Wed.Jan 22, 2025

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XR Streaming Takes Steps Forward with PICO Integration of NVIDIA Geforce NOW

XR Today - Virtual Reality

This week, XR headset vendor PICO introduced the integration of NVIDIA GeForce NOW into its portfolio of headsets, marking a step toward XR streaming for broad enterprise and consumer use. The move allows headset users to stream immersive content and applications directly to a headset without wire tethering, therefore broadening the scale of services the headset portfolio can run and access.

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Meta Reportedly Plans Smart Glasses with Display, Targeting 2025 Release at Premium Price Point

Road to VR

Even with onboard AI, Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses aren’t as smart as they could be, since the glasses lack any sort of display for doing simple tasks, like reading incoming messages. Now, a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman maintains Meta is not only looking to expand its line of smart glasses with the inclusion of a sportier model this year, but also a high-end model that includes a built-in display.

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The Power of Personalization in VR Design

AR Insider

Personalized VR design involves bespoke avatars, dynamic environments, and interactions that respond intuitively to user behavior. Why is this important and how is it done? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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‘Fitness Fables’ is a Heart-pumping Workout & Fantasy Action Mash-up, Coming to Quest This Month

Road to VR

Poland-based indie Immersion Games are getting ready to launch their next title later this month, which puts a fantasy gameplay twist on some tried and true VR fitness mechanics. Called Fitness Fables, the game promises a host of features you’d expect to see in your bog standard fantasy game, including 80 levels, 16 boss fights, and bonus challenges galore, promising 24 hours of total gameplay.

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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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Google Acquires Some Of HTC Vive's Engineering Team For Android XR

Upload VR

Google is acquiring "some of" HTC Vive's engineering team to "accelerate the development of the Android XR platform". The two companies aren't saying how many engineers the deal involves, nor whether it involves software engineering or hardware engineering, but here's what Google is saying about the deal for now: "They are an incredibly strong technical team with a proven track record in the VR space, and we are looking forward to working with them to accelerate the development of the Android XR

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Into The Radius Has Sold 800K Copies Across All Platforms

Upload VR

VR survival shooter Into The Radius has sold 800k copies over the last five years. Confirmed in a soon-to-be published interview, CM Games CEO Vlad Rannik spoke to UploadVR during PG Connects London 2025 to discuss Into The Radius 2. Touching upon how the original game guided the studio's approach to early access for the sequel, Rannik revealed Into The Radius sold 800k units since the initial launch back in November 2019.

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EON Reality Integrates NVIDIA’s PDF-to-Podcast AI Blueprint

EON Reality

IRVINE, CAJanuary 22, 2025 EON Reality, the world leader in AI-assisted Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, today announces an enhanced integration with NVIDIAs PDF-to-Podcast AI Blueprint , enabling organizations to overcome information overload through generative AI-powered audio read-outs. In a new white paper, From Page to Practice: Unlocking Soft Skills with AI-Generated Podcasts and 3D Avatar Role-Plays, this collaboration leverages

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Meta Will Reportedly Offer Orion AR Glasses To Developers Next Year

Upload VR

Meta will offer Orion AR glasses to developers next year, ahead of a consumer AR glasses launch in 2027, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. The claim was included in Gurman's wider report about Meta's full smart glasses plans, in which he also said the company will start selling Oakley smart glasses as part of its partnership with EssilorLuxottica, in addition to the existing Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses.

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How to Create Custom Offline Routes for Walks and Hikes in Apple Maps

Next Reality - News

Apple Maps keeps getting better and better for all the hikers in the world. With iOS 18, iPadOS 18, or macOS Sequoia 15, you can access thousands of detailed trail maps within U.S. national parks and topographic views, but you can also create your own walking and hiking routes. Custom walking and hiking routes, available on iPhone, iPad, and Mac since Sept. 16, work anywhere you want.

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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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VR Arcade Fighter Path of Fury - Episode I: Tetsuo's Tower Heads To Quest This March

Upload VR

Path of Fury - Episode I: Tetsuo's Tower, the Kung-Fu inspired VR fighting game, is coming to Quest this March. Inspired by arcade games like Time Crisis and '80s Kung-Fu films like the Wong Kar Wai series, Path of Fury - Episode I: Tetsuo's Tower asks players to frantically swipe and punch at enemies as they ascend a high rise flooded with aggressive enemy fighters.

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Are Your Devices Compatible with iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS 15? Here's the Complete List

Next Reality - News

Apple has released and continues to test 2024's major software updates for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and Apple Vision. But are your devices compatible? Will you need to upgrade a device or two to get all the latest features? Find out here. The latest OS versions are packed with new features like lockable apps, Math Notes, dark icons, iMessage effects and scheduling, notes highlighting, Writing Tools powered by generative AI, and customizable Lock Screen controls.

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Mudra Link Is A $200 Meta Neural Wristband Alternative For Any Device

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A device at CES 2025 called Mudra Link claims to offer similar functionality to Meta's upcoming neural wristband. As I experimented with various hand gestures during the demo, I saw what appeared to be a real-time representation of the neural signals passing through my wrist to my fingers on the screen behind me. Repeated actions would seem to yield similar patterns on the screen and, when a rep from the company moved my finger, I saw no signals to indicate that it was actually reading the comma

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Jumpstart January: ‘Litesport’ Transforms Your Meta Quest into an All-In-One Fitness Solution

Oculus

Litesport is a fun-filled VR fitness program that brings a variety of workouts and real-life trainers into your physical environment through the power of mixed.

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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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Download and Install iOS 18.3 Beta or iPadOS 18.3 Beta to Try New iPhone or iPad Features First

Next Reality - News

Apple's iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 have been out since September, but more features are coming, and you can test them after installing a beta build for iOS 18.3 or iPadOS 18.3. Apple Intelligence debuted on iOS and iPadOS 18.1 and expanded on iOS and iPadOS 18.2, but iOS and iPadOS 18.3 improve upon them even more. But there are also new features and changes beyond Apple Intelligence you'll want to try out.

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Jumpstart January: ‘Litesport’ Transforms Your Meta Quest into an All-In-One Fitness Solution

Oculus

Litesport is a fun-filled VR fitness program that brings a variety of workouts and real-life trainers into your physical environment through the power of mixed.

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5 Ways the iPhone Compass App Can Save Your Next Outdoor Adventure

Next Reality - News

With so many useful native and third-party apps available on iPhone, the Compass app is under the radar for many users. It may not be as essential as Messages, Photos, or Mail, but you can still get plenty of use out of it, especially if youre a hiker, camper, or someone who enjoys outdoor adventures. One of the best features of the Compass app is that it works offline, relying on your devices GPS and magnetometer rather than cellular service.

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EON Reality Disrupts AI for Immersive Learning with a Low-Cost, Local-Deployable Open-Source Model

EON Reality

IRVINE, CA January 22, 2025 EON Reality, the world leader in AI-assisted Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, today announced its strategic move to fully integrate next-generation, open-source large language models (LLMs) into its AI-driven XR solutions. This initiative comes on the heels of groundbreaking open-source models like DeepSeek R1 which is a groundbreaking open-source AI model that has recently been released, rivaling the perform

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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.