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What’s the Revenue Outlook for Headworn AR?

AR Insider

How big is the AR glasses market today and what are its revenue projections? ARtillery Intelligence's latest forecast dives into AR glasses and all their revenue subsegments. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Magic Leap Lays Off Sales & Marketing Amid Report of “last ditch” Pivot to License AR Optics

Road to VR

Storied AR headset unicorn Magic Leap has laid off its entire sales and marketing departments, making for around 75 jobs cut from its rolls. Initially the focus of a Bloomberg report, Magic Leap has now confirmed the layoff round, stating the move was to adjust its strategy moving forward: “Magic Leap has been evolving our go-to-market approach to better align with market dynamics and emerging opportunities, optimizing how we support our customers and our ecosystem,” Magic Leap told Bloo

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Quest 3's Mixed Reality Dynamic Occlusion Is Now Higher Quality With Better Performance

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Dynamic occlusion on Quest 3 is currently only supported in a handful of apps, but now it's higher quality, uses less CPU and GPU, and is slightly easier for developers to implement. Occlusion refers to the ability of virtual objects to appear behind real objects, a crucial capability for mixed reality headsets. Doing this for only pre-scanned scenery is known as static occlusion, while if the system supports changing scenery and moving objects it's known as dynamic occlusion.

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‘Metro Awakening’ Interview Reveals New Screenshots, Game Details & Locomotion Options

Road to VR

Metro Awakening is set to launch on all major VR headsets sometime later this year, and while we got a good eye-full in its announcement trailer from January, developer Vertigo Games tells us a bit more what to expect in an interview on the PlayStation blog , including new screenshots, VR implementation details, and a bit about locomotion too. The game’s standalone story, which has been created in collaboration with the series’ original author Dmitry Glukhovsky, is slated to take pla

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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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Intel Addresses Desktop Raptor Lake Instability Issues: Faults Excessive Voltage from Microcode, Fix Coming in August

Anand Tech

In what started last year as a handful of reports about instability with Intel's Raptor Lake desktop chips has, over the last several months, grown into a much larger saga. Facing their biggest client chip instability impediment in decades, Intel has been under increasing pressure to figure out the root cause of the issue and fix it, as claims of damaged chips have stacked up and rumors have swirled amidst the silence from Intel.

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Google Reportedly Wants To Steal Ray-Ban From Meta, But Zuckerberg Has A Plan To Stop It

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Google reportedly wants to steal the Ray-Ban partnership from Meta for its own Gemini glasses, but Mark Zuckerberg has a plan to stop it. The revelation comes from The Verge's Alex Heath, citing "several people familiar with the matter" as saying Google approached EssilorLuxottica about putting its Gemini AI in future smart glasses. EssilorLuxottica has a near monopoly on the eyewear market worldwide, and its brands like Ray-Ban and Oakley are among the most recognizable on the planet.

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XR News Bits – New VR Brawler Launches Alongside Big Updates for Existing Games

Road to VR

Brazen Blaze is a unique VR brawler that’s just launched on Quest and PC VR. Meanwhile, Chess Club , Ironlights , and Battle Talent have all gotten exciting updates. Those of you who have been reading Road to VR for a long time might recall the ‘ Oculus Rift News Bits ‘ articles we ran more than a decade ago. These were roundups of smaller pieces of news pertaining to the Oculus Rift (as there was little else happening to cover at the time!

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“The Metaverse, Building The Spatial Internet,” By Matthew Ball

Charlie Fink

A review of the second edition of the NY Times Bestseller about the 3D successor to today's Internet.

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Attack On Titan VR: Unbreakable Review-In-Progress: Good Start With Fun Combat

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Attack on Titan VR: Unbreakable brings the acclaimed series to Quest, offering enjoyable combat but a repetitive campaign in early access. Read on for our full review-in-progress. 0:00 / 0:36 1× Attack on Titan VR: Unbreakable - Quest 3 gameplay captured by UploadVR I'm hardly a "mega fan" but as someone familiar with the anime series, Attack on Titan VR: Unbreakable initially intrigued me.

