The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2025

Im back in Italy after my very positive experience at CES! I still cant believe that Ive been to this huge event I came back home that everything in my body was hurting, but I was happy nonetheless. Its been great going there from all points of view: as a blogger, enthusiast, and entrepreneur all sides of me are happy. Of course, CES is going to be the main topic of this weekly roundup, but there have also been interesting news not coming directly from there.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 15, 2025

CES has come and gone, with time to process highlights and takeaways. Charlie Fink was on the ground at LVCC, and has his hot take for AR Insider readers, including the best AI and XR at the show. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 10, 2025

Wait, Apple Vision Pro doesn’t come in black, does it? Nope, but Play For Dream MR does. And with what some are calling the ‘Android Vision Pro’, owing to its Android-based OS, Play For Dream seems to have turned some heads at CES 2025 this past week. Initially launched in Asia last year, China-based headset creator Play For Dream had its sights on bringing the heavily Vision Pro-inspired mixed reality headset to the West.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 13, 2025

We live in a world where visuals arent just supporting the narrativethey are the narrative. Today, forward-thinking brands are redefining engagement by crafting stunning, immersive… Continue reading → The Future of Furniture: Will CGI and 3D Shape Digital Commerce? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 14, 2025

Welcome to the new era of VR workplace productivity. Only a few years ago, virtual reality headsets and extended reality technologies were little more than novelties. Now, immersive solutions are transforming every industry. Enterprises use VR systems to revolutionize learning, collaboration, and employee engagement. Manufacturers use VR to streamline and enhance product development.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 12, 2025

VR enthusiast Luna received a tip with apparent details of the Asus ROG Horizon OS headset. Months before Meta Quest 3S was revealed Luna received a tip with the name and function of the Action Button, which toggles passthrough, and this turned out to be entirely accurate. Now, Luna has received apparent details of the Asus ROG Horizon OS headset. Meta Horizon OS Will Run On Headsets From Asus & Lenovo Meta is rebranding its Quest software platform to Meta Horizon OS and opening it up to thi

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Road to VR

JANUARY 13, 2025

Pimax, the Chinese startup known for its wide field-of-view (FOV) PC VR headsets, has secured an additional CN100 million (~$13.6 million USD) inan extension to its Series C funding. According to an initial report from 36Kr (Chinese), the investment round was led byZhuji Jingchuang Rong Investment Co, and supported by previous investor Ivy Capital, which took part in the company’s $20 million Series B in 2020.This brings to company’s overall outside investment to $82.7 million, acco

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 15, 2025

The future of VR looks increasingly promising for enterprise users. Not so long ago, most people viewed virtual reality as a novelty targeted mainly at consumers and gamers. Now, companies in every industry, from manufacturing to healthcare, are beginning to rely on VR tech. Right now, the virtual reality market is growing at a CAGR of 28.7% – expected to reach a value of $123.06 billion by 2032.

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Charlie Fink

JANUARY 11, 2025

CES 2025 showcased AI as the headline theme, but tangible innovation was scarce. Infinite Reality raised $3B, KoBold Metals secured $527M, and Roto VR chair surprised in VR tech.

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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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JANUARY 14, 2025

GRIM, a VR multiplayer survival sandbox set on Mars that's inspired by RUST, kicks off its early access alpha this week on Quest and Steam. Developed by one-person team Spoonfed Interactive with support from Combat Waffle Studios ( Ghosts of Tabor , Silent North ), GRIM promises a focus on realism with a sci-fi twist. Set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring PvP and PvE elements, you try to survive following failed Martian colonization efforts.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 10, 2025

We haven’t heard much about Sony’s SRH-S1 standalone MR headset over the past year, which the company revealed at CES 2024. Now, the enterprise-focused device has an official launch date and price. Released in collaboration with Siemens,the soberly-named SonySRH-S1 is set to launch sometime in February 2025, priced at$4,750, which the companies are squarely aiming at enterprise.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 16, 2025

When combined with OTT platforms everything from Apple TV, Roku and streaming apps like Netflix and Hulu AR and VR present a potent combination that promises to redefine entertainment. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 14, 2025

Ready to invest in the best VR headset for business users? Youre in good company. By the end of 2028, IDC forecasts around 24.7 million VR headsets will be shipping worldwide each year. Analysts believe a hefty portion of those devices will heading towards enterprise users. Thats because countless organizations are beginning to discover the benefits of VR hardware for workplace use cases.

