Thu.Nov 14, 2024

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Will Meta Quest 4 Herald the Future of Tracking Tech?

AR Insider

We recently speculated what Meta's next generation of its Ray-Ban smartglasses could be and do. Now we take that forward-looking analysis to Meta's other XR hardware line: Quest. What does "Project Pismo" signal for the future of VR? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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AWE misc hands-ons: Surreal Controllers, Scentient, Senmag Robotics, and more!

The Ghost Howls

At AWE Europe in Vienna, I have been able to go hands-on with some very interesting XR solutions. I’ve already written for you my impressions on XPANCEO contact lenses , Snap Spectacles glasses , MeganeX Superlight 8K headset , and Gracia volumetric videos. But there have been a few other cool things I’ve tried, and since I can not write an article for all of them, I want to summarize some other highlights from the event in this comprehensive article.

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Reality Bytes: Spotify, Amazon & Target

AR Insider

This week on Reality Bytes, we examine Amazon's Amelia smart glasses, TikTok's role in reshaping music discovery, and Target's immersive holiday shopping. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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‘Spatial Ops’ Brings Multiplayer Arena Shooting to Mixed Reality Today, New Trailer Here

Road to VR

Spatial Ops , the mixed reality shooter from Resolution Games, officially releases today on Quest, letting you organize essentially the wildest game of laser tag imaginable. Now available on Quest 2/3/Pro, Spatial Ops lets you go head-to-head with up to eight players across a number of game modes, including Free for All, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag and Domination.

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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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XR Talks: The State of AR Glasses, Part 1

AR Insider

To break down the latest AR hardware and how it relates to all the orbiting events and realities in the XR world, a heavy hitter roundtable of technically proficient XR thought leaders recently got together. We highlight strategic takeaways in the latest XR Talks. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Skydance’s Behemoth Seemingly Won't Be On Steam At Launch

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Skydance's Behemoth on PC VR will only launch through Meta Quest Link on December 5. While the upcoming action RPG is currently scheduled to launch on the same day on Quest and PS VR2, it's been unclear whether PC VR would follow. A PC VR release date was absent during its " World and Story " trailer with further details promised "in the next few weeks.

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XR News Bits – New Quest Games, Unexpected Updates, and the First Open Platform for Spatial Video on Vision Pro

Road to VR

In this edition of XR News Bits we’ve got a handful of noteworthy Quest games (some also on PC VR), an unexpected update from a VR game release more than two years ago, and the first open streaming platform to support spatial video on Vision Pro. XR News Bits An incredible amount of exciting XR news comes our way every day. Very often we see news come across our desk that’s worth highlighting, but we don’t always have the bandwidth for a full article on every one of them.

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The Light Brigade Update Adds A Stealthy Gunslinger To The VR Roguelike

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VR roguelike shooter The Light Brigade gets a new playable class, a new world, and more in the free 'Phantom of Time' update. Out now on all platforms, Update 4.0 for The Light Brigade adds the "Saboteur" class. Developer Funktronic Labs describes him as a gunslinger armed with an SW500 revolver, and he's also equipped with a "timepiece that cloaks and deploys a deadringer for stealthy escapes.

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VR City Manager ‘Little Cities’ is Headed to Vision Pro Next Month

Road to VR

Little Cities (2022) , the pint-sized VR city manager, is getting a new version for Apple Vision Pro that’s all about mixed reality gameplay. Called Little Cities: Diorama, the game will launch for Vision Pro through Apple Arcade on December 5th. It also just so happens to be the game’s first foray into mixed reality, as the version available on Quest and PSVR 2 focus entirely on virtual environments.

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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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EON Reality Launches Virtual Internship and Career Simulation Platform

EON Reality

Irvine, CA — November 14,2024 — EON Reality, a global innovator in Augmented and Virtual Reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, proudly announces the launch of its Virtual Internship and Career Simulation Platform. This groundbreaking platform offers students immersive experiences in various industries, bridging the gap between education and the professional world.