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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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How BCG Is Revolutionizing Consulting With AI: A Case Study

Bernard Marr

In a world where AI is transforming every sector, companies are constantly seeking ways to gain a competitive edge. Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is leading the charge by embracing artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI, to revolutionize its internal operations and consulting services. Let’s delve into how BCG is leveraging AI to transform its business processes and the consulting industry as a whole.

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Chernobyl Again Lets You Try And Prevent A Nuclear Disaster

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Chernobyl Again is a VR time-traveling adventure where you must save the nuclear power plant. While Chernobyl Again was originally revealed back in September 2022 with a Steam Next Fest demo later following, a new listing has recently emerged on the Meta Quest store. Created by Vimagineo, the game puts you in the shoes of Olena Pnomarenko, who's been searching for a way to travel through time in order to see her parents again. 0:00 / 1:00 1× Things go horribly awry and the events that follow act

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How Generative AI Will Change The Job Of Real Estate Agents

Bernard Marr

Real estate agents and other professionals in their industry are in the business of selling good old-fashioned solid bricks and mortar. But that doesn’t mean their jobs aren’t impacted by new technology. Digitization, the internet, and more recent trends like drone photography and virtual reality have all made a big impact. But bigger changes could be on the horizon as agents, appraisers, investors and mortgage brokers race to benefit from the opportunities of generative AI.

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Meta Quest 4 Headset Launching in 2026, Reports Say

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Meta is reportedly planning to release its Meta Quest 4 headset in 2026 and a competitor to the Vision Pro in 2027. Meta In Talks to Acquire Stake in Ray-Ban Owner EssilorLuxottica, Sources Campfire CEO Speaks on Apple Vision Pro, Meta Quest 3, Open-Source Development, and Immersive Collaboration The Latest Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses Smash Sales Expectations That is according to a recent article by the business technology publication ‘The Information’.

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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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Will Immersive Training Push Haptics to Forefront of Enterprise XR?

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It’s no secret that emerging technology is changing the workplace. From AI to XR and beyond, the new technological avenues for businesses today are broader than ever. In terms of XR, there may be a paradigm shift. Recent IDC reports highlight how consumers could be shifting to MR/AR devices over VR headsets despite the current increase in cost for the newer hardware.

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Quest Summer Sale Discounts Myst, Contractors Showdown, MudRunner VR & More

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The July Quest Store sale is live, discounting games like Myst and Contractors Showdown. Available now, the latest Quest Store sale includes dozens of discounts that range from individual games to focused bundles. For example, the ' Champion's Bundle ' provides a 35% discount for three VR sports games - Racket Club , Creed: Rise To Glory , and Golf+ , while the ' Platform Pursuits ' bundle includes No More Rainbows and Outta Hand at 22% off.

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Stream the 2024 Paris Olympics on Peacock

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Get ready to cheer on the world’s greatest athletes as they push themselves to the limit. The 2024 Paris Olympics are nearly upon us, and Peacock is your home for event coverage, captivating clips, riveting replays, and more. And on Meta Quest, you can choose between a private virtual theater or a massive floating 2D screen in mixed reality.

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Made in India, for India: XROS Fellowship Program Shaping the Future of XR Technology

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Imagine a world where cutting-edge virtual and augmented reality experiences are not just accessible, but built specifically for the diverse needs of the Indian population. This is the ambitious vision behind the FICCI XROS Fellowship Program , a groundbreaking initiative that's putting India at the forefront of Extended Reality (XR) innovation.

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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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Summer Fest 2024 Continues with Our July Sale

Oculus

Summer’s in full swing, and things are heating up on the store with some sizzling savings. Now through 11:59 pm PT on July 28, you can save up to 48% off dozens of titles during our July Sale.* Here’s just a taste of the participating apps.

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The Biggest Education Trends Of The Next 10 Years

Bernard Marr

Education is changing rapidly. In today’s fast-moving world, a model where we graduate in our youth prepared for a lifelong career is simply no longer valid. Technology is reshaping the world into one where ongoing training, upskilling and reskilling are a necessity – and education is transforming to cater to this. Artificial intelligence (AI), online learning and breakthrough technologies like virtual and augmented reality (AR/VR) already play an increasingly important role.