August, 2021

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Rezzil Player 22 Review: Learn Sports, Stay Fit In VR!

The Ghost Howls

Today Rezzil has just launched on the Oculus Quest Store “Player 22” , a VR experience meant to make people stay fit at home with training sessions inspired by the ones that professional sports athletes follow. How is it good? Discover it in today’s review! My video review of the game, with some footage of the gameplay. If you like my Youtube videos, check it out!

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Oculus Quest App ‘Magic Keys’ Teaches You Piano Using AR

VRScout

Learn how to tickle the ivories with this educational VR experience powered by the experimental Passthrough API. This past July Facebook released its experimental Passthrough API into the wild, allowing developers to harness the Oculus Quest’s built-in cameras to create engaging mixed reality experiences. Since then we’ve seen a variety of interactive AR games make their way to the standalone headset, from martial arts simulator Crazy Kung Fu to VR puzzler Gravity Labs.

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How Will the Metaverse Economy Materialize?

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Metanomics: Building The Economy Of The Metaverse. by Theo Priestly. Firstly, the term ‘metanomics,’ in relation to virtual worlds and the economy within, is something Doug Thompson was involved in more than a decade ago and ran a show within Second Life and a series of podcasts with the same name. I’d recommend checking them out because it’s all still relevant to where we’re heading today – I’m using it purely to frame where things are likely to end up in a metaverse context because it’s a cool

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Facebook Surprise-launches New VR Meeting App With Virtual Desktops and up to 50 People

Road to VR

Facebook today is surprise-launching a new app called Horizon Workrooms , a virtual collaboration space that connects both VR and video chat users. With the ability to bring a user’s PC or Mac desktop into the virtual room, the app takes a big step toward turning Quest 2 into a collaborative productivity device. While the long-awaited Facebook Hozion social app has yet to launch, the company has been quietly working on another ‘Horizon’ product which is launching today for fr

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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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Why Are Hotels Investing in Augmented Reality Technology?

ARPost

Augmented reality technology has made its way into the hospitality industry. From virtual maps to quirky digital experiences, hoteliers are creating fun and memorable guest experiences using AR. By investing in AR solutions, they hope to exceed the expectations of guests and make their stay unforgettable. Best of all, hoteliers don’t have to commit to expensive and permanent changes when they’re experimenting with AR.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.08.23): Facebook launches Horizon Workrooms, Intel announces its graphics cards, and more!

The Ghost Howls

???! These days are pretty hot here, but this doesn’t stop me from enjoying virtual reality. What I’ve not enjoyed is that SideQuest has removed The Unity Cube from its listing, stating that there were too many cubes there. I think that cubes are never enough… cubes are love, cubes are life. Before leaving to the news: I will be at Devcom this week pitching HitMotion: Reloaded , and also at Gamescom to talk with some XR studios!

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VR City Builder ‘Spacefolk City’ Heading To Major VR Headsets

VRScout

Step into the role of an intergalactic city planner in this adorable city simulator coming soon to VR headsets. Brought to us by developer Moon Mode, Spacefolk City is an upcoming VR city-building game for Oculus Quest, Oculus Rift, and SteamVR headsets that will have you constructing complex urban environments in order to save the inhabitants of a solar system on the verge of destruction.

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Hurricane Ida Shuts Down More Than 90% of Oil and Gas Production in the Gulf of Mexico

GizModo VR

As if reversing the course of the Mississippi River, forcing hospitals to hunker down with patients that couldn’t be moved, and nearly shutting off the power and internet in New Orleans wasn’t enough, Hurricane Ida has also disrupted oil and gas production. Read more.

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Reality Might Be a Simulation, Scientists Think It’s Possible to Find out for Sure

Road to VR

If you’re interested in VR, you’ve probably thought at least once or twice about the simulation hypothesis—the idea that we might actually already be living in a virtual reality world. Many people are passingly familiar with the idea, especially thanks to films like The Matrix , and it’s been a topic among philosophers—in some form or another—for perhaps more than a millenium.

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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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2021 Burning Man: A Virtual Reality Experience Is Coming Your Way

ARPost

The annual Burning Man event has been canceled for the second year in a row due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. However, this year, Burners can enjoy a virtual reality experience from the comfort of their own home. The virtual festivities will begin on August 22, while the Burn Week Global Live Streams will run from August 29 through September 7. Virtual Burn: A Virtual Reality Experience.

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Facebook finally made a good virtual reality app

TechCrunch VR

Facebook’s journey toward making virtual reality a thing has been long and circuitous, but despite mixed success in finding a wide audience for VR, they have managed to build some very nice hardware along the way. What’s fairly ironic is that while Facebook has managed to succeed in finessing the hardware and operating system of its Oculus devices — things it had never done before — over the years it has struggled most with actually making a good app for VR.

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ThirdEye X2 MR: the lightweight MR glasses for the industry

The Ghost Howls

ThirdEye is a headset manufacturer that creates glasses for the industrial segment. Its X2 MR glasses are proving very effective in many industrial fields, but its brand is still not very famous in the XR communities, so I decided to have a talk with Nick Cherukuri, the CEO of ThirdEye , to let you all discover more about it. We talked about ThirdEye glasses, their features, their future projections, and their possible B2B applications.

