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Meta is Discontinuing Quest 1 Support for New Apps Starting Next Month

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Meta announced last year it was sunsetting the original Quest , which was first released in 2019. While many developers of new apps have since stopped including the nearly five year-old headset as a supported device, now the company says it’s taking choice out of the equation, as no new apps will be able to offer support for Quest 1 starting on April 30th.

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New Quest Store & App Lab Apps Won't Be Allowed To Support Quest 1 From May

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New Quest Store and App Lab apps won't be allowed to support the original Oculus Quest after April 30. Oculus Quest launched in May 2019, almost five years ago, featuring the Snapdragon 835 chipset from 2017. Meta stopped selling it upon launching Quest 2 in October 2020. Meta first announced the slow deprecation of Quest 1 in January 2023, and the last system software release it got was v50 in February 2023, though it will continue to receive security updates and bugfixes until August this year

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City Builder ‘Tropico’ Comes to Quest, Letting You Become El Presidente of Your Own Banana Republic

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Your banana republic awaits, as the popular single-player city builder Tropico is now available on Quest. Developers Feral Interactive and Kalypso Media Digital released Tropico on Quest, bringing Tropico 4 (2011) to VR for the first time in a direct port. If you’ve never played the Tropico series, the classic city builder lets you take on the role of El Presidente, where you’re given the reigns of your own island-based nation, letting you transform the tropical paradise into an i

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OVRDARK: A Do Not Open Story Delivers VR Survival Horror On PSVR 2 Today

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OVRDARK: A Do Not Open Story launches today on PSVR 2. Originally announced last year, OVRDARK: A Do Not Open Story is a survival horror VR sequel to 2022's Do Not Open. Playing as George Foster, you must explore Mike Goreng's family mansion and uncover the truth behind your closest friend's suicide. Originally targeting March 27, developer NoxNoctis states it was pushed back until March 29 due to "bureaucratic issues beyond our control.

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The Future of eLearning in 2022: A Sensitive Eye for Authentic Translation and Localization

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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Introspect Intros GDDR7 Test System For Fast GDDR7 GPU Design Bring Up

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Introspect this week introduced its M5512 GDDR7 memory test system, which is designed for testing GDDR7 memory controllers, physical interface, and GDDR7 SGRAM chips. The tool will enable memory and processor manufacturers to verify that their products perform as specified by the standard. One of the crucial phases of a processor design bring up is testing its standard interfaces, such as PCIe, DisplayPort, or GDDR is to ensure that they behave as specified both logically and electrically and ac

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Meta to Add AI Features to Ray Ban Stories SmartGlasses Next Month

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

In a recent report from the New York Times, Meta revealed new AI features for its smart glasses product – that Meta developed using Ray Ban frames – following the firm’s promise of broader virtual assistant tools for the product range at last year’s Connect event. It appears that the new prototype features follow Meta’s moves to establish a partnership with LG to develop AI-powered HMDs, which is a very timely series of events.

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NVIDIA Speaks on AI, Omniverse, and Maxine Enterprise Solutions

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Last week, NVIDIA GTC blew auidences away with new AI, a spatial computing software, and hardware. The leading computing firm seeks to scale emerging technology to boost industrial and enterprise workflows. During the event, NVIDIA introduced CloudXR, which lets standalone devices stream enterprise-ready AR/VR/MR content, such as digital twins, to less powerful computing devices like a Quest or smartphone.

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‘Asgard’s Wrath 2’ Verges on All-Out Destruction in ‘Pandemonium,’ Its Fourth Cosmic Event

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Pandemonium, the latest Cosmic Event for the award-winning Asgard’s Wrath 2, sees the Huldufólk blaze a trail of destruction across the multiverse. Succumbing to fear.

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Big XR News from Apple, IDC, Innoactive, and HPE

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The XR space has a lot to offer, and as more firms enter the industry as software or hardware solution providers, the use cases for XR will expand. The power of XR and spatial computing data is undeniable, whether in 3D environmental or user tracking data. 3D services are working hard to elevate the future of industry and work by profoundly understanding the world around us.

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How to Train Employees 65% Faster With Virtual Reality

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.