Road to VR

JULY 28, 2024

PSVR 2 has landed its biggest sale yet, dropping the price by a solid 37%, less than two weeks ahead of its forthcoming PC VR adapter. PSVR 2 launched in early 2023 with a $550 baseline pricetage. While the headset saw a sale that dropped it to $450 earlier this year, now there’s an even better deal. PSVR 2 is now on sale at Amazon US (and several other Amazon regions) for $350, a full 37% discount from the MSRP.

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Anand Tech

JULY 28, 2024

During the opening keynote delivered by AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su at Computex 2024, AMD finally lifted the lid on their highly-anticipated Zen 5 microarchitecture. The backbone for the next couple of years of everything CPU at AMD, the company unveiled their plans to bring Zen 5 in the consumer market, announcing both their next-generation mobile and desktop products at the same time.

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Upload VR

JULY 28, 2024

VRChat continues to captivate virtual travelers with its limitless potential for exploration and creativity. This week, we’re diving deeper into the platform to look at three more compelling worlds as recommended by the VRChat community. As always, please continue to share your VRChat discoveries with us at tips@uploadvr.com. Beyond a Bit 0:00 / 1:00 1× To start off this week we enter the dreamscape world of Beyond a Bit.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 28, 2024

The extended reality landscape is transforming faster than ever, thanks to increasing worldwide adoption, advancing technology, and enhanced accessibility. While “tracking” technologies aren’t new in this landscape, new eye and hand-tracking trends are emerging as we move towards a new future of immersive, spatial computing. Embedding cutting-edge tracking technologies into sensors, headsets, and accompanying XR accessories opens the door to richer experiences in the immersive landscape.

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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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Upload VR

JULY 28, 2024

A new Alien: Rogue Incursion gameplay trailer confirmed the VR horror title's upcoming protagonist. Following May's PlayStation State of Play appearance, Survios released a new Alien: Rogue Incursion gameplay trailer during San Diego Comic-Con. It's our first confirmation that Rogue Incursion's protagonist is Zula Hendricks, a former Colonial Marine turned Xenomorph hunter who's previously appeared in expanded media like Aliens: Defiance and the Alien: Isolation novelisation. 0:00 / 1:28 1× "Zul

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 28, 2024

Eye and hand-tracking technologies are fundamental to most extended reality solutions today. All of the latest extended reality headsets, from the revolutionary Apple Vision Pro to the Meta Quest 3 , leverage some form of “tracking” technology. As more companies and users embrace extended reality, vendors are increasingly searching for ways to make their technologies more user-friendly, immersive, and accessible.

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