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How AR and AI Will Transform Customer Service Using the Power of Vision

ARPost

Customer service is busier than ever. According to one 2020 survey , 45% of U.S. consumers have required technical assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic. These growing call volumes – coupled with the continuous need for cost optimizations – have driven the demand and adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality in customer service.

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Cybershoes for Oculus Quest Now Available on Amazon US

Road to VR

The Oculus Quest-compatible version of Cybershoes, the VR locomotion peripheral, was successfully funded on Kickstarter late last year, and has been available direct from the creators for a few months now. The company has now made Cybershoes for Quest available through Amazon US though, and has shaved a few bucks off the price too. Cybershoes present a pretty unconventional locomotion method for VR users.

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NFTs: Perspectives From AR & VR Stakeholders

VRScout

From art to business, the blockchain has enabled digital content to hold new value, with implications for the entire AR & VR community. Today, anyone can build a following online and begin selling their digital assets through third-party marketplaces like OpenSea, Rarible, Mintable, Superare, and other platforms that have become popular with digital creatives.

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What Are The Biggest Myths About AR Advertising?

AR Insider

Four Myths About AR Advertising. by Tony Parisi. It’s not a fad — it’s here to stay. Here’s why. A R advertising: it’s a thing. I’ve been writing about it for over a year, and working on related products at Unity for much longer. “From upper funnel to purchase, brands are increasingly turning to Augmented Reality to market their products and services online,” was the tale I spun a year ago.

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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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Mental Health Awareness Month: Looking at the XR Angle

ARPost

In commemoration of Mental Health Awareness month, ARPost has put together a list of some of the companies and experiences that are using XR to help people develop all kinds of wellness. Mental Health Providers. From developing empathy to understanding cognitive health in aging, to living new adventures or processing lived experiences, these companies are helping us live our best lives.

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VR Simulator Lets You Experience Life As A Dolphin And Shark

VRScout

Help protect the ocean while exploring a growing catalog of marine species in this VR ocean simulator. Ever wonder what it’s like to live beneath the surface of the ocean? How is the Water , an educational VR experience from developer Cyan Planet, looks to offer users just that—an opportunity to step into the shoes (fins?) of various marine species and experience life beneath the waves.

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Black Panther Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates Wants Better for Creators Bringing These Stories to Life

GizModo VR

With Black Panther #25 bringing Ta-Nehisi Coates’ run on the Marvel comic—which transformed Wakanda into a time-traveling, intergalactic empire—to a close, the writer’s moving on to tell the next chapter of another comics icon’s story, with Warner Bros.’ upcoming Superman movie about a Black Kal-El. Though Coates is… Read more.

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ThirdEye Announces Investment Fund for AR Software Providers

ARPost

Enterprise AR/MR hardware provider ThirdEye recently announced an investment fund for AR/MR software providers. ThirdEye CEO and founder, Nick Cherukuri, spoke with ARPost to explain how the fund works, what the plans are for the future, and how the fund benefits the XR market in general as well as ThirdEye in particular. Announcing the ThirdEye Investment Fund.

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‘FitXR’ Update Adds Formula One-style High Intensity Training Exercises

Road to VR

FitXR , the subscription-based VR workout app for Oculus Quest, launched its third in-game exercise regime which brings High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) to the mix. HIIT is the FitXR’s third ‘studio’, which follows the addition of in-game Box and Dance studios. The developers say the new HIIT studio includes instructor-led exercises and reaction-based fitness games like professional F1 driver reaction training.

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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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‘Rec Room’ CEO Talks About The Impact Of VR Subscriptions

VRScout

CEO and Co-Founder Nick Fajt lends his thoughts on premium app subscriptions and exclusive VR content. Last month Facebook announced the launch of premium app subscriptions on the Oculus Quest, offering users the chance to unlock exclusive VR content from select developers by paying a monthly fee. We’ve already seen several VR games and apps take advantage of this new service, including FitXR, Tribe XR, TRIPP, vSpatial, and VZfit just to name a few.

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British Cops Thought They Were Raiding a Weed Farm, But Found Bitcoin Instead

GizModo VR

A group of UK officers who thought they were going to bust up a massive cannabis farm found something completely different behind the doors of a local warehouse: a regular, legal, bitcoin mine. Read more.

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Arm Announces Mobile Armv9 CPU Microarchitectures: Cortex-X2, Cortex-A710 & Cortex-A510

Anand Tech

Today Arm is announcing a whole cluster of Armv9 client CPUs: The Cortex-X2: A flagship core with more performance and deeper OOO, the Cortex-A710: a power-efficient performance core, and the Cortex-A510: the new much-awaited little core with a twist. All housed in a new redesigned DSU-110 L3.

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Latest Lumus Waveguide Shows Retina Resolution & 50° FOV in AR Glasses Form-factor

Road to VR

Waveguide optics are increasingly looking like the best near-term solution for creating AR glasses that are truly glasses-sized. Lumus is one such waveguide company and recently let their latest waveguide prototype, the 50° FOV ‘Maximus’, be examined under the proverbial microscope. Through-the-lens photos of Lumus Maximus reveal impressive ‘retina’ resolution of 60 PPD, along with excellent brightness and leading image uniformity.

