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Play Basketball On NBA Courts In VR With Gym Class

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Lace-up your basketball shoes! Gym Class is partnering with the National Basketball Association to bring official NBA-licensed content to the popular VR basketball experience. According to an official release, NBA fans will be able to outfit their avatars in their favorite NBA team apparel as well as play on their team’s home court. IRL Studios, the developer behind Gym Class , hopes that this partnership will help inspire basketball players around the world to connect with others through

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Will the Metaverse Get Thrown in Buzzword Jail?

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Though the metaverse represents legitimate principles, the term has become co-opted and conflated through overuse. as it often goes with buzzwords. Will that plus a lack of immediate gratification put the m-word in buzzword jail? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Bringing Moss To PSVR 2: Polyarc Talks Eye Tracking, Adaptive Triggers & More

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We sat down with Polyarc to discuss bringing the Moss franchise to PlayStation VR2 at launch and how the games take advantage of the system’s unique features, such as headset rumble and the PSVR 2 Sense controllers. The release of PSVR 2 is a bit of a full circle moment for Polyarc. In 2018, Moss released for the original PlayStation VR headset.

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Bigscreen Debuts World’s Smallest VR Headset

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Virtual reality (VR) startup Bigscreen revealed its first major hardware offering: the world’s smallest headset, the Bigscreen Beyond. The novel headset features an unprecedented form factor, weighing 127 grammes and under 1 inch. Bigscreen’s inaugural offering weighs six times lighter than rival headsets, despite packing a lot of competitive specifications.

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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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Sony Drops New Resident Evil Village VR Mode Trailer For PSVR 2

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Sony dropped a new trailer for Resident Evil Village’s VR mode, which launches the same day as PlayStation VR2 on February 22. Just over a week from launch, this new trailer gives us our best look yet at how Village translates into VR. While we got a first teaser trailer with the initial announcement back in June last year , this is a much more in-depth look.

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Online Dating Safety and How to Recognize Red Flags

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One of the key questions surrounding online dating is whether these platforms lead to long-term relationships. Some 53% of adults under 30 have ever used a dating site or app – including a quarter who have used one in the past year. This compares with 37% of those ages 30 to 49 who have ever [.] The post Online Dating Safety and How to Recognize Red Flags appeared first on Virtual Reality Augmented Reality Technology Latest News.

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Editorial: It’s Time for a Complete Reset on How I Use Social Media

Ryan Schultz

Photo by Adem AY on Unsplash Early this morning, I deleted my Reddit account. As many of you already know, I already deleted my Facebook and Instagram accounts in 2018 , followed by moving away from Facebook-now-Meta’s virtual reality hardware completely (I now have a Valve Index at home and an HTC Vive Pro 2 headset at work, using SteamVR). And last April, when Elon Musk first floated the idea of buying Twitter, I began to reassess my use of that social media platform, too.

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Cayden Pierce (H2O Smart Glasses Community) on the Power of Contextual Search and Open Source Projects

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Cayden Pierce describes himself as a transhumanist hacker working to enhance our intelligence using AI, smartglasses, and eventually, neurotech. Cayden posts regularly about the current state of smartglasses and is actively developing open source smartglasses hardware and middleware solutions. To support those efforts and to facilitate insights between end users and smartglass makers, he recently started the H2O Smartglasses community.

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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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A Classic Sega Dreamcast Game Is Coming To VR

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The game was previously only available in Japan and Europe. Those old enough to remember the early 2000s may recall an odd-looking video game for the ill-fated Sega Dreamcast console called Cosmic Smash. The game combined puzzle action and sports to immerse players in a futuristic experience set in a subway-style system. Unfortunately, the game was only available in select arcades in Japan and Europe before releasing on Sega Dreamcast consoles in Japan.

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Meta Horizon Worlds v97 Release Notes

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“Moss-y Possibilities with PSVR2: Polyarc Unveils Eye Tracking, Adaptive Triggers & More!”

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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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Meta Horizon Worlds v97 Release Notes

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PSVR 2 is Getting a Version of Sega Dreamcast Classic ‘Cosmic Smash’ This Year

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Sega’s futuristic block-breaker, which you might remember from its launch on Dreamcast in 2001 or in arcades throughout Europe and Japan, is being reimagined for PSVR 2 with C-Smash VRS. The game is bringing an immersive twist to Cosmic Smash’s low gravity squash-meets-blockbreaker gameplay , including single player, co-op, and 1v1 multiplayer modes—that’s what the ‘VRS’ stands for, both virtual reality and versus.

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