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The Future of Furniture: Will CGI and 3D Shape Digital Commerce?

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We live in a world where visuals arent just supporting the narrativethey are the narrative. Today, forward-thinking brands are redefining engagement by crafting stunning, immersive… Continue reading → The Future of Furniture: Will CGI and 3D Shape Digital Commerce? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Pimax Raises Another $13.6M to Accelerate the Development of Its VR Headset Business

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Pimax, the Chinese startup known for its wide field-of-view (FOV) PC VR headsets, has secured an additional CN100 million (~$13.6 million USD) inan extension to its Series C funding. According to an initial report from 36Kr (Chinese), the investment round was led byZhuji Jingchuang Rong Investment Co, and supported by previous investor Ivy Capital, which took part in the company’s $20 million Series B in 2020.This brings to company’s overall outside investment to $82.7 million, acco

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Mark Zuckerberg Admits Apple Vision Pro Is Better Than Quest 3 For Watching Movies

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In his latest appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast, Mark Zuckerberg admitted that Apple Vision Pro is better than Quest 3 for watching movies. Shortly after Apple Vision Pro released last year, Zuckerberg posted a three minute video in which he reviewed the headset and compared it to Quest 3. In that video Zuckerberg stated that while he previously expected that Quest 3 would just offer better value than Vision Pro, after using it he now believes Quest 3 is outright the better product, period, beca

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How Strong Tech Foundations Drive Virtual Reality Innovation

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Virtual reality (VR) is changing how people experience digital environments. While impressive advancements in VR are visible to users, the real power behind these innovations lies in strong tech foundations. A solid framework helps companies scale their VR projects and deliver smooth, engaging experiences that captivate users. How Stable Infrastructure Supports VR Performance A dependable [.

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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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Iron Rebellion Might Be The Mechs Best Thing To MechWarrior In VR

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What is the perfect level of clunk to have in a mech shooter? Its a question that has preoccupied me during my time with Iron Rebellion. As I pen these impressions, Ive come to the conclusion that if there is an optimum amount of the stuff, Iron Rebellion is pretty close to having it. What I mean by clunk, of course, is that heady combination of rendered rust, loud stomping and nauseating lurching that is such a staple of the mech genre, and it's especially important to those of a VR persuasion.

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Asgard's Wrath 2 Gets Last Content Update As Sanzaru Games Looks To The "Next Big Thing"

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Asgard's Wrath 2 has received its last content update, and developer Sanzaru Games is working on the next big thing. Following last week's launch of what Sanzaru Games calls its last major title update for Asgards Wrath 2 , the studio ruled out further content updates for its 2023 VR action RPG. Stating on its Discord server (invite link) that it's now only focusing on major issues and bug reports (spotted by QuestWithMatt ), a community manager confirmed the team is moving onto something else.

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Will Samsung Unveil its Moohan XR Headset Next Week?

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Samsung spent 2024 doing many things, one of which was continually teasing its forthcoming XR headset. Despite a lack of foundation directly in the XR market, Samsung’s interest in AR/VR/MR hardware caught the interest of many market observers. This is for many reasons, one of which is the size of the firm. Another is Samsung’s broader Galaxy ecosystem, which provides that foundational layer without Samsung having a dedicated XR hardware solution yet.

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PowerWash Simulator Ends VR Support As Dev Redeploys Team To Other Projects

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PowerWash Simulator VR support will not continue on Quest, with FuturLab citing cost concerns and job security. Addressed in a statement earlier today, FuturLab CEO Kirsty Rigden confirmed that PowerWash Simulator VR support is officially ending. While Rigden states the studio absolutely love and believe in VR, they confirmed that the VR team were working on a platform which costs us more than it makes.

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MeetKai, ThinkAR Partner to Scale AI-Powered Professional Immersive Platforms

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The AI boom is still going strong in 2025, and AR appears to be deeply involved in that journey. From NVIDIA to Meta, AI and XR could become equally growing technologies, with the growing AI space helping XR hardware and software reach its full potential. Last week, at CES 2025, MeetKai showcased a collaboration with ThinkAR to highlight how professionals in various sectors are deploying AI-ready AR solutions in a bid to start a wave of new immersive wearable use cases.

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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.

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Banter Generates Objects From Speech With New AI Tools

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Elin Hhler spent the weekend pulling together a new demo in SideQuest's Banter showing a full speech to 3D generation pipeline making objects in a multiplayer world. Hhler walked me through the pipeline on Monday, showing the three step generation process first processing speech to text, then an image from the text, and finally outputting a 3D model directly into the shared multiplayer world space for resizing and placement.

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Meta Discounts Quest 3S 256GB by $50 for Limited Time, Includes Free Copy of ‘Batman: Arkham Shadow’

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Meta has bundled in a free copy of Batman: Arkham Shadow (2023) with new Quest 3 and Quest 3S purchases since September, with the offer slated to expire in April 2025. Now Meta is sweetening the pot by reducing the biggest storage variant of Quest 3S by $50 for a limited time. As the company’s most affordable mixed reality headset yet, Quest 3S launched late last year in two variantsthe 128GB version for $300, and the 256GB version for $400packing in the same Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 chipset a

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The 256GB Quest 3S Is $350 Until February 9, $50 Off

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The 256GB model of Quest 3S is $350 in the US until February 9, $50 off its regular price. Meta's current headset lineup consists of three options: 128GB Quest 3S ($300) 256GB Quest 3S (normally $400, now temporarily $350) 512GB Quest 3 ($500) The 256GB Quest 3S sort of exists as the unwanted middle child of Meta's lineup, with Amazon sales rankings suggesting it's significantly less popular than the 128GB Quest 3S and 512GB Quest 3.

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Meta-owned Sanzaru Games Moves on to “next big thing” Amid ‘Asgard’s Wrath 2’ Final Update

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Sanzaru Games, the studio behind the Asgard’s Wrath franchise, have released the final content update to Quest exclusive Asgard’s Wrath 2 (2023). Now the studio says it’s moving on the “next big thing” As reported by MIXED ,Sanzaru pushed its last major content update to Asgard’s Wrath 2 , the action-adventure sequel to the studio’s seminal Rift-exclusive title Asgard’s Wrath (2019). ‘The Long Winter’, the game’s twelfth and final

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Are You Still Watching? How to Create Engaging Presentations for Virtual Learning

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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Think Different, Evolve Faster: A Fearless Playbook for Human 2.0

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IRVINE, CA January 13, 2025 Technology entrepreneur and visionary Dan Lejerskar has released a groundbreaking new work, Think Different, Evolve Faster: A Fearless Playbook for Human 2.0 , now available for immediate download. In this compelling publication, Lejerskar articulates how artificial intelligence and immersive technologies can be harnessed to radically transform education, industry, and even our sense of purpose.

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CES 25: Shiftall Mega Hands-on: MeganeX Superlight 8K headset, GripVR, and FlipVR controllers!

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At CES I was able to go hands-on wit h one of the most hyped PC VR headsets of the moment, the Shiftall MeganeX Superlight 8K , and two of its associated controllers, the Shiftall GripVR and Shiftall FlipVR. In this article I will tell all my detailed first impressions about these devices, highlighting the reasons to be excited about and the less enticing ones.