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Artebinaria Open-Air Museum: Imaginary Museums Without Walls in Augmented Reality

ARPost

Sponsored content. Sponsored by Artebinaria. Artebinaria Open-Air Museum is a brand new technological platform – designed, developed, and curated by Artebinaria – for setting up and opening to the public a collection of imaginary museums in augmented reality, geo-locatable anywhere in the world, and visitable through the app Open-Air Museum, available for iPhone and iPad.

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VR Horse Racing Experience Puts You In the Saddle

VRScout

Experience what it’s like to compete in a professional horse race. Those attending the legendary Breeders ‘ Cup World Championship, an annual series of Thoroughbred horse races, will have the rare opportunity to step into the boots of a professional horse jockey thanks to the power of VR technology. First reported by The Blood-Horse , The Breeders’ Cup JockeyCam VR Experience was developed by the film house Equine Productions, the same company behind the JockeyCam, a lightwei

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Can Amazon and Snap Bring Scale to AR Shopping?

AR Insider

Snap and Amazon have collaborated to bring more shoppable AR lenses to Snapchat. Products can be discovered, tried on and purchased – an end-to-end flow to streamline shopping for AR-forward Snapchat users. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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What is INTERPOL’s Metaverse Law Enforcement Strategy?

XR Today - Virtual Reality

INTERPOL recently unveiled its novel metaverse law enforcement strategy by allowing visitors to tour a digital twin of its General Secretariat headquarters in France, it announced in October. The organisation announced the news at the 90th INTERPOL General Assembly meeting in New Delhi, becoming the world’s first law enforcement metaverse platform.

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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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Essential XR Events for Discovering New Innovations in 2022 and 2023

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

XR Innovations have been arriving thick and fast in the last year. As the world continues to digitally transform post-pandemic, countless companies have begun shifting their focus towards immersive tools. With the right investments, business leaders can unlock everything from enhanced collaborative environments in the metaverse , to powerful training tools.

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Iron Man VR Quest 2 Review: A Thrilling Release Reaches Its Full Potential

Upload VR

Two years after its PSVR debut, Iron Man VR is available now on Quest 2. No longer held back by the constraints of last generation hardware, the game reaches new heights and fulfills its true potential. Read on for our full Iron Man VR Quest 2 review. Once considered a fairly average member of the Marvel Comics pantheon, Iron Man is now one of the most high-profile superheroes of the modern age.

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StretchSense built an actually comfortable hand-motion capture glove

TechCrunch VR

New Zealand-based StretchSense, a maker of hand motion capture technology, believes virtual and augmented reality are going to replace the smartphone as the dominant way we interact with digital worlds and each other. And when that happens, we’ll need natural ways be immersed in those spaces, which means being able to touch and control virtual stuff with your hands.

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Finger Gun Receives Major Update On Quest 2, Adding New Game Modes And Difficulties

Upload VR

A big update for Finger Gun launches today on the Meta Quest platform. Called the ‘Long Road Update’, it introduces three unlockable game modes, new difficulty settings and improved hand tracking. . Developed and published by Miru Studio VR, Finger Gun is a western-themed first-person shooter, designed to work exclusively with hand tracking on the Quest platform.

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This Week In XR: COD’s $800 Million Weekend, Leia Raises Debt, Google Buys Facemoji

Charlie Fink

One console game just showed us how small VR sales really are. Gulp.

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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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Kartoffl Review: Pleasant VR Puzzling For All Ages

Upload VR

Before we begin, I’d like you to take a journey back in time, if I may? The month is February and the year is 1991. R.E.M’s Losing My Religion is soaring up the charts, Hannibal Lector is earning a reputation as a dinner guest to die for and a quirky cadre of green haired goobers called Lemmings are marching their way into gamers hearts. . The release of Lemmings in 1991 introduced the concept of guiding a herd of mindless little creatures through a range of obstacles to the gaming public.

