ARPost

AUGUST 17, 2021

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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AR Insider

AUGUST 18, 2021

3 Ways Augmented Reality Can Enhance Post-COVID Healthcare. by Emil Alon. A ugmented reality (AR) is undergoing impressive growth. After an initial sales decline in 2020, the latest forecasts are trending upward. Some projections chart an increase from $15 billion in 2020 to $77 billion in 2025. One major reason for this boost is renewed interest from a healthcare industry rapidly seeking contactless solutions in the wake of COVID-19.

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VRScout

AUGUST 16, 2021

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 Ghost Howls

AUGUST 19, 2021

We all know that it is very difficult to be published on the Official Quest Store and we indie developers have to resort to publishing on the alternate App Lab store. This is a very good channel (we also used it for our game HitMotion: Reloaded ), but it has the big problem that doesn’t allow the discoverability of content. You publish there, and no one knows: it is like publishing a Youtube unlisted video.

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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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ARPost

AUGUST 20, 2021

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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VRScout

AUGUST 20, 2021

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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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 15, 2021

August, 15th is a special day in Italy: it is called “Ferragosto”, and people go out with their friends and families and grill some BBQ in the parks, have picnics, or just chill together. Almost no one works, and people are focused on enjoying good food and good company. But 5 years ago, at Ferragosto, I had another plan: I wanted to start a blog of mine.

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ARPost

AUGUST 18, 2021

For many of our readers, AR and VR are not just personal interests. They want to learn how to create immersive experiences and enjoy a rewarding career in this industry. We are here to offer helpful advice and information to anyone – business people, gamers, developers, and content creators. Thus, we decided to help you start your career by choosing one of the most desirable AR/VR certificates you can obtain.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 19, 2021

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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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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VRScout

AUGUST 18, 2021

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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GizModo VR

AUGUST 20, 2021

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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ARPost

AUGUST 16, 2021

XR technology is a fascinating world to live and work in. When you write about XR and emerging technology, people ask a lot of questions; some more often than others. If you have questions that you’ve always wanted to ask a writer in this field, answers to your questions may be found below. If you’re a writer in the space, you may relate to this article in amusing and insightful ways.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 19, 2021

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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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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VRScout

AUGUST 14, 2021

2017’s charmingly odd platforming game Getting Over It is getting an unofficial VR remake for the Oculus Quest and PC VR. For those unfamiliar, Getting Over It was a painfully unforgiving platforming game in which players use a mouse or trackpad to navigate a man named Diogenes up a steep mountain. Similar to the famous Greek philosopher of the same name, the shirtless avatar lives within a large metal cauldron and is controlled using a Yosemite hammer which players use to grip surroundi

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 19, 2021

Rep. Lauren Boebert has trotted out standard right-wing pablum when it comes to climate from bizarre Green New Deal rants to lies about hamburgers to trying to block the U.S. from reentering the Paris Agreement as one of her first official acts in Congress. She also introduced legislation to ban moratoriums on oil and… Read more.

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ARPost

AUGUST 19, 2021

A few years ago, we shared some tips to overcome VR motion sickness. Back then, HMD performance was lower than at the present. Thus, many of these instances of motion sickness were caused by poor depth of field, high latency, and other technology-related issues. Unfortunately, many people still experience these negative symptoms, even at present. They are using modern VR devices, with the best features and specifications.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 20, 2021

The latest version of Unreal Engine 4, version 4.27, brings “production-ready” support for OpenXR. The change comes just in time for Oculus developers, as the company recently announced it’s fully moving open to the OpenXR standard for VR development going forward. You may recall news back in May that the early access version of Unreal Engine 5 includes improved support for OpenXR.

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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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VRScout

AUGUST 15, 2021

Chalk your virtual pool stick and knock balls against human and AI opponents in this realistic pool simulator. Available now on Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2 headsets, Black Hole Pool is a VR sports simulator that lets you go head-to-head with both human and AI opponents in realistic games of billiards from your own immersive pool hall. Brought to us by EagerLogic Ltd., Black Hole Pool features nine different ball games, each featuring realistic physics.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 19, 2021

A staggering 94.2% of adults in England have antibodies for covid-19, according to a new report from the UK’s Office of National Statistics. Roughly 80.7% of England’s population has been fully vaccinated, suggesting the rest of the 94.2% acquired antibodies through natural infection with the coronavirus. Read more.

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TechCrunch VR

AUGUST 19, 2021

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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Road to VR

AUGUST 16, 2021

While Oculus doesn’t offer much publicly in the way of understanding how well individual apps are performing across its VR storefronts, it’s possible to glean some insight by looking at apps relative to each other. Here’s a snapshot of the top 20 Oculus Quest games and apps as of August 2021. Why We Publish This Data. While the SteamVR library already has a comprehensive tracking database thanks to SteamDB , Steam 250 , and more, no similar database exists to track applications on Oculus storef

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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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VRScout

AUGUST 19, 2021

Take the party to your local precinct and cause havoc using over 40 new items. Developer The Munky today released a free update for DRUNKN BAR FIGHT that introduces numerous tweaks and improvements, including a new map and support for multiplayer co-op. Available now on major VR headsets, DRUNKN BAR FIGHT is a VR bar fighting “simulator” that tasks you with starting fights and destroying virtual property at bars, weddings, and various other public gatherings.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 17, 2021

Back in July, cybersecurity researcher Bob Diachenko found what seemed to be a leaked FBI watchlist naming the personal details of close to 2 million suspected terrorists. Diachenko quickly filed a report to the Department of Homeland Security, hoping the agency would issue some sort of patch to keep this data from… Read more.

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Anand Tech

AUGUST 19, 2021

This week Intel held its annual Architecture Day event for select press and partners. As with previous iterations, the company disclosed details about its next generation architectures set to come to the market over the next twelve months. Intel has promised the release of its next-generation consumer and mobile processor family, Alder Lake, to come by the end of the year and today the company is sharing a good number of details about the holistic design of the chips as well as some good detail

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Road to VR

AUGUST 18, 2021

VR developer ForeVR Games today announced it has raised an additional $7 million in seed capital, bringing its total capital raise to $8.5 million. The studio is focused on bringing classic real world games—like bowling—into VR with an emphasis on social play. Having launched in 2020, ForeVR is a newcomer to the VR space; the studio’s first game, ForeVR Bowl , launched less than three months ago.

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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

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