AR Insider
JANUARY 16, 2023
The world of XR is vast, and expanding every day. One way to accelerate your XR smarts is through podcasts. There are many out there – too many to cover in one article - but we dive into 7 as a cross-section to get you started. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
ARPost
JANUARY 16, 2023
RealWear’s Navigator series of enterprise “assisted reality” headsets just got bigger. The company recently announced the Navigator 520, an updated version of the series flagship model released just over a year ago. Improvements Due to New “HyperDisplay”. The RealWear Navigator 500 launched in December of 2021 and it does what it was designed for well.
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Road to VR
JANUARY 16, 2023
While Oculus doesn’t offer much publicly in the way of understanding how well individual games & apps are performing across its Quest 2 storefront, it’s possible to glean some insight by looking at apps relative to each other. Here’s a snapshot of the 20 best rated Oculus Quest games and apps as of January 2023. Some quick qualifications before we get to the data: Paid and free apps are separated.
ARPost
JANUARY 16, 2023
Arcturus , volumetric video editing and streaming tools provider, has been at the forefront of virtual production, revolutionizing immersive content experiences across a vast range of verticals. As part of its efforts to bring volumetric video to a wider audience, it prioritizes research and development of new tools that allow creators to fully harness the power of volumetric video.
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.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
JANUARY 16, 2023
Virtual Reality (VR) is quickly becoming a mainstream technology, not just for consumers, but businesses and educational facilities too. In recent years, as devices and software in the VR space have grown more accessible, we’ve begun to discover a host of effective use cases for immersive experiences. One of the most compelling ways to leverage VR, is as a tool for training and education.
Virtual Reality Pulse brings together the best content for VR professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Hypergrid Business
JANUARY 16, 2023
OpenSim virtual land area continued to increase this month, adding 942 new regions since we reported the stats, as well as registering 4,098 new users. However, the number of active users fell by 3,806 this month as the December holidays came to a close. Generally, there are fewer seasonal events in January than in December, which partly explains the drop in active users.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
JANUARY 16, 2023
In recent years, extended reality (XR) technology has become increasingly commonplace in the professional landscape. Once considered a tool specifically for the consumer landscape, XR has proven itself as a valuable resource for training, collaboration, and product development. For the armed forces, experts now believe the right tools could be a fundamental part of how we train and empower future troops.
XR Today - Big XR News tag
JANUARY 16, 2023
As the final updates from CES 2023 roll out, the extended reality (XR) realm is firing back up with full force into an optimistic new year. Many summed 2022 up as a challenging year for the immersive industry. Many major augmented, mixed, and virtual reality (AR/MR/VR) firms faced hurdles last year as stocks fell across the board, the world’s economy downturned, and US federal investigations slowed acquisitions.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
JANUARY 16, 2023
UK Governmental subsidiary National Highways control roughly 3500 miles of roads in the region. To increase the efficiency of its officers, the firm turned to a Varjo-powered MXT training platform to upskill frontline workers with disruption. National Highways is teaming up with MXT to create an inexpensive training system that does not interrupt operating roads.
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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.
Program Ace
JANUARY 16, 2023
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VRGames
JANUARY 16, 2023
The U.S Army has been testing a heavily modified version of Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 called the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) to enhance situational awareness for troops in the field. Problems such as headaches, eyestrain and nausea were reported during testing which lead Congress to reject an additional 400 million dollar order for 6900 units, […].
Oculus
JANUARY 16, 2023
Whether you’re crushing your New Year’s resolutions or already over it, VR fitness can take the “work” out of your workouts. Now through 11:59 pm.
Road to VR
JANUARY 16, 2023
The end of 2022 marks more than a decade since the Oculus Kickstarter sparked the modern era of VR. While the space has undoubtedly grown tremendously since then, 2022 felt largely like a plateau year, with Meta standing unchallenged as the dominant player in the space—while progressing disjointedly in too many directions at once. But with new headsets, promising new content, and a looming heavyweight positioned to challenge Meta all on the horizon, 2023 could big a much bigger year for the VR s
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.
VRGames
JANUARY 16, 2023
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Road to VR
JANUARY 16, 2023
No more ungainly break-out boxes to contend with; thankfully PSVR 2 connects to PlayStation 5 via a single USB-C cable. But if you think you’ll be able to plug in that seemingly standard cable to a VR-ready PC to play Half-Life: Alyx like you might with standalones such as Quest 2, Vive XR Elite or Pico 4, you’ll be sorely disappointed.
Upload VR
JANUARY 16, 2023
Hoping PSVR 2 will somehow support PC? Here’s why that almost certainly won’t happen any time soon. PlayStation VR2’s launch is just over four weeks out. It will leverage the power of Sony’s PlayStation 5 to deliver full console-quality VR games like Horizon Call of the Mountain, Resident Evil Village, No Man’s Sky, and Gran Turismo 7.
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