AR Insider
AUGUST 7, 2024
AR has enough gravitational pull to compel standardization, such as developer kits and frameworks. What is the lay of the land and how can continued standardization advance the field? This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
AUGUST 7, 2024
According to a report from Korean tech outlet The Elec , Microsoft has contracted Samsung to supply micro OLED display panels for what is described as “next-generation mixed reality devices.” Citing industry sources, the report maintains the order could reach into the “hundreds of thousands” of micro OLED displays, with such a Microsoft XR device reportedly slated to arrive as early as 2026.
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Upload VR
AUGUST 7, 2024
PlayStation VR2's PC Adapter is out today, but you don't actually need it with certain graphics cards. PlayStation VR2 PC Adapter Review: The Bare Minimum PlayStation VR2’s PC adapter is out today, and we’ve been testing it for the past few days. Here’s what we think of PSVR 2 as a PC VR headset. UploadVR David Heaney The adapter takes in the PlayStation VR2's single USB-C cable on one side.
Road to VR
AUGUST 7, 2024
Sony released its long-awaited PC VR adapter for PSVR 2 this week, however early reports maintain some user don’t even need the company’s $60 adapter to start playing PC VR games like Half-Life: Alyx (2020). A number of early user reviews of the adapter are echoing many of the same points right now: some graphics cards with USB-C ports allow PSVR 2 users to directly hook into their GPUS and play SteamVR games.
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.
Upload VR
AUGUST 7, 2024
Meta confirmed to UploadVR it closed the development studio behind some of VR's best games. Ready At Dawn is no more, Meta confirmed, after an article reporting the closure first appeared on Android Central. Lone Echo and Echo Arena from RAD delivered fluid zero-g gameplay in standout single-player and multi-player games on Rift and Quest headsets. Meta acquired Ready At Dawn in 2020 and Lone Echo II in 2021 was the last Oculus Rift exclusive.
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Anand Tech
AUGUST 7, 2024
Last month, AMD launched their first processors using the Zen 5 microarchitecture for the mobile market via their Ryzen AI 300 series. Typically, with AMD Ryzen launches, we usually see the desktop parts come first, with the flagship model and then the mobile coming after. This time around, AMD has changed the dynamic of their release schedule with Zen 5 by launching the mobile chips first, which includes the Ryen AI 9 HX 370, which we reviewed last month.
XR Today - Augmented Reality tag
AUGUST 7, 2024
Rumors about an impending set of Meta AR glasses have been circulating for a while now, and it’s easy to see why. While Meta has achieved incredible success with its Meta Quest VR/MR headsets and metaverse applications, the company is keen to break new ground in extended reality. Already, we’ve seen plenty of evidence that Meta is interested in the smart glasses space with the launch of the Meta Ray-Ban glasses.
Anand Tech
AUGUST 7, 2024
Silicon Motion has been teasing their SM2508 client SSD controller for more than a year now at various trade shows. The controller is finally set for mass production, just in time as the mainstream segment of the Gen 5 SSD market is poised to take off. Silicon Motion expects SSDs based on the SM2508 to be available for purchase by the end of the year.
Upload VR
AUGUST 7, 2024
We spoke with Actuator Digital’s Sebastiaan Fehr about the 90s-inspired arcade shooter On Point and the risks of making indie games for VR. Read on for our full interview: If you long for the giddy excitement of popping away at digital enemies in dusty arcades, you likely share a kinship with Brisbane-based developers Actuator Digital. After years of helping other developers realize their dreams, the team is finally taking an adventurous leap into the world of indie game development.
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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 7, 2024
Corsair, a prominent figure in PC components, has announced a strategic shift in its approach to power supply unit (PSU) certifications. The company is dropping the widely recognized 80 PLUS certification in favor of the newer but more comprehensive Cybenetics certification. According to the press release , the primary reason for Corsair’s move to Cybenetics certifications lies in the program's dual focus on both energy efficiency and noise levels.
Upload VR
AUGUST 7, 2024
MixRift wants to create the "Angry Birds" of mixed reality games, and the new studio secured $1.6 million in funding. Formed last year by CEO Bobby Voicu, CPO David Pripas, and CTO Andrei Vaduva, MixRift confirmed that this funding round was led by Outsized Ventures, Underline Ventures, and SOSV. The studio confirmed this funding will help accelerate "its efforts to develop and publish in-demand mixed reality titles" for Quest 3 and Apple Vision Pro.
Anand Tech
AUGUST 7, 2024
A week after Western Digital confirmed that it had begun sampling of its 64 TB SSDs for datacenters, the company has teased its next-generation product, a 128 TB solid-state drive at FMS 2024. For now, all we know about Western Digital's 128 TB SSD is that it uses the company's BiCS8 QLC NAND memory and is designed primarily for 'fast AI data lakes and capacity-intensive performance applications,' as Western Digital does not seem to be disclosing too much information about its up
Program Ace
AUGUST 7, 2024
Learn how Program-Ace's VR soft skills training can elevate your employees' performance. Realistic simulations provide engaging and compelling learning experiences.
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 7, 2024
Solidigm's D5-P5336 61.44 TB enterprise QLC SSD released in mid-2023 has seen unprecedented demand over the last few quarters, driven by the insatiable demand for high-capacity storage in AI datacenters. Multiple vendors have recognized and started preparing products to service this demand, but Solidigm appears to have taken the lead in actual market availability.
EON Reality
AUGUST 7, 2024
EON Reality’s Expanded Language Support breaks down linguistic barriers in education, enterprise training, healthcare, and public services IRVINE, Calif., August 7, 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 Expanded Language Support feature for its cutting-edge XR platform.
Anand Tech
AUGUST 7, 2024
AMD has made itself quite a reputation with its bundling campaigns over the years, and every new season we can be sure that the company will be giving away free games with the purchase of its hardware. This summer will certainly not be exception as AMD will be bundling Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 and Unknown 9: Awakening titles with its Ryzen 7000 CPUs and Radeon RX 7000 video cards.
EON Reality
AUGUST 7, 2024
Automatic 3D Asset Generation: create immersive, interactive 3D environments from simple text prompts IRVINE, Calif., August 7, 2024 – EON Reality, the world leader in AI-assisted Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, today announced a major breakthrough in its 10.3 release. The “Automatic 3D Asset Generation” feature marks a paradigm shift in 3D content creation, achieving a remarkable 95% success rate in creating immersive,
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.
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