Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Tokyo Game Show (TGS), the annual video game trade fair and convention, is getting set to kick off next week, and with it comes its own digital event space: TGS Digital World, now available on Quest and PC VR headsets. Now in its fourth year running, TGS Digital World is back, packing in another year of quests, collectibles, and digital booths dedicated to some of the most popular game franchises.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

You may know that this is my third week in China and I’ve toured a few cities to enjoy good food and the company of some friends, but also to meet some companies and some professionals working in XR. Communication between China and the West is not always easy, so the best way to know how things are going here is to speak with people who experience the daily reality of the Chinese XR ecosystem.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Snap has unveiled the fifth generation of Spectacles. We were on site during the keynote festivities, and demo'd the new glasses in a recent pre-briefing. We have opinions and observations. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

HTC today revealed its next standalone XR headset, the Vive Focus Vision. The company appears to be appealing again to enterprise and prosumers, packing in a mishmash of specs from Vive Focus 3 and Vive Elite XR—priced at $1,000. HTC launched pre-orders today for its new MR headset, Vive Focus Vision. Pre-orders are available from today through October 17th, after which the headset will presumably launch.

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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Recently, immersive learning service provider Avantis Education won an Educators Pick Best of STEM 2024 Award, which showcased the firm’s success in rolling out its XR tool to K-12 schools in the United States. Avantis Education specifically won the Trailblazer: Immersive Reality (AR/VR) category based on the success of ClassVR. This educational package includes XR hardware and software to enable a successful immersive deployment and utilisation in STEM learning courses.

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Hypergrid Business

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

(Image courtesy Storylink Radio.) This year’s Storylink Radio ’s October celebration is more ambitious than ever before, organizers told Hypergrid Business. There will be live in-world Halloween storytelling all month long and dozens of YouTube exclusive presentations, including short Halloween tales every night on Storylink Radio’s YouTube channel.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

XR experiences can be rich and engaging, but also bandwidth intensive. It's all about reliability and low latency. How will connectivity make or break XR's promise? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Today Snap Inc, the company behind Snapchat, announced the latest version of its Spectacles AR Glasses which the company is calling Spectacles ’24. The new device makes notable improvements to field-of-view, resolution, and hand-tracking, and overhauls its software stack. But it’s limited enough to remain targeted at developers. Spectacles ’24 is available starting today, and the company is selling it to developers for $100 per month on a one-year commitment (ultimately totalli

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Lenovo is growing its extensive XR partner portfolio to scale enterprise AR/VR/MR solutions alongside its ThinkReality VRX headset, creating new enterprise XR opportunities via an ecosystem of trusted solutions and hardware. Leveraging its XR ecosystem and long history in education, Lenovo partnered with VictoryXR to scale the adoption of immersive learning tools for a new generation of students.

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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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SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

HTC just announced Vive Focus Vision, a refresh of Vive Focus 3. While Vive Focus 3 was only sold to businesses, Vive Focus Vision is being offered to consumers too, and is priced at $1000. Vive Focus Vision inherits the rear battery design, 2.5K LCD displays, fresnel lenses, and original Snapdragon XR2 Gen 1 chipset from Vive Focus 3. But HTC has upgraded the sensor suite and RAM, and added multiple new features including eye tracking and support for DisplayPort PC VR. 0:00 / 1:00 1× While Vive

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Fei-Fei Li officially launched her new startup, World Labs, with $230 M in funding from top VCs like Andreessen. Neuralink is helping the blind to see. Snap, HTC introduce new XR headsets.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

While consumer XR continues to be held back by several factors, XR has found fertile ground in the enterprise. Benefits include a clearer business case for AR guidance and VR training. But it's not all good news. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Watch on YouTube XR Today’s Rory Greener hosts Frank Furnari, the CEO and Founder of ARuVR , to discuss Meta Connect 2024 and why it matters for businesses. Thanks for watching. If you’d like more like this, don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE to our channel. You can also join in the conversation on our Twitter and LinkedIn pages.

