AR Insider
AUGUST 13, 2024
Though it’s often painted as a technology that will steal XR’s thunder, AI is the best thing that’s happened to XR in a while. This is the topic of a recent ARtillery Intelligence report and we have excerpts and top takeaways for AR Insider readers. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
AUGUST 13, 2024
Google Earth VR was an early and enchanting app for the first generation of modern PC VR headsets, but unfortunately it never made the leap to the standalone era. Now a new app, FLY , brings the magic of exploring Google Earth in VR to Quest and Vision Pro. Now available on Quest 2, Quest Pro, Quest 3 , and Vision Pro , Fly aims to bring the magic of exploring Google Earth in 3D in a fully immersive way.
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Upload VR
AUGUST 13, 2024
August 20 seems to only be the date for the China launch of Pico's next headset. Last week Pico announced a product launch event for August 20 , with social media posts strongly suggesting it being a new headset. But new social media posts today suggest this will only be the China launch event, with a launch elsewhere coming at a later date. The post refers to the headset as Pico 4 Ultra, a name which was also seen recently in an image leaked on Chinese social media.
XR Today - Augmented Reality tag
AUGUST 13, 2024
Vuzin Corporation has introduced the M400 Xtreme smart glasses kit, which has been created to withstand extreme weather conditions. Vuzix AR Smart Glasses ‘Transformational’ for Surgeries Vuzix Medical Use Cases Show Value of AR Smart Glasses AR to Transform Medical Surgery, Vuzix US Survey Shows The new smart glasses kit enables a range of features, such as the new lightweight and long-lasting Xtreme Weather power bank.
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 - Mixed Reality tag
AUGUST 13, 2024
Recently, just after its official first tease, Bytedance-owned XR headset leader Pico faced leaks regarding its upcoming, still officially under wraps, headset. Rumours of a new Pico headset have swirled for a while now. However, forecasts appeared dimmer more recently due to layoffs and other hurdles that Pico faced. However, the firm recently teased a new headset on its official social media channels, proving the Chinese firm is still a competitive horse in the XR device marketplace.
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Anand Tech
AUGUST 13, 2024
G.Skill on Tuesday introduced its ultra-low-latency DDR5-6400 memory modules that feature a CAS latency of 30 clocks, which appears to be the industry's most aggressive timings yet for DDR5-6400 sticks. The modules will be available for both AMD and Intel CPU-based systems. With every new generation of DDR memory comes an increase in data transfer rates and an extension of relative latencies.
Upload VR
AUGUST 13, 2024
Gracia is now available on Quest's App Lab. What Is Gracia? Simple stereoscopic 3D photos and videos like Apple's spatial video only offer limited parallax of a view of a scene presented in a rectangle in front of you, and immersive 180° or 360° content like Apple Immersive Video does the same in a hemisphere or sphere. But the holy grail of real-world immersive content is truly volumetric capture which you can actually move your head or even walk through - essentially photorealistic VR, capture
Anand Tech
AUGUST 13, 2024
At FMS 2024, the technological requirements from the storage and memory subsystem took center stage. Both SSD and controller vendors had various demonstrations touting their suitability for different stages of the AI data pipeline - ingestion, preparation, training, checkpointing, and inference. Vendors like Solidigm have different types of SSDs optimized for different stages of the pipeline.
Upload VR
AUGUST 13, 2024
Archiact, best known for developing Journey to Foundation and Doom 3: VR Edition, will close in two weeks. We've known for some time that Archiact has been facing trouble following previous layoffs across multiple departments in January. While it's since delivered a PC VR release for Journey to Foundation back in June, the Canadian studio will permanently close its doors on August 26th.
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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.
Anand Tech
AUGUST 13, 2024
Samsung had quietly launched its BM1743 enterprise QLC SSD last month with a hefty 61.44 TB SKU. At FMS 2024, the company had the even larger 122.88 TB version of that SSD on display, alongside a few recorded benchmarking sessions. Compared to the previous generation, the BM1743 comes with a 4.1x improvement in I/O performance, improvement in data retention, and a 45% improvement in power efficiency for sequential writes.
