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Microsoft Teams Now Supports 3D & VR Meetings, Releases ‘Mesh’ App on Main Quest Store

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Microsoft Teams now lets you hold meetings in 3D and VR, as its immersive chatting platform Microsoft Mesh has now come out of preview. Microsoft announced Mesh back in early 2021 , essentially acting as the company’s foundation for building multi-user XR applications and letting cross-platform users connect in a virtual environment. It’s a bit like the now-defunct social VR platform Altspace VR, which Microsoft shutdown last year , albeit built exclusively for business.

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Apple Vision Pro Accessories: The Top Options for 2024

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The demand for Apple Vision Pro accessories is increasing now that Apple has finally announced an official release date for the device. If you were lucky enough to pre-order the headset before it sold out ( within 15 minute s) on the Apple store, you might interested in grabbing some accessories before your device arrives. Alternatively, if you missed out on a pre-order, you might simply want to be prepared before the headset comes back in stock.

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Scalped Vision Pro Pre-orders Have Sold for $6,000, But Justice May Yet Prevail

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A number of scalped Apple Vision Pro pre-orders have sold on eBay for upwards of $6,000. When you just gotta have it, I guess money is no object for some. When Vision Pro pre-orders opened up on January 19th, the delivery dates for online orders quickly pushed back all the way into March. However, in-store pre-orders are still expected within the first few days of release at many stores.

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How To Install CitraVR Emulator To Play Nintendo 3DS Games On Quest

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CitraVR is available now for Quest headsets and these instructions can help you get it installed via sideloading. Here's how to find, install, and configure the CitraVR Nintendo 3DS emulator for your Meta Quest 2, 3, or Pro. What Is CitraVR? CitraVR is an open source project released by Amanda Watson in early 2024 and is a fork of the existing open-source Citra emulator that started development in 2013.

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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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Netflix CEO on Vision Pro App Snub: “not particularly relevant to our members”

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Vision Pro is nearly here, but Netflix, YouTube and Spotify won’t have their respective apps on the headset’s app storefront. Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters explains why. Speaking to Stratechery , Peters says Vision Pro is “not really particularly relevant to most [Netflix] members.” Here’s the portion of the statement where Peters explains his reasoning: “We have to be careful about making sure that we’re not investing in places that are not really yielding a ret

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EON Reality Offers Innovative Solutions to Bridge Gaps in Traditional Education

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Revolutionizes Traditional Education with Cutting-Edge Immersive Technology IRVINE, CA – January 26, 2024 – EON Reality, the global leader in AI-powered Augmented and Virtual Reality knowledge transfer for education and industry, today announces its innovative approach to transforming the traditional educational landscape. Utilizing advanced AI and immersive technologies, EON Reality provides a platform that bridges the gap between conventional teaching methods and the digital future, offering

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Netflix CEO Explains Why It Isn't Supporting Apple Vision Pro At Launch

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The co-CEO of Netflix gave his reasoning for why it isn't supporting Apple Vision Pro at launch. Netflix confirmed last week to Bloomberg that it didn't make a visionOS app and that its iPad app won't be available on visionOS either. Instead, Netflix recommends Vision Pro owners access it via the web browser. Apple previously announced that iPad & iPhone apps are available on the visionOS App Store "by default" and developers have to intentionally opt-out if they don't want theirs to be.

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EON Reality Offers Innovative Solutions to Bridge Gaps in Traditional Education

EON Reality

Revolutionizes Traditional Education with Cutting-Edge Immersive Technology IRVINE, CA – January 26, 2024 – EON Reality, the global leader in AI-powered Augmented and Virtual Reality knowledge transfer for education and industry, today announces its innovative approach to transforming the traditional educational landscape. Utilizing advanced AI and immersive technologies, EON Reality provides a platform that bridges the gap between conventional teaching methods and the digital future, offering

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Survivorman VR: The Descent Takes Les Stroud's Survival Sim Multiplatform Next Month

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Survivorman VR: The Descent brings Les Stroud's survival sim to Steam and PSVR 2 next month. Based on Canadian filmmaker Les Stroud's Survivorman series, Survivorman VR: The Descent is a first-person survival adventure sim that initially launched last year on Quest. Following a helicopter crash in the Arctic mountains, you're guided by Stroud as you attempt to survive these harsh environments.

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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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EON Reality Offers Innovative Solutions to Bridge Gaps in Traditional Education

EON Reality

Revolutionizes Traditional Education with Cutting-Edge Immersive Technology IRVINE, CA – January 26, 2024 – EON Reality, the global leader in AI-powered Augmented and Virtual Reality knowledge transfer for education and industry, today announces its innovative approach to transforming the traditional educational landscape. Utilizing advanced AI and immersive technologies, EON Reality provides a platform that bridges the gap between conventional teaching methods and the digital future, offering

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Top Spatial Computing Events in 2024 – Big XR News Show

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Watch on YouTube. XR Today’s Rory Greener is joined by Jay Latta, Speaker and Founder, The Fusionists and Hololight co-founder Luis Bollinger to discuss the year ahead, including: Upcoming industry events Hardware releases Software launches Thanks for watching. If you’d like more like this, don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE to our channel.

