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An Indiana Jones-Style VR Game Is Coming To Quest

VRScout

Explore an ancient temple using your own two feet in this unique room-scale VR experience. Originally released on PC VR headsets back in 2021, the incredible room-scale VR game Eye of the Temple will soon be heading to Meta Quest headsets, according to developer Rune Skovbo Johansen. This immersive VR experience tasks you with exploring a seemingly-endless labyrinth of deadly traps and environmental puzzles housed within a mysterious jungle temple.

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NVIDIA CloudXR 4.0 Enables Developers to Customize the SDK and Scale XR Deployment

ARPost

In January, NVIDIA announced new products and innovations at CES 2023. At this year’s NVIDIA GTC , “the developer conference for the era of AI and the metaverse,” NVIDIA announced the latest release of CloudXR. Businesses can definitely look forward to boosting their AR and VR capabilities with the new NVIDIA CloudXR developments, enhanced to bring more flexibility and scalability for XR deployments.

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Location-Based VR Ghostbusters Game Haunts Arcades

VRScout

Battle supernatural entities and race against other players in futuristic hovercrafts. Last year Sony unveiled Ghostbusters VR Academy , a new location-based VR experience based on the iconic Ghostbusters franchise that lets you to strap on a Proton Pack and battle an army of supernatural creatures alongside your friends. Today, the highly-anticipated multiplayer experience officially launched at HOLOGATE arcades around the world.

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Spatial Beats: Adobe, Epic Games & GDC

AR Insider

Welcome back to Spatial Beats. Twenty-five thousand people attended the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco this week, the first entirely in-person event since… Continue reading → Spatial Beats: Adobe, Epic Games & GDC 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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The Top VR Headset Vendors for 2023

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Demand for virtual reality is expanding at an incredible rate. Users are discovering that virtual reality isn’t just a powerful tool for entertainment. It can also be an effective way to boost productivity during collaborative sessions, enhance the quality of training courses, and increase creativity. Of course, leveraging the power of virtual reality starts with choosing the right headset capable of transporting each user into a new digital landscape.

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Empowering Women A Priority For SHIB Metaverse

Charlie Fink

Gender equality is critical to success.

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Eye Of The Temple Room-Scale VR Platforming Comes To Quest 2 ‘Soon’

Upload VR

Eye of the Temple, a room-scale VR platformer, will make a surprise leap onto Quest 2 soon. Initially released for PC VR, Eye of the Temple comes from solo developer Rune Skovbo Johansen, who is collaborating with Salmi Games for the Quest 2 port. Requiring a minimum play area of 2m x 2m, this Indiana Jones-style adventure sees you exploring ancient temples, dodging traps and solving puzzles.

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Intel NUC 13 Pro Arena Canyon Review: Raptor Lake Brings Incremental Gains

Anand Tech

Ultra-compact form-factor PCs have emerged as bright spots in the PC market over the last decade after Intel introduced the NUC. The company celebrated the 10-year anniversary of its introduction last year with the Alder Lake-based 4"x4" Wall Street Canyon NUCs. Barely a couple of quarters down the road, Intel is updating its Pro line of UCFF NUCs with the 13 th Gen.

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Zenith VR MMO Dropping Support For Quest 1 & PSVR 1

Upload VR

The developers behind the popular Zenith VR MMO are dropping support for the original Quest and PlayStation VR headsets. Original PSVR owners will be disconnected from the larger MMO community and retired to their own shard running version 1.2.2 of Zenith. Original Quest owners, meanwhile, “will not be able to run the Zenith app after September 15, 2023.” “Currently, maintaining support for Quest 1 is impacting the quality and stability for Quest 2 (~98% of our Quest users have

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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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Two Recent Video Essays on the Metaverse: Straszfilms Looks at There.com, and Dan Olson Dissects Decentraland

Ryan Schultz

I have a great deal of respect and admiration for those people who create metaverse-themed video essays and documentaries on YouTube. I simply don’t have the time and energy at this point in my life to fiddle with video editing software, and I don’t particularly consider myself photogenic enough to put my face on your screen! So today, I want to introduce you to two new (and very different!

