August, 2024

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A First-Principles Analysis of Smart Glasses, Part 1

AR Insider

What are AR glasses and their concrete use cases? What are the technical and design challenges standing in their way? We dive into these burning questions in part I of a two part series. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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How to prepare your App Lab app for the Meta Quest Horizon Store

The Ghost Howls

The time has come. On August, 5th, all the applications published on Meta App Lab will become official apps on the Meta Horizon (aka Quest) Store! We are very close to the deadline and you must be sure that your app is ready for that. But what do you need to do? Let Tony tell you everything you need to know… App Lab is going to disappear via GIPHY App Lab has been for a few years the indie store of the Meta Quest.

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New Valve VR Game Reportedly in Development Alongside Long-rumored Standalone Headset

Road to VR

There’s no shortage of speculation when it comes to all things Valve. Tyler McVicker, YouTuber and one of the leading voices dedicated to deciphering Valve’s various internal developments, however now reports that not only is the company’s long-awaited standalone VR headset still coming, but it may arrive alongside its own Half-Life game.

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Tesla Leverages VR for Robotics Development

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Tesla is using virtual reality technology to train its Optimus AI robot. The revelation came via the US-based electric car company’s career pages where it is currently advertising for a new position that involves wearing VR headset and motion-capture suit for up to $48 per hour. Google Rebrands its Open-Source VR Modelling Tool DPVR’s VR Headset Deployed by Travel Africa Network Pimax Crystal Light Review: Affordable PCVR Clarity This is not Tesla’s only virtual reality-related job on offer.

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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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A Decade Of Innovation: Virtuix Levels Up VR With Omni One

Charlie Fink

The Omni One is the only way to experience "free roam" VR in the home. Players can move freely inside the VR world like they do in the movie "Ready Player One.

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A First-Principles Analysis of Smart Glasses, Part 2

AR Insider

In part 1 of this series, we covered AR and smart glasses basics and use cases, along with some of their design challenges. Now we… Continue reading → A First-Principles Analysis of Smart Glasses, Part 2 This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Kiwi Design RGB Vertical Charging Stand for Quest review

The Ghost Howls

Today I’m going to review the RGB Vertical Charging Stand that Kiwi Design sent me for evaluation. I think it’s a great addition to my desk, let me tell you why in this post. Unboxing and setup The RGB Vertical Charging Stand comes in a nice box, where it is disassembled in a few pieces. The user has to set it up by following very simple instructions.

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Valve Keeps Making Quest a Better PC VR Headset with Continued Improvements to Steam Link

Road to VR

Quest has been an increasingly popular choice for Steam users since the release of the original in 2019, now accounting for over half of all connected VR headsets. Now Valve’s latest 2.8.3 SteamVR update includes a few new features that’s making Quest a better PC VR headset than ever. Released in late 2023, Steam Link allows users to easily connect their Quest wirelessly to SteamVR to play PC VR or flatscreen PC games, essentially letting you bypass Meta’s own Air Link.

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Meta Quest Casting: How to Cast with Your Meta Quest

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Meta Quest casting allows you to share whatever you see in your VR headset with your computer, mobile device, or (certain) television sets. This isn’t just a handy way to show off how skilled you are in your favorite VR games, like Beat Saber. It’s also a handy tool for immersive collaboration. You can use the casting feature to show your team the products you’ve been developing in XR or share various types of content with them on various devices.

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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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Meta Mints Money, Canva Acquires Leonardo AI, Hedra Gen-AI Video Launches

Charlie Fink

Meta's second quarter revenue is up 22%, extending its winning streak. Canva's adding Gen-AI to keep up with former suitor Adobe. Hedra generates video and audio.

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OSFest 2024 Opens for Builders and Participants

Hypergrid Business

OSFest 2024. (Image courtesy Lisa Laxton.) The virtual doors of OSFest 2024 have swung open, welcoming creators, builders, merchants, performers, and sponsors to begin crafting their digital spaces. This annual event, hosted on the OpenSim Fest grid, is set to run from October 4 through October 20, 2024, offering a diverse platform for virtual exhibitions, performances, and commerce.

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How Many Headsets Did Meta Sell in Q2?

AR Insider

What do Meta's Q2 earnings tell us about headset unit sales? And what does that in turn signal for aggregate demand and XR sector health? We do some reverse engineering in the latest Data Dive. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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End of the Road: An AnandTech Farewell

Anand Tech

It is with great sadness that I find myself penning the hardest news post I’ve ever needed to write here at AnandTech. After over 27 years of covering the wide – and wild – word of computing hardware, today is AnandTech’s final day of publication. For better or worse, we’ve reached the end of a long journey – one that started with a review of an AMD processor , and has ended with the review of an AMD processor.

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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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‘Google Earth VR’ Spiritual Successor Brings Earth-scale Exploration to Quest & Vision Pro

Road to VR

Google Earth VR was an early and enchanting app for the first generation of modern PC VR headsets, but unfortunately it never made the leap to the standalone era. Now a new app, FLY , brings the magic of exploring Google Earth in VR to Quest and Vision Pro. Now available on Quest 2, Quest Pro, Quest 3 , and Vision Pro , Fly aims to bring the magic of exploring Google Earth in 3D in a fully immersive way.

