VRScout
APRIL 27, 2023
Navigate a deadly temple and collect hidden treasures using your own two feet. Have you ever dreamt of stepping into the boots of a fearless explorer and embarking on a dangerous adventure through a perilous jungle temple? What about battling ancient creatures and solving riddles using an Indiana Jones -style whip? How about all of the above? Well, today’s your lucky day.
ARPost
APRIL 27, 2023
It is generally assumed that the VR and XR industry managed to weather the pandemic quite well. However, not all virtual reality endeavors benefited equally. For location-based entertainment (also LBE or LBVR for short), the pandemic had devastating effects. Even with the social distancing measures and disinfection protocols, the idea of sharing headsets inside a busy venue did not seem very appealing, and just like cinemas, most had no choice but to shut down.
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Road to VR
APRIL 27, 2023
Meta announced its latest quarterly results, revealing that the company’s Reality Labs metaverse division is again reporting a loss of nearly $4 billion. The bright side? Meta’s still investing billions into XR, and it’s not showing any signs of stopping. Meta revealed in its Q1 2023 financial results that its family of apps is now being used by over 3 billion people, an increase of 5% year-over-year, but its metaverse investments are still operating at heavy losses.
Anand Tech
APRIL 27, 2023
Yesterday, AMD issued a statement surrounding the issues some users have been experiencing with their Ryzen 7000X3D processors. The problem reported widely across Reddit subforums, includes some Ryzen 7000X3D CPUs burning the CPU socket on AM5 motherboards and damaging the chips, rendering them dead. AMD has released a second statement regarding the issue, including what it is doing to rectify the problem and subdue any panic users and owners of the Ryzen 7000 series processors.
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.
Road to VR
APRIL 27, 2023
First unveiled at CES 2022 early last year, Canon has now taken its first step into consumer VR software with Kokomo , its fledgling social VR platform. Compared to more full-featured collaboration apps, Kokomo isn’t there yet, but it’s a start in a new direction for Canon, which up until now has been mostly focused on XR hardware aimed at enterprise.
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Upload VR
APRIL 27, 2023
Eye of the Temple brings true room-scale platforming to life with clever game design and engaging puzzles, wrapped in an Indiana Jones-like adventure. Read on for our full Eye of the Temple review for Quest and PC VR. Over a year and a half on from its initial PC VR release, Eye of the Temple is now available on Meta Quest 2 and Quest Pro. While the initial release was solo developed by Rune Skovbo Johansen over five years, he's teamed up with Salmi Games for the Quest port.
Anand Tech
APRIL 27, 2023
As part of today’s Q1’2023 earnings announcement from Intel, the company is offering a brief update on the state of its upcoming chips and manufacturing nodes. Key among these disclosures is a status update on Meteor Lake, Intel’s next-generation client processor (and first disaggregated chiplet CPU), as well as the Intel 4 process node that it will be built upon.
Upload VR
APRIL 27, 2023
PlayStation VR2 will soon reach local retailers, ending PlayStation Direct sales exclusivity on May 12. Since launching in February, PSVR 2 was only available through PlayStation Direct , excluding countries where Sony's not yet opened Direct, but that looks set to change. Spotted across two UK retailers, GAME is offering pre-registration to confirm your interest, while ShopTo provides a more general page highlighting hardware specs and available games.
