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Marvel Is Getting Its Own Pokémon Go-Style AR Game

VRScout

The game was announced last week during Disney’s D23 2022 expo. Niantic, the creators of popular augmented reality (AR) games such as Pokémon Go and Pikmin Bloom , is partnering with Marvel to launch Marvel World of Heroes , a new location-based AR experience that allows you to create your very own superhero and fight crime throughout the real world. “Become a Marvel Super Hero in the real world,” says the official website. “Create your own hero, patrol your neighborhood

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Case Study: Building Spaceships with AR

AR Insider

One industry where AR continues to demonstrate value is aerospace. Not only is assembly complex, but the stakes are high. Lockheed Martin and Scope AR demonstrate this principle in our latest enterprise AR case study. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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VR Mods Bring Halo And Star Wars To Life On Quest 2

VRScout

One of the best VR shooters on Quest just got even better. Earlier this month, the popular VR shooter Contractors received a handful of major upgrades, including an improved physics system and smoother reloading mechanics. The highly-anticipated update also introduced a variety of improvements to the game’s modkit, allowing for even more advanced customization.

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Spatial Beats: Meta, Snap & Varjo

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 ongoing moves, Snap's rough week and other items from the spatial spectrum. 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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Is Dwell Time AR’s Next Performance Metric? Part II

ARVR

We recently posted a question: Does AR have a measurement problem? In short, AR marketing is so new that it hasn’t developed native metrics. That plus brand marketers’ comfort with existing metrics draws them towards established analytics like clicks and impressions. But the issue is that those metrics were made for different formats, including online display and search ads.

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How Apple’s New iOS 16 Safety Features Work

GizModo VR

Apple’s iOS 16 is out today and that means new features. If you’re an iPhone user and want to customize the settings to better protect your digital privacy, there are a couple new options worth checking out. Read more.

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A Forgetful Hotel Guest Leads to a Sneak Peek at the New Meta Quest Pro Virtual Reality Headset

Ryan Schultz

Kotaku reported yesterday, in an article titled Meta’s Hyped VR Headset May Have Been Leaked By Guy In A Hotel : It’s always worth rooting around down the side of the bed, or in the drawers, when you stay in a hotel room. Who knows what exciting items may have been forgotten by the previous guest? Like, for instance, a top-secret Oculus VR headset.

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Starbucks Explains How Its Dumbass NFT Program Works

GizModo VR

If you’ve ever walked out of a Starbucks, infant-sized latte in hand, and thought, “Geez, this coffee’s really lacking some Silicon Valley-inspired innovation,” then good news. The brand that once tried to cash in on a dying CD industry is now leaning into the struggling Web3 marketing ecosystem in an attempt to… Read more.

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#1121: Venice Immersive 2022 Competition Recap: 30+ Reviews of Immersive Stories

Voices of VR

Venice Immersive 2022 featured 30 immersive stories in competition with some of the fiercest competition yet. I’m joined by Pola Weiß to break down, analyze, & critique each one of the 30 experiences in competition starting with the three winners: Special Jury Prize [3rd place] Eggscape, Grand Jury Prize [2nd place] From the Main Square, and Best Immersive Experience [1st place] The Man Who Couldn’t Leave.

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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 the Merge Really Make Crypto Greener?

GizModo VR

If you type the phrase “the Merge” into Google today, you’ll be treated with a countdown: It’s coming in a little over two days, as of this writing. The countdown is ticking off the time until one of the biggest shifts the crypto world has ever seen. Read more.

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Cultural Intelligence (CQ) Is An Important Predictor Of Success. Here’s How To Boost Your CQ

Bernard Marr

I work with brands from all around the world, and I’ve noticed that organizations are – thankfully, finally – becoming much more diverse. Perhaps you’ve noticed the same thing. Perhaps your own colleagues and clients increasingly represent a broader range of cultures, ethnicities, economic statuses, and so on. It makes sense, then, that cultural intelligence is fast becoming a highly desirable attribute in the workplace.

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Meta's Combining Teams Responsible for Moderating Ads and User Content

GizModo VR

Meta’s moving to combine two integrity teams in charge of moderating different types of content under one roof. The company says it’ll boost efficiency, while reports say the move is also part of an effort to cut down costs. The significant reorganizing comes as some workers continue to fear the prospect of potential… Read more.

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Disney Wants To Offer Its Park Rides In VR

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Disney CEO Bob Chapek is thinking long-term about how to get more people into the company’s cornerstone attractions and VR looks like the short-term solution. Speaking at Disney’s recent D23 conference, Chapek indicated that Disney+ will transform from a movie streaming service into an “experiential lifestyle platform” that can be part of serving “the 90% of people that will never ever be able to get to a Disney Park.” An example Chapek offered was the Haunted

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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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Bankrupt Crypto Broker Celsius Has New Plan to Become Hot Again, Codenamed 'Kelvin'

GizModo VR

Kelvin, as a temperature scale, uses “absolute zero” as its baseline. That lowest conceived temperature would effectively stop all particle activity due to a lack of any semblance of energy. That point of temperature has never been achieved, but failed crypto firm Celsius seems to want to get as close as it can to… Read more.