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How Lenovo and VirtualSpeech Use GenAI to Scale Enterprise XR Training

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Recently, VirtualSpeech announced that it is collaborating with Lenovo and Qualcomm to introduce its XR software platform on the ThinkReality VRX headset and Snapdragon Spaces ecosystem. By partnering with Lenovo, VirtualSpeech can reach new milestones in achieving global enterprise scalability. VirtualSpeech provides VR training solutions integrating GenAI technology to create responsive and personalized avatars and scenarios for enterprise soft-skill training.

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Groq AI Raises $640 Million, ArborXR, VoyceMe AI, Also In The Money

Charlie Fink

Plus Google Earth is coming to Quest as Fly, and the "Ready Player One" rig is ready to ship.

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Quest Pro 2 Reportedly Canceled By Meta

Upload VR

Meta has canceled the high-end headset it planned to launch in 2027, The Information reports. The report comes from The Information's Wayne Ma and Sylvia Varnham O’Regan, citing two Meta employees as the sources. Ma has accurately reported Meta's Quest headset and smart glasses plans in advance multiple times in the past. According to the report, Mark Zuckerberg and his CTO Andrew Bosworth told employees to stop work on the headset, codenamed La Jolla, earlier this week at a product review meeti

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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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Generative XR: How Will AI and Spatial Computing Collide?

AR Insider

Though it’s often painted as a technology that will steal XR’s thunder, AI is the best thing that’s happened to XR in a while. This is the topic of a recent ARtillery Intelligence report and we have excerpts and top takeaways for AR Insider readers. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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ITE College Central Advances Next-Gen Vocational Training with EON Reality’s XR Solutions

EON Reality

ITE College Central Advances Next-Gen Vocational Training with EON Reality’s XR Solutions IRVINE, CA., August 30, 2024 – EON Reality, the world leader in AI-assisted Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality-based knowledge transfer, today announces a significant partnership with ITE College Central, a leading institution in technical education in Singapore.

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Snapchat and Meta Reportedly Plan to Reveal Dueling Visions of AR Glasses Next Month

Road to VR

According to a report by The Verge , both Snapchat and Meta will each reveal new AR glasses for the first time next month. Both companies have been working on such projects for years. According to The Verge’s Alex Heath , Snapchat parent company Snap Inc. will reveal its fifth generation of ‘Spectacles’ AR glasses on September 17th at the company’s annual Partner Summit conference in Los Angeles.

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Pimax Crystal Super: Everything We Know So Far

XR Today - Virtual Reality

The Pimax Crystal Super, available for pre-order today, represents the next stage in the leading extended reality vendor’s journey towards state-of-the-art headsets. Pimax has already earned an excellent reputation in the VR market, thanks to its commitment to developing headsets with greater visual fidelity than its competitors. The Pimax Crystal, for instance, delivers one of the most advanced display experiences on the market, offering an impressive 2880 x 2880 pixels per eye resolution and a

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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?

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Is AI A Writer’s Best Friend, Or Worst Enemy?

Charlie Fink

Generative-AI isn't going to write a good novel, but it's going to eliminate many non-fiction writing jobs like mine. By writing this, am I training my replacement?

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Meta Reportedly Plans Ultralight Headset With Tethered Puck For 2027

Upload VR

Meta plans to ship an extremely light mixed reality headset in 2027, The Information reports. The Information's new report comes less than a week after it reported that Mark Zuckerberg and his CTO Andrew Bosworth canceled a high-end headset planned for 2027 codenamed La Jolla, which previous reports have described as being a Quest Pro 2. Quest Pro 2 Reportedly Canceled By Meta Meta has reportedly canceled the high-end headset it planned for 2027 due to the high cost of its micro-OLED displays.

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The Enterprise: XR’s Less Sexy But Lucrative Segment

AR Insider

While consumer XR continues to be held back by several factors, XR has found fertle ground in the enterprise. Benefits include a clearer business case for AR guidance and VR training. But it's not all good news. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X and Ryzen 9 9900X Review: Flagship Zen 5 Soars - and Stalls

Anand Tech

Earlier this month, AMD launched the first two desktop CPUs using their latest Zen 5 microarchitecture: the Ryzen 7 9700X and the Ryzen 5 9600X. As part of the new Ryzen 9000 family, it gave us their latest Zen 5 cores to the desktop market, as AMD actually launched Zen 5 through their mobile platform last month, the Ryzen AI 300 series (which we reviewed).

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The Key to Getting the Best Out of Video-Based Practice & Coaching

Speaker: Micah Eppler, Account Executive for Rehearsal of eLearning Brothers

Did you know that companies such as Paychex, 3M, and Honeywell are getting better results by incorporating video-based practice and coaching within their L&D strategy? From sales pitches to soft skills, learners are becoming top performers by applying and validating knowledge transfer using the unique benefits of video. Whether used as a stand-alone application or integrated with a learning platform, video-based practice and coaching platforms give learners the ultimate opportunity to repeatedly