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JANUARY 2, 2025
Azeroth is more than a world; it’s the heart and soul of World of Warcraft, having been the home for players since 2004 where journeys… Continue reading → Why Azeroth is Still Relevant Today in World of Warcraft This post appeared first on AR Insider.
XR Today - Augmented Reality tag
JANUARY 2, 2025
Last year was a busy year for XR. Avid XR Today readers will be more than familiar with the big XR moments in 2024, including the likes of MR headsets, digital twins, Apple Vision Pro, Orion, and others; those moments are becoming history, however, and tomorrow’s innovations will take a stride. In 2024, the AI tidal wave dominated the emerging technology landscape, overtaking many XR technology ambitions.
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JANUARY 2, 2025
Meta is now offering a 10% education discount on Quest headsets and Ray-Ban smart glasses for university students and educators in the US. The discount is available to anyone in the US with a.edu email address, and is similar to the 10% discount Apple offers students on most of its products, though notably not Vision Pro. Meta's education discount means students in the US should now be able to jump into VR from $270 with the base 128GB model Quest 3S, or grab the higher-end Quest 3 with its adju
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
JANUARY 2, 2025
It feels like a lifetime since Valve released the Index headset a high-powered (relatively expensive) VR headset initially introduced in 2019. The Index remains an extremely popular headset today. But its quickly becoming pretty outdated thats where the Valve Deckard comes in. Rumors started circulating about a successor to the Valve Index way back in 2021.
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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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JANUARY 2, 2025
Noun Town: Home is a standalone mixed reality version of the VR language learning game, and it's out now on Quest. Developed by SUPER HYPER MEGA ( Project Aeroes ), Noun Town: Home is a separate release for Noun Town Language Learning's mixed reality mode, meaning anyone who owns the original game won't need to buy this. The studio states this comes with support for learning 800 words and phrases across the following languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, German, French, Italian
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Hypergrid Business
JANUARY 2, 2025
(Image by Alex Korolov via OpenArt.) I just watched OpenAI’s announcement about its upcoming o3 and o3-mini reasoning AI models, and they’ve reached an AI general intelligence milestone with this release. The biggest news is that the o3 model took a major leap towards Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI, when it achieved human-level performance on a test where it had to solve new problems it had never encountered before.
XR Today - Augmented Reality tag
JANUARY 2, 2025
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has published a Google patent application for a smartglasses design that seeks to reduce the amount of light lost from the microdisplay. The Apple IP news blog Patently Apple , which shared the news, described the innovative smartglasses design as centring around a curved thin see-through lightguide with large eyebox.
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