AR Insider
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Just days after the Mac's 40th anniversary. Apple Vision Pro is available in stores and shipped pre-orders. Away from the hot takes and haters, where does it fit in Apple's master plan? We take a long view. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Over the last three weeks I’ve had the chance to spend significant time in Apple Vision Pro. While my full review is still marinating, I want to share some early thoughts I’ve had while using the headset and what it means overall for the XR industry. It has to be said that anyone who doesn’t recognize how consequential the launch of Vision Pro is fundamentally doesn’t understand the XR industry.
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AR Insider
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
After 10 years of waiting and wondering, Vision Pro launches today, while Meta reports a breakout quarter. We have these and other happenings from the spatial spectrum through the eyes of Charlie Fink. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Meta today announced its fourth quarter earnings for 2023, revealing how Reality Labs has fared during the holiday season. It’s been a banner quarter for Meta’s XR division, with Reality Labs posting record revenue numbers, but also record costs. During its Q4 earnings call, Meta revealed its XR division had crossed over $1 billion in revenue for the first time, but also had its biggest quarter in terms of costs at $5.72 billion, resulting in a quarterly loss of $4.65 billion.
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
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
What's XR's fate in 2024? Industry heavyweights Ori Inbar and Tom Emrich recent reunited to break it all down. If you missed it, we have you covered with top takeaways and video. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Meta Reality Labs achieved its highest revenue yet in Q4 2023, over $1 billion for the first time. Reality Labs is the division of Meta behind Quest headsets, the Ray-Ban smart glasses , the Horizon platform, and research & development toward AR glasses and their neural wristband input device. In the Q4 earnings call today Meta reported $1.07 billion Reality Labs quarterly revenue.
Charlie Fink
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Xreal's Air2 Ultra AR is a $600 Android alternative to Apple's $3,500 Vision Pro.
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FEBRUARY 1, 2024
The Quest v62 update is rolling out soon with a plethora of new features and improvements. Version 62 is a huge update. It makes changes to the hand tracking UX, adds support for iPhone-captured spatial videos, improves the microphone quality, adds support for multiple mixed reality room setups, improves multitasking, improves Quest Link, adds Facebook live streaming and YouTube Live Chat, and adds support for gamepads on the web.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
ISE 2024 is wrapping up, and visitors are heading home. Igloo Vision was among a number of leading emerging technology companies showing face at the event to highlight the future of workplace technology -with the firm successfully showcasing how immersive spaces are a valuable enterprise tool via its Igloo Core Engine solution. At ISE 2024, visitors to its exhibition hall could visit Igloo Vision’s booth and see its solution that augments work by immersing employees in a space that surroun
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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.
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FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Synth Riders was rebuilt "from the ground up" for Apple Vision Pro, joining an increasing list of launch games. Though Synth Riders was mentioned in early Apple Vision Pro reviews , Kluge Interactive today confirmed it's arriving this week through Apple Arcade. Using a "brand-new audio-reactive spatial environment" for Apple Vision Pro, Synth Riders comes with 70 songs across nine packs, including Electro Swing Essentials 2 , and uses Apple Game Center for leaderboards.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Tomorrow, to mark the potentially paradigm-shifting device, the Apple Vision Pro, Microsoft is officially launching immersive Office 365 and Co-Pilot software solutions ready for Apple’s US XR marketplace debut. Starting tomorrow, the first wave of Vision Pro adopters can run Microsoft Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, and Loop on the spatial computing device alongside integrated Co-Pilot features.
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FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Vive Ultimate Trackers now work on PC, though this support is currently in beta. What Are Vive Ultimate Trackers? Previous Vive Trackers used Valve's SteamVR Tracking system and thus required SteamVR Tracking base stations. Vive Ultimate Trackers, released in November, have two wide field of view cameras and an onboard chipset instead to perform inside-out positional tracking of the same kind most headsets now use to track themselves.
Oculus
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
January’s in the rearview mirror, and our v62 software update is starting to roll out—bringing with it spatial video (read: stereoscopic video) playback, better support.
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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FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Tim Cook has been seen for the first time wearing Apple Vision Pro. The Apple CEO is on the cover of the February 2024 digital edition of Vanity Fair, for a piece called 'Why Tim Cook Is Going All In on the Apple Vision Pro'. This is the first time any Apple executive has been seen actually wearing the company's "spatial computer", which was first announced in June.
Oculus
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Project Demigod lets you live out your superhero fantasies with satisfying physics-driven combat. It’s already built an impressive community on App Lab. And today, it.
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FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Stranger Things VR has a new release date on Quest. Previously targeting a November 30 launch last year, Tender Claws eventually announced a late delay for Stranger Things VR , stating the extra time would let them "squash any remaining demo-bats." Until now, the Quest Store page only had a vague February release window but today the studio revealed it's coming on February 22.
Oculus
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
It’s almost time to step into the Upside Down.
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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FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Sony Mocopi now works on PC via a partnership with SlimeVR. What Is Sony Mocopi? Mocopi is a $450 streamlined body tracking kit for PC VR that launched in Japan in late 2022 and came to the US last year. The kit includes 6 trackers. Each tracker features an inertial measurement unit (IMU) containing a tiny accelerometer and gyroscope. The data is fed into a skeletal model to produce a plausible (but imperfect) full-body pose estimate based on the relative rotations & forces of each tracker.
EON Reality
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Uniting Cutting-Edge Virtual Environments with Nomadic Marketing Excellence Irvine, California – February 1, 2023 – EON Reality, the world leader in Augmented and Virtual Reality-based knowledge and skills transfer for industry and education, announces a strategic partnership with the innovative Saudi Arabian firm Squid Nomad. This alliance signifies a deliberate step by EON Reality to broaden the adoption of its state-of-the-art educational and industrial solutions across the Kingdom of Saudi A
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FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Project Demigod enters full release today on Quest and PC VR, and we spoke with Omnifarious Studios to learn more. Read on for our full interview. It's been a long journey for Project Demigod. Initially launched in October 2021, the VR superhero sim has made steady progress, reaching 100k sales last December across Quest App Lab and Steam Early Access.
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FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Walkabout Mini Golf: Pocket Edition is now in open testing on iPhones. Here’s what you need to know about the iOS edition of one of the VR’s best games. Developer Mighty Coconut is looking for fans of virtual reality mini golf to sign themselves up — or convince their friends — to test the iPhone app in its current state. Pocket Edition is still missing some key features noted below on its path toward broad release in the coming weeks.
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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FEBRUARY 1, 2024
The Meta Quest+ games for February 2024 are now available. Meta Quest+ is a subscription that lets you redeem a selection of two VR games per month. Even if you don't play them straight away, you can continue accessing redeemed games so long as you continue the subscription. You can redeen the new Quest+ games here until the end of February. Here's what they are: I Expect You To Die Created by Schell Games, I Expect You To Die kicked off the thrilling escape room series back in 2016.
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