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Has Niantic Found AR’s Peanut Butter & Chocolate Moment?

AR Insider

By launching Lightship for Web, has Niantic merged two of AR's most powerful modalities: geo-location and web? We unpack the drivers and strategic implications for this peanut butter & chocolate moment. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Rec Room’s New Unity-powered Creation Suite Brings Industry Standard Tools to Social VR Platform

Road to VR

Social VR platform Rec Room announced it’s released a new creation suite that allows you to publish content directly to the Rec Room platform from inside Unity, essentially letting its users create content using a host of industry standard tools. The company says in a blog post its so-called ‘Rec Room Studio’ integration is designed to “complement the existing in-game tools, allowing you to seamlessly edit Studio content with the Maker Pen, and vice versa.” Here&#

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Pico to Launch Horizon Worlds Metaverse Competitor in 2023

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Last Thursday, during its 2022 product announcement live stream , Pico revealed a new virtual reality (VR) headset, a Metaverse platform, and enterprise products. Alongside the new Pico 4 VR headset debut, Bytedance introduced Project Pico Worlds, a Metaverse platform and direct competitor to Meta’s Horizon Worlds for Meta Quest [Pro]. Bytedance will launch its Metaverse service on the upcoming Pico 4 and Neo 3 VR headsets in 2023.

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The Bad News: Non-AR Users “Just Not Interested”

ARVR

Industry rhetoric about AR’s world-changing status sometimes outweighs evidence that it’s captivating consumers today. Though we see some signals, such as lens engagement figures from Snap and others, we’re often flying blind when it comes to consumer AR sentiment. Looking to fill that gap, AR Insider’s research arm ARtillery Intelligence has completed Wave V of its annual consumer survey report.

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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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XR Healthcare Case Study in Focus: Siemens Healthineers and Virtual Medical Coaching

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Virtual Medical Coaching (VMC) is an immersive training technology developer designing bespoke solutions to enhance the safety of conventional front-line learning environments. The medical edtech company leverages augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) solutions to provide varied and realistic training scenarios. The Christchurch, Canterbury-based firm powers its AR/VR solutions by utilizing immersive technology like remote guidance, big data, and artificial intelligence (AI).

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How AI And Machine Learning Will Impact The Future Of Healthcare

Bernard Marr

Our modern healthcare system is currently facing huge challenges exacerbated by the pandemic, a rise in lifestyle-related diseases, and an exploding world population. The good news is that using AI to create intelligent processes and workflows could make healthcare cheaper, more effective, more personalized, and more equitable. Some experts are predicting that the healthcare industry is the sector that could be the most affected by the enormous changes of the fourth industrial revolution.

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7 Insightful XR Education Case Studies to Read in 2022

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Around the world, countless companies and groups are already reaping the benefits of extended reality technology. We’ve discovered how valuable the right XR tools can be in collaboration and communication, and how they can help innovators to build new products and ideas. One of the areas where XR is seeing the most significant and rapid adoption, is in the world of education and training.

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The Top 11 Virtual Networking Tips To Boost Your Career

Bernard Marr

Whether you’re employed, self-employed, a leader in your industry, or just starting out in your career, networking and making connections are an important part of attracting new opportunities. But in a post-pandemic world where nearly all of our networking is done online, what are the best ways to “meet” new people and build those connections? Here are a few of my favorite tips for virtual networking: 1.

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This Guy Is Gonna Spend a WEEK ON A VR TREADMILL!

Full Dive Gaming

VR Treadmill Week: Join us as we talk to TwoBit who is going to spend a WEEK IN VR ON A VR TREADMILL!!! He wants to LiveStream the Whole Thing!!! LEARN MORE HERE: TwoBit is a video creator and voice actor that enjoys sharing the crazy ideas in his head with people through the things he creates. On October 1st - 8th he will be spending a week on a VR treadmill to see just how immersed you can get with current vr technology, and to get more people inspired to try VR for themselves.

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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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RP1 Metaverse can accommodate 100,000 players in a single virtual experience.

XROM

RP1 Is a persistent, seamless, real-time platform with limitless scalability, RP1 delivers a new paradigm in network server architecture, solving the fundamental obstacle in the creation of a real-time internet (metaverse). ?RP1 enables creators, designers, and developers to effortlessly deploy 3-D immersive content in a real-time, persistent virtual world, without the need for sharding.you might wonder what Sharding is?