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Exploring the Unreal Engine Metaverse Development: What Should You Expect?

Program Ace

The post Exploring the Unreal Engine Metaverse Development: What Should You Expect? appeared first on Program-Ace.

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Meta Dredges Sensitive Data for Over 100 Rival Companies While Still Claiming It Isn't a Monopoly

GizModo VR

An ongoing Federal Trade Commission lawsuit against Meta has claimed the tech giant has been anticompetitive. How does Meta respond? By demanding the sensitive data of hundreds of tech companies, including several of its biggest rivals and competitors. Read more.

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Divine Duel Brings Fantasy Fighting To Quest And PC VR This Year

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Immersion Games revealed Divine Duel this week, a fast-paced competitive VR fighter coming to Quest and PC VR later this year. Announced through the reveal trailer embedded below, Divine Duel is a significant departure from Immersion’s previous VR games, Disc Ninja , and Extreme Escape , mixing sci-fi and fantasy with “crazy weaponry.” Stepping into an arena for 1-on-1 duels, there’s four playable Celestials who boast unique special abilities, two of which are featured in this trailer: Vaya the

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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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Roadmaps Key to Quality XR Projects, Journey Says

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Augmented reality (AR) has become an essential tool for developing customer experiences in retail, where brands can interface with consumers for a host of use cases, including instantaneous access to key food and beverage information, trying on AR clothing, real-time product updates, and non-fungible token (NFT) promotions, among others. To learn more, XR Today interviewed Sasha Wallinger, Head of Web3 and Metaverse of the Futures Intelligence Group , which XR consultancy Journey acquired in May

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Businesses have Countless Opportunities for Web3 Disruption

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The convergence of smart technologies, including extended reality (XR), the internet of things (IoT), 5G, and machine learning, brings together contextual real-time 3D (RT3D) information in new ways. During a chat for the first ever XR Summit, the CEO and Co-Founder of Poplar Studios, David Rippert and Connor Borrego, Founder and Chief Product Officer, UniPro , explored the ways that immersive smart solutions could disrupt industry verticals.

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Espire 2 Hands-On: Sandbox Stealth Encourages Freedom & Creativity

Upload VR

Talking me through a demo on the Gamescom show floor, it’s clear what design philosophy the developers at Digital Lode have for Espire 2 : give players as much freedom as possible. Since the release of Espire 1 in 2019 , the team at Digital Lode has grown significantly. This increase has clearly let the studio expand its scope for the game’s sequel, Espire 2 , set to release in November for Quest 2.

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Building the Customer Experience with AR Technologies

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

In this session, we discuss the following: 1) The most important factors to consider when developing customer journeys for brands. 2) How brands can leverage compelling Web3 and AR experiences. 3) The Metaverse as an instrument for creative content and human experiences. If you’re looking for more information on this topic visit Journey at [link].

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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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Star Wars: Tales From The Galaxy’s Edge Coming To PSVR 2 In 2023

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During today’s State of Play presentation, Sony revealed Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge is coming to PSVR 2 in 2023. The announcement included a new trailer, embedded above, giving our first look at the game’s PSVR 2 release, which is officially titled Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge – Enhanced Edition. Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge originally launched in two parts on the Quest platform, with the first releasing back in late 2020 and the second, titl

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Can A Metaverse AI Win America’s Got Talent? (And What That Means For The Industry)

Bernard Marr

When “Simon Cowell” performed on the America’s Got Talent stage, no one was more shocked than the man himself. How did this happen? In their one-of-a-kind audition, leading AI company Metaphysic transformed singer Daniel Emmet into Cowell and earned a spot in the semifinals. Founded by visual FX and AI expert Chris Umé and serial entrepreneur Tom Graham, Metaphysic is pioneering the future of hyperreal, AI-generated content through mainstream entertainment.

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What is an XR Arena???

Full Dive Gaming

We interview the FOUNDER of VALO Motion Dr Raine Kajastila who explains to us his exercise arena and it's XR and AR components! ValoArena is a remarkable new six-player mixed reality arena for physical gaming. ValoArena is developed by Valo Motion - a Finnish company dedicated to turning sports activities into most fun immersive digital experiences.

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4 Qualitative Benefits of Microsoft HoloLens

CraneMorley

Back to Blog Page. The first thing we think about when implementing new technology like Mixed Reality and Microsoft HoloLens within organizations is financial quantifiable benefits. If the technology does not save time and money, then the use does not make sense. Of course, that is a given and the first think we think about when deciding whether to invest in a new technology.

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How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular

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?