AR Insider
OCTOBER 8, 2024
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.
Road to VR
OCTOBER 8, 2024
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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Upload VR
OCTOBER 8, 2024
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
Road to VR
OCTOBER 8, 2024
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.
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
OCTOBER 8, 2024
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
Virtual Reality Pulse brings together the best content for VR professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Upload VR
OCTOBER 8, 2024
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.
Road to VR
OCTOBER 8, 2024
Here’s a deal that should be on your radar if you’re in the market for a PC VR headset. For the next two days Amazon Prime members can get Vive Pro 2 at its steepest discount yet. Vive Pro 2 ‘full kit’ is currently available on Amazon for $800 (a 33% discount off its usual $1,200 price). Or if you already have controllers and base stations, you can get the Vive Pro 2 headset by itself for $500 (a 28% discount over the usual $700 price).
Upload VR
OCTOBER 8, 2024
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.
XR Today - Augmented Reality tag
OCTOBER 8, 2024
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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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.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
OCTOBER 8, 2024
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.
XR Today - Augmented Reality tag
OCTOBER 8, 2024
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.
EON Reality
OCTOBER 8, 2024
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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