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

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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.

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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.

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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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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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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.

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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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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 7, 2023

A few weeks ago, I proposed to a few colleagues to try together a game I’ve read about on Road To VR : Space Ball, by 31 Labs. The article talked about an indie game that fused Rocket League with Gorilla Tag movement, and since I love both soccer, indie games, and the movement mechanic of Gorilla Tag, I thought it could be a fun game to play together.

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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

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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

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ARPost

AUGUST 8, 2023

Immersive technologies bridging the gap between the physical and digital worlds can create new business opportunities. However, it also gives rise to new challenges in regulation and applying real-world laws to XR spaces. According to a World Economic Forum report , we are relatively slow in innovating new legal frameworks for emerging technologies like AR and VR.

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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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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.

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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 ̵

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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VRScout

AUGUST 6, 2023

The VR sports app Xtadium will also be live-streaming fights in 180 degrees. Meta this week announced that it’s teaming up with the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), one of the largest professional mixed martial arts (MMA) promotions, on an original experience in Meta’s social VR metaverse, Horizon Worlds. Here you’ll be able to watch immersive 180-degree matches in 4K resolution alongside fellow MMA enthusiasts.

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Charlie Fink

AUGUST 10, 2023

The 50th anniversary of the venerated computer graphics conference took place in Los Angeles from August 6th - 10th, 2023.

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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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