Fri.Oct 04, 2024

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‘Mobile Suit Gundam: Silver Phantom’ Hands-on — Promises of Immersion Dulled By Restrictive Gameplay

Road to VR

Mobile Suit Gundam: Silver Phantom is a new sort of VR film hybrid for Quest, mashing up a movie’s worth of real-time rendered narrative with sprinkles of first-person gameplay, billing itself an ‘interactive anime’ On paper, it sounds really cool, offering you essentially two ways to step into your favorite anime universe and experience it in all of its Shonen glory.

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VirtuWalk VR Treadmill Now Available for Purchase

XR Today - Virtual Reality

The VirtuWalk VR treadmill, navigation handlebar, and headset is now available for purchase. According to VirtuWalk’s website, its VR technology centres around its treadmill that allows users to experience the feeling of walking within a virtual world, with a patented handlebar for navigating around corners, and a VR headset to view the simulations.

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Godot Engine Details Recent VR & Mixed Reality Support Improvements

Upload VR

The Godot engine has recently made significant improvements to its support for VR and mixed reality. If you're not familiar with it, Godot is a free and open-source alternative to Unity and Unreal. It's technically controlled by the non-profit Godot Foundation, but all development takes place in the open. Meta Funding Godot Veterans To Improve Its Quest Support Meta is funding a group of Godot veterans to improve the engine’s OpenXR and Quest SDKs support and build high-quality samples and docum

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Virtual TechLab Goes Live on the Meta Store

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Changefied’s ‘ Virtual TechLab ’ interactive learning experience is now available for download on the Meta store. How Transportation Sectors are Leading in Scalable XR Training How Immersive Learning can Help Education, Governmental Shortages Developing Social Immersive Training for Government and Education Sectors Virtual TechLab offers users the ability to practice assembling IT components within a virtual environment ‘without limitations’, such as limited hardware, time and money, according t

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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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The Sony XR Headset: A True Vision Pro Competitor?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

A Sony XR headset is coming – and it’ll be unlike anything you’ve seen from the tech company before. Sony is advertising this new device as a “spatial content creation system” intended to help organizations and developers create intuitive extended reality experiences. Rumors about the potential features and capabilities have been circulating since the beginning of this year when Sony first announced it would be working on a new XR solution.

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HTC VIVE Focus Vision: Hands-On Insights for Enterprises

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The HTC VIVE Focus Vision is now available to pre-order, and we’re excited about its potential for the enterprise market. However, the hype around this headset might be confusing for some. After all, many of the specs of this “premium” headset come straight from the much older VIVE Focus 3. Preserving old tech, including the previous-generation Snapdragon processor, might seem like an odd move for VIVE.

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Detective VR Is On The Case Next Year On Quest

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Detective VR is a narrative investigation game designed for mixed reality, and that's arriving next year on Quest. Developed by Valem Studio, Detective VR lets you "control time, collect clues, and interview witnesses" via passthrough across your play space. You're tasked with navigating unreliable witness testimonies to uncover the truth, and the full game promises "4-6 hours of gameplay" across three stories with eight characters.

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Singapore’s ITE and EON Reality to Showcase Spatial AI Revolution in Exclusive Roundtable Event

EON Reality

IRVINE, CA – October 4, 2024 – EON Reality, the world leader in AI-assisted Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, and t he Institute of Technical Education (ITE) are set to host a groundbreaking educational roundtable event, “The Spatial AI Revolution,” on October 24, 2024.

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Band Space Turns You Into The Ultimate VR Rockstar Later This Month

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Band Space hits the right notes by turning you into the ultimate rockstar on Meta Quest and PC VR on October 24, 2024. Developed by Smartmelon Games and published by Fast Travel Games ( Mannequin , Vampire: The Masquerade - Justice ), Band Space tasks you with the pressure of becoming a band, whether as a solo musician or with a group of like-minded friends. 0:00 / 0:57 1× At launch, Band Space is delivering four instruments for aspiring rockstars to master, as well as single-player or multiplay

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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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The Art of UI/UX Design for Virtual Reality Apps: A User-Centric Approach

Program Ace

Find out how effective UI/UX design for virtual reality supports business goals. Read about the best practices and how partnering with experts benefits your projects.

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Big XR News from Microsoft, Snap, Meta, CareerViewXR

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The closing months of 2024 are upon us. Already, the year has seen significant headset announcements and upcoming prototypes awe audiences with promises of being the next generation of computing. As the first half of the decade closes, a new paradigm in XR is emerging, far from the Metaverse promises of the years before. The future is AR and MR, smart glasses and headsets that blend real and virtual worlds.

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Immersive Collaboration Experience – Trezi

Trenzi VR

In today’s fast-paced business environment, effective collaboration is more crucial than ever. Teams are spread across different locations, time zones, and even continents, making traditional methods of collaboration increasingly inadequate. Enter immersive collaboration—an innovative approach to teamwork that Trezi is at the forefront of. In this blog, we’ll explore what immersive collaboration is, how it can transform your team interactions, and how Trezi is revolutionizing this space.

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The Transformative Power of XR in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction

Trenzi VR

The world of architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) has always been driven by innovation. From drafting tables to computer-aided design (CAD), the evolution of tools has transformed how we envision, plan, and create buildings. Today, another wave of innovation is reshaping the industry—Extended Reality (XR). XR, an umbrella term that includes Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR), is revolutionizing the way AEC professionals design and collaborate on pro

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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.