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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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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The company behind Snapchat just unveiled its fifth generation Spectacles. The first three generations of Spectacles were launched as consumer devices from 2016 to 2019 but lacked any kind of display or speakers. They functioned solely as camera glasses, similar to today's Ray-Ban Meta glasses but without the audio out and AI capabilities. Fourth generation Spectacles were unveiled in 2021 with waveguide displays for true AR, but were only available to select developers in very limited quantitie

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EON Reality

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Bringing Interactive Learning to the Next Level with AI Avatars and Chat Features on Head Mounted Displays IRVINE, CA —September 20, 2024 – EON Reality, the world leader in AI-assisted Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality-based knowledge transfer, is proud to announce the launch of AI Chat & Avatar Integration to Head Mounted Displays (HMDs) as part of the EON-XR 10.4 update.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

This week on Reality Bytes, we tackle mental health with the Thrive initiative, test AirPods Pro as a hearing aid, and eliminate Baby Shark from your Spotify with parental controls. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Organizers behind the VR Games Showcase last month announced they’re putting on a new livestreamed games event next week focusing on independent developers and studios “both big and small.” Just in time for what will certainly be a rush of XR news. Called the XR Indies & Friends Showcase, the livestream is slated to kick off on September 25th at 8 AM PT / 11 AM ET ( local time here ), coming just a few hours ahead of the 2025 Meta Connect keynote from CEO Mark Zuckerberg at

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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

HTC’s VIVERSE has added Sairo to its growing list of resellers, gaining its XR, Web3, and 3D experiences in the process. Sairo is on a mission to bridge reality and the metaverse, and this partnership helps it to fill that gap by delivering “engaging” and “immersive” brand activations using the VIVERSE platform. According to the virtual reality platform, VIVERSE, its new partner brings with it a “wealth of expertise” to its suite of business and creative solutions.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Niantic's Peridot is a standout example of what Snap's new AR Spectacles can do. Snap Spectacles Are $100/Month AR Glasses For Developers The company behind Snapchat just unveiled upgraded AR Spectacles, available to developers for $99/month. UploadVR David Heaney Niantic applied an important bit of video game interface. When your friend is out of view, the glasses show a dotted line arcing off to the side of the glasses to indicate the creature's location.

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EON Reality

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

IRVINE, CA., September 17, 2024 – EON Reality, the world leader in AI-assisted Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR)-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, and Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College (MGCCC) are excited to announce the extension of their partnership. This expanded collaboration is aimed at enhancing the Gulf Coast Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) Tech Fusion project, funded by BP.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

They say that necessity is the mother of invention. That phrase applies to Meuy Xaimuangmonh's work in designing a system to address his own motion sickness issues in VR. He tells his story and takeaways. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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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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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The past few months has brought little speculation surrounding the name of Meta’s next headset, primarily due to a number of leaks from Meta’s periphery. A new leak, courtesy of serial dataminer Luna , however seemingly confirms what we all knew all along. It’s called Quest 3S. Meta’s support pages now confirm the “Action Button” on Meta Quest 3S that I had previously leaked: [link] pic.twitter.com/uKuhluk4nC — Luna (@Lunayian) September 13, 2024 The image abo

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The healthcare sector remains a busy space for XR. Weekly, new stories of immersive solutions are seen in training and patient-facing procedures. While XR adoption in some industries is slow, healthcare is a potential hotbed for AR/VR/MR growth. According to a Dimension Market Research report published earlier this year, the global augmented and virtual reality market in healthcare is estimated to grow to $19.6 billion by 2033, with an accompanying 20.2 per cent CAGR, forecasting a significant

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Thrill Of The Fight 2's release date will be announced soon. Teased with just a short video featuring no gameplay, creators behind the game suggest that a release date will be revealed soon. The group confirms the game will be playable on Quest 2 and is not exclusive to the Quest platform, "but we will be focusing on Quest first." The developers previously confirmed the sequel will include multiplayer. 0:00 / 0:19 1× The original Thrill Of The Fight carries overwhelmingly positive ratings on Ste

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Program Ace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Learn how VR sports training enhances your athletes' performance with immersive experiences, detailed data analysis, and personalized solutions that drive measurable improvements.

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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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