The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

One of the top three experiences I had on the AWE Europe show floor was not even an official experience of the AWE Europe show floor. It was an on-the-fly demo of the moving volumetric scenes offered by Gracia that I had in the corridors of the event. I’ve been impressed , and so I absolutely need to tell you about it. Gracia A girl trapped in a web chrysalis, part of a short story that is viewable in Gracia (Image by Gracia) Gracia is a startup that aims to become the YouTube for volumetr

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Many believe passthrough AR is attractive today. but a stepping stone to ubiquitous seethrough AR. We see them evolving within their own evolutionary lanes and applied where they respectively outperform. Parallel, not sequential. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Meta may be rethinking its approach to third-party app funding, as the company has reportedly cut funds to some outside VR game developers whilst reshifting its focus to non-gaming apps. According to a report from The Information , Meta is becoming “more discriminating” in how it spends to stock its Horizon Store for Quest. Citing unnamed Meta staffers, the company has reportedly cut funding for some outside app developers amid a wider shift to fund apps that have seen comparatively

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

How do you turn a concept for a VR game or experience into a commercial product? There's a playbook, from market research to platform choices and other key steps. We break down some of the top considerations. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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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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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Metro Awakening brings the post-apocalyptic tunnel-dwelling franchise to VR for the first time, but is it a good fit? Read on to find out in our full review. Metro Awakening Details: Publisher: Vertigo Games Available On: Quest , PC VR , PSVR 2 Reviewed On: Quest 3 Release Date: November 7th, 2024 Price: $50 Editor’s note: all clips in this review are from the Quest 3 version of the game.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Stranger Things VR (2024) , the Quest game from Tender Claws, is leaving timed Quest exclusivity next month. Originally launched on Quest 2/3/Pro in February, the studio announced it’s bringing Stanger Things VR to to PSVR 2 and SteamVR-compatible headsets on December 5th. Here’s the breakdown, courtesy of Tender Claws: Experience the world of Stranger Things from the never-before-seen perspective of Vecna as he explores unknown realities, forms the hive mind, and enacts his plan fo

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

XRHealth has acquired NeuroReality to strengthen its therapeutic offerings with the likes of NeuroReality’s flagship offering ‘Koji’s Quest’. Koji’s Quest is a “cutting-edge” tool that provides therapeutic and rehabilitative experiences through immersive XR games. Describing itself as a “virtual clinic”, XRHealth is looking to establish itself as a leading XR therapeutic platform, having also acquired Amelia Virtual Care last year.

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Charlie Fink

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Big tech was a big winner Tuesday night. There will be no regulation of AI, Crypto, Social Media, or Space. Tax cuts will be extended. Stocks soared.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

If you’ve ever wanted pets but your landlord doesn’t allow them, the mixed reality eco-sanctuary Living Room might be for you. Developed by Thoughtfish, your job (should you accept it) involves cultivating life in a customizable terrarium full of cutesy critters. Alongside dressing up the different biomes, you must breed and feed flocks of creatures, managing the delicate balance of carnivores and omnivores to avoid total extinction. 0:00 / 1:09 1× After scanning your playspace to establish the

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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.

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Charlie Fink

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Mawari’s plan is to build a network of servers to enable real time spatial content at scale, without apps.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Looking for PS VR2 games with PS5 Pro enhancements? Here's everything you need to know. Almost four years after the original PS5 was released, the higher-end PlayStation 5 Pro is here with a mid-generation upgrade. Available now from $700, the PS5 Pro features a 2TB SSD, a 45% more powerful GPU with 2-3x faster ray tracing and PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) - which doesn't support PS VR2 at launch but will in a future update - which is a neural upscaling technology similar to NVIDI

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EON Reality

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

IRVINE, CA — November 7, 2024 — EON Reality, a global leader in immersive educational technology, proudly participated in the distinguished 2024 AVE Romania Gala, celebrating excellence and innovation in Romanian education. Represented by its official Romanian partner, QubHQ, EON Reality took center stage in honoring visionary educators who are transforming learning experiences through groundbreaking technology.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

djay integrates Apple Music and other music libraries for a spatial DJ experience, and it's out now on Quest. Created by Algoriddim, best known for the djay app , today's release follows its previous launch on Apple Vision Pro. djay on Meta Quest aims for low latency audio, offering multi-channel sound, and dynamic spatialized sound effects. It also supports USB MIDI controllers, letting you connect existing DJ gear to your Quest for more tactile controls.