XR Today - Augmented Reality tag
APRIL 27, 2023
Magic Leap announced this week that its Magic Leap 2 augmented reality (AR) headset had increased its compatibility with OpenXR. In a statement on Tuesday, the company reaffirmed its commitment to “building an open and accessible [AR] ecosystem.” This aims to back enterprises and developers across industry verticals. The Plantation, Florida-based firm has developed its relationship with OpenXR since its founding to boost interoperability across XR devices. “As the most immersiv
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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
APRIL 27, 2023
Peaky Blinders: The King's Ransom will receive at least five major updates this year, outlined in a new post-launch roadmap. Released last month on Quest 2 and Pico 4 , Peaky Blinders: The King's Ransom comes from Doctor Who: The Edge of Time developer Maze Theory. Outlined in a new video , the roadmap brings monthly content updates from April until August 2023.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
APRIL 27, 2023
Meta Platforms released its first quarter (Q1) earnings report on Wednesday, indicating a massive loss of revenues for its Realitiy Labs division. This comes despite stronger-than-expected profits at the start of 2023. This has sent shares skyrocketing following the company’s earnings report amid its ‘Year of Efficiency’ plans to streamline operations.
Upload VR
APRIL 27, 2023
Drums Rock added three tracks in a new update as part of an unexpected crossover with Team17's Blasphemous. One of many PSVR 2 launch games back in February, the latest Drums Rock update brings a licensed crossover with 2021's Blasphemous , a flatscreen Metroidvania by Spanish studio The Game Kitchen. With Blasphemous 2 arriving in Q3 2023, it's unsurprising to see it crossing over with other games, adding the " Prohibidos y Cubiertos de Polvo " song and themed cosmetics for free.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
APRIL 27, 2023
National Hockey League (NHL) fans have received a virtual treat after the organisation launched its Roblox online gaming metaverse, ESPN reported on Thursday. NHL Blast is a new hockey-themed metaverse game where users can create bespoke team jerseys, socialise, and compete in the Metaverse. Powered by Roblox and metaverse development studio The Gang, NHL Blast aims to boost engagement in the virtual world.
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
APRIL 27, 2023
Meta's latest v53 update for Quest VR headsets includes a number of big updates. The update moves previously experimental advanced camera settings into full release, offering easy-to-find options for better recording quality or image stabilization. Meta notes there are tradeoffs to consider with the various options, with image stabilization, for example, decreasing the field of view in recorded videos.
Bernard Marr
APRIL 27, 2023
Our digital footprints are bigger than ever. We bank online. We shop online. We order the Friday night takeaway from our phones. We receive updates from our children’s schools via social media. We make doctors’ appointments online. So much of everyday life takes place online. This means everyone must be aware of the dangers of being online. And I'm not talking about the obvious threats like phishing and malware.
Charlie Fink
APRIL 27, 2023
The AI tsunami lifts big tech.
Life at the Feeding Edge
APRIL 27, 2023
Tweet I saw some links the other day to a new clothing and bag range here at Loewe’s that I thought, hang on I have seen that somewhere before Not posting a picture because its would be their copyright image so just go have a look instead. This range is physical, but made to look pixelated and game like with chunky and stepped back borders and gradient colouring.
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.
Charlie Fink
APRIL 27, 2023
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VRGames
APRIL 27, 2023
The newest version of Meta Horizon’s virtual world, v107, is now available and brings with it quite a few minor bug fixes. The most notable one being the issue that was causing avatars’ hands to not move properly in certain situations.
Oculus
APRIL 27, 2023
A billion avatars. Yesterday we got to publicly announce and celebrate that incredible milestone. Over one billion avatars have been created across Meta platforms. That’s.
VRGames
APRIL 27, 2023
Immersive technology is changing the way fans enjoy live sports entertainment. The Edmonton Oilers hockey team is demonstrating this by hosting watch parties at their arena during away games, complete with virtual players and real-time puck/player tracking to provide a truly unique experience.
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?
Oculus
APRIL 27, 2023
We skipped a few numbers, but it’s time for our next Meta Quest software update. We’ll soon begin rolling out v53. The highlights? You can.
Zappar
APRIL 27, 2023
Find out more about our Zapbox launch event, where Zappar introduced the world's most affordable smartphone-powered MR headset.
Oculus
APRIL 27, 2023
Eye of the Temple is a VR adventure that takes you on a daring journey through a treacherous temple. As you attempt to uncover the.
VRGames
APRIL 27, 2023
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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?
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