Thu.Jan 16, 2025

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Shuhei Yoshida, Industry Veteran & Main Figure Behind PSVR, Departs Sony

Road to VR

Shuhei Yoshida (aka ‘Shu’) has left Sony, closing a near 32-year chapter of his life with the company. Yoshida announced he was leaving Sony back in November, setting his retirement date for January 15th, 2025. Now, the one-time President of Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Worldwide Studios has bid farewell to the company. At farewell party yesterday pic.twitter.com/hpiPWQIO1z Shuhei Yoshida (@yosp) January 14, 2025 “Ive been with PlayStation from the beginning, and thi

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Avantis Education Debuts VR and AI Learning Solutions at FETC 2025

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Immersive classroom solutions provider Avantis Education is showcasing its recently debuted K-12 school-ready VR service, Eduverse+, at the 2025 Future of Education Technology Conference this week, including a selection of new content to enhance classroom experiences with AI tools and more. The firm is showcasing the immersive solutions at the Florida event to highlight how Eduverse+ can empower students and teachers with educational VR content suites ready for various classroom subjects and set

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Meta & Plessey Announce Super Bright, High-efficiency Red MicroLED: an Important Piece in All-day AR

Road to VR

Meta announced in 2020 it was working with UK-based AR display maker Plessey , which was tapped to provide Meta with AR displays over the course of multiple years. Now the companies have announced they’ve developed what they’re deeming “the worlds brightest” red microLED display for AR glasses. Plessey and Meta say the new red microLED display offers brightness up to 6,000,000 nits at high resolution (<5um) with ultra-low power consumption, something they hope will ov

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Reality Bytes: Google, WhatsApp & Twitch

AR Insider

This week on Reality Bytes, we discuss Google's AI discovery Podcasts, streaming with AI co-hosts, and WhatsApp's shift to AI companionship. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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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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‘Drop Dead’ & ‘Warhammer 40K: Battle Sister’ Developer Soul Assembly Lays Off 15% of Staff

Road to VR

Soul Assembly, the studio behind the Drop Dead VR shooter franchise, announced it’s laying off 15% of its team, maintaining the reduction is required for the success ofupcoming projects. The UK-based VR developer and publisher announced the news following in inquiry by UploadVR , which followed a series of affected developers posting the dreaded ‘Open to Work’ banner on LinkenIn. “We can confirm a reduction in our team by 15%.

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Arken Age Review - Satisfying Sci-Fi Adventure With Great VR Design

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Arken Age delivers a satisfying sci-fi action-adventure that shines with its clever VR gameplay design. Read on for our full review. There aren't many VR games where I'd consider haptics to be a standout feature. It's a welcome addition that complements immersion if implemented effectively, sure, but that's rarely anything exceptional on PlayStation VR2.

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Spatial Beats: The Clock Ticks on TikTok, Beat Saber Hits 8 Digits

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TikTok's fate is soon to be sealed, Beat Saber reaches 10 million downloads, and cinematic AI gets scary good. We have these and other items from XR and AI worlds, through the eyes of Charlie Fink. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Viva Las Elvis Walkabout Course Channels Vegas Casino With Heartbreak Hotel & Graceland

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Animator and Walkabout Mini Golf course designer Henning Koczy offered a tour of Mighty Coconut's Viva Las Elvis chock full of behind-the-scenes details. The new paid DLC is available for purchase now on all major VR platforms as well as iOS. Walkabout's 31st course begins at hole 1 as you pull up to the casino in glittering '70s era Las Vegas. Elvis' path ends at hole 18, putting up the piano into Graceland with stops off along the way at the pool, through the Heartbreak Hotel and into The Jung

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EON Reality Unveils “One-Click” AI-Driven VR/AR Course Creation for Enterprises

EON Reality

Irvine, CA January 16, 2025 EON Reality, the world leader in AI-assisted Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, is proud to announce the release of its latest AI-driven customization features. These new capabilities bridge the gap between speed and specificityempowering enterprises and academic institutions to instantly generate fully immersive VR/AR training courses and seamlessly tailor them to real-world equipment and environments in under

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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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Cinematic AI Shorts From Eric Ker, Timothy Wang, Henry Daubrez And CaptainHaHaa

Charlie Fink

These new Cinematic AI Films demonstrate new capabilities of models like Luma Labs, Hailuo, and Veo. You forget they're AI.

