VRScout
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
The developer is looking for video submissions from the VRChat community. The popular VR social platform VRChat is launching the VRChat Entertainment Network in celebration of New Year’s 2023. The fully managed video stream will feature a combination of live music video content as well as pre-recorded content made by the community for the community.
ARPost
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
The widespread adoption of the so-called “phygital experiences” in consumer markets shows that they have now become the standard. By delivering highly personalized and seamless experiences, they ensure consumers’ unique needs are met and their expectations are exceeded. For brands, phygital is no longer just a trend. It’s also now integral to business sustainability and future growth.
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VRScout
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Launch shared AR experiences in seconds. Augmented reality (AR) technology lets you change the world around you by overlaying digital content that can be used to find your friends at a packed music festival, fight crime as a Marvel superhero , and bring conventional tattoos to life. That said, creating shareable interactive AR experiences can be difficult.
AR Insider
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Some creators, graphic designers, and developers are finding they can make a living off creating AR lenses. Some are making more than a living. to the tune of seven figures. We crunch the numbers on average income estimates. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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.
Road to VR
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Meta is decreasing its workforce by around 12.6 percent in a layoff that will affect 11,000 of its employees, making it the largest tech layoff this year. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said this in an internal memo obtained by Reuters : “Not only has online commerce returned to [pre-covid] prior trends, but the macroeconomic downturn, increased competition, and ads signal loss have caused our revenue to be much lower than I’d expected,” Zuckerberg said. “I got this wrong, and
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Road to VR
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Gesture VR is an upcoming VR drawing program that aims to give you the same experience as taking a Life Drawing course, which its creators say will help artists sharpen their skill and translate what they’ve learned back into physical work. Nick Ladd is an artist with a background in illustration and 3D animation, however recently Ladd has flexed his creative muscles in VR with the help of creation tool Quill , having used it to create art for VR experiences such as Namoo and Tales from
Upload VR
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Apple’s AR/VR headset will reportedly begin mass production in March. Taiwanese news outlet DigiTimes reports its sources “hinted” Apple will use Taiwan-based Pegatron as its sole assembly manufacturer, with mass production beginning “at the end of the first quarter of 2023” DigiTimes claims “rough estimates” put the 2023 production run at around 750,000 units, saying its industry sources claim it will mainly target “commercial markets” The I
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
This Monday, the popular real-time 3D (RT3D) engine Unity completed its merger with Ironsource to introduce tools for mobile platform developers to track core user metrics that enhance eCommerce opportunities. The move gives Unity platform developers new tools to build, publish, operate, and monetize mobile gaming content, including immersive applications like augmented reality (AR) services.
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NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Turtle Beach opened preorders for a Quest 2 charging dock. There are already a number of Quest 2 charging docks on the market, including the $100 Anker dock sold officially by Meta and a range of $55 options from Chinese manufacturers sold on Amazon. Quest 2’s controllers take AA batteries, so all these charging docks provide custom rechargeable batteries with built-in wireless charging.
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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.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Extended Reality (XR) training solutions provider ARuVR distributes an immersive content creation suite for designing bespoke enterprise-grade immersive learning solutions that improve trainee outcomes. The platform leverages augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) technology to deliver its developer suite for in-house immersive training content. Usually, creating and deploying tailor-made AR/VR training content requires a lot of time, money, talent, and resources.
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NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Pimax announced Portal, a handheld console with an accessory that turns it into a VR headset. Pimax is a China-based startup most known for its 2017 Kickstarter for an ultra-wide field of view PC VR headset. This evolved into a sprawling lineup that’s been marked by long shipping delays , inconsistent quality , software issues, and customer service concerns.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Moth+Flame , a leading company for immersive learning solutions, announced on Wednesday that it had released its first-ever iOS immersive training app for businesses and corporate entities. The virtual reality (VR) firm offers enterprises a platform for receiving corporate training with top-tier cinematics featuring real people in natural environments.
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NOVEMBER 9, 2022
The thumb rest on Quest Pro’s controllers is actually a secret touchpad. The undocumented feature was discovered by a reverse engineering enthusiast going by the name Shiny Quagsire. He demonstrated the touchpad functionality in a short clip posted to Twitter. Valve’s Index Controllers also feature both a thumbstick and a touchpad. Meta calls the curved section of the Touch Pro controller face the Thumb Rest.
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.
