Tue.Jul 23, 2024

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Ice Cubes and Oceans as AR Art Forms

AR Insider

Consumer AR experiences can be categorized as ice cubes or oceans. The former are meant for one user while the latter can be experienced synchronously by large geofenced audiences. Spatial cinema artist Stephen Black breaks it down. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Meta Quest App Now Called ‘Meta Horizon’ in Preparation for Third-party OS Licensing

Road to VR

You might have noticed an unfamiliar icon in your app drawer today. Don’t be alarmed, because that’s the new logo for Meta’s XR content store, and it’s setting the stage for more changes yet to come. Two short years ago, Quest’s content store was simply called ‘Oculus’, making for one of the last holdouts of Oculus branding after Facebook rebranded to Meta in 2021.

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HTC Is Teasing A New Vive Headset After Qualcomm Confirmed It Will Use XR2+ Gen 2

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HTC is teasing a new Vive headset. 0:00 / 0:14 1× At the end of a new video posted across the company's YouTube channel and social media channels titled HTC VIVE: A Vision for You , the silhouette of the new headset can be seen. The video description reads: Dedicated people have always found ways to break down barriers and redefine the human experience.

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‘Walkabout Mini Golf’ Gets Wallace & Gromit Course This Week, Trailer Here

Road to VR

Walkabout Mini Golf developer Mighty Coconut announced its long-awaited ‘Wallace & Gromit’ paid DLC course is coming this Thursday. Starting July 25th you’ll be able to step into the duo’s 62 West Wallaby Street residence where you’ll play through a bevy of ingenious contraptions and “iconic moments from the beloved films.” Granted, it’s not a 1:1 replica of the original, although you’d be pretty hard-pressed to see where the studio took

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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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Venice Immersive 2024 Lineup Features Gundam, VRChat Worlds & More

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Venice Immersive will showcase dozens of XR projects next month, which include VRChat worlds, The 7th Guest VR, and Mobile Suit Gundam: Silver Phantom. Originally launched in 2017, Venice Immersive serves as the annual XR segment for the 81st Venice International Film Festival , and the latest edition promises 63 different projects from 25 countries.

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Stabby Delivers Deadly Parkour & Stealthy Kills To Quest This Week

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Soaring Roc Studio announced a release date for its latest game, Stabby, a noir-inspired stealth-action game. Today, publisher Rogue Games and Soaring Roc Studio (Conjure Cards and Sun Shard) announced that you can run, jump, slash, and stab to your heart's content when Stabby hits Quest 2 and Quest 3 on July 25th. The announcement came via a trailer uploaded to Rogue Games' YouTube channel earlier today.

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JEDEC Plans LPDDR6-Based CAMM, DDR5 MRDIMM Specifications

Anand Tech

Following a relative lull in the desktop memory industry in the previous decade, the past few years have seen a flurry of new memory standards and form factors enter development. Joining the traditional DIMM/SO-DIMM form factors, we've seen the introduction of space-efficient DDR5 CAMM2s, their LPDDR5-based counterpart the LPCAMM2 , and the high-clockspeed optimized CUDIMM.

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See Your Debt in Mixed Reality: NatWest Reveals Apple Vision Pro App

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

UK bank NatWest has announced that its retail banking app is now available on Apple’s Vision Pro. The launch makes it one of the first banks globally to feature on Apple’s VisionOS, NatWest said, marking a significant step in the adoption of spatial computing in the financial services sector. Wendy Redshaw, Chief Digital Information Officer at NatWest Group , said: “It’s great to be a first-mover with such exciting new technology.

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Is Magic Leap Ditching it’s Hardware Business?

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Magic Leap has reportedly laid off its sales and marketing teams as a result of the company’s decision to focus on licensing the technology behind its headsets. The technology news provider Bloomberg shared the news that the augmented reality startup cut 75 jobs last week, according to two of its sources “familiar with the matter”. Only a few years ago Magic Leap was making headlines after raising $3.5 billion from Alphabet and other key investors.

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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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Death Game Hotel Review: Intriguing But Not Inspiring

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Death Game Hotel is an intriguing VR horror title that excels in multiplayer but sometimes falls short. Read on for our full review. White Owls Inc. has always made interesting games. So far, we’ve had The MISSING, which is sublime, The Good Life, which is fun but sort of middling, and Deadly Premonition 2, a cult hit with niche appeal. That brings us up to Death Game Hotel, a new VR visual novel puzzle game that will be ideal for some people but likely misses the mark for many.

