AR Insider
JANUARY 25, 2024
AI's functional range includes everything from cloning your voice to putting your face in high-end fashion photography. Does this signal the technology's inevitable struggle between harmful and innocuous ends? This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
JANUARY 25, 2024
A project from researchers at Reality Labs, Meta’s XR division, shows a method for interacting with the real-world through augmented reality. I’m about as seasoned as they get when it comes to the XR space. I see research papers all the time that are interesting but ultimately one more step along a predictable path. It’s rare that I come upon something that I’d never even conceptually considered.
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AR Insider
JANUARY 25, 2024
This week on Reality Bytes, we look at Disney’s new magic tile, become a media lunkhead with Planet Fitness, and test out YouTube thumbnails. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
JANUARY 25, 2024
Airplanes seem like an ideal place to dive into VR, as you can switch out the cramped environment of the cabin for a giant movie theater, or whittle away the hours browsing the web on a massive screen — something that shouldn’t bother your seat mates too much. Although Quest’s tracking is one of the most reliable out there, it still has trouble in moving vehicles like airplanes and cars.
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.
AR Insider
JANUARY 25, 2024
Apple Vision Pro's use cases and killer apps will only be discovered in time, though there are a few that are clear already. What will be its role in editing and post production for content creation? This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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XR Today - Virtual Reality
JANUARY 25, 2024
Today, UK-based XR training solutions provider Immerse announced the hiring of Paul Jones as its new VP and Technology Strategist for Life Sciences; this follows Jones’ stint as the Head of Emerging Technologies and Global Innovation Labs at AstraZeneca. To mark the hiring, Jones will spearhead the firm’s strategic focus on commercial partnerships, namely healthcare and life sciences sectors – with Jones’ previous experience at the global research-based biopharmaceutical comp
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JANUARY 25, 2024
Meta has reportedly suspended its plan to bring a cheaper version of Quest 3 to China via a partnership with Tencent. To sell many kinds of products in China, foreign companies must partner with a Chinese company or set up a local subsidiary. Meta and Tencent's aim to sell Quest headsets in China was first reported by Chinese news outlet 36Kr early last year, though that report claimed the product was planned to be Quest 2.
Anand Tech
JANUARY 25, 2024
Intel and UMC on Thursday said they had entered into an agreement to jointly to develop a 12 nm photolithography process for high-growth markets such as mobile, communication infrastructure, and networking. Under the terms of the deal, the two companies will co-design a 12 nm-class foundry node that Intel Foundry Services (IFS) will use at its fabs in Arizona to produce a variety of chips.
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JANUARY 25, 2024
A finding suggests Meta could soon let you easily watch spatial videos captured by your iPhone on Quest. 'Spatial video' is Apple's term for 3D videos encoded and played using the Apple HEVC Stereo Video Profile format, an implementation of MV-HEVC. Currently, only Apple Vision Pro and the two iPhone 15 Pro models can record spatial video, and only Vision Pro can play it back natively in 3D.
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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.
Anand Tech
JANUARY 25, 2024
Intel this week has started production at Fab 9, the company's latest and most advanced chip packaging plant. Joining Intel's growing collection of facilities in New Mexico, Fab 9 is tasked with packaging chips using Intel's Foveros technology, which is currently used to build the company's latest client Core Ultra (Meteor Lake) processors and Data Center Max GPU (Ponte Vecchio) for artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) applications.
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JANUARY 25, 2024
Immersed now lets you preorder Visor for $400 plus a subscription, instead of needing to pay the full price. Who Is Immersed And What Is Visor? Immersed currently offers a free app for Meta Quest, Vive Focus 3, and Pico 4 that shows your PC monitors in VR and lets you spawn entirely virtual extra monitors, for up to 5 monitors in total. Visor is a new headset fully designed around this use case, a lightweight streamlined device rather than a generalized headset for an ecosystem of applications.
Oculus
JANUARY 25, 2024
There’s a well-worn saying that magicians never reveal their secrets. But today, we’re taking you behind the scenes for a look at some of the magic under the hood of our hardware.
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JANUARY 25, 2024
Lawn Mowing Simulator VR reaches Quest this year to teach you the meaning of a quality job. Developed by Skyhook Games three decades after the film The Lawnmower Man did its part to help popularize virtual reality, Lawn Mowing Simulator first appeared for flatscreen platforms in 2021. Announced by publisher Curve Games, it's now receiving an official VR adaptation, marking the latest sim to reach Quest following nDreams' PowerWash Simulator VR launch.
