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The XR Week Peek (2025.01.29): Google acquires HTC engineers, Meta plans to release Oakley smartglasses, and more!

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Happy Lunar New Year everyone! May the year of the snake bring you joy, happiness, money, success, love, and a lot of XR headsets! And if you are someone that celebrates this festivity, I wish you to spend some quality time with the people you love and eat a lot of food Im literally swamped with work these days, so this newsletter is coming a bit later and a bit shorter than usual but it still contains everything you need to know about these days in XR!

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‘Demeo’ Studio Announces Official Dungeons & Dragons Version of Hit VR Tabletop Strategy Game

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Resolution Games, the studio behind XR fantasy board game Demeo (2021), announced they’re releasing a Dungeons & Dragons game in the same vein, called DEMEO X DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: BATTLEMARKED. Demeo was already pretty D&D-esque when it launched on VR headsets in 2021, but now Resolution Games, in partnership with D&D creator Wizards of the Coast, announced they’re bringing Demeo’s action roleplaying system to the upcoming title, which is slated to be chock-full

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Meta Quest ROI Optimization: Post-Implementation Strategies for Enterprises

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Youve identified your XR enterprise use cases, assessed the competition , and decided to choose Meta and the Quest ecosystem to take business productivity to the next level. So, whats next in your roadmap? Meta Quest ROI optimization. Meta offers companies a wide range of powerful (and affordable) hardware options, flexible applications, and software solutions to help them unlock the power of extended reality.

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‘Path of Fury’ Preview – A VR Beat-’Em-Up That Packs a Nostalgic Punch

Road to VR

Path of Fury – Episode I: Tetsuo’s Tower is an upcoming combat sim that’s all about punching your way through gangsters while making a one-way trip through the ’80s-inspired underworld. We went hands-on with the first two levels ahead of its March 13th release on Quest, so read on to find out more. I grew up on a steady diet of films like Big Trouble in Little China (1986) and a countless parade of ’80s and ’90s Chinese kung-fu flicks as a kid, which means I&#

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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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Meta Reality Labs Achieves Its Highest Ever Quarterly Revenue, $1.08 Billion

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Meta Reality Labs achieved its highest ever quarterly revenue in Q4 2024, $1.083 billion, following the launch of Quest 3S. Reality Labs is the division of Meta behind Quest headsets and their Horizon software platform, the technology side of the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, and research & development of AR glasses and their sEMG wristband input device.

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Meta Reality Labs Sales Grew 40% In 2024, According To Leaked Memo

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Meta's Reality Labs division's sales for 2024 were more than 40% higher than in 2023, according to a memo leaked to Business Insider. Reality Labs is the division of Meta behind Quest headsets and their Horizon software platform, the technology side of the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, and research & development of AR glasses and their sEMG wristband input device.

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Meta Reality Labs Saw Record Quarterly Revenue in Q4 2024, But Also Record Costs

Road to VR

In its quarterly financial results today, Meta revealed that its Reality Lab division saw its best ever Q4 revenue but, as before, this coincides with equally growing costs. Meta’s Reality Labs division houses its metaverse and XR groups, and some of its AI initiatives. During its Q4 2024 earnings call, Meta revealed that Reality Labs reached a record $1.08 billion in quarterly revenue, but also had its biggest quarter in terms of costs at $6.05 billion, resulting in a quarterly loss of $4

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Meta Plans To Make Quest Scene Mesh Scans Update Automatically

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Meta is seemingly planning to make Quest's 3D scene mesh automatically update when there are changes to your physical environment. First spotted by VR enthusiast Luna , the changelog for v72 of the Meta XR Core SDK includes the following notice: We are on a path to remove the users capability to edit the space settings in 2025, so developers should work to reduce dependency on this feature as it is incompatible with our vision of high-reliable scans that just work even when the scenes change.

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VR Publisher VRAL Acquires 30% Stake in Studio Behind VR Shooter ‘EXOSHOCK’

Road to VR

Miami-based VR publisher VRAL Games announced it’s acquired a 30% stake in PolarityOne, a Seattle-based indie studio developing the upcoming co-op VR shooter EXOSHOCK. The studios saythe investment aligns with VRAL Games strategy to expand its presence in immersive gaming, leaving PolarityOne to operate independently with publishing support from VRAL.

