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Aligning Nano & Micro-Influencers with Your DEI Marketing

4 years ago
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You’ve probably heard it a million times already, but authenticity and relatability is EVERYTHING. Social justice movements continue to surge on social media platforms and more people are speaking up about matters that align with their own values. It’s taking a lot more than just simple traditional marketing to speak to your audience.  According to […]

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Physics-based Combat Sim ‘Swordsman’ Coming to Oculus Quest Next Year

4 years ago
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Swordsman (2020), the physics-based combat sim for PSVR and PC VR headsets, is bringing its bloody sandbox battles to Oculus Quest at some point next year. Developers Sinn Studio announced in a recent tweet that Swordsman is slated to arrive on Oculus App Lab in early 2022. The team says they’re were in discussions with Facebook […]

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Ultra Configurable Sci-fi Flight Sim ‘Tinker Pilot’ Now Available in Alpha

4 years ago
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Tinker Pilot has been in the works for a few years now, aiming to deliver a PC VR simulator experience that lets players build their own sci-fi cockpit and outfit it with 1:1 digital counterparts of things like HOTAS flight sticks, pedals, joysticks and more. Now you can get a taste of the highly configurable flight […]

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Facebook Offers up $10 Million to Draw Creators to ‘Horizon’

4 years ago
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Horizon, Facebook’s social VR space built around user-generated content, was announced more than two years ago, but the company still isn’t quite ready to send it out the door. Instead, Facebook this week announced it is rebranding the project as Horizon Worlds, while also announcing a $10 million fund to support creators building content within. […]

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High-end Headset Maker Teases ‘most anticipated product reveal’ Just Days Before Facebook Connect

4 years ago
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Facebook Connect is certainly the marquee VR event this month, but it looks like other companies are hoping to steal a bit of the spotlight. First HTC teased an upcoming product to be revealed next week, and now high-end headset marker Varjo says it plans to unveil its “most highly anticipated product release yet” on […]

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Advanced Housekeeping Keeps Station in Tip-Top Shape

4 years ago
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The Expedition 65 crew focused on a variety of advanced housekeeping activities today aboard the International Space Station. There was also time for robotics research, crew departure preparations, and filmmaking activities. Five station astronauts had their hands full on Friday working on everything from electronics, cleaning, plumbing, and setting up temporary crew quarters. Some of …
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Bank of America Rolls Out Global VR Employee Trainer

4 years ago
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Bank of America (BoA) has become the first global financial services company to adopt virtual reality (VR) training for its nearly 4,300 financial centres across the globe, it announced on Thursday. The novel training course will facilitate training for numerous routine and complex tasks for over 50,000 workers, and allow employees to practice simulated client […]
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VRARA Global Summit Europe Concludes Online Event

4 years ago
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The VR/AR Association’s (VRARA) Global European Summit took place September 29th to October 1st, uniting over 300 speakers across numerous sessions, keynotes and virtual booths for attendees. The summit featured presentations by representatives sharing ideas on extended, augmented, virtual, and mixed reality (XR/AR/VR/MR) solutions and practices across verticals such as eCommerce, healthcare, entertainment, and tourism. […]
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Delta Reality Opens NFT Sale of MoDaL Metaverse Platform

4 years ago
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Croatian extended reality (XR) developers Delta Reality recently listed its Museum of Digital Life (MoDaL) Metaverse platform as a single non-refundable token (NFT). The starting bid for MoDaL currently sits at 8.88 ETH (roughly 31,591.22 USD) and the top bidder will own the entire MoDaL Metaverse platform. MoDaL is a virtual reality (VR) digital gallery […]
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NVIDIA AI Proposes Novel Mixed Reality Framework

4 years ago
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Researchers have found new methods to detect 3D spatial lighting, shapes, and reflections for 3D content creation using a novel rendering process, it was revealed in a recent report. Academics and researchers from the University of Toronto, the Vector Institute, and US tech giant NVIDIA proposed in a report in mid-September a new Volumetric Spherical Gaussian […]