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Amazon Goes Virtual: Shop For Products In VR & AR

VRScout

Shopping for real products in the virtual world just became a little easier. Earlier this week, the popular online retailer Amazon launched “Amazon Anywhere,” a new shopping experience that enables customers to purchase physical products from the Amazon store without having to leave their favorite games and apps. This includes VR experiences as well as augmented reality (AR) mobile apps.

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4 Ways Mobile AR is Making Waves Today

AR Insider

Mobile AR isn't the technology's endgame nor its fully-mature self. But it scales today on the backs of more than 3 billion global smartphones. What are the top ways it's materializing today? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Watching TV While Flying A VR Spaceship Looks Rad

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Now that’s what I call in-flight entertainment. A little entertainment can go a long way during a lengthy commute, as shown by Reddit user manicmastiff81 who this week shared a video of them watching YouTube from the cockpit of a VR spaceship in the popular open-world science-fiction game No Man’s Sky. In the video, we see manicmastiff piloting their spacecraft toward a large alien spaceport while enjoying an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience featuring comedian Theo Von.

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Niantic Finds More Ways to Monetize

AR Insider

Niantic's Peridot contains a hidden gem in one of its baked-in revenue streams. As the launch partner for Amazon Anywhere, does this demonstrate a revenue stream for AR apps to have custom merch stores? 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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End of Night Highlights The Horrors Of WW2 On Quest 2

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End of Night explores the tormented memories of a World War 2 refugee's escape from Denmark, and it's out now on Quest 2. Released yesterday to coincide with Victory in Europe Day, End of Night is an award-winning short cinematic VR story. Directed by David Adler, it focuses on Josef (Jens Jørn Spottag), a refugee escaping from Nazi-occupied Denmark to neutral Sweden in 1943, placing you opposite him in the passenger seat of a rowboat.

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Agora Releases Real-Time Transcription API

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Agora Inc, one of the top global firms for real-time engagement application programme interfaces (APIs), recently debuted its Real-Time Transcription solution. According to the global firm, the new solution will provide developers with a fast, accurate, and affordable transcription and subtitling service. Additionally, users will benefit from the API as it can integrate across all apps and services.

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PokerStars VR Now Available For PSVR 2

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PSVR 2 players can now join the table for a virtual round of poker in PokerStars VR, which released earlier today for Sony's new VR headset. The release dropped onto PlayStation VR2 without much fanfare or prior warning. It's one of a few stealth releases that arrived on the headset this week, alongside Transformers Beyond Reality and Organ Quarter.

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The Amazing Ways Duolingo Is Using AI And GPT-4

Bernard Marr

Duolingo is a leading educational technology company specializing in app-based learning. It’s also a pioneer in the field of educational artificial intelligence (AI) and recently partnered with OpenAI in order to become one of the first to offer GPT-4, its latest language model, to its customers. OpenAI’s GPT technology has recently become familiar to millions, thanks to its ChatGPT app, which is said to have built the fastest-growing user base of all time.

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Rock Out with ‘Creed: Rise to Glory’ – Number One on the PSVR 2 Download Chart!

VRGames

Two months after the launch of PlayStation VR 2, the charts are still in flux due to ongoing updates and releases. Among those titles taking the lead is Survios’ boxing title Creed: Rise to Glory – Championship Edition which snatched the top spot in both US/Canada and EU for April.

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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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Spring Has Sprung for Niantic and 8th Wall

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It’s already been a year since Niantic acquired 8th Wall. While acquisitions can be a scary thing in the tech world, both companies are growing and strengthening through their partnership. Pillars of the Earth Niantic and 8th Wall are both AR companies that might be bigger and more important than some realize. However, they both come at AR architecture and accessibility from different perspectives.

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“Take a Magical Ride ‘Round the World with Daft Punk’s AR Experience!”

VRGames

The timeless electronic duo Daft Punk is getting even more creative with a series of unique AR experiences, developed by Snapchat’s AR Studio in partnership with the musical group’s own team.

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Transform your AR experiences with photorealistic avatars in ZapWorks Designer

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Find out how to add photorealistic avatars into your AR experiences. No coding is required to add fully customisable and animated avatars into any WebAR experience.

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‘Voyage to the Meta Horizon: Release v109-Asset Shelf, Invite Codes and More!’

VRGames

Meta Horizon Worlds v109 is here, and it’s introducing exciting features to help creators find popular assets in the Asset Library.

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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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Give Yourself A Hand: ‘Another Fisherman’s Tale’ is Out Now on Meta Quest 2 + Pro

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Another Fisherman’s Tale is out now on Meta Quest 2 + Pro. A follow-up to Vertigo Games and Innerspace VR’s beloved 2019 puzzle game A.

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“May 2023: Break into a New Reality with PSVR 2, Quest 2 & More!”

VRGames

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The State of Eye/Hand-Tracking Technology for Enterprise in 2023

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

An XR immersive experience employs various elements that allow it to be as fully immersive as possible for commercial and enterprise end-users. XR developers can leverage features like spital audio, RT3D graphics, and even AI to immerse a headset user. Although, an emerging presence in the development space is hand and eye tracking. AR/VR/MR headsets are increasingly equipped with hand and eye tracking technology.

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Samsung to Unveil Refined 3nm and Performance-Enhanced 4nm Nodes at VLSI Symposium

Anand Tech

Samsung Foundry is set to detail its second generation 3 nm-class fabrication technology as well as its performance-enhanced 4 nm-class manufacturing process at the upcoming upcoming 2023 Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits in Kyoto, Japan. Both technologies are important for the contract maker of chips as SF3 (3GAP) promises to offer tangible improvements for mobile and SoCs, whereas SF4X (N4HPC) is designed specifically for the most demanding high-performance computing (HPC) applications

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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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The Immersive Collaboration Market Map for 2023

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Only a few years ago, when extended reality solutions first started emerging in the market, many viewed them as a novel and consumer-focused. Companies quickly rolled out solutions for the entertainment and gaming landscapes, based on new, immersive technology, introducing us to a new age of digital media. However, as XR solutions have evolved, the use cases for these innovations have transformed too.

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Multiplayer Support Coming To Puzzling Places

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Multiplayer support is coming to Puzzling Places. On Twitter, Puzzling Places developer realities.io teased new multiplayer functionality with a GIF that seemingly shows one user handing off a puzzle piece to another. Something exciting is coming to Puzzling Places. what could it be? ? pic.twitter.com/joog9mnflN — Puzzling Places (@PuzzlingPlaces) May 9, 2023 The caption noted that "something exciting is coming to Puzzle Places," but didn't outright confirm multiplayer or give any indicati