ARPost

AUGUST 3, 2023

The metaverse continues to gain popularity worldwide. Though it depends on how you define the metaverse , it’s estimated that it has over 400 million active users monthly , and the global metaverse market is projected to surpass USD 1.3 trillion by 2030. While the metaverse is a relatively established concept, a comprehensive idea of the metaverse is slowly gaining traction: the multiverse.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 30, 2023

There are several approaches for AR glasses' optical and display systems. Waveguides are among them, but how do they work and what are the advantages? Guest author David Goldman examines. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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VRScout

AUGUST 10, 2023

Take your virtual golfing to the next level with this unique VR accessory for Meta Quest and Rift. This past June, VR developer Mighty Coconut announced that it has partnered with VR accessory provider Hello Real on an official putter accessory for its VR mini golf game Walkabout Mini Golf , available now on Meta Quest and Rift headsets. Credit: HelloReal & Mighty Coconut The Walkabout Grip-to-Putter is available for a limited time and makes use of a variety of unique features designed to im

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AUGUST 28, 2023

After a few days where we thought we were all living in a big oven, here in Italy we’re having the first taste of Autumn, with the temperatures going down and a lot of rain falling from the sky. I’m in that situation where I don’t know if being happy or not: on the one side, having some fresher air is welcome, but on the other side, this means that the Summer is beginning to end, and this makes me a bit sad.

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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

AUGUST 31, 2023

Fast Travel Games gave us a hands-on with Vampire: The Masquerade – Justice on Quest 2, the studio’s upcoming single-player adventure RPG set in the ‘World of Darkness’ universe. The vertical slice offered up an intriguing look into the game’s stealth combat mechanics, all of which feel pretty Hitman -esque, albeit with a sufficiently paranormal bend—not to mention a lot more VR-native design than Hitman 3’s VR mode.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 7, 2023

Free land on Avitron. (Image courtesy AviTron.) AviTron owner Alexander Pomposelli has a long history of closing grids without warning. Back when he ran AviWorlds, I counted more than a dozen times that he closed that grid, often without any warning. Residents complained of losing access to regions, inventories, and in world-currency balances. At one point, he finally gave up, and turned AviWorlds over to former business partner Josh Boam — then started AviTron.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 30, 2023

Where are we in spatial computing’s lifecycle and what subsectors are leading the way? This is the topic of a recent ARtillery Intelligence report and Briefs episode. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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VRScout

AUGUST 18, 2023

The 2004 classic looks better than ever in VR. Crytek’s first-person shooter Far Cry can now be played in VR with motion controls thanks to a third-party mod from German developer Holger Frydrych. You may remember Frydrych for his work on the popular Half-Life 2 VR Mod , which lets you experience Valve’s iconic action shooter in 6DoF (six-degrees-of-freedom) VR.

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Forrester VR

AUGUST 22, 2023

The industrial metaverse doesn’t exist yet, but many of its building blocks do — and already connect physical and digital experiences to deliver value in asset-intensive industries like manufacturing.

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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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AUGUST 31, 2023

Funktronic Labs released a massive update today to its roguelike shooter The Light Brigade (2023), which includes new player classes, tactical items, power-ups, levels and more. Called the ‘Memories of War’ Update, the new content drop is rolling out today to SteamVR, Quest 2, and PSVR 2, including a bunch of new stuff. Check out what’s in the update below, courtesy of Funktronic Labs: The Engineer: a new player class that deploys pilotable drones The Breacher: a new shotgun-wi

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 11, 2023

According to industry experts, the new “Meta Quest 3” release date has been all but confirmed by the tech giant. Unlike some of the other hype-inducing headsets revealed by market leaders this year, the Quest 3 could be arriving a lot sooner. When Mark Zuckerberg announced the updated Quest system, analysts suggested the wearable could hit the market this year.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 15, 2023

OpenSim’s public grids hit a record high this month with its largest land area ever, the equivalent of 127,958 standard regions. This was an increase of 2,252 regions compared to last month. Meanwhile, the total number of registered users on public OpenSim grids increased by 7,440 and the total number of active users rose by 666. This was despite the fact that several grids did not report their stats this month, including The University of St Andrews’ School of Computer Science , wh

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AR Insider

AUGUST 24, 2023

South Korea is known for many things, from smartphone innovation to K-Pop. We can now add the XR to that list. The country has become fertile ground, given a culture of innovation and rich gaming & entertainment industries. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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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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VRScout

AUGUST 21, 2023

The more points you earn the more IRL chicken you get. Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), the popular American fast food chain, has launched a VR game in Hong Kong, China that transported players to a KFC-inspired world where they could earn real-world fried chicken by completing virtual objectives. The “Bucketverse VR” experience immersed players in a delicious-looking world inspired by modern-day Hong Kong in which they were tasked with collecting virtual fried chicken.

