VRScout

MARCH 30, 2023

XR creators brought their A-game to this year’s festivities. Last year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) event was an absolute party. This year, the Austin-based festival felt noticeably more focused, with a number of amazing technologies being showcased. Not to say we didn’t attend our fair share of parties, which we certainly did. SXSW 2023 was stacked with some truly incredible immersive experiences, both creatively and innovatively.

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Road to VR

MARCH 30, 2023

Ming-Chi Kuo, a respected supply chain analyst, reports that Apple is tamping down enthusiasm for its upcoming mixed reality headset, which was rumored to see its big announcement at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June. In a tweet , Kuo reports Apple is delaying release of its MR headset due to decreased optimism in recreating the “iPhone moment” the company was hoping to achieve with the device.

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VRScout

MARCH 30, 2023

FundamentalVR is partnering with Haply Robotics to provide more realistic VR surgical simulations. In the past, we’ve seen how immersive technologies such as VR and augmented reality (AR) can benefit the medical industry, from AR-assisted surgeries to VR sedation. Then there’s Fundamental Surgery, an immersive training platform from FundamentalVR that uses VR technology and haptics to provide everyone from medical students to professional surgeons with realistic simulations of variou

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Bernard Marr

MARCH 30, 2023

The era of artificial intelligence (AI) is upon us, and it’s evident that this groundbreaking technology is far more than just a figment of science fiction. With generative AI tools like ChatGPT making waves, the impact of AI on our lives is likely to be monumental, surpassing even the influence of personal computers, the internet, or smartphones.

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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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Upload VR

MARCH 30, 2023

In a new developer update , the VRChat team confirmed that it is developing mobile versions of its social VR experience, with an Android release coming first. In the update , the VRChat team shared some footage of the game running on Android, but stressed that it was an in-development build and everything in the video is not finalized, but merely an indication that development is in progress.

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MARCH 30, 2023

Yupitergrad 2: The Lost Station is an innovative Spider-Man-style action adventure swinging its way onto VR headsets this year. We played the first few hours of an early access alpha version for Quest 2 – read on for our hands-on impressions. Step into the space shoes of a plunger-wielding cosmonaut once more in the upcoming sequel to Yupitergrad from developers Gamedust.

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Charlie Fink

MARCH 30, 2023

Fat Boy Slim's "Eat Sleep VR Repeat" is a triumph.

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MARCH 30, 2023

PlayStation VR2 launch sales have been disappointing, analyst firm IDC claims. IDC (International Data Corporation) is an analyst firm that sells reports detailing its estimates of market size, market share, and unit sales of popular product categories. Analysts use sources in the supply chain, though their accuracy can vary wildly, especially for lower volume products.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 30, 2023

This Monday, Microsoft introduced Avatar for Teams , an immersive service for joining meetings as a virtual human. The avatar system is currently under a public preview period, meaning that Teams users must jump through several simple hoops to leverage the early-stage enterprise-grade avatar solution. While Microsoft has not yet distributed the avatar framework across Teams as a full-blown public feature, users can get a taste of Avatars for Teams with a few simple steps.

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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.

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MARCH 30, 2023

Beat Saber announced another music pack revamp today, which will add six new songs to the Panic! At The Disco pack and update the beatmaps, environments and lighting for its existing tracks. Hot on the heels of the revamped Imagine Dragons pack from last month, today Beat Games is updating the Panic! At The Disco music pack. The update will adds songs from Panic!

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 30, 2023

Non-Fungible Tokens, or NFTs, have been gaining much attention in recent years. Bursting into the spotlight in the age of the metaverse and Web 3.0, NFTs have given consumers and companies alike access to a brand-new digital economy, as well as some unique opportunities. Like many new innovations in the digital world, NFTs are offering business leaders a new way to engage their target audience and discover potential revenue streams.

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MARCH 30, 2023

The Last Worker brings a satirical narrative adventure to Quest, PSVR 2 and PC VR, mixing strong humor with tense stealth action. Jointly developed for flatscreen platforms and VR, here’s our full review: We’ve seen countless takes on sci-fi dystopian futures over the years and in The Last Worker, they all seem to be happening simultaneously.

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Anand Tech

MARCH 30, 2023

One of the perks of normality largely returning to the PC components market now that the crypto mining bubble has popped has been a return to normal with regards to component availability. Video cards were of course the biggest change there – even if prices on the latest generation remain higher than many would like to see – but crypto farms were also soaking up everything from CPUs and RAM to power supplies.

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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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Upload VR

MARCH 30, 2023

A free Gran Turismo 7 update adds five new cars and additional track layouts. Following its high-profile PSVR 2 release last month, Polyphony Digital will add five new cars in the free Update 1.31 for Gran Turismo 7 ; Audi RS 5 Turbo DTM ‘19, Porsche 959 ‘87, Porsche Carrera GTS (904) ‘64, Mazda 3 X Burgundy Selection and the Toyota Alphard Executive Lounge ’18.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 30, 2023

As extended reality experiences continue to gain popularity in virtually every industry, solutions are constantly emerging to help developers and companies design their own immersive experiences. Motion Capture software, or “Mocap systems”, are particularly valuable for content creators looking to enhance XR experiences with realistic avatars, motion, and gesture controls.

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Everything VR & AR

MARCH 30, 2023

This week Tyler and Sophia are joined by Guido Meardi. Guido is the CEO of V-Nova, a London-based deep tech company dedicated to improving data compression through game-changing use of AI and parallel processing. Listen as we delve deep into the more technical aspects of XR and associated computational processes. Listen Here: [link] Check out these links if you want to dig deeper after listening to the episode. www.v-nova.com [link] [link] Follow us on Social Media: Guido Meardi: LinkedIn /

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VRGames

MARCH 30, 2023

Litesport, a subscription-based fitness app specifically designed for VR headsets, has recently expanded with their new Strength Training mode. Incorporating various technologies like passthrough and hand tracking to mixed reality, this game mode has users ditching motion controllers in favor of real dumbbells to target 16 important muscle groups via an interactive muscle map.

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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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Oculus

MARCH 30, 2023

The Last Worker combines a first-person narrative with a dystopian work simulator. You play as Kurt, a loyal Jüngle Corporation employee who must come to.

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VRGames

MARCH 30, 2023

Sky Strikers VR is the latest free-to-play team multiplayer experience to join the ever-growing virtual reality lineup. Developed by Chamber 8 Studio in only 10 weeks, Sky Strikers mixes elements of Gorilla Tag and Rocket League, allowing players the freedom to explore and swing baseball bats at a virtual ball in order to score points.

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Oculus

MARCH 30, 2023

In Meta Horizon Worlds V103, we’re testing out some new features that make it easier to join your connections in worlds, such as invite codes.

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VRGames

MARCH 30, 2023

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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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Oculus

MARCH 30, 2023

Beat Games is more than doubling the size of the existing Panic! At The Disco Music Pack for Beat Saber today, adding sick tracks from.

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VRGames

MARCH 30, 2023

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ARPost

MARCH 30, 2023

Croquet , the multiplayer platform for web and gaming, which took home the WebXR Platform of the Year award at this year’s Polys WebXR Awards , recently announced Croquet for Unity. Croquet for Unity is an innovative JavaScript multiplayer framework for Unity – a platform for creating interactive, real-time 3D content – that simplifies development by eliminating multiplayer code and server setup.

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VRGames

MARCH 30, 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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