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Hot Wheels Mixed Reality RC Cars Are Now Available

VRScout

It looks like mixed reality RC cars are here to stay. This past February, the popular toy manufacturer Mattel announced Hot Wheels: Rift Rally , a mixed reality game that combines real RC cars with digital effects and environments to immerse you in a fast-paced racing experience that turns your living room into a virtual race track. Today, the game officially launched on the Apple App Store, Sony PlayStation 4, and Sony PlayStation 5.

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6G Is Coming: What Will Be The Business Impact?

Bernard Marr

5G wireless networks have just started getting traction in recent years — but as always, wireless communication companies continue to look ahead, and they’re already thinking about the next generation of data technology. The next-gen tech (6G) will likely be 100 times faster than 5G. The benefits go far beyond speed, however. 6G will be a fully integrated system that allows for instantaneous communications between devices, consumers, and the surrounding environment. 6G-enabled enterprise technol

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Gorn Now Available On PSVR 2, Passes 1.5 Million Sales On All Platforms

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Bloody combat simulator Gorn is now available on PlayStation VR2 for PS5. In a bit of surprise news last week, Devolver Digital announced that Gorn is now available for PSVR 2 on PS5. Even better, those players who already own the game on PS4 for the original PSVR can upgrade to the PS5 version for PSVR 2 for free. The combat simulator was first released for PC VR in 2019, before being ported across to the original PSVR and Quest platform in subsequent years.

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#1185: HTC’s Enterprise VR Strategy + Debate about the Future of AI

Voices of VR

I speak with HTC’s Alvin Wang Graylin, who is the President of HTC China & Global VP of Corporate Development at HTC about HTC’s investment strategy and what’s happening in the enterprise XR space. We talk about how hardware subsidies have distorted the overall XR hardware ecosystem, and how Meta has largely skipped over the enterprise market in favor of the consumer market while HTC continues to find compelling use cases across training, medical XR, architecture, and spatial design.

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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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Exclusive: Capcom Talks Bringing Resident Evil Village To PSVR 2, Future Plans & More

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Resident Evil Village is easily one of the best experiences available for PSVR 2 at launch. Last week, we spoke to Capcom over Q&A about bringing Village’s VR Mode to life on PlayStation VR2 – here are the highlights, with a full transcript of the Q&A below. Given Resident Evil Village originally released for consoles and PC in 2021, it’s quite amazing that the game’s subsequent VR Mode feels right at home on PSVR 2.

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Pin City Shows Promise With Zany VR Bowling Scenarios

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In the roughly 15-minute demo of Pin City I played at PAX East 2023, I hurled my bowling ball over fires, through tunnels and into halfpipes. Put simply, it looks like Studio 217 is making sure the game lives up to its ‘VR bowling with a twist’ subtitle. Inspired by the mechanics of mini golf, the object of Pin City isn’t just to rack up the highest score possible in each frame, but also to figure out the best way to get your ball to collide with the pins at the end of your lane without being th

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#1188: Emotionally Evocative, Virtual Eye Gazing with Ukrainians in Bombed Out Buildings in “Fresh Memories: The Look”

Voices of VR

Fresh Memories: The Look is a 360-video about the war in Ukraine that takes the deceptively simple idea of having Ukrainian citizens gaze into a 360-degree camera within the context of a bombed out home, workplace, or school that's juxtaposed against an audio design of that space when it would be at it's most flourishing moment. The experience of straightforward concept is extremely powerful, emotional, and evocative idea.

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The Risks of AI Safety

Building the Metaverse

The Risks of Too Much AI Safety In the last week we saw a thousand people call for a six-month pause on AI experimentation — and even one person call for international treaties banning them, who is willing to commit countries to airstrikes against GPU clusters to enforce compliance. I thought it was important to look at what a six-month pause might mean: a 6-month delay in discovering some of the methods that could be important to solving some of the most important challenges facing the human sp

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#1189: “Forager” Volumetric Timelapse of Mushroom Growth Hits a Sweet Spot of Touch, Smell, & Immersive Storytelling

Voices of VR

Forager is a short immersive story that shows the four stages of development of a mushroom through a groundbreaking volumetric timelapse that takes place within a game engine. They had to innovate on automating their photogrammetry timelapse pipeline both in the capturing and rendering side, and they ultimately decided to go with a voxel-based approach for representing and optimizing these volumetric timelapse processes.

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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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Knighting Around in VR: Quest 2 Takes You on a Maze-y Arthurian Adventure!

VRGames

A Knight In The Attic is set to release April 13 on Meta Quest and PC VR and offers a unique twist to the beloved tilt maze gameplay. Players are in control of Guinevere, the female lead from Arthurian legend, which creates an extra layer of intrigue over top of standard obstacles.

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#1187: “MLK: Now is the Time” Brilliantly Translates Dr. King’s Speech into Embodied Interactions & Spatial Metaphors

Voices of VR

MLK: Now is the Time was originally released on the Meta Quest platform on January 12, 2023, and was selected to show at SXSW as a part of the 2023 XR Experience Spotlight. It’s master class of immersive storytelling and a brilliant use of the affordances of VR to create an interactive, embodied, and immersive experience of some of the lesser known and discussed parts of Dr.

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Relive the Last Five Days: March 27 – 31

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This week was an exciting one for fans of the Meta Quest Platform. The platform released several titles and updates across both mobile and home versions of the game, much to the delight of gamers everywhere.

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#1190: Targo Stories’ Immersive Documentary Spatial Innovations with “Behind the Dish” & “JFK Memento”

Voices of VR

Targo Stories continues to innovate with novel spatial storytelling techniques in both of the projects that were submitted and selected to SXSW. The Behind the Dish series uses micro lenses to give a uniquely fresh and giant look at food being produced by female chefs. And then JFK: Memento is experimenting will all types of translations of spatial footage from 2D into 3D, that's then juxtaposed within a volumetric representation.

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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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“AR-MED Dental Detectives: Uncovering the Truth about Your Teeth Brushing Habits!”

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NuEyes’ new headset, NuLoupe, is revolutionizing healthcare practices with its advanced augmented reality (AR) capabilities. Developed by experienced surgeons and medical professionals, this device promises to provide accurate visuals of patients’ teeth for enhanced diagnostics.

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