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Twitter, Mastodon, and Ned Segal’s Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

Ryan Schultz

PLEASE NOTE: You can find all my previous blogposts about Twitter and Mastodon here (including, of course, this one; just scroll down for the rest). Over the past six months, I have become enamoured with Mastoson ( picture by doodlebrink ). It is a grey, sullen Thursday afternoon up here in Winnipeg, and I am taking a sick day from work, feeling both literally and figuratively under the weather.

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Meta ‘Warranty Plus’ Adds Two Years Accidental Damage Coverage For Quest 2 & Pro

Upload VR

Meta now offers a ‘Warranty Plus’ program covering two years of accidental damage to either Quest 2 or Quest Pro. The program is roughly $60 for a new Quest 2 or $160 for a Quest Pro and can be added from Meta.com within the first 60 days of purchasing either headset in the United States. Meta even offers the program for refurbished Quest 2 headsets purchased from authorized retailers, priced around $55. “ Life happens.

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How the Metaverse will revolutionize everything – Field of View with Matthew Ball

AIXR

This episode features Matthew Ball , the CEO of Epyllion, a diversified holding company which makes angel investments, provides advisory services, and produces television, films, and video games. Matthew is renowned for his thought-provoking essays and contributions to publications such as the Economist , Bloomberg , The New York Times , and the Wall Street Journal , and wrote the August 8, 2022 cover story for Time Magazine.

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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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Chris Walz, CEO of Doge Labs VR

Everything VR & AR

Tyler and Sophia are joined this week by Chris Walz. Chris is the CEO and Chief Game Designer of Doge Labs VR. Doge Labs VR are the creators of Big Ballers Basketball, one of the best rated Quest games in App Labs as listed by Road to VR. Listen as we talk about Chris’ beginnings in the industry and how their game has grown in the VR space. Listen Here: [link] Check out these links if you want to dig deeper after listening to the episode.

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Tajikistan VR Theme Park | Experience the real and exciting VR game world

Steki Amusement

This is a VR indoor park in Tajikistan, where there are VR racing, VR Flight, VR chair, VR slide, VR FAMILY, VR machine gun and other devices.Owatch VR is happy to announce the launching of the new entertainment era in Tajikistan. VR flight / VR gun. With us, you will live a new experience that you did not live before, for the first time in Tajikistan VR arcade, you can live in virtual reality and feel every reaction in the atmosphere of the game or movie that you see.

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‘Marvel’s Iron Man VR’ Out Now on Meta Quest 2 + Pro

Oculus

The world needs Iron Man. The world needs you. Today marks the launch of Marvel’s Iron Man VR on Meta Quest 2 and Meta Quest.

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Holoride In-Car VR Entertainment Launches In Germany

VRScout

Welcome to the Motorverse. Yesterday, holoride announced the launch of its in-vehicle VR entertainment system in Germany. Those with select Audi vehicles can purchase the company’s Pioneers’ Pack, which includes everything you need to transform your car into an “always-in-motion virtual space” where you can play games, browse the web, and more.

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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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AMD RDNA 3 GPU Unveil "together we advance_gaming” Live Blog (1pm PT/20:00 UTC)

Anand Tech

Following hot on the heels of AMD’s major CPU launch of the year – the Zen 4 architecture and Ryzen 7000 family – today AMD will be giving their GPU architecture its moment in the sun with their gaming-centric “together we advance_gaming” event. Today’s event will be all about AMD’s next-generation Radeon GPU architecture, RDNA 3 , which among other things, promises a 50% improvement in performance-per-watt over the previous-generation RDNA 2 (Radeon RX

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XRA Launches Foundation for Diverse XR Workforces

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The XR Association (XRA) announced at its Limitless Future Conference on Tuesday it had opened its XR for All Foundation (XRAF). The event united global professionals in extended reality (XR) and the educational sector to develop new use cases and resources for immersive technologies. Liz Hyman, Chief Executive of the XR Association , said that the XRA was “committed” to creating a diverse workforce so that technologies developed in the market represented the “full spectrum of

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