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Is Multimodal AI AR’s Unsung Hero?

AR Insider

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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The Best VR Games of 2024 – Our Game of the Year Picks

Road to VR

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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Should you attend XR events? Pros and cons of going to exhibitions

The Ghost Howls

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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How to Use Windows on Meta Quest 3 Headsets

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Itching for an easy way to access Windows apps on your XR headset? Youre in luck. At Ignite 2024 , Microsoft announced new support for Windows on Meta Quest 3 and Quest 3S devices, designed to boost immersive collaboration and productive experiences for teams. Notably, users have been able to access Windows apps on the Meta Quest 3 before now (more on that in a moment).

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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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OpenAI Under Fire, Backflip 3D Raises $30 Million, Gemini AI For XR

Charlie Fink

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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Happy Winter Holidays 2024!

The Ghost Howls

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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Pimax Announces Dream Air, a Compact VR Headset With One Totally Unique Feature

Road to VR

The Pimax Dream Air headset represents a new area of focus for the company. While most of its headsets up to this point have been necessarily bulky to achieve their signature large field-of-view, the Dream Air aims to make a headset that’s compact but still feature-rich. One of those featuresa headstrap that automatically tightenswould be an industry first.

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Skydance's Behemoth Review - Great Boss Fights Deliver Decent VR Action

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Skydance's Behemoth is at its best when facing the titular creatures, though it's not a completely clean sweep through the Forsaken Lands. Read on for our full review. There's a unique fear that only VR's sense of presence can deliver. Your journey begins alone, wandering through a snowy tundra with your mother's message echoing in your thoughts. Seeing the first Behemoth barely a stone throw away immediately sets the scene and while that's only a tease for what follows, these awe-inspiring mome

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Moonvalley’s Clean AI Model, Veo Bests Sora, Higgsfield’s ReelMagic, More Cinematic AI Videos

Charlie Fink

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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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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How Is XR Reshaping Real Estate?

AR Insider

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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EON Reality & Smart Reality White Paper: How AI Mentors, AR & Emotion Detection, Are Transforming Education

EON Reality

IRVINE, CA December 23, 2024 EON Reality, the world leader in AI-assisted Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education , in partnership with Smart Reality , is proud to announce the publication of an extensive new White Paper that outlines how AI-driven agents can replace conventional software and fundamentally change how people learn, train, and collaborate.

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‘Vail VR’ Studio Reveals $5.5M in Revenue as It Opens Crowd-investment Campaign

Road to VR

AEXLAB , the studio behind VR shooter Vail (2024), announced it’s opened a crowd-investment campaign to support ongoing development of the game. Additionally, the studio revealed the multiplayer shooter has generated over $5.5 million in revenue to date, owing to its 300,000+ unique players across PC VR and Quest platforms. Unlike typical crowdfunding campaigns, which promise a product in exchange for startup funds, the Miami, Florida-based studio is pursuing the equitycrowd-investment rou

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UploadVR's Best of VR 2024 Awards – Game Of The Year & Most Anticipated Of 2025

Upload VR

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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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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Meta CTO Reflects on 2024, MR Headsets, AR Smart Glasses, AI, and What’s Next

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

2024 has been quite the year for Meta and its XR ambitions; just as AI and the Apple Vision Pro took over headline space this year, Meta was underpinning its foothold on the XR market. Building on its AI-related work, Meta expanded its AR smart glasses strategy by debuting generation 2 Ray Ban glasses with improved AI features. Alongside this, Meta showcased its Orion Prototype, an AR smart glasses device highlighting the future of Meta immersive wearables.

