The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

It’s time for another roundup of amazing XR news. Are you ready? Top news of the week (Image by Google) Google announces important AI and XR news at Google I/O This Google I/O has seen immersive realities back to the menu. During the keynote, CEO Sundar Pichai and his collaborators announced interesting features both for AR and VR. I’ve written a dedicated news roundup article dedicated to Google I/O today, so I won’t go deep into details here and I invite you to read that post (linked here belo

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VRScout

MAY 15, 2023

Design and play your own custom 5e campaigns in this upcoming VR tabletop experience. Tabletop campaigns come to life in Dungeon Full Dive , a brand new role-playing game from developer TxK Gaming Studios that’s coming to Steam Early Access later this year. The VR TTRPG promises an entirely new dimension of VR gaming as players explore a massive virtual world in unprecedented ways.

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ARPost

MAY 15, 2023

XRHealth is an enterprising company that combines telehealth with VR gaming for remote physical and occupational therapy solutions. Amelia Virtual Care also pioneers VR telehealth, but prioritizes a different kind of therapy by focusing on mental wellness. The two companies recently announced a merger. The resulting company will offer both physical and mental therapy through the combined teams, skills, and software of both companies.

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VRScout

MAY 15, 2023

Google’s Project Starline is back and looking better than ever. It was back in 2021 that we first learned about Project Starline, an ambitious technology project from Google aimed at improving remote teleconferencing through the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and light field display technology. Instead of a standard 2D image, Project Starline offers a “lifelike” 3D image of the person you’re conversing with, allowing for more natural and engaging interactions, regard

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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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Road to VR

MAY 15, 2023

Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus who left the company in 2017, appears to have insider knowledge of upcoming Apple XR headset, which is expected to be unveiled at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) next month. To Luckey, Apple’s hotly awaited entrance into the space is apparently “so good.” The Apple headset is so good. — Palmer Luckey (@PalmerLuckey) May 14, 2023 Luckey hasn’t quantified his experience beyond this, or even said that his impressions inde

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 15, 2023

Spatial is a leading RT3D Metaverse platform for various hardware, including web browsers and XR headsets. The online platform promotes interactive social and immersive gaming worlds with rich branding and content creation opportunities. Spatial also assists in the We3 revolution. The platform promotes immersive user-generated content, enabling an ecosystem of platform creators using Spatial to build and share online experiences and worlds.

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AR Insider

MAY 15, 2023

Welcome back to Spatial Beats, AR Insider's weekly series that features observations and insights of author and futurist Charlie Fink. This week, we look at Google I/O, Niantic's latest, and all the news from the spatial spectrum. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 15, 2023

Moth+Flame , a provider of immersive training technologies, has joined the global commemoration of Mental Health Awareness Month with a novel VR mental health solution. The New York City-based company has released a specialised immersive training category to address workplace-related mental health issues. Using a fresh library of immersive content, Moth+Flame’s Mental Wellness immersive content backs supportive environments in the workplace.

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Hypergrid Business

MAY 15, 2023

This is the monthly stats report, where we count up all the regions and users on the public OpenSim grids. This month, the number of active public grids hit an all-time high — 428. This is despite the fact that we’re now categorizing many grids as private if they don’t have useful websites, or social media pages, or show other indicators that they’re trying to attract the public.

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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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 15, 2023

Moth+Flame , a provider of immersive training technologies, has joined the global commemoration of Mental Health Awareness Month with a novel VR mental health solution. The New York City-based company has released a specialised immersive training category to address workplace-related mental health issues. Using a fresh library of immersive content, Moth+Flame’s Mental Wellness immersive content backs supportive environments in the workplace.

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Upload VR

MAY 15, 2023

The Public Test Channel build of the Quest v54 system software lets you set a Custom Skybox for your home. Currently, each home environment you can choose from on Quest has a built-in skybox - the 2D 360° far-off background visible behind the 3D geometry of the home itself. Spotted by @Lunayian on Twitter, a new Custom Skybox View setting in the Experimental section of the v54 software lets you change this skybox.

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Bernard Marr

MAY 15, 2023

Almost 30,000 people have signed a petition calling for an “immediate pause” to the development of more powerful artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The interesting thing is that these aren’t Luddites with an inherent dislike of technology. Names on the petition include Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Tesla, Twitter, and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, and Turing Prize winner Yoshua Bengio.

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Ryan Schultz

MAY 15, 2023

If you’re in the market for a nice, free mesh body, you’re in luck! The Kalhene Erika mesh body, which I reviewed previously here , is offering a version called Erika Zero, which consists of a Bento, Bakes on Mesh body with flat feet, plus one outfit (top, shorts, and sneakers). To pick one up, just teleport here to the N-Core/Kalhene store and buy it for L$0 (no group needed).

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 15, 2023

The Cannes Film Festival (Festival de Cannes and Marché du Film) has opened its XR division in May. The event will showcase the top immersive art and experiences across the sector. Cannes Next will kick off its immersive part of the festival with numerous competitions, marketplaces, and activities linked to artificial intelligence. One of the top exhibitions there will include a global 18 May premiere of world-renowned street artist Banksy’s VR experience.

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XROM

MAY 15, 2023

The Augmented World Expo Asia announced that it will host its 2023 conference in Singapore from August 30-31. Speaker, sponsor, and exhibitor applications have opened, and participants may now register. 2023 will mark the first time that AWE Asia is hosted in Singapore. AWE Asia brings together developers, creators, founders, product leads, C-level executives, enthusiasts, media, and analysts interested in #virtualreality, #augmentedreality, and related #Web3 and #metaverse technologies in Asia.

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VRGames

MAY 15, 2023

This week on the Between Realities VR Podcast, Alex and Skeeva host Blair Renaud – creator of LOW-FI and prolific Virtual Reality developer.

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Program Ace

MAY 15, 2023

The post Top 5 Virtual Reality Trends of 2023: The Future of VR appeared first on Program-Ace.

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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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