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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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VRScout

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The company’s latest update introduces a handful of exciting features that revolve around safety and accessibility. Facebook (Meta) today announced the rollout of update v34 for the Oculus Quest platform. Over the course of the next month, you’ll see a variety of new features make their way to your headset, including Android phone notifications, Passthrough API, and improved voice commands.

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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.

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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

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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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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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Slashgear

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In the year 2022 is expected that Apple, Sony, and Meta will launch significant HMD devices. This is a head-mounted display (HMD), and there’s a decent chance it’ll be the next sort of device that’ll be above-and-beyond desirable by the average consumer. Much like the first Apple Watch, it’s quite likely the first Apple HMD will only have full functionality … Continue reading.

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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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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Earlier this week, the workers of Image Comics announced the formation of the Comic Book Workers United , a unionization effort pushing for a number of significant changes in the workplace related to equity, accessibility, and transparency within the company. Along with a list of goals and reasons for unionizing, CBWU… Read more.

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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.

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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.

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Slashgear

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Only a week after its latest Connect event, Oculus is now rolling out software version 34 to Quest VR headsets, giving users access to a variety of new features and improvements. Of note, Quest update 34 will make the VR headset more useful for Android users who don’t like to be away from their phone, as well as more convenient … Continue reading.

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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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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

A new study shows that pretty much all of the world’s computer code is vulnerable to a sneaky kind of exploit, the likes of which could (in the worst-case scenario) result in large-scale supply chain attacks. Read more.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Microsoft is making a strong bid to bolster its version of the metaverse as it looks to roll out 3D avatars and immersive meetings for its Microsoft Teams communication platform. You might define the metaverse as essentially an immersive internet where virtual experiences are interoperable, and also offer a continuity of the user’s digital identity.

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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

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Slashgear

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Mesh for Microsoft Teams was revealed this week as the company’s key to the doorway that is the metaverse workplace. It is with Mesh for Microsoft Teams that the company shows they understand the way people collaborate and work today – but it’s more important than that. Mesh shows us Microsoft is ready to deliver virtual presence for people that’ve … Continue reading.

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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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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The anonymous hucksters behind a Squid Game cryptocurrency have officially pulled the rug on the project, making off with an estimated $2.1 million. Remember on Friday morning when Gizmodo told you it was an obvious scam ? It was only obvious because investors could purchase the crypto but couldn’t sell it. But plenty… Read more.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

We’re just one week past the Connect 2021 event where Meta (formerly Facebook) laid out its grand vision for both XR and the metaverse, including rebranding its entire company around the concept. The event was heavy on vision with a lot of the near-term news being more disparate. I sat down with host Kent Bye on the Voices of VR Podcast to unpack what it all means for the future.

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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

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Anand Tech

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Today marks the official retail availability of Intel’s 12 th Generation Core processors, starting with the overclockable versions this side of the New Year, and the rest in 2022. These new processors are the first widescale launch of a hybrid processor design for mainstream Windows-based desktops using the underlying x86 architecture: Intel has created two types of core, a performance core and an efficiency core, to work together and provide the best of performance and low power in a sing

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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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