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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 TikTok’s Shopify partnership, Spotify letting artists manipulate algorithms, and Disney robotics.
B y most measures, Oculus Quest 2 is hit. After pre-launch rumors of a cheaper ‘lite” Quest or a more-loaded “Pro” Quest… we ended up getting the best of both: upgraded hardware with a $100 price dip. Even the famously self-critical John Carmack called it a “close to a pure win.” One success metric is pro reviews, which are mostly unanimous in their praise of the device.
T ech giants see different versions of spatial computing’s future. These visions often trace back to their core businesses. Facebook wants to be the social layer to the spatial web, while Amazon wants to be the commerce layer and Apple envisions a hardware-centric multi-device play. Where does Google fit in all of this? It wants to be the knowledge layer of the spatial web.
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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.
The osu! to AUDICA converter brings millions of new maps to Harmonix’s VR rhythm experience. This weekend the AUDICA modding community revealed its osu! to AUDICA converter, a free tool that allows fans of the uber popular 2007 rhythm game to easily transport millions of user-created maps to Harmonix Music System’s VR rhythm experience AUDICA.
I hope you all that celebrate Halloween had a nice time celebrating this holiday! And don’t worry, your favorite ghost will keep haunting you with VR news all over the year, not only during Halloween! Top news of the week. (Image by Sony). PSVR 2 is probably coming in 2022 and with a slow transition. I admit that this news caught me a bit off guard.
I hope you all that celebrate Halloween had a nice time celebrating this holiday! And don’t worry, your favorite ghost will keep haunting you with VR news all over the year, not only during Halloween! Top news of the week. (Image by Sony). PSVR 2 is probably coming in 2022 and with a slow transition. I admit that this news caught me a bit off guard.
Lynx R-1, the upcoming standalone MR headset, has been delayed to late 2020, but a new update from the company says they’re targeting a lower price and now including Ultraleap hand-tracking. In a recent live-stream, Lynx founder Stan Larroque shared progress on the company’s upcoming MR headset which is being designed with AR-passthrough and VR capabilities in mind.
Charting a Path to Viable Consumer AR Glasses, Part III. The Hope for MicroLED and Laser Scanning Displays. by Jason McDowall. W elcome back to our series on the path to viable consumer AR. Over four parts, we’ll explore the biggest barriers and potential solutions to making consumer-grade Augmented Reality (AR) glasses that people will actually wear.
Tabletop gaming and VR collide in this ambitious cooperative RPG experience. Long before the internet, mobile devices, and VR, gamers would gather in bedrooms, basements, living rooms, and garages and immerse themselves in fantasy worlds via tabletop role-playing games. In these old-school RPG adventures, each player adopts a unique character as they embark on official—sometimes home-brewed—quests and missions.
I have said it multiple times: Nreal is one of the most intriguing AR startups out there. With its lightweight, fashionable and affordable glasses, it has set a new trend for AR, that now many companies are trying to follow. It is the AR glass to buy for many consumer and enterprise applications , but the big problem is that it has become hard to buy.
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.
Following a big spike in usage in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic, social VR app VRChat has reached a new record of 24,000 concurrent users. Its creators say the surge was driven in part by the launch of Quest 2 and virtual Halloween festivities. VRChat is a social VR app which lets VR and non-VR users connect to chat and explore worlds and experiences created by the game’s community.
A R continues to evolve and take shape as an industry. Prominent sectors include industrial AR , social , gaming , and shopping. But existing alongside all of them is AR advertising. This includes paid/sponsored AR lenses that let consumers visualize products on “spaces & faces.”. Advertising is one of the most lucrative AR subsectors, on pace to reach $1.41 billion this year and $8.02 billion by 2024.
Face off against seven other racers in this F-Zero-esque racer with real-world driving mechanics. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: VR is in desperate need of more quality racing games. While it’s true AAA racing simulators such as iRacing , Grand Turismo Sport , and Project Cars 2 offer fans of automobile racing an easy way to sit behind the wheel of their favorite real-world vehicles, very few developers have been willing to take a chance on something new.