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Upload VR

AUGUST 31, 2023

Magic Leap 1 AR headsets will "cease to function" from 31 December 2024, the company announced. Magic Leap sent an email to all customers containing the following: As such, we are announcing that Magic Leap 1 end of life date will be December 31, 2024. Magic Leap 1 is no longer available for purchase, but will continue to be supported through December 31, 2024 as follows: • OS Updates: Magic Leap will only address outages that impact core functionality (as determined by Magic Leap) until Decemb

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Road to VR

AUGUST 31, 2023

It’s been six months since Sony launched PlayStation VR 2, handily one of the best pieces of consumer VR hardware we’ve laid eyes on. While the headset is undeniably great, Sony’s content strategy hasn’t been. Beyond a handful of launch titles, PSVR 2 didn’t really explode out of the gate like we hoped, and a future with high-quality content on the horizon hasn’t materialized either.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 10, 2023

Extended reality (XR) vehicle entertainment system provider holoride has teamed up with XOXNO, a massive marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFT) on the MultiversX platform. The new strategic collaboration will allow the two firms to open an NFT staking programme, where XOXNO will provide services for holoride’s collection of Cloudbreakers NFTs.

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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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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 31, 2023

StoryLink Radio and Seanchai Library will host a series of Halloween-themed live voice, streamed, and in-world storytelling sessions during the month of October, which is high story-telling season. Virtual world citizens are welcome to listen to the stories at the Halloween Merchant Mall in Kitely. There will also be a simultaneous video feed and chat on StoryLink’s YouTube Channel for all the stories.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 28, 2023

Unlike chatbots, Inworld powers multimodal character expression by orchestrating multiple machine-learning models that are designed to mimic the full range of human communication. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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VRScout

AUGUST 18, 2023

Immerse yourself in a variety of trippy visuals accompanied by new music from the latest EP. Richard David James, better known by his stage name, Aphex Twin, is an award-winning musician, composer, and DJ made famous by his unique style of contemporary electronic music. This week the ground-breaking artist released a new augmented reality (AR) app that’s almost as trippy as his music.

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Charlie Fink

AUGUST 10, 2023

The 50th anniversary of the venerated computer graphics conference took place in Los Angeles from August 6th - 10th, 2023.

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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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Road to VR

AUGUST 23, 2023

Meta’s upcoming Quest 3 headset is slated for a Fall 2023 launch, possibly even at the company’s Connect developer conference coming September 27th. It seems Meta has suffered yet another unauthorized pre-launch unboxing of their hardware, echoing the Quest Pro leak from last year. The video in question was posted to Reddit today , and subsequently captured and reposted in full by X (formerly Twitter) user ‘VR Panda.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 23, 2023

The Metaverse is still in its early stages of development, and several pressing issues need to be addressed before it can become a mainstream reality. The Metaverse refers to a collection of online immersive services distributed and managed under an umbrella application. Enterprise and consumer-facing firms face potentially business-changing opportunities, but many pressing issues face Metaverse services before they can hit the ground.

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Bernard Marr

AUGUST 31, 2023

The future of business is green. As a CEO, the ball is in your court to make sustainability an integral part of your corporate strategy. The intersection of business and environmental concerns presents a tapestry of challenges and opportunities. To navigate this evolving landscape, here are five pivotal questions about sustainability every leader should be contemplating.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 21, 2023

Milan Cucuk made the short video 1000 Miles, Part 1, in eight hours from his own script, using AI tools Mid-Journey, Runway, and Elven Labs. What does this say about generative AI's potential? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Speaker: Micah Eppler, Account Executive for Rehearsal of eLearning Brothers

Did you know that companies such as Paychex, 3M, and Honeywell are getting better results by incorporating video-based practice and coaching within their L&D strategy? From sales pitches to soft skills, learners are becoming top performers by applying and validating knowledge transfer using the unique benefits of video. Whether used as a stand-alone application or integrated with a learning platform, video-based practice and coaching platforms give learners the ultimate opportunity to repeatedly

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