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EON Reality Offers Innovative Solutions to Bridge Gaps in Traditional Education

EON Reality

Revolutionizes Traditional Education with Cutting-Edge Immersive Technology IRVINE, CA – January 26, 2024 – EON Reality, the global leader in AI-powered Augmented and Virtual Reality knowledge transfer for education and industry, today announces its innovative approach to transforming the traditional educational landscape. Utilizing advanced AI and immersive technologies, EON Reality provides a platform that bridges the gap between conventional teaching methods and the digital future, offering

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Solos AirGo 3 Review: AI Smart Glasses for the Future

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

The Solos AirGo 3 specs are some of the most exciting new smart glasses to emerge in the immersive marketplace. While virtual and mixed reality headsets, like the Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest 3 earned most of the attention last year, 2024 is emerging as the year of the smart glasses. Numerous innovative solutions were introduced at CES 2024 at the beginning of the year, including XReal’s new “Ultra” spatial glasses.

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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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EON Reality Offers Innovative Solutions to Bridge Gaps in Traditional Education

EON Reality

Revolutionizes Traditional Education with Cutting-Edge Immersive Technology IRVINE, CA – January 26, 2024 – EON Reality, the global leader in AI-powered Augmented and Virtual Reality knowledge transfer for education and industry, today announces its innovative approach to transforming the traditional educational landscape. Utilizing advanced AI and immersive technologies, EON Reality provides a platform that bridges the gap between conventional teaching methods and the digital future, offering

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Blink Showcases Contact Lens For Ocular Communications

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Blink Energy has unveiled an impressive milestone in ocular communications technology, sharing a look at its BlinkIT signalling contact lens. The company has stated that it aspires to make contact lenses and ocular technology more “efficient and user-friendly than ever before” It says it wants to build towards a working ocular platform with advanced energy and communications features.

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TeamGroup Reveals 14GB/s Innogrit IG5666-Based T-Force Ge Pro PCIe 5.0 SSD

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Virtually all client SSDs with a PCIe 5.0 x4 interface released to date use Phison's PS5026-E26 controller. Apparently, TeamGroup decided to try something different and introduced a drive powered by a completely different platform, the Innogrit IG5666. The T-Force Ge Pro SSD not only uses an all-new platform, but it also boasts with fast 3D NAND to enable a sequential read speed of up to 14 GB/s, which almost saturates the PCIe 5.0 x4 bus.

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Big XR News from Microsoft, Disney, Apple, TeamViewer, and Immerse

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SPIE.AR|VR|MR 2024 is just around the corner. The event looks to bring together researchers, engineers, investors, entrepreneurs, customers, and suppliers to encourage development towards the hardware required to enable broad enterprise-focused metaverse use cases. The event comes just as Apple is set to debut its Vision Pro MR headset for US customers next week.

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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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Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses Review: Stylish Immersion

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

In today’s Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses review, we’ll take a hands-on look at potentially the most stylish specs in the AR market. While increasing demand for augmented and mixed reality experiences has given the smart glasses market a boost, few options have proven to be genuinely life-changing. Even fewer look and feel as great as regular specs. Following their previous collaboration with EssilorLuxottica, Meta announced the arrival of their new Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses in September 2023 at Me

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Notice for Chinese New Year Holiday 2024

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Hi there, As new year unfolds, the festive cheer of Chinese Lunar New Year is in the air! All of us at OwatchVR are excited to extend our warmest wishes to you for the holiday season. As we look ahead, the Chinese New Year are fast approaching. We would like to inform you that our company will be closed for the Chinese New Year holidays from February 1th to February 18th, 2024.

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Max Mustard Jumps Onto Quest App Lab Next Month

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Max Mustard, the VR platformer from Richie's Plank Experience developer Toast Interactive, reaches Quest App Lab this February. Revealed during Gamescom 2023, Max Mustard is a VR platformer that more closely matches Astro Bot Rescue Mission and Moss than No More Rainbows. Much like those games, you embody a character that looks down on the game's environments, manipulating elements to assist Max Mustard move through this world, and Toast states it features 4o levels and 4 bosses.

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EON Reality Unveils Revolutionary No-Code Avatar Animation System

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Transforming Virtual Identities: A Leap Forward in AI-Driven Avatar Animation Irvine, California, January 29 2024 — EON Reality, the global leader in AI-powered Augmented and Virtual Reality knowledge transfer for education and industry, announces the launch of its latest no-code solution that seamlessly transforms text instructions into lifelike avatar animations.

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Who C.A.R.E.S.!? How Learning Got Its Bad Rap & What We Can Do About It

Speaker: Treion Muller, Chief Strategy Officer at ELB Learning

Since when has learning and development (L&D) become such a negative experience with its intended learners? Could it be because learners have been conditioned by very poor learning experiences over the past two decades, combined with the kinks of technological innovation? Or is it because learning has typically been designed as a one-size-fits-all solution, despite the fact that humans are not clones?