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PrecisionOS Brings VR Medical Training To Struggling Areas

VRScout

VR training lets surgeons in low-resource countries go through the motions before performing on patients. The VR medical company PrecisionOS along with support from Epic Games MegaGrant and Oculus , have launched a VR training module designed specifically for the global nonprofit humanitarian organization SIGN Fracture Care. Doctors in the organization who specialize in orthopedic surgery in low-resource countries will have access to critical training that will vastly improve outcomes for patien

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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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Capybaras Are Waging Class War in Argentina

GizModo VR

You know how capybaras always seem to have a slightly skeptical look on their faces? Turns out what they’re skeptical of might be rich people’s b t. Now, in Argentina, they’re fighting back. Groups of the charismatic rodents have been causing a ruckus in the fancy-pants gated community of Nordelta, crapping in… Read more.

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‘Skyrim VR’ Has Made Great Strides in Immersion Thanks to Mods

Road to VR

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR (2018) isn’t what you’d call a lazy VR port of the now decade-old open-world RPG, but it certainly leaves much to the imagination when it comes to the sort of immersion you’d expect to see in native VR titles. Like all things Skyrim, mods let you improve the experience in ways Bethesda simply won’t (like, ever), and a few mods in particular have done a lot for Skyrim VR on PC that will have you feeling much more at home in Tamriel.

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How AR Diving Masks Can Improve Underwater Operations

ARPost

AR diving masks might be the future of archaeological diving, naval operations, and many aquatic recreational activities. AR startups, as well as the US Navy, are exploring the ability of immersive tech to make diving safer for all kinds of divers. What Is an AR Diving Mask? Augmented reality superimposes visual elements over a real-world environment.

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#1000: Voices of VR Retrospective on the Ultimate Potential of Virtual Reality

Voices of VR

Episode #1000 of the Voices of VR podcast is a special, three-hour retrospective featuring over 100 of the best answers I’ve received about the ultimate.

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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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NASA wants you to live in a simulated Mars environment for a year

Digital Trends

If you've ever wondered what it would be like to live on Mars, now is your chance to find out. NASA is recruiting crew members for a simulation Mars mission.

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Full Body VR Controller AXIS Launches Kickstarter

VRScout

Backers will receive Refract’s easy-to-use motion-tracking system and first-person fighting game Freestriker. Several months ago we covered Virtual Taekwondo , a captivating mixed reality experience from Singapore-based tech company Refract Technologies that allows competitors to battle each other in hand-to-hand combat using the company’s full-body motion capture system AXIS.

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Behold, Carbon-Free Steel Now Exists

GizModo VR

This week, a Swedish firm announced it had delivered carbon-free steel to a customer—a world-first. It’s a huge step in the race to clean up one of the most carbon-intensive activities on Earth. Read more.

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Stunning View Synthesis Algorithm Could Have Huge Implications for VR Capture

Road to VR

As far as live-action VR video is concerned, volumetric video is the gold standard for immersion. And for static scene capture, the same holds true for photogrammetry. But both methods have limitations that detract from realism, especially when it comes to ‘view-dependent’ effects like specular highlights and lensing through translucent objects.

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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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Get Ready to See a Lot More From JigSpace

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JigSpace might not be on your radar – or it might have fallen off or your radar. Or you might be a huge fan. Either way, the company has been making some movements recently that could result in a much bigger blip on the screen. See Also: A Hands-on Review of Avatour and an Interview With CEO Devon Copley. Here, we’ll take a look at JigSpace with a focus on their big news this year featuring an interview with Co-Founder and CEO Zac Duff.

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Introducing ‘Horizon Workrooms’: Remote Collaboration Reimagined

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The way we work is changing. More people are working remotely, more people want flexible work options, and more people are re-thinking what it means.

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Facebook’s ‘droidlet’ A.I. could take speech recognition to a whole new level

Digital Trends

Today's natural language recognition systems -- like Siri and Alexa -- are still somewhat limited in what they can understand. Facebook thinks it can do better.

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Finally, An App That Lets You Censor Reality

VRScout

Some things are better left unseen. Available now on iOS devices, voxelizeAR is a newly-released app from developer Rare Realities, LLC that allows you to transform portions of the real world into 3D pixels—otherwise known as “voxels.” The result is an effect similar to that of the one used by the media to censor violent and/or sexual content.

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The Key to Getting the Best Out of Video-Based Practice & Coaching

Speaker: Micah Eppler, Account Executive for Rehearsal of eLearning Brothers

Did you know that companies such as Paychex, 3M, and Honeywell are getting better results by incorporating video-based practice and coaching within their L&D strategy? From sales pitches to soft skills, learners are becoming top performers by applying and validating knowledge transfer using the unique benefits of video. Whether used as a stand-alone application or integrated with a learning platform, video-based practice and coaching platforms give learners the ultimate opportunity to repeatedly