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6 Metaverse Benefits for IRL Brands

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The future of the metaverse is still unclear, but the real-world benefits for brands are beginning to come into focus. We examine 6 ways virtual and immersive experiences drive IRL outcomes. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Novelist Jules Verne Gets His Own VR Minigolf Courses

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Walkabout Mini Golf: Jules Verne is coming soon to Quest, Rift, and PC VR. Walkabout Mini Golf , one of the most popular multiplayer VR games currently available on the Meta Quest, this week announced three new minigolf courses inspired by famed novelist Jules Verne. Coming soon to major VR headsets, these downloadable courses will be set in the “voyages extraordinaires,” a collection of world-renowned adventure novels.

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Is AR Landing with Everyday Consumers? Part IV

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There’s a common rallying cry among AR proponents that the technology will transform the way people shop. Stepping away from inherently-vested narratives, where are the proof points? Does AR shopping?—?or camera commerce as we call it?—?resonate with real consumers? To support that notion, there are several well-worn performance indicators for AR’s ability to boost conversions in eCommerce contexts.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.08.15): NVIDIA makes many announcements at SIGGRAPH, new leaks on Apple and Pico, and more!

The Ghost Howls

As you’ve read in my other article written today , this is a special day for this blog… but it is also Monday, so I won’t skip writing a new amazing roundup of AR/VR news So, wishing you a happy Ferragosto (the name of today’s holiday in Italy), I leave you to the best XR news of the week! Top news of the week. (Image by NVIDIA). NVIDIA and other companies show their best at SIGGRAPH.

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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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NVIDIA Announces Upgrades to the NVIDIA Omniverse

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It’s an exciting time for the metaverse as NVIDIA unveils upgrades to its NVIDIA Omniverse, the real-time graphics collaboration platform aimed at making a more realistic metaverse. Company executives shared cutting-edge technology that NVIDIA is releasing to transform graphics processing and provide creative tools to help companies embrace the metaverse reality.

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Will Headworn AR Revenues Exceed $35 Billion by 2026?

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How big is the AR glasses market today and what are its revenue projections? ARtillery Intelligence's latest forecast dives into AR glasses and all their revenue subsegments. We break down the findings for AR Insider readers. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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‘Red Matter 2’ Review – An Immersive Answer to Quest’s Arcade Offerings

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Red Matter 2 has arrived on Quest 2 and stands out as an immersive single-player adventure against a backdrop of Quest’s arcade-focused library. But does the gameplay of this sci-fi puzzler match its stand-out graphics? Read our full review of Red Matter 2 to find out. Red Matter 2 Details: Available On: Quest 2 , SteamVR. Release Date: August 18th, 2022.

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Orlando is ‘The MetaCenter’: Pushing Boundaries in the Metaverse

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The metaverse community witnessed a new milestone as Orlando proved it is “the MetaCenter ” by hosting a business event in the ENGAGE metaverse platform for the VR/AR Association’s Orlando/Central Florida Chapter. The metaverse is one of the most disruptive technologies of the modern world that is believed to eclipse the Internet soon. And Orlando is poised to capitalize on these exciting times.

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Full-Body VR Tracking Shoes Coming Soon To Kickstarter

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Stroll the metaverse in style. VR specialty device company Surplex today unveiled a pair of futuristic sneakers that allow you to interact more realistically with VR experiences. The Surplex Full-Body Tracking Shoes, according to the company, remove the need for expensive base stations and complex tracking systems, offering a more comfortable full-body experience in the process. “Virtual Reality represents a new era for online learning, entertainment, and fun.

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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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Spatial Beats: Amazon, Apple & Snap

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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 Amazon's Roomba acquisition, Snap's ups & downs and Apple's latest AR rumors. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Valve Adds Bugs in Latest SteamVR Update

Road to VR

Valve this week released the SteamVR 1.23 update which brings with it a new set of bugs. Dead bugs, that is. The latest update to SteamVR includes a curious addition… a new SteamVR Home destination that includes CT scans of dead bugs “found lying on the ground” outside of Valve’s office. Valve's Dead Bugs. 1 of 2. Image courtesy Valve.

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ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unreal Engine Brings Real-World Data Into Unreal Environment

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From real to unreal, from unreal to real. ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unreal Engine blurs the distinction between the real world and the virtual world. Esri , the world’s largest GIS software firm, recently released version 1.0 of the ArcGIS Maps SDK for Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5. Back in June, the company launched ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unity. The feature-rich ArcGIS Maps SDK plugin for Unreal Engine empowers developers to create interactive and photorealistic 3D experiences with real-time geospatial da

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Metaverse Safety Week Aims To Safeguard The Virtual World

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The third annual awareness campaign will take place remotely inside an exclusive virtual world. Metaverse Safety Week 2022 is set to take place later this year, offering attendees the chance to hear from lawmakers, business executives, and technology leaders as they discuss the regulations and standards required to build a safer metaverse. Founded by XR Safety Initiative (XRSI), a global non-profit organization dedicated to building safe and inclusive immersive experiences, the week-long virtual

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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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ARtillery Briefs: How Do AR Users Really Feel?

