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Lenovo Unveils Mixed Reality Headset For Businesses

VRScout

Enterprise VR gets an upgrade in the form of a new standalone device. Multinational technology company Lenovo today unveiled the ThinkReality VRX, an all-in-one mixed reality headset designed for businesses. The enterprise-focused device boasts high-resolution colored passthrough, advanced pancake (folded) optics, and supports cloud-based rendering solutions like NVIDIA CloudXR.

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Metaverse and Investing – Opportunities for Retail Investors Part 2: Software and Infrastructure

ARPost

In the first part , I dealt with investing possibilities in hardware that will take us to the metaverse. Today I will delve into other opportunities. Software. The metaverse is going to be made of many souls. This implies an enormous variety of software that will be used for its construction and for its application in our lives. We will need platforms to navigate, meet, and study.

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The HIG-M4 VR Gunstock Looks EXTREMELY Realistic

VRScout

If looks could kill… When it comes to VR shooters, having the right accessories can often mean the difference between life and death… Literally. Over the past few years, we’ve seen various manufacturers try their hands at creating their own VR-compatible gunstocks, but we haven’t seen anything quite like the HIG-M4 Simulation VR Gunstock.

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Google Inches Closer to the Metavearth

AR Insider

Google's annual Search On event featured several moves that advance the search giant's ambitions to build an Internet of places. Also what we call the metavearth, this is all about adding digital depth and dimension to the physical world. 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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Blurry Background?—?Spark AR Guide for Instagram Filters

ARVR

Blurry Background - Spark AR Guide for Instagram Filters In this guide, I will show you step by step, how you can add a blurry background to your Instagram filters with the Spark AR Studio! You can add this effect to any Spark AR project you want. 1. Extract the Camera & Segmentation texture from the camera Object Click on the camera object in the scene Extract the Camera & Person segmentation Texture at the properties (right side) Extracting the textures from the Camera Object 2.

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Zuckerberg Teases Mixed Reality Fencing Game On Quest Pro

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Mark Zuckerberg teased a mixed reality fencing game on Quest Pro. The video shows off the soon-to-launch headset’s flagship new feature: color passthrough. We also saw the passthrough back in May when Zuckeberg teased another mixed reality demo on Quest Pro. But both videos were posted to Facebook & Instagram which apply heavy compression to uploaded content so it’s hard to judge the image quality.

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7 Ways XR Enhances CX

AR Insider

Customer Experience (CX) is defined by the user interfaces and click streams that brands engineer for their users. How are AR and VR transforming this existing art? We examine 7 ways it's playing out today. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Lenovo ThinkReality VRX Is A Mixed Reality Headset For Businesses With Pancake Lenses

Upload VR

Lenovo ThinkReality VRX is a standalone headset for businesses with color passthrough. The company didn’t reveal many details or specs, but said it has pancake lenses, stereo color cameras for passthrough, and the battery in the rear. Pancake lenses support smaller panels with a shorter gap to the lenses, and thus a slimmer and lighter visor. Lenovo says the color passthrough makes ThinkReality VRX suitable for mixed reality applications.

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Lenovo Reveals ThinkReality VRX at IGS Europe 2022

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Lenovo, a global leader in tech solutions, announced at the Immerse Global Summit (IGS) 2022 Europe on Wednesday it had launched its novel all-in-one virtual reality (VR) enterprise solution. Jason McGuigan, Head of Commercial for Virtual Reality , announced the news at his speech at the premier event in Madeira Island, Portugal’s Savoy Palace, which joined some of the world’s largest tech firms, including Google, Qualcomm, EndeavorXR, Varjo Technologies, and many others.

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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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Intel Demos Sapphire Rapids Hardware Accelerator Blocks In Action At Innovation 2022

Anand Tech

With Intel’s annual Innovation event taking place this week in San Jose, the company is looking to recapture a lot of technical momentum that has slowly been lost over the past couple of years. While Intel has remained hard at work releasing new products over the time, the combination of schedule slips and an inability to show off their wares to in-person audiences has taken some of the luster off the company and its products.

