AR Insider
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
Customer Experience (CX) is defined by the user interfaces and click streams that brands engineer for their users. How are AR and VR transforming this existing art? We examine 7 ways it's playing out today. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
TechCrunch VR
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
Virtual Reality (VR) has struggled to transition too far beyond gaming circles and specific industry use-cases such as medical training , but with the burgeoning metaverse movement championed by tech heavyweights such as Meta , there has been a renewed hope (and hype) around the promise that virtual worlds bring. Just yesterday, Los Angeles-based AmazeVR announced a $17 million tranche of funding to scale its virtual concert and “music metaverse” platform.
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ARPost
SEPTEMBER 27, 2022
Pico announced their next-generation VR headsets, Pico 4 and Pico 4 Pro, at a hybrid event in Berlin and streamed live last Thursday, September 22. As well as the completely redesigned headsets and controllers, the event showcased news software including an updated operating system, launch titles, apps and integrations, and more. Let’s take a look. Introduction From President Henry Zhou.
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 27, 2022
Lightship VPS for Web promises to catapult web-based AR technology into a brand new era. Niantic is making the web an even more powerful place for augmented reality with the launch of Lightship VPS for Web. This first-of-its-kind browser-based technology will connect the real world with the virtual world by anchoring WebAR (browser-based augmented reality) content to locations and enabling virtual objects to interact with the physical world.
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.
Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
Lenovo today unveiled its next standalone VR headset for enterprise, the ThinkReality VRX standalone. While the company may be pitching its latest headset for businesses, it seems VR hardware is starting to reach a pretty solid consensus on what’s next. The near future of VR is slimmer, lighter, and has a dash of augmented reality for good measure.
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ARPost
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
The “real-world metaverse” is a term promoted by Niantic to describe the emergence of geographically anchored XR experiences. Niantic has long been behind the movement which has welled into their gradual development and rollout of the Lightship VPS. There’s another growing movement in AR – WebAR, for maximum accessibility and ease of use. You know where this is going.
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
Stream your favorite movies and games on a giant 130-inch virtual display. Augmented reality (AR) company Nreal today announced that its Nreal Air AR glasses are now available in the United States alongside a new adapter that introduces limited support to iPhone devices. The company also revealed major updates to its Nebula AR operating system as well as new games and apps coming soon to the platform.
Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 24, 2022
In addition to the consumer-focused Pico 4 headset announced this week , the company has also announced a Pico 4 Pro variant aimed at enterprise use-cases. With the announcement of Pico 4 this week, Pico is squaring up to compete with Meta’s Quest 2. But the company is seemingly also trying to ready itself against Meta’s upcoming Project Cambria, a high-end enterprise-focused standalone headset (which is rumored to be called the Quest Pro).
AR Insider
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
How can AR add value to large-scale architectural, engineering, and construction projects? We answer this question in our latest case study, featuring Nox Innovations' AR deployment. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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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.
ARPost
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
In the first part , I dealt with investing possibilities in hardware that will take us to the metaverse. Today I will delve into other opportunities. Software. The metaverse is going to be made of many souls. This implies an enormous variety of software that will be used for its construction and for its application in our lives. We will need platforms to navigate, meet, and study.
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
Followers around the world can participate in certified rituals. Metaverse company XRSPACE is partnering with Meta and Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) to launch a digital recreation of the famous Beigang Chaotian Temple in VR. The Matsu metaverse will allow followers around the world to immerse themselves in the thousand-year religion like never before.
Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 26, 2022
Social VR platform Rec Room announced it’s released a new creation suite that allows you to publish content directly to the Rec Room platform from inside Unity, essentially letting its users create content using a host of industry standard tools. The company says in a blog post its so-called ‘Rec Room Studio’ integration is designed to “complement the existing in-game tools, allowing you to seamlessly edit Studio content with the Maker Pen, and vice versa.” Here&#
AR Insider
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
Google's annual Search On event featured several moves that advance the search giant's ambitions to build an Internet of places. Also what we call the metavearth, this is all about adding digital depth and dimension to the physical world. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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.
ARPost
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
Consumer AR glasses manufacturer Nreal has been gradually expanding availability in the US markets. The company has two consumer models – Light, which saw a very limited market launch almost a year ago, and Air. Fortunately, the wait for Nreal Air is now over. Nreal Air AR Glasses Available for Everyone. Nreal Light launched in the US almost a year ago.
