VRScout

JULY 24, 2023

Dodge laser traps while exploring a massive volcano hideaway in this latest mini golf course. Since launching on VR headsets in 2020, Walkabout Mini Golf , Mighty Coconut’s VR mini golf simulator, has received a number of updates in the form of new and exciting DLC courses. This includes everything from “Sweetopia,” a confectionary fantasyland composed of all manner of delicious-looking obstacles, to “Atlantis,” a sprawling underwater course inspired by the mythical

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AR Insider

JULY 25, 2023

Local search represents a sizable portion of Google’s revenue. This is because local modifiers like "near me" are strong user intent signals. How does this drive Google's geolocal AR ambitions? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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ARPost

JULY 25, 2023

The metaverse can be summed up as the augmented world. So, naturally, it has implications for travel. How and when people travel may both seriously change as spatial communication and digital twins make some kinds of travel less likely, while AR and automation reimagine the travel that we do engage in. A report by Booking.com for Business , titled “The Future of Business Travel” explores the next 30 years of travel.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 22, 2023

A few weeks ago, Ultraleap announced the Leap Motion Controller 2 , the successor of that Leap Motion Controller that got much recognition from makers and research centers. This week, I received a sample of it and I opened its box. I have not had the occasion to test thoroughly the device yet, but since I saw a bit of radio silence about it on the main VR outlets, I wanted to share with you some early photos and videos.

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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

JULY 28, 2023

You better bundle up, this new map looks absolutely frigid. Originally announced last month, developer Schell Games this week launched a brand new map for the popular VR social deduction game, Among Us VR. Available for free on Meta Quest, Meta Rift, and PC VR headsets, ‘Polus Point’ is a frigid-looking map inspired by Polus, an ice-covered planet that first appeared in the original game.

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ARPost

JULY 27, 2023

If you get all of your AWE coverage from ARPost, you might be under the impression that the event is only in California – but it wouldn’t be much of a “World Expo” then, would it? In addition to frequent all-online events, AWE consists of three in-person events each year: AWE USA, AWE Europe, and AWE Asia. AWE Asia , this year taking place in Singapore, is fast approaching, with the agenda now finalized.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

This week VR is dead again. Sorry to inform you about that. It’s been good to dream about the metaverse, but now we can all get back to frying potatoes at McDonald’s and binge on Twitter during the free time. Ah no, not even that because also Twitter is dead. Now it’s called X and aims at becoming the Western WeChat. Luckily there is AR that is still strong, and we can hope to wear Google AR glasses soon… ah no, they are dead too.

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VRScout

JULY 27, 2023

The platform supports popular tabletop games such as Dungeons & Dragons , Pathfinder , and Starfinder. The mixed reality gaming company Mirrorscape has just launched an open beta for its one-of-a-kind Mirrorscape app, which allows users to play their favorite tabletop RPGs through a first-of-its-kind 3D tabletop gaming experience powered by augmented reality (AR) technology.

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AR Insider

JULY 24, 2023

As Hollywood actors and writers strike, the Simulation has introduced Showrunner, an AI tool that creates 22-minute generative-AI episodes of popular shows. We examine strategic implications. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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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 24, 2023

Do you remember missing an amazing concert by your favorite artist because you could not travel to another country or continent to attend it? This is no longer a problem. Thanks to AmazeVR , anyone can experience live shows using their newly-launched VR Concerts app. Drawing on their previous experience working with artists like Megan Thee Stallion and Ceraad i, the company is celebrating the launch of their AmazeVR Concerts app with “Zara Larsson VR Concert”, the one-of-a-kind show by Swedish p

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Road to VR

JULY 27, 2023

Meta’s latest quarterly results show its Reality Labs XR division is again reporting an operating loss just south of $4 billion. Now, for its Q2 2023 results, the company says Reality Labs’ revenue was down by 39% due to lower Quest 2 sales, making for the worst quarterly performance in the past two years. Meta has been clear about its plan to spend aggressively on XR over the next several years , so it’s again no surprise we’re seeing operating budgets in the billions w

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VRScout

JULY 26, 2023

Barbie fever has officially made its way to the uber-popular social VR game. The Barbie movie is in theaters now and Warner Bros has gone out of its way to ensure that every human being on Earth is aware of this fact via a massive $150 million marketing campaign that includes a real Barbie dream house in Malibu and a skyscraper-sized Barbie doll in Dubai powered by augmented reality (AR) technology.

