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XR Education in 2021

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VR is for games and AR is for industry, right? That’s probably the biggest broad-strokes argument that a person could make about extended reality and remain arguably correct. However, there are myriad other use cases and XR education is one of the most promising. Here, we’re going to look at some of the most exciting and out-of-the-box examples of XR education, ranging from K-12 through university and beyond.

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Will 75% of Businesses Adopt AR in Two Years?

AR Insider

To validate AR's role as a shopping utility, Facebook released a report filled with consumer survey data and revenue projections. We're featuring it for this week's Data Dive, including takeaways and strategic implications for 'camera commerce.'. The post Will 75% of Businesses Adopt AR in Two Years? appeared first on AR Insider.

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Facebook reveals Ray-Ban Stories smartglasses

The Ghost Howls

Facebook and Ray-Ban have just revealed Ray-Ban Stories, their smartglasses that you can use to record photos and videos to share on social media. Specifications. Content of a box of Ray-Ban Stories (Image by Ray-Ban). Dual 5MP camera 2592×1944 pixels photos 1184×1184 pixels vidoes at 30 frames per second Automatic brightness adjustment depending on external light Status LED that lights up when cameras are in use 2x Integrated open-ear speakers 3x Integrated microphones Memory: capable

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There’s An AR Easter Egg Hidden In Apple’s New Event Invite

VRScout

Apple’s latest iPhone event may still be a week away, but you can play with this new AR effect right now. Apple today confirmed the official date for its upcoming September event. Earlier this morning, Apple’s senior vice president of marketing Greg Joswiak posted a tweet revealing a September 14th date for its official live stream, during which the company is expected to announce its next iPhone device.

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The Future of eLearning in 2022: A Sensitive Eye for Authentic Translation and Localization

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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5 VR Apps for Exploring the World

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Since the spring of 2020, we have learned that all our vacation plans can be delayed indefinitely. Also, there are places that we can only dream of visiting. Now, thanks to VR apps for exploring the world, traveling to the most distant landmarks is possible for anyone. You only need a VR headset and the time to sit back and immerse yourself in new worlds.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.09.06): A week full of VR events, Chinese headsets are on the rise, and more!

The Ghost Howls

This week came with two great pieces of news for me. The first one is that the bond between me and VRrOOm has become a bit more official , and we’ll keep innovating the virtual events sector together for a while. The second one is that we of New Technology Walkers have just launched our fitness game HitMotion: Reloaded for Vive Focus 3. I’m super-happy with the projects I’m following and the talented people I’m collaborating with, and I’m sure I’ll do great things with them in the future!

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The 2021 Venice Film Festival Invades ‘VRChat’

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Explore 37 groundbreaking projects from 21 countries, 35 custom-made worlds, and five live events hosted in VRChat. The Venice Film Festival is back with yet another selection of genre-defying VR projects from some of the most exciting creators in the field. This year event organizers are taking its Venice VR Expanded program to the next level with even more immersive offerings than previous festivals.

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VR Pride For Everyone: The Potential of VR Technology to Foster LGBTQ+ Community Building

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LGBTQ+ Pride has come a long way since its beginnings in the 1970s. As awareness of the LGBTQ+ community continues to increase and evolve, it is more and more apparent that technology will be a major tool for increased visibility. Research already shows that LGBTQ+ individuals are early adopters of technology (more than 80% of LGBTQ+ respondents say they utilize social media, compared to 58% of the general population) and that one major way that the LGBTQ+ community has grown and organized has

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What’s the Revenue Opportunity in “Camera Commerce?’

AR Insider

Immersive shopping is proving to have experiential impact for consumers and revenue impact for brands. Otherwise known as 'camera commerce' this is the topic of the latest ARtillery Intelligence report, which we excerpt for AR Insider readers. The post What’s the Revenue Opportunity in “Camera Commerce?’ appeared first on AR Insider.

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How to Train Employees 65% Faster With Virtual Reality

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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‘I Expect You To Die 2’ Surpasses $1M in Revenue Less than a Week After Launch

Road to VR

I Expect You To Die 2: The Spy and the Liar (2021) launched in late August across all major VR headsets, bringing fans of the original game a fresh taste of spy-flavored puzzles and adventure. Now developers Schell Games say it’s done so well that the sequel has broken past the $1 million revenue milestone only a few days after launch. I Expect You to Die 2 launched simultaneously on all major VR platforms on August 24th, including Oculus Quest, Oculus PC, SteamVR, and PSVR.

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Free Roam VR Game ‘Eye Of The Temple’ Coming Next Month

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Explore a jungle temple riddled with deadly traps and complex puzzles in a full-body VR experience inspired by classic adventure films. After an impressive five years of development, Danish independent developer Rune Skovbo Johansen has announced the official release date for the highly-anticipated free-roam PC VR experience Eye of the Temple. In this unique full-body VR experience, you’ll take on the role of an Indiana Jones -esque adventurer and explore an ancient mountaintop temple loca

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Why Do You Need to Integrate VR and AR in Your B2B Sales Cycle?

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Are you ready for the revolution taking place in B2B sales ? We’re talking about VR and AR. If you’ve only mildly heard of these two terms, know that you’re missing out on something big. These two technologies fall within the digital umbrella of something called “immersive tech.” Allow us to de-jargon this bit for you – technologies falling within the immersive domain excessively engage or absorb the viewer.