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 25, 2022
Return to MythOS city. Stress Level Zero yesterday dropped a new trailer for its highly-anticipated VR game Bonelab , teasing a number of exciting features we can’t wait to try in the process. A direct follow-up to 2019’s Boneworks , the game will launch next week on Meta Quest 2 and PC VR headsets via Steam. Based on the trailer it appears as though we can expect plenty of physics-driven action.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
SEPTEMBER 26, 2022
Last Thursday, during its 2022 product announcement live stream , Pico revealed a new virtual reality (VR) headset, a Metaverse platform, and enterprise products. Alongside the new Pico 4 VR headset debut, Bytedance introduced Project Pico Worlds, a Metaverse platform and direct competitor to Meta’s Horizon Worlds for Meta Quest [Pro]. Bytedance will launch its Metaverse service on the upcoming Pico 4 and Neo 3 VR headsets in 2023.
AR Insider
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
This week on Spatial Beats we return from a short hiatus to discuss synthetic voice recreation via AI, Apple Music taking over the Super Bowl halftime show, and Ted Lasso entering the gaming world. . This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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.
Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 27, 2022
Bonelab , the anticipated sequel of Boneworks (2019) from developer Stress Level Zero, is pushing ahead with its physics-driven gameplay by allowing players to import custom avatars which will gain dynamic stats that influence gameplay. In the release date trailer last week we saw how Bonelab will give players a way to quickly jump between avatars which will change their size, appearance, and other attributes like speed and strength.
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
Enterprise VR gets an upgrade in the form of a new standalone device. Multinational technology company Lenovo today unveiled the ThinkReality VRX, an all-in-one mixed reality headset designed for businesses. The enterprise-focused device boasts high-resolution colored passthrough, advanced pancake (folded) optics, and supports cloud-based rendering solutions like NVIDIA CloudXR.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
SEPTEMBER 26, 2022
Virtual Medical Coaching (VMC) is an immersive training technology developer designing bespoke solutions to enhance the safety of conventional front-line learning environments. The medical edtech company leverages augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) solutions to provide varied and realistic training scenarios. The Christchurch, Canterbury-based firm powers its AR/VR solutions by utilizing immersive technology like remote guidance, big data, and artificial intelligence (AI).
AR Insider
SEPTEMBER 27, 2022
Welcome back to Spatial Beats. Now ByteDance wants Meta’s Metaverse business, too. Having taken on the social media empire formerly known as Facebook in social… Continue reading → Spatial Beats: ByteDance, Meta & Walmart. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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?
Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
Trombone Champ is a new PC rhythm game from indie studio Holy Wow that’s charming, silly, but also painfully stuck in the flatscreen land of mouse and keyboard. Less than two weeks since its 1.0 release on PC, the game already has already garnered its first VR mod. The mod, called BaboonVR, is brought to you by itinerant modder ‘Raicuparta’ , who’s also known for having brought retroactive VR support to Firewatch , The Stanley Parable, and Outer Wilds to name a few.
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
If looks could kill… When it comes to VR shooters, having the right accessories can often mean the difference between life and death… Literally. Over the past few years, we’ve seen various manufacturers try their hands at creating their own VR-compatible gunstocks, but we haven’t seen anything quite like the HIG-M4 Simulation VR Gunstock.
ARVR
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
Hi there, This is JetStyle. We have been a bit too quiet for a while, but it’s going to change: we have so much to share with you. Lately we’ve been engaged in research & development of Metaverses and XR, so there’s a lot of content coming your way. We spoke to Alex Markin, JetStyle co-founder and Creative Director of JetXR, a division working solely with XR technologies, to elicit answers to most frequently asked questions about the phenomenon.
Upload VR
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
Apparent schematics of Meta Quest 3 were leaked to YouTuber SadlyItsBradley (Brad Lynch). In May apparent schematics of Quest Pro were also leaked to Lynch. The validity of that leak was effectively confirmed earlier this month when a hotel worker found an engineering sample. The rear angle appears to show pancake lenses that look very similar (if not identical) to Quest Pro ‘s lenses.
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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