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New Tower Defense RTS Coming to Vision Pro From Veteran Studio Resolution Games

Road to VR

Resolution Games, the veteran VR studio behind Demeo (2021) and host of recognizable VR titles, announced it’s bringing a brand new tower defense game to Vision Pro early next year. Called Gears & Goo , the new real-time strategy game is coming to Apple Arcade for Vision Pro on January 9th, 2025. Resolution Games describes it as a game that “combines elements of base building and territory expansion,” further noting you’ll be able to instruct your workers to gather r

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Amazon to Deploy AR Smart Glasses to Delivery Drivers

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

This week, reports stemming from Reuters highlight how Amazon is employing AR smart glasses to optimise its delivery options. Amazon is planning to deploy its new bespoke smart glasses for delivery drivers. The glasses will leverage AR visualisations to help guide drivers on their routes, seemingly for on-foot navigation towards a customer landing point.

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EU Grant Awarded to Boost Enterprise AI-Powered XR Solutions

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Today, VOXReality awarded €1 million in grant funding to five European XR projects that use AR/VR/MR technology to solve hurdles in human-to-human interaction for enterprise sectors. VOXReality awards the €1 million grant via equal €200k investments across a 1-year programme. The European Commission-funded VOXReality group focuses on aiding the development of XR services in the region.

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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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Starship Troopers: Continuum Does Its Part Today On Quest

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Starship Troopers: Continuum adapts the sci-fi series with a new VR co-op shooter, and it's out today on Quest. Developed by XR Games and Sony Pictures Virtual Reality, Starship Troopers: Continuum follows the cult classic film , presenting an arcade-style wave shooter with roguelite elements. Set 25 years after the battle of Klendathu, the war between the Federation and the Arachnids has become deadlocked.

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On-Device AI And The Voice-Powered Future Of Computing

Cathy Hackl

The role of voice-controlled on-device AI in the era of spatial computing has applications in enterprise, education and our personal lives.

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The Weeknd's Apple Immersive Music Video Is Out Now

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The Weeknd's Apple Immersive Video music experience is out now on Apple Vision Pro, and Apple will demo it at Apple Stores. What Is Apple Immersive Video? The Apple Immersive Video format is 180-degree video with 8K resolution, stereoscopic 3D, high dynamic range (HDR), and spatial audio. It's served in the Apple TV app with much higher bitrate than many other immersive video platforms.

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#1493: “About a Hero” Doc Written by AI Trained on Werner Herzog Corpus Blends Realities and Opens IDFA

Voices of VR

About a Hero is a documentary that reenacts an imaginal, true crime documentary script written by an AI language model that was trained on a corpus of Werner Herzog content. It’s a film that blends and blurs the lines between what’s physically-captured, documentary material versus completely constructed and fabricated content generated by AI.

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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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Meta Horizon Worlds v188 Release Notes

Oculus

Meta Horizon Worlds v188 is here! This week, we’re launching the new Horizon Mixed Reality Public world, introducing parent-managed Meta account access to Worlds, and.

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Take Control of an Excavator in ‘DIG VR’, Out Now on Meta Quest

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DIG VR, out today on Meta Quest VR, sits you down at the controls of an excavator (or digger) and lets you unleash your primal hole-digging desires on any woefully hole-free ground you encounter.

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‘Starship Troopers: Continuum’ Blasts Onto Meta Quest With Epic Bug-Fighting Action, Out Now

Oculus

The first and only official Starship Troopers VR game has finally arrived! Starship Troopers: Continuum from developer XR Games is a continuation of the cult-classic.

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Mixed Reality FPS ‘Spatial Ops’ Takes Aim for Meta Quest With Single-Player Campaign and Multiplayer Arena, Out Now

Oculus

Spatial Ops from Resolution Games is a first-person shooter unlike any you’ve played before.

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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?