AR Insider
MAY 30, 2024
What are adaptive interfaces? And how do they factor into the evolution of mixed reality? Guest author and design expert Eleanor Hicks breaks down what lies at the intersection of these converging concepts. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
MAY 30, 2024
Google and Magic Leap today announced a “strategic technology partnership.” The move shows Google seeking to gain ground to keep up with the likes of Meta, Apple, and others in a race to control the AR headset market. While consume VR headsets have been around for years now, none of the world’s major technology companies have launched consumer-focused AR glasses.
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AR Insider
MAY 30, 2024
This week on Reality Bytes, we're exploring Google's AI blunders, Elon Musk's $6 billion xAI startup, and Warner Bros AR campaign for the NHL Playoffs. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
MAY 30, 2024
Two anticipated VR games, Behemoth and Alien: Rogue Incursion , showed their first glimpse of gameplay during PlayStation’s State of Play presentation today. Both are set to launch across all major VR platforms later this year. Behemoth First Look at VR Gameplay Kicking things off with Behemoth : this is the latest game from developer Skydance Interactive, the studio behind The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners series.
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.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
MAY 30, 2024
VR meetings have grown increasingly popular in recent years as companies look for ways to bridge the gaps between hybrid workers and enhance team productivity through immersion. Although a virtual reality meeting may not be the same as collaborating with a colleague in person, VR can bring a unique sense of “presence” to conversations between staff.
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Charlie Fink
MAY 30, 2024
Primetime Emmy winning ex-Pixar and Oculus team, Fable, launched the first web streaming series made exclisvely with AI.
Road to VR
MAY 30, 2024
VirtualAge and Fast Travel Games today launched a new update for sci-fi shooter Guardians Frontline (2023) , which brings a gigantic new enemy type to the co-op and single-player game alongside a number of new features. Called ‘The Queen Update’, starting today players on Quest and SteamVR will get a chance to go face-to-face with a supersize enemy, simply called ‘the Queen’ We’re told her weak points should be targeted for a quick death (head and tail).
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MAY 30, 2024
Magic Leap has entered a "multi-faceted, strategic technology partnership" with Google. The companies say the partnership will combine Magic Leap's "leadership in optics and manufacturing" with Google's "technology platforms". Google was an initial investor in Magic Leap, leading a $542 million funding round back in 2014. Google CEO Sundar Pichai also joined the Magic Leap board at the time, but he stepped down in 2018, ostensibly due to his schedule being too busy.
Anand Tech
MAY 30, 2024
In addition to revealing its roadmap and plans concerning its current leading-edge process technologies, TSMC also shared progress of its N2 node as part of its Symposiums 2024. The company's first 2nm-class fabrication node, and predominantly featuring gate-all-around transistors, according to TSMC N2 has almost achieved its target performance and yield goals, which places it on track to enter high-volume manufacturing in the second half of 2025.
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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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MAY 30, 2024
Spacetop G1 replaces the screen of traditional laptops with floating virtual screens via built-in AR glasses. It's an upgraded version of the Spacetop Early Access which shipped last year to "hundreds" of early adopters. The startup behind the device, Sightful, says it will upgrade all Early Access owners to the consumer G1. Sightful was founded by ex-Magic Leap executives Tamir Berliner and Tomer Kahan.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
MAY 30, 2024
The arrival of a Meta Quest 3 Lite, or at least a cheaper version of the Quest 3, seems likely. While the Meta Quest 3 is one of the most popular headsets for business users and consumers alike, Meta seems keen to increase its market share. I consider the Quest 3 one of the most affordable , high-performance headsets for mixed reality capabilities. It’s a lot cheaper than the competing Apple Vision Pro.
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MAY 30, 2024
Alien: Rogue Incursion just dropped its first VR gameplay trailer. Previously announced last month with a brief teaser, Alien: Rogue Incursion is a new made-for-VR game in the Alien franchise. Revealed today at PlayStation's latest State of Play presentation, Survios released a first look at PSVR 2 gameplay, showing the protagonist exploring abandoned corridors, scanning for other lifeforms and a brief look at the Xenomorph.
EON Reality
MAY 30, 2024
“Empowering Saint Lucia’s Future: Revolutionizing Education, Tourism, and Healthcare with XR and AI Technologies.” IRVINE, CA – May 30, 2024 — EON Reality, a global pioneer in extended reality (XR) and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, is excited to announce a transformative expansion into Saint Lucia with the establishment of the island’s first Spatial AI Center.