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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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Batman: Arkham Shadow Update 1.3 Adds New Game+ & New Post-Credits Scene

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Batman: Arkham Shadow receives its New Game+ mode, a new post-credits cinematic and more in today's free update. Marking the last major update previously announced in the post-launch roadmap, Batman: Arkham Shadow Update 1.3 is now available for all owners. This notably includes a New Game+ Mode that allows you to carry over previous WayneTech progression.

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Splashtop Releases AR Virtual Support System

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

In a move that could reshape industrial maintenance, Splashtop has just released its AR remote support system, which works with RealWear Smart Glasses. Announced January 28, 2025, this is a bold play by Splashtop to make hazardous work environments significantly safer. Splashtop already has significant market presence, serving over 30 million users and 250,000 businesses, including 85% of Fortune 500 enterprises.

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No Man’s Sky Expands Its Horizons With Worlds Part 2 Update for PS VR2 and PC VR

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The No Man's Sky's Worlds Part 2 update adds new solar systems, terrain types and more on PS VR2 and PC VR today. A follow-up to last year's Worlds Part 1 update , Worlds Part 2 sees developers Hello Games expand solar systems by adding new Gas Giants, terrain types, and weather conditions for No Man Sky players to explore. Alongside new planetary flora and fauna, this update sees the oceans receive a sizable upgrade, with bodies of water now reaching multiple kilometers in depth. 0:00 / 1:40 1

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How to Trigger iMessage Effects with Just a Keyword

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One of the coolest aesthetic features of iMessage is its animated message effects. If you're like many users, you might even have discovered them by accident, where wishing your friend a "Happy Birthday!" or congratulating them on a promotion unexpectedly flooded your screen with balloons or confetti. Apple's iMessage effects first appeared in iOS 10 and still work perfectly in the most current iOS, iPadOS, and macOS versions.

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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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Zuckerberg Teases "Long-Term Investments" Arriving To Make Horizon "Visually Stunning"

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"Long-term investments" will "land" later this year to make Horizon Worlds "more visually stunning and inspiring", Mark Zuckerberg told investors. During Meta's Q4 earnings call, where the company reported its highest ever quarterly revenue from its Reality Labs AR/VR division, Mark Zuckerberg gave investors a very vague tease of what to expect from Horizon Worlds this year: This is the year that a number of the long-term investments that weve been working on that will make the metaverse more vi

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#1521: New glTF External Reference Format Combines Multiple Assets into a Scene

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The Khronos Group is working on a new open standard tentatively called the glTF External Reference Format (or glTFx for short), which will allow users to add multiple glTF assets to a single scene. This used to be called the “glTF Experience Format (glXF),” and the final name is still being finalized. This will enable […] The Khronos Group is working on a new open standard tentatively called the glTF External Reference Format (or glTFx for short), which will allow users to add

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Synth Riders Celebrates Super Bowl LIX With Kendrick Lamar Experience On Apple Vision Pro

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Synth Riders is celebrating Super Bowl LIX with a Kendrick Lamar Experience next month as a timed Apple Vision Pro exclusive. Coinciding with Kendrick Lamar's headlining performance at next week's Super Bowl LIX halftime show, Kluge Interactive is releasing a new 'Experience' only on Apple's headset. Exploring the lens of Lamar's music video for 2017 track ' Humble ,' Kluge says this journey will transport players from New Orleans to Los Angeles while making it through crowds to take a rightful

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Samsung Unveils ‘Moohan’ to Compete with Quest, Vision Pro

XR Today - Big XR News tag

Samsung has just unveiled Project Moohan , its highly anticipated extended reality (XR) headset, in-person for the first time. Showcased at Galaxy Unpacked 2025 and set to compete with the Meta Quest and Apple Vision Pro , this exciting joint venture between Samsung and Google brings powerful AI integration to mixed reality, potentially setting a new standard for XR devices.

