Wed.Nov 13, 2024

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Xiaomi Reportedly Partners with Goertek to Chase Success of Ray-Ban Meta Smartglasses

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Xiaomi makes everything, from phones and vacuum cleaners to massage guns and even electric cars. Now, according to a report from Chinese media 36kr , Xiaomi may be developing a device that goes toe-to-toe with Ray-Ban Meta smartglasses. The report maintains Xiaomi is planning to launch a new generation of AI-assisted smartglasses, which will be built in collaboration with Goertek, the China-based ODM behind a bevy of XR parts, reference designs, and finished white-label hardware.

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2025 Predictions: AR & AI Collide

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Where do AR and AI converge? Generative AI will assist AR creation workflows while conversational AI provides natural-language interfaces. We break it down in the first of five big predictions for 2025. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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5 Years Later, ‘Beat Saber’ Drops Long Overdue Follow-up to Its First Paid DLC

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Monstercat Mixtape released a little over five years ago, marking Beat Saber’s first foray into paid DLC. Now, VR’s favorite block-slashing rhythm game just got the long-awaited Vol. 2 follow-up: Monstercat Mixtape 2. The 12-track paid DLC, now available across all supported VR headsets, includes a few familiar names like Tokyo Machine and Pegboard Nerds.

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#1491: Film Gate Interactive Media Festival 10-Year Retrospective

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Film Gate Interactive celebrated their 10-year anniversary in 2023, and I had a chance to get a retrospective recap from founder and curator Diliana Alexander as well as with board members Savannah Niles and James Powderly. Their 11th edition of Film Gate Interactive is happening December 4-8th, 2024 and so be sure to check out […] Film Gate Interactive celebrated their 10-year anniversary in 2023, and I had a chance to get a retrospective recap from founder and curator Diliana Alexander a

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The Future of eLearning in 2022: A Sensitive Eye for Authentic Translation and Localization

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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Indie Hit ‘Clone Drone in the Danger Zone’ is Getting a VR-exclusive Sequel Next Month

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Clone Drone in the Danger Zone (2021) , the hit arena battler from indie studio Doborog , is bringing the game’s voxel slice-em-up action in a new VR-exclusive sequel next month, coming to Quest and PC VR headsets. Called Clone Drone in the Hyperdome, the new single-player VR experience includes a thick slice of the series’ unique combat and action-based storyline, where players fight to the death against killer robots—which just so happen to be very frangible.

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EON Reality Launches Enhanced Emotional Intelligence Training Modules

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Irvine, CA — November 13,2024 — EON Reality, a global leader in Augmented and Virtual Reality-based knowledge and skills transfer, is pleased to announce the expansion of its Emotional Intelligence Training Modules. These modules are designed to help learners develop critical soft skills such as empathy, self-awareness, and effective communication through immersive Extended Reality (XR) experiences.

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EXOcars Review: A Shining Example Of The Racing Genre

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My favorite racing games have always been arcade-style titles with stylized physics that simulate the feeling of driving fast, rather than the reality of racing. Outrun 2 and Burnout Paradise are perfect examples that are more about driving stylishly, while more recent games like the Forza Horizon series simply provide you with a cool car and a beautiful road on which to drive it.

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Registration now open for December’s OpenSim Community Conference

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(Image courtesy Avacon.) The Opensimulator Community Conference is the annual conference that focuses on the user community and developers of the OpenSimulator virtual world software. This year’s conference will run from December 6 to December 8, 2024. Registration is now open , and is free. OSCC 2024 kicks off with a Friday pre-conference launch event featuring meetups, art, live music, and DJ sets, and then two days of fast-paced presentations, panels, performances, and immersive tou

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Apple's Final Cut Pro for Mac Now Supports Editing Spatial Videos

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Apple's Final Cut Pro video editing software for Mac now supports editing spatial videos. Spatial Video is Apple's term for stereoscopic 3D video using the Apple HEVC Stereo Video Profile format of MV-HEVC. Spatial videos can be captured by all iPhone 16 models , the iPhone 15 Pro models, Apple Vision Pro, and Canon's EOS R7 camera with its upcoming spatial lens attachment.

