The Ghost Howls
MAY 23, 2022
Good morning from Perpignan, France! I’m here to do some meetings, but actually also to eat a lot of food. I’m having a great time with the VRrOOm team while I prepare to go to the US in a few days to attend AWE (don’t forget to get in touch if you want to meet me there). While I’m gaining weight, let’s see together the best news of XR from the past week!
VRScout
MAY 23, 2022
Chat with specialists, review ingredients, and buy products straight from the metaverse. ADC, a technology-centered cannabis manufacturer and distribution company, has partnered with metaverse company Alt Magic to open a digital cannabis store you can visit from the comfort of your home using a smartphone, tablet, computer, or VR headset. This WebXR experience allows you to explore a virtual cannabis store using a digital avatar.
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ARPost
MAY 27, 2022
One of the common criticisms of XR technology is that people will use it to avoid problems of the real world. We hear it from talking heads, see it in webcomics, and read about it in science fiction. However, the fact is that a lot of XR experiences – and the companies behind them – are dedicated to promoting environmental causes. In light of World Environment Day on June 5, we’re going to take a look at some recent, current, and upcoming XR initiatives that focus on planetary wellbe
AR Insider
MAY 23, 2022
Games. Social. Utilities.What types of AR experiences are getting the most traction? After examining AR formats in the last Behind the Numbers installment, we drill down into content types. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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 Ghost Howls
MAY 25, 2022
In a few hours I’ll take a flight to go to the US to attend (and be a speaker at) AWE. I was thinking about my experience there last year, and I realized that I never talked to you about my amazing experience in Ultraleap offices in the Bay Area. In particular, I never told you about how it is using the Ultraleap Stratos Explore, something that many people ask me about.
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ARPost
MAY 24, 2022
The realistic metaverse is no longer a thing of the past. With technological leaps in the past few years, multi-dimensional interactions, in what seems like parallel worlds, are now possible. Victoria VR is among the first to harness the latest augmented, virtual, and mixed reality technologies to offer a hyper-realistic metaverse created and owned by users.
AR Insider
MAY 23, 2022
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 Apple's latest headset rumors, Meta' Horizon Worlds, and Qualcomm's new AR design. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
MAY 27, 2022
Meta may be ramping up internal testing for its own first-party cloud gaming service which could let its latest standalone VR headset, Quest 2, play PC VR games without needing your own VR-ready computer. Mention of the ‘Avalanche’ cloud PC VR streaming function was allegedly uncovered in v24 of the Quest firmware, which released in late 2020.
VRScout
MAY 25, 2022
Beat Saber meets Beethoven in this one-of-a-kind music experience. Coming soon to PC VR and the Meta Quest 2, Maestro VR is a unique VR rhythm game that puts you in the shoes of a classically-trained conductor in charge of their own virtual orchestra. Unlike existing VR music games such as Beat Saber and Pistol Whip , Maestro VR features classical symphonies from legendary composers as opposed to high-energy electronic dance music.
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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.
ARPost
MAY 23, 2022
said. Navigating the Metaverse: A Guide to Limitless Possibilities in a Web 3.0 World is a new book by Cathy Hackl, Dirk Lueth, and Tommaso Di Bartolo. We got an advance copy of the book, and spoke with the authors, as well as the editor John Arkontaky, to learn more about how the book came together. Navigating “Navigating the Metaverse”. Navigating the Metaverse consists of information-dense chapters broken up into manageable sections – a necessary consideration for a topic so branching a
AR Insider
MAY 24, 2022
Location has been a value driver in several industries to emerge and advance in the smartphone era, including search, mapping, and social media. Now AR enters the picture with the potential to add dimension to local commerce. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
MAY 27, 2022
Sony today announced its next State of Play, the company’s ongoing presentation series where it highlights upcoming games. The company says viewers can expect a first “sneak peek” at PSVR 2 games during the event next week. Sony has announced that its next State of Play event will be held on June 2nd at 3PM PT ( your timezone here ).
