VRScout

OCTOBER 5, 2022

There are a few important things to keep in mind when getting your first AR-powered tattoo. We’ve seen a lot of cool ways augmented reality (AR) technology has been used to bring the world around us to life with digital content. What’s especially cool about AR is that you can use any image to launch an experience. . I recently made the decision of getting a new tattoo and decided to use the Eyejack app to bring my ink to life with a cool AR animation accompanied by old-timey jazz music.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 5, 2022

How does VR resonate with consumers? How often are they using it? And How satisfied are they? The latest consumer survey from ARtillery Intelligence and Thrive Analytics tackles these questions, and we break it down for AR Insider readers. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 5, 2022

When ARPost reviewed VR headset adapters in the past, they were models that added some functionality to the headset – whether that be better audio or longer battery life. But, what if you just want a comfortable, adjustable headset strap for your Quest 2? Those are out there. Today, we’re looking at the YOGES head strap for the Quest 2. Connecting to the Quest 2.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Meta says it plans to connect Horizon Worlds and Crayta in ‘meaningful ways’ which will bring the first inkling of cross-platform interoperability to the company’s metaverse plans. Meta may be all in on the metaverse, but to date hasn’t done much to actually build one. Sure, the company has Horizon Worlds, which is no doubt a great collaborative creation platform, but it’s an island unto itself with no interoperability outside of its own walls—something which many

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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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VRScout

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Search for Magic Gems at your local park for a chance to win big. Everyone’s favorite Leprechaun-themed breakfast serial Lucky Charms has partnered with augmented reality (AR) specialists Niantic to launch Journey to the Gems, a new AR mobile game that has you scouring real-world parks in search of “magically delicious charms” hidden throughout the environment.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 5, 2022

DressX launches first collection of metaverse fashion wearables on Roblox.?—?Instagram: @DressX Direct-to-avatar (D2A) commerce is a relatively new concept that emerged into the market in the last few years. It is steadily increasing in consumer popularity and fast becoming a tool that businesses should incorporate into their marketing strategy. But before we are going dive into it, just a quick briefing, If you’ve been playing any game with character figures, you know that you can customize the

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Much like the recently released Half-Life 2 VR Mod , Valve is soon giving its blessings to another third-party project that this time brings VR support to the original Half-Life (1998). If you’ve played Half-Life in VR before, it was probably thanks to the HLVR mod by Max Vollmer, who started back in 2017 to bring Valve’s iconic action-adventure shooter to the first wave of consumer VR headsets.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Last year at TARGO?—?for the 20th anniversary of September 11?—?we released a virtual reality documentary called “Surviving 9/11”. The doc shares the story of Genelle Guzman-McMillan, the last person rescued from the rubble at Ground Zero 27 hours after the collapse of the World Trade Center. Here’s the trailer: [link] “Surviving 9/11” follows the story of Genelle Guzman-McMillan across 25 years?

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Findings suggest Quest 3’s GPU will likely be at least twice as powerful as the one used in Quest 2 and Pico 4. Meta & Qualcomm recently announced “a multi-year broad strategic agreement” to build next-generation Snapdragon XR chipsets, involving both companies’ product & engineering teams working together. Last week, apparent schematics of Quest 3 were leaked to YouTuber SadlyItsBradley (Brad Lynch), revealing key features including pancake lenses and a depth sensor.

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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.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 5, 2022

AR continues to evolve and take shape. Like other tech sectors, it has spawned several sub-sectors that comprise an ecosystem. These include industrial AR , consumer VR , and AR shopping. Existing alongside all of them?—?and overlapping to some degree?—?is AR marketing. Among other things, AR marketing includes sponsored AR lenses that let consumers visualize products in their space.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Global smart glasses firm Nreal opened pre-orders for a new iPhone-compatible smart glasses adaptor on Amazon for $59. The firm also opened sales of its Air smart glasses on the digital storefront for $379. 24 hours later, both products sold out on the marketplace, highlighting massive augmented reality (AR) interest across the iOS user base, the company said in a LinkedIn post at the time.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 5, 2022

In order to make food products more appealing to the masses, many factors go into developing a marketing campaign. Companies are increasingly using immersive technologies like Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality to take advantage of this. Known to stimulate our sense organs, the food industry is an expert at sending tempting stimuli to our minds. Let’s explore the impact of AR/VR in the food industry.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 5, 2022

It’s getting to the pointy end of the year! Here’s a rundown of all the new VR releases coming to Quest 2, PSVR, PC VR and Pico platforms in October 2022. Recently Released – End of September 2022. While we got most of last month’s releases in our round-up post at the beginning of the month, there were also a few surprises in September.

