The Ghost Howls
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.
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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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.
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
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.
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.
Virtual Reality Pulse brings together the best content for VR professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
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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
Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
nDreams, one of the most veteran VR studios, today announced it’s tightening the belt with a layoff round due to affect 17.5% of the company. The Farnborough, UK-based studio maintains in the LinkenIn announcement that layoffs are in response to “a challenging VR games market, situated within a tough gaming landscape more broadly.” The studio further notes the restructure “will enable us to better serve current and future audiences in creating medium-defining titles for
Upload VR
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Airspace Defender, a modern mixed reality take on the Missile Command arcade game, is coming to early access soon and we're excited to go hands-on today with an exclusive preview build. Developed by Not Suspicious, this modern twist on the classic arcade game uses Quest 3’s color passthrough and hand tracking to deliver an immersive experience, and for some gamers from the Atari generation like myself who played a lot of Missile Command back in the day, a heavy dose of nostalgia. 0:00 / 3:45 1×
Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Casual card game Exploding Kittens is coming to VR for the first time next month, promising to bring all of the hilarity of the original game with more than a touch of added VR madness. Launching October 3rd on Quest 2/3/Pro, Exploding Kittens VR lets you play with up to four other players online (or against bots) and strategically force your opponents to draw the dreaded Exploding Kitten and be the last person standing to win.
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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 17, 2024
Kayak VR: Mirage has received a free update introducing realtime multiplayer to the game and allowing PC and PSVR 2 players to join a friend in their next kayak trip. Developer Better Than Life announced the update on Twitter, telling players to invite that "special someone for a trip on the water" as both of you enjoy the challenging streams of the VR game. 0:00 / 0:50 1× Considering our Kayak VR: Mirage review criticized the competitive multiplayer that focused on offering ghosts of opponents
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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SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
RayNeo X2 is technically the first standalone AR device in true glasses form factor, a note for the history books. But is it any good? X2 started shipping to Indiegogo backers in May, and is currently sold at $850. The device technically achieves two firsts: not only is it the first standalone AR glasses, meaning it doesn't require a separate compute device or battery, but it's also the first AR device with full-color microLED displays.
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.
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
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
UK VR developer nDreams is conducting a round of layoffs after facing a "challenging VR games market", and could see 17.5% of employees lose their jobs. nDreams, the studio behind VR games like Synapse , Fracked , Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord , Phantom: Covert Ops , and Little Cities , was acquired last year by gaming conglomerate Aonic. The developer and publisher was purchased for $110 million, after Aonic's initial investment in the company back in 2022.
The AR Show
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Driving from the flats of Beverly Hills up into the hills themselves feels like I’m entering into a different world. Here the picturesque, tree-line streets filled with beautiful homes give way to narrow, winding roads that snake their way to the tops of hillsides. In these hills, each home looks like an architectural marvel, delicately perched at the very edge of a steep slope, with expansive views of Los Angeles.
Upload VR
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
The corpse-hiding VR game, Hide the Corpse, is leaving early access after just four months, and is available today on Quest. Developed by Realcast ( Just Hoops ), the aptly titled Hide the Corpse sees you attempting to hide a body strategically within four minutes, with the game offering different maps to enjoy as you avoid getting arrested. The game has been developed over the past 18 months by the indie team, with four months in early access. 0:00 / 1:00 1× While the game had a variety of leve
Oculus
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Meta Horizon Worlds V180 is here! This week, we have a fairly light update, including a few bug fixes and a quality of life improvement.
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.
XROM
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Snap's Spectacles: A New Era of Augmented Reality Snap has once again pushed the boundaries of technology with their latest Spectacles, a pair of augmented reality glasses that could redefine how we interact with the digital world. Packed with cutting-edge features like powerful processors, advanced cameras, and a new operating system, these glasses offer a truly immersive AR experience.
Next Reality - News
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Every year, Apple releases new wallpapers for its iPhone and iPad software updates, and that's exactly what happened with the iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 updates released on Sept. 16. But you don't need iOS 18 or iPadOS 18 to enjoy Apple's new backgrounds you can download and use them on any device, whether a smartphone, tablet, computer, or something else.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
This week, Apple updated its Vision Pro spatial computing headset, upgrading the framework to visionOS 2. Apple delivered optimised MR features, including improved spatial capture, hand-tracking, key productivity enhancements, virtual environments, avatars, and more. Like its success in bringing Apple smartphones and iPads into the business world, Apple appears to Be looking to repeat this success with an MR device.
Next Reality - News
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Apple's most significant software updates for iPhone and iPad in 2024 have massive changes for apps like Calculator, Messages, and Notes, but iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 also have exciting new features for your Lock Screen. There are plenty of new Lock Screen widgets to take advantage of, more Lock Screen customization options for the time, and even fresh additions to StandBy, but the biggest new feature to be excited about finally lets you swap out the most important buttons your Lock Screen has to of
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?
Next Reality - News
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
I have always favored a neat and tidy Home Screen on my iPhone, and one of the best ways to achieve that is by removing all the app, folder, and widget names. With a few workarounds, you can do this on iOS 17, but Apple finally just gave us an official feature on iOS 18 to hide app, folder, and widget names on the Home Screen. And it also works for iPad on iPadOS 18.
Next Reality - News
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Apple might not be finished with iOS 17. While the iOS 18 update was already released, there may still be things for Apple to fine-tune on your iPhone. This brings us to iOS 17.8. Will it happen? And will there be a beta? Since the feature-packed public release of iOS 17, we've seen iOS 17.1, iOS 17.2, iOS 17.3, iOS 17.4, and iOS 17.5, iOS 17.6, and iOS 17.7 bring even more new features to iPhone.
Next Reality - News
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Apple has already released iPadOS 18, but there still may be work to complete on iPadOS 17. That brings us to iPadOS 17.8. Is there one, and can you test-drive it on your iPad? Following the feature-rich launch of iPadOS 17, which first became available with iPadOS 17.1, subsequent updates including iPadOS 17.2, iPadOS 17.3, iPadOS 17.4, iPadOS 17.5, iPadOS 17.6, and iPadOS 17.7 have brought additional enhancements to the iPad experience.
Next Reality - News
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
When iOS 17 first came out, the iPhone's Clock app received a giant new feature, one that lets you set multiple timers and keep track of them on the Lock Screen, Notification Center, and Dynamic Island. Now, the iOS 18 software update gives us something just as exciting for the stopwatch. In an early iOS 17.4 beta build, Apple previewed what Live Activities for Clock's stopwatch tool would look like.
Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute
The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?
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