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What Will Rokid Max Bring to the Smart Glasses Landscape?

AR Insider

Assisted Reality devices like Rokid Max are primarily smartphone accessories, projecting the mobile phone screen, ipad, computer display or simulating a 200-inch screen. Charlie Fink test reviews the latest. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.10.17): Quest 3 has been shipped, Quest 3 Lite to come in 2024, and more!

The Ghost Howls

This has been the week of the Quest 3: the headset has started shipping and I have received my unit, too. Unluckily since I’m crunching at work, I’ve only been able to test it for a bit more than one hour, but I was already pleasantly surprised by it. I don’t have the time to write a full review now, but I hope to write this week at least a “first impression” article because many people are asking my opinion (thank you, really, for your trust!).

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Designing Mixed Reality Apps That Adapt to Different Spaces

Road to VR

Laser Dance is an upcoming mixed reality game that seeks to use Quest’s passthrough capability as more than just a background. In this Guest Article, developer Thomas Van Bouwel explains his approach to designing an MR game that adapts to different environments. Guest Article by Thomas Van Bouwel Thomas is a Belgian-Brazilian VR developer currently based in Brussels.

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VR an ‘Empathetic’ Tool for First Aid Training, Warpin VP Says

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Immersive training is one of the top verticals for virtual, augmented, mixed, and extended reality (VR/AR/MR/XR). As more companies explore the profound benefits of XR learning, new use cases develop to meet the needs of each enterprise, often with substantial results. XR Today has the pleasure of interviewing Emma Ridderstad, Vice-President and Founder, Warpin Reality , to discuss her company’s collaboration with the Swedish Red Cross.

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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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The New Face of AR: Ambient & Intelligent

AR Insider

Rather than holographic dragons and whales, will AR's near term value lie in AI-fueled relevant information delivered through text and audio? We examine AR's current 'Art of the Possible.' This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Apple is Approaching Social on Vision Pro the Way Meta Should Have All Along

Road to VR

As a leading social media company, it seemed like Meta would be in the best position to create a rich social experience on its XR headsets. But after almost a decade of building XR platforms, interacting with friends on Meta’s headsets is still a highly fragmented affair. With Vision Pro, Apple is taking a different approach—making apps social right out of the box.

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Swedish Red Cross Democratises First Aid with Warpin VR Trainer

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Medical use cases for virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) technologies continue to comprise a large part of the entire extended reality (XR) market. People can better understand how to respond in an emergency scenario using immersive learning and training tools while measuring and monitoring response times, efficacy rates, and emotional reactions to real-life crises.

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Spatial Beats: Meta, Unity & Epic Games

AR Insider

Welcome back to Spatial Beats, AR Insider's weekly series that features observations and insights of author and futurist Charlie Fink. This week, we look at Quest 3 reactions and more gen-AI action. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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EON Experience Fest 2023: Dubai’s Innovation Summit

EON Reality

Hello to all the forward-thinkers and visionaries out there! Dubai, the epitome of innovation, recently opened its arms to global educators, tech aficionados, and futurists for a monumental discourse on the educational horizon at the EON Experience Fest 2023. As we delved deep into the paradigm-shifting realms of immersive technologies, spatial computing, and artificial intelligence, we discovered the remarkable ways these are reshaping how we perceive and engage in education.

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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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Quest 3 Teardown Shows Just How Slim the Headset Really Is

Road to VR

Less than a week since launch, Quest 3 has already gotten the full iFixit teardown treatment, showing off just how slim (and seemingly difficult to repair) the headset really is. iFixit’s Shahram Mokhtari pried apart Quest 3, revealing the innards of Meta’s new $500 mixed reality standalone. The short of it: it’s pretty complicated to dismantle and there aren’t any repair parts as such, getting a [4/10] repairability score in Mokhtari’s video (linked below).

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Creativity, XR, and the New Era of the Smart City

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Watch on YouTube XR Today’s Demond Cureton hosts Paul Doherty, President and CEO, The Digit Group. In our interview, we discuss the following: Initial thoughts on the Creativity Conference How The Digit Group contributed its expertise to the conference Defining creativity in the XR sector, and what is required of it to resolve problems in the industry How businesses can creatively apply XR to smart city technologies, building information modelling (BIM), digital twins, and the Metaverse Th

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What’s Snap’s Geospatial AR Play?

AR Insider

Geospatial AR is an opportune area, given the relevance of location. Snap is jumping on this opportunity in several ways including custom Landmarkers and Local Lenses. We examine the drivers & dynamics. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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EON Reality Introduces Revolutionary Virtual Campus Implementation Process: A Convergence of AI and Immersive Learning

EON Reality

EON’s Virtual Campus Blends Deep Immersion with Intelligent Personalization to redefine the future of education. IRVINE, CA – October 16 , 2023 – EON Reality, a pioneer in edtech solutions, today unveiled its latest breakthrough: the Virtual Campus, an embodiment of next-gen learning experiences designed to meet the educational demands of a digital era.

