AR Insider
AUGUST 1, 2024
Most AR shopping so far happens on mobile devices, due to their ubiquity and AR's natural home on smartphones. But will the leap from handheld to headworn AR transform immersive shopping? This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
AUGUST 1, 2024
Last year, Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and NVIDIA announced the Alliance for OpenUSD , an organization to advance and proliferate the USD file format as the future standard for creating and distributing 3D content. The standard, which is a framework for constructing and packaging complex 3D scenes, was called the “HTML of the metaverse” by NVIDIA, and expected to “help accelerate the next generation of AR experiences,” by Apple.
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AR Insider
AUGUST 1, 2024
Meta's Q2 earnings outperform on the backs of ample AI action while OpenAI unveils SearchGPT. We have these and other items from XR and AI realms through the eyes of Charlie Fink. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
AUGUST 1, 2024
Virtuix’s latest VR treadmill, Omni One, is finally set to launch next month. The company has updated its launch roster of VR games that will natively support the treadmill, now including Sniper Elite VR. Virtuix is pitching Omni One as an all-in-one system for immersing yourself in VR with full body locomotion. Rather than being merely an accessory to a headset, the treadmill is actually packaged with a headset of its own (Pico 4), customized to make the experience of using the VR tread
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
AUGUST 1, 2024
This week on Reality Bytes, we explore OpenAI's SearchGPT, Reddit's new paywall, and Sam's Club's enhanced shopping experience. S This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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Charlie Fink
AUGUST 1, 2024
Meta's second quarter revenue is up 22%, extending its winning streak. Canva's adding Gen-AI to keep up with former suitor Adobe. Hedra generates video and audio.
Road to VR
AUGUST 1, 2024
Roguelite shooter COMPOUND is finally coming to PSVR 2, bringing its retro pixel art style and arsenal of fun weapons to the platform starting this month. Originally hoping to launch on PSVR 2 sometime in early 2024, Compound has done a bit of a back and forth with Sony’s quality assurance (QA) over the past few months, resulting in what notdead games described back in June as “an obscene number of dramas and delays.” Now the studio, which has taken on an additional program
Charlie Fink
AUGUST 1, 2024
Generative-AI isn't going to write a good novel, but it's going to eliminate many non-fiction writing jobs like mine. By writing this, am I training my replacement?
Anand Tech
AUGUST 1, 2024
Amidst the backdrop of a weak quarterly earnings report that saw Intel lose money for the second quarter in a row, Intel today has announced that the company will be cutting costs by $10 billion in 2025 in an effort to bring Intel back to profitability. The cuts will touch almost every corner of the company in some fashion, with Intel planning to cut spending on R&D, marketing, administration, and capital expenditures.
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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.
Upload VR
AUGUST 1, 2024
Guardian of Realms is a new MR combat game designed by the Swordsman VR studio, arriving this month in early access on Quest 3. 0:00 / 0:31 1× Developed by Sinn Studio, Guardian of Realms aims to fulfill a power fantasy without worrying about hitting anything in your playspace. "As the Guardian, you are responsible for defending our world from otherworldly warriors and creatures, including the formidable beholders.
Charlie Fink
AUGUST 1, 2024
Hedra has a unique, consolidated generative AI video tool that makes characters talk.
Upload VR
AUGUST 1, 2024
A new MudRunner VR content update is live on Quest, and we interviewed the producer to learn more about this recent adaptation. Following May's launch, off-roading vehicle sim MudRunner VR from Saber Interactive is introducing several changes. The most notable changes include a playable retro racing arcade machine in the game's hub, the ability to lean outside of the car window, and an interactive headlight button in your car's cabin.
Anand Tech
AUGUST 1, 2024
Alongside Intel’s weak Q2 2024 earnings report and the announcement of $10 billion in spending cuts and layoffs for 2025 , the company is also relaying one other piece of bad news regarding its current chip deliveries. A brief report, posted on X by analyst Patrick Moorhead and citing a conversation with Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, revealed that Intel has been dealing with a yield issue on Meteor Lake, with the issue being significant enough to drive intel to take extraordinary steps to deliv
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.
