AR Insider
NOVEMBER 29, 2024
One of the many ways AI and AR are colliding is in eCommerce. Generative AI is being used by eCommerce engines to let merchants augment and optimize their product images. We examine the evidence. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
NOVEMBER 29, 2024
Black Friday always marks the best deal of the season for VR headsets, and this year is no different. Here’s the best PSVR 2 Black Friday for 2024. Image courtesy Sony Let’s cut right to the chase. Here’s the best sales we’ve seen so far. PSVR 2 Horizon Bundle The best PSVR 2 Black Friday sale so far is $350 from Amazon , which includes a copy of Horizon Call of the Mountain , one of the top games for the headset.
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XR Today - Virtual Reality
NOVEMBER 29, 2024
This week, immersive XR experience solution provider Mass Virtual started a collaboration with RAVE Computer to optimise the delivery of immersive training solutions. The firms are using the upcoming Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) in Orlando, Florida, this December 2-5 to highlight the working relationship.
Road to VR
NOVEMBER 29, 2024
Black Friday always marks the best deal of the season for VR headsets, and this year is no different. Here’s the best Black Friday 2024 sale on Meta Quest 3 and Quest 3S. Let’s cut right to the chase. Here’s the best sales we’ve seen so far. Meta Quest 3 (512GB) The best Quest 3 (512GB) Black Friday sale so far is $500 from Best Buy , which includes a $75 gift card, a copy of Batman: Arkham Shadow , and a three month trial of Quest+.
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.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
NOVEMBER 29, 2024
XR has already reached many end users and workplace situations. While the era of widespread consumer adoption of XR into everyday life is still some way away, major businesses are already profoundly leveraging the technology. Among those key enterprise sectors is manufacturing. There are many moving parts behind a successful manufacturing firm, from the design team to frontline workers on a factory floor; in both areas, XR is becoming a strong tool.
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Upload VR
NOVEMBER 29, 2024
VRChat plans to offer age verification to its adult users starting with certain early access groups. VRChat explained the plan to partner with an organization called Persona to externally verify age with a government ID as well as a phone or computer with a camera. The feature will be used to "gate access to instances that were created with the 'Age Verification' option enabled" and won't be required to use VRChat overall.
XR Today - Augmented Reality tag
NOVEMBER 29, 2024
Rumors about an impending set of Samsung Smart Glasses have been circulating for a while now. Samsung’s team has dropped plenty of hints that the company is planning on entering the XR market. They even confirmed at the “ Unpacked 2024 ” event that an XR device would be arriving soon. Unfortunately, the company has been a little stingy with the details.
Upload VR
NOVEMBER 29, 2024
Colocating a Quest 3 and Apple Vision Pro for same-room mixed reality works with Figmin XR. The multipurpose utility supports Tilt Brush (bringing in art from PC VR's early years into the standalone era with colocated multiplayer) alongside Figmin's expansive tools for building objects and scenes with physics and lighting. Colocating a Quest and Vision Pro requires pointing a blue pad on the floor in the same direction in the same place.
XR Today - Augmented Reality tag
NOVEMBER 29, 2024
This week, Vuzix Corporation’s stocks skyrocketed following the launch of its consumer-grade AR smart glasses. The news is curious, as earlier, Vuzix saw declines during their earnings call. The company highlighted that the dip did not reflect the overall performance of the company, and clearly, with Vuzix’s November success, the firm is skyrocketing and doing very well.
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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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NOVEMBER 29, 2024
Best Buy is giving a $75 gift card with Quest 3 purchases for Black Friday, effectively valuing the headset at $425. As with all new Quest 3 purchases since Meta Connect in October, the headset also comes with Batman: Arkham Shadow , a $50 AAA VR game, for free. Best Buy is also offering a bundle of Quest 3 with the $70 official Elite Strap, which significantly improves the headset's comfort, for $550, saving $20, which stacks with the gift card deal.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
NOVEMBER 29, 2024
Early next year, at the Consumer Electronics Show 2025, Sony will showcase its long-awaited and much-hyped XR headset. Over the course of 2024, and starting at this year’s CES event in January, Sony grabbed the attention of the XR world with its device aimed at a broader XR user market, moving away from the PSVR VR gaming portfolio of past years.
Upload VR
NOVEMBER 29, 2024
From Skydance's Behemoth to Alien: Rogue Incursion, December's another busy month for new VR games. To say it's been hectic for new VR games recently would be an understatement, and November certainly didn't let up. Metro Awakening , Trombone Champ: Unflattened , Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 and DIG VR led the charge, followed by Dumb Ways: Free for All , EXOcars , By Grit Alone , Ember Souls , Bounce Arcade and Augmented Empire.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
NOVEMBER 29, 2024
Virtual reality headsets have come a long way since products like the Oculus Quest burst into the scene a few years ago. Increasingly, both consumers and enterprise users are searching for more versatile immersive solutions, and features like VR passthrough are becoming commonplace. In the past, whenever you wore a virtual reality headset, you’d basically block out the real world around you, diving completely into a new digital landscape.
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.
Upload VR
NOVEMBER 29, 2024
You can extend the capabilities of the Meta Quest 3S with some low-cost accessories, with a list of items here that we've tested that can help point Black Friday buyers with an Amazon or Target that includes a $75 gift card. Quest 3S From Amazon & Target Comes With A $75 Gift Card For Black Friday Amazon and Target are giving a $75 gift card with Quest 3S headset purchases until the end of Sunday.
XR Today - Augmented Reality tag
NOVEMBER 29, 2024
2025 might witness a significant shift in the XR market. Earlier in the decade, the XR market saw the successful adoption of the affordable Meta Quest 2 VR headsets, which brought accessible VR into the homes and businesses of many for the first time. While this device was not the first mass-market or enterprise-facing VR headset, the waves it made are undeniable.
XR Today - VR Headsets tag
NOVEMBER 29, 2024
Industrial sectors are a storied hotbed for the integration of emerging technologies. Given the amount of capital and time required to kick off, collaborate on, and complete a large-scale project, such as the construction of a complex facility, adopting new technologies to strive towards new positive ROI results is crucial. Firms like Lenovo are working with a deep list of partners and customers to ensure that global industrial and construction firms are ready to tackle upcoming projects with
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
NOVEMBER 29, 2024
That is a wrap for November 2024. It was another busy month in the XR market. As the end of the year approaches, the AR/VR/MR space never sleeps. Last week saw a number of developments from major XR hardware providers and upcoming participants in the market, waiting to enter the immersive wearable market. Moreover, December will soon come along, as will the year’s final events, such as AWS re:Invent, giving XR vendors one more time to shine in 2024. 2025 is just around the corner, meaning
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.
Upload VR
NOVEMBER 29, 2024
Considering jumping into VR this Black Friday, or gifting a headset to a friend or relative so they can join you? Here are the best deals available right now. Meta Quest Meta Quest headsets are the ideal way to get into VR and mixed reality for most people. Quest headsets are fully standalone, meaning you don't need any external device (other than a phone app to initially set them up), and they can also connect to SteamVR on a gaming PC for a higher fidelity experience.
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