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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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ARVR

OCTOBER 5, 2022

All info and hands-on review! Today the newest headset from Pico was presented. The Pico Neo 4 and we have all the info and the first hands-on report for you. Today is a big day for VR. Pico has just unveiled the Pico Neo 4, finally bringing an affordable headset to the masses. In today’s article I will inform you about all the specifications and features of the headset and that’s not all.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Gift cards that Quest headset owners can use toward VR software should be coming soon. Terms and conditions covering the use of Meta Quest Store gift cards were recently spotted by users online, as noted by NyaVR on Twitter. A formal announcement from Meta will likely be made soon. Though Meta added a way to gift people specific games some time ago, owners of Oculus (now Meta Quest) headsets have been asking for official gift cards for quite some time.

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Life at the Feeding Edge

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Tweet. I was really happy to be invited back to my favourite podcast GamesAtWork dot Biz to share some air time with Michael and Andy last week. (One less Michael than usual unfortunately). As Andy and I are both in the UK this took the number of Brits on the show up to a majority hence the title. You can hear the latest episode on all the usual podcast places, or follow this link to ep386 Too many brits.

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OCTOBER 5, 2022

Inspired by retro classic Arkanoid, BlockStar VR marks Immersive Division’s first original VR game. Going hands-on with the Meta Quest 2 version, here are our full thoughts from EGX London 2022. Certain genres naturally fit VR better than others. Odd exceptions occasionally challenge this but between hits like Half-Life: Alyx and Superhot VR , there’s a reason VR shooters remain king.

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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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Oculus

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Welcome to Meta Horizon Worlds v78! This week, we have 14 bug fixes ranging from improvements to lighting and sound, grabbables, and the updated camera.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Swedish immersive firm Hiber announced on Wednesday it had launched its collaborative integration with avatar platform Ready Player Me. The collaboration comes as the Gothenburg-based company’s popular no-code HiberWorld platform topped four million user-generated worlds, including games, interactive museums, art galleries, and others, over the last four years.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Sony anticipates PlayStation VR2 to have ‘much greater popularity’ than the original, Bloomberg reports. Bloomberg also cites sources “ familiar with the matter” as saying Sony plans to have 2 million units produced by March. PSVR 2 is slated to launch “early 2023” , so these millions of headsets should be available for the first adopters.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The Metaverse relies on the ingenuity of firms capable of deploying serious gaming technologies to provide enterprises, clients, and users with interoperable, persistent, and secure immersive experiences. One such company, Improbable , has developed the impossible with a breakthrough metaverse solution designed to facilitate massive-scale, concurrent user-based experiences for virtual events and gaming.

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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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XROM

OCTOBER 5, 2022

#Lenovo™ announced the new all-in-one virtual reality (VR) headset engineered for the enterprise. The comfortable fitting, slim profile six-degrees-of-freedom (6DoF) ThinkReality™ VRX features pancake optics and full color, high-resolution pass-through capabilities for mixed reality (MR) applications. The ThinkReality VRX is also supported by a full suite of end-to-end services to help businesses achieve speed-to-solution and realize return on investment faster.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 5, 2022

A developer posted a short clip showing Quest Pro with peripheral blinders and its color passthrough. Immersed CEO Renji Bijoy included the clip as a GIF in a blog post. The first few frames show what appears to be Meta’s upcoming Quest Pro, and then transitions to show the headset’s color passthrough. The GIF has since been removed from the original post but has been copied multiple times after its initial posting.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 5, 2022

FundamentalVR is an immersive learning platform which answers the demand for high-quality, repeatable, and efficient training scenarios for healthcare students. The platform simulates various healthcare scenarios so that students can learn with difficult-to-procure virtual equipment. Additionally, the service supports dispersed and at-home classrooms with immersive group learning opportunities.

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