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Revolutionary Faculty Empowerment Platform Expands Teaching Potential Beyond Classroom Limits

EON Reality

Irvine, CA January 16, 2025 EON Reality, the world leader in AI-assisted Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, proudly announces its latest Faculty Empowerment Platform , detailed in the white paper “ Empowering Educators Beyond the Classroom: Revolutionizing Knowledge Transfer with AI, Immersive Technologies, and 24/7 Mentorship.” The cutting-edge solution amplifies teachers capabilities by extending their presence and providing

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TikTok Out Of Time, Meta Out Of Facts, ChatGPT’s New Tasks

Charlie Fink

TikTok reportedly in last minute talks with Elon Musk. Meta ends U.S. fact-checking. Beat Saber nears 250M in Quest sales. OpenAI ChatGPT's automated "Tasks.

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EON TeachMentor™ Expands Teaching Potential Beyond Classroom Limits

EON Reality

Irvine, CA January 16, 2025 EON Reality, the world leader in AI-assisted Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, proudly announces EON TeachMentor , a cutting-edge solution that amplifies teachers capabilities by extending their presence and providing immersive, round-the-clock learning experiences.

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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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Keep Your Night Vision Sharp with the iPhone's Hidden Red Screen

Next Reality - News

Night Shift, Dark Mode, Reduce White Point, and Zoom's Low Light Filter all help reduce the harmful effects on your body's clock that bright iPhone and iPad screens have at night. But there's another option on iOS and iPadOS that turns your entire display red, and it's useful for so much more than just late-night browsing in bed. The brightness slider, Reduce White Point, and Zoom's Low Light Filter all dim the display, but Night Shift cancels out blue light frequencies, resulting in an orange h

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Bright Light City: ‘Walkabout Mini Golf’ Releases New ‘Viva Las Elvis’ Course Today

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Walkabout Mini Golf developer Mighty Coconut brings Elvis’s music to life, setting holes in the infamous Heartbreak Hotel, a giant jukebox, through various Presley-themed casino games, his dressing room, and more.

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Your iPhone Is Getting New Emoji Soon — Meet the Characters Arriving in iOS 18.4

Next Reality - News

Get ready to upgrade your emoji game! Thanks to the Unicode 16.0 update, a new wave of fun and expressive characters is coming to your iPhone. While the last emoji refresh was nearly a year ago, iOS 18.4 is expected to bring these fresh designs to your keyboard in spring 2025. Don't Miss: The Complete iOS 18.2 Features Guide Here's Everything New and Improved for Your iPhone The previous emoji update for iPhone arrived in March 2024 with iOS 17.4, adding highlights like the phoenix (), lime wed

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Bright Light City: ‘Walkabout Mini Golf’ Releases New ‘Viva Las Elvis’ Course Today

Oculus

Walkabout Mini Golf developer Mighty Coconut brings Elvis’s music to life, setting holes in the infamous Heartbreak Hotel, a giant jukebox, through various Presley-themed casino games, his dressing room, and more.

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

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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VSCO 101: How to Use the Selfie Camera on Your Android Phone

Next Reality - News

If you love to take selfies and post them online for all the world to see, then it's important to ensure that you are always sharing your best side. It's pretty common for people to just open up their stock camera app and snap a quick photo, wherever they may be but there's a bet ter camera you could be using. Your stock camera is fine, of course. But if you're a frequent Instagrammer or social media user and build your reputation and maybe even your brand off of your face, then why not take th

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