Spectar
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
1. DEFINITION: Mixed reality is a spectrum of immersive experiences, connecting and blending physical and digital worlds together in augmented reality and virtual reality applications. In visual terms, imagine mixed reality as a creative space that exists between the extremes of the physical and digital worlds. Experiences range from overlaying virtual content (BIM) on objects in the physical world (existing conditions) and interacting with both physical and virtual objects; to 100% virtual worl
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NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Quest Pro Wi-Fi performance issues will “very likely” be fixed in the next update, Meta’s Director of Wireless said. Some Quest Pro buyers have noticed inferior wireless PC VR streaming performance compared to Quest 2, including higher latency and more dropped frames. This can happen with the built-in Air Link feature or third party alternatives like Virtual Desktop.
Spectar
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
TOP THREE CHALLENGES FOR FULLY-IMMERSIVE AR IN CONSTRUCTION. 1. MODELS ARE TOO BIG FOR HARDWARE TO HANDLE 2. JOBSITE CONDITIONS ARE LESS THAN IDEAL FOR AR 3. PROJECT TEAMS DON’T HAVE TIME TO DISCOVER ALL THE BENEFITS OF AR Let’s deep dive into what this means and how we solve them for you. 1. MODELS ARE TOO BIG FOR HARDWARE TO HANDLE. Today, the only approved hardware for the Jobsite use is Trimble XR-10 with HoloLens 2.
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NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Meta is laying off more than 11,000 of its employees in a 13 percent reduction in workforce. The layoffs mark the first time Meta (formerly known as Facebook) has reduced its headcount after many years of continual growth. The job cuts comes alongside other reductions at the company “ including scaling back budgets, reducing perks, and shrinking our real estate footprint,” according to a statement from CEO Mark Zuckerberg. . “T his will add up to a meaningful cultural shift in
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.
Spectar
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
While 90% of North America’s construction projects in absolute numbers are not yet utilizing BIM, in construction volume (CV), the 10% that do, account for over 30% of CV in North America. More often, owners with strict budgets or time-to-market timelines constraints ask for more transparency for their projects. The only realistic way to provide this transparency beyond the excel WIP schedule is to utilize 5D or 6D BIM.
Upload VR
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Sairento developer Mixed Realms has delayed its upcoming dark fantasy combat game, Hellsweeper VR, into next year. Originally aiming for Q4 2022 on PC VR, with a Quest 2 version arriving later, Mixed Realms has postponed Hellsweeper VR’s release until Q2 2023. The studio advised this decision will “give our team sufficient time to deliver a game that meets our vision.” .
Spectar
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
What BIM can and can’t do for your organization. BIM is a hot topic in the industry. Information about its benefits and challenges is available in abundance for those who are interested. When looking at the industry-wide studies, it is crucial to focus on data and look at value creation data, not at a macro (industry) but rather micro (enterprise) level.
Voices of VR
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
The Khronos Group published a blog announcement on November 3rd titled, “Deliver Interactive Experiences with glTF: A Node Graph-Based Approach,” which is adding an interactive extension called KHR_Behaviors to glTF (the *.jpg format for 3D objects). This adds interactive capabilities to glTF objects that are similar to Unreal Engines Blueprint system, Unity’s Visual Scripting Language, and NVIDIA Omniverse’s Omnigraph systems.
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?
The Ghost Howls
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
ENGAGE is one of my favorite social VR applications. So when I saw that yesterday they had finally released ENGAGE Link, the VR world that aims at becoming “the Linkedin of the metaverse” , I couldn’t resist: I immediately donned my Pico 4 and entered it. Here you can find my impressions about it. My video about Engage Link, with 20 minutes of Gameplay with commentary.
Spectar
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Our champions often ask our team to share a ‘one-pager’ with them to distribute within their organization. This is a great way to start a buzz and efficiently explain the value of BIM overlay to executives.
Forrester VR
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Experienced developers know the situation too well: An executive comes by with an idea, and it’s up to us to act on it. If a C-level has recently dropped by your office to say, “We ought to be looking into this metaverse thing,” you’re in for an adventure. Bringing a company up to speed when […].
Spectar
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
BIM Overlay is the process of rendering complete BIM model holograms on jobsites on a 1:1 scale with reasonable accuracy. There’s a market opportunity to be the contractor who established data communication means and methods. If you just execute 10 projects to be great at it, your company will be known for “having all the data.” Let’s unpack it.
Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute
The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?
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