid hits Quest and PC VR on March 9. Originally released as Guardians VR on App Lab, SideQuest and Steam Early Access, developer VirtualAge took direct inspiration from Halo and Starcraft with Guardians Frontline , which significantly expands upon the original version.

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