Upload VR
AUGUST 13, 2024
Make It Stable tests your balancing skills as you build a taller and taller tower from quirky and everyday objects. It's coming soon to Quest and Apple Vision Pro. Developed by Odders Lab, best known for VR games like OhShape , Chess Club , and Les Mills XR Bodycombat , this is the studio's first mixed reality exclusive. It’s a playful spin on a favorite pastime without the mess once the tower inevitably topples, and Make It Stable looks like a mix between Jenga and Katamari Damacy. 0:00 / 0:04
Anand Tech
AUGUST 13, 2024
One of the core challenges that Rapidus will face when it kicks off volume production of chips on its 2nm-class process technology in 2027 is lining up customers. With Intel, Samsung, and TSMC all slated to offer their own 2nm-class nodes by that time, Rapidus will need some kind of advantage to attract customers away from its more established rivals.
Upload VR
AUGUST 13, 2024
I played an hour of By Grit Alone to see if this sci-fi VR horror game has what it takes to terrify you. By Grit Alone is a horror VR title from UK-based Crooks Peak, and it's coming soon to the Meta Quest platform. Offering a narrative-driven adventure split into an anthology, you'll explore abandoned starships in a fight for survival. UploadVR was provided an exclusive developer walkthrough before next month's launch, which you can watch below. 0:00 / 1:25 1× The short preview, which I played
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.
Anand Tech
AUGUST 13, 2024
A few years back, the Japanese government's New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO ) allocated funding for the development of green datacenter technologies. With the aim to obtain up to 40% savings in overall power consumption, several Japanese companies have been developing an optical interface for their enterprise SSDs.
XROM
AUGUST 13, 2024
Metadome.ai , a cutting-edge AR, VR, and 3D technology company, is revolutionizing customer engagement in the automotive, home decor, and fashion & accessories industries. The company offers end-to-end creation and deployment of immersive experiences across web, app, and in-store platforms. At the helm is Kanav Singla, founder and CEO, an IIT Delhi alumnus and Stanford Seed program graduate.
EON Reality
AUGUST 13, 2024
Spatial IQ: Revolutionizing XR with AI-Powered Understanding IRVINE, Calif., August 13, 2024 – EON Reality, the world leader in AI-assisted Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, today announced the launch of its groundbreaking Spatial IQ technology as part of its EON-XR Platform 10.3 release.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
AUGUST 13, 2024
The enterprise XR industry is still early in its lifespan. The headline-stealing headset technology that commonly wows audiences is only part of the overlooked overall picture. Like any at-scale enterprise solution, XR device and software deployment rely on various other systems to create a framework that allows a company to manage all aspects of an XR solution.
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.
EON Reality
AUGUST 13, 2024
Spatial IQ: Revolutionizing XR with AI-Powered Understanding IRVINE, Calif., August 13, 2024 – EON Reality, the world leader in AI-assisted Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, today announced the launch of its groundbreaking Spatial IQ technology as part of its EON-XR Platform 10.3 release.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
AUGUST 13, 2024
Over the weekend, reports from social media platforms like Reddit and X shared images and minor details of an upcoming Quest 3s MR headset. The news comes just ahead of Meta Connect 2024 when the firm is poised to unveil more details regarding its immersive technology portfolio. According to leakers online, Meta will debut what appears to be a new MR headset based on the leaked images.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
AUGUST 13, 2024
Over the weekend, reports from social media platforms like Reddit and X shared images and minor details of an upcoming Quest 3s MR headset. The news comes just ahead of Meta Connect 2024 when the firm is poised to unveil more details regarding its immersive technology portfolio. According to leakers online, Meta will debut what appears to be a new MR headset based on the leaked images.
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