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Reality Bytes: A Look Forward

AR Insider

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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EON Reality Launches AI-Powered Health & Wellness Coach to Transform Fitness, Nutrition, and Lifestyle Habits

EON Reality

IRVINE, CA December 19, 2024 – EON Reality, the world leader in AI-assisted Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, proudly announces the release of its AI-Powered Health & Wellness Coach. This innovative solution offers a personalized, holistic approach to fitness, nutrition, and lifestyle improvements, leveraging AI-driven insights, immersive simulations, and dynamic habit-building strategies to empower individuals on their journey

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New Trailer Reveals Release Date for ‘SUPERHOT’ Spiritual Successor ‘COLD VR’

Road to VR

COLD VR, a spiritual successor to long-time hit SUPERHOT VR (2016), is officially headed to Quest and PC VR headsets next month, with its PSVR 2 version slated to arrive later. Superhot VR is old, but gold. And it’s a wonder more studios haven’t tried to replicate its game’s unique time-stopping movement mechanic. Cold VR has to a certain extent, although it’s flipping the script by making you move not slower, but faster.

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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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Alien: Rogue Incursion Review - A Promising Yet Imperfect Entry

Upload VR

Alien: Rogue Incursion plunges players into a tense, atmospheric narrative to uncover dark secrets on the planet Purdan. Read on for our full review. The Facts What is it?: An action-horror VR shooter set in the Alien universe. Platforms: PS VR2 , SteamVR (reviewed on both platforms) Release Date: Out now (PS VR2, Steam), February 13, 2025 (Quest 3) Developer: Survios, Inc Price: $39.99 (Deluxe Edition $49.99) Contrast To Previous Titles While Rogue Incursion brings some fresh elements to the se

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What is Android XR? Google’s Revolutionary XR Ecosystem

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Google is diving head-first back into the world of extended reality and this time, the company is going big. While it might not be ready to show off any physical products just yet, Google has officially laid out its vision for a brand-new unified Android XR ecosystem. Google isnt just bringing a reimagined pair of AR glasses to the public (although it does seem to be working on smart glasses with Project Astra).

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Defining the AR & AI Battlefront, Part I

AR Insider

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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Indian Air Force gets virtual reality-based system on refuelling

XROM

The Indian Air Force (IAF) has partnered with Chitkara University, located near Chandigarh, to create an innovative virtual reality (VR) training system designed to instruct newly inducted Agniveers in aircraft refuelling procedures. This advanced VR system allows trainees to wear a head-mounted display, immersing them in a realistic virtual environment that simulates aircraft and their subsystems.

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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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Meta CTO on Wireless Compute Pucks for Quest: They Don’t Solve the Problem

Road to VR

Reducing weight and increasing performance are two of the most important factors in pushing standalone XR headsets forward. While Meta has shown off its own Orion AR glasses prototype using a wireless compute unit ,Meta’s CTO Andrew Bosworth doesn’t think a similar setup is the magic bullet for standalone VR gaming. Bosworth, who is also head of the company’s Reality Labs XR team, held another one of his Instagram Q&As earlier this week, where he typically delves into a wid

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Interstellar VR Rhythm Game Starwave Gets First DLC Pack Today On Quest

Upload VR

Starwave adds six new songs to the interstellar VR rhythm game with its first DLC today on Quest. Developed by Tigertron and Skymap Games, Starwave is a rhythm game set in space where players hit notes in time to the music to complete constellations. Today's Be Strong pack introduces new levels across six new constellations, heading into the Centauri galaxy with a bass-and-adrenaline-fueled score.

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What is Apple Immersive Video? Mesmerizing Media

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Its easy to write the Apple Vision Pro off as being dead in the water at this point. After all, the evidence is mounting that Apple is going to discontinue the spatial computing device in the future. But that doesnt mean Apples XR journey is over as evidenced by Apple Immersive Video. Sure, immersive video doesnt sound as exciting as a brand-new mixed reality headset, or a pair of augmented reality glasses but it does have potential.

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XR Talks: The ‘Why’ and ‘How’ of Immersive Shopping

AR Insider

The 3D commerce playbook is quickly evolving. And no one knows it better than Mike Festa. As a veteran of immersive shopping, he's now CTO of SuperDNA 3D Lab and joins us on the latest AR Insider Innovators episode. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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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