AR Insider
AUGUST 7, 2023
The music industry has always been driven by technology, from vinyl records to digital downloads. How are AR and VR transforming music creation and consumption? This post appeared first on AR Insider.
The Ghost Howls
AUGUST 8, 2023
It’s been a bit of a crazy week for me, and I hope it has been a bit more relaxing for you. I just send you a lot of good vibes, hoping that this summery week will bring you sun, fun, and joy. Let’s leave the summertime sadness to Lana Del Rey… Top news of the week (Image by Immersed) Immersed announced Visor headset The company Immersed is well known in the VR community for its productivity application to have a multi-monitor setup for your computer in virtual reality.
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VRScout
AUGUST 10, 2023
Take your virtual golfing to the next level with this unique VR accessory for Meta Quest and Rift. This past June, VR developer Mighty Coconut announced that it has partnered with VR accessory provider Hello Real on an official putter accessory for its VR mini golf game Walkabout Mini Golf , available now on Meta Quest and Rift headsets. Credit: HelloReal & Mighty Coconut The Walkabout Grip-to-Putter is available for a limited time and makes use of a variety of unique features designed to im
ARPost
AUGUST 9, 2023
The last three years may feel as though they’ve gone by pretty quickly. A few short years ago, we were seeing an explosion of interest and production in XR theater and live virtual entertainment. The pandemic meant that a lot of theaters were empty, creating a strong need for audiences and entertainers alike. Now it’s 2023. Theaters are open again. But, that doesn’t mean that XR theater has gone anywhere.
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.
AR Insider
AUGUST 11, 2023
As AR enthusiasts know, the AR cloud is a geo-anchored data mesh that covers the earth and lets AR devices activate relevant content. How does this framework unlock practical value and business opportunity? This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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VRScout
AUGUST 11, 2023
Unlock music from the band’s new album by completing a variety of strange puzzles. The award-winning progressive metal band TesseracT this week released an original immersive experience for VR headsets entitled War of Being. Named after the group’s 2023 album, this single-player experience immerses you in a visual conceptualization of the group’s latest full-length record.
ARPost
AUGUST 7, 2023
What better place to play a game about an alien invasion in your backyard than in your backyard? When a game studio offered to stage an alien invasion right here in my neck of the woods, I shelved my concerns about violent video games and picked up my mobile phone to see what Alien Invasion AR FPS is all about. Resisting an Alien Invasion in Augmented Reality Set in the not-too-distant future, Alien Invasion AR FPS by Stary, tells the story of an insidious and subtle alien foe.
AR Insider
AUGUST 7, 2023
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 the continued collision of XR and AI. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
AUGUST 11, 2023
According to industry experts, the new “Meta Quest 3” release date has been all but confirmed by the tech giant. Unlike some of the other hype-inducing headsets revealed by market leaders this year, the Quest 3 could be arriving a lot sooner. When Mark Zuckerberg announced the updated Quest system, analysts suggested the wearable could hit the market this year.
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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.
VRScout
AUGUST 10, 2023
The Lighthouse Faceplate starts at $199. That said, Pimax is offering bundled discounts with other devices. Pimax has just announced the release of the Lighthouse Faceplate, a new tracking extension accessory for its Crystal VR headset that promises to deliver a better VR experience via enhanced peripheral expansion, high-precision tracking, and numerous other features that will blow you away.
ARPost
AUGUST 11, 2023
Law enforcement officers face various complex and challenging situations where they must respond to high-risk incidents involving armed perpetrators. Unfortunately, police officers in the US only receive less than six months of police training—which is where virtual reality comes in. Using VR helps augment the need for more in-depth training in a safe and immersive training environment.
AR Insider
AUGUST 8, 2023
Beyond AR glasses themselves, there’s a tech stack forming. Like other computing categories, AR needs hardware, software, silicon, and all points between. We examine the evolution of the spatial stack. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
AUGUST 10, 2023
Extended reality (XR) vehicle entertainment system provider holoride has teamed up with XOXNO, a massive marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFT) on the MultiversX platform. The new strategic collaboration will allow the two firms to open an NFT staking programme, where XOXNO will provide services for holoride’s collection of Cloudbreakers NFTs.
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.