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XR Talks: The Story Behind Ray-Ban Stories

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Facebook's long-awaited smart glasses are here. And though they don't pack the AR punch that many had hoped, they're a key stepping stone to fully-actualized AR glasses. We unpack reviews and rationale for this week's XR Talks. The post XR Talks: The Story Behind Ray-Ban Stories appeared first on AR Insider.

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

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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Facebook’s Ray-Ban Smartglasses Get Their Big Reveal on Thursday

Road to VR

Facebook and Ray-Ban are collaborating on what promises to be a pair of smartglasses, something that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in July would “let you do some pretty neat things.” Well, the companies are getting ready to reveal the device on September 9th, 2021, so we’re sure to learn more then. Ray-Ban, a brand of the mega Italian-French optics firm EssilorLuxottica, released a splash page showing off the silhouette of a very Wayfarer-looking pair of specs.

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Track & Hunt Big Trophy Animals In This VR Hunting Simulator

VRScout

Explore an open hunting ground filled with various wildlife using a variety of real-world weapons and essential equipment. Arriving next year on PC VR headsets, Virtual Hunter is an upcoming VR FPS that will have you exploring the wilderness in search of various wildlife to hunt. Using a variety of real-world weapons and essential equipment, you’ll track both big game and smaller animals, each of which featuring its own unique behaviors.

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Augmented Reality for Interactive Advertising

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Augmented Reality (AR) technology is one of the leading technologies that is bringing numerous digital transformations by significantly improving the operating processes of companies belonging to various industrial fields. The potential of this technology to digitize many processes has also increased the demand for its adoption by many businesses. If before the AR concept was directly related only to games, now this concept goes beyond games and entertainment by entering every industry with mult

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What’s the Revenue Opportunity in AR Enabling Tech?

AR Insider

How much is being spent on software that helps brands and media companies create and distribute AR experiences? Our latest 'Behind the Numbers' installment dives into mobile AR enabling tech. The post What’s the Revenue Opportunity in AR Enabling Tech? appeared first on AR Insider.

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Are You Still Watching? How to Create Engaging Presentations for Virtual Learning

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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Quest 2 Sees Its First Loss in Share on Steam But It’s Hardly Done Growing

Road to VR

Since the launch of Quest 2 the headset has steadily taken over as the leading PC VR device used on SteamVR, now accounting for about one-third of all headsets being used on the platform. After a month long sales pause due to a facepad recall, the headset sees its first ever month without growth in share on the platform, but it’s likely to pick up the pace again soon.

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‘I Expect You To Die 2’ Hits $1M In Sales In Under a Week

VRScout

The sequel to Schell Games’ popular VR puzzle game hit a major milestone just one week after going on sale. In 2016 Schell Games launched their game I Expect You To Die on Oculus Quest, Oculus Rift, PlayStation VR, and SteamVR headsets. In this James Bond-esque adventure, players took on the role of a professional spy tasked with solving a variety of cinematic puzzles within a set period of time.

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Who Will Rule ‘Lite AR?’

ARVR

Update, 9/09/21: Facebook unveiled its smart glasses today in partnership with Ray Ban. They are camera glasses without visual AR features but some audio AR foundations. See more details here. Video emerged this week showing Facebook’s Reality Labs lead Andrew Bosworth’s first-person perspective during family vacation. The implication was that the footage was shot with Facebook’s AR Essilor Luxottica-partnered AR glasses, which may be unveiled tomorrow.

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Reality Bytes: BMW, Amazon & Segway

AR Insider

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: BMW, Amazon & Segway appeared first on AR Insider.

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Who C.A.R.E.S.!? How Learning Got Its Bad Rap & What We Can Do About It

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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‘Sniper Elite VR’ Update Brings Custom Difficulty, New Comfort Options & More

Road to VR

Rebellion’s Sniper Elite VR (2021) has offered up some satisfying sniping with a bevy of comfort and gameplay options to boot. Now the studio is dialing in even further with a new update for Quest, PSVR, PC VR that promises more customization to the sniping experience. Outside of four difficulty levels, you also be able to toggle settings in a new custom difficulty mode which lets you mix and match things like aim assist, bullet drop, and wind effects.

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Owlchemy Labs Announces New VR Game ‘Cosmonious High’

VRScout

The team behind Job Simulator and Vacation Simulator returns with an out-of-this-world VR adventure set in an alien High School. Cosmonious High , the newest game from the folks at Owlchemy Labs ( Job Simulator, Vacation Simulator ), will have you shaking off those ‘first day of school’ jitters as you attend an alien high school complete with meteors crashes, malfunctioning AI, and classrooms overrun with a strange alien goo.

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PlayStation Studios acquiring Firesprite: Tip of the gaming tech spear

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This week the folks announced they’d acquired a very interesting game developer studio. They are Firesprite, the creators of a few games that’ve been key to the introduction of PlayStation 4 and virtual reality elements in PlayStation’s newest consoles. This is the sort of studio you might’ve expected to have been part of Sony in the first place, if it … Continue reading.

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Spatial Beats: Facebook, TikTok & Lenovo

AR Insider

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 TikTok's VR entrance, and Facebook continues to drive towards the metaverse. The post Spatial Beats: Facebook, TikTok & Lenovo appeared first on AR Insider.

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The Key to Getting the Best Out of Video-Based Practice & Coaching

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