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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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Nintendo Labo VR “Remake” Of ‘DOOM Eternal’ Is Adorable

VRScout

How a creator by the name of @MrTiffles developed his own squeaky clean version of iD Software’s ultra-violent first-person shooter. Last March, critically-acclaimed video game developer iD Software ( Wolfenstein, Quake, Commander Keen ) released its latest title, DOOM Eternal , on Nintendo Switch consoles, offering players what could easily be considered the most violent experience available on the popular hybrid console to date.

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Tesla Cars Will Now Spy on You to Make Sure You Don’t Autopilot Yourself Into a PR Disaster

GizModo VR

In an effort to assuage fears about the dangers inherent in its autopilot system, Tesla has announced that the in-cabin cameras in its Model 3 and Y vehicles will now monitor drivers for “attentiveness” while the feature is turned on, TechCrunch reports. Read more.

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Virgin Galactic spaceplane makes it to boundary of space on third test flight

Digital Trends

After a few stumbles, Virgin Galactic has succeed in its third test flight of its spaceplane, which will be available for space tourism flights in the future.

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‘Star Wars: Squadrons’ Will Be Free to PlayStation Plus Members in June

Road to VR

Sony announced that Star Wars: Squadrons (2020) , the PSVR-compatible space dogfighter, is going to be one of June’s free PlayStation Plus titles. Starting June 1st, Star Wars: Squadrons will be free to keep for PS Plus members, and will be available to claim until July 5th. The game, which was launched back in October 2020, is regularly priced at $40.

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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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Snapchat Lens Turns Real-World Objects Into AR Instruments

VRScout

Start a virtual band using this clever Snapchat Lens from smart musical instruments creator Artiphon. Artiphon, creator of smart musical instruments such as the Orba and INSTRUMENT 1, this week unveiled its first Snapchat Lens, Scan Band. Available now via the Snapchat app, Scan Band uses a combination of augmented reality (AR) and machine learning to convert everyday objects into interactive virtual instruments.

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Shareholders Tell Exxon to Suck It

GizModo VR

History was made at ExxonMobil’s annual shareholder meeting Wednesday when investors essentially staged a coup, voting to oust at least two members of the board due to the company’s poor performance on climate change. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out! Read more.

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FitXR’s HIIT Studio Delivers On Its High-Intensity Promise

VR Fitness

It would be fair to say that FitXR’s transition from a base game with optional DLC to a monthly subscription service model did not go as smoothly as they’d have wished. Some backlash from users not wanting to pay for a monthly service was to be expected of course, but FitXR had hoped to minimize negative feeling through assurances that all content previously purchased would remain in the user’s possession forever, whilst also throwing in a generous 90 day free trial of the new premium service to

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VR Tabletop Gaming Platform ‘Dungeon Full Dive’ Completes Kickstarter with $285K

Road to VR

Dungeon Full Dive is an upcoming tabletop gaming platform that aims to bring PC and PC VR players together online to play their favorite role-playing games. Now its month-long Kickstarter campaign is over, garnering the team over $285,000 to bring the project to life. Cologne, Germany-based studio TxK Gaming finished their Dungeon Full Dive Kickstarter campaign today with a total of €234,343 (~$285,000), which was pledged by over 3,800 backers.

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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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Interview: How Survios Brought ‘Puzzle Bobble’ To VR

VRScout

Survios and Taito team up to bring an arcade classic to life in VR for the first time. Those who’ve spent more than a couple of minutes inside an old-school arcade are no doubt familiar with the long-running Puzzle Bobble series. Based on Japanese developer Taito’s 1986 platform arcade game Bubble Bobble , Puzzle Bobble offered a fresh take on the series, offering players a one-of-a-kind tile-matching experience that has since established itself as one of the most recognizable arcade

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Top Climate Scientist Blasts Government Lab After Denier Invited to Speak

GizModo VR

Ben Santer, one of the nation’s leading climate scientists, said he is cutting ties with a prestigious government-funded laboratory over its plans to invite a scientist who has spread climate denial to speak in a seminar. Read more.

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Twitter confirms cost of Twitter Blue subscription service

Digital Trends

Twitter's new subscription service, Twitter Blue, is showing on its App Store page for iPhone. It offers various features, though doesn't appear to reduce ads.

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‘Beat Saber’ Teases Tracks Featuring Kendrick Lamar & LMFAO, Coming May 27th

Road to VR

Oculus released a Beat Saber teaser telling players of the block-slashing rhythm game to look out for a new ‘mixtape’ from Interscope Records. The update is said to land on May 27th. The video hints that we’re at least getting a track from LMFAO, or more precisely ‘Party Rock Anthem’ by LMFAO featuring Lauren Bennett and GoonRock, and ‘DNA’ from Kendrick Lamar.

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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