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#1403: Prolific VRChat Documentarian Madame Kana Wins Discovery Award at Raindance Immersive 2024

Voices of VR

Madame Kana is a French, transgender woman and VReporter who has been publishing a new documentary about VRChat every 2-3 weeks for the past year on her YouTube channel, and she won the Discovery Award this year at Raindance Immersive 2024 for her short film called New Eden Evergarden; Behind the Magic. She published a […] Madame Kana is a French, transgender woman and VReporter who has been publishing a new documentary about VRChat every 2-3 weeks for the past year on her YouTube channel,

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Astro Hunters VR Is A PvPvE Extraction Shooter Coming Soon To Steam

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Astro Hunters VR is a new PvPvE VR extraction shooter reaching Steam next month, with a multiplatform launch to follow. Developed by Wenkly Studio, best known for Survival Nation and Elven Assassin , Astro Hunters VR is an online multiplayer game with cross-platform support. Working as a mercenary called the Hunters, your goal involves scavenging across different planets to gather resources and craft new items, killing enemies along the way with pistols, rifles, rocket launchers, machine guns, s

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HighPoint Updates NVMe RAID Cards for PCIe 5.0: 50 GBps+ Direct-Attached SSD Storage

Anand Tech

HighPoint Technologies has updated their NVMe switch and RAID solutions with PCIe 5.0, and supporting up to eight NVMe drives. The new HighPoint Rocket 1600 (switch add-in card) and 7600 series (RAID adapters) are the successors to the SSD SSD7500 series adapter cards introduced in 2020. Similar to its predecessors, the new Rocket series cards are also based on a Broadcom PCIe switch (PEX 89048).

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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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EON Reality Unveils “Knowledge Nodes” to Transform Engagement in EON-XR Platform

EON Reality

ON-XR Gets Smarter: “Knowledge Nodes” Personalize Learning Journeys Irvine, CA – July 24, 2024 – EON Reality, the world leader in AI-assisted Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality-based knowledge transfer, announces the launch of “Knowledge Nodes,” a game-changing feature for its EON-XR platform. This innovation reimagines how users interact with and absorb information in extended reality environments.

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Meta Horizon Worlds v172 Release Notes

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Meta Horizon Worlds V172 is here! This week, we’re expanding the list of world genre tags that creators can choose from to help people understand what their world has to offer.

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EP #33 - Is Microsoft Designer a Canva Destroyer?

ARVR Magazine Podcast

Is Microsoft Designer a Canva destroyer? In today's podcast I review the new release of Microsoft Designer, which just came out of preview. Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[link] Show N otes: Microsoft Designer - [link] Canva - [link] Today's Sponsor: Step Into The Future of Business with the Power of Generative AI! Robotspaceship presents the AI Expedition, a 2-Hour, Fast Track, Online Course to Get Your Business Up To Speed with Artificial Intelligence.

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#1404: Prolific VRChat Documentarian Madame Kana Wins Discovery Award at Raindance Immersive 2024

Voices of VR

Madame Kana is a French, transgender woman and VReporter who has been publishing a new documentary about VRChat every 2-3 weeks for the past year on her YouTube channel, and she won the Discovery Award this year at Raindance Immersive 2024 for her short film called New Eden Evergarden; Behind the Magic. She published a […] Madame Kana is a French, transgender woman and VReporter who has been publishing a new documentary about VRChat every 2-3 weeks for the past year on her YouTube channel,

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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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Quest 3 is Getting AI Vision Features While Apple Intelligence on Vision Pro Still Isn’t Confirmed

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Meta today announced plans to update Quest 3 with AI vision features similar to what’s on the company’s latest Meta Ray-Ban glasses. Meanwhile, Apple still hasn’t confirmed if Apple Intelligence features will hit Vision Pro at the same time as other Apple devices this Fall. Meta has pointed to AI investments as its other major area of R&D alongside XR, and now the company is starting to bring the two together with consumer-facing AI features.

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Meta AI Is Coming To Quest Headsets, And It Can See Quest 3's Passthrough

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Meta AI will be available on Quest headsets in the US and Canada as an experimental feature in August, and will include the Vision capability on Quest 3. Meta AI is the company's conversational AI assistant powered by its Llama series of open-source large language models (LLMs). In the US & Canada, Meta AI is currently available in text form on the web at meta.ai or in the WhatsApp and Messenger phone apps, and in audio form on Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses via saying "Hey Meta".

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Introducing Meta AI on Meta Quest—Your Smart MR Assistant

Oculus

As part of the Meta Horizon OS, Meta AI on Meta Quest will let you go beyond the hands-free experience you’re used to. Soon you’ll be able to get answers to a wide range of questions with real-time information thanks to Bing. Meta AI with Vision will be part of the update (available in Passthrough to start), so you’ll be able to ask questions about your physical surroundings while in-headset.

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