Tue.Oct 08, 2024

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Apple’s AR Motivations: Follow the Money

AR Insider

What are Apple's motivations for investing so heavily in AR? Answering the question of why can help answer questions like what, when, and what's next? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Samsung Reportedly Deepens XR Ties with Google in Push for Ray-Ban Smartglasses Competitor

Road to VR

Samsung and Google announced in early 2023 that, along with Qualcomm, they’d be releasing an “XR platform” based on Android , which could also see the release of a high-end mixed reality headset. While we still haven’t heard exactly what that XR partnership will entail, a new report from The Information maintains Samsung and Google are also working on smartglasses positioned to potentially compete with Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses.

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Sightful Cancels Spacetop, Will Release Windows Software For Xreal Air 2 Ultra Instead

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Sightful has canceled Spacetop G1 and will refund all preorder deposits. Spacetop G1 was set to be a screenless laptop with built-in Xreal Air 2 Ultra AR glasses, priced at $1900. It would have been powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset, running Sightful's proprietary Spacetop OS operating system. Sightful has emailed everyone who preordered Spacetop G1 to offer them a refund of their $100 deposit, and the company will no longer be shipping hardware at all, as it first confirmed to CN

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‘Band Space’ is Bringing ‘Rock Band’ Style Multiplayer Rhythm Gaming to Quest and PC VR This Month

Road to VR

Smartmelon Games and Fast Travel Games announced its multiplayer VR rhythm title, Band Space , is set to launch on Quest and PC VR this month, bringing some very Rock Band -inspired gameplay to VR. Come October 24th, Smartmelon is launching Band Space with both single and multiplayer support for up to four players, letting you jam out with motion controllers on the guitar, drums, bass and keyboard.

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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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Venice Immersive: Visit The Venice International Film Festival In VRChat

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An eye-catching world representing the Venice Immersive 2024 event held in Italy earlier this year can be visited on an ongoing basis in VRChat. Designed to transport users to a rendition of the iconic city of Venice, the world serves as an artistic hub where culture, art, and interactive experiences converge in VR. As part of the Venice International Film Festival, Venice Immersive showcases a diverse selection of VR experiences, each one highlighting the individual creativity and style of its

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XREAL AR Smart Glasses to Tackle Meta, Apple Vision Pro during 2024 Holiday Period

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

This week, XREAL revealed that it is continuing its now multi-year global AR smart glasses expansion and adoption journey, which started in Chinese territories before seeing adoption in Western markets. The most recent expansion milestone sees XREAL securing new retail deals for its AR smart glasses product in global markets, including Europe, Asia, and the US.

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‘Metro Awakening’ Gameplay Shows Off Patently Tense Combat, Immersive VR Take on Familiar Mechanics

Road to VR

Leading up to its November 7th release, Vertigo Games detailed more about its upcoming standalone VR prequel to the Metro series, Metro Awakening , including some familiar survival mechanics at the heart of gameplay such as the gas mask, flashlight, and some pretty intense first-person combat. In past Metro games, the gas mask was crucial for surviving in contaminated environments.

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Immersed Visor Hands-On Take 2: Partially Functional, But Cooled By A Frappuccino

Upload VR

Immersed founder Renji Bijoy met me in a Starbucks in Palo Alto immediately after Meta Connect to offer UploadVR a second impression of the Visor headset they're developing. The demo went better than the first, but if you read David Heaney's writeup you'd know that isn't a high bar to overcome. Bijoy said this demo ran at 60 frames per second and, in headset, I watched the rendering struggle to draw a scene as I turned my head right to left, and I saw a virtual desktop that wasn't very readable.

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Meta Speaks on the Future of AR Smart Glasses, Orion, Ray Ban Wearables, Quest 3S, and AI Integrations

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Last month, during Connect 2024, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and Founder of Meta revealed a prototype for the highly anticipated Orion device – a pair of AR smart glasses. At the event, Zuckerberg described the device as “the most advanced glasses in the world and our first prototype of full holographic AR.” He also introduced a significant breakthrough: neural interface interaction.

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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 SoftSkill ProjectPro (Multi Avatar): Collaborative Project Planning with Avatar Teams

EON Reality

Irvine, CA – October 8, 2024 – EON Reality, the world leader in AI-assisted Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education , today announced the launch of EON SoftSkill ProjectPro (Multi Avatar), a groundbreaking feature within its flagship platform, EON-XR. This innovative solution introduces AI-driven avatars as virtual team members and consultants, revolutionizing the way students collaborate on group projects.

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Play For Dream Showcases Passthrough Latency By Weaving Between Cones While Driving

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Play for Dream teased its headset's low latency passthrough by having a racing driver weave between cones while wearing it. What Is Play For Dream MR? Play For Dream is a Chinese headset company that was formerly known as YVR. Its latest headset, Play For Dream MR, was announced back in June as coming to China and some other Asian countries, and last month it launched a Kickstarter to bring it to the west too.

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BMW Continues to Rally Virtual Driving Experiences, Leveraging Meta Quest and Apple Vision Pro

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

BMW Group has added new features to it BMW M Mixed Reality driving experience. The German car and motorcycle manufacturer’s VR/MR technology connects driver, vehicle, and virtual worlds in a ‘unique’ 3D interaction in which the vehicle becomes a controller. New features include a multiplayer approach, a new world, individualised worlds for partners and events, and a single player offer.

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