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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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Apple Expands Vision Pro Developer Labs to Two New Cities

Road to VR

Apple is adding two new locations to its Vision Pro ‘Developer Labs so devs can get their hands on the headset before it launches early next year. It might not feel like it but 2024 will be here before we know it, and Apple has recently said it’s on track to launch Vision Pro “early” next year. To get developers’ hands on Vision Pro launches, Apple has a handful of ‘Developer Labs’ where developers can go to check out the device and get feedback on their

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MeetKai and the Charlotte Hornets Engage Sports Fans with Virtual Store

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Watch on YouTube XR Today’s Demond Cureton hosts Seth J Bennett, CMO, Charlotte Hornets, James Kaplan, CEO and Co-Founder, MeetKai, and Weili Dai, Executive Chairwoman and Co-Founder, MeetKai. In our interview, we discuss the following: The impetus for MeetKai and the Charlotte Hornets to collaborate for their virtual sports apparel store Using MeetKai’s XR solutions to engage sports fans in fresh and innovative ways How using XR and the Metaverse can lead to greater engagement rates

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How Much Do Consumers Spend on XR Apps & Games?

AR Insider

How much do consumers spend on immersive games, apps, and experiences? We examine the drivers and dynamics in the latest Behind-the-Numbers installment. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Introducing EON IntelliScan: The Pinnacle Augmented Reality and AI-driven Learning

EON Reality

Redefining Boundaries between Reality and Education with Seamless AI-AR Integration. IRVINE, CA – October 19 , 2023 – EON Reality, a global leader in AI-powered XR solutions for education and industry, proudly unveils its latest cutting-edge solution: EON IntelliScan. Seamlessly blending artificial intelligence with the expansive world of augmented reality, this revolutionary tool aims to redefine user interaction, learning, and professional training.

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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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13 Tips & Tricks to Get the Most Out of Quest 3

Road to VR

Quest 3 is here and comes with a bunch of quite helpful but often hidden features (most of which will also work on Quest 2!). Here’s a breakdown of tips and tricks you’ll definitely want to know. Quest 3 Tips & Tricks Contents: Quest 3 Screenshot & Video Capture Shortcut Quest Voice Commands Switch Between Controller-tracking and Hand-tracking Force Screenshots & Videos to Actually Sync to Your Phone Double-tap for Passthrough Turn on 120Hz Refresh Rate Extended Battery M

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OpenSim land area at a new high as grids prep for holidays

Hypergrid Business

OpenSim land area tally is now at a new all-time-high of 131,257 standard regions, the fourth month in a row it has hit that target. Meanwhile, several grids are hosting Halloween events this month and getting ready for other fall holidays. OpenSim active users tally is, however, down this month by 3,006 despite being an active season, which can be attributed to downtime on a number of grids.

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How Important are Haptics in Immersive Tech?

AR Insider

Haptics have come a long way since the N64 Rumble Pak. Now they're an increasingly critical component of achieving immersion in VR. What's the current state and trajectory? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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EON Reality Unveils the Universal Skill Simulator: A New Dawn for Practical Learning in Industrial and Medical Fields

EON Reality

The Intersection of Deep Theoretical Knowledge and Groundbreaking Hands-on Simulation. IRVINE, CA – October 16 , 2023 – As the global leader in cutting-edge edtech solutions, EON is thrilled to introduce its newest innovation: The Universal Skill Simulator. This pioneering tool is poised to redefine digital education, particularly in the realms of industrial robotics and medical training, by merging theoretical understanding with lifelike simulations.

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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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VR’s Favorite Mini Golf Game Gets Spooky with New Haunted Course

Road to VR

Walkabout Mini Golf has been on a roll ever since it launched in late 2020, now counting 22 courses strong with the addition of a very spooky level just in time for Halloween: ‘Widow’s Walkabout’ Developers Mighty Coconut say Widow’s Walkabout brings to the game a “mysterious cliffside manor [.] haunted by a playful spirit who’s possessed an eerie mini golf course like no other.” The haunted course is said to pack in a bunch of spooky surprises and hints to an unset

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Apple Takes on Meta in Race to Make VR Mainstream

Hypergrid Business

Meta has not seen the results it has hoped for with its investments in the VR space, with an operating loss of $31 billion. However, the recent announcement of Apple’s Vision Pro last June is set to reinvigorate the marketplace. Rolf Illenberger “I and the entire industry was waiting for Apple for a decade,” said Rolf Illenberger, CEO of VRDirect, which provides company software solutions to build their own VR projects.

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Reality Bytes: Adobe, Netflix & AI

AR Insider

What are the biggest insights and observations in immersive tech & media this week? Welcome to Reality Bytes' lightning-round commentary.

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Chinese Analyst: 'Quest 3 Lite' Using Fresnel Lenses Could Arrive In H1 2024 At $200-300

Upload VR

Could a Quest 3 Lite arrive in the first half of next year to replace Quest 2 from as low as $200 without controllers? Earlier this year, Meta's internal roadmap leaked to The Verge revealing the company planned to release a new headset in 2024 "at the most attractive price point in the VR consumer market." Last week Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported that this headset "looks a lot like the Quest 3 but uses less costly components" and described it as a "mixed reality headset".

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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