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.
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MAY 30, 2024
Meta's Horizon Workrooms app just got a major update, and it's a mixed bag. If you're unaware, Workrooms is Meta's collaborative productivity app for Quest headsets. It lets you view your PC monitor inside VR and share your screen with teammates as Meta Avatars in a virtual meeting room. People who don't own a Quest can join via webcam through a web interface or paid Zoom plans.
Anand Tech
MAY 30, 2024
Lexar has a long history of serving the flash-based consumer storage market in the form of SSDs, memory cards, and USB flash drives. After having started out as a Micron brand, the company was acquired by Longsys which has diversified its product lineup with regular introduction of new products. Recently, the company announced a number of portable SSDs targeting different market segments.
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MAY 30, 2024
Alo Moves is building a mixed reality fitness app using volumetric capture for 3D instructors, and it's coming exclusively to Quest 3 this year. Developed by Magnopus in partnership with Meta, Alo Moves - a fitness group providing online classes for yoga, meditation and more, announced it's creating a new mixed reality fitness app. It uses "life-sized, photorealistic" virtual 3D instructors who can also be shrunk down to guide you inside your own home, alongside "environmental portals" with natu
Oculus
MAY 30, 2024
Last month, we announced a new educational offering for Quest headsets coming later this year. Today, we’re highlighting five education experts and how emerging technologies.
Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor
With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.
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MAY 30, 2024
MudRunner VR, an off-roading vehicle sim, arrives today on Quest headsets. Developed and published by Saber Interactive, MudRunner initially launched in 2017 for flatscreen platforms and this VR adaptation was previously announced last month. MudRunner VR offers eight heavy-duty all-terrain vehicles with attachable equipment and individual characteristics, alongside cosmetic variations for each vehicle.
Program Ace
MAY 30, 2024
Explore the world of product and project management with our latest article! Discover the essential distinctions between these roles and how they collaborate. Check it out now!
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MAY 30, 2024
The first immersive experience resulting from Apple and Disney's partnership in spatial computing arrives today in What If. on the visionOS App Store. The hour-long experience is free for a limited time and a must-see for Apple Vision Pro owners. The experience is so wildly successful at transporting you inside the Marvel Cinematic Universe I think it should find a home in Disneyland or Disney World so more people can try it.
Oculus
MAY 30, 2024
A hit series on PC and console, today Saber Interactive releases MudRunner VR on Meta Quest 2, 3, and Pro. Sit right in the cab of eight unique all-terrain vehicles and tackle everything from rivers to rocks to the ever-present mud.
Speaker: Treion Muller, Chief Strategy Officer at ELB Learning
Since when has learning and development (L&D) become such a negative experience with its intended learners? Could it be because learners have been conditioned by very poor learning experiences over the past two decades, combined with the kinks of technological innovation? Or is it because learning has typically been designed as a one-size-fits-all solution, despite the fact that humans are not clones?
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MAY 30, 2024
Guardians Frontline adds a massive enemy, new cosmetics and more in today's free update. Developed by VirtualAge and published by Fast Travel Games, Guardians Frontline mixes first-person shooter gameplay with real-time strategy. Titled 'The Queen Update,' the new titular enemy is considerably larger than previous foes, and killing the Queen involves targeting weak points across its head and tail.
Oculus
MAY 30, 2024
Big news from Alo Moves today: The movement and mindfulness brand is bringing its award-winning on-demand wellness platform to MR exclusively for Meta Quest 3.
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MAY 30, 2024
Skydance's Behemoth released its first gameplay trailer on PSVR 2. Joining Alien: Rogue Incursion in PlayStation's latest State of Play presentation, today's trailer marks our first official look at Skydance's Behemoth. Developed by Skydance Games, best known for The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners , the new PSVR 2 gameplay footage showcased the upcoming VR fantasy action RPG's brutal combat, dismemberments and the titular creatures you'll be facing. 0:00 / 1:37 1× Set in the Forsaken Lands,
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MAY 30, 2024
BlackForge, a VR weaponsmithing sim, reaches Quest and Steam in two weeks. Developed by Mana Brigade and published by Fast Travel Games, BlackForge: A Smithing Adventure is described as a "wholesome and deceptively skillful" title that promises realistic interactions. Previously featured in Steam Next Fest , it offers a story-driven campaign that tasks you with creating medieval weaponry to support the town's local heroes as they fend off a mysterious evil.
Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute
The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?
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