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Ex-Oculus CTO: ‘Beat Saber was much more important to VR’s growth than Half-Life: Alyx’

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John Carmack, former CTO of Oculus and legendary programmer, isn’t shy when it comes to voicing his opinions on all things XR. To Carmack, Meta’s block-slashing rhythm game Beat Saber (2018) was “far more important than Half-Life: Alyx ” in pushing adoption of the medium. While Valve’s PC VR game Half-Life: Alyx (2020) is largely prized as the pinnacle of ‘AAA’ VR gaming, Carmack maintains Beat Saber was “far more important,” owing to the hit

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The Metaverse is Coming Back! – According to Meta

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Do you remember the Metaverse? Mark Zuckerberg remembers… Meta’s CTO, Andrew Bosworth , remembers too. Following its landmark $100 billion investment into XR, then in turn metaverse, solutions Bosworth revealed in a leaked memo that 2025 will be a standout year for the once headline and imagination-stealing technology as well as Reality Labs as a whole.

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Meta Eyes Free-to-Play Future as Quest Userbase Changes with Wave of New Owners

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Metas metaverse ambitions are evolving rapidly, with younger users and mainstream consumers reshaping the Quest platform over the course of 2024, according to Samantha Ryan, VP of Metaverse Content, which could see free-to-play content flourish as a result. In a recent developer blog post , Ryan highlighted key shifts in user behavior over the course of last year, with an evolution driven by the growth of users entirely new to Quest. “Compared to the prior year, device sales increased in 2

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Storylink Radio Brings Interactive Storytelling to the Opensim World’s Fair

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(Image courtesy Storylink Radio.) Storylink Radio is dedicated to the art of storytelling, keeping literatureboth ancient and modernalive and engaging through entertainment. Our mission extends beyond storytelling into immersive language learning, offering emergent readers and language learners a unique way to experience stories. With a 40-region estate in Kitely , Storylink Radio hosts live storytelling sessions, simulcast on YouTube and in collaboration with the Seanchai Library in Second Life

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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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Veteran VR Studio nDreams Condenses Two Studios into One, With Layoffs for Some

Road to VR

Veteran VR developer and publisher nDreams announced it’s opened an internal studio, called ‘Compass’, after having closed both its nDreams Studio Orbital and nDreams Studio in September. The studio announced back in September it had laid off 17.5% of the company in a response to a challenging VR games market, situated within a tough gaming landscape more broadly.

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Big XR News from Meta, Apple, XR Women

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It’s another busy week to kick off February. The motions of 2025 continue to turn towards the year’s next big events, including the run-up to vendor-focused highlights from firms like Apple. Firms like Meta, Google, and Samsung are making sky-high investments. As vendor events, such as the recent Unpacked, approach 2025, it is fair to expect some massive hardware updates in the XR world following these investments.

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Samsung XR Headset Expected Technical & Design Specs

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Samsung XR headset news has been catching the attention of everyone interested in immersive technologies. After all, it's set to launch a new era for Samsung's wearable technologies. The headset is a collaborative venture between Samsung, Qualcomm, and Google. Each company brings its own expertise to the innovative device. Samsung's new headset is currently known [.

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Primate Party: Celebrate 4 Years of ‘Gorilla Tag’

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Surprise! Its Gorilla Tags fourth birthday, and in celebration, developer Another Axiom is going absolutely ape. This week, you can take part in a massive.

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EON Reality Teams Up with Universidad Estatal a Distancia and CRUSA Foundation to Revolutionize Education in Costa Rica with Advanced VR and AR Solutions

EON Reality

IRVINE, CA. February 7, 2025 EON Reality, a global frontrunner in Spatial AI, Virtual Reality (VR), and Augmented Reality (AR) for knowledge and skills transfer in the education and industry sectors, proudly announces a groundbreaking partnership with Universidad Estatal a Distancia (UNED), the leading distance learning university in Costa Rica, and the CRUSA Foundation.

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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.