Road to VR

MAY 3, 2024

The PC VR population has been growing ever so steadily over the last four years. Meanwhile, the MacOS population has shrunk and been overtaken by VR. If you were just looking at the percent of the Steam population with monthly-connected VR headsets, you’d probably conclude that VR on the platform has shrunk slightly over the last four years. Here’s a look at the trend of the percent of the VR population on Steam: But the total population of Steam itself has been growing at a steady

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Anand Tech

MAY 3, 2024

This week Samsung Electronics and Synopsys announced that Samsung has taped out its first mobile system-on-chip on Samsung Foundry's 3nm gate-all-around (GAA) process technology. The announcement, coming from electronic design automation Synopsys, further notes that Samsung used the Synopsys.ai EDA suite to place-n-route the layout and verify design of the SoC, which in turn enabled higher performance.

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Road to VR

MAY 3, 2024

Popular indie game Smalland: Survive the Wilds (2024) launched out of Steam Early Access back in February, bringing its big 1.0 update on PC along with a fresh version for Xbox and PlayStation. Now the studio launched a VR-native spin-off for Quest too. Smalland: Survive the Wilds VR promises “dozens of hours” of survival, crafting, and exploring, although you’d be forgiven thinking it’s a straightforward 1:1 port of the original judging just by its name alone.

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MAY 3, 2024

JFK Memento uses VR to deliver an intriguing approach to documentary filmmaking. Read on for our full impressions: Last year saw the 60th anniversary of a defining moment in America's modern history. I doubt you'll find many people who aren't familiar with President John Fitzgerald Kennedy's (JFK) assassination, how Lee Harvey Oswald shot him in Dealey Plaza and the conspiracy theories surrounding it.

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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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Road to VR

MAY 3, 2024

Looking to see how that new 77-inch TV will fit in your rumpus room? Best Buy’s new Vision Pro app has you covered. Released in April, the new Best Buy Envision app for Vision Pro offers up 3D preview models from a number of product categories, including TV & home theater, large kitchen appliances like fridges and freezers, computers & tablets, health & fitness stuff, and even furniture.

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Upload VR

MAY 3, 2024

A new Asgard's Wrath 2 Cosmic Event is now available, pitting you against yourself and the Doomsday Legion. Available today as a free update, The Doomsday Legion follows ' Into The Multiverse ' and ' Bloodsuckers ' as Asgard's Wrath 2 's third limited-time Cosmic Event, which offer unique challenges called Cosmic Objectives. This time around, Surtur's armies have begun harvesting energy from Loki Anomalies to create this new titular army of Undead monsters.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 3, 2024

Unity 6 Preview is now available and includes new XR features like mixed, hand and eye input, and enhanced visual fidelity. The game and interactive experience creation engine, Unity 6, reportedly supports most popular XR platforms, such as ARKit, ARCore, Meta Quest, visionOS, Windows Mixed Reality, Playstation VR, and more. Unity 6 was first announced at Unite 2023 , an annual conference for game developers, in which reams of new features for Unity 6 were introduced by Unity’s Chief Executive,

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Oculus

MAY 3, 2024

Despite our best efforts, Loki Anomalies continue to spread through the multiverse—and now there’s a new problem. Surtur’s armies have figured out how to harvest.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 3, 2024

Apple Vision Pro battery life has been a hot topic of conversation ever since Apple announced its proprietary spatial computing headset. After all, unlike many competing mixed reality headsets, the Vision Pro doesn’t include a built-in battery. Instead, users need to connect the device to an external battery they can keep in their pocket or somewhere nearby.

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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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EON Reality

MAY 3, 2024

EON Reality Announces National Rollout of the Spatial AI Center in the Republic of Congo IRVINE, CA – May 03, 2024 – Marking a transformative stride in advancing education and workforce development within the Republic of Congo, EON Reality, the global frontrunner in VR and AR-based knowledge transfer for both the education and industry sectors, is excited to unveil its expansive rollout plan that includes the launch of the Republic of Congo’s inaugural Spatial AI Center.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 3, 2024

The industry continues to ramp up as summer comes. The start of the year saw a lot of hype pumped back into the XR space – perhaps some of the most eyes on the space since the Metaverse hype wave. This is partly due to the Apple Vision Pro, which led to XR having another mainstream moment. Now, the noise is starting to subside. As the rest of the year progresses, audiences and enterprise clients will begin to see how XR vendors keep or drop promises.

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