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Nreal Light devkit review: an interesting entry point for AR

The Ghost Howls

Nreal is for sure one of the most interesting AR startups on the market. It got the attention of all the press at CES 2019 revealing an AR glass that is light, fashionable, and affordable. In 2020, it consolidated its product with a series of partnerships and a solid product development plan. There is much interest in this company, but also some skepticism since it promises to sell AR glasses for only $500, while its competitors cost all $2-3000.

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How Augmented Reality Is Used in Teaching Anatomy

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In recent years, we have been seeing growing interest in the applications of augmented reality beyond the world of gaming. There is, for instance, increasingly prominent utilization of AR in education. AR’s immersive nature offers limitless opportunities to spice up boring classroom lectures—and of course, enhance learning. Hence, it’s no surprise that educators from all levels of education are experimenting with it.

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5 Steps for Making AR Avatars

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This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. Find out more or contact us to participate here. Authors’ opinions are their own. . Making AR Avatars – From Scanning To Social. How Warner Music Created the CARYS AR Avatar for Fans . by Dave Cardwell. W arner Music wanted to create an engaging content experience for fans of the musician CARYS for her song “Princesses Don’t Cry” of viral TikTok fame.

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Apple Files Patent For Mixed Reality Headset That Projects Images On Your Eyeballs

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Apple looks to eliminate screens entirely according to a patent published by the USPTO. This week the United States Patent and Trademark Office published a patent filed by Apple Inc. for a new type of hybrid VR/AR device that does away with conventional screens in favor of a Dynamic Focus 3D Display that projects images directly unto the users retinas.

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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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Quest’s Hand-tracking is Making It Possible to Learn Basic Sign Language in VR

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There’s no comprehensive app out there yet for learning sign language in VR, however a student at the computer science department of the Bern University of Applied Science is using Oculus Quest’s native hand-tracking to see just how close we might get to achieving that goal with today’s tech. Cédric Girardin, an apprentice at the Switzerland-based university’s Computer Perception and Virtual Reality research group ( cpvrLab ), created a basic Quest app that can recognize

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Campaign Tracker: AR Boosts Ad Conversions 300%

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This is the latest in AR Insider’s Campaign Tracker series. Running semi-weekly, it examines marketing campaigns that utilize AR visualization such as product try-ons, and their results. For a full list of campaigns, comparative ROI chart and deeper analysis, subscribe to ARtillery PRO. P roof points continue to roll out for AR’s effectiveness as an advertising medium.

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The Varjo VR-2 Pro Boldly Goes Where No VR Headset Has Gone Before

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A high-end HMD perfect for safety-critical training simulations. I love covering this industry, the pace of innovation is awesome, and watching companies large and small vie for market share with powerful and revolutionary tech is inspiring. We have come a long way. Better, lighter, untethered HMDs: Check. Cheaper, easier to use VR solutions: Check.

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Kat VR Announces Kickstarter for At-home VR Treadmill ?KAT WALK C?

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Kat VR, the China-based company known for kickstarting its original Kat Walk VR treadmill in 2015, is once again returning to the crowdfunding platform to launch a new product later this month, this time serving up a VR treadmill called ‘Kat Walk C’ that promises to appeal to at-home consumers. Kat Walk C appears to be a slimmed-down version of the company’s 2018-era Kat Walk Mini treadmill , offering its signature low-friction parabola and equally slippy footwear, making for

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ARKit vs ARCore: Image Detection and Tracking

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ARReferenceImage in ARKit and Augmented Images in ARCore are capable of recognizing and superimposing 2D virtual images over original images in real-time, which presents a variety of business use-cases to AR developers. One of them is using marker-based AR for indoor navigation. Having detected and recognized a visual marker placed on a floor surface or a wall with the help of ARKit or ARCore, the app then draws a virtual route, helping a visitor with wayfinding at the airports or shopping malls

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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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The XR Week Peek (2020.06.08): VR usage on Steam remains steady after Alyx, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

I hope that in these crazy times all of you are fine. Sending you all big positive vibes. And as always, if I can help you somehow, let me know. Regarding this week in XR, well, it has been very boring, probably it has been one of the most useless weeks ever. Let’s have a look to what has been worthwhile, though. Top news of the week. (Image by Road To VR).

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Glastonbury’s Shangri-La Team Is Holding A Massive Live Music & Arts Festival In VR

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The two-day celebration will feature over 200 pieces of art and live performances from 50-plus musical artists. Those who’ve had the pleasure of attending the legendary Glastonbury Festival may be familiar with the bizarre Shangri-La experience, a portion of the annual music and performance arts festival dedicated to shining a spotlight on progressive culture and encouraging activism.

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Virtual Concert Platform ‘Wave’ Secures $30M in Series B Funding

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Wave , the social VR platform and virtual music venue, today announced a $30 million Series B funding round, putting its total funding to $40 million to date. The funding round was led by Maveron with participation from Griffin Gaming Partners. Additional investors include Japan’s NTT DOCOMO Ventures, Avex, Superfly Ventures, Convivialite Ventures, and Raised in Space.

