Tue.May 07, 2024

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Are Render Farms AR’s Unsung Hero?

AR Insider

AR content – with its demand for high-quality, real-time rendering – presents challenges that go beyond traditional digital-creation paradigms. How can render farms add value? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Apple’s Official Vision Pro Case May Be Pricey, But It Saved a Headset From a 4,000 Pound SUV

Road to VR

Apple probably didn’t actually design its pricey Vision Pro case to be impervious to getting run over by a car. But at least for one thankful customer though, it seems the official carrying case was well worth the extra cash. At $200, the official Apple Vision Pro Travel Case isn’t exactly the best deal out there, since Vision Pro can technically fit into a vast array of VR headset cases already on the market.

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OpenAI’s Sora Brings Director’s 10-Year Music Video Vision To Life

Charlie Fink

Filmmaker Paul Trillo’s new music video, The Hardest Part, for the band Washed Out, is the first created entirely using Sora AI.

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Meta to Pull ‘Beat Saber’ Multiplayer on Quest 1 Later This Year

Road to VR

Beat Saber was the defining game on Quest when it came to the company’s first standalone at launch back in 2019, making the infectious block-slashing rhythm game a real system-seller. Now, Meta says it’s cutting Beat Saber’s online services for Quest 1 later this year. The Meta-owned studio Beat Games revealed the news via a post on X, maintaining that all multiplayer functionality will be pulled come November 2nd, 2024: Dear players, to focus our development efforts on our nex

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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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Apple Announces M4 SoC: Latest and Greatest Starts on 2024 iPad Pro

Anand Tech

Setting things up for what is certainly to be an exciting next few months in the world of CPUs and SoCs, Apple this morning has announced their next-generation M-series chip, the M4. Introduced just over six months after the M3 and the associated 2023 Apple MacBook family, the M4 is going to start its life on a very different track, launching alongside Apple’s newest iPad Pro tablets.

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ASUS to Unveil First Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite-Based Laptop On May 20th

Anand Tech

Asus on Tuesday said that it would announce its first 'AI PC' based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite system-on-chips later this month. The new laptop is set to be introduced at the Next Level. AI Incredible virtual launch event on May 20. The launch of Asustek's new Vivobook S 15 will be hosted by Asus and will be joined by representatives of Qualcomm and Microsoft, who will reveal how they collaborated with PC maker to develop the first notebook based on Qualcomm's Snapdrago

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Rivian Turns to VR and MR for Improved Sustainability

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Rivian deployed Autodesk’s virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) solution alongside Varjo headsets to enhance sustainability processes. NTT and the Role of Sustainability in the Industrial Metaverse Digital Twins, Where Profitability and Sustainability “Coexist” Lenovo Outlines Metaverse, Sustainability Pledge The software, Autodesk VRED, provides full support to virtual and mixed reality and, combined with Varjo’s headsets, allows the design department to work with life-like digital model

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VESA Rolls Out DisplayHDR 1.2 Spec: Adding Color Accuracy, Black Crush, & Wide-Color Gamuts For All

Anand Tech

VESA this morning is taking the wraps off of the next iteration of its DisplayHDR monitor certification standard, DisplayHDR 1.2. Designed to raise the bar on display quality, the updated DisplayHDR conformance test suite imposes new luminance, color gamut, and color accuracy requirements that extend across the entire spectrum of DisplayHDR tiers – including the entry-level DisplayHDR 400 tier.

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Grab Your Pencil For Art Lessons On Quest With Touch Plus Or Pro Controller

Upload VR

You’ve got your headset, now don’t forget your No. 2 pencil for art lessons. Pencil! is a new app in early development that offers art lessons for Meta Quest headsets using a regular piece of paper. You'll use a Quest with tracked Touch Plus or Touch Pro controller as a paperweight then draw in passthrough on the thin piece of paper it holds in place.

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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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Upcoming AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 170 Processor Leaked By ASUS?

