Road to VR
JANUARY 31, 2025
So you’re thinking about getting into VR and looking to do it on the cheap. Could a Quest 2 headset be worth buying in 2025? Read on for our no-nonsense recommendation. Lets make this real easy: If you can find Quest 2 (128GB or more) for less than $100: Buy it Why: Quest 2 is officially a last-gen headset, but that doesn’t mean it’s worthless.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
JANUARY 31, 2025
The first month of January was full of innovation and inspiration. In part, thanks to the giant that is CES, a source of annual start-of-year booms in interest in XR innovation, from veterans to start-ups. Ahead of the usual surge of CES-fuelled interest in XR, innovation was increasing in the AR/VR/MR landscape and beyond, according to a new report from Anaqua.
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Road to VR
JANUARY 31, 2025
Daisy Ridley, who played ‘Rey’ in the recent Star Wars sequel trilogy, has been tapped to star in an upcoming VR experience, which is slated to arrive on Quest in March. As reported in a Hollywood Reporter exclusive, the experience is called Trailblazer: The Untold Story of Mrs. Benz, which recants the story of 19th centuryGerman automotive pioneer Bertha Benzthe first person to drive an internal combustion engine automobile over a long distance, andwife of Carl Benz, creatorof the B
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JANUARY 31, 2025
Apple has canceled AR glasses that would have required a connection to a Mac (or originally, Apple had hoped, your iPhone), Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. Gurman has a relatively strong track record of reliably reporting on Apple's product plans years in advance, and successfully described most of Apple Vision Pro's hardware and software before it was officially revealed.
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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.
Road to VR
JANUARY 31, 2025
Mindshow, the real-time CG animation company, unveiled its virtual production platform for enterprise partners looking to use XR headsets to speed up the animating process. The company additionally announced the appointment of David Baron as Chief Operating Officer, a founding executive at Hulu, and industry veteran of Fox Digital Media, Paramount, and Microsoft.
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Road to VR
JANUARY 31, 2025
Another edition of VR Games Showcase is headed our way in March, which the organizers calling the event the “biggest line-up yet” of XR games. Details are still thin at the moment, most notably of which is the online event’s actual date, although event organizers say in an X post we’re sure to get more news soon. As with VR Games Showcases past, we’re also expecting to hear info on what studios will be participating, which may help us narrow down what’s going
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JANUARY 31, 2025
Crysis is fully playable in VR with a new mod that brings immersive gameplay and full 6DoF tracked controller support to the iconic classic. The groundbreaking 2007 release of Crysis has long held its legendary status in the gaming world. "But can it run Crysis?" became a serious and unserious question across multiple generations of PC hardware, but for some it truly was the benchmark for the hardware of its day.
XR Today - Augmented Reality tag
JANUARY 31, 2025
It was another busy week for the XR industry. Following the public debut of the Moohan headset, the landscape is buzzing with excitement. This excitement lasted throughout January, kicking off the year with a bang. From CES to Samsung, the range of XR announcements was truly broad and innovative. The year ahead could be filled with further interest and innovation.
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JANUARY 31, 2025
Cave Crave promises a claustrophobic VR spelunking game with no cheap horror tricks, arriving this spring on Quest and PS VR2. Developed by 3R Games, who previously released Thief Simulator VR: Greenview Street , Cave Crave sees you exploring tight tunnels and caves as you try to find an escape. This requires marking your own clues across cave walls using chalk, clearing obstacles with a hammer, and using ice axes to climb across walls and ceilings.
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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.
Road to VR
JANUARY 31, 2025
Vertigo Games,the studio behind the Arizona Sunshine series and Metro Awakening (2024), announced it’s sold off SpringboardVR , the location-based entertainment (LBE) VR content distribution platform. Vertigo Games acquired SpringboardVR in 2021 , announcing at the time it was looking forward to “leading SpringboardVR into the future in this exciting phase of accelerating growth in VR.
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JANUARY 31, 2025
E McNeill released the first full VR game for Gear VR headsets back in 2014 drawing from big screen depictions of cyberspace. Featuring hackers taking on the " Darknet " to acquire virtual bitcoin, his strategy game sees you hack computing nodes to purchase stronger electronic weapons. At the time of Darknet's original development in 2013 and 2014, a single actual bitcoin could be sold for about $1,000 in the real world.
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JANUARY 31, 2025
Beyond Blue: After The Storm is a short-lived adventure that educates about marine conservation, and it's out now on Quest. VR can be a powerful method for raising awareness. Whether that's through games, films, or something else, placing you inside these virtual worlds often leaves a more lasting impact. With the ever-increasing threat of climate change threatening our oceans, seeing VR media address such topics is a welcome sight, though I never expected a VR-only sequel to 2020 flatscreen gam
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JANUARY 31, 2025
Virtuware Ltd's live events-focused app, StageTime VR, hits the Meta Quest store today. StageTime is advertised as "the ultimate virtual venue" where users can enjoy karaoke, trivia and other live events with the platform's growing community. I've been enjoying live performances and music venues in VR for a long time. The immersive medium has left me spoiled for choice over the years, so I was curious about what StageTime VR would have to offer, and I tried out the app at a special preview event
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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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