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VR/AR Global Summit: Major Trends and Announcements

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The VR/AR Association’s VR/AR Global Summit took place last week from June 1 to June 3. Like many large-scale organizations, this was the first time that the VR/AR Association held their annual major conference online. According to the VR/AR Association, over 10,000 attendees registered for the event with more watching streaming and recorded sessions on Facebook and YouTube.

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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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XR Talks: How Do Consumers Really Feel About AR?

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XR Talks is a series that features the best presentations and educational videos from the XR universe. It includes embedded video, narrative analysis and top takeaways. Speakers’ opinions are their own. For a full library of indexed and educational media, subscribe to ARtillery PRO. I ndustry rhetoric about AR’s world-changing status far outweighs any tangible evidence that it’s captivating consumers today.

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VRChat Will Now Host AIXR’s 4th Annual VR Awards

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The popular VR social platform will serve as home to this years festivities amid the COVID-19 outbreak. The VR Awards has been recognizing and celebrating outstanding achievements in the VR industry since 2017. Companies such as Fable , HTC, and Oculus have each walked away as winners for their groundbreaking hardware, alongside genre-defying titles such as War Remains , Tilt Brush and ImmersiCare.

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Report: ‘Minecraft’ PSVR Support Could Arrive Soon

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Minecraft , one of the most influential games to support nearly every modern gaming device in history, may be coming to PSVR soon. Games publication MP1st reports that an internal developer build of the game on PS4 launched yesterday, update 2.03. The publicly available version on the PlayStation Store is currently at 2.06, which launched in mid-April.

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Seek Obtains US Patent for Its Proprietary AR Platform Technology

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Augmented reality company Seek has recently received a patent for its proprietary technology, which is the foundation of its AR platform, Seek Studio. At the end of May, the US Patent and Trademark Office granted Seek XR a patent with exclusive rights for its cross-platform augmented reality deployment technology. The patent protects the IP rights for Systems and Methods for Generating and Intelligently Distributing Forms of Extended Reality Content.

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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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Data Dive: Pinterest Visual Searches Triple

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Data Dive is AR Insider’s weekly dive into the latest spatial computing figures. Running Mondays, it includes data points, narrative insights and takeaways. For an indexed collection of data and reports, subscribe to ARtillery Pro. P interest has always been advantaged by context and user intent. By cultivating shopping and product-discovery use cases, it sets itself up to monetize in native ways.

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VR Live Music Platform ‘Wave’ Raises $30 Million In Funding

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The music industry and technology come together to offer artists a new pathway for income. The first time I stepped into a Wave concert was in 2017. I jumped into the VR platform to check out a live performance by Iranian-born electronic artist, Ash Koosha , as he performed a one-of-a-kind VR concert enhanced by trippy visuals, jaw-dropping soundscapes, and amorphous 3D objects that seemed to interact with the audience throughout the performance.

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‘World of Darkness’ Horror Game ‘Afterlife’ Coming to All Major VR Platforms

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Fast Travel Games, the studio behind Apex Construct (2018) and Budget Cuts 2 (2019) , today announced its next VR project, a horror game based in the ‘World of Darkness’ universe called Wraith: The Oblivion – Afterlife. Fans of the World of Darkness universe and its many tabletop role-playing games are no doubt familiar with Vampire: The Masquerade and Werewolf: The Apocalypse.

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Enlightened AI !??

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Enlightened AI !?? The Future Of Yoga post COVID-19 2020 has brought us down to our knees. But it has taught us one lesson that history has repeatedly proved (well at least in the last 10,000 years). Humans are the best survival machines…yet! It was because of this ability, that we climbed up to the top of the food chain quicker than any species ever before!

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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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What’s Driving Instagram’s AR Play?

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This post is adapted from ARtillery Intelligence’s report, Lessons From AR Revenue Leaders, Part III: The Field. It includes some of its data and takeaways. More can be previewed here and subscribe for the full report. A lot can be learned from consumer AR’s early leaders. What are they doing right? How are they engaging users? And how are they making money?

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Critically-Acclaimed PSVR Exploration Game ‘Paper Beast’ Heading To PC VR

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Originally released this past March on the PlayStation 4 to wide-spread acclaim, developer Pixel Reef today announced its dreamlike VR exploration experience Paper Beast will be heading to major PC VR headsets later this summer complete with improved visuals, additional creatures, and an expanded sandbox mode. “I’m super excited that we can finally talk about the PC version of Paper Beast!

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PSVR Exclusive ?Paper Beast? is Coming to PC VR This Summer

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Paper Beast, the surreal wildlife simulation first launched on PSVR, is slated to release on SteamVR headsets sometime this summer. The news was announced this morning by Pixel Reef , the studio founded by Monpellier, France-based creator Éric Chahi. Chahi is the developer behind cult classic platformer Another World (1991), Heart of Darkness (1998), and From Dust (2011).

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What is XR? Why is XR the #Future?

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Source What is XR? Why is XR the Future? The immersive technologies created quite a buzz in 2019, after replacing blockchain programmers as a hot commodity, with the demand for AR / VR engineer’s increasing by a whacking 1400%. The “X” in XR is a placeholder, can have Virtual, Augmented, Mixed as it’s value. Before diving in deep, let us first understand what VR, AR, MR are.

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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