Road to VR

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Meta has publicly stated that it wants to be “the Android of XR.” But you know who else wants to be the Android of XR? Android XR, of course. Beyond debates about specs or features, one major factor is likely to determine whether Meta can fend off growing pressure from Google and Apple in the XR landscape: flat apps. Flat appslike Spotify, TikTok, Snapchat, and Discordaren’t the most exciting use case for a headset.

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DECEMBER 13, 2024

Doborog Games VR sequel Clone Drone in the Hyperdome is now available on Steam and Meta. The developers behind the popular flatscreen voxel arena fighter Clone Drone in the Danger Zone have brought their unique brand of slash-em-up combat to the new VR roguelike Clone Drone in the Hyperdome. Following the original game's chunky aesthetic, this sequel sees players step into the shoes of Blink, a looprunner, who is fighting for survival in an arena tournament called the Crashloop.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Skydance’s Behemoth (2024) just got a major patch which looks to address what developer Skydance Games calls an admittedly “controversial” response to the game’s combat. It looks like we were among those who didn’t mind the game’s combat at launch, although the same can’t be said for a good number of players following its December 5th releaseacross Quest 2/3/Pro , PSVR 2 , and PC VR headsets via the Horizon Store (Meta only) and Steam.

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DECEMBER 13, 2024

Franz Kafkas best-known work, the novella The Metamorphosis , begins with its main character, Gregor Samsa, awakening one morning to find that he has inexplicably transformed into a monstrous insect. Before this surreal transformation, Gregor worked an unhappy job, lived under crushing debt, and failed to find meaningful relationships with others. After his transformation, his rather unfulfilling life becomes even worse until, eventually, he dies.

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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

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Owlchemy Labs and Resolution Games announced they’re adopting support for Android XR, bringing some of their most popular titles to Google’s upcoming XR operating system. Android XR is set to make its debut on Samsung’s ‘Project Moohan’ mixed reality headset , which is slated for consumer launch sometime in 2025. It’s no Daydream either, but rather a bona fide version of Android adapted to run on XR headsets, supporting both the massive catalogue of flat Andro

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EON Reality

DECEMBER 13, 2024

IRVINE, CA December 13, 2024 EON Reality, the world leader in AI-assisted Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, today announced a strategic integration of its EON PERFORM platform with Gemini 2.0s cutting-edge spatial AI capabilities. This collaboration enables unprecedented real-time scanning, environment understanding, intelligent analysis, and interactive guidance, setting a new standard for operational efficiency, training effectiveness,

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Demand for smart glasses has been growing constantly throughout the last year. Every major market leader is getting involved, from Snap, to Meta potentially even Samsung and Apple. But few innovations have really changed the game thats where the XReal One Series steps in. While Metas Orion glasses might promise a revolutionary AR experience theyre nowhere close to being consumer-ready.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Microsoft has always been quick to invest in innovative new technologies. It introduced the Windows Mixed Reality platform in 2017, helping various PC makers create a range of consumer-ready XR headsets. Even earlier, in 2016, Microsoft introduced the world to arguably the first enterprise-grade mixed reality headset: the HoloLens. This was quickly replaced by the HoloLens 2.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Just weeks before 2024 wraps up and the new year draws closer, the XR industry is steeped in countless stories that may lead to a transformative year for XR. 2024 looks to be a foundational year for the future of XR, from hardware to software and from consumer to enterprise. The plumbing powering the XR revolution appears to be built or is at least almost complete.

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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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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2024

After so much time teasing it, Google has finally announced Android XR, the version of Android for XR devices, and gave hands-on demos of the headset it is building with Samsung and Qualcomm. It is huge news and there is a lot to unpack, that’s why I decided to write this article to summarize the most relevant features of AndroidXR from all the points of view (hardware, content, development, etc…) so you are sure not to lose any detail about it!

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