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The Omni One VR Treadmill Has Finally Begun Shipping

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A Pico Neo 3 Pro standalone headset is included with each purchase. Omni One is a consumer-ready omnidirectional treadmill that allows you to walk, run, jump, and crouch in VR. According to Austin-based company Virtuix Inc., the futuristic-looking device can be set up easily in multiple locations throughout your home and folded up for convenient storage, promising more immersive VR experiences without sacrificing space.

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Get Ready to Battle in Space With Valo Motion’s Latest MR Game Release Astro Blade

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Last year, Valo Motion launched ValoArena, a mixed reality playground , in the US. Now, the company is back with an exciting MR game release – Astro Blade. The Finnish game company, known for designing and developing cutting-edge interactive mixed reality games, has recently released a new space-themed game which can now be played in ValoArenas across the country.

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Moss Creator Is Developing A Multiplayer VR Game

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Those interested can sign up for the next playtest taking place from April 14th to the 16th. Polyarc, the VR studio behind the popular Moss series, has announced playtest registration for its next multiplayer VR game which is currently in development. The game will be released sometime later this year and, according to the company, will serve as a significant addition to the competitive VR gaming scene.

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‘Moss’ Studio Announces VR Competitive Multiplayer, Closed Beta Signups Now Live

Road to VR

Polyarc, the studio behind the Moss franchise, announced a new competitive multiplayer VR game currently in development. Polyarc isn’t saying much beyond that—we still don’t even know it’s name—however a look at the game’s concept art shows a definite influence from Moss ‘ style and characters, including the Reader and a number of plucky mice heroes.

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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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Could Visual Search Become AR’s Killer App?

AR Insider

Beyond social lenses, a less-discussed AR modality is visual search. Led by Google Lens and Snap Scan, it lets users point their smartphone cameras (or future glasses) at real-world objects to identify and contextualize them. Is this AR's sleeper killer app? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Meta Quest Review: Leading the Market in 2023?

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Leading immersive technology firm Meta debuted its flagship Quest device in late 2020. Since the device’s launch, the product has become a mainstay in virtual reality (VR) enthusiasts’ homes. By combining fully untethered portability with impressive VR features, the Meta Quest was one of the first VR device capable of delivering a truly wireless VR experience.

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Pixel Ripped 1978 Releases This Summer Featuring Atari Classics

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Pixel Ripped 1978 hopes to recreate the golden age of video games through VR, launching this summer on PC VR, Quest 2 and PSVR 2. Developed by ARVORE and published by Atari, Pixel Ripped 1978 marks the third installment in this retro-themed adventure series and strikes a different tone from its predecessors, Pixel Ripped 1989 and Pixel Ripped 1995. Playing as Dot, a video game designer working for Atari at its headquarters in Sunnyvale, you will travel between different classic Atari games like

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NVIDIA Announces H100 NVL - Max Memory Server Card for Large Language Models

Anand Tech

While this year’s Spring GTC event doesn’t feature any new GPUs or GPU architectures from NVIDIA, the company is still in the process of rolling out new products based on the Hopper and Ada Lovelace GPUs its introduced in the past year. At the high-end of the market, the company today is announcing a new H100 accelerator variant specifically aimed at large language model users: the H100 NVL.

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Moss Developers Polyarc Announce Competitive Multiplayer VR Game

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Polyarc, the developers behind the Moss franchise, announced a new in-development competitive multiplayer VR game today, sharing some artwork and announcing a playtest weekend for next month. The game’s title remains unconfirmed and there’s not a whole lot of specific details, however the artwork shared by Polyarc indicates it will continue the studio’s strong visual style established in Moss: Book I & II.

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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 Shakes Up Corporate Leadership: Stuart Pann in for IFS, Raja Koduri out for GPUs

Anand Tech

In a combination of a press release and series of tweets from CEO Pat Gelsinger, Intel this afternoon has announced a pair of significant corporate leadership changes at the company, which will impact both their Intel Foundry Services (IFS) and graphics/accelerator business segments. In brief, IFS is getting new leadership, while Intel GPU guru and chief architect Raja Koduri is leaving the company for new pastures.

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New Humble Store VR Sale Discounts Nearly 100 PC VR Games

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The Humble Store VR sale is now live, discounting nearly 100 PC VR games. Joining the ongoing Steam Spring Sale 2023 , the Humble Store VR sale doesn’t include nearly as many PC VR games, but there’s still good discounts. That ranges from more recent hits like Bonelab at $31.99 (20% off) and Red Matter 2 at $22.49 (25% off), to other acclaimed games like Unplugged (60% off) and Pistol Whip (30% off).

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Why Are Museums Curating Their Content in the Metaverse? 

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

When people imagine environments custom-made for the metaverse , they think about social media platforms, video games, and similar modern concepts. As a relatively old-fashioned element of the Arts and Entertainment landscape, museums don’t immediately seem like the most natural fit for something as futuristic as the metaverse. However, in a world where consumers have changed their behaviours based on pandemic restrictions and digital transformation, museum metaverses are becoming an increasin

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The Last Worker Interview: Bringing Satirical Factory Work To VR

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The Last Worker brings a narrative adventure to Quest, PSVR 2 and PC VR on March 30, and we spoke with Wolf & Wood founder Ryan Bousfield to learn more. Oiffy and Wolf & Wood’s dystopian adventure sees you playing Kurt (Ólafur Darri Ólafsson) , the last human factory worker at mega-corporation Jüngle, led by its ruthless rainbow-haired CEO.

