AR Insider
JANUARY 31, 2024
Google's latest AI infusions take Google Lens – a product with AI already at its core – and makes it more intelligent. How big a part will Lens play in the future of search? This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
JANUARY 31, 2024
The rumors were true: Vertigo Games and Deep Silver announced today during PlayStation’s State of Play showcase that they’re bringing the post-apocalyptic world of Metro to PSVR 2, Meta Quest 2/3/Pro and SteamVR headsets. According to the studios, Metro Awakening is a story-driven first person adventure built exclusively for VR that blends atmospheric exploration, stealth and combat.
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XR Today - Virtual Reality
JANUARY 31, 2024
The best Meta Quest 3 accessories are an excellent way to take your innovative immersive headset to the next level. On its own, the Quest 3 represents a significant step forward in the virtual reality landscape. With its exceptional resolution, mixed reality capabilities, and affordable price tag, the Quest 3 is set to become the go-to mainstream VR headset for consumers and businesses.
Road to VR
JANUARY 31, 2024
Vision Pro is launching on February 2nd with a good number of first-party accessories and in-box items. If you’re shelling out at least $3,500 for the thing, you might as well protect it from scratches and dust, and kit it out with everything under the sun while you’re at it. Here are a few great options: Third-party Accessories Spigen Klasden Pouch – $90 Image courtesy Spigen There are scant few cases that were built from the ground-up for Vision Pro beyond the first-party ca
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.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
JANUARY 31, 2024
Apple Vision Pro apps, coming to Apple’s latest spatial computing experience, will ensure individuals and teams can make the most of their new headset. Initially, Apple didn’t reveal much information about the apps available on the Vision Pro. However, now that the device is set to start rolling out in February , we have more information about the “launch” experiences users can expect.
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Upload VR
JANUARY 31, 2024
Apple Vision Pro's battery has an enormous energy capacity. Thee Apple Vision Pro unboxing and review embargo was yesterday. The first reviews are already out , and the unboxings have revealed Vision Pro's battery capacity. Apple Vision Pro has a 35.9Wh (watt-hour) external tethered battery. For comparison, Quest 3 has a 18.88Wh internal battery and Quest 2 has a 14Wh internal battery, while Quest Pro has a 20.58Wh battery behind its rear padding.
Road to VR
JANUARY 31, 2024
PlayStation’s State of Play game showcase is returning today, January 31st, bringing with it “15+ games” coming to PS5 this year. We’re not certain how many will be PSVR 2 games, however the company promises we’re definitely getting a peek at some. “The broadcast will be over 40 minutes long, and feature guest appearances from some of the most talented minds in gaming,” Sony says, referring to the upcoming State of Play. “Among many other updates,
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JANUARY 31, 2024
Metro Awakening is a narrative adventure "built exclusively" for VR, reaching most major VR platforms this year. Announced during tonight's PlayStation State of Play , Metro Awakening VR was previously rumoured to appear during Sony's latest presentation. Developed by Vertigo Games in collaboration with Deep Silver, Awakening delivers a "supernatural origins story" for the post-apocalyptic series set in 2028, written by Metro's creator, Dmitry Glukhovsky.
XR Today - VR Headsets tag
JANUARY 31, 2024
When HTC VIVE started teasing the HTC VIVE Flow way back in 2021 , it left some consumers a little confused. The virtual reality “glasses” looked nothing like the headsets we were already familiar with from vendors like Meta. They were also a world apart in functionality from other simple but effective VR solutions, like the VIVE Focus 3. Still, they managed to earn a decent amount of attention.
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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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JANUARY 31, 2024
Microsoft Teams now supports immersive 3D meetings. To start an immersive 3D meeting in Teams, you just click a new 'immersive space (3D)' dropdown menu option. 0:00 / 0:01 1× Quest headset owners can join from VR via the Microsoft Mesh app now available on the Quest Store. Those who don't own a Quest headset can join on their monitor on PC and use their keyboard and mouse to move through the environment. 0:00 / 0:20 1× Microsoft provides a default 3D environment, but organizations can also buil
XR Today - VR Headsets tag
JANUARY 31, 2024
SPIE.AR|VR|MR 2024 is well underway, bringing together the best and brightest in the emerging XR technology landscape to network and discuss the future of XR – as it undergoes a pivotal Q1 period this year. What sets SPIE?AR|VR|MR 2024, apart from other emerging technology, shows its focus display and waveguide solutions – the hardware and software that powers immersive visualisation on MR headsets, AR smart glasses, and more.
