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There’s Now More VR Than Mac Players on Steam

Road to VR

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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Samsung Tapes Out Its First 3nm Smartphone SoC, Gets A Boost From Synopsys AI-Enabled Tools

Anand Tech

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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Best Buy App for Vision Pro Lets You Preview Products at Scale in Your Home

Road to VR

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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JFK Memento Offers An Intriguing Approach To VR Documentaries

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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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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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‘Smalland: Survive the Wilds VR’ Arrives on Quest, Serving up a VR Spin-off of the Popular Indie Game

Road to VR

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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New Asgard's Wrath 2 Cosmic Event Faces The Doomsday Legion

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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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Unity 6 Preview Available with New XR Experiences

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

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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The Doomsday Legion Invades ‘Asgard’s Wrath 2’ in the Latest Cosmic Event

Oculus

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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How to Improve Apple Vision Pro Battery Life

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

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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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 Announces Ambitious Expansion in the Republic of Congo with the Launch of Spatial AI Center and Introduction of 10,000 Tailored Courses

EON Reality

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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Big XR News from Unity, Meta, Apple, STYLY

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

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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