The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2025

It’s the beginning of a new year, and I started thinking about the future of immersive realities for 2025 and beyond. There is one question that is recurring in my mind: with the possible advent of the standalone Deckard headset with inside-out tracking, is Lighthouse-based SteamVR tracking still going to be relevant? Will it survive this year or the next ones?

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Upload VR

JANUARY 3, 2025

December 2024 saw the second highest percentage of Steam gamers using a VR headset ever, when adjusted for Chinese users. PC VR is steadily growing, when adjusting for Chinese users. Valve lists the percentage of "Steam users with VR Headsets" in December 2024 as 2.13%. Without adjustment, that's not remarkable. But when adjusting the figures for each month since Valve started reporting this figure to be relative to the number of non-Chinese users, as China essentially has its own tangential VR

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Full Dive Gaming

JANUARY 3, 2025

JayBratt and Assassin32 sit down with TonyStarkVR to discuss client based events in the Metaverse!!

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Program Ace

JANUARY 3, 2025

Program-Ace delivers industry-specific immersive fire safety training for employees to prepare for real emergencies. Learn more about our offerings.

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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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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 3, 2025

Usually, when Im looking for smart glasses to review, I focus on enterprise use cases. Ive been searching for smart spectacles that genuinely make people safer, more productive, or more efficient at work. But the XanderGlasses caught my eye for a different reason. These glasses, created by Xander a team of audio experts and tech engineers, might not have earned as much attention as Metas Orion prototypes (or their Meta Ray-Ban specs for that matter), and they probably wont appeal to every buyer

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 3, 2025

Following a busy year for the immersive industry, during which leading XR and broader technology firms started to lay a foundation for the future of smart glasses and 3D spatial data for enterprises, 2025 could be yet another transformative year for XR, with last year’s innovations turning into tangible products. Despite just entering the new year, the XR gears are already turning.

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