Wed.Sep 28, 2022

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Nreal’s Stylish AR Glasses Are Now Available In The US

VRScout

Stream your favorite movies and games on a giant 130-inch virtual display. Augmented reality (AR) company Nreal today announced that its Nreal Air AR glasses are now available in the United States alongside a new adapter that introduces limited support to iPhone devices. The company also revealed major updates to its Nebula AR operating system as well as new games and apps coming soon to the platform.

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Long-Anticipated Nreal Air AR Glasses Launch for US Users

ARPost

Consumer AR glasses manufacturer Nreal has been gradually expanding availability in the US markets. The company has two consumer models – Light, which saw a very limited market launch almost a year ago, and Air. Fortunately, the wait for Nreal Air is now over. Nreal Air AR Glasses Available for Everyone. Nreal Light launched in the US almost a year ago.

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Official Matsu VR Temple Opens Inside The Metaverse

VRScout

Followers around the world can participate in certified rituals. Metaverse company XRSPACE is partnering with Meta and Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) to launch a digital recreation of the famous Beigang Chaotian Temple in VR. The Matsu metaverse will allow followers around the world to immerse themselves in the thousand-year religion like never before.

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What’s AR’s Role in Architecture & Engineering?

AR Insider

How can AR add value to large-scale architectural, engineering, and construction projects? We answer this question in our latest case study, featuring Nox Innovations' AR deployment. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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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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‘Trombone Champ’ Mod Brings VR Support to the Internet’s Silliest Game

Road to VR

Trombone Champ is a new PC rhythm game from indie studio Holy Wow that’s charming, silly, but also painfully stuck in the flatscreen land of mouse and keyboard. Less than two weeks since its 1.0 release on PC, the game already has already garnered its first VR mod. The mod, called BaboonVR, is brought to you by itinerant modder ‘Raicuparta’ , who’s also known for having brought retroactive VR support to Firewatch , The Stanley Parable, and Outer Wilds to name a few.

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Intel Innovation 2022 Keynote: Live Blog (9am PT, 4pm UTC)

Anand Tech

It's time again for another Intel event, Intel Innovation 2022. With plenty of tech things to reveal to the world ranging from AI, client computing, and data center/cloud computing. Intel is also expected to showcase the generation of products for consumers. With AMD's big Ryzen 7000 launch having only taken place just yesterday, Intel is expected to showcase its next generation of products for consumers.

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Hubris Gamescom Hands-On: Stunning Visuals, Mixed Shooter Gameplay

Upload VR

Hubris is a stunning new title coming to PC VR later this year and we’ve gone hands-on once again – this time with more combat. At Gamescom, I played through two Hubris demos – the opening sequence and a new sequence set a few hours into the campaign, which puts a much heavier focus on combat. We’ve already covered the former in another hands-on , so I won’t repeat too much previously-tread ground, except to say that most of Jamie’s conclusions still stand true.

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Epic Games, Autodesk Link for AEC Design Tools

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Epic Games announced on Tuesday it had inked a strategic collaboration with design solutions giant Autodesk to boost real-time immersive experiences in architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC). The alliance aims to expand access to key design tools for content creators, leading to greater, streamlined workflows for Autodesk Revit, one of the world’s leading building and infrastructure immersive project platforms.

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Original Oculus Quest Will Get Hand Tracking 2.0 Update

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Hand Tracking 2.0 is coming to the original Oculus Quest in October. The update arrived on Quest 2 in May , bringing dramatic improvements to using your hands without controllers. Meta said its researchers and engineers “developed a new method of applying deep learning to better understand hand poses when the device’s cameras can’t see the full hand or when the hand is moving quickly”, describing the result as “a step-function improvement in tracking continuity” Some had

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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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Netgear Introduces Wi-Fi 6 / 6E Access Points and Services for Residential Installers

Anand Tech

Netgear has been at the forefront of the SDVoE (Software-Defined Video over Ethernet) initiative with multiple AV switches serving the growing market. The ProAV lineup of managed switches have been sold primarily in a B2B setting by the Netgear Business division. These switches are increasingly becoming part of luxury residential installations requiring an AV-over-IP solution.

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VRAI wants to tackle the energy crisis by bringing VR simulation training to offshore wind sector

TechCrunch VR

Virtual Reality (VR) has struggled to transition too far beyond gaming circles and specific industry use-cases such as medical training , but with the burgeoning metaverse movement championed by tech heavyweights such as Meta , there has been a renewed hope (and hype) around the promise that virtual worlds bring. Just yesterday, Los Angeles-based AmazeVR announced a $17 million tranche of funding to scale its virtual concert and “music metaverse” platform.

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What’s On: Augmented World Expo Europe 2022

XR Today - Big XR News tag

Next month, the Augmented World Expo (AWE) will host its EU technology event, showcasing the latest extended reality (XR) innovations, topics, and products. The two-day event will take place from 20 to 21 October in Lisbon, Portugal. The event also features a diverse lineup of thought leaders sharing their insights into emerging immersive technology through a series of sessions, keynotes, and workshops.

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CORTEXR Launches XR Data Analytics Tool

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

XR data analytics firm CORTEXR has launched its platform on Tuesday to standardise virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) technologies as well as the Metaverse. The new tool leverages cognitive science and artificial intelligence (AI) to monitor six degrees of freedom (6DoF) behaviours and movements such as attention, immersion, and navigation in virtual spaces.

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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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Is Snapchat Still a Good Marketing Platform?

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

XR Today’s Rory Greener hosts Tim Van Der Wiel, Founder, GoSpooky. In this session, we discuss the following: 1) Are AR visualisations a serious marketing tool? 2) What firms have successfully utilised AR marketing campaigns, and how do you overcome development hurdles? 3) How are you assisting Snap’s AR subdivision Arcadia? 4) With a rise in competition, is Snapchat still a good platform for marketing agencies?

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CraneMorley and SoCalGas Win Summit Award!

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Back to Blog Page. CraneMorley and SoCalGas Win! HoloLens Learning Solution as Response to the Pandemic. CraneMorley worked with California’s SoCalGas operations training team to develop an innovative remote training solution as a countermeasure to the pandemic restrictions to classroom attendance. “If you have ever sat through a boring Zoom video remote class, you will appreciate the capability to ‘take the class out into the field’ for hands on learning from the safety of their homes.

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Horizon Worlds v77 Release Notes

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v77 includes 20 bug fixes, access to personal space and portals, and a host of new assets in the Asset Library. Let's get into it!

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‘Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine’ is Getting a Location-based VR Experience Next Year

Road to VR

Location-based VR company Zero Latency announced it’s working with Warhammer creators Games Workshop to develop an out-of-home VR adventure based on the Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine franchise. The free-roam VR experience, which is currently under development by Zero Latency, allows up to eight players to strap into the jackboots of the universe’s Space Marines for what the studio calls “a thrilling 30-minute adventure to prove their ultimate loyalty to humanity.” We ha

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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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NZXT Unveils N7 Z790 Motherboard for Intel 13th Gen Core Series

Anand Tech

With a lot of news and info dropping on Intel's latest Z790 chipset using the LGA1700 socket, NZXT has pulled the trigger and announced its N7 Z790 motherboard. Available in either white or black, it features a 2.5 GbE controller, Wi-Fi 6E CNVi, benefits from support for PCIe 5.0, and includes three M.2 slots. In addition to the announcement of Intel's 13th Gen Core series processors, codenamed Raptor Lake, NZXT has announced its plans to launch the N7 for Z790.