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JANUARY 31, 2024
Panasonic is selling off Shiftall to another Japanese company. Panasonic first showed off an ultra-compact VR headset prototype at CES 2020, and its extremely low weight blew us away in our demo , enabled by 2560×2560 OLED microdisplays. It was a similar pitch to what Bigscreen recently delivered on , with the exact same resolution, but made over three years before.
Anand Tech
JANUARY 31, 2024
While enthusiasts are now focused mostly on SSDs with a PCIe 5.0 interface, there are many people who will be just fine with drives featuring a PCIe 4.0 interface to upgrade their PlayStation 5 or PCs bought a few years ago. To address these customers, SSD makers need to offer something that offers the right balance between price and performance. This is exactly what Corsair does with its MP600 Elite devices.
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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JANUARY 31, 2024
Soul Spire is an exclusive Apple Vision Pro puzzle game that launches this week. Created by Soul Assembly ( Drop Dead: The Cabin ), Soul Spire's premise sees you freeing friendly ghosts trapped within spires of color-shifting cubes. Describing eye and hand movement as an integral part of the gameplay, Soul Assembly aims to create a "serene, meditative atmosphere" with a lo-fi beats soundtrack.
Oculus
JANUARY 31, 2024
Vertigo Games and Deep Silver are proud to announce that they’re bringing an all-new narrative-driven VR adventure to Meta Quest 2, 3, and Pro, PS VR2, and PC VR later this year. A prequel from Metro series author and creator Dmitry Glukhovsky, Metro Awakening will plunge players headlong into an unforgiving post-apocalyptic world that blends atmospheric exploration, storytelling, stealth, and combat.
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JANUARY 31, 2024
Legendary Tales leaves Steam Early Access next week, and it's also coming to PSVR 2. Developed by Urban Wolf Games, Legendary Tales is a dark fantasy RPG with four-player co-op that first appeared in September 2021. Featuring physics-based combat using medieval weapons or magical spells, Legendary Tales promises a quest-driven storyline with skill trees, explorable dungeons, crafting and more.
Oculus
JANUARY 31, 2024
Asgard’s Wrath 2 has been out in the wild for just over six weeks now, and it’s been a little over a month since the first patch went live. The dev team has been hard at work cooking up some new content for the fans. Today, and fresh off its win as Best AR/VR Game at the 2024 New York Game Awards, we’re excited to share the fruits of their labors with the launch of the game’s second Cosmic Event: Into the Multiverse!
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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JANUARY 31, 2024
Resolution Games is the developer behind Game Room, a spatial board & card game collection launching on Apple Vision Pro this week. Initially spotted during the Apple Vision Pro reveal, we've known for sometime that Game Room would be a launch game but until now, very little was known about it. With Apple's new headset launching on February 2, we've now learned that Resolution Games, best known for Demeo , Racket Club and Blaston , is the studio developing it.
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JANUARY 31, 2024
Asgard's Wrath 2 gets its second cosmic event today. Following last month's high-profile release on Quest, Sanzaru Games revealed the latest free post-launch update for Asgard's Wrath 2. Marking the game's second Cosmic Event, 'Into The Multiverse' sees you battling across multiverse frontlines within the Uncharted Rifts , strengthening the Guardian Alliance effort by defeating hostile intruders.
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JANUARY 31, 2024
Dan Aykroyd and Slimer return to the Ghostbusters in today's free Rise of the Ghost Lord update. Released last October, Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord continues receiving free updates. Following the competitive ' Heist and Seek ' mode and Infestation, today's update adds the Slimer Hunt mode announced in last month's post-launch roadmap. Available today, guiding you through the streets of San Francisco is original Ghostbuster Ray Stantz, with Dan Aykroyd reprising his role.
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