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Samsung Reportedly Planning to Release XR Glasses This Year

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We’ve been waiting to hear about Samsung’s entrance into XR for a few years now, with the company’s still unnamed mixed reality headset ‘Project Moohan’ set to debut sometime this year running Google’s Android XR operating system. Now, a report from ETNews (Korean) maintains the South Korean tech giant may also have a pair of XR glasses up its sleeves.

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Inside The Walkable VR Holodeck That Sells Real Estate

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In 2012, Jonathan Coon backed the original Oculus kickstarter project and has a signed Rift DK1 to show for it. In 2025, Coon and a team of technology integrators developed a functioning 5,000-square-foot holodeck on a hilltop overlooking Austin, working through a collaboration between Pureblink , Agile Lens , and DBOX. This first-of-its-kind facility sells the idea of residing on the hill in a few years in a home with a "frictionless lifestyle".

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Bigscreen Beyond 2 Sold the Equivalent of 6 Months of Beyond 1 Sales in First 24 Hours

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Bigscreen Beyond 2 orders flooded in last Thursday at a surprising pace. Now, the PC VR headset maker notes that its next slim and light headset outsold the original in 24 hours by an impressive margin, making its first day or sales equivalent to six months of what it did with Beyond 1. We’ve already heard some impressive stats following Bigscreen’s launch for Beyond 2 orders.

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Valve Hasn't Released A VR Game In 5 Years, And That's Not OK

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Half-Life: Alyx released five years ago. Considered by many to be the best VR game ever made, Alyx arrived just under nine months after Index as the first of the three "full" Valve VR games the company had teased before the headset's release. The problem, of course, is that the other two games never arrived, with Valve confirming upon Alyx's release that they weren't even in development.

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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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Quest Update Reveals More Vision Pro Features Are Coming, Including FaceTime-Style Selfie Cam

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Meta’s upcoming Horizon OS release is bringing a few more of Vision Pro’s most useful features to Quest, including a video chatting selfie cam for avatars and possibly the ability to share windows with other users when in its Horizon Home social space. Discovered by serial dataminer ‘Luna’, a beta version of Horizon OS v76 is packing in a few new features, including the very Facetime-inspired avatar selfie cam which can be used in video chatting apps.

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Spatial Beats: 2D to 3D with AI

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XR came to play at SXSW and Roblox and Stability AI find ways to turn 2D into 3D with AI. We have these and other items from XR and AI realms, through the eyes of Charlie Fink. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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PC VR Survival Game Bootstrap Island Adds Weather And Warthogs In Major Update

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Maru VR's PC VR survival game Bootstrap Island added dynamic weather systems and new creatures to its gameplay in a recent update. Currently in early access, Bootstrap Island strands players on a desert island to scavenge for food, water, and defensive tools in VR. As part of a major update, the swashbuckling survival game adds dynamic weather conditions to complicate key activities like cooking and hunting, such as torrential rainstorms that snuff out fires, erratic lightning bolts that increas

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EON Reality Unveils Landmark White Paper: “The Future is Here, But Not Evenly Distributed”

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IRVINE, CA March 24, 2025 EON Reality, the world leader in AI-assisted Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, today announced the publication of its groundbreaking white paper “ The Future is Here, But Not Evenly Distributed: EON’s AI for Income Academy.” This comprehensive research document presents an unprecedented approach to bridging the digital divide in the Global South, leveraging artificial intelligence, accelerated l

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VR Shooter Hard Bullet Makes Quest Debut Later This Year

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The physics-based combat simulator Hard Bullet arrives on Quest 3 and 3S later this year. Developed by GexagonVR, Hard Bullet takes inspiration from classic Hong Kong action movies. Across various game modes, players are tasked with taking on waves of ragdoll enemies using a combination of environmental bric-a-brac, physical movements and curated loadouts to wipe them out.

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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 Introduces Transformative Three-Pillar Approach to Bridge the Global Digital Divide

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IRVINE, CA March 24, 2025 EON Reality, the world leader in AI-assisted Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, today announced the launch of its groundbreaking Three-Pillar Approach to addressing technological inequality. This comprehensive system combines structured education, systematic implementation processes, and immersive learning technology to transform how communities in the Global South access and leverage digital solutions.

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Hands-On With Pinball FX VR With Arcade2TV-XR Controls

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You can play pinball in VR or mixed reality with an arcade cabinet that also feels like a real pinball machine. At GDC 2025 we tested Pinball FX VR with the Arcade2TV-XR cabinet and a pair of Quest controllers mounted on top for tracking. Pinball FX VR supports Touch controllers as well, which I tested, but my colleague Don Hopper also put those controllers on a physical Arcade2TV-XR unit to effectively track the object, using a bluetooth dongle to connect the arcade cabinet's controls to his he

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Boxed Out Is A VR Puzzler That Scratches That Tetris Itch

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Boxed Out, the latest title from Red Chain Games, is hard to put down. This arcade-style puzzler has the right blend of approachability and complexity to take care of that itch usually only scratched by Tetris. It's a straightforward setup: clear the boxes. Coded by between three and five different colors, you're supposed to match boxes by color in either rows of three or more or boxed groups of four or more to clear them.

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