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In preparation for the reveal of its next VR headset, Sony today gave a first look at its next-gen VR controller for use with PS5, something that appears very similar to Oculus’ Touch controller. Sony showed off the new controller today, detailing a few of the most impactful changes coming to its VR ecosystem. One large shift that the controllers portend: it appears the company’s next-gen VR headset will include headset-mounted cameras to optically track the controllers, and presumab
The rise of virtual reality has led to a wide array of surprisingly useful technologies that extend beyond the world of gaming. One of the lesser-known applications of VR has to do with your sleep health. Believe it or not, it can help you sleep better at night. Can Virtual Reality Improve Sleep? Sleep is important, but it is very elusive. Many studies have shown that one of the culprits for your lack of sleep is your smartphone.
(Image courtesy NYC Media Lab.). Story telling is increasingly blurring the line between the physical and virtual worlds, according to presenters at the just-concluded this year’s Technology + Storytelling: Engaging The Immersive Future event organized by NYC Media Lab. We’re already seeing this happen on the production sites in series like Disney’s The Mandalorian , as you can see in the video below.
The new avatar system will debut first on Facebook Horizon for Oculus Quest headsets. Yesterday, Mark Rabkin, VP of Oculus, sat down with CNET’s Scott Stein to chat about the companies advancements in VR avatar technology, during which a brand new VR avatar system for Oculus Quest/Quest 2 headsets was revealed. Arriving first on Facebook’s upcoming social VR platform Facebook Horizon , these new avatars feature a range of emotive capabilities, promising more natural and engaging VR i
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.
I’m writing this roundup of news with a huge headache and a real will to sleep, so forgive me if there are some errors. It’s because tomorrow the SXSW 2021 starts and together with VRrOOm we have created the virtual spaces for it on VRChat! We feel honored, amazed, but also… a bit tired (like Forrest Gump would say). But I promise you that visually it will be amazing, and there you will also be able to find some nice easter eggs!
The progression of virtual reality and augmented reality technology has been fascinating to chart. On one hand, VR and AR have been around for years without truly cracking mainstream appeal, and there are still plenty of people who’ve never used VR headsets. On the other hand, awareness of what these options bring to the table has steadily increased, and the cost of entry has gone down significantly.
The progression of virtual reality and augmented reality technology has been fascinating to chart. On one hand, VR and AR have been around for years without truly cracking mainstream appeal, and there are still plenty of people who’ve never used VR headsets. On the other hand, awareness of what these options bring to the table has steadily increased, and the cost of entry has gone down significantly.
A mong tech giants investing in their own versions of an AR future, Facebook arguably has the highest stakes. We’ve estimated that its annual XR R&D spend — not including its $2 billion Oculus acquisition — approaches $10 billion. It’s playing a long game and is firmly committed. That includes both AR and VR, the latter being more tangible today, given Oculus’ in-market status.
Enjoy four VR installations available free as part of the Immersive Arcade showcase. The Museum of Other Realities —a VR multiplayer art platform for PC VR headsets—will be opening its doors to the public 100% free-of-charge as part of a limited-time partnership with Kaleidoscope and Digital Catapult aimed at bringing British VR experiences and immersive films to the next-generation art gallery.
I have just tried the hands tracking solution offered on the Vive Focus Plus by the Vive Hands Tracking SDK and I want to tell you what has been my experience with it and how it does compare with other hands tracking technologies, like the ones offered by Facebook or UltraLeap. It’s a long time that I don’t write an article about the Vive Focus Plus , and it has been interesting exploring what’s happening on the Vive Wave ecosystem again.
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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.
W hat are the biggest insights and observations in AR and adjacent sectors this week? Welcome to Reality Bytes , featuring lightning-round commentary from AR Insider partner M7 Innovations. Founder Matt Maher lends his insights from the trenches of AR experience creation. We continue the narrative this week with Maher’s look at Google’s Career Certificate, Disney’s MagicBand transition and Audi’s AR windshields.
Assemble beautiful real-world locations captured in stunning clarity via photogrammetry 3D scanning this Winter on PSVR. I absolutely love it when a game makes full use of the immersive capabilities of VR technology. Puzzling Places , a hyper-realistic VR puzzle game from developer Realities.io , is one such example. Today, it was revealed that the one-of-a-kind VR experience is coming to PlayStation VR this winter for an unspecified price, offering console VR players the chance to experience on
A newly published patent granted to Valve envisions new Index headsets that could be wireless or standalone, and include new head-mounts for improved ergonomics. Initially filed back in September, 2020, more than a year after the launch of Valve’s Index headset, a patent published today gives us a glimpse of some of Valve’s thinking about potential next-gen Index headsets.
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Square Enix partners with TAITO on a contemporary reimagining of the 1978 Japanese shooter. Square Enix Montreal and TAITO have announced an upcoming Space Invaders mobile game featuring proprietary augmented reality (AR) technology that takes the legendary arcade classic in a bold new direction. This nostalgia-fueled trailer sent me on a trip down memory lane.
At the all-digital version of SXSW 2021 today, Facebook’s Mark Rabkin, VP of Oculus, showed off an upcoming new version of its avatar system on Quest. In his chat with CNET’s Scott Stein, called The Quest Effect: Inside VR’s Next Chapter , Rabkin revealed the company’s next avatar system. It’s slated to arrive first on its social VR platform Facebook Horizon , and later roll out to the wider Quest ecosystem for other developers to integrate.
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Speaker: Treion Muller, Chief Strategy Officer at ELB Learning
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In a patent application made public today, Valve showed drawings and descriptions of a new sort of VR headset. This wearable head-mounted display (HMD) included an array of features, including but not limited to wireless functionality, antenna, optical subsystem, IMU sensors, a dedicated processor (or processors), onboard memory, functioning operating system, applications, games, a head tracking module, and an eye … Continue reading.
Speaker: Micah Eppler, Account Executive for Rehearsal of eLearning Brothers
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