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The XR Week Peek (2025.05.05): Meta Quest’s disappointing sales, passthrough apps now on the Horizon Store, and more!

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I would like to say that this has been an exciting week for XR, but it wouldnt be true: actually, probably also because of the vacations for the 1st of May, it has been one of the most boring weeks of the year in our field. But Im excited anyway since Im going to have a couple of interesting trips waiting for me You will discover it all in tomorrows article!

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5 Ways AR Can Elevate Excercise

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Among other areas of applicability, AR is demonstrating potential as to elevate exercise. That includes everything from overlaying proper workout form to displaying personalized routines. We examine the possibilities. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Spacetop Launches Windows App to Turn Laptops into Large AR Workspaces

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Late last year, Sightful announced it was cancelling its unique laptop with built-in AR glasses , instead pivoting to build a version of its AR workspace software for Windows. Now the company has released Spacetop for Windows, which lets you transform your environment into a private virtual display for productivity on the go. Like its previous hardware, Spacetop works with XREAL AR glasses, however the new subscription-based app is targeting a much broader set of AI PCs, including the latest har

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Spatial Beats: Big Tech Troubles & Meta’s Million-Unit Quarter

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Apple and Google are both handed unfavorable rulings while Meta's Q1 earnings suggest more than a million XR devices sold. led by Ray-Ban Metas. We have these and other items from XR and AI realms through the eyes of Charlie Fink. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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The Future of eLearning in 2022: A Sensitive Eye for Authentic Translation and Localization

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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A Developer Implemented Continuous Scene Meshing On Quest 3

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Lasertag's developer implemented continuous scene meshing on Quest 3 & 3S, eliminating the need for the room setup process and avoiding its problems. Quest 3 and Quest 3S let you scan your room to generate a 3D scene mesh that mixed reality apps can use to allow virtual objects to interact with physical geometry or reskin your environment. But there are two major problems with Meta's current system.

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From Presence to Productivity: How XR Hand and Eye Tracking Enhances Virtual Workspaces

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Worldwide, businesses are waking up to the benefits of immersive technology in the enterprise. Teams are using digital twins to boost innovation and efficiency, and turning to XR headsets and the metaverse for training, collaboration, and hybrid workplace improvements. XR hand and eye tracking technologies are becoming increasingly valuable for that last use case.

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‘Puzzling Places’ is Finally Coming to PC, Arriving with VR and Flatscreen Support

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Puzzling Places(2021) has been a long-time favorite immersive puzzle game, bringing a heap of its real-world scanned 3D jigsaw puzzles to players in both virtual and mixed reality. Now developer Realities.io is preparing to release it on PC, which will include both VR and flatscreen modes. Realities.io says it’s remastering a selection of 30 of its “most beloved” puzzles with the upcoming PC release, which is including additional attachments, animations and audio effects.

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What An Apple Vision Pro Developer Learned Hiking 70 Miles Outdoors In Headset

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Last week I spoke by phone and then transferred the call to headset where I went face to face with the developer of CubicLayer. Contacting me initially via Bluesky, and asking to be identified by his first name Sean, the developer lists themselves as Industrial Volumetrics on the Apple App Store. In headset, the dev showed me inside the file system on his Mac where I watched intriguing videos, including one showing a virtual fishing pole near the physical ocean, another with a wrist-based virtua

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EON Reality Unveils Ultimate EON Spatial AI² Academy: The Third Way for 4× Faster Learning with 24/7 AI Mentors

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IRVINE, CA May 7, 2025 EON Reality, the global leader in augmented and virtual reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, today released its comprehensive Ultimate EON Spatial AI Academy Profile Document, detailing a revolutionary approach to education that addresses the urgent global skills gap through AI-powered extended reality (XR) technologies.

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How to Train Employees 65% Faster With Virtual Reality

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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Does this Chinese RT3D Engine Challenge Global XR Development?

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Following the shockwave to US AI that was DeepSeek, whereby a cheaper overseas competitor to US AI giants sent ripples across the region’s emerging technology space, such as NVIDIA stock prices plummeting at rates then unseen and unforeseen, a similar trend may be arising in the XR/RT3D market. With recent developments, it appears this same shockwave could hit the XR space, or in other words, the RT3D solutions marketplace.

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‘Open Brush’ Gets Multiplayer Mode, Bringing Collaborative Art to Free ‘Tilt Brush’ Successor

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Open Brush (2021), an open source successor to Google’s defunct VR art creation app Tilt Brush (2016), now has a multiplayer mode thanks to a recent update to the free app. Open Brush developer The Icosa Foundation has already released the update across all supported devices, which includes Quest and SteamVR headsets. The new update lets users collaborate, chat and create immersive VR art together in real-time, letting artists draw side-by-side, explore each other’s worlds, or showca

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Case Study: MHS Scales Equipment Maintenence with AR

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MHS was challenged in scaling its high-value senior experts. By having to physically travel to resolve maintenence issues requiring up to 12 hours of ground transportation there was a bottleneck in their deployment. So it looked to AR. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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May The Fourth Be With You - Star Wars VR Games See Deep Discounts Today

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Star Wars VR games are deeply discounted today for Star Wars day. Deep discounts are available across Quest, PlayStation, and Steam for the Vader Immortal series, Squadrons, Tales From The Galaxy's Edge, and Pinball. Vader Immortal (Quest, Rift, PSVR 1) Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series is a trilogy of interactive VR adventures where you play as a Force-sensitive smuggler and, while we won't spoil the rest of the plot for you, as you can probably guess it involves meeting Darth Vader.

