The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 7, 2025

Hello everyone! This is the first article directly from CES of my life. Yesterday it was the second press day before the big opening of the event, and the only big company explicitly talking about VR in its keynote was Sony that announced the XYN headset. Let me tell you about that announcement, and let me tell you about the hands-on I had … not directly with the XYN headset, but with its sibling model!

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Road to VR

JANUARY 7, 2025

Sony announced its previously revealed XR standalone for enterprise is now called ‘XYN’, which the company is targeting at spatial content creators. Initially unveiled at CES last year, XYN (pronounced ‘zin’) packs in some impressive displays, offering13.6MP (3,552 3840) per-eye using Sonys own ECX344A OLED microdisplay. The display is capable of 90 FPS and 1,000 nits (at 20% duty cycle), with 96% DCI-P3 color coverage, putting it above Apple Vision Pro in terms of resolu

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AR Insider

JANUARY 7, 2025

CES this year has the standard mix of XR hardware as well as a widening array of technologies under the "consumer everything" umbrella. Charlie Fink gives his tips and picks. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 7, 2025

Nvidia's GeForce Now cloud flatscreen gaming service will support the web browsers of Quest 3, Pico, and Apple Vision Pro headsets later this month. GeForce Now lets you play supported PC games you already own on Steam, Epic Games Store, Ubisoft Store, Microsoft Store, EA's store, or GOG on a range of devices including laptops, tablets, smartphones, and supported TVs and streaming devices - and soon standalone XR headsets too.

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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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AR Insider

JANUARY 7, 2025

In all the excitement around mixed reality and AI smart glasses, we often forget about XR's most scalable format today: Mobile AR. How does the sub-sector fare as we enter 2025? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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JANUARY 7, 2025

If youre looking for the Best Earbuds for Meta Quest 3 and 3S headsets, youre not alone. I personally think the speakers built into the Meta Quest 3 v (and 3S) headsets are pretty decent theyre definitely a lot better than those on the Quest 2, for instance but theyre not ideal. Investing in a pair of earbuds, or even wired headphones for the Quest 3 is the best way to upgrade your audio experience (and enjoy a little more privacy).

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Upload VR

JANUARY 7, 2025

Sony branded its standalone headset XYN, and we went hands-on with the latest prototype. UploadVR's Don Hopper is on site at CES 2025, and attended Sony's formal announcement of its XYN headset, pronounced "zin", which the company still describes as a prototype. The headset was first revealed at last year's CES , and we briefly tried out an earlier version in summer.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 7, 2025

NVIDIA announced at CES 2025 that its extending support for its cloud gaming platform GeForce NOW to Apple Vision Pro, Meta Quest 3 and 3S, and Pico headsets. The announcement doesn’t appear to include support for VR cloud gamingi.e. the ability to play play VR-native titlesbut rather access to standard games playable acrossWindows, Mac, Android, iOS, and handheld gaming devices.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 7, 2025

Nvidia and AMD both announced their next generation PC graphics cards at CES 2025. Nvidia's new GeForce RTX 50 series and AMD's new Radeon RX 9070 series bring modest raw performance improvements alongside significantly enhanced neural upscaling, neural frame generation, and ray tracing capabilities. Nvidia's GeForce RTX 50 Series Nvidia announced the RTX 5070, RTX 5070 Ti, RTX 5080, and RTX 5090 PC graphics cards, the first consumer products to use its new Blackwell GPU architecture.

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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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Road to VR

JANUARY 7, 2025

Surreal Touch is a Kickstarter-backed third-party motion controller for Vision Pro. The first batch of controllers began shipping in December (right on time), and early impressions are starting to roll out. XR industry veteran Nima Zeighami is the creator of the Vision Pro Owners Club on Twitter, and backer #130 of the Surreal Touch Kickstarter , which raised $127,000 to fund the controllers.Zeighami was among the first to receive the production version of the controllers and kindly shared his i

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Upload VR

JANUARY 7, 2025

Chrono Weaver sees you work with yourself in a new VR time-travel puzzle adventure, and it recently launched on Quest and Steam. Created by Ivory Crow Games, Chrono Weaver asks if you can play a co-op game alone with a premise reminiscent of The Last Clockwinder and We Are One. Guided by a robot named Yoto, you begin as a test subject for The Company, a mysterious group who tasks you with smashing the 'Data Disk.

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EON Reality

JANUARY 7, 2025

IRVINE, CA January 7, 2025 At a time when society feels deep anxiety, where drones overhead can feel like surveillance threats, and Artificial Intelligence seems poised to replace human jobs and undermine our dignity EON Reality offers a compelling counter-narrative in the form of a new book, Beyond Boundaries: From Human 1.3 to Human 2.0 in the Age of AI Synergy.

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Ryan Schultz

JANUARY 7, 2025

A sampling of today’s news headlines from Google News. S**t is gettin’ WILD , y’all. Today, I wrote the following post on the new Second Life social media platform, Primfeed ( which you can currently only read if you already have an account on Primfeed, as I have not yet chosen to make my Primfeed profile and posts publicly viewable ): With all the batshit-crazy political news coming out of the U.S. today making me feel anxious and depressed, I have decided that, in order to pr

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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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