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Hands-On with Magic Leap 2

AR Insider

After some ups and downs, Magic Leap is in the midst of a considerable turnaround. At the center of that effort is Magic Leap 2. We spent a week with the device and break down our observations & analysis. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Enterprises Gather in San Diego to Share How They’re Using XR and Metaverse Technologies at the 9th Augmented Enterprise Summit

ARPost

Press release. San Diego, California, September 1, 2022 — Hundreds of the world’s most profitable and well-known companies are already using XR to deliver the benefits of digitization to the modern workforce. These organizations are seeing ROI in the form of faster training, shorter design cycles, reduced downtime, lower costs, improved safety, and increased customer satisfaction.

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Snap Lays Off 20% of Staff, Increases Long-term Focus on Augmented Reality

Road to VR

Snap Inc, the company behind Snapchat, announced it’s laying off a fifth of its staff and abandoning a number of projects as it bids to rebound with a more singular focus on becoming a leader in augmented reality in the future. Snap, the company behind Snapchat, says in a blog post it’s laying off 20 percent of its 6,400 employees, or around 1,300 people dispersed across multiple teams.

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Modul University Vienna Adopts Digital Twin Campus

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Last Tuesday, Modul University teamed up with VictoryXR to create a digital twin of its campus. The move also enables Modul Uni to provide an immersive alternative to in-person open days, significantly reducing potential student travel costs. We are proud to announce that Modul University Vienna is the first European university to implement virtual reality technology from @VictoryXR !

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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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Snap Q4 Earnings, Part II: The Data Dive

ARVR

Software stocks are down. Ad-supported social media is definitely down. So how is Snap defying gravity with a rally following its Q4 earnings. Part of that is reaching profitability… and part is AR. In fact, it attributed AR throughout its Q4 earnings call, as we examined on Friday. We even joked at the time that AR mentions were so rapid and glowing that one could have made a drinking game out of it.

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XRA, ITIF to Host Second AR/VR Policy Conference

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) has teamed up with the XR Association (XRA) to host its second Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) Policy Conference on 14 September. Numerous panel discussions, expert round tables, and Q&A sessions will take place at the event across categories such as privacy and safety, intellectual property (IP) rights, antitrust laws, interoperability and standards, 5G, cybersecurity, the creator economy and jobs upskilling, and many others.

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Blue Light Speeds Up Aging? In Flies, Maybe

GizModo VR

A new study this week suggests that long-term exposure to blue light may not be so harmless, at least for fruit flies. Researchers found that chronic blue light exposure prematurely aged the flies and damaged their brains, likely due to certain metabolic changes. But it’s not known whether blue light could cause… Read more.

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What is AMD-Xilinx’s Zynq UltraScale+ Solution?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AMD-Xilinx, an industry-leading supplier of semiconductors and audiovisual (AV) connectivity devices, has begun leveraging its Zynq UltraScale+ multi-processor system-on-a-chip (MPSoC) to empower multimedia streamers with top-rated support. AMD-Xilinx’s pro-AV and broadcasting systems have become widely used among companies seeking next-generation extended reality (XR) solutions as they provide unmatched performance, customisation, low-latency pipelines, and massive integrative features al

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The Winner of a Colorado Art Competition Used AI

GizModo VR

Many of us have had our fun with AI art generators— like DALL-E —over the last few months, but one artist in Colorado took it a step further and won the state fair’s fine art competition with a work generated with the help of an algorithm. Read more.

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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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The MSI Titan GT77 Review: Desktop-Class Core i9-12900HX Tested

Anand Tech

MSI is synonymous with gaming notebooks and the company’s Raider lineup is one of the top gaming platforms on the market. But, MSI has always kept a tiny bit back, reserving their most interesting ideas and most powerful configurations for their Titan lineup. MSI’s Titan series always offers something special. Something different. Something unique.

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U.S. Bans Chipmakers From Sending AI Training Chips to China and Russia

GizModo VR

U.S. officials are on a tear with their belated bid for chipmaking dominance. After passing a $52 billion bill that aims to jumpstart American semiconductor manufacturing, officials are now restricting companies from exporting powerful GPUs to rivals like China and Russia. Read more.

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Choosing the Right XR Security and Privacy Vendor in 2022

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Extended Reality tools are quickly emerging as commonplace solutions in the modern business world. Though the technology started life as little more than a novelty, organisations have begun to discover the business benefits of AR, MR, and VR for a range of use cases. Today, manufacturing companies use VR to design prototypes of new products in scalable virtual environments.

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Cruise Recalled 80 Vehicles Following Software-Related Crash

GizModo VR

General Motors’ big bet on autonomous vehicles, like most human drivers, could stand to improve its left turns. Read more.

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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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The Best Photogrammetry Solutions in 2022

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

As real-time 3D (RT3D) production becomes commonplace alongside the rise of extended reality (XR) services, solutions to accelerate and democratise the production of RT3D assets are starting to increase. RT3D engines such as Adobe Substance, Unity, and Unreal significantly streamline XR production pipelines with easy-to-use tools. Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) technology is an essential emerging tool which dramatically decreases production pipelines by enabling quick digital twin creation.

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Apple may have given us a hint at its AR/VR headset’s name

TechCrunch VR

Apple’s highly anticipated mixed reality headset may now have a name, according to a Bloomberg report earlier this week. The outlet spotted trademarks in the U.S. and global markets related to the device that were filed by Apple-affiliated firms. Names like “Reality One,” “Reality Pro” and “Reality Processor” were filed by a supposed shell corporation — Immersive Health Solutions LLC — with the U.S.

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What Is Edge Computing and Why is it Important for the Metaverse?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Edge computing is revolutionizing how tech companies handle, process, and transfer data worldwide. This has major implications for the metaverse , which involves high-volume data processing at low-latency speeds. Just as affordable broadband connectivity provided an advantage for expanding the internet globally, edge computing could play a similar role in the rise of the metaverse.

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Jeremy Bailenson talks about 1,000,000 Walmart employees training with VR, presence, and the VR “empathy machine”

The Ghost Howls

Today I’m very proud to host on my blog what is probably one of the best interviews I have ever had in these 6 years of career in VR blogging. I promised to celebrate this blog’s birthday with a few cool interviews and this is one of them. I have been able to speak for almost one hour with Jeremy Bailenson , which is the professor at Stanford that is a legend in the VR field for his studies on interactions, psychology, and training in Virtual Reality.

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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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What is the Zynq UltraScale+ Solution from AMD-Xilinx?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AMD-Xilinx, an industry-leading supplier of semiconductors and audiovisual (AV) connectivity devices, continues to leverage its Zynq UltraScale+ multi-processor system-on-a-chip (MPSoC) to empower multimedia streamers with top-rated support. The pro-AV and broadcasting systems from AMD Xilinx have become widely used among companies seeking next-generation extended reality (XR) solutions as they provide unmatched performance, customisation, low-latency multichannel pipelines, and massive integrat

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California Lawmakers Vote to Save State's Last Nuclear Plant

GizModo VR

California’s largest single source of electricity has lived to see another day. In a surprisingly overwhelming vote, the California Senate early on Thursday morning moved to extend the life of Diablo Canyon, the state’s last remaining nuclear power plant and a major source of carbon-free electricity. Read more.

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Alchemy Meets Hack & Slash Action-Adventure in ‘Mixture,’ Coming to Meta Quest 2

Oculus

Today, Polish developer Played with Fire announced Mixture, a single-player fantasy action-adventure game coming to Meta Quest 2. Although you play solo, you’ll simultaneously control.