VRScout

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The company’s massive collection of original IPs could make for the ultimate metaverse experience. To the metaverse and beyond! The Walt Disney Company has announced that they will be joining Mark Zuckerberg in creating their own branded metaverse by connecting the physical and digital worlds using Disney’s collection of IPs universe. This includes iconic characters like Buzz Lightyear and Princess Elsa to big franchises like Star Wars, Marvel, The Muppets, Disney Animation Studios,

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Today I’m writing a post about one of the best haptics devices I have tried at AWE 2021: Senseglove Nova, a pair of gloves for virtual reality. Senseglove Nova. Senseglove is a Dutch company that has been working for a few years in trying to offer force-feedback gloves that are affordable for companies to buy. Force-feedback means that the glove is able to replicate the forces that should be applied by the virtual objects to your hands if the objects were real : for instance, if you are ho

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The Auggie Awards are a highlight event at AWE. The main ceremony took place last Wednesday evening, but the awards for Best in Show VR, Best in Show AR, and the Awesome Award were awarded at the AWE closing ceremony on Thursday. The ceremony included one new Auggie for Best Collaborative Tool, which was added in light of the high demand for this kind of product during the pandemic.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Last month at Meta's annual Connect conference, it made a big splash by detailing its metaverse plans. But buried in these updates was a data nugget that signals its mobile AR growth: 700 million mobile AR users. We examine in this week's XR Talks. The post Meta’s Spark AR Reaches 700M AR Users 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 13, 2021

Collect mysterious artifacts scattered throughout your real-world environment while avoiding evil spirits. Available now on the Oculus (Meta) Quest 2 via SideQuest, Hauntify MR is a unique VR experience that utilizes the Quest’s Passthrough+ technology to transform your real-world environment into a mixed reality hellscape stalked by a horrifying evil spirit.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

When planning to build a new house, people usually leave no stone unturned to give the best of the efforts that they can, and are likely to be least compromising with the design and decor of their home. But for any regular person without much exposure to the design complexities, interior design can be very confusing. Fortunately, some innovative technologies like augmented reality and 3D modeling are now making things easier to choose a design, make customization and come with a well-articulated

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Ultraleap, a leading company focused on hand-tracking interfaces, this week announced it has secured a £60 million (~$82 million) Series D investment, with the goal of expanding its hand-tracking and mid-air haptic tech in the XR space and beyond. Formerly known as Ultrahaptics, Ultraleap was formed after the UK-based haptics company acquired leading hand-tracking company Leap Motion back in 2019.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The location-based VR provider is bringing three of its most popular immersive experiences to the Garden State. Dreamscape Immersive, the popular location-based VR center responsible for free-roam VR experiences such as Men In Black: First Assignment and DreamWorks Dragons: Flight Academy , recently announced the opening of a new location at the Westfield Garden State Plaza in Paramus, New Jersey, marking the first time its VR entertainment will be available on the east coast.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

At AWE 2021 I have finally been able to try a scent emitter for virtual reality and in particular the one provided by OVR Technology. Let me tell you my first impressions of it. OVR Technology. OVR Technology is a company that provides a scent emitter for virtual reality. Its product consists of a small add-on, called ION, that can be attached to the lower part of VR headsets thanks to some velcro straps that go all around the device and that can emit little particles of perfume to let you smell

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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 19, 2021

November is Alzheimer’s Awareness Month. And, while there are a number of XR apps and platforms out there promising to gauge and improve user cognition, two perennial favorites of ARPost are targeted at those age groups most at risk of experiencing complications due to Alzheimers – residents of senior living communities. Both companies, Rendever and MyndVR are also seeing technological and societal changes that might make their products even more available to the populations that they serv

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Qualcomm held an investor event yesterday where the company revealed that its partnership with Meta (formerly Facebook) has seen over 10 million Oculus Quest 2 units shipped since the VR headset’s launch in October 2020, an important milestone that Meta said would be an important “threshold” to a content ecosystem set for explosive growth.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Get your hands dirty with this week’s exciting update. The frantic food game Clash of Chefs VR just received a major update that lets you ditch your Oculus Touch controllers and cook delicious cartoon food with your own two hands. This week’s update adds a whole new level of immersion to the game as you grab burgers to throw on the griddle, scoop up mozzarella to throw on a pizza, turn on the sink to boil ramen, and ladle salsa over some cheesy nachos.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

At AWE 2021 I have finally been able to try the Lynx-R1 headset and meet its creator Stan Larroque. Lynx-R1. I am pretty sure the Lynx-R1 doesn’t need any introduction from me. It is a VR+MR headset proposed by the startup Lynx that has the peculiarity of being the first standalone headset heavily focused on offering both VR and color passthrough MR.

