The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Hello from Finland! I’m writing this newsletter across Finland, between Helsinki and the Lapland. I’m having a pretty good time here (as always): I’ve met Santa Claus, pet reindeers, and eaten typical local food. Soon I will attend MatchXR, one of the most relevant XR events in Nordic Europe! I will tell you soon about my adventures there. Before heading to the news of the week, I want to dedicate this episode of my newsletter to Daniel Dyboski-Bryant, who has recently passed away.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Though XR carries ample opportunities and advantages in the enterprise, it's not without challenges. Practical barriers include internal politics, company culture and fear. We examine drivers & dynamics. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Another Axiom, the indie studio behind VR phenomenon Gorilla Tag , is opening up its next project Orion Drift to all Quest users tomorrow for its first server scalability test. Currently in closed early access, Orion Drift packages in Gorilla Tag’s immersive movement mechanic with some of the action of the now-defunct sports game Echo VR, promising to serve up an activity-packed social VR space for up to 200 players.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has been awarded funding by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), some of which will be used to setup a Virtual Reality Centre and Hub. According to the NHS trust, the funding will accommodate “world-leading” expertise in VR and immersive therapies to research mental health within a new research delivery hub at Bethlem Royal Hospital in Kent.

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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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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Augmented World Expo (AWE) isn’t just one of the longest-running conferences focused on immersive tech, it’s also become the most important annual XR conference on our calendar. In the early days there were many industry conferences that had a significant draw for the pioneers of XR’s modern epoch. There were XR pockets within big tech conferences like CES, GDC, and E3.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Ahead of Alien: Rogue Incursion’s December launch on PSVR 2 and PC VR, developer Survios released a new story trailer that delves deeper into the protagonist Zula Hendricks’ story on LV-354, aka ‘Purdan’ What happened to Zula’s friend and former squad mate on Purdan? What deadly experiments have the researchers at this facility been messing with?

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Pirates VR: Jolly Roger, a new action-adventure across a cursed island, arrives next year on Steam and PlayStation VR2. Developed by Split Light Studio ( Afterlife VR ) and published by VRKiwi ( Stilt ), Pirates VR: Jolly Roger promises a campaign filled with danger "looming at every turn." Set across a forgotten Caribbean island filled with jungles, rocky cliffs, and sunken ships, you're tasked with navigating perilous traps and fighting undead pirates while searching for Davy Jones' treasure.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

VR veteran studio Fast Travel Games today announced that its Superhot- inspired VR shooter Action Hero is set to arrive on Quest next month. Action Hero sets the stage by integrating the same time-stopping movement mechanic seen in Superhot and Superhot VR; time only moves when you do, letting you tactically plan out flourishing gun kata worthy of John Wick himself.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Evidence suggests Valve's next VR controller could include a D-pad and bumpers to act as a gamepad together too. XR enthusiast Brad Lynch and his team of SteamVR dataminers have discovered a new Valve controller codenamed Roy in the code of SteamVR, including an OpenXR extension , strongly suggesting it's a tracked controller, not a new Steam Controller.

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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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EON Reality

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

IRVINE, CA – November 19, 2024 – EON Reality, a global leader in AI-driven Virtual and Augmented Reality for education and industry, has unveiled its cutting-edge Knowledge Simulator platform. This revolutionary tool introduces a sophisticated learning framework, offering four scientifically-designed approaches that reshape the landscape of immersive education: Procedural/Technical, Exploratory/Analytical, Interactive/Decision-Making, and Creative/Problem-Solving.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Bullet Time Agent is set to launch soon, inviting players into a unique eight-hour adventure inside VRChat, and we got early access. Read on for our first impressions. Created by solo developer Lakuza, this action-adventure title is more than just a game; it’s a testament to what can be achieved in user-generated content platforms without a traditional game development background. 0:00 / 0:25 1× Captured using VRChat for PCVR Set inside VRChat's diverse ecosystem, Bullet Time Agent puts players

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This week at Ignite 2024, Microsoft announced that it would launch a mixed reality (MR) version of its Windows portfolio for Meta Quest headsets. The news comes as the firm drops support for HoloLens, seemingly highlighting the firm’s shift towards becoming an immersive software provider rather than a hardware one. The recent Ignite 2024 news highlights how the soon-debuting Windows Mixed Reality for Quest service will bring the full capabilities of Microsoft’s trusted digital suit

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Apple Vision Pro spatial F1 viewer app Lapz has been forced to pause its TestFlight distribution by the Formula One Group. If you're unfamiliar, TestFlight is Apple's system for distributing pre-release apps on its platforms, somewhat similar to the now-defunct App Lab on Quest. Lapz launched on TestFlight back in July. The app lets Apple Vision Pro owners watch live and past F1 races on a large virtual screen while seeing the position of each driver on a diorama-scale 3D representation of the t

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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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Program Ace

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Find out how to choose the right cybersecurity online training that aligns with your organization’s needs. Read on for tips and best practices.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Action Hero wants to make you a movie star next month on Quest. Developed by Fast Travel Games ( Mannequin , Vampire: The Masquerade - Justice ), Action Hero lets you become the protagonist of five movies from different genres like adventure, heists, and more. Similar to Superhot VR , time only speeds up when you move and each film is split into four acts with five scenes.

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Steki Amusement

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Dear Valued Customers, First of all, we sincerely thank you for your trust and support for Owatch VR. We know that your satisfaction is the driving force for our continuous progress. However, after comprehensively considering market trends, production costs and customer needs, we have decided to make appropriate adjustments to the prices of Owatch VR amusement equipment starting from 2025.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is out now, and we've verified that it has VR support at launch. However, like many others, we're unable to get past the loading screen, due to server issues that Microsoft has acknowledged in a public statement: "We are aware of user reports of long initial loading times into Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. With so many users initializing the sim concurrently, we have a large number of server requests.

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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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Oculus

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

We all want to be the hero. On December 12, you’ll get your wish in Action Hero. We at Fast Travel Games set out to make a shooter that puts you right in the center of cinematic, over-the-top action in a way that only VR can.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The House of Da Vinci VR, a puzzle adventure based on the inventor's real-life contraptions, arrives next month on Quest and Steam. Previously announced in May, Blue Brain Games is adapting its 2017 flatscreen game with The House of Da Vinci VR. You play as Leonardo da Vinci's apprentice during 16th-century Renaissance Italy, tasked with solving riddles and navigating escape rooms to locate the missing inventor.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Medieval Dynasty New Settlement launched its online co-op mode in early access on Quest. Released in March, Medieval Dynasty New Settlement is a sandbox adventure title where you must build a thriving settlement to establish your new dynasty. Developed by Spectral Games, New Settlement was a single-player only experience at launch but following yesterday's Patch 1.7 , up to four players can now team up for quests and exploration online. 0:00 / 1:42 1× It's not the only significant update within

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Zix is a VR co-op roguelite that requires directly changing elements of the world to progress, and that's due out next year on Steam and Quest 3. Developed by Hidden IO, Zix sees you playing as an Acolyte that's "tasked with spreading chaos across the universe in service of Zix." This involves discovering and mixing various "ingredients" that alter each run across otherwise procedurally-generated realms in significant ways, like replacing enemies or altering gravity, to advance.

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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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