The Ghost Howls
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
At Facebook Connect , Facebook/Meta announced that Oculus Quest was getting a new runtime update, the v34, bringing with it very interesting features to the Quest 2. Among these features, there was Space Sense, an update of the Guardian system that should help you in detecting objects and people that are coming into your play area while you are into VR.
VRScout
OCTOBER 30, 2021
VR remakes are all the rage at the moment. Here’s our selection of classic video games we’d love to play in VR. Earlier this month, Resident Evil 4 VR launched on the Oculus Quest 2 and so far players are absolutely loving this expertly-crafted VR remake of the original 2005 horror-action video game. During the 2021 Facebook Connect conference, Facebook—now called Meta—revealed yet another classic making its way to the Quest 2: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
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AR Insider
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Will consumers spend 90 seconds downloading an app for an experience that lasts 30 seconds? This question raises the benefits of Web AR. What are its dynamics and best practices? We examine in the latest report excerpt. The post Will Web AR Pull Ahead as a Go-to Channel? appeared first on AR Insider.
ARPost
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
A new XR studio system is aiming to revolutionize the entertainment industry. Prox & Reverie recently launched The Forge, a purpose-built metaverse studio system. This revolutionary system enables creators to harness the power of immersive technologies and unlock the vast possibilities of virtual production. Prox and Reverie: One XR Studio to Rule Them All.
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.
The Ghost Howls
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
I have had the pleasure of speaking with Tom Neumann, CTO of Rendever , about his work in making the life of the elderly better through virtual reality. Immersive technologies have already proven to be very useful in helping the lives of seniors in many ways, like making them travel virtually to locations they have never been to or making them meet in VR with their beloved parents, and I thought it was very interesting going deeper in this topic.
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AR Insider
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
AR continues to show its strengths in several areas including gaming and interactive marketing. But what about banking? In areas like customer service and data visualization, AR could transform the centuries-old industry. We examine how. The post 3 Ways AR Could Make it Big in Banking appeared first on AR Insider.
ARPost
NOVEMBER 4, 2021
The second edition of Ignite, Microsoft’s annual software event, took place this week (November 2-4) virtually once again – hosted in Teams, naturally. Of course, Microsoft is a big company and according to the keynote over 90 major updates, products, and services were announced over the course of the conference and most of them weren’t XR related.
The Ghost Howls
NOVEMBER 4, 2021
Augmented World Expo (AWE) will start on November, 9th 2021, in Santa Clara, USA. The event, which will run until the 11th, will be the first major event about AR and VR to be back in a physical location after a long time. It will be a good opportunity to return back to meeting people in person, shaking hands, and having some cool demos of AR and VR products.
VRScout
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
Imagine a world… XR Producer Fun Train ( Tarzan VR, The Exorcist: Legion VR ) today announced The Twilight Zone VR , an upcoming VR game for Oculus Quest and PlayStation VR based on the iconic 1959 television series of the same name. According to Fun Train, the game will be composed of three standalone episodes that hit a variety of genres made famous by the show, from psychological horror to science fiction.
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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.
AR Insider
NOVEMBER 4, 2021
What are the biggest insights and observations in AR and adjacent sectors this week? Welcome to Reality Bytes, featuring lightning-round video commentary from AR Insider partner, M7 Innovations. The post Reality Bytes: Meta, Apple & Snap appeared first on AR Insider.
ARPost
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
XR technology is increasingly becoming a part of the corporate landscape. As the hardware becomes more affordable and the software becomes more robust, the experiences enabled become more valuable. But, they don’t necessarily become easier to use. XR Terra is there to help. Meet XR Terra. XR Terra was founded in 2019 as a way to train companies to be able to use the basics of XR programs so that they can more easily get started using XR technology in impactful and affordable ways.
Road to VR
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
At Connect 2021 last week, Meta revealed a new Quest rendering technology called Application Spacewarp which it says can increase the performance of Quest apps by a whopping 70%. While similar to the Asynchronous Spacewarp tech available to Oculus PC apps, Meta says Application Spacewarp will produce even better results. Given that Quest is powered by a mobile processor, developers building VR apps need to think carefully about performance optimization in order to hit the minimum bar of 72 FPS t
VRScout
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
Just a week after Facebook (Meta) announced the name change, we’re already seeing ‘Meta Quest’ branding out in the wild. Last week during Facebook Connect 2021, Mark Zuckerburg took to the stream to reveal the official rebranding of Facebook to “Meta.” The name change is meant to reflect the companies growing shift in values as it works to expand its ambitious metaverse platform.
