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Walmart Invests Big in AR Shopping

AR Insider

Walmart’s virtual showroom is its sixth AR project in two years. Along with its full blown in-house platform, Retina, this signals a real commitment to AR shopping. We examine the evidence. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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HTC Appears to be Teasing Its Next Vive Focus Headset

Road to VR

HTC released a new video promising something “coming soon,” teasing what promises to be the next XR headset from the company. The video is largely a sizzle reel of its recent standalone headsets, Vive XR Elite (2023) and Vive Focus 3 (2021), focusing on their use for both enterprise and gaming. “Soon, out innovation will offer you a new kind of power.

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Civit AI Film Contest, A New AI Feature, Dishwashing Cats, More AI Videos

Charlie Fink

Rapid improvements in AI video generation tools, like Runway, Kling, Luma's Dream Machine, and Hapier, are enabling more cinematic and realistic films.

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Meta Avatars Graphics Overhaul Being Tested Internally

Upload VR

The upcoming Meta Avatars graphics overhaul is being tested by Meta employees. VR enthusiast Luna has spotted that some Meta employees' Horizon profiles show a completely different avatar style to the current Meta Avatars, and provided UploadVR with links to independently confirm this. The upcoming overhaul was first announced with a CGI mockup by Mark Zuckerberg at Meta Connect 2022 almost two years ago.

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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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How to Book an Apple Vision Pro Appointment (and What Happens When You’re There)

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Want to experiment with the Apple Vision Pro before you consider buying the device? No problem, all you need is an Apple Vision Pro appointment. Just as Apple has allowed buyers to take other products, like the Apple Watch, for a test drive in the past, it also offers the same service for its new spatial computing headset. Notably though, you can’t just expect to walk into an Apple store and try out a headset.

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Micron Launches 9550 PCIe Gen5 SSDs: 14 GB/s with Massive Endurance

Anand Tech

Micron has introduced its Micron 9550-series SSDs, which it claims are the fastest enterprise drives in the industry. The Micron 9550 Pro and 9550 Max SSDs with a PCIe 5.0 x4 interface promise unbeatable performance amid enhanced endurance and power efficiency, which will be particularly beneficial for data centersMicron's 9550-series solid-state drives are based on a proprietary NVMe 2.0b controller with a PCIe Gen5 x4 interface and 232-layer 3D TLC NAND memory.

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#1404: Mixed Reality Game Design from Cubism to Laser Dance with Thomas van Bouwel

Voices of VR

Laser Dance is a mixed reality game by solo XR game developer Thomas van Bouwel, who previously released minimalist puzzle game called Cubism. I had a chance to try out Laser Dance through Raindance Immersive, and it’s one of those types of games that I think will really help define some of the key affordances […] Laser Dance is a mixed reality game by solo XR game developer Thomas van Bouwel, who previously released minimalist puzzle game called Cubism.

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Introducing Dev Bloqs: A New Video Series From Beat Games

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Last month, Beat Games launched a new video series called Dev Bloqs. ICYMI, the first episode—hosted by Beat Saber Game Director Josh Joynes (aka Freeek)—tackles.

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#1405: Mixed Reality Game Design from Cubism to Laser Dance with Thomas van Bouwel

Voices of VR

Laser Dance is a mixed reality game by solo XR game developer Thomas van Bouwel, who previously released minimalist puzzle game called Cubism. I had a chance to try out Laser Dance through Raindance Immersive, and it’s one of those types of games that I think will really help define some of the key affordances […] Laser Dance is a mixed reality game by solo XR game developer Thomas van Bouwel, who previously released minimalist puzzle game called Cubism.

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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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‘Into the Radius 2’ Releases in Early Access on PC VR Today, Including Two-Player Co-op

Road to VR

CM Games, the developer behind the single-player survival shooter Into the Radius (2020) , have released its long-awaited sequel via Steam Early Access today, bringing us back to the deadly Pechorsk Security Zone. Like the original, Into the Radius 2 is an immersive VR survival shooter set in a surreal landscape filled with deadly anomalies. Serving up both single-player and two-player co-op (four-player to be added at a later date), you arm yourself with realistic weapons and venture deeper i

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AMD Delays Ryzen 9000 Launch 1 to 2 Weeks Due to Chip Quality Issues

Anand Tech

AMD sends word this afternoon that the company is delaying the launch of their Ryzen 9000 series desktop processors. The first Zen 5 architecture-based desktop chips were slated to launch next week, on July 31 st. But citing quality issues that are significant enough that AMD is even pulling back stock already sent to distributors, AMD is delaying the launch by one to two weeks.

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‘Arken Age’ Release Date is “coming soon,” Promising 10–15 Hour Campaign on PSVR 2 & PC VR

Road to VR

Arken Age, the upcoming single-player sci-fi shooter from Shadow Legend VR (2019) studio VitruviusVR, is almost here. The team announce it’s completed the first large beta test with SteamVR users, and are currently sending out a second batch of codes, noting that a release date will be revealed in the “next couple weeks.” With it, the studio also teased a new bit of gameplay, seen below: Arken Age Update – For the past week we’ve been beta testing with a larger gr

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