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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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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

As 2024 wraps up, the leading XR device vendors, such as Meta, HTC VIVE, XREAL, Apple, and others, are attempting to lead the marketplace into the holiday period, with early AR smart glasses and emerging MR headsets reaching more consumers and, therefore, businesses. However, as the market determines the holiday foothold, Apple and OpenAI appear to be pushing for a lead for advanced AR smart glasses leading into 2025 and beyond.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Survios is delaying Alien: Rogue Incursion into early 2025 on Quest 3 and 3S headsets. Our recent hands-on hinted at the possibility and now Survios has confirmed it. Survios says it still plans to release the game on PlayStation VR2 and Steam on December 19, 2024. "Our team has been delighted to see the reactions from the community, press, and creators following our first hands-on previews over the past few weeks, and we couldn't be more excited to deliver this terrifying, action-packed, and au

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

AR smart glasses, MR, and VR headsets are a collection of devices that make up the emerging wearable XR market. However, despite the emergence of some devices from firms like Meta, the technology is still very much in its early days, so to get the most out of AR/VR/MR, businesses can turn a common end-device that is already in a worker’s pocket – their smartphone.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Ahead of Metro Awakening's official launch today, Vertigo Games confirmed it's adding an Arachnophobia mode in a post-launch update. For many people, spiders are an insect that can cause a state of panic and fear. In Metro Awakening by Vertigo Games, they're one of the most terrifying enemies you will face. The intensity of missions that featured these 8-legged creepy crawlies caused me to want to rip my headset from my face several times during my playthrough. 0:00 / 1:00 1× In my review , I no

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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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Oculus

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

At Connect 2024, we introduced Meta Lab, our newest experiential retail space—and our first dedicated to Ray-Ban Meta glasses. Attendees got a sneak peek through.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2024

No Man's Sky has begun rolling out cross-saves across all platforms, and Hello Games has already released its PS5 Pro patch for PS VR2 players. Calling this one of the community's most requested features, Hello Games announced that today's No Man's Sky update introduces cross-platform saves across the original PlayStation VR, PS VR2, PC VR, and flatscreen platforms.

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Oculus

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The award-winning app djay has racked up over 70 million downloads across desktop, mobile, and Apple Vision Pro headsets. And now, the dev team at Algoriddim is launching a newly reimagined version for Meta Quest to get even more people into the mix.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Stranger Things VR is going multiplatform, arriving next month on PlayStation VR2 and Steam. Originally released in February for Quest 2 and Quest 3, we've known for some time that Stranger Things VR would reach other "major VR platforms" but until now, we've had no confirmation on specific headsets. Nearly nine months later, developer Tender Claws has confirmed the psychological horror action game will reach PS VR2 and Steam on December 5, 2024. 0:00 / 0:58 1× A psychological horror action game

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Speaker: Treion Muller, Chief Strategy Officer at ELB Learning

Since when has learning and development (L&D) become such a negative experience with its intended learners? Could it be because learners have been conditioned by very poor learning experiences over the past two decades, combined with the kinks of technological innovation? Or is it because learning has typically been designed as a one-size-fits-all solution, despite the fact that humans are not clones?

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Oculus

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Two months ago, PlaySide Studios announced that it was bringing the beloved-if-slightly-unhinged Dumb Ways to Die franchise into fully immersive VR. And now, the wait.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Bootstrap Island, the PC VR survival game, adds its first boss and a new location in today's major update. Currently available in early access, today's 'Overlord Update' for Bootstrap Island introduces several major changes. Most prominent is the 'Dark Lair' area that's home to a formidable giant ape known only as the Jungle Overlord that's out to kill you.

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Oculus

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Are you ready to face the dangers of the post-apocalyptic Moscow metro system? In Metro Awakening, the year is 2028 and the survivors of nuclear Armageddon cling to existence in underground subway systems buried by the chaos of conflict. This story-driven first-person adventure is built exclusively for VR by blending atmospheric exploration, stealth, and combat into the most immersive Metro experience to date—and it’s available right now!

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NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Smash Drums is calling all metalheads with the Metal Legends music pack, available now for Quest players. Delivering a rhythmic VR experience, Smash Drums has seen several music packs since it was released a few years ago. We've had the '80s vibes join the library , the anti-regime of punk legends , and the record-scratching drop of pop-rock hits. Now, it's metal's turn in the spotlight.

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Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute

The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?

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