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How do mobile AR users feel, and what types of experiences resonate most? Episode 61 of ARtillery Briefs breaks down the latest consumer survey results. We have the episode takeaways and video for AR Insider readers. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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The 20 Best Rated & Most Popular Quest Games & Apps – August 2022

Road to VR

While Oculus doesn’t offer much publicly in the way of understanding how well individual games & apps are performing across its Quest 2 storefront, it’s possible to glean some insight by looking at apps relative to each other. Here’s a snapshot of the 20 best rated Oculus Quest games and apps as of August 2022. Some quick qualifications before we get to the data: Paid and free apps are separated.

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OCAVU Launches University Athletics NFT Platform in Partnership With BYU

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Three months ago, the NCAA allowed college athletes to make their own money. Fourteen months later, they’re implementing NFTs. OCAVU Meets BYU. OCAVU first made a name for itself as SEEK, a 3D product visualization company. When the company was still SEEK, it launched its NFT platform at a VR/AR Association event. “I think, in the future, all of this content is going to be in 3D.

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VR Takes You Inside Bruce Lee’s Hong Kong Home

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Enter the Bruceleeverse. Created in honor of the martial arts legend, “Revival of the Memory: Bruce Lee’s Home in Metaverse” is an upcoming exhibition that will allow you to explore Lee’s old Hong Kong home in VR and participate in a “series of interactions.” Located at No.41 Cumberland Road, Hong Kong, Lee’s old home, otherwise known as the “Crane’s Nest,” was demolished in 2019.

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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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AR Platforms Speak, Part 1: Apple

AR Insider

The past few months have seen the standard run of summer developer conferences, including lots of AR action. So we're summarizing and synthesizing the top AR updates for our XR Talks series. starting with Apple. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Love, Spotify & Python

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Creator: yrabota | Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Story of a lover’s quest turned Python Project! Music is a great unifier of people and sometimes, it’s easier to communicate your feelings to your significant other through some poetic melody. I realized that, over the years, I’d been sending Spotify song URLs to my girlfriend, SweetPea , (to yunno, express myself) without creating a comprehensive playlist of these expressions.

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Hands-On Review: AI and AR Art Instruction App Cupixel

ARPost

Cupixel is a new app that uses AR and AI to help anyone realize their artistic potential. You’ve probably heard that line before, but you probably haven’t seen it done like this. ARt History. One of the first articles that I wrote as an official contributor to ARPost was about AR apps for aspiring artists. There’s a reason I haven’t done another article like that in the last four years.

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Tokyo Game Show VR 2022 Will Feature A Virtual Dungeon

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The virtual exhibition will include Kojima Productions, Square Enix, Capcom, and others. The annual Tokyo Game Show is set to return next month in Chiba, Japan, offering attendees a closer look at a variety of highly-anticipated video games. Alongside the standard in-person event, organizers will once again host a virtual exhibition visitors can attend remotely. ?

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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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Case Study: MAC Cosmetics Augments Makeup Try-Ons

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MAC Cosmetics’ New York concept store delivers virtual try-ons via smart mirrors. We examine the shopper experience and revenue impact in the latest AR marketing case study. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Filming ‘This is Bike Life’ with Canon’s EOS VR

XR Today - Virtual Reality

In this session we discuss the following: 1) The technologies behind CANON’s EOS VR immersive filming solution. 2) The inspiration behind Bucaria’s ‘This is Bike Life’ short film. 3) The future of immersive technologies as a medium of artistic expression. If you’re looking for more information on this topic visit Fovrth Studios at [link] and Canon at [link].

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New Logitech VR Accessory Aims to Bring One of Index’s Best Features to Quest 2

Road to VR

Logitech this week announced a new VR accessory which aims to bring the great off-ear audio solution of Valve’s Index headset to Quest 2. Valve’s unique off-ear headphones were a elegant solution for powerful yet comfortable audio on the company’s Index headset which launched back in 2019. The off-ear headphones approach means the headphones don’t get in the way when putting the headset on, nor do they even contact your ears while wearing the headset.

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Free Arena VR Sports Game Ultimechs Coming Next Month

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The mech-powered sports game will be available on Meta Quest 2, PC VR, and Pico VR headsets on September 15th. Resolution Games ( Demeo, Blaston, Angry Birds VR ) today announced the official price and release date for its upcoming multiplayer VR sports games Ultimechs. Coming next month to popular VR headsets, this futuristic competitive experience will have players going head-to-head in mech-powered soccer matches.

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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