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4 Factors Defining the Art of Experiential Music

AR Insider

Experiential art offers deeper and more immersive user experiences than traditional formats. How is this colliding with spatial computing to create immersive fan experiences for musicians? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Are Digital Twins Changing the Mining Industry?

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Recently, fresh reports from the international mining industry have highlighted how IGO exploration site workers will soon be able to leverage VR visualisations to explore location-specific subsurface and promote inter-departmental collaboration. IGO is creating rich digital twins based on subsurface geophysical and geological 3D data replicating the firm’s Nova mine in Western Australia.

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PlayStation VR2's PC VR Adapter Releases In August For $60

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The adapter to use PSVR 2 as a PC VR headset ships August 7. The PlayStation VR2 PC Adapter will be available from PlayStation direct and "select retailers", priced at $60 / €60 / £50. The adapter takes in the headset's single USB-C cable on one side. On the other side is a fixed USB-A cable for your PC, a DisplayPort port for your graphics card, and a third port that is likely for power from a socket.

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Intel Unveils Lunar Lake Architecture: New P and E cores, Xe2-LPG Graphics, New NPU 4 Brings More AI Performance

Anand Tech

Intel this morning is lifting the lid on some of the finer architectural and technical details about its upcoming Lunar Lake SoC – the chip that will be the next generation of Core Ultra mobile processors. Once again holding one of their increasingly regular Tech Tour events for media and analysts, Intel this time set up shop in Taipei just before the beginning of Computex 2024.

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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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Pico 4S Will Seemingly Use The Same Chipset As Quest 3, But With More RAM

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A public CPU benchmark result suggests Pico 4S will have the same chipset as Meta Quest 3, but paired with more RAM. The Geekbench result , brought to our attention by VR enthusiast Luna , shows a headset codenamed Pico A9210 with two 2.05 GHz cores and four 2.36 GHz cores. This is exactly what shows up for Quest 3 on Geekbench too. The scores are also very similar between the headsets, with Quest 3 having 20% higher single-core performance and 5% higher multli-core performance.

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Meta Connect 2024 Takes Place September 25 & 26

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Meta is gearing up for Meta Connect 2024 on September 25 and 26 for its next set of major updates in VR and AR technology. The event has been held late in each calendar year since 2014, first as Oculus Connect , then as Facebook Connect , and since 2022 as Meta Connect. At Connect Meta's teams show off future-facing ideas wrapped together with nearer-term software and hardware updates for AR and VR headsets. 2024 may be a particularly important year for Meta's efforts with reports suggesting the

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The Top Digital Twin Trends to Watch in 2024

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Digital twin trends are evolving as the market continues to shift. Once considered a futuristic solution for the industrial landscape, digital twins are now influencing countless companies from every sector. In the enterprise, these technologies allow businesses to test and optimize processes, products, and more in the virtual world. In fact, the rising adoption of digital twins across landscapes is fostering astronomical growth.

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Riven Brings The Narrative Puzzler's Remake To Quest & PC VR This Month

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Riven's upcoming remake brings the Myst sequel to Quest and PC VR in three weeks. We've known for several months that Cyan Worlds is remaking Riven , the 1997 narrative-driven puzzle game, promising "new puzzles, expanded storylines," and updated visuals in Unreal Engine 5. Following 2020's similar Myst remake, the studio confirmed its launching for Quest, PC VR and flatscreen platforms later this month.

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Virtualware’s Expansion into the U.S. Market

XR Today - VR Headsets tag

Watch on YouTube. XR Today’s Rory Greener hosts John A Cunningham, President of Virtualware USA to discuss the new position and Virtualware’s US expansion. What the move means for the growth of the Virtualware brand? What new sectors and clients are Virtualware working within US regions? How will the VIROO platform help accelerate enterprise US XR adoption?

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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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Journey To Foundation Review: An Ambitious VR Time Capsule

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One of VR's recurring misconceptions is that it's hard to find narrative-driven games that tell compelling stories. If you spend a few minutes searching a platform's catalog, you might find the vast majority of games focus on one novel idea, an interesting twist on a VR-related mechanic, or a simple premise that encourages replayability. Journey to Foundation introduces itself as an adventure game that emphasizes player choice and interesting twists based on your actions along the way.

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How to Compare Digital Twin Solutions in 2024

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Demand for digital twin solutions is growing throughout the enterprise landscape. Emerging opportunities to use digital twins for everything from product development to enhanced collaboration are emerging everywhere. Because of this, between 2023 and 2028 , the market for digital twins is expected to grow at a CAGR of 61.3%. Any company looking to leverage more data, make intelligent decisions, and optimize performance can benefit from digital twins.

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The Intel Computex 2024 Keynote Live Blog (8:00pm PT/03:00 UTC)

Anand Tech

Closing out the last of the major PC-focused keynotes at Computex 2024 this evening, we have Intel. The long-reigning leader of the PC CPU market, Intel is in the middle of executing its plans to get back on track on both the manufacturing and chip design aspects of the business. Tonight’s keynote, being helmed by the highly-animated Pat Gelsinger, is titled “Bringing AI Everywhere.” And, like so many other Computex presentations and announcements this week, AI hardware is goin

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Manufacturing Product Configurator: A Fresh Solution for Improved Production

Program Ace

The post Manufacturing Product Configurator: A Fresh Solution for Improved Production appeared first on Program-Ace.

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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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Generative AI And Data Protection: What Are The Biggest Risks For Employers?

Bernard Marr

If you’re an employer tempted to experiment with generative AI tools like ChatGPT, there are certain data protection pitfalls that you’ll need to consider. With an increase in privacy and data protection legislation in recent years – in the US, Europe and around the world – you can’t simply feed human resources data into a generative AI tool. After all, personnel data is often highly sensitive, including performance data, financial information, and even health data.

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‘Riven’ Announces Release Date and Opens Preorders

Oculus

Today, Cyan announced that Riven will launch on June 25, just a few short weeks from now. Preorders also start today, so head over to the Meta Quest Store and get Riven for a discounted price of $30.99 USD.

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How Generative AI Will Change Jobs In Healthcare

Bernard Marr

Generative AI has the potential to change the way professionals work in every industry. In healthcare, it is set to revolutionize the way we diagnose and treat diseases, research new medicines and therapies, and manage routine administrative tasks. Of course, AI will never replace the experience, skills and human touch of doctors and nurses. Instead, it will let them augment their abilities and expertise with super-fast insights and analysis.

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Building Responsible AI: How To Combat Bias And Promote Equity

Bernard Marr

AI has the power to be hugely transformative, both in business and in the way we live our lives. But as we know, with great power comes great responsibility! When it comes to AI, it’s the responsibility of those who build it and those who use it to ensure it’s done in a way that minimizes the risk of causing harm. And one of the most pressing challenges here is reducing the damage caused by bias in AI.

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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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The 20 Generative AI Coding Tools Every Programmer Should Know About

Bernard Marr

It shouldn’t come as any surprise to learn that today’s generative AI large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Google Gemini are just as fluent in Python, Javascript and C++ as they are in English, Spanish or Arabic! This has a hugely democratizing effect, as it’s no longer necessary to spend a lengthy amount of time learning to code in order to create simple software tools and applications.

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Can Generative AI Solve The Data Overwhelm Problem?

Bernard Marr

Data is arguably the most valuable asset for today’s businesses. This means it’s vital that people across the organization are able to work with data and extract insights – insights that (hopefully) lead to better, more informed decisions across the organization. But all that’s easier said than done. Because, rather than being empowered by data, many people find themselves intimidated (or even paralyzed) by it.

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