Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Meta is widely expected to reveal the Quest 3S headset next week during the Meta Connect event. The company aims to introduce a new headset with mixed reality capabilities similar to Quest 3, but at a cheaper price. An apparent leak suggests the headset could be its most affordable yet. According to Reddit user Vast_Front259 , an Amazon ad seen on the Peacock streaming service shows the Quest 3S with 128GB of storage priced at just $300.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The Roto VR Explorer is grabbing the attention of plenty of XR enthusiasts right now – and I can see why. At a glance, a chair that tracks your movement as you spin around in VR might seem like little more than a gimmick. But, in my opinion, it’s an interesting alternative to all of the other peripherals emerging to tackle the issue of VR locomotion.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The fast approaching Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is landing on PC and Xbox consoles November 19th. While it wasn’t clear at its initial unveiling last summer whether Asobo’s next-gen flight sim would include VR support, the studio says it’s definitely coming, and even showed it off in action. Asobo confirmed in a developer Q&A earlier this year that VR support was indeed coming, and that, in Executive Producer Martial Bossard’s words, it would be “spectacul

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The Virtuix Omni One “VR platform” has arrived, promising extended reality enthusiasts a new virtual experience. For a while now, innovators in the XR landscape have been searching for ways to make virtual experiences feel more realistic and immersive. One of the main challenges to overcome involves figuring out how to give users a way to move freely in VR.

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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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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 20, 2024

Anduril's Lattice software will run on Microsoft's militarized HoloLens IVAS for US Army soldiers. What Is HoloLens IVAS? The decade-scale Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) program aims to equip US Army soldiers with AR helmets to enhance situational awareness. HoloLens IVAS is a heavily modified variant of HoloLens 2, with a more ruggedized design, wider field of view, and many more sensors.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Meta Connect will launch next week. Zuckerberg’s company is creating anticipation, with audiences expecting significant announcements during the September 28th event, which continues to engage mainstream audiences year after year. Meta is planning on debuting =an accessible MR device for consumers. It aims to mirror its success in deploying the Quest 2, which brought VR to the mainstream consumer conversation.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Meta cut the price of upgrading to Touch Pro controllers to $250. Touch Pro controllers are included with Meta Quest Pro, but they're also compatible with Quest 2 and Quest 3, and will likely work with Quest 3S too. Meta has been selling a Touch Pro controllers upgrade kit, which includes the controllers and a compact charging dock, for $300 since a few months after Quest Pro launched.

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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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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 20, 2024

In a groundbreaking move for technical education in Telangana, the Industrial Training Institute (ITI) in Karimnagar has become the state's pioneer in augmented and virtual reality (AR-VR) learning. This cutting-edge facility, inaugurated by Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Bandi Sanjay Kumar, marks a significant milestone in modernizing vocational training.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The champ is back! Today, Halfbrick Studios announced that the long-awaited The Thrill of the Fight 2 will release in early access this November on Meta Quest, starting with its multiplayer mode.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The Immersed IRL event, held yesterday in Austin, Texas was the company’s big moment to showcase its upcoming headset and build confidence that it was on track to deliver on the promise of an ambitious headset. But a botched demo may have done the opposite. Guest Article by Eric Liga Eric Liga is Chief Scientist at Net Edge VR , a Houston-based company specializing in the creation of VR training software.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

We might have some bad news if you’re on the edge of your seat, waiting for news about an upcoming “Apple Vision Pro 2”. Despite all the hype surrounding Apple’s spatial computing device, the Vision Pro, Apple has had a rocky initial entry into the extended reality world. Sales numbers aren’t exactly skyrocketing, even as Apple continues to span into new countries and regions.

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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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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

We’ve been hoping to see Thrill of the Fight 2 in action since it was announced last year, the upcoming sequel to Quest’s most popular VR boxing sim. Now, studios Sealost Interactive and Halfbrick Studios released the game’s first proper trailer, further announcing it’s headed to Quest in early access on November 21st. The early access version on Quest is set to launch with online multiplayer, which includes with skill-based matchmaking and direct matching, as well as customiz

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The price of Quest 3S has seemingly been leaked by an early ad, revealing it will start at $300 for the 128GB model. 0:00 / 0:23 1× Reddit user Vast_Front259 posted a recording of the Peacock running on their phone that they say they took with their laptop webcam because the streaming service's DRM prevents screen recording. It's a Quest 3 ad we've seen before, but at the end a render is shown of it alongside Quest 3S, Meta's repeatedly leaked next headset, alongside the text "Starting at $299.9

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

EXOcars is skipping early access and heading straight for full release on Steam, Meta Quest, and PlayStation VR2 in October. Developed by XOCUS ( Presentiment of Death ) and published by Joy Way, the developer behind Stride: Fates and Dead Hook , EXOcars is set to offer a buggy racing experience in virtual reality, delivering a new racing game with real car physics. 0:00 / 0:46 1× Despite EXOcars being revealed back in April with an early access launch date set for May, the racing game has been

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The highly anticipated boxing game The Thrill of the Fight 2 will launch its multiplayer mode in early access on Quest on November 21. The Thrill of the Fight 2 is being developed by Halfbrick Studios in collaboration with the original game's developer, Ian Fitz. The original is one of the most highly-acclaimed VR games, with overwhelmingly positive reviews on Steam.

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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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