VRScout
MAY 24, 2022
The company launches its Lightship VPS alongside a new social network. Today marks the first day of Niantic’s inaugural Lightship Summit, an annual two-day event dedicated to its international community of AR (augmented reality) developers. The company kicked things off with a bang earlier this morning with a series of exciting announcements, including the official launch of its highly-anticipated Lightship Visual Positioning System , or “VPS” for short.
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.
ARPost
MAY 25, 2022
There are a lot of numbers floating through cyberspace regarding who has sold how many headsets or downloaded how many VR apps , or spent how much money in online marketplaces. These kinds of figures can be important to understanding the VR technology market, but they only tell us so much. “Beyond Reality” is a recent study by the National Research Group (NRG) devoted to AR and VR consumer habits.
AR Insider
MAY 26, 2022
Niantic pushed its 'real-world metaverse' vision forward with its Lightship VPS launch. Following all the news coverage, we take a deeper dive on the keynote and its strategic implications in this week's XR Talks. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
MAY 26, 2022
During Sony’s annual investor day event, the company confirmed to investors that it has a lineup of more than 20 games ready for the launch of PSVR 2—despite having not yet confirmed the headset’s release date. Sony’s 2022 Investor Day presentation gives investors in the company an overview of recent performance and future strategic outlook at the company’s core business segments which include PlayStation, Sony Music, and Sony Pictures.
VRScout
MAY 26, 2022
The PS VR2’s launch catalog will include major first-party and third-party titles. This past February, Sony offered us our first look at the PlayStation VR2 (PS VR2), a new-and-improved console VR headset boasting a 4K HDR resolution, new sensory features, built-in eye-tracking, redesigned motion controllers, headset-based haptic feedback, and a variety of other game-changing enhancements.
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.
ARVR
MAY 23, 2022
AR continues to evolve and take shape as an industry. Prominent sectors include industrial AR , social , gaming , and shopping. But existing alongside them is AR marketing. This includes AR lenses that let consumers visualize products on “spaces & faces.” One subset of AR marketing is paid ad placement to amplify a given AR experience. Spending on such ad placement is estimated to reach $6.7 billion by 2025.
AR Insider
MAY 25, 2022
Niantic Lightship empowers developers to build Pokemon Go-like geospatial AR experiences. What are implications for a "real-world metaverse?". This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
MAY 25, 2022
Lynx, the French XR hardware startup known for crowdfunding the Lynx R-1 mixed reality headset , today announced it’s secured $4 million in its Series A round, led by social VR platform Somnium Space. Alongside Somnium Space , participants in the latest funding round also include what Lynx calls early supporters of the company and “other investors involved in the AR/VR field such as ex-Meta and Google engineers.” This brings the company’s total outside funding to $6.8 mi
VRScout
MAY 26, 2022
Tokyo, Japan is just the latest major city to receive official support for AR walking guidance. It was back in 2021 that Apple first introduced AR (augmented reality) navigation to its Apple Maps app, allowing iOS users to navigate their real-world environment using virtual overlays. Similar to Google Maps’ Live View , users can use their smartphone’s camera to follow a series of virtual arrows leading to their desired location without having to take their eyes off the street.
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?
Slashgear
MAY 25, 2022
As with laptops and tablets, web browsing on an iPhone causes it to store. a bunch of cookies over time, but you can clear them out whenever you want.
AR Insider
MAY 25, 2022
One of AR's strengths as a marketing medium is to make static packaging come to life. Discovery wines took this to heart to enliven its physical labels. What were the tactics & takeaways? We break it down in the latest Campaign Tracker. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
MAY 25, 2022
This week Niantic announced Lightship VPS, a system designed to make possible accurate localization of AR devices at a large scale to enable location-based AR content that can also be persistent and multi-user. While the first implementation of the system will need to be baked into individual apps, the company says it’s bringing the tech to WebAR too.
VRScout
MAY 24, 2022
VR technology and wrist trackers combine to offer a next-level training program. Axon, a weapons technology company based out of Arizona, today launched a new VR simulation designed to train law enforcement officers in de-escalation tactics by immersing them in realistic scenarios they may face out in the field. Not only that, but trainees can actually bring their TASER energy weapons and training firearms with them in VR.
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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