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The 7 Most Successful Business Models Of The Digital Era

Bernard Marr

The first two decades of this century are characterized by digital entrepreneurs upending traditional business models in search of new ways of creating revenue and serving customers. This has been made possible by the emergence of several new waves of technology – from desktop computers to the internet, mobile devices, and the cloud. Going forward, these waves of disruption seem certain to continue as new breakthroughs such as artificial intelligence (AI) continue to redefine the way we shop, wo

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NVIDIA's cuLitho to Speed Up Computational Lithography for 2nm and Beyond

Anand Tech

Production of chips using leading-edge process technologies requires more compute power than ever. To address requirements of 2nm nodes and beyond, NVIDIA is rolling out its cuLitho software library that uses the company's DGX H100 systems based on H100 GPUs and promises to increase performance available to mask shops within a reasonable amount of consumed power by 40 times.

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What are the Internet of Behaviour (IoB) implications for XR Analytics?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The Internet of Behaviour (IoB) is a technology trend with significant opportunities and benefits for extended reality (XR). It adds a layer of psychology to the Internet of Things (IoT) to interpret ‘digital dust’ linked to behavioural patterns. The ultimate goal is to connect devices, analyse user behaviour, and influence future behaviours. Gartner predicted in 2021 that 40 percent of the world’s population will face at least one IoB programme in 2025 across verticals such as from marketing, h

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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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Augmented Reality Industries; An Overview of All Sectors Using AR

metamandrill

Augmented reality industries are paving the way to a new and exciting future. Though, rapid growth often makes it hard to keep track of the industry and its constitute technologies. But have no fear, you're about to learn all about this exciting field. You'll see where it is now, where it's going, and how to [.] The post Augmented Reality Industries; An Overview of All Sectors Using AR appeared first on Metamandrill.com.

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Accenture Faces 19,000 Layoffs amid Tech Turmoil

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Accenture has slashed 19,000 positions, or 2.5 percent of its entire workforce, in the latest wave of layoffs, it revealed last Thursday. The Dublin-based IT consultancy giant is the latest affected by the current economic crisis. Jobs affected across Accenture will hit non-billable corporate functions, it said in recent statement. News of the job cuts boosted share prices for the firm 6.4 percent at the same time.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.03.27): Vive inside-out Tracker announced, Pico’s launch in the US delayed, and more!

The Ghost Howls

This has been quite an interesting week. We had at the same time the Game Developer Conference (the GDC) and the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) by NVIDIA, so we had lots of announcements about 3D technology in general and also about XR. Since there are these two conferences with a very similar name happening at a similar time and a similar place, I wonder why they don’t unify them in a single one called GTDC, or GXC, or something like that.

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The State of XR in Manufacturing and Industrial 2023

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Extended reality (XR) provides massive potential in the industrial and manufacturing space by promising new opportunities for rapid product creation, prototyping, and training. Although it’s safe to say XR offers benefits in various industries. Firms in the manufacturing and industrial sectors were some of the first to explore the potential of this new space.

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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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“News Flash: Nightly News with a VR Twist!”

VRGames

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VR Fitness Digest: March 2023

Oculus

Spring is here! But just because the weather is warmer doesn’t mean it’s convenient to go out to exercise.

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Enterprise vs Consumer Metaverse: Which Will Flourish First? 

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The Metaverse has rapidly captured the attention of consumers and companies alike in regions worldwide. Although many people still don’t fully understand what the metaverse “is” or what it has the potential to do, there’s an overwhelming sense of excitement surrounding the concept. As companies like Microsoft, Meta, Google, and many others continue to share their “visions” of the metaverse, we’re beginning to get a clearer picture of what this digital environment might look like.

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MinisForum Launches NAB6 mini-PC With Dual 2.5G Ethernet Ports

Anand Tech

MinisForum is a well-known manufacturer from Shenzhen, China, specializing in compact systems. The company recently added the NAB6 to its diverse portfolio of mini-PCs powered by Intel processors. The NAB6, which leverages Intel's Core i7-12650H (Alder Lake) processor, offers not one but two high-speed 2.5G Ethernet ports. The feature is common on higher-end motherboards but rarely on a mini-PC.

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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?