Upload VR
AUGUST 1, 2024
Asgard's Wrath 2 invites you to the Blazing Battleground in a new Cosmic Event. The latest in a continuing series of Asgard's Wrath 2 limited-time events, the Blazing Battleground introduces a new series of Cosmic Objectives for the action role-playing VR game, giving adventurers a new reason to jump back in. This event sees the armies of Surtur, guardian of Muspelheim, poised to strike out to turn the multiverse into a scorching hellscape.
XR Today - Augmented Reality tag
AUGUST 1, 2024
This week, 3D and spatial data firm Nextech3D.AI revealed its Q2 2024 financial and operational results. The results highlighted how the firm successfully turned $1.2 million in revenue during the quarter, a slight increase from Q1 2024, which saw the Nextech3D rake in $1 million. Moreover, in Q2, Nextech3D recorded a gross profit margin of 70 per cent, up 20 per cent from Q2.
EON Reality
AUGUST 1, 2024
EON AI Sound Effect Generator – Converts Text to Contextual Sound Effects IRVINE, CA., August 1, 2024 – EON Reality, the world leader in AI-assisted Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, announces a groundbreaking addition to its AI-powered immersive learning platform: contextually relevant, AI-generated sound effects.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
AUGUST 1, 2024
Today, Meta released its Q2 2024 earnings call, highlighting various crucial insights into the company’s operations just a month ahead of Connect 2024, where the firm may tease its next-generation XR products. In the earnings call, Meta revealed that its overall revenue reached $39.07 billion, a 22 per cent increase from the previous year. In line with increasing revenue, the firm also recorded its total costs and expenses at $24.22 billion, marking a lower 7 per cent increase year-over-year.
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.
Upload VR
AUGUST 1, 2024
Hello Cruel World takes you to an abandoned facility where an experiment has gone awry. Will its atmosphere and brain teasers be enough to make you stick around? Here's our full review. The puzzle game genre is one that I genuinely enjoy. Imagine a scenario where a particular challenge has you stumped for hours, then think of the sheer gratification upon completing that task.
Anand Tech
AUGUST 1, 2024
Update 08/02 : Patrick Moorhead has published a further tweet , clarifying that "Pat [Gelsinger] didn’t tell me l that there were yield issues. This was *my* interpretation." The text of the article has been updated accordingly to reflect this tweet, as well as Intel statements about accelerating their Ireland Fab 34 ramp-up. Alongside Intel’s weak Q2 2024 earnings report and the announcement of $10 billion in spending cuts and layoffs for 2025 , the company is also disclosin
Steki Amusement
AUGUST 1, 2024
DPVR Unveils New Hand-Tracking Supported Headset E4 Arc in Collaboration with Ultraleap Owatch VR Beat Star Hand Interactive Arcade DPVR, a pioneering VR hardware and software solution provider, announces the launch of its new hand tracking supported headset, E4 Arc. A variant of its best-selling 6 DoF PCVR E4, this new headset is integrated with Ultraleap’s Leap Motion Controller 2 hand tracking camera, allowing operation and interaction within a VR environment naturally and without separate co
Voices of VR
AUGUST 1, 2024
The VRChat world Suku took home the Best Art World prize at Raindance Immersive 2024, and it’s by Durk van der Meer who is a freelance digital artist, character artist, and VR world builder based in Curaçao.
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?
Oculus
AUGUST 1, 2024
The latest Cosmic Event for Asgard’s Wrath 2 sees the realms transformed into a Blazing Battleground. Surtur’s forces spread throughout the land. Flames creep unabated.
Oculus
AUGUST 1, 2024
Zero Caliber 2 is locked and loaded for its launch today on the Meta Quest platform bringing with it a full VR FPS campaign playable both solo and in co-op, along with a suite of competitive multiplayer modes and maps. This is a fully-featured shooter built-for-VR you won’t want to miss.
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