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

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 Unveils 2025 Company Profile: Transforming Global Education Through AI-Powered XR Technology

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IRVINE, CA May 7, 2025 EON Reality, the global leader in augmented and virtual reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, today released its comprehensive 2025 EON Reality Company Profile , detailing remarkable advancements in its artificial intelligence-powered extended reality (XR) platforms. The document outlines the company’s transformative impact across 90+ countries and its ambitious vision to democratize knowledge for one billion learners worldwide.

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Big XR News from Amazon, Vuzix, Spacetop, Accenture, Meta

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This week’s roundup highlights significant developments in the augmented reality smart glasses landscape. Amazon’s Alexa Fund has invested heavily in IXI, a secretive AR startup, signalling its continued interest in this technology, particularly for applications like delivery services. Simultaneously, Vuzix is bolstering its innovation capabilities with a new Silicon Valley facility, while Sightful shifts its Spacetop AR productivity solution towards the burgeoning AI PC market.

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Flat2VR Parent Studio Opens VR Native Publisher ‘Impact Inked’

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Impact Reality, parent company of Flat2VR Studios, has opened a new publishing wing dedicated exclusively to bringing VR natives to market. Impact Reality announced in March 2024 it was forming Flat2VR Studios , a team led by VR modders dedicated to adapting flatscreen games to VR. Now, with Impact Inked, Impact Reality says its new publishing label will be dedicated to immersive games built from the ground up for VR, something the company says will allow it to support XR developers in “ne

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How Many XR Devices Did Meta Sell in Q1?

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What do Meta's Q1 earnings tell us about headset unit sales? And what does that in turn signal for aggregate demand and XR sector health? We do some financial reverse engineering. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Are You Still Watching? How to Create Engaging Presentations for Virtual Learning

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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Quest v77 PTC & Beyond: What Datamining Reveals About The Future of Horizon OS

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The Horizon OS v77 system software update started to roll out last week in the PTC (Public Test Channel). What Is the Public Test Channel (PTC)? The Public Test Channel (PTC) is Meta Quest's beta release channel. If you opt in, your headset receives a pre-release build of each Quest system software, now technically called Horizon OS , version. Note that there are often features in the eventual stable version not present in the PTC, and occasionally (but rarely) features or changes in the PTC don

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EON Reality Drives Tennessee’s Automotive/EV Workforce Forward with Spatial AI & XR Initiative

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IRVINE, CA May 2 , 2025 EON Reality, the world leader in AI-assisted Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, today launched a major strategic initiative aimed at building the highly skilled workforce crucial for Tennessee’s rapidly expanding automotive and Electric Vehicle (EV) manufacturing landscape.

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Beyond VR Headsets: The Role of Wearable Haptics for Business

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If you thought that extended reality headsets were transforming the workplace, just wait until you start upgrading your immersive experiences with the sense of touch. Wearable haptics, for business use cases like training, collaboration, and even product design, are becoming increasingly popular. These days, we have a lot more than just VR gloves bringing tangibility into immersive environments.

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New ‘Zombie Army VR’ Trailer Shows Off Full Features & More Gameplay Ahead of May Launch

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Ahead of Rebellion’s launch of Zombie Army VR on major VR headsets later this month, the studio released a new trailer showing off all of the features that await. In the new ‘Features Trailer’ for Zombie Army VR, weget a fresh look at zombie-ganking action as well as an array of real WWII weapons which you’ll use against the undead hordes.

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Who C.A.R.E.S.!? How Learning Got Its Bad Rap & What We Can Do About It

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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Reality Bytes: WhatsApp, Pinterest & Google

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This week on Reality Bytes, we unpack WhatsApps new privacy power move, Pinterests radical school-hours experiment, and the real story behind Googles AI search dominance. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Meta Rebrands Quest+ Subscription To Horizon+

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Meta just rebranded its Quest+ game subscription service to Horizon+, and it now brings discounts for paid titles. If you're unfamiliar with it, the $8/month subscription lets you redeem two pre-selected games each month, as well as access the titles in its Games Catalog. You can play your redeemed games and the catalog while your subscription remains active.

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EON Reality Powers Texas Manufacturing Boom: Launches Spatial AI & XR Initiative for Diverse Tech Hardware and Industrial Workforce

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IRVINE, CA May 6 , 2025 EON Reality, the world leader in AI-assisted Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, today announced a major strategic initiative designed to cultivate the diverse, highly skilled workforce required for Texas’s rapidly expanding Tech Hardware and Industrial Manufacturing sectors.

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Robotic Cardiac Surgery Takes a Giant Leap at MGM Healthcare, Chennai

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A New Era in Heart Care BeginsA remarkable milestone was achieved today as MGM Healthcare in Chennai officially launched its robotic cardiac surgery program, marking a significant advancement in India's medical landscape.This event not only highlights technological progress but also showcases the power of collaboration, innovation, and the vision to make world-class healthcare accessible across the country.

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The Key to Getting the Best Out of Video-Based Practice & Coaching

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