The Ghost Howls

JULY 1, 2022

A few weeks ago I had the enormous pleasure of speaking with Mary Matheson , an award-winning director of traditional and VR movies, and talk with her for around half an hour all about storytelling in VR. She told me why she thinks that 360 movies are still relevant, what are the differences between shooting a movie for VR or for a flat display, she suggested me some tools for creating VR experiences and even talked about her experience in being a teacher in the storytelling masterclass organize

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VRScout

JUNE 30, 2022

Elegant training for a more civilized age. It’s no secret that medical training is an expensive and time-consuming process. Thanks to immersive technology, however, healthcare centers around the world are capable of training doctors, therapists, and surgeons at a faster rate while spending less. GigXR is one such company using cutting-edge immersive technology to train the next generation of medical professionals with its Gig Immersive Learning Platform.

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ARPost

JUNE 27, 2022

The metaverse just got more luxurious. Immersive commerce platform ByondXR has recently launched virtual stores for Armani Skincare and YSL Beauty Thailand. Aiming to become the “Shopify of the Metaverse,” ByondXR specializes in XR technology for e-commerce, creating 3D stores and showrooms for businesses, brands, and retailers. The company has served clients such as Lancôme, Calvin Klein, Olay, and Target, before their partnership with Armani and YSL.

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Road to VR

JUNE 27, 2022

SideQuest is an amazing tool for unlocking a bunch of VR content and tools for Quest, and we really suggest setting it up if you own a Quest 2. Now the creators behind the unofficial sideloading library have made it so you can browse the SideQuest Store and download stuff directly without having to leave VR. SideQuest’s new Easy PC Installer allows you to download the executable to your PC, connect up your Quest 2, and then enable you to sideload content directly to your headset, just like

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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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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 28, 2022

Today I report news that I’m pretty excited to write about: the CEO of Mojo Vision has worn in his eye a functioning smart contact lens and used it for around one hour. This is not 2050, but only 2022, and this sci-fi movie thing is really happening in front of us. Let me tell you everything I discovered about this by directly speaking with him! Mojo Vision.

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ARPost

JUNE 28, 2022

Through a partnership with British Vogue , Snap has created a series of Lenses with some of the biggest names in fashion including Balenciaga, Dior, Versace, and Gucci. Some experiences using the world-facing camera are location-based abroad, but there are also Lenses available for anyone anywhere. The collection is an amazing series of experiences in itself.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 28, 2022

Rocket VR Health announced its participation in Newchip’s global accelerator programme designed to fund, build, and scale startups and companies. The Newchip Seed Accelerator provides Rocket VR Health with industry experts, mentors, and advisors that personally assist with the immersive firm’s global growth, Nik Vassev, COO and Co-Founder of Rocket VR Health, explained in a statement.

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Road to VR

JULY 1, 2022

Beat Games, the Czechia-based studio known for VR’s most popular game Beat Saber (2018), revealed it’s managed to generate nearly $100 million in revenue over the course of last year thanks to the block-slashing rhythm game. Czech language publication CzechCrunch confirmed that Beat Games earned 2.3 billion Czech koruna in revenue last year alone, or around $97 million USD.

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VRScout

JUNE 27, 2022

Imagine being late for school in the metaverse. Immerse is an educational metaverse platform developed in collaboration with top researchers from North America, Europe, and Japan. According to the company, this “battle-tested” language-learning experience was designed from the ground up for VR headsets. This week the platform made its official launch on the Meta Quest 2, offering subscribers everything from live Spanish and English lessons to community events, a multiplayer social lo

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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

JULY 1, 2022

The VR/AR Association hosted an online event on June 29 dedicated to “Digital Fashion, Content, Immersive Entertainment, and Storytelling.” The event was part of the Immerse Global Summit series of talks covering XR and metaverse, as well as converging technologies like blockchain. Event speakers discussed creating XR and 3D fashion items and assets, but also discussed new marketing and engagement opportunities enabled by ideas like NFTs and Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs).

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ARVR

JUNE 28, 2022

Part 3— An Immersive Transmedia Storytelling Design & Cross-cultural Educational Strategy. Cross-cultural learning and pedagogy that can be enjoyed and understood at a universal, cross-cultural level. Photo by Freepik.com (2021) What is possible for us to sense, understand, articulate, want and imagine? What is possible for us to sense, understand, articulate, want and imagine?

