Road to VR

JUNE 26, 2024

There are a few great ways to market VR games, but there’s arguably none better than by showing real people immersed in virtual environments thanks to mixed reality capture. While Meta has its own Mixed Reality Capture tool (MRC) , the company is taking a step back from development by adopting third-party app LIV as its official solution. LIV describes the deal as a “multi-year partnership with Meta to bring LIV’s mixed reality capture & virtual camera solutions to developers p

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 26, 2024

This week, XR education solutions provider Avantis Education revealed ClassVR software and content enhancements during the ISTELive event in Denver. During the event, Avantis Education showcased the “cross-curricular value” of VR and AR education products and the new ClassVR features. Moreover, the firm presented best practices when using XR solutions, taking the stage alongside Avantis Education’s U.S. education ambassadors.

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Road to VR

JUNE 26, 2024

It was first discovered years ago that Meta has been testing cloud game streaming to bring PC VR games to Quest, but the feature has yet to see the light of day (or even an official announcement). New evidence suggests the feature, codenamed Avalanche, is still in active development and may support specific games from the Oculus Studios catalog, like Lone Echo (2017).

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JUNE 26, 2024

Later this summer you can play mini golf through Wallace & Gromit's home at 62 West Wallaby Street in Walkabout. Revealed first globally during the UploadVR Summer Showcase, development studio Mighty Coconut and Wallace & Gromit's creators at Aardman revealed a first glimpse at the gadget-filled address as it'll appear in Walkabout Mini Golf.

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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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Road to VR

JUNE 26, 2024

Indie studio Ivory Crow Games have released a new demo for Chrono Weaver , a single player game that lets you make copies of yourself to solve physics-based puzzles. Set in a mysterious science facility filled with mind-bending puzzles, you use your trusty slingshot and time travel device to find solutions to seemingly impossible tests. If you’ve noticed a few familiar influences in the new trailer, you’re not wrong.

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Road to VR

JUNE 26, 2024

Resolution Games today confirmed that Spatial Ops , the studio’s now-in-beta multiplayer mixed reality shooter, is heading for full launch on Quest sometime later this year. Spatial Ops lets you turn any physical space big enough for mixed reality play into a virtual battlefield, replete with barriers and a host of weapons, such as Tommy guns, revolvers, shotguns, scoped rifles, rocket launchers, grenades, and a riot shield—making it feel more than a bit like a game of laser tag on steroid

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Upload VR

JUNE 26, 2024

Meta is deprecating its own Quest mixed reality capture tool and officially supporting LIV instead. In this industry "mixed reality" actually has two related but distinct meanings. One meaning is apps and games you use in headsets with passthrough that blend real and virtual. The other meaning, what LIV does, is compositing a real person or avatar into flatscreen footage of a VR game to better represent how it feels to be inside it.

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Bernard Marr

JUNE 26, 2024

Businesses often find themselves at a crossroads in the race to leverage artificial intelligence (AI). The lure of AI’s promise is undeniable—from enhancing customer experiences to automating routine tasks. Yet, how a company approaches AI can spell the difference between mere technological flirtation and achieving real, transformative outcomes.

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JUNE 26, 2024

Strings found inside the Quest firmware suggest Meta is now working to bring varifocal lenses to a shipping headset. The strings were found by Quest firmware dataminer Samulia and Anagan79, the developer of Quest Games Optimizer, and brought to our attention by VR enthusiast Luna. Upcoming Quest features have been discovered this way multiple times in the past.

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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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Charlie Fink

JUNE 26, 2024

The biggest XR show in the world wrapped last week with nary a mention of AI.

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JUNE 26, 2024

Mobile Suit Gundam: Silver Phantom will support mixed reality when it launches this fall on Quest. Announced during today's UploadVR Summer Showcase by Bandai Namco Filmworks and Atlas V, Mobile Suit Gundam: Silver Phantom revealed the upcoming VR anime movie will include MR features. You can engage in mini-battles across your living space, using mobile suits featured in the main storyline and exclusive suits "designed specifically for this immersive experience." 0:00 / 0:46 1× In a press releas

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 26, 2024

Have you ever wanted to create an extended reality environment without having to invest in metaverse-as-a-service platforms and developer kits? Now you can. Varjo Teleport, unveiled by the world-leading XR brand at AWE 2024, promises to simplify XR content creation. At the event, Varjo showcased exactly what the application could do, creating intelligent digital twins of spaces and environments with nothing but a smartphone camera.

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JUNE 26, 2024

By Grit Alone is a new narrative-driven VR horror shooter, and it's coming to Quest this year. Developed by Crooks Peak in collaboration with Meta and the UK Games Fund, By Grit Alone features writing talents like Antony Johnston (Dead Space, Resident Evil Village ) and Emma Beeby (Judge Dredd, Doctor Who). Described as an "intense" action horror game that plunges you into the depths of space, you'll encounter derelict starships and ravenous aliens in a fight for survival.

