AR Insider
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
Snap held its sixth annual Lens Fest where it unveiled Lens Studio 5.0, spotlighted several AI infusions, and amped up the platform's performance. We examine drivers & dynamics. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
MyDearest, the Japan-based VR studio behind the Chronos adventure game franchise, announced it’s secured $7.8 million (1.2 billion yen), something the studio says it will use to expand its existing IP for VR headsets, such as Meta Quest and PSVR 2. The investment was led by SBI Investment Co., Ltd. and is joined by DG Daiwa Ventures Inc., NetEase Games, Wing Capital Partners, Ltd., OLM Ventures Inc., Samurai Incubate Inc., Dentsu Group and Mitsubishi UFJ Capital.
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NOVEMBER 10, 2023
Valve hinted at its future plans for VR in an interview about Steam Deck OLED. Steam Deck OLED was announced yesterday as a mid-generation refresh of the original Steam Deck. Among its improvements are a larger HDR OLED display with 90Hz refresh rate, Wi-Fi 6E, an improved cooling fan, and longer battery life thanks to its 6nm APU revision and larger battery.
Road to VR
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
After 14 years of being sanctioned from operating in mainland China, Meta is set to return to the country with the help of a new, lower-priced version of its VR headset, the Wall Street Journal reports. Meta’s planned return is thanks to a deal—allegedly still in preliminary stages—with China’s Tencent, the world’s largest videogame company and soon-to-be exclusive seller of Meta headsets in China, WSJ reports, citing people familiar with the matter.
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.
Upload VR
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
Meta plans to bring a cheaper version of Quest 3 to China via a deal with Tencent, The Wall Street Journal reports. Meta and Tencent's aim to sell Quest headsets in China was first reported by Chinese news outlet 36Kr back in February, though that report claimed the product was planned to be Quest 2. In July The Wall Street Journal reported that the partnership faced "challenges" because of Mark Zuckerberg's past comments about China.
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NOVEMBER 10, 2023
Could Apple Vision Pro be a serious competitor in the enterprise AR market? While Vision Pro was mainly pitched as a consumer product when revealed at WWDC in June, Apple also teased enterprise use cases, including room-scale augmented reality apps. The two enterprise apps mentioned during WWDC were PTC and JigSpace, and this week Apple published brief interviews with the companies behind these apps discussing their experience with Vision Pro.
Anand Tech
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
In a quite unexpected turn of events, Valve has introduced a revamped version of its Steam Deck console that got a larger OLED display, a more efficient system-on-chip, a higher-performance memory subsystem, a 1 TB storage option, faster Wi-Fi 6E, and higher-capacity battery. While performance target of the portable gaming device remained the same, the new unit might just be faster than the original one due to faster memory.
Upload VR
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
Pico cancelled its Beat Saber-style competitor and laid off the developers, casting further doubt on its future in VR. Known as Blitz Rhythm , the title attempted to differentiate itself by focusing on whole-body movement using the Pico Motion Tracker. The cancellation, first reported by Mixed News and independently confirmed by UploadVR, follows closed beta tests, a public demo at EGX and a recent EU players meeting in Barcelona.
Anand Tech
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
The portable SSD market has seen rapid growth over the last decade. Almost all of the tier-one NAND flash manufacturers have jumped in with multiple offerings, presenting consumers with a wide variety of choices for different budgets and performance requirements. Crucial (Micron's consumer-facing brand) alone has introduced three new products in this category this year - the X9 Pro (1 GBps-class TLC), X10 Pro (2 GBps-class TLC), and the X9 (1 GBps-class QLC) PSSDs.
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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
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
Pillow is a new mixed reality app for Quest from the creator of Where Thoughts Go, designed to be used while lying down on your bed and looking up at the ceiling. Get comfortable, put on your headset on and lie down with your head on a pillow – just make sure you have the room set up properly in the Quest settings first. Pillow turns your bedroom ceiling into a variety of relaxing scenes and minigames designed around winding down and taking a break from the stresses of life.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
As 2024 rounds up, the XR world is prepping the year’s final announcements and events, leading to massive showcases that will shake up the industry next year. Last month, Meta debuted two immersive devices, the Meta Quest Pro and the Ray-Ban smart glasses. As the devices look to enhance the general adoption and ubiquity of XR, other firms, big and small, are swooping in to claim their space in the enterprise XR field.
Bernard Marr
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
By the end of 2024, there are projected to be more than 207 billion devices connected to the worldwide network of tools, toys, devices and appliances that make up the Internet of Things (IoT). An ever-growing number of them will not be computers or smartphones – as everything from toothbrushes to heavy industrial machinery is brought online. Increasingly, they will be smart devices augmented with artificial intelligence (AI) and capable of making autonomous decisions.
Oculus
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
AIt’s been less than a month since Coatsink partnered with Stage Clear and Grizzly Games to launch ISLANDERS: VR Edition, which lets you step inside the game world like never before. And now, you can bring your physical environment into the experience with a new mixed reality (MR) update!
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.
Steki Amusement
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
Owatch VR sincerely invites you to attend the IAAPA Expo in Orlando, USA from November 14th to 17th, 2023. We look forward to meeting you at our booth 101 and sharing our latest special offers with you. In order to celebrate and support the successful holding of the IAAPA Expo, owatch specially launches: IAAPA Expo Special Offer Month, event time: November 10th to 30th!
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