Anand Tech

In what appears to be a mistake or a jump of the gun by ASUS, they have seemingly published a list of specifications for one of its key notebooks that all but allude to the next generation of AMD's mobile processors. While we saw AMD toy with a new nomenclature for their Phoenix silicon (Ryzen 7040 series), it seems as though AMD is once again changing things around where their naming scheme for processors is concerned.

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Meta Reality Labs is Experimenting with High-End AR Displays and AI Integrations

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

This week, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth noted in his most recent Instagram Q and A session that while the firm’s Reality Labs division – an XR research and development space – can produce incredibly high XR device displays up to roughly “100 [PPD]” in testing scenarios, the firm cannot make such details for consumer end-devices; at least not yet.

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US Department of Defence Optimises Immersive Learning Tools

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Dynepic is again frontrunning the immersive training sector with its new XR application delivery pipeline named MOTAR Fastlane, which optimises first and third-party AR/VR/MR applications for enterprise clients. The service has many applicable business situations. To kick off the service’s debut, the US military and government are leveraging the MOTAR Fastlane solution to improve software processes, security considerations, and end-device application delivery when using immersive learning appl

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Understanding Consumer Cohorts in XR

XROM

Written By: Arnav Neel Ghosh [link] The adoption and usage of extended reality (XR) technologies, which encompass virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR), is influenced by different consumer cohorts. Understanding the characteristics, preferences, and behaviors of these cohorts is crucial for businesses and developers to effectively design, market, and distribute XR experiences.

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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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Spotting AI Washing: How Companies Overhype Artificial Intelligence

Bernard Marr

Although I firmly believe AI is a hugely transformative technology that will change the world in many ways, it’s also clear that there is a lot of hype and hot air around the subject! It’s something that inevitably occurs with any exciting technology, particularly when there’s a lot of money to be made. This is no surprise, given that past studies have shown that startups that mention ‘AI’ attract 15 percent to 50 percent more investment than those that don’t!

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L.Michelle Salvant (LMichelleMedia) on Transforming Mental Health Through Camera Glasses

The AR Show

L.Michelle Salvant has been wearing smart glasses daily for years, harnessing their potential to enhance personal therapy, healing, and self-discovery. Her engagement with wearable technology began as a Google Glass Explorer, which sparked her interest in documenting and reflecting on life’s moments through what she developed as “Immersive Journaling”.

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Unleashing AI Sounds: The Best Tools For Music, Voices, And Effects

Bernard Marr

AI’s capability to generate realistic text and images is well known, but it can also produce lifelike sounds. In recent years, AI-driven technology for creating music, voice, and sound effects has made significant strides. Though this may not yet pose a threat to professionals in the industry, it offers a range of practical solutions for those needing background sounds or voiceovers for their projects.

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Razer Releases New Quest 3 Accessories With Some Rather Unsurprising Price Tags

Road to VR

Razer announced its Facial Interface and Adjustable Head Strap System for Quest 3 is now available in the US, Canada, and Europe. Priced at $70 each, the accessories essentially are the Quest 3 versions of the previously released Facial Interface and Adjustable Head Strap System for Quest 2, which was released in March 2023. The Facial Interface is made of a soft injection-molded silicone free from latex and PU/TPE additives, and boasts a snug fit which prevents light from spilling in, while air

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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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The 4 Types Of Generative AI Transforming Our World

Bernard Marr

The term generative AI refers to a relatively new field of AI that can create human-like content, from pictures and videos to poetry and even computer code. To achieve this, several different techniques are used. These have mostly evolved over the last 10 years, building on earlier work carried out in the fields of deep learning, transformer models and neural networks.

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EON Reality Expands its Rollout in Slovakia Targeting National-Rollout with 10,000 Tailored Courses with the Launch of Spatial AI Center and EON AI Autonomous Agents

EON Reality

“Empowering Slovakia’s Future: EON Reality Leads the Way with Immersive XR and AI Education” IRVINE, CA – May, 7 – EON Reality, a global leader in immersive learning technologies, proudly introduces a groundbreaking educational initiative in Slovakia, spearheading the nation’s journey into the future of education. This strategic expansion heralds the launch of Slovakia’s inaugural Spatial AI Center, poised to revolutionize learning experiences for students and