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Ghostbusters VR Game Coming To Quest 2 & PS VR2 In 2023

VRScout

Expand your ghost-hunting empire while taking on all manner of supernatural threats. Originally announced this past April during the 2022 Meta Gaming Showcase , nDreams’ upcoming Ghostbusters VR game has received an official title and release window. The news was dropped earlier today as part of the Kinda Funny Halloween live stream , during which Sony shared more information about the cooperative VR experience.

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HapticVR Technology as a Means to Facilitate Better Surgical Training

ARPost

A recent peer-reviewed study published in the Annals of Medicine and Surgery details the benefits of applying HapticVR technology to surgical training. In the study, haptic feedback technology was used alongside non-haptic immersive VR training to assess the impact of the former. The results showed that with the use of HapticVR technology, trainees were able to improve their learning curves.

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Find Cool Activities By Following These AR Beacons

VRScout

Drop a geo-anchored augmented reality (AR) beacon to let everyone know where the party is at. A startup company called Skidattl wants to make it easier for you to find new events using geo-anchored augmented reality (AR) technology. First reported by TechCrunch , the Skidattl app allows event organizers to create an AR beacon and “pin” it to a specific location in the physical world.

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Spatial Beats: Meta Down, XR Funding Up

AR Insider

Welcome back to Spatial Beats, AR Insider's weekly series that features observations and insights of author and futurist Charlie Fink. This week, we look at Meta's Q3 earnings and new XR funding rounds. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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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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Case Study: AR Gets Big Rigs Back on the Road

ARVR

Though we spend ample time examining consumer-based AR endpoints, greater near-term impact is seen in the enterprise. This takes many forms including brands that use AR to promote products in greater dimensions and industrial enterprises that streamline operations. These industrial endpoints include visual support in areas like assembly and maintenance.

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The Enterprise Metaverse with Lenovo’s Jason McGuigan

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Watch on YouTube. XR Today’s Demond Cureton hosts Jason McGuigan, Head of Commercial Virtual Reality for Lenovo. In this session, we discuss the following: The rise of the industrial metaverse. Lenovo’s latest immersive solution, the ThinkReality VRX. Upcoming plans for the company amid the Lenovo Tech World 2022. For more information and a recap of the interview, check out our recent article.

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‘ForeVR Bowl’ Studio Raises $10M to Expand Catalogue of ‘Wii Sports’ Style VR Games

Road to VR

ForeVR Games , the VR studio behind Quest 2 titles such as ForeVR Bowl (2021) and ForeVR Darts (2021) , announced a $10 million Series A funding round, something it’s using to further the creation of Wii Sports- style VR games. The Series A round was led by Lobby Capital, and features participation by existing investors, including Bessemer Venture Partners and Galaxy Interactive.

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Virtual Reality Trends that will Dominate 2023

ARVR

Photo by XR Expo on Unsplash We are only a couple of months away from 2023 and the tech world is already buzzing with technological trends that are most likely to dominate the upcoming year. As usual, it’s going to be a year full of technological innovations, experiments, and upgrades. But word is that it is virtual reality that will keep everyone guessing.

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A Complete Guide to Virtual Reality

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Of all of the various forms of extended reality (XR), virtual reality (VR), is the most familiar. The technology allows people to create ‘virtual’ landscapes and environments that simulate the real world. Interest in VR is rapidly increasing with a forecasted 48.7 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) between 2021 and 2026. The COVID-19 pandemic greatly accelerated VR’s adoption, which connects people across distances and creates shared spaces that are safe, customisable,

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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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Will VR Revenue Exceed $28 Billion by 2026?

ARVR

ARtillery Intelligence publishes its five-year outlook for VR revenues. - LOS ANGELES, October 26, 2022: ARtillery Intelligence today released a new report that projects VR revenue to grow from $8.3 billion in 2021 to $28.8 billion in 2026, a 28.3 percent compound annual growth rate. Entitled VR Global Revenue Forecast, 2021–2026 , the report examines VR revenue totals and subsegments?

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Ghostbusters: Rise Of The Ghost Lord Launches For Quest 2 & Quest Pro In 2023

Upload VR

Sony and Meta marked Halloween by revealing the name for its upcoming Ghostbusters game. Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord now has a coming soon page on the Quest store after being announced for the platform earlier this year. It’s coming in 2023, the companies announced, and you can play solo or co-op with up to three friends “to defeat a ghastly new threat – the Ghost Lord.” Announced earlier this year, the new Ghostbusters game will be set in San Francisco with deve

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Data Dive: Closing AR’s Supply/Demand Gap

ARVR

There’s a common rallying cry among AR proponents that the technology will transform the way people shop. But what are the proof points? Does AR shopping resonate with consumers today? Equally important, are consumer-facing brands meeting that demand? Speaking first to the demand side, consumer research generally paints a positive picture in terms of AR’s user adoption and aspirational use.