Lenovo is one of the biggest names in computing today and Varjo is a leader in enterprise XR. While the partnership between the two isn’t new, a recently announced expansion of the partnership certainly is. The result is Varjo XR and VR headsets available through Lenovo. Varjo in Enterprise. Varjo headsets are quite possibly the best in the world. With unparalleled resolution and some of them having the ability to switch back-and-forth between MR and VR views, the headsets offer unparalleled uti
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.
After a year in Steam Early Access, Thief Simulator VR is officially slated to launch tomorrow, November 5th. Developed by GameBoom VR and published by PlayGames, a prolific publisher of simulator genre titles, Thief Simulator VR is set to launch its 1.0 version on Steam tomorrow. As you’d imagine, Thief Simulator VR puts you in the shoes of a burglar stealing who creeps around in a free roam sandbox of suburban houses.
“Vantage” is AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. It enlists spatial computing executives and innovators for first-hand strategic insights. Find out more or contact us to participate here. Authors’ opinions are their own. . How 5 Retailers Are Using AR for Covid-Compliant Try-Ons. by Stephanie Miles. A ugmented reality platforms aren’t exactly new in the retail space, but they’ve taken on greater relevance in the Covid era.
Challenge footballers across the globe with Rezzil Player 21. VR has absolutely transformed the classroom and when it comes to sports training, it’s like hitting the turbo boost. This is because you’re learning by physically going through the motions and developing mental muscle memory that you can bring to the playing field. This training allows players to train effectively without the risk of injury.
TREBUCHET is delighted to announce the imminent arrival of its VR masterpiece Prison Boss VR on Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2! The game will be released on the Oculus marketplace on the 3rd of December and will be priced $19,99. Prison Boss VR is an hilarious crafting and trading game using room-scale to turn your VR space into a jail cell! Craft cigarettes, alcohol and cookies for other inmates while avoiding being caught by the warden!
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.
When it comes to consumer VR headsets, gaming is clearly on of the most common use-cases. However, there are so many other things that are compelling and fun to do in VR. In this video and article, I share things you can do in VR other than gaming that I enjoy. Cas & Chary Present. Cas and Chary VR is a YouTube channel hosted by Netherland-based duo Casandra Vuong and Chary Keijzer who have been documenting their VR journeys since 2016.
You have probably heard of Qualcomm, though you may not have heard of holoride. The in-car XR company has been around for the last two years and, while they’re working on bringing their solution to a family car near you, most of their publicity has come from location-based events like trade shows. As holoride becomes one of the newest members of the XR Enterprise Program the startup hopes to secure its place in the XR and automotive ecosystems.
Kill time in VR with this interactive 3D overlay. How many times have you found yourself patiently waiting for friends in the lobby of your favorite VR game? Or looking to kill time during a lengthy load screen? It’s for these types of moments, and many others, that Bar Shift Games created Portable Farms , a simple—but intriguing 3D idle farming game that allows players to tend virtual crops and upgrade a digital farm while playing their favorite games.
ARVORE , the VR studio which developed acclaimed VR titles Pixel Ripped 1995 and The Line, is proud to announce YUKI, an action-packed bullet hell VR game with roguelite mechanics set in a fully original anime universe. With an innovative VR gameplay inspired by classics like STAR FOX and TOUHOU, the game explores the player’s spatial awareness and body movement across multiple procedural levels, filled to the brim with enemies, obstacles, and bullets.
Speaker: Treion Muller, Chief Strategy Officer at ELB Learning
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Viveport , HTC’s storefront for SteamVR-compatible headsets, is again celebrating the holidays by giving developers 100 percent of revenue for the rest of the year. The company says in a blog post that it’s aimed at both new and existing app developers on the platform, with the revenue share program starting from November 1st and going through the end of 2020.
In the late ‘90s, a group of Microsoft engineers started tinkering with old Dell laptops in the hopes of creating a console based on Microsoft’s DirectX technology. The idea was to create a gaming box that showcased what the software company was best at but without the need for a big honking PC running Windows. The… Read more.
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When AMD announced that its new Zen 3 core was a ground-up redesign and offered complete performance leadership, we had to ask them to confirm if that’s exactly what they said. Despite being less than 10% the size of Intel, and very close to folding as a company in 2015, the bets that AMD made in that timeframe with its next generation Zen microarchitecture and Ryzen designs are now coming to fruition.
Speaker: Micah Eppler, Account Executive for Rehearsal of eLearning Brothers
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