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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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ARVR

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

I’m a huge fan of virtual reality, the metaverse will be absolutely fascinating and will provide us with a second life, a second identity. Movie READY PLAYER ONE , source: variety.com/2018/digital/news In movies like Ready Player One we could get a glimpse of a possible reality. In series like Altered Carbon they even go one step further and transport consciousness into different bodies so you can live forever.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

HTC launched Vive Focus 3 back in late June, a high-end VR standalone with a price tag to match its ambitions as a device meant for businesses. The company recently announced updates to the software experience that will bring a host of improvements, such as support for the new WiFi 6E standard, larger tracking areas, a shared map for easier playspace calibration, and more.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Lucky’s Tale is the closest you’ll get to Super Mario Bros. in VR. Originally released back in 2016 as a launch title for the Oculus Rift, Lucky’s Tale is considered an OG within the VR gaming community. Brought to us by Texas-based developer Playful Studios, this next-gen 3D platformer has you taking control of the titular Lucky Swiftail, a happy-go-lucky fox, and embarking on a daring rescue mission in search of your best friend, Piggy.

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Charlie Fink

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

LBVR is riding a tidal wave as pent up demand surges through the doors of Theme Parks, Family Entertainment Centers (FECs), and shopping malls worldwide.

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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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ARVR

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Metaverse?—?The Future? or Just Another Gimmick? Artificial Intelligence, Virtual reality, and now Metaverse. The world seems to be turning out to be the science fiction we used to watch in movies and games. Remember OASIS from the movie Ready Player One? Facebook is all set to make that a reality for which the parent company has even changed its name to “Meta” to reflect its evolution from being just a social platform to creating the metaverse.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Lucky’s Tale (2016) was a launch title for the original Oculus Rift, and now the plucky little 3D platformer has surprise released exclusively on Oculus Quest 2 today. Playful Studios (formerly Playful Corp) developed the original Lucky’s Tale for Rift, pitching it not only as a launch title for the early consumer VR headset, but making it available as a free, in-the-box addition for all new Rift owners at the time.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Work alongside the Ghostbusters to save the world from a ghostly apocalypse. Ghostbusters: Afterlife ScARe uses AR technology to immerse you deep in Sony Pictures’ new movie, Ghostbusters: Afterlife , as one of the legendary Ghostbusters. , you’ll defend your real-world surroundings from the oncoming apocalypse by strapping on a proton pack and battling supernatural entities.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Blood Rage —sometimes known as Slasher , plus there’s a version titled Nightmare at Shadow Woods , though Blood Rage really fits it best—is an outstanding example of what the worst Thanksgiving ever might look like. But fortunately for horror movie fans , that means the film is a feast of intriguing acting choices,… Read more.

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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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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Today, MediaTek is re-entering the flagship SoC space with a bang. The Dimensity 9000 is the first Armv9 SoC, with X2, A710 and A510 cores, large new GPU, massive new ISP, first LPDDR5X, and all in a new TSMC N4 process node.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Japanese social VR startup HIKKY announced today that it has raised ¥6.5 billion (~$57 million), led by Japanese mobile network operator NTT Docomo. The startup says it will use the funds to expand its web-based metaverse platform. Founded in 2018, Japan-based Hikky is best known for its series of ‘Vket’ events, virtual marketplaces where exhibitors market and sell real and virtual goods to attendees.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Sonic the Hedgehog meets Monkey Ball in this hilarious AR experience. Lucas Rizzotto , a popular XR developer who co-founded AR House with fellow developer Aidan Wolf , has taken advantage of Snapchat’s Spectacles AR glasses to create Monke Racing , a hilarious AR game that has users racing against time to collect virtual bananas scattered throughout their real-world environment. .

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Amazon will stop accepting credit cards from Visa as early as January, according to multiple reports early Wednesday. Why? It’s yet another thing that can be blamed on Brexit, the UK’s split from the European Union in 2020. Read more.

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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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