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Road to VR

JUNE 29, 2022

Immerse , a startup focusing on teaching languages in VR, has launched a social app on Quest 2 which lets subscribers take part in live Spanish or English lessons, peer-to-peer conversation practice, and weekly community events. When Immerse first secured a $1.5 million Series A investment in late 2020 most of the world was working and going to school from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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VRScout

JULY 1, 2022

Nintendo’s original VR headset is still receiving new games thanks to an active community of indie developers. In 1995, Nintendo launched the Virtual Boy, an at-home “VR” device featuring stereoscopic 3D graphics, a red monochrome display, and 22 questionable games; I’m looking at you Waterworld. . I myself have fond memories of remaining hunched over my kitchen table actively destroying my retinas with hours of games like Mario’s Tennis.

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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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Slashgear

JUNE 29, 2022

Drones are more accessible than ever, and that means some people are able to buy them for nefarious purposes, such as snooping over private property.

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ARVR

JUNE 28, 2022

12 min read Buzzy metaverse projects have already sprung up around gaming, socializing, working, and creating, so it’s unsurprising that educators have started to explore ways to bring education into a shared virtual world. Today we will explore the metaverse for education and how you can expect it to be used in the future. Why Use the Metaverse for Educational Purposes?

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Upload VR

JUNE 27, 2022

VR stealth game Thief Simulator VR is coming to Meta Quest (formerly Oculus Quest) soon. A port of the game has appeared in the Coming Soon section of the Quest store and is named Thief Simulator VR – Greenview Street. Check out a trailer for the experience at this link. Thief Simulator VR Confirmed For Quest. Thief Simulator is focused on non-violent stealth.

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VRScout

JUNE 28, 2022

That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for VR. This coming August, NASA will launch its unmanned Orion CM-002 spacecraft out of Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first in a series of test flights for the agencies Artemis program. The goal of the mission is to certify the Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System launch vehicle for crewed flights in the hopes of returning humankind to the moon by 2024.

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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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Slashgear

JUNE 27, 2022

While you might think your electric vehicle is saving you money, think again if you're considering its potential resale value.

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ARVR

JUNE 29, 2022

VR AR Assicuation Global summit 2020 Between 1st and 3rd of June 2020, we had the annual summit of the VR AR Association. Obviously it was virtual as well, as the rest of Covid affected events. Here is my summary of the new things I found (definitely not the only good things, but the things I cared about). The 3 days of lectures has been recorded, and I will update this article after I watch all the recordings.

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Upload VR

JULY 1, 2022

The upcoming PlayStation VR2 headset will use eye tracking from specialist group, Tobii. Tobii itself confirmed the news in a press release today. This follows on from a February 2022 announcement that the company was “in negotiation” with Sony to be integrated into the new headset. PSVR 2 — which doesn’t yet have a release date — is expected to use eye tracking for a variety of applications, including foveated rendering.

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VRScout

JUNE 30, 2022

Campfire is designed to make exploring the metaverse easy. Last month Niantic, creator of popular AR mobile games such as Pokémon GO and Pikmin Bloom , made its Lightship Visual Positioning System available to developers, further laying the groundwork for its ambitious “real-world” metaverse. The company also announced Campfire, a new kind of social network designed to help users discover new people, games, and events.

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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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Slashgear

JUNE 28, 2022

As with blowing into Nintendo game cartridges, there's a persistent myth that closing open apps on your Android device will make it work better.

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Robert Scoble

JUNE 28, 2022

Visiting Giant AI. Visiting Giant AI is like getting a tour of a secret lab that shouldn’t exist run by an eccentric genius. The kind of which we remember from “Back to the Future.” Adrian Kaehler is that genius. . He built the computer vision system for the first autonomous vehicle that later became Waymo. He played a key role in the early development of Magic Leap, an augmented reality company that just won best of show at the industry’s biggest gathering, AWE (for Augmented World Expo).

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Upload VR

JUNE 28, 2022

Upcoming VR dungeon crawler, Ruinsmagus, finally has a release date. The gorgeous RPG experience launches on Quest on July 7 and is now listed in the Coming Soon section of the Quest store. The game is also coming to PC on the same day even if Steam listing for the game doesn’t hold a release date just yet. You can, however, download a free demo of the game on the platform.

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VRScout

JUNE 27, 2022

“Yo dawg, I heard you like VR games…” A VR developer by the name of Quentin Valembois, aka Valem , is quickly becoming known for his experimental projects involving cutting-edge immersive technology. Whether it be turning his home into a location-based horror game or designing a VR sports experience using an actual bicycle , there appears to be no limit to this indie developers creative imagination.

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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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