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AR Insider

JULY 26, 2023

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. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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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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ARPost

JULY 28, 2023

The 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup is on – and celebrations aren’t limited to the physical world. A number of innovative activations on Snapchat ensure that fans everywhere can feel like a part of the action. Snap’s 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup Lenses While AR activations can be fun, they don’t often add much real value for people actually following the sport.

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Road to VR

JULY 24, 2023

As far as VR treadmills go, Virtuix is the OG. While the company had set out to make a consumer VR treadmill a decade ago, market realities pushed the company into the out-of-home VR attraction space. But after all these years the company remains dead-set on selling a VR treadmill to consumers, and this time around it’s taking an all-in-one approach with the new Virtuix Omni One.

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VRScout

JULY 25, 2023

Immersive technology brings the iconic doll to life in Dubai. After a single weekend in theaters, the Barbie movie has already managed to amass a whopping $350 million in international and domestic sales. This immense success is in no small part due to Warner Bros’ absolutely massive $150 million marketing campaign, which involved everything from an official clothing line collaboration with Zara to a real-life Barbie dream house.

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AR Insider

JULY 24, 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 latest points of convergence between AI & XR. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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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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ARPost

JULY 26, 2023

Space Invaders is a shooting video game created by Tomohiro Nishikado in 1978 and manufactured and sold by TAITO. It was the first fixed shooter video game and is considered one of the most iconic arcade games ever. As Space Invaders turns 45, TAITO teams up with Google and UNIT9 to give its players an elevated AR gaming experience with Google’s ARCore Geospatial API.

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Road to VR

JULY 24, 2023

It seems we’re closer to seeing a viable workaround that could allow PSVR 2 owners to play PC VR games. iVRy , the most promising project dedicated to the task, is making good headway by unlocking the headset’s outer cameras for room-scale tracking. The effort to hack PSVR 2 was initially put on hold earlier this year, which was understandably a let-down for anyone hoping to play PC VR-exclusive titles such as Half-Life: Alyx (2020), or social apps like Bigscreen or VRChat.

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VRScout

JULY 22, 2023

Unity developers can build spatial computing experiences for visionOS that blend digital content with the physical world using Unity PolySpatial. With the release of its visionOS beta platform, Unity, the creator of the world’s leading real-time 3D content creation system, is providing developers with access to its Unity PolySpatial tool. Through this beta program, you and other creatives will be able to create experiences using Unity editor that can run on the Apple Vision Pro MR headse

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AR Insider

JULY 26, 2023

VR continues to find new areas of applicability, including immersive shopping. But beyond shopper benefits, what about strategic implications for retailers, including supply chain management? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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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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Tech Trends VR

JULY 27, 2023

The finest showcase for AR, VR, AI, and Spatial Computing is taking place this August in Singapore, book now! Greetings, tech enthusiasts! Excitement is in the air as AWE Asia 2023, the most anticipated gathering of the brightest minds in Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and spatial computing, is heading to Singapore on August 30-31!

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Road to VR

JULY 22, 2023

According to a recent report from The Information , Meta is allegedly spinning down Quest Pro alongside a broader move to cancel the future ‘Pro’ line of XR hardware altogether. Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth says however, “don’t believe everything you read.” Meta has reportedly stopped ordering new components for the Quest Pro from its suppliers, The Information maintains.

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VRScout

JULY 26, 2023

Lead an elite military unit through 13 action-packed levels or team up with a friend and complete 50 squad missions. Coming next month to PC VR and PlayStation VR2, Crossfire: Sierra Squad is a military arcade shooter that has you leading an elite paramilitary fireteam throughout a series of high-stakes missions set in a variety of indoor and outdoor locations.

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AR Insider

JULY 26, 2023

This week on Reality Bytes, we sell our handprint to Amazon, go to camp with Doodles, and X out of Twitter. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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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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