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Our First Look At The New Ghostbusters VR Experience

VRScout

Check out an official gameplay trailer for the upcoming co-op adventure game. This past October we learned that a new VR game based on the hit Ghostbusters franchise will be arriving on VR headsets next year. Set in the City by the Bay, Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord will have you teaming up with friends to battle the titular Ghost Lord and his terrifying army of ghosts and ghouls using an arsenal of powerful ghost-hunting weaponry.

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XR Talks: The Creator Economy Collides with AR

AR Insider

Creative tools continue to empower individuals at all skill levels to develop advanced content. Meanwhile ,3D and AR are gaining popularity. How will these two trends converge? We break it down in this week's XR Talks. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Indie Publisher Raw Fury to Bring 3 VR Adaptations to Quest

Road to VR

Indie publisher Raw Fury says it’s bringing three VR adaptations of popular flatscreen indie titles to Quest: Call of the Sea (2020) , The Signifier (2020) , and Per Aspera (2020). Revealed during UploadVR’s Winter Showcase this week, Raw Fury showed off an updated gameplay trailer for Call of the Sea VR, which was previously announced back in September.

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ARLOOPA: Demand for AR Content Creation Tools

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Watch on YouTube. XR Today’s Rory Greener hosts the Co-Founder and CEO of ARLOOPA, Arman Atoyan. In this session, we discuss the following: The HONORs project and other notable ARLOOPA use cases. For AR content creation tools, is interoperability key to XR scalability and innovation? What benefits does scalable AR content bring to branding and marketing teams?

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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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‘Noun Town’ VR Language Learning App Offers Full Immersion with a Gamified Edge

Road to VR

Learning a foreign language typically requires some level of full immersion, meaning you spend a significant amount of time interacting with the target language in order to make the sort of transformative gains that allow you to function effortlessly in normal, everyday situations. That’s where Noun Town comes in, a gamified VR app that offers basic immersive instruction in six major languages, letting you interact with over a dozen NPCs who speak the lingo.

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New ‘Behemoth’ Trailer Offers a Glimpse into Immersive VR Combat, Coming to All Major Headsets Late 2023

Road to VR

Skydance Interactive, the studio behind popular zombie shooter The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners , revealed Behemoth back in October during Connect, showcasing a very brief teaser that left a lot to the imagination. Now the studio has released a longer cinematic trailer, which at least gives us a better idea of what the game will be all about. At the Game Awards last night, Skydance Interactive dropped its first full-length trailer for Behemoth , an action RPG slated to release on all major

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Top XR Vendors Majoring in Art and Entertainment in 2022

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Like virtually all sectors, the art and entertainment industry has been exposed to significant pressure in recent years. With lockdowns and pandemics changing the way people seek out entertainment and inspiration, companies have been left searching for new ways to engage their audience. Extended reality, in the form of AR, VR, and MR, has shown significant potential for this landscape.

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‘Megan Thee Stallion’ Experience is a Stunning Example of Live Action VR Performance—And the Closest Thing to ‘Adult’ Content on App Lab so Far

Road to VR

Megan Thee Stallion’s music might not be my personal cup of tea, but I know good tech when I see it—and I was floored when I hoped into the recently released Megan Thee Stallion VR Concert experience to find one of the highest quality VR live action performances I’ve ever seen. The free Megan Thee Stallion VR Concert app includes one demo scene, with viewers given the option to purchase additional scenes in-app.

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D-Link VR Air Bridge For Quest 2 Wireless PC VR Review: Convenience At A Cost

Upload VR

VR Air Bridge promised to make wireless PC VR on Quest 2 easy and eliminate hitches. We tested it to find out if that’s actually true. The existing Air Link is a Quest feature that lets the device act as a wireless PC VR headset via your Wi-Fi network. It was shipped as a software update in early 2021, but third-party alternatives like Virtual Desktop and ALVR have been available since the release of the original Oculus Quest in mid-2019.

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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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Snapdragon AR2 to Empower AR Devices, Qualcomm Says

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

The Immerse Global Summit 2022 Miami concluded on Wednesday, where some of the biggest players in the tech industry gathered to explore the future of Web3 technologies. Qualcomm Technologies has remained at the forefront of developing top-tier solutions for the global virtual, augmented, mixed, and extended reality (VR/AR/MR/XR) industry, with its latest solution designed for AR devices.

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New Behemoth Cinematic Trailer Debuts at The Game Awards

Upload VR

We got an extended look at Behemoth, Skydance Interactive’s new VR action RPG, during The Game Awards 2022. Best known for The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners and its sequel, Chapter 2: Retribution , Skydance Interactive first revealed Behemoth for Quest 2 at Meta’s annual Connect conference in October. While that was a brief teaser, Behemoth’s new cinematic trailer debuted during Geoff Keighley’s awards ceremony.