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.
AR Insider
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
Where are we in AR's adoption lifecycle? Snap recently held a virtual event to outline its recent study with Deloitte. It's filled with consumer survey research and is the focus of this week's XR Talks. The post XR Talks: The Evolution of AR Adoption appeared first on AR Insider.
ARPost
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
“Emerging technologies” like extended reality, 5G internet, and blockchain are currently emerging faster than policy on them is developing. While this may allow increased experimentation with these technologies, we’ve seen what happened with the last round of emerging technologies like social media when policy lagged behind reality. Right now, legislation and protections around emerging technologies remain thin, but many, including many within the tech space, think that this needs to change.
Road to VR
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
Meta (formerly Facebook) is offering up $700,000 in cash prizes this month in an XR hackathon aimed at developers and creators from all over the world. The objective: choose between Spark AR and Presence Platform and build something cool and useful. Starting on November 9th and ending on November 22nd, Meta is challenging developers to create something with either of its latest XR tools, Spark AR or mixed reality Presence Platform.
VRScout
NOVEMBER 4, 2021
That’s like lifting the Washington Monument six times. Black Box VR is a one-of-a-kind gym that combines fitness and gaming to deliver a challenging workout enhanced by VR technology. After slipping into a VR headset, members use real-world machinery to engage in a science-backed resistance training + HIIT cardio workout program. With gyms in California, Idaho, and Arizona, Black Box VR has members located across the United States.
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.
AR Insider
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
How many Quest 2's sold in Q3. We dive into Facebook's (ahem, Meta's) Q3 earnings for clues for the device's unit sales. As the VR market's propellant, this is a key signal for industry health. The post Did Quest 2 Sell 1.4 Million Units in Q3? appeared first on AR Insider.
ARPost
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Interactions in the immersive environment become increasingly realistic. Thanks to the improvements in haptics , depth of field, and other factors, users can feel that they are actually interacting with real-life objects. Now, thanks to a new and improved hand tracking platform developed by Ultraleap, these interactions will become even more improved and realistic.
Road to VR
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
Deep Rock Galactic is a cult-favorite PC co-op game where teams of up to four players dive into perilous caverns in search of precious minerals while battling hordes of alien bugs along the way. The excellently atmospheric game has been subject to requests for VR support ever since launching in Early Access back in 2018. A major update to the game, released this week, took the first step toward making that wish a reality by opening the door for VR modders to experiment with the game.
VRScout
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
The company puts a focus on community building with a new suite of developer tools. Last week was quite a busy one for Facebook, or should I say Meta. The social media company is doubling down on its vision of the metaverse with new tools, games, and experiences, and a reinvigorated focus on social, fitness, and work. . Though Facebook’s final vision of the metaverse may be a little ways off, the company is taking big steps to ensure that they are prepared to provide an improved developer ecosys
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?
AR Insider
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
Welcome back to Spatial Beats, AR Insider's weekly series that features observations and insights of author and futurist Charlie Fink. This week, we look at Meta's big moves and other news from the spatial spectrum. . The post Spatial Beats: Big Moves from Meta appeared first on AR Insider.
ARVR
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
Augmented Reality (AR) is a technological innovation that incorporates virtual elements into real surroundings. This new technology is rapidly gaining great popularity and this comes as a result of the emergence of its all-encompassing potential ranging from remote collaboration to maintenance operations. What AR does is combine the real world with the virtual elements.
Road to VR
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
During the Connect 2021 conference last week, Meta Reality Labs’ Chief Scientist, Michael Abrash, offered a high-level overview of some of the R&D that’s behind the company’s multi-billion dollar push into XR and the metaverse. Michael Abrash leads the team at Meta Reality Labs Research which has been tasked with researching technologies that the company believes could be foundational to XR and the metaverse decades in the future.
VRScout
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
Oprah’s legendary holiday shopping guide includes Facebook’s (Meta) latest standalone VR headset. American talk show host and living legend, Oprah Winfrey, has returned with her highly-anticipated holiday gift guide, Oprah’s Favorite Things, offering shoppers a highly-curated list of her favorite products from 2021. Needless to say, it’s quite an honor to be included on the list, which is why it was such a treat to see Facebook’s (now Meta) Oculus Quest 2 VR headset
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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