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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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
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.
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.
Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Kayak VR: Mirage (2022) is amazingly immersive, packing in a ton of environments to explore in both single player and asynchronous multiplayer racing modes. You never could paddle through the glaciers or meander around tropical coasts with a friend in real-time though. But now, thanks to today’s update, you can. Initially released as in beta on Steam in mid-August, developer Better Than Life today announced that real-time multiplayer is finally here for Kayak VR: Mirage on all supported
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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
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.
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.
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×
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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.
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.
Upload VR
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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