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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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Anand Tech

JUNE 26, 2024

As GPU families enter the later part of their lifecycles, we often see chip manufacturers start to offload stockpiles of salvaged chips that, for one reason or another, didn't make the grade for the tier of cards they normally are used in. These recovered chips are fairly unremarkable overall, but they are unsold silicon that still works and has economic value, leading to them being used in lower-tier cards so that they can be sold.

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Upload VR

JUNE 26, 2024

Escaping Wonderland is a new VR adventure game from the Down The Rabbit Hole studio. Announced today at the UploadVR Summer Showcase , Escaping Wonderland is developed by Cortopia Studios ( Wands Alliance ) and published by Beyond Frames Entertainment. Using the diorama perspective seen in Down the Rabbit Hole , Escaping Wonderland promises puzzle gameplay focused on exploration, and you'll encounter characters from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. 0:00 / 0:34 1× Here's the full description

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

JUNE 26, 2024

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 for a mid year round up. Our guests include: Kevin ‘O Donovan, Co-Chair, Industrial Metaverse & Digital Twin Committee, VRARA Jay Latta, Founder and Speaker, The Fusionists Amy Peck, Founder and CEO, EndeavorXR Letitia Bochud, Director, Virtual Switzerland and Chair of the Board of Directors, XR4Eu

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JUNE 26, 2024

Keep your ball in play inside of a pinball machine in Bounce Arcade on Quest headsets. The upcoming title from Velan Studios (Knockout City) debuted in the UploadVR Summer Showcase in a reveal trailer. 0:00 / 1:13 1× Players will smack the balls back into the machine and rack up points, keeping the ball in play as long as possible just like traditional pinball, with various routes available to maximize score.

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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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Program Ace

JUNE 26, 2024

Our article highlights the list of VR training companies providing exceptional solutions for various industries. Discover which company suits your needs best. Read the list today.

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JUNE 26, 2024

Brazen Blaze, the melee-focused 3v3 VR multiplayer brawler, confirmed a release date on Quest and Steam. Revealed during today's UploadVR Summer Showcase , MyDearest confirmed that Brazen Blaze will launch this July with cross-platform multiplayer. The publisher outlined various gameplay modes, such as the 3v3 Stock Team Match and 1v1 Duel, and also showcased the 'Assist Items.

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Anand Tech

JUNE 26, 2024

Over the past couple of years, Frore Systems has demonstrated several ways that its AirJet solid-state active cooling systems can be used to improve cooling in fanless devices like laptops, tablets, SSDs, and edge computing devices. But there are a subset of those applications that need their cooling options to also be waterproof, and Frore is looking to address those as well.

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Upload VR

JUNE 26, 2024

DIG VR, the upcoming power digging sim for Quest, revealed some key features in a new gameplay trailer. Previously announced in April, DIG VR tasks you with excavating different locations across Diglington, starting with a mini-digger and various attachments before unlocking more. During today's UploadVR Summer Showcase , Just Add Water and Wired Productions revealed more gameplay details through a new 'Features Unearthed' trailer.

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Speaker: Treion Muller, Chief Strategy Officer at ELB Learning

Since when has learning and development (L&D) become such a negative experience with its intended learners? Could it be because learners have been conditioned by very poor learning experiences over the past two decades, combined with the kinks of technological innovation? Or is it because learning has typically been designed as a one-size-fits-all solution, despite the fact that humans are not clones?

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Oculus

JUNE 26, 2024

We first unveiled details on Starship Home earlier this year as the first internal project from VR studio and publishing label, Creature. Now, we’re pleased.

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JUNE 26, 2024

Arcade Paradise VR confirmed a PC VR and PSVR 2 release date. Developed by Nosebleed Interactive, Arcade Paradise VR is a retro-themed light management sim that sees you converting a laundromat into a full-fledged 90s arcade with up to 39 games. Following April's launch on Quest, publisher Wired Productions announced during today's UploadVR Summer Showcase that it's now heading to PC VR and PSVR 2 this August.

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Oculus

JUNE 26, 2024

Nothing says summertime quite like the sun shining and the promise of new games on the horizon.

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Upload VR

JUNE 26, 2024

Zero Caliber 2 brings the VR FPS sequel to Quest next month. Developed by XReal Games, Zero Caliber 2 is a sequel to the studio's 2018 first-person shooter , offering a full campaign that's playable in single-player or co-op. "Players will navigate through a fractured society plagued by conflict and the rise of the mysterious Talokii leader, Barak, devoted to the Aztec deity Tlaloc," states XReal in a press release.

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Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute

The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?

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