AR Insider

DECEMBER 3, 2024

How did Toyota reduce training time for novice workers while letting senior experts more scalable? We examine its AR implementation in the latest case study. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 3, 2024

A recent report from South Korea’s Yonhap News maintains Samsung is set to unveil a pair of XR glasses at its annual Unpacked product event, which is expected to take place sometime next month. Samsung promised back in July we’d be hearing more about its forthcoming “XR platform” before the end of this year, which it’s developing in partnership with Google and Qualcomm.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 3, 2024

With Quest Pro being discontinued and Quest Pro 2 apparently canceled, the future of Codec Avatars remains unknown. What will Meta end up doing with this technology? We examine the evidence. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Data from Amazon US suggests that Quest headsets didn’t sell as well over Black Friday & Cyber Monday 2024 as compared to 2023. Based on data from Amazon US, in 2023 about 170,000 Quest headsets had sold in the 30 day window surrounding Black Friday and Cyber Monday. In 2024, that number was around 146,000 Quest headsets, representing a drop in sales volume of 14%.

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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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Varjo has released the ‘world’s first’ ultra high-resolution 3D scanning solution called Teleport. The global leader in industrial-grade virtual and mixed reality hardware and software, Varjo, has announced the general availability of Teleport, which creates photorealistic digital twins by stitching together 3D scenes made from Apple smartphone photos.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Yesterday, Vallourec leveraged virtual reality immersive environments for its Delphy hydrogen storage site, enabling visitors to take a comfortable virtual tour without setting foot in the real location. According to Vallourec, Delphy can revolutionize the hydrogen value chain, so the firm clearly wants to showcase this space as efficiently as possible for potential clients.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Green Hell VR (2022), Incuvo’s VR adaptation of the popular open world survival game, is finally getting the long-promised co-op mode this month on Quest and PSVR 2. First announced in April 2023, Green Hell VR’s co-op mode is nearly here, launching December 16th for free to owners of game on PSVR 2 and Quest 2, 3 and 3S. The co-op edition is said to build on the game’s challenging solo play by allowing teams of up to four players, who arm themselves with melee or ranged weapons to hunt f

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EON Reality

DECEMBER 3, 2024

IRVINE, CA — December 3, 2024 — EON Reality, a global leader in Augmented and Virtual Reality-based knowledge and skills transfer for industry and education, today announced the launch of its groundbreaking Interactive/Decision-Making Simulator, the third specialized learning environment within its innovative Knowledge Simulator platform. This state-of-the-art simulator revolutionizes professional decision-making training through a sophisticated three-phase approach guided by an AI Avatar.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Skydance's Behemoth, one of the most anticipated VR games of 2024, will receive a “day seven” patch on Quest. In the run-up to its launch on December 5, UploadVR has yet to go hands-on with the full release build of Skydance's Behemoth beyond prior demos. Today, a Skydance Games representative informed us that “Skydance's Behemoth launches this Thursday, Dec. 5, with a day-one patch for PlayStation and a day-seven patch for Meta Quest headsets.

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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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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Watch on YouTube. It’s time for the 2025 XR Trends! These predictions come from some of the winners of 2024’s XR Awards. XR Today introduces three award-winning XR leaders who make their big predictions for what will be happening in the extended reality market in 2025. Our contributors include the following: Stefan Marx, CEO, Zaubar Aida Otaola, Global Communications Manager, Virtualware Thomas Dexmier, VP of Enterprise, HTC VIVE Thanks for watching, if you’d like more like thi

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The House of Da Vinci VR is a captivating puzzle adventure into the mysterious and legendary studios of Leonardo da Vinci. Read on for our full review. 0:00 / 1:33 1× Over seven years since appearing on flatscreen platforms, The House of Da Vinci is back once more with escape room style challenges as you try to locate the renowned painter and inventor who's gone missing.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The 1.0 release of Attack on Titan VR: Unbreakable adds co-operative play and extra missions later this month. Following its initial launch back in July with the first two chapters, Attack on Titan VR: Unbreakable will leave early access on December 17th with the 1.0 update. This includes technical tweaks to the base game and adding the final two chapters to round out the game’s titan-killing narrative. 0:00 / 1:54 1× “After the Early Access launch, we’ve received overwhelmingly passionate suppo

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Apple Vision Pro is launching in Taiwan on December 17, and preorders open on Thursday. Apple Vision Pro has now been on the market for ten months. While it was originally only sold in the US, since then it has expanded to Canada, the UK, Australia, Germany, France, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, and China. In Taiwan, Apple Vision Pro will start at NT$119,900.

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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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