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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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Demeo X Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked Is Resolution's Official D&D VR Game

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Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked is Resolution's D&D VR game, using the tabletop RPG's mechanics for a licensed crossover. Following its work on hit co-op RPG Demeo and its more recent PvP focused spinoff, Demeo Battles , Resolution has officially unveiled its upcoming Dungeons & Dragons crossover with Wizards of the Coast. First announced last year as an untitled project, we've yet to see any gameplay footage for Battlemarked but you can watch the announcement trailer below.

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Resolution Games announces Battlemarked, an upcoming VR Dungeons & Dragons game

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Last year, Wizards of the Coast and Resolution Games announced an exciting development: Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), the popular tabletop role-playing game (RPG), is being adapted for virtual reality. Until now, specific details about the new game have been kept closely under wraps. However, on Wednesday, the companies finally unveiled the official title and more […] 2024 TechCrunch.

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New VR Games & Releases February 2025: Quest, SteamVR, PS VR2 & More

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From COLD VR to Alien: Rogue Incursion reaching Quest 3, February's got a few new VR games. Here's our monthly highlights on Quest, Steam, PS VR2 and more. We're slowly getting into the new year and January's already had a few notable games. We reviewed Epyka , Pirates VR: Jolly Roger and Arken Age , also offering our impressions of Shardfall: FitQuest VR , Gears & Goo , and Human Within.

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Samsung Unveils ‘Moohan’ to Compete with Quest, Vision Pro

XR Today - Big XR News tag

Samsung has just unveiled Project Moohan , its highly anticipated extended reality (XR) headset, in-person for the first time. Showcased at Galaxy Unpacked 2025 and set to compete with the Meta Quest and Apple Vision Pro , this exciting joint venture between Samsung and Google brings powerful AI integration to mixed reality, potentially setting a new standard for XR devices.

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Who C.A.R.E.S.!? How Learning Got Its Bad Rap & What We Can Do About It

Speaker: Treion Muller, Chief Strategy Officer at ELB Learning

Since when has learning and development (L&D) become such a negative experience with its intended learners? Could it be because learners have been conditioned by very poor learning experiences over the past two decades, combined with the kinks of technological innovation? Or is it because learning has typically been designed as a one-size-fits-all solution, despite the fact that humans are not clones?

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Craftrium Is A Personalized Spatial Aquarium App For Apple Vision Pro

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Craftrium lets you create a spatial aquarium in your living space, and it's out now for free on Apple Vision Pro. Developed by Graffity and published by Shochiku, Craftrium is described as a relaxing experience that lets you create a personalized digital aquarium in your living space. Item placement determines which types of fish appear in your aquarium, and the studio states creative combinations cause new species to appear.

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#1520: Design Breakdown of One-on-One Immersive Theatre piece TM with Ontroerend Goed’s Alexander Devriendt

Voices of VR

I dig into my archives to unpack the one-on-one, immersive theatre piece that I saw online back in 2021 called TM that used a Socratic dialectic to interrogate you as you’re going through a process of joining an imaginary cult. I spoke with Ontroerend Goed’s artistic director Alexander Devriendt to get a lot more context […] I dig into my archives to unpack the one-on-one, immersive theatre piece that I saw online back in 2021 called TM that used a Socratic dialectic to interro

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Hide the Corpse Is Coming To PS VR2 & Steam Too In 2025

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The absurd physics-based puzzle game Hide the Corpse is expanding to PlayStation VR2 and Steam after a successful launch on Quest. Hide the Corpse tasks players with its eponymous objective; players have four minutes to hide a corpse before the nosy cops arrive and spoil everything. The game's real-time physics and increasingly absurd scenarios make dragging, lifting, and stuffing the dead weight as stressful and challenging as it sounds.

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#1522: A Survey of Spatial Audio Formats with 1618 Digital’s Oliver Kadel

Voices of VR

Oliver Kadel’s 1618 Digital specializes in spatial audio sound design and engineering across linear immersive storytelling and interactive immersive experiences. Kadel also co-hosts The Immersive Audio Podcast with Monica Bolles, and I was recently featured in episode #109. I sat down with Kadel to get a survey of some of the spatial audio formats and […] Oliver Kadel's 1618 Digital specializes in spatial audio sound design and engineering across linear immersive storytelling and int

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How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular

Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute

The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?