Fri.Nov 22, 2024

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Spatial Beats: Chrome Chided, Ray-Ban Metas Retorted

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Google may be forced to divest Chrome while Rokid teases its counter to the mighty Ray-Ban Meta Smartglasses. We have these and other items from XR and AI realms through the eyes of Charlie Fink. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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PSVR 2 Gets Its Best Sale Yet, Well Ahead of Black Friday

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Black Friday is still a week away, but Sony has already released its Black Friday deals, including the best PSVR 2 sale we’ve seen. You can now get the PSVR 2 Horizon Call of the Mountain bundle for just $350, a 42% discount over the usual price. The PSVR 2 Horizon Call of the Mountain bundle is currently on sale for $350. This is almost certainly the best the headset will see this year.

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Omnia Paves the Way for Virtual Showrooms

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Rising Chicago XR startup Omnia is paving the way for virtual showrooms. “Paving” is the operative word as it recently held a private event at… Continue reading → Omnia Paves the Way for Virtual Showrooms This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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‘Wall Town Wonders’ Review – Maybe a Little Too Casual for Today’s Mixed Reality

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Wall Town Wonders feels like a casual game from the future, when all-day AR glasses are the norm, and you can manage your growing town of tiny Sim -like inhabitants as they fly around your room in hot air balloons and live out their tiny lives as you live out yours. While visually captivating, the depth of gameplay isn’t enough to keep my attention for long, raising the question whether the genre is simply too early for the current generation of XR headsets.

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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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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Soars To New Heights After Bumpy Launch

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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 provides players with a virtual reality recreation of Earth that offers a sense of unmatched realism. Despite initial launch setbacks, the game promises thrilling aviation adventures and limitless exploration. I'll never forget Christmas 1982. We had recently gotten our first computer, the IBM PC Jr, and I was desperately hoping that this new Flight Simulator game from a small and relatively new company called Microsoft was one of those ornately wrapped packages.

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Alien: Rogue Incursion Now Arriving In February On Quest 3

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Alien: Rogue Incursion now targets a February launch on Quest 3. While Alien: Rogue Incursion is out next month for PS VR2 and PC VR, you may recall the upcoming action-horror VR game had been delayed on Quest 3 until 2025. At the time, Survios confirmed this was done to provide "the Alien VR experiences that fans and players expect." While an official announcement hasn't yet been made, the Meta Horizon Store page now lists a February 13 launch.

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Sony vs Samsung: Which XR Headset Will Come First?

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The Sony vs Samsung skirmish is nothing new. For years, these two companies have been competing for the “Top TV manufacturer” position and similar titles. Now, the war between the firms seems to be evolving to include XR headsets. Both Sony and Samsung have clearly demonstrated an interest in extended reality over the years. In fact, they were two of the first companies to introduce (relatively basic) consumer VR headsets.

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PS VR2 Is $350 With Horizon Call Of The Mountain In Mega Black Friday Sale

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PlayStation VR2 is $350 and comes with Horizon Call Of The Mountain in Sony's Black Friday sale. PS VR2 is usually $550, and the bundle with Horizon Call Of The Mountain is usually $600, so this represents a massive saving of $250, over 40% off. The sale is available on all official retailers , as well as PlayStation Direct , across multiple regions.

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Meta Ray-Ban vs XReal Air 2: Which Smart Glasses are Best?

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Meta Ray-Ban vs XReal Air 2: which smart glasses offer the best experience to consumers and enterprise users right now? As demand for smart glasses continues to grow, Meta and XReal have both proven themselves to be strong contenders in the industry. However, both vendors have approached the market in different ways. Before introducing the cutting-edge Meta Orion prototype specs at Meta Connect 2024, Meta’s “smart specs” focused more on AI technology and content creation than extended reality.

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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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Pico 4 Ultra Comes With Pico Motion Trackers & 3 Games For Black Friday

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Pico 4 Ultra comes with Pico Motion Trackers, three games, and one month of VRChat Plus in ByteDance's Black Friday deal. Those three games are Blade & Sorcery: Nomad , Pistol Whip , and Synth Riders , and the deal ends after December 2. Pico Motion Trackers , normally €90/£80, strap to your ankles to add leg tracking in supported titles, which includes Blade & Sorcery: Nomad and VRChat.

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Denny Unger On VR Mechanics, Multi-Modality, & the Inevitability of AR Glasses

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Today, we’re wrapping up our five-week series with a deep-dive conversation with Cloudhead Games CEO & CCO Denny Unger.

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Survivors Of Xcalibur Is A 'Survivor-Like' VR Game Out Today On Quest Early Access

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Survivors of Xcalibur is a new VR bullet-heaven game inspired by Vampire Survivors, and it's out today in early access on Quest. Developed by Something Random ( Toy Trains ), you play as the Last Knight of Xcalibur trying to save this world against the treacherous league of cyber wizards as hundreds of enemies descend upon you. With Merlin gone and King Arthur lost, you're tasked with defeating these endless waves while wielding the Knight like a 3D action figure, viewing the battlefield from a

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7 Reasons to Invest in Augmented Reality Displays

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Augmented reality displays have evolved significantly in just a few years. Once, the most common way to access an “AR” experience was through a smartphone app. Now, we have tablets and large-scale displays that leverage cameras and cutting-edge technology to create augmented experiences. Countless vendors are experimenting with mixed-reality headsets and augmented-reality glasses.

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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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Batman: Arkham Shadow Will Get New Game+ Mode In January

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Batman: Arkham Shadow outlined its post-launch roadmap, confirming when to expect New Game+ Mode and more Challenge Maps. Following last month's high-profile launch on Quest 3, we've known for some time that further updates would follow for Batman: Arkham Shadow , and Meta's now confirmed this will come in three stages. Version 1.1 is now available for November's update, promising UX improvements, more game over sequences and additional polish for crashes and bugs.

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Big XR News from Meta, Microsoft, TeamViewer, Vuzix

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This week, the technology sector was overtaken by Microsoft Ignite 2024. The yearly event showcases the latest Microsoft updates, including the broad number of partners working within its product portfolio. While Microsoft’s XR hardware ambitions continue to drop, the firm showcased at Ignite that it will continue to support third-party XR firms and software to help businesses leverage spatial data and solutions.