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Will 5G Wearables Elevate VR?

AR Insider

VR and 5G continue to be two technologies in the process of a slow motion collision. How can these acronyms come together and elevate each other. There's speed and low latency, yes, but much more. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Is a ‘Game-Changing’ HTC Vive Headset Coming Soon?

XR Today - Virtual Reality

HTC has released a YouTube video that hints at the impending release of a ‘game-changing’ Vive headset. The Taiwanese consumer electronics company ‘HTC’ posted the video titled ‘HTC VIVE: A Vision for You’ on its company YouTube channel, with what appears to be a silhouette of a new headset at the end of the video. It is likely that the headset will support virtual reality experiences, as well as contain the latest Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 chipset.

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Spatial Beats: Let the Games Begin

AR Insider

Meta dominates the AI and XR news cycles and the Olympics kick off with an artful & elegant trailer. without AI. We have these and other items through the eyes of Charlie Fink. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Cohere AI’s $500 Million Series D, Musk’s Memphis Gigagactory, Cuts At Magic Leap, Meta Reality Labs

Charlie Fink

Cohere is now valued at $5.5 Billion. Meta’s got four major-ish items in the news, including the release of a new open-source LLM, Llama 3.

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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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Reality Bytes: Instagram, Google & Starbucks

AR Insider

This week on Reality Bytes, we explore AI's Olympic debut with Google, Instagram's ephemeral engagement play, and Starbucks' electric pit-stop strategy. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Big XR News: The Decline of VR Headsets, Apple Vision Pro Available Worldwide, Samsung’s XR Headset

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Watch on YouTube In this episode of the Big XR News show, Rory Greener, Tech Journalist, XR Today , welcomes some of XR’s top analysts to talk about the latest news from across the industry. Our guests include: Cam Stevens, CEO and Lead Consultant at Pocketknife Group Letitia Bochud, Director, Virtual Switzerland and Chair of the Board of Directors, XR4Europe Jennifer Rogers, Executive Officer, Learning Technology Standards Committee at the IEEE Thanks for watching.

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Real Racer XR App On Quest Puts You In An RC Car's Driver Seat

Upload VR

Growing up as a kid in the 1980s, nothing sparked my imagination quite like a trip to the local RadioShack. The excitement shone in my eyes darting between aisles filled with gadgets, looking for one thing: RC cars and trucks. The thrill of maneuvering those pint-sized powerhouses was pure magic. Fast forward some 40 years and RadioShack as it was then is long gone and I’m not a kid anymore.

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SK hynix to Enter 60 TB SSD Club Next Quarter

Anand Tech

SK hynix this week reported its financial results for the second quarter, as well as offering a glimpse at its plans for the coming quarters. Notably among the company's plans for the year is the release of a SK hynix-branded 60 TB SSD, which will mark the firm's entry into the ultra-premium enterprise SSD league. "SK hynix plans to expand sales of high-capacity eSSD and lead the market in the second half with 60TB products, expecting eSSD sales to be more than quadrupled compared to

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Tentacular Adds Free Island Builder Expansion Today On Quest & Steam

Upload VR

Tentacular, the kaiju-sized physics-based VR puzzler, gets a free expansion today on Quest & Steam. Developed by Firepunchd Games and published by Devolver Digital, Tentacular first appeared two years ago, later receiving a ' Comfort & Clarity ' update. Titled the 'Island Builder' expansion, today's update adds a sandbox mode and roughly two hours of side missions as you visit La Kalma’s sister island, Salmoa.

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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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‘Walkabout Mini Golf’ Releases Gadget-Filled ‘Wallace & Gromit’ Course Today

Oculus

Set coordinates for 62 West Wallaby Street! Today, Mighty Coconut, in partnership with Aardman Animations, releases the new Wallace & Gromit course for Walkabout Mini.

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Thrasher Review - An Eely Good Time

Upload VR

Thrasher is an aesthetically abstract puzzler with a superb soundtrack, though some technical hiccups hinder its success. Read on for our full review. The first time I failed a level in Thrasher, a large part of me wanted to quit the game and sell my headset - an overreaction, perhaps, but one that felt completely reasonable at the time. Curiously, though, it wasn’t the difficulty or the idea that I might have to redo a marathon of challenges that got me hot under the collar; my competitive spir

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‘Stabby’ Brings its Cutting-Edge Brand of Multiplayer Parkour to Meta Quest Today

Oculus

Stabby, from developer Soaring Roc and publisher Rogue Games, tasks players with scaling buildings and exploring dense cityscapes to track down and eliminate each other (or NPC enemies) by, you guessed it, stabbing!

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FormulaX Is A Legally Distinct F1 Racing Game For Quest

Upload VR

FormulaX is a legally distinct Formula 1-themed racing game in early access, and it's available now on Quest App Lab. Developed by Enver Studio, whose previous work includes MotoX and SharkBait , we admittedly missed FormulaX launching back in May. Featuring 10 teams that have clear resemblances to real-life Formula 1 constructors, FormulaX uses motion-controlled steering that involves gripping the steering wheel and using the Touch Controller triggers to accelerate and brake. 0:00 / 0:54 1× For

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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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#1406: The Magic of the “Thrasher” Ribbon Dance Game Mechanic in Hand Tracking vs VR Controllers

Voices of VR

Thrasher is a really compelling VR game with a very satisfying and magical core game mechanic inspired by ribbon dancing. It’s the latest VR game from Brian Gibson, who designed the art and music for the VR rhythm game Thumper, as he teamed up with former Harmonix co-worker Mike Mandel via Puddle Studio. Thrasher was […] Thrasher is a really compelling VR game with a very satisfying and magical core game mechanic inspired by ribbon dancing.

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Walkabout Wallace & Gromit's Mini Golf Course With Mighty Coconut

Upload VR

A new mini golf course in virtual reality starts at West Wallaby Street before winding through Wallace & Gromit's home. Developers from Mighty Coconut took a walkabout through the course with UploadVR. 0:00 / 1:37 1× The full 22-minute tour video offers Wallace & Gromit fans worldwide a chance to peek inside the theme park version of one of the most well-known homes in animation.

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‘Contractors Showdown’ Kicks off Season 1 With Massive Game-Changing Updates

Oculus

Contractors Showdown is continuing to evolve as a massive large-scale battle royale VR shooter with the launch of Season 1 today. This massive update is.

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Contractors Showdown Season 1 Adds A New Map, Vehicles & More

Upload VR

Contractors Showdown, the VR battle royale game with a more realistic focus, launches its Season 1 update today. Released in April, Contractors Showdown now receives a rather large content update that adds vehicles for faster chase sequences, and probably to run other players over. New weapons include the RPG - Rocket Launcher, there's two new characters with unique skills, a deployable recon drone, a compass to make it easier to find your way around the map, a new Airport map, and larger battle

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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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Embrace the Race for Survival in ‘THRASHER,’ A Mind-Melting New Arcade Odyssey Out Now for Meta Quest

Oculus

The developer (Puddle LLC) and publisher (Creature) behind THRASHER are no strangers to fast-paced and relentless neon-dripped VR games.

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Meta AI Comes to Quest Headsets

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Meta is adding its AI assistant Meta AI to its Meta Quest VR headsets. The intelligent technology can provide users with real-time information powered by Bing. Meta AI has built-in Meta Llama technology and has also received been updated to include Meta AI with Vision, enabling your smart glasses to share your view of the world so that it can bring you text translations, fashion tips, and more.

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