Road to VR

AUGUST 21, 2024

According to a report by The Verge , both Snapchat and Meta will each reveal new AR glasses for the first time next month. Both companies have been working on such projects for years. According to The Verge’s Alex Heath , Snapchat parent company Snap Inc. will reveal its fifth generation of ‘Spectacles’ AR glasses on September 17th at the company’s annual Partner Summit conference in Los Angeles.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 21, 2024

What are best practices for enterprises to implement XR and realize strong ROI? This is the topic of ARtillery Intelligence’s recent report and the focus of the latest AR Briefs episode. We have the video and takeaways. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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AUGUST 21, 2024

Quest 2 now supports multimodal input, bringing it in line with Quest 3 and Quest Pro. Since February , shipping Quest apps have been able to use hand tracking and either Quest 3 or Quest Pro controllers simultaneously, a feature Meta calls Multimodal. That included Quest 2, but only with Pro controllers, not its default Touch controllers - until now.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 21, 2024

Recently, the US Army announced that it would be considering new XR hardware partners for its Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) initiative roadmap to create an MR headset for in-the-field armed forces. Over the past few years, the US Army has worked with Microsoft and its HoloLens division to create a bespoke headset purpose-built to boost military tactics and awareness.

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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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Upload VR

AUGUST 21, 2024

We've written some of our articles from VR. Not a lot, mind you, but it is not something unusual for UploadVR writers to attempt it. David Heaney wrote his review of the Apple Vision Pro from inside the headset. This article, too, was written inside a VR headset – the much more affordable Meta Quest 3. More precisely, this article was written on a Steam decktop from inside the Quest 3.

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Upload VR

AUGUST 21, 2024

Developers Dovetail Games and Just Add Water are bringing the Train Sim World series to Quest headsets with a new urban train simulator. After spanning PC and console for years now, the Train Sim World games are officially arriving in VR. Specifically themed around New York state, Train Sim World VR: New York is promising to offer a variety of travel destinations in and around NYC.

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Life at the Feeding Edge

AUGUST 21, 2024

Tweet Achievement unlocked. I just ran a local only version of a #genAI LLM and gave it the text of my 2 sci-fi novels Reconfigure and Cont3xt. Amongst other things I have had a conversation with my lead character Roisin! Separately (as in the photo below) I also asked if the books helped solve if we live in a simulation. A great muse to chat about the potential of the 3rd book. reconfigurebook.co.uk Not perfect, but I can let it know what it’s not got quite right and also helps me remember the

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 21, 2024

The healthcare industry requires the utmost optimisation and trust in its education and training avenues. Like other high-risk and high-pressure environments, healthcare relies on daily operational efficiency and excellence to ensure positive outcomes. In turn, the healthcare sector is becoming a solid champion for immersive training due to the technology’s ability to simulate real-life situations without interrupting or significantly affecting working environments.

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EON Reality

AUGUST 21, 2024

Irvine, California – August 21, 2024 – EON Reality, Inc., a global leader in augmented and virtual reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, today announced a strategic partnership with ITE Education Services (ITEES). ITEES, established in 2003, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) in Singapore, dedicated to sharing ITE’s expertise in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) with the international community.

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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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