AR Insider
DECEMBER 14, 2023
During cyber week this year, one trend surprised everyone: Quest 2 outsold Quest 3. This is partly due to the former's discount, but what else factored in? We examine the evidence. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
DECEMBER 14, 2023
CM Games, the developer behind the single-player survival shooter Into the Radius (2020) , confirmed that its long-awaited sequel is set to not only include a single-player campaign, but also host up to four player co-op so you can take on the otherworldly Pechorsk Security Zone together. Like the first in the series, Into the Radius 2 is set to initially launch on Steam Early Access for PC VR headsets sometime in 2024.
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AR Insider
DECEMBER 14, 2023
This week on Reality Bytes, we raid Twitch with Mountain Dew, discuss the results of Epic v. Google, and look to the future of AI with the EU. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Meta announced a new mixed reality platformer for Quest called Demeter that uses your furniture and walls so you can solve puzzles and challenges, tasking you to guide a pint-size hero get back to her world. Developed by Novelab and published by Meta, Demeter is slated to launch on Quest 2/3/Pro next month, giving you not only an intimate background for the game’s narrative to unfold—it is after all a mixed reality game—but also bringing along with it procedurally generated environments th
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.
AR Insider
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Welcome back to Spatial Beats, AR Insider's weekly series that features observations and insights of author and futurist Charlie Fink. This week, we look at new hardware, new funding and say goodby to Bose Frames. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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DECEMBER 14, 2023
Quest 3 developers can now integrate three major new features to improve both virtual and mixed reality. Inside-Out Body Tracking (IOBT) and Generative Legs were announced alongside Quest 3 as coming in December. Occlusion for mixed reality via the Depth API was previously an experimental feature , meaning developers could test it but couldn't ship it in Quest Store or App Lab builds.
Charlie Fink
DECEMBER 14, 2023
AI startups rake in venture investment as the EU imposes basic rules in its AI Act.
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DECEMBER 14, 2023
This week's SteamVR Beta brings Advanced Supersample Filtering back to Quest, and it supports the Steam Link app. Advanced Supersample Filtering has been an option in SteamVR since 2017, but Valve says it was "accidentally disabled" for Meta headsets a few years ago as "a side-effect of another change". The latest SteamVR Beta update brings it back for Steam Link and Meta's Quest Link.
Anand Tech
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Intel has released their first mobile processors based on their highly anticipated Meteor Lake platform, the Core Ultra H and the Core Ultra U series. Available today, the Ultra Core H series has four options, including two Ultra 7 16C/22T (6P+8E) SKUs and two 14C/18T (4P+8E) Ultra 5 SKUs, and offers a base TDP of 28 W, with a maximum turbo TDP of up to 115 W.
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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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DECEMBER 14, 2023
Asgard's Wrath 2 releases this week, bringing the open world fantasy RPG genre to the VR masses. As Sanzaru Games' first release post-acquisition , the game stands as Meta's first big bet on AAA gaming for standalone virtual reality. Leading the player through an epic tale of the gods, it ultimately offers an experience of previously unseen," scale on Quest headsets – but at what cost?
Voices of VR
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Asgard’s Wrath 2 is one of the most epic games I’ve had a chance to play, and I think it’s fair to say that it’s like Meta’s Half-Life: Alyx in terms of a premium AAA game that could be a system seller for the Quest 3. I’m about 40 hours into the game, and only […] Asgard's Wrath 2 is one of the most epic games I've had a chance to play, and I think it's fair to say that it's like Meta's Half-Life: Alyx in terms of a premium AAA game that could be a syst
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DECEMBER 14, 2023
Cooking Simulator VR will receive a "definitive version" tomorrow on PSVR 2. Initially released in 2021, the PC VR version previously won Steam’s 2021 VR Game of the Year award. In our review, we called Cooking Simulator VR a “frantic celebration of VR realism and chaos,” one that mixes authentic cooking for 80 different recipes with slapstick humor across the career and sandbox modes.
Oculus
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Racket sports are on the rise, and Racket Club is here to bring all the fun and addictiveness of those sports to VR. It’s a game that anyone can enjoy, even if you’ve never picked up a tennis racket before or have no clue what a pickleball is. Racket Club is a brand-new sport with its own set of unique rules, and both veteran players and newbies will find something to like here.
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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DECEMBER 14, 2023
Shootout, a new free-to-play hero shooter, is available now on Quest. Developed by Myr, SHOOTOUT is a fast-paced team shooter focused on customizable weapons. Playable alone or with friends in 3v3 arenas, Myr promises an "expanding playlist of maps and multiplayer game modes" and over 1000 weapon combinations with unique attributes and abilities. Letting you mix and match barrels and modifiers when necessary, that's demonstrated in the gameplay trailer below.
Oculus
DECEMBER 14, 2023
It’s been just over four years since Asgard’s Wrath launched on the Rift Platform. It was a landmark title for VR—helping to usher in a.
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DECEMBER 14, 2023
Wallace & Gromit in the Grand Getaway successfully translates the films into a VR adventure with a few hiccups. Here's our full review: As much as I love the films, I've always been apprehensive about Wallace & Gromit's video game adaptations. Project Zoo was passable at the time and Telltale's Grand Adventures didn't quite cut it for me, but The Grand Getaway showed strong potential during my preview.
Oculus
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Neko Atsume has been letting people collect and admire digital cats for nearly a decade. And starting today, you can pick them up and give them a cuddle, too!
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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DECEMBER 14, 2023
Breachers' latest major update adds Arctic, a new map available on all supported platforms. Marking the 5v5 team-based shooter's second post-launch map following ' Ship ' in August, Arctic delivers a snow-covered landscape across a research base. Split across three floors, developer Triangle Factory offered a closer look in the trailer below. The team also confirmed that Breachers ' next big update will deliver the anticipated Competitive mode.
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DECEMBER 14, 2023
Neko Atsume Purrfect feels like a great introductory experience for VR newcomers. Available today on Quest, here's our hands-on impressions: Hit-Point's popular mobile cat-collecting game remains strong nearly a decade later, so it's no surprise Neko Atsume's back in VR. I've previously called it the second VR adaptation after 2018's ' Neko Atsume ' on PSVR , but I now realize that's not entirely accurate.
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