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Paranormal Hunter Launches In Early Access Next Year On PC VR

Upload VR

After releasing a Steam demo this February, EALoGames has revealed that Paranormal Hunter will arrive next year on PC VR in early access. First announced in last December’s Upload VR Showcase , this four-player co-op horror game comes from a team of former Shenmue and Shin Megami Tensei developers. Initially announced for Q2 2022 on PC and consoles with optional PC VR support, that’s now delayed into 2023.

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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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ARWall Debuts ARFX Pro Plugin for Virtual Production

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Today, ARWall, a virtual production product and services merchant, updated its augmented reality effects (ARFX) Pro Unreal Engine Plugin to streamline workflows for end-users incorporating immersive backdrops for media productions. The update consolidates all integrated features from Unreal Engine, by Epic Games, under the ARWall infrastructure for increased ease of use.

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Hands-On: Iron Guard VR Is Fun Tower Defense That Plays It Safe

Upload VR

Following an App Lab and SideQuest release last year, Xlab Digital’s Iron Guard VR is now available on the official Quest store. Read on for our hands-on impressions of this tower defense game inspired by classic strategy titles. Set in the 23rd century and spanning a 30-mission story mode, Iron Guard VR tells a story that wouldn’t feel out of place in classic sci-fi fare.

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The Top 5 Metaverse Trends In 2023

Bernard Marr

During 2022 it was hard to move without bumping into the term “metaverse.” Following Facebook’s rebranding at the end of 2021, just about everyone was keen to let us know about their vision for digital worlds where we can work, play and socialize on one persistent platform. Anyone who has been paying attention, however, will have realized that these visions often differ greatly.

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‘Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord’ Gets New (Official) Title Ahead of 2023 Launch

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Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord is on its way. Yes, the game-formerly-known-as Ghostbusters VR now has an official title ahead of its 2023 launch.

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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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Victoria VR is creating READY PLAYER ONE's Metaverse

Full Dive Gaming

Victoria VR is a revolutionary Blockchain-based Virtual Reality Metaverse. Powered by Unreal Engine and featuring realistic, highly detailed graphics, it combines a massively-multiplayer-online role-playing game (MMORPG) with a unique Social Experience Playground. LEARN MORE HERE: [link] Like never before, players will be immersed in a virtual reality world where they get to live their digital life.

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Tim Cook Says The Metaverse Isn’t The Future Because People Don’t Understand It – They Might Not Have To

Bernard Marr

It seems like everyone has spent the last year or so falling over themselves to tell us what the metaverse is. This week, though, Apple CEO Tim Cook showed he still “thinks different” by telling us what it isn’t – “the future.”. As reported by CNBC , Cook told the Dutch publication Bright that “I’m really not sure the average person can tell you what the metaverse is.”.

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Come to the OWATCH VR world to experience the real immersive Halloween

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Halloween is the most “haunted” time of the year. All kinds of ghosts, pirates, extraterrestrial visitors and witches come out one after another. In the Middle Ages, people wore animal shaped costumes and scary masks to drive away ghosts in the night on Halloween. Although Christianity took the place of Celtic and Roman religious activities later, the early customs remained.

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The Digital and Fictional Universe, Metaverse, and 7 Key Facts you need to know about it

ARVR

While cryptocurrency and blockchain are common terms in today’s world, Metaverse is yet another concept gaining considerable popularity. It is simply a system of 3D virtual worlds aimed at building and facilitating social connections. As an evolving technology, it is expected to dominate the internet in the coming years and many companies are adopting it already.

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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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The Disruptive Economic Impact Of Artificial Intelligence

Bernard Marr

I firmly believe that artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to be among the most disruptive technologies we will ever develop. So why – more than 50 years since the first machine learning research – is its impact still, in many ways, limited? This is the question at the heart of a new book called Power and Prediction - The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence , co-authored by Joshua Gans, along with Ajay Agrawal and Avi Goldfarb.

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The Top Five Web3 Trends In 2023

Bernard Marr

The term Web3 covers a number of trends that make up what is sometimes called the “decentralized internet.” The vision here is to create an internet that isn’t controlled by huge corporations like Google GOOG and Facebook that set most of the rules about what we can and can’t do online today. The idea behind Web3 is that technologies like blockchain , cryptocurrencies, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) give us the tools we need to c

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Digital Pop Stars, Virtual Influencers And The Future Of Music And Celebrities In The Metaverse

Bernard Marr

This week I met a pop star who doesn’t exist. At least, not in the real world! Polar may be a rising star of social media with 1.6 million followers on TikTok and millions of views on YouTube, but to “meet” her, you have to step into the metaverse – or rather, my own hyperreal digital avatar – Bernard 2.0 did. The real, analog me, had to make do with speaking to one of Polar's creators – Patrik Wilkens, VP of Operations at TheSoul – the agency responsible for creating the latest

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