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VIRNECT Joins Seoul Metaverse Korea Exhibition

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

VIRNECT, a digital solution for augmented reality (AR) devices, announced on Wednesday it would join South Korea’s Metaverse Korea Exhibition, with the four-day event taking place from 4 to 7 October. The capital’s COEX Hall will host the event, providing XR content creators on the VIRNECT solution with two key events, allowing users to showcase numerous use cases across traditional enterprises and entertainment.

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Nreal Debuts Air, iPhone 14 Adapters on Amazon

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

This Tuesday, global smart glasses firm Nreal debuted a new iPhone-compatible dongle to coincide with the launch of Apple’s iPhone 14 earlier this month. Additionally, Nreal is updating its Nebula operating system (OS) to improve cross-compatibility with Apple devices on its Air and Light smart glasses. The Beijing-based firm has opened preorders for the Apple dongle on Amazon for $59, and the firm also announced a partnership with the online retail giant to launch the Nreal Air device for

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Lenovo Launches ThinkReality VRX Solution

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

In this session, we discuss the following: 1) Details surrounding Lenovo’s latest ThinkReality VRX solution. 2) Use cases for the new platform and how it empowers enterprises. 3) The company’s views on the Metaverse and what’s to come. If you’re looking for more information on this topic visit Lenovo at their company website.

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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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Metaverse in Unity vs. Unreal: Clash of Engines

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The post Metaverse in Unity vs. Unreal: Clash of Engines appeared first on Program-Ace.

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Metaverse To Target 3 Key Destinations, Unity Says

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Senior representatives have joined many others at the Immerse Global Summit (IGS) 2022 Europe to discuss conceptualised roadmaps to the Metaverse , the successor to the Internet that merges connectivity and spatial communications, it was revealed on Wednesday. John A Cunningham, Head of Government & Aerospace at Unity. John A Cunningham, Head of Government and Aerospace at Unity Technologies , delivered his keynote speech exploring the concept at the event, which gathered roughly 500 busines

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Want To Be A Racing Driver? Let’s Experience These Racing Simulation Games First

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All those who seek speed and passion cannot get around the dream of a race track, but the sport requires huge time and money costs and is risky, so not everyone has the opportunity to participate in it. In fact, we ordinary people can do it without leaving our homes to drive a race car. Here’s what you need to know about racing simulation games!

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Virtualware Offers Huge Updates at the IGS 2022 Europe

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

In this session we discuss the following: 1) Building standards in the extended reality (XR) industry and global ecosystem. 2) Updates on Virtualware and its partnerships with numerous global XR manufacturers. 3) The company’s work with the energy sector and other partnerships. If you’re looking for more information on this topic visit their website.

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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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Lenovo Unveils ThinkReality VRX Headset for Enterprise Sporting Some Increasingly Familiar Specs

Road to VR

Lenovo today unveiled its next standalone VR headset for enterprise, the ThinkReality VRX standalone. While the company may be pitching its latest headset for businesses, it seems VR hardware is starting to reach a pretty solid consensus on what’s next. The near future of VR is slimmer, lighter, and has a dash of augmented reality for good measure.

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XR in Education Case Study in Focus: Microsoft and GE

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

In the educational landscape, extended reality tools have an incredible opportunity to enlighten and engage students in a variety of spaces. Already, countless universities and businesses have embraced VR, AR, and MR as tools for better training. With the correct blend of immersive technologies, it’s easier for business leaders and educators alike to deliver information to students in a way capable of boosting recall and performance.

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Quest 2's BEST Survival Game: INTO THE RADIUS

Full Dive Gaming

THE REVIEW: Quest 2 VR Game INTO THE RADIUS has launched and iS iT WORTH iT? LEARN MORE HERE: [link] An atmospheric open-world single-player survival shooter: You find yourself in the middle of the blighted zone, cut from the outside world. Your guns and your wits are all you have left. Fight the deadly enemies, dodge dangerous anomalies, and collect wondrous artifacts on your way to the Radius center to find your way out.

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