VRScout
AUGUST 7, 2023
Nervous around needles? Mixed reality is here to help. According to America’s Blood Centers , the United States has been suffering from a noticeable lack of blood donors below the age of 30 over the past 10 years; roughly 30% to be more exact. To help quell this growing shortage, Abbot Laboratories, a medical device and healthcare company based out of Illinois, United States, has teamed up with Blood Centers of America to release a new mixed reality experience designed to attract younger d
ARPost
AUGUST 10, 2023
There are a lot of possible interactions in virtual reality. The standard Quest 2 controllers just don’t always cut it anymore. Fortunately, there’s a large market of accessories manufacturers making adapters for different games and use cases. Not least among them is YOGES. YOGES at It Again YOGES specializes in accessories for the Meta Quest 2 headset and Quest 2 controllers.
AR Insider
AUGUST 9, 2023
The AI-generated movie trailer for “Genesis” is so convincing that it caused a firestorm of interweb chatter. Charlie Fink dives into the dynamics & details, and talks to its creator. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
AUGUST 9, 2023
Watch on YouTube XR Today’s Demond Cureton hosts Kevin O’Donovan, VRARA Co-Chair, Industrial Metaverse and Digital Twins. In our interview, we discuss the following: Updates on the industrial metaverse across companies like Siemens and GE Digital The value of digital twins and their use cases across industry verticals Comparative adoption rates for industrial vs consumer metaverse technologies Thanks for watching.
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.
VRScout
AUGUST 8, 2023
Train like a pro while dressed as one. VR sports training provider, Sense Arena, today announced that it has partnered with the National Hockey League (NHL), to launch NHL Sense Arena , the first-ever interactive NHL VR platform. First launched back in 2018, the Sense Arena hockey platform immerses you in a variety of virtual challenges and drills designed to test your skills on the ice and help improve your performance.
Road to VR
AUGUST 11, 2023
Windup Minds is a newly announced XR studio which has raised a $1.6 million seed investment for immersive experiences focused on virtual pets and companions. Windup Minds was founded earlier this year by Bernard Yee, Ben Vance, Amy Conchie, and Stefani Swiatkowski. The quartet of seasoned VR developers have collectively worked at Oculus, WeVR, Microsoft, EA, and more, with works under their belt like Oculus demo projects Bogo , Toy Box , and First Steps , along with mainstream gaming projects li
AR Insider
AUGUST 9, 2023
T This week on Reality Bytes. we disable TikTok’s algorithm, dress our best for Copenhagen Fashion Week, and ask Google to protect our personal data. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
AUGUST 7, 2023
Virtuix has begun shipping its Omni One beta units to early adopters. The firm is introducing its Omni One product for $2,595 or via a $65 monthly payment plan. The company plans to distribute more than 1,000 units by the end of 2023 and then another 8,000 units to investors by Q1 2024. Preorders for the Omni One will open to the general public in late 2023, with more shipments starting in Q2 2024.
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?
VRScout
AUGUST 8, 2023
The device pairs with Rokid AR glasses to provide a portable entertainment experience. Earlier this year, Rokid unveiled its latest pair of augmented reality-powered, Rokid Max. With a 50% larger display area than the Rokid Air, the company’s previous AR glasses, Rokid Max features an impressive 215-inch boundaryless screen from 6 meters away, offering cinephiles a new to enjoy their favorite films and TV both conveniently and privately.
Road to VR
AUGUST 8, 2023
Imaging company Almalence has released a trial plugin for its Digital Lens technology which makes use of eye-tracking to purportedly increase the resolving power and clarity of XR headsets. Almalense argues that the lenses on most XR headsets today aren’t being used to their fullest potential. By taking advantage of eye-tracking and smarter calibration, the company says its image pre-processing technology can actually increase the resolving power of a headset, including expanding the ̵
Charlie Fink
AUGUST 10, 2023
The 50th anniversary of the venerated computer graphics conference took place in Los Angeles from August 6th - 10th, 2023.
Hypergrid Business
AUGUST 7, 2023
Free land on Avitron. (Image courtesy AviTron.) AviTron owner Alexander Pomposelli has a long history of closing grids without warning. Back when he ran AviWorlds, I counted more than a dozen times that he closed that grid, often without any warning. Residents complained of losing access to regions, inventories, and in world-currency balances. At one point, he finally gave up, and turned AviWorlds over to former business partner Josh Boam — then started AviTron.
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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