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Bring Your Senses to Life with Remote Scent Application

XROM

Scentrealm announces the world's first enterprise solution for real-time remote scent delivery. AR Rahman One of India's finest Music Composers had Directed a Virtual Reality Short Film called "Le Musk" & the reason for low visibility of the film because of the current technological hindrance, Rahman tried to introduce a film where the audience would really get immersed into with all their senses including the sense of Smell.we are slowly but surely crossing those barriers and by the end of

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Compound Review – Doom Without Gloom

Upload VR

A love letter to Wolfenstein 3D and Doom, Compound feels like walking straight into a ’90s shooter, colorful pixel art and all. Following a full PC VR release in July, this retro-style roguelite now arrives on Quest 2 , offering a fresh take on VR shooters that holds its own. Read on for our full review. Compound doesn’t need much of a story, but what’s here is that classic tale of one man taking down an evil corporation.

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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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`VR Masters Rejoice: The 2022 Awards Are Here!`

VRGames

This past weekend marked the 6th annual International VR Awards in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The ceremony, which is held annually to recognize and celebrate the best in virtual reality gaming, hardware, films and companies was back for its first in-person celebration since 2019. After a drinks reception and three-course meal featuring an acrobatic performance from Andromeda […].

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Meta Horizon Worlds v87 Release Notes

Oculus

Welcome to Meta Horizon Worlds v87! This release features design updates to profile pages and the tutorial center as well as fixes to several bugs.

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“A Monstrous ‘Behemoth’ and Ghostbuster-ly ‘Ghost Lord’ at The Game Awards 2022 – Check Out Their Trailers!”

VRGames

Skydance Interactive showcased two spectacular new game trailers at their recent appearance during The Game Awards 2022. Their upcoming titles, Behemoth and Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord look set to be two exciting additions to the gaming scene this year. The trailer for Behemoth teases a fantasy world full of magical creatures and phenomenal […].

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Meta Horizon Worlds Spotlight: SimonJosh

Oculus

Welcome back to our weekly spotlight on the people building for Meta Horizon Worlds and their amazing creations.

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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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“Ghost-Bustin’ Fun! Get a Glimpse of Rise of the Ghost Lord with the New Trailer!”

VRGames

Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord is an upcoming VR title which showcased it’s pre-alpha gameplay during The Game Awards 2020. It features a cooperative experience with up to three players, enabling them to put on Quest 2 headsets and take on various ghosts and monsters from the franchise using proton packs. Players will also […].

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VR Robots: Enhancing Robot Functions With VR Technology

ARPost

VR robots are slowly moving into the mainstream with applications that go beyond the usual manufacturing processes. Robots have been in use for years in industrial settings where they perform automated repetitive tasks. But their practical use has been quite limited. Today, however, we see some of them in the consumer sector delivering robotic solutions that require customization.

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‘Zombify Your Quest! Drop Dead: The Cabin Hits Headshots in February 2023!’

VRGames

SoulAssembly recently announced the upcoming release of the highly anticipated COD Zombies-inspired cooperative shooter, Drop Dead: The Cabin. Slated for a February 2023 launch on Quest, SoulAssembly has released a new developer update video during UploadVR’s Winter Showcase detailing some features including remixed pickups, unique enemies and how to survive by keeping all lights and […].

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PlayStation VR2 Can Now Be Preordered Without An Invitation

Upload VR

PlayStation VR2 can now be preordered without needing an invitation. As spotted by The Verge , anyone with a PlayStation account can preorder PSVR 2 from PlayStation Direct. Preorders invitations originally started going out just three weeks ago, but new uninvited preorders are getting the exact same shipping estimate of February 22nd – 28th. Does this suggest demand is lower than Sony expected?

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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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“Explore a New World of Battle with the Best VR Sword Fighting Games: Knights & Gladiators!”

VRGames

If you want to experience the thrills of high-stakes sword fights without actually having to unsheath your blade, virtual reality is your best bet. You can now feel like a heroic gladiator as you battle it out with enemies in immersive and physics-driven combat scenarios that only VR can offer. From Gladius and GORN, depicting […].

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EON Reality Announces Groundbreaking “Learn and Earn” Feature of EON Marketplace

EON Reality

The latest update will add EON Marketplace, where users can buy and sell exclusive content IRVINE, CA, December 8, 2022 – EON Reality, Inc. (“EON Reality”), a global leader in Virtual and Augmented Reality (“XR”) industry and education solutions powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI), announces the release of EON Marketplace. This release, which will be available on December 12, includes updates for a number of EON Reality products, as well as the release of EON Interact and several new featur

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“VR-ify Virtex Stadium: See Echo VR Live at Its Inaugural Event!”

VRGames

Virtex is thrilled to bring their first live event to the virtual stage! They are showcasing Echo Arena, a popular VR esports game from Ready At Dawn. The event will take place in Virtex Stadium, an immersive entertainment platform for experiencing 3D esports competitions with fellow fans. This experience will be totally unique and quite […].