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5 Ways AR Can Transform Banking Services

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AR is still in its early adoption stages, but it's becoming increasingly common in a range of use cases as people get acclimated. How can it specifically elevate personal finance and banking services? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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‘Alien: Rogue Incursion’ Shows off Stealth Action in First Gameplay Trailer, Coming Holiday 2024

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Alien: Rogue Incursion just got its first gameplay trailer, showing off its first real look at the game’s Xenomorph enemies, weapons, setting and more. When it was revealed back in April, Veteran VR studio Survios said the upcoming action-horror game was set to include an “all-new storyline full of heart-pounding action, exploration, and terrifying Xenomorphs.

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PlayStation VR2 Reportedly Sold More Units In One Day At $350 Than All Year At $550

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PlayStation VR2 sales reportedly skyrocketed on the first day of the current deep discount. If you missed the news, PSVR 2 is currently on sale for $350 , a significant discount from its regular price of $550. The Shortcut reports a source showed it retailer data revealing a 2350% increase in PSVR 2 headset sales on the first day of the sale compared to the day before, and that this represented more units in one day than had been previously sold all year so far.

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Hands-on: ‘Attack on Titan VR’ Could Be a Diamond in the Rough — Emphasis on Rough

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Attack on Titan VR: Unbreakable is here, officially bringing the hit anime to VR for the first time, albeit in early access. We got an eye-full last month when developer UNIVRS released its first trailer, which admittedly looked pretty rough. While that’s still true for the game in its current state, it actually packs in some fun mechanics, leaving me holding out hope for the AoT VR game that it might become.

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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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Meta XR Audio SDK Now Has Acoustic Ray Tracing For Realistic Sound Propagation Simulation

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Meta's XR Audio SDK now has Acoustic Ray Tracing in its most significant update yet. The feature realistically simulates how sound propagates through the geometry of the virtual world to your ear. This simulation includes reflections, reverb, occlusion, obstruction, and diffraction. Meta isn't the first company to offer an audio SDK with ray tracing.

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Virtuix Says Its Omni One Home VR Treadmill System Will Finally Launch In September

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Virtuix Omni One, a long-in-development integrated home VR treadmill, will finally start shipping in September, the company claims. Omni One was announced almost four years ago as launching in late 2021, but that didn't happen. Unlike earlier VR treadmill offerings, Omni One is unique in that it is fully integrated, meaning it comes with a VR headset running a store of content with support for the treadmill intentionally integrated by developers.

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EON Revolutionizes Product Interaction with Launch of ImmersiveChat AI

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ImmersiveChat AI: Where AI Meets Reality IRVINE, CA., July 30, 2024 – EON Reality, the world leader in AI-assisted Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality-based knowledge transfer, today announced the launch of ImmersiveChat AI , a groundbreaking platform that combines advanced chatbot technology with immersive 3D experiences. This revolutionary product is set to transform how businesses interact with, train on, and sell their products.

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Starwave Soars With A Supersonic VR Journey Through The Stars

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VR rhythm games continue to be defined by the early and long-lasting success of Beat Saber, setting a standard many other titles in the genre would strive to attain. Meta recognized how much its reach had expanded beyond the VR community, even making it a limited time pack-in title to bring new people into the Quest ecosystem. Creating a new rhythm game that can stand out against such competition isn’t easy.

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Meta Quest Headset Gains First Party Service and Optimisations

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This week, Meta released its Quest v68 software update , which introduces a new first-party application for innovative passthrough situations and optimisation of other application processes. The update improves how augmented visualisations interact and exist in a real-world environment, and the optimisation assists with application management. The rollout started this week, and Quest headset owners will quickly gain the update.

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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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DIG VR Shows An Enjoyably Silly Approach To Excavation

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While DIG VR focuses on excavation, this upcoming sim has an enjoyably silly arcade side worth exploring on Quest. We went hands-on once again. Announced in April, DIG VR from Just Add Water and Wired Productions feels like the power-digging equivalent of PowerWash Simulator VR. It involves excavating different locations across Diglington, starting with a mini-digger and various attachments before unlocking more.

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ICYMI: Survios Reveals Zula Hendricks Is the Hero of ‘Alien: Rogue Incursion’ at Comic-Con

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Whether you’re new to the franchise or a grizzled fan who knows the difference between a Facehugger and a Xenomorph, it’s easy to see that Alien is having a moment. This weekend during their Comic-Con panel, Survios debuted a killer new trailer for Alien: Rogue Incursion, their upcoming action-horror VR game developed in collaboration with 20th Century Games.

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UNDERDOGS Tears Up The Arena This September On Pico

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UNDERDOGS, the urban sci-fi VR mech brawler, reaches Pico this September. The second VR game from One Hamsa ( Racket: Nx ), UNDERDOGS takes place in the 22nd-century underground fighting pits of New Brakka. This physics-based brawler uses arm-based locomotion and a comic book-style presentation, finding two brothers making their way into the city across a roguelike campaign.

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Tilda Swinton Will Narrate MR Documentary Impulse: Playing With Reality

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Impulse: Playing with Reality is an interactive documentary narrated by Tilda Swinton that explores ADHD through mixed reality. Having narrated 2021's Goliath: Playing with Reality , ANAGRAM confirmed that actress Tilda Swinton will return for Impulse, the second Playing With Reality installment. Co-directed by Barry Gene Murphy and May Abdalla, Impulse looks at Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and "tells the stories of four people coming to terms with the decisions which have cha

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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.