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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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Charlie Fink

JANUARY 16, 2025

These new Cinematic AI Films demonstrate new capabilities of models like Luma Labs, Hailuo, and Veo. You forget they're AI.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 12, 2025

Meta Quest 3S was the top selling games console on Amazon US in 2024, despite only releasing in October. In fact, it was the third most sold device of any kind in the Video Games category , beaten only by a Nintendo licensed microSD card and the black PlayStation controller introduced at the start of last year, both being a fraction of the price. The news comes after the Meta Horizon app needed to set up Quest headsets was the #1 free iPhone app on Christmas Day 2024, and SteamVR saw near-record

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Road to VR

JANUARY 16, 2025

Shuhei Yoshida (aka ‘Shu’) has left Sony, closing a near 32-year chapter of his life with the company. Yoshida announced he was leaving Sony back in November, setting his retirement date for January 15th, 2025. Now, the one-time President of Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Worldwide Studios has bid farewell to the company. At farewell party yesterday pic.twitter.com/hpiPWQIO1z Shuhei Yoshida (@yosp) January 14, 2025 “Ive been with PlayStation from the beginning, and thi

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AR Insider

JANUARY 14, 2025

In all the excitement around mixed reality and AI smart glasses, we often forget about XR's most scalable format today: Mobile AR. How does the sub-sector fare as we enter 2025? 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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 15, 2025

Around the world, countless companies are discovering the benefits of VR in the workplace. Virtual reality isnt just a novelty for companies anymore. Its quickly becoming one of the most effective ways to turbocharge productivity, enhance team performance, and drive innovation. For enterprises, there are two central areas where virtual reality can have an immediate and incredible impact on teams: training and collaboration.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 10, 2025

This week, at CES 2025, NVIDIA took centre stage to showcase its latest innovations in emerging technology. Namely, NVIDIA showed off its robotics and AI investments. The two go hand in hand for NVIDIA. As the firm researches into robotics and self-driving cars, it is taking the necessary steps to develop an AI framework to power this next generation of tech.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 13, 2025

In his latest appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast, Mark Zuckerberg admitted that Apple Vision Pro is better than Quest 3 for watching movies. Shortly after Apple Vision Pro released last year, Zuckerberg posted a three minute video in which he reviewed the headset and compared it to Quest 3. In that video Zuckerberg stated that while he previously expected that Quest 3 would just offer better value than Vision Pro, after using it he now believes Quest 3 is outright the better product, period, beca

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Road to VR

JANUARY 15, 2025

Combat Waffle Studios and Beyond Frames Entertainment, the studios behind VR survival shooter Ghosts of Tabor (2023) , announced they’re launching a VR game into early access this week which is heavily inspired by Rust (2018). Developed by Spoonfed Interactive with support from Combat Waffle, GRIM is bringing a heaping spoonful of Rust -style multiplayer survival gameplay to PC VR and Quest starting this month.

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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

JANUARY 16, 2025

TikTok's fate is soon to be sealed, Beat Saber reaches 10 million downloads, and cinematic AI gets scary good. We have these and other items from XR and AI worlds, through the eyes of Charlie Fink. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 14, 2025

Shanghai-based VR hardware manufacturer Pimax Technology has secured a 100 million C1+ financing round, marking one of China’s largest VR investments of 2024. The deal – spearheaded by Zhuji Jingkai Chuangrong Investment alongside existing backer Ivy Capital – comes at a pivotal moment for the company, which has seen its revenue double annually for three straight years.

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metamandrill

JANUARY 13, 2025

Virtual reality (VR) is changing how people experience digital environments. While impressive advancements in VR are visible to users, the real power behind these innovations lies in strong tech foundations. A solid framework helps companies scale their VR projects and deliver smooth, engaging experiences that captivate users. How Stable Infrastructure Supports VR Performance A dependable [.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 10, 2025

Sony's standalone XR headset for enterprise CAD now has a price and release month. The Sony SRH-S1, as it's now being called, will be available for businesses to purchase from January 23 for $4750, and will start shipping some time in February. The headset was first announced at last year's CES. It's powered by Qualcomm's XR2+ Gen 2 chipset (also being used in Samsung's headset ), features 35523840 micro-OLED displays, has color passthrough, and uses a halo strap with a flip-up design. 0:00 / 3:

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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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