AR Insider
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
To deepen digital tourism and cultural engagement, Google's new AR landmarks let users explore iconic destinations. Charlie Fink goes behind the scenes with Google and creative partner Rock Paper Reality. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Halfbrick Studios and The Thrill of the Fight (2016) original creator Ian Fitz today released the long-awaited sequel to the popular boxing sim, available now on Quest in Early Access. A fully-reimagined sequel to the original game, The Thrill of the Fight 2 is now live on Quest headsets, including Quest 2, Quest 3, Quest 3S, and Quest Pro. While the original was all about PvE battles, the sequel is launching in Early Access today with one of the most anticipated features: online PvP boxing.
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AR Insider
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
This week on Reality Bytes, we dive into TikTok's new microdramas, Google Maps' new contextual upgrades, and Amazon's latest 'Haul' feature. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Charlie Fink
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Fable’s new simulation reenacts the five days following Altman’s removal last year. AI agents strategize, manipulate, and negotiate to secure leadership roles at OpenAI.
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.
XR Today - Augmented Reality tag
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
AR smart glasses vendor Vuzix is again in the news this week. Following its recent Microsoft certification, the storied XR firm is entering the consumer smart glasses market after a seasoned period working exclusively in the business sector. The news comes as interest in consumer smart glasses rises, thanks to firms like Meta broadening the market with its Ray-Ban collaboration.
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Charlie Fink
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
If Google knows all about you, then everyone should, says the Justice Department, AI Coke Commercil Lambasted
Upload VR
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
The latest free Gran Turismo 7 update adds "enhanced rendering quality" for PS VR2 users on PS5 Pro. Now available for all Gran Turismo 7 owners, Polyphony Digital confirmed Update 1.54 introduces enhanced support for PS5 Pro owners. While PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) still isn't available for PlayStation VR2, VR-specific upgrades include enhanced rendering quality and smoother video playback, the latter of which is "achieved through the VR Positional Reprojection function." 0:00
Oculus
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
If exploring a luxurious Persian palace by utilizing your innate parkour and climbing skills sounds like a good time, then I have great news for you! Ember Souls, an all-new VR hack-and-slash action-adventure title from developer VirtualAge, is out now on the Meta Quest platform.
Upload VR
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
The co-op expansion for survival game Green Hell VR launches next month as a free update for Meta Quest and PS VR2 players. Developed by Incuvo, Green Hell VR dumps players into a sweltering jungle, challenging them to survive the countless perils of the Amazonian rain forest. The new co-op expansion builds on the game's significant solo challenges, allowing teams of up to four survivors to play together. 0:00 / 2:58 1× Players will arm themselves with melee weapons to fend off the frightful fau
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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.
Oculus
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
’Tis the season for gift-giving, and whether you’re searching for the perfect present for someone else or narrowing down your own list for Santa, we’ve.
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NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Wall Town Wonders, Cyborn’s latest offering, transforms your living room into a charming miniature metropolis, and it’s out now on Quest 3. In a creative leap, Cyborn is shifting focus from the jaw-dropping visuals and run and gun style of their previous title Hubris to a more intimate and personalized style of gameplay. Wall Town Wonders stands out by using your walls as an interactive canvas for building a lively little town where players use hand-tracking to engage with the game’s miniature s
Oculus
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
If you feel like Augmented Empire sounds a little familiar, don’t worry: You’re not losing your mind (as far as we know). This game originally released all the way back on the Gear VR over seven years ago, and the fine folks at Coatsink Software knew they had something special on their hands that just needed a new lease on life to find a rejuvenated audience.
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NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Anomaly, a new extraction shooter from the makers of Swarm, launches on Meta Quest in early December. Developed by Greensky Games, creators of Swarm and Swarm 2 , Anomaly is an extraction shooter set in the year 2050. Players will attempt to navigate a desolate city split across three distinct levels, fighting rival squads and monsters, all seeking to claim and extract with a rare Artifact.
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.
Oculus
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Whether you’re alone in the shower or up on the stage, there’s nothing quite like belting out your favorite song. Songbird taps into the swelling feeling of letting the music take you away by turning anywhere into a karaoke stage, and it launches today on Meta Quest.
Upload VR
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
There are few things that VR does better than parkour and sword combat; so it's no surprise that Ember Souls attempts to meld the two into an action-adventure thriller, much as other titles have previously done. Does Ember Souls hit the same mark, though? Read on for our full review. Ember Souls is an action-adventure with a heavy focus on parkour-style platforming, and puzzle-solving.
Oculus
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Your moment has finally arrived. You’ve jogged alongside cars in the pouring rain; you’ve practiced your uppercuts by punching meat in a meat locker; you’ve.
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NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Gracia's moving volumetric scenes, dynamic gaussian splats, are now available on Quest 3 and Pico 4 headsets standalone. What Is Gracia? Simple stereoscopic 3D photos and videos like Apple's spatial video only offer limited parallax of a view of a scene presented in a rectangle in front of you, and immersive 180° or 360° content like Apple Immersive Video does the same in a hemisphere or sphere.
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.
XR Today - Augmented Reality tag
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
This week, Meta announced the rollout of its AI framework across its Ray-Ban Meta AR-lite smart glasses in EU regions, following an initial reveal at Connect 2024. Meta first debuted the features in the US, Canada, and Australia. However, recent news shows an urgency to introduce AI features to more customers in France, Italy, Ireland, and Spain. Interestingly, this drive may come because, during Ray-Ban parent firm EssilorLuxottica’s recent Q3 2024 earnings call, the company noted that in E
EON Reality
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
IRVINE, CA – November 21, 2024 – EON Reality, a global leader in AI-driven Virtual and Augmented Reality for education and industry, is excited to announce the official rollout of its transformative EON B2C platform. Building upon its proven success in the business-to-business (B2B) educational technology market, the new direct-to-consumer (B2C) platform is designed to redefine how individuals engage with learning and personal development using cutting-edge Spatial AI technology.
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