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How to Train Employees 65% Faster With Virtual Reality

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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Meta Brings VR/MR Headsets and the Metaverse to US/UK Education Institutions

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Today, Meta announced the Meta for Education beta program, a product targeted at colleges and universities that the firm first teased in April. The solution aims to bring education-specific XR services to teachers, trainers, and administrators via the Quest portfolio of VR and MR headsets. The beta launch sees Meta drop its new educational solution in US and UK colleges and universities, including Arizona State University, Houston Community College, Imperial College London, Miami Dade College,

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bHaptics Announces New Cheaper Haptic Vests & Lighter Haptic Armbands

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bHaptics' new TactSuit Pro and TactSuit Air are cheaper than their predecessors, and the new TactSleeve is significantly lighter than Tactosy was. If you're unfamiliar, bHaptics makes and sells haptic vests, armbands, gloves, shoe attachments, and even an attachment to add vibration to headsets. Now, bHaptics is announcing and opening preorders for the next version of its vests and armbands. 0:00 / 1:51 1× The new TactSuit Pro replaces the old TactSuit X40.

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Microsoft HoloLens 2 Receives Final Major Update, Before Discontinuation

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Following its official last-time-to-buy announcement this week, Microsoft debuted the final major feature update for HoloLens 2 before its December discontinuation. The device will receive minor security and stability updates until 2027. However, the most recent update will be the last, which fundamentally changes the way the framework behind the HoloLens 2 functions.

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Triangle Strategy Hands-On: Compelling RPG Shines Even With Minimal VR Changes

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Even with minimal VR changes on Quest, Triangle Strategy remains a compelling turn-based RPG from Square Enix. Here are our impressions. There's no contest when I say Triangle Strategy was my biggest surprise during Connect 2024. Square Enix has shown minimal interest in VR across the years - Monsters of the Deep and Kingdom Hearts VR Experience being notable exceptions.

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

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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#1492: IDFA DocLab Curators Preview 2024 Slate of AI & XR Immersive Documentaries

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I speak with the curators of the 28 immersive documentary projects being featured at the 18th edition of IDFA DocLab including Caspar Sonnen, Nina van Doren, and Toby Coffey. The theme of this year’s program is “This is Not a Simulation,” and there were many immersive projects that featured AI this year. We talked about […] I speak with the curators of the 28 immersive documentary projects being featured at the 18th edition of IDFA DocLab including Caspar Sonnen, Nina van

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Gears & Goo Is An Apple Vision Pro Tower Defence Game From Resolution Games

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Gears & Goo is a mixed reality tower defense game from Resolution Games, launching on Apple Vision Pro in January. Resolution Games is of course no stranger to VR and mixed reality. Its spatial board and card game collection Game Room is considered one of Apple Vision Pro's top titles, and its award-winning dungeon crawler Demeo is on every major headset, in addition to a cross-play flatscreen version on PlayStation 5, Windows, Mac, and iPad.

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Watch YouTube With Friends on Meta Quest

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The YouTube app on Meta Quest lets you explore every video on YouTube, including 3D 360-degree videos in 8K, full movies in 4K, and even YouTube Shorts. And now, you can kick back and enjoy the experience with friends—no matter where in the world they happen to be.

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Little Cities: Diorama Coming to Apple Vision Pro Next Month

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Little Cities: Diorama, a re-imagined mixed reality version of the city-building game, launches on Apple Vision Pro this December. Little Cities: Diorama comes out of a collaboration between the original game's developer Purple Yonder and one of nDreams' internal studios, Near Light. Following on from earlier entries - Little Cities on Meta Quest and Little Cities: Bigger!

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Are You Still Watching? How to Create Engaging Presentations for Virtual Learning

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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Project Aria Research Kit: Case Studies + a Call for Applications

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Today, we’re sharing some case studies of exciting work undertaken with Project Aria and inviting members of the research community to apply for the Aria.