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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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Top Mixed Reality Events for 2023

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Mixed Reality combines elements of virtual and augmented reality with the real world, to produce unique immersive experiences. Innovators in the MR space have already begun exploring ways to use state-of-the-art technology to power digital teleportation, holograms, and more. While somewhat less commonplace in the current world than VR or AR, Mixed Reality (MR) is gaining increasing attention in the immersive landscape.

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The NVIDIA GTC Spring 2023 Keynote Live Blog (8:00am PT/15:00 UTC)

Anand Tech

Please join us at 8:00am PT (15:00 UTC) for our live blog coverage of NVIDIA’s Spring GTC keynote address. The traditional kick-off to the show – be it physical or virtual – NVIDIA’s annual spring keynote is showcase for NVIDIA’s vision for the next 12 to 24 months across all of their segments, from graphics to AI to automotive.

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Spatial Debuts Unity Creator Toolkit at GDC 2023

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

3D social and shared immersive space platform Spatial announced on Monday that its Unity Creator Toolkit had moved to its beta version. Major global companies such as Vogue, McDonalds, and Hublot have leveraged Spatial’s world-building platform for numerous events, training sessions, and other collaborative efforts. The new iteration of Spatial’s widely-celebrated extended reality (XR) platform now integrates Unity Technologies’ industry-leading solutions.

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NVIDIA Unveils Ada Lovelace RTX Workstation GPUs for Laptops; Desktop RTX 4000 SFF

Anand Tech

Along with their server part announcements today, NVIDIA is also using the backdrop of GTC to do a wholesale update of their professional visualization product stack. NVIDIA’s laptop lineup, which to date has not received any parts based on NVIDIA’s new Ada Lovelace architecture is finally getting its due, with a nearly top-to-bottom update of their whole product lineup.

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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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Virtuix Debut Omni One Treadmill with Pico Neo 3 Headset

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Today, Virtuix debuted a beta version of its unique Omni One treadmill, allowing users to explore virtual reality (VR) by walking over conventional controller input. The omnidirectional treadmill device lets users walk or run in any desired direction. Virtuix is shipping the Omni One product to its investor community. Later this year, the Austin-based firm will distribute the product across US consumer markets.

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Virtual Reality in Real Estate; Clear Examples of VR in Real Estate

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Virtual reality in real estate might sound inherently contradictory at first glance. But the phrase highlights an essential point about the new digital landscape. Virtual reality has become an actual world perfectly intertwined with the standard physical world. You're about to see this domain's past, present, and future along with ways to get started.

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What is XR Cloud Streaming? 

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Extended Reality is exploding into the spotlight across virtually every industry. Once viewed as a novelty, technology has emerged as a valuable tool for boosting everything from collaborative sessions and ideation to product development and training. Unfortunately, even as hardware and software solutions in the MR, AR, and VR landscapes continue to evolve, there’s something holding XR evolution back: streaming.

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Training methods you can implement with Guides

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Back to Blog Page The way company’s train their employees has a significant impact on organization productivity and performance. Effective training gives employees a better understanding of their responsibilities and a deeper knowledge of the skills to succeed in their roles. There is a long list of the different kind of training methods companies use.

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Who C.A.R.E.S.!? How Learning Got Its Bad Rap & What We Can Do About It

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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NVIDIA’s Updated Omniverse: A Cloud-Based Industrial Metaverse Hub

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Today, at NVIDIA’s GTC online event between March 20-23, NVIDIA Founder and CEO Jensen Huang introduced core updates to its Omniverse real-time 3D (RT3D) content creation suite, which brings extra considerations to industrial Metaverse services, immersive content, and AI-driven developer pipelines. The updated Omniverse platform provides a wealth of professional visualization tools to promote XR content development.

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Frequently Asked Questions About XR And Productivity

Digitalnauts

Frequently Asked Questions About XR And Productivity (FAQs) The goal of this blog post is to explore the potential of XR and how we can leverage it across various industries to enhance productivity by answering some frequently asked questions. XR, or extended reality, is an umbrella term that encompasses virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR).

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XR to Solve Real World Problems, Warpin CEO Says

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Despite ongoing turmoil in the virtual, augmented, mixed, and extended reality (VR/AR/MR/XR) markets, device makers are remaining strategic to realise the future dream of the Metaverse. Numerous headsets from Apple, Meta Platforms, Magic Leap, and others have faced setbacks over the last few years but remain persistent. Apple’s venture into MR hardware has proved challenging but remains a key focus of the Cupertino-based firm as it aims to release the product this year.

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Social VR Research Alert: Participate in a Research Study on Identity Construction in Virtual Environments, at Lund University in Sweden

Ryan Schultz

Filippa and Lina are two Master’s students in the International Marketing and Brand Management program at Lund University in Lund, Sweden. They are researching how social VR users express identity in virtual environments, and they wish to conduct interviews. Filippa told me via Discord chat: We are hoping to learn more about how social VR users express identity in virtual environments because we think that it is the future, and we have noticed more and more physical retailers that are show

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How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular

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?