Road to VR

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Nintendo has published a new patent that could point to its next iteration of Labo VR for its long-awaited Switch successor. While news of the company’s next Switch console is expected “within this fiscal year,” Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa said in May, rumors however suggest the company has delayed release to early 2025 , which has only fueled speculation among Nintendo acolytes hoping for what promises to be a bigger, better Switch.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Magic Leap and Mako Surgical founder Rony Abovitz is back with a new startup, SynthBee. The company announced the successful closure of a $20 million seed round earlier this month. What's driving it, and how is it positioning itself? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 30, 2024

This week at AWE EU 2024, VRdirect introduced VRFX, an enterprise-facing XR file format designed to streamline collaboration in cross-device VR project pipelines. The VRFX file format aims to streamline business XR project creation and management by requiring no specific content player to interact with and manage immersive RT3D content. This allows companies to share the VR file format via E-Mail, file sharing, and cloud services without requiring additional software.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

For the third quarter in a row, the revenue of Meta's Reality Labs division was higher than it was last year. Reality Labs is the division of Meta behind Quest headsets and their Horizon software platform, the technology side of the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, and research & development of AR glasses and their EMG wristband input device. Meta reported $270 million Reality Labs quarterly revenue for Q3 2024, a 29% increase compared to Q3 2023.

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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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EON Reality

OCTOBER 30, 2024

IRVINE, CA – October 30, 2024 – EON Reality, the world leader in AI-assisted Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, today announces a breakthrough solution for corporate recruitment that transforms how companies evaluate sales candidates. Building on its proven track record in skill simulation and assessment, EON Reality’s new AI-powered XR platform enables organizations to evaluate sales capabilities through immersive, real-

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Voices of VR

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Lena Herzog’s Any War Any Enemy is a hauntingly beautiful spatial poem that takes us on a liminal journey about nuclear annihilation. Rather than disassociating and letting power structures sleepwalk us all into catastrophe, she explores a new form of transcendental anti-war protest by leaning into an underlying existential angst that doesn’t turn away from […] Lena Herzog's Any War Any Enemy is a hauntingly beautiful spatial poem that takes us on a liminal journey about nuclea

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

Songbird is a new VR karaoke game that's out next month on Quest. Developed by Always Blue Games, whose leader Marcus Henderson previously worked on Guitar Hero, Songbird tasks you with performing across various stages to bring harmony to the world of Nestopia. "Engage with this vibrant world filled with catchables, companions, rhythmic multipliers, dancing and interactive elements to accompany your quest," states the studio on the Horizon Store page. 0:00 / 0:46 1× The launch soundtrack include

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Cyan Worlds has released its big 2.0 update to MYST (2020), the VR-supported remake of the classic ’90s point-and-click adventure game, which includes performance boosts and improvements to stability for PC VR users. The studio says in a recent Steam update that many of those performance woes have been resolved thanks to upgrading Myst from using Unreal Engine 4.27+ to Unreal Engine 5.3.2.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

Wolvic Chromium 1.1 adds WebXR AR support to the open-source standalone XR browser, after 1.0 added eye tracked navigation. What Is Wolvic? Wolvic is the open-source successor to Firefox Reality , which was a web browser for early standalone headsets like Oculus Go, the original Oculus Quest, Vive Focus, and HoloLens 2. In 2020 Mozilla laid off 250 employees including staff working on Firefox Reality, and in 2022 handed over the project to "open source software consultancy" Igalia, which relaunc

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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.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Skydance’s Behemoth is coming to all major VR headsets in December, and developer Skydance Games has entered full hype mode with the release of its latest trailer, which shows off a new Behemoth and a good slice of fresh gameplay. Ahead of its December 5th launch on Quest 2/3/Pro , PSVR 2 , and SteamVR headsets , Skydance is revealing more of what’s to come for its single-player combat adventure, which is said to feature a 12-hour campaign.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

From Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 to Metro Awakening, November's another busy month for new VR games. Here are our monthly upcoming highlights. Following the Quest 3S launch, October has been an unquestionably hectic month for new VR games with Batman: Arkham Shadow leading the charge. Between Arizona Sunshine Remake , Maestro , Just Dance VR , Undead Citadel , Vendetta Forever , Phasmophobia on PS VR2, Frenzies , Into Black , Exploding Kittens VR , Metamorphosis VR , Clawball , Airspace Defe

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 30, 2024

This week at AWE EU 2024, PICO announced Business Device Manager, a first-party SaaS XR Mobile Device Management (MDM) platform to centralise and simplify workplace device adoption. PICO’s new MDM service delivers a centralized dashboard for controlling device, account, and content management. PICO plans to launch Business Device Manager globally soon, offering a 12-month free trial only to device owners enrolling in a product before June 1st, 2025.

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