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.
XR Today - Augmented Reality tag
JANUARY 25, 2024
Today, remote IT support solutions provider TeamViewer announced a partnership with Almer to develop an AR headset for enterprise end users – noting TeamViewer’s dedicated move towards supporting workplace AR solutions, following a history of working with enterprise customers to leverage AR for various use cases. The partnership sees the creation of Arc 2, a product the firms are designing to enable remote collaboration.
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JANUARY 25, 2024
Spatial computing experimentalist Daniel Beauchamp took a year and a half off from posting non-stop viral videos under his cyperpunk alias Pushmatrix. There were Beat Saber fingers, sign language tests , and some people will never forgive him for the cheese grater hand tracking video. Beauchamp is back, though, and his first video of 2024 immediately lit X on fire.
Oculus
JANUARY 25, 2024
Unlike Novelab’s prior projects, Demeter is a full-fledged game—a narrative platformer, specifically—built from the ground up for mixed reality. In fact, at a couple of.
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JANUARY 25, 2024
Meta is working on making Quest headsets work in moving vehicles. UX Designer Andrew Fox reposted a video to X of Facebook user Netsvietaiev Oleksandr trying to use Quest 3 in passthrough mode on an airplane, but being unable to because the interface drifts away. Meta's CTO Andrew Bosworth replied to the post to summarize why it was happening, and finished by saying Meta is "working on it".
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.
Oculus
JANUARY 25, 2024
Since its startup days in 2015, Carbon Studio has been winning over VR gamers with a lineup of titles spanning The Wizards and The Wizards - Dark Times: Brotherhood to Crimen - Mercenary Tales, Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Tempestfall, Mindset, and more. Today, they’re back with the launch of Hunt Together, a PvP horror game built from the ground up for VR.
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JANUARY 25, 2024
Demeter: The Asklepios Chronicles makes an interesting case for mixed reality platformers, though the execution falls short. Read on for our full review: I didn't believe platformers would work in VR before 2018. When immersion is VR's biggest strength, third-person gameplay doesn't seem like a great fit in theory, yet Moss and Astro Bot: Rescue Mission proved that wrong.
Oculus
JANUARY 25, 2024
We’ve seen cockpit-based mech brawlers in VR in the past, but with its cel-shaded art style, gritty atmosphere, and arm-based locomotion, UNDERDOGS stands poised to.
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JANUARY 25, 2024
Orbeats delivers a new VR arcade rhythm game on Quest, but how does it fare? Here are our hands-on impressions: 0:00 / 1:05 1× VR rhythm games have a tough job standing out from the competition. In an oversaturated market led by Beat Saber , Synth Riders and Pistol Whip , Orbeats from Radical Forge caught my attention by mixing in VR racket sports. The end result feels closer to C-Smash VRS than Racket Club and while there's an interesting idea, the execution needs work.
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?
Charlie Fink
JANUARY 25, 2024
AI companies in the monry as Biden's voice cloned for robocalls.
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JANUARY 25, 2024
Synth Riders gets nine new songs with the Electro Swing Essentials 2 pack. It's been nearly four years since the first Electro Swing Essentials pack released for Synth Riders, the rhythm game's first DLC pack. Returning to that genre once more, Kluge Interactive confirmed this latest update adds nine further songs. The full playlist can be found on Spotify and here's the new trailer: While nine songs are included with Electro Swing Essentials 2, four tracks are free to all Synth Riders owners, w
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JANUARY 25, 2024
Hunt Together, a new PvP psychological horror game, arrives on Quest. Developed by Iron VR, Hunt Together is a multiplayer-only game for up to four players. Featuring two playable classes, Hunters and lifeforce-draining Ghosts, each comes packed with different skills and items. You can play between two gameplay modes, offering a 1v1 'Elimination Mode' and a 1v3 'Hide and Seek' mode with multiple maps available.
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JANUARY 25, 2024
Les Mills XR Bodycombat introduces new workouts and volcanic scenery in today's free update. Available today, Les Mills XR Bodycombat is adding a new key movement from real-life Bodycombat classes, elbow strikes. "This new routine expands the possibilities of each workout by combining it with knee strikes, battle ropes, uppercuts and other moves" says developer Odders Lab in a press release.
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?
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