Road to VR

DECEMBER 30, 2024

One of the worst things to happen on Christmas morning is downloading updates and charging batteries. Undoubtedly even worse though is downloading an update that then bricks your device before you can even use it. This apparently happened to a number of users last week, which Meta has responded by offering new devices and Horizon Store credit. According to mass user reports that flooded Reddit on December 25th, some new Quest owners encountered a critical error after being forced to apply the la

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AR Insider

JANUARY 1, 2025

Apple recently stripped away some of the friction in visual search. The iPhone 16's new Camera Control button includes a function to launch visual searches on the fly. Could this one-touch approach accelerate visual search's adoption curve? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Here we are, another year deeper into the most immersive medium that refuses to stand still. Far from fading away, over its nearly decade of existence VR has continued to evolve in ways both subtle and seismic, redefining whats possible in gaming, creativity, and connection. 2024 has been a year of milestones, where the long-promised potential of VR is becoming ever more undeniable.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 19, 2024

It’s the end of the year, and like every December, it is the time to make a balance about how the past year went. There is a particular aspect of my professional year I want to tell you about and it is the attendance at XR events. This year, since my main job vanished and so I had more time, I decided to attend more XR-related events and see what outcomes I could obtain from these opportunities.

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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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AR Insider

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Since Ray-Ban Meta Smartglasses launched, the term multimodal AI has gained importance in the world of AR. What is it? Who else is working on it, and why does it matter? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Charlie Fink

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Supreme Court tackles TikTok ban, Meta & Musk challenge OpenAI shift, Backflips 3D AI emerges, Samsung/Google Adding AI to XR OS, Google Veo 2, 'Party Versus' MR Release

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Google today announced Android XR, a new core branch of Android, designed as a spatial operating system for XR headsets and glasses. The company is pitching this as a comprehensive spatial computing platform, and hopes to establish its own territory in the XR landscape against incumbents Meta and Apple. Google has revealed Android XR and it’s basically what the name implies: a full-blown version of Android that’s been adapted to run on XR headsets, supports the entire existing librar

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2024

This week has been pretty cool for me because Ive announced that Im attending CES in January for the first time in my life! Im already organizing the trip, and setting up some appointments to try AR/VR glasses. If youll be there, let me know! And if you have some pieces of advice on how to make my CES better, let me know, too! I cant wait to share with you everything about my experience.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Of all the verticals and business categories where XR applies, real estate holds some high-stakes potential. This comes in many flavors, from VR tours to virtually staging homes with AR. We break down the formats and future outlook. 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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 12, 2024

WinidsorPatania Architects have been awarded the Inspiring Learning Space Award at the Education Estate Awards 2024 in Manchester, UK. The XR space in West Suffolk College offers a space for businesses and the surrounding community to learn, develop, and collaborate. The awards were setup to recognise quality, innovation and sustainability solutions among architects, contractors, consultants, and clients in the education space.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Samsung's first standalone headset is coming in 2025, running Google's new Android XR operating system and powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 chipset. Currently known as "Project Moohan", the headset will feature "state-of-the-art displays", eye tracking and hand tracking. Beyond this, Samsung isn't yet sharing specifications. I went hands-on with an early headset developer kit showcasing Google's software and Samsung's hardware.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 24, 2024

It is a tradition of this blog that I write my holiday wishes for you every year at Christmas. I suspect that almost everyone is too busy celebrating to care about my greetings… but I’m happy to write them anyway! I guess it is like this, but whatever So let me wish you a wonderful Christmas , in case you celebrate it, or just a wonderful 25 December in case you don’t celebrate it.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 19, 2024

When it comes to Meta Orion, What are the implications? Why did Meta show its cards? Who is going to win? and will anyone even care? Guest author Evan Helda tackles big questions. 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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EON Reality

DECEMBER 16, 2024

IRVINE, CA December 16, 2024 EON Reality, the world leader in AI-assisted Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, today announced a strategic integration of its XR platform with Android XR. This development, coupled with EON Realitys existing support for over 30 leading XR devicesincluding Apple Vision Pro, Metas Quest series, and Pico headsetssignificantly expands hardware options for customers, lowers entry barriers , and accelerates the mai

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Welcome to UploadVR's Best of VR Awards for 2024. 2024 has been a busy year for VR and the wider XR industry, delivering new hardware releases and a strong set of new VR games. As 2024 comes to a close, we're once again using our Best of VR Awards to highlight the most exceptional picks across hardware and software this year. Each category will feature one winner and relevant honorable mentions.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Samsung is the first partner to formally announce a new MR headset based on the newly announced Android XR. The device, codenamed “Project Moohan,” is planned for consumer release in 2025. We went hands on with an early version. Note: Samsung and Google aren’t yet sharing any key details for this headset like resolution, weight, field-of-view, or price.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Schell Games has just launched its new game, Party Versus , and in my opinion, it is the first game to find a great formula for multiplayer social mixed reality. It uses a genius idea to make people feel connected in the same mixed reality even if they are remote, and I’m pretty sure that many will copy this concept in the future. I’ve gone hands-on with this revolutionary title in a dedicated press preview and I want to tell you everything about it!

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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

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This week on Reality Bytes, we draw on the past 6 years of episodes to predict 3 major trends we expect to see over the next 5 years. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Charlie Fink

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Moonvalleys clean AI model, Googles Veo besting Sora, and Higgsfields ReelMagic drive a new era of faster, richer, cinematic AI video experiences

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Sony, Lynx, and Xreal are building Android XR devices. Hands-On With Samsungs Android XR Headset, Shipping In 2025 Samsungs Android XR headset is launching in 2025, and we went hands on. Read the details and our impressions here. UploadVR Ian Hamilton If you missed the news, Samsung finally revealed its standalone headset today, and Google revealed the Android XR platform that it will run.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Samsung isn’t sharing a lot of details on its newly announced Android XR headset, but it has confirmed two key things that existing VR enthusiasts and developers are sure to be happy about. Samsung’s ‘Project Moohan’ headset will be the first to ship with Android XR next year. And though our hands-on with the headset exclusively used hand-tracking and eye-tracking input, the company says it’s also making first-party motion controllers which will be natively supporte

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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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DECEMBER 15, 2024

Discovery Grid. (Image courtesy Discovery Grid via Facebook.) Discovery Grid , which had been in OpenSim for more than a dozen years, is moving today to the Open 3D Engine platform, also known as O3DE. In his announcement , grid owner Rene Vega — also known as Balpien Hammerer in-world — cited declining user engagement and the limitations of OpenSim technology as key factors in the decision.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 26, 2024

In an age when AI headlines dominate every corner of the tech world, Rikard Steibers Supercharge Your Life with AI arrives as an unexpected gift for the holidays. Charlie Fink reviews. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 20, 2024

In May 2024, the Google I/O event revealed a few interesting insights into the tech giants future product roadmap. The company mainly highlighted AI, introducing new versions of Google Gemini, tools for building AI assistants, and more. With Project Astra, Google introduced its vision for the future of smart assistants. According to the company, Astra is an AI agent for everyday life that can leverage your phones camera and voice recognition software to aid you with day-to-day tasks.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Niantic's Scaniverse now has a WebXR app that lets you view user-created Gaussian splats, including your own, in your Quest 3's web browser. The Scaniverse mobile app for iOS/iPadOS and Android lets you scan real world 3D scenes for free, leveraging on-device processing. Now, with the Into The Scaniverse WebXR site , you can view them, and those created by others around the world, in the Horizon OS web browser on Quest 3 and Quest 3S.

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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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