AR Insider
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
The breakout tech topic of the past year has clearly been AI. But one looming question is how it intersects with the focus of this publication: spatial computing. This is the topic of a recent report and the latest episode of AR briefs. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
The Ghost Howls
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
You may know that this is my third week in China and I’ve toured a few cities to enjoy good food and the company of some friends, but also to meet some companies and some professionals working in XR. Communication between China and the West is not always easy, so the best way to know how things are going here is to speak with people who experience the daily reality of the Chinese XR ecosystem.
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Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
Meta today revealed a prototype of its first pair of AR glasses, codenamed Orion. The glasses are impressively compact, have a class-leading field-of-view, but also relies on a wireless compute unit that goes in your pocket. Although Meta has been selling its Ray-Ban smartglasses for several years now, the company hasn’t actually shown any glasses-sized device with a display—until now.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
Recently, immersive learning service provider Avantis Education won an Educators Pick Best of STEM 2024 Award, which showcased the firm’s success in rolling out its XR tool to K-12 schools in the United States. Avantis Education specifically won the Trailblazer: Immersive Reality (AR/VR) category based on the success of ClassVR. This educational package includes XR hardware and software to enable a successful immersive deployment and utilisation in STEM learning courses.
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.
EON Reality
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
EON-XR 10.4: Elevating Immersive Learning with Groundbreaking AI-Powered Features IRVINE, CA., September 18, 2024 – EON Reality, the world leader in AI-assisted Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality-based knowledge transfer, announces the launch of EON-XR version 10.4, a transformative update introducing pioneering features like Spatial IQ, EON Portal, and EON SoftSkills Train AI, alongside significant enhancements to the platform’s interactivity and user experience.
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AR Insider
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Snap has unveiled the fifth generation of Spectacles. We were on site during the keynote festivities, and demo'd the new glasses in a recent pre-briefing. We have opinions and observations. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
The Ghost Howls
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
The Meta Connect 2024 has just finished and there Mark Zuckerberg and some other Meta executives have announced very important news concerning XR and AI. Of all these announcements, I selected the 5 most important ones for me and I want to briefly describe them to you, explaining also why they could be relevant for the future of XR. Are you interested in that?
Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Meta CTO and head of Reality Labs Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth says the company is currently working on a “glasses form-factor” mixed reality headset. In an Instagram Q&A , Bosworth confirmed the company is working on the device, although didn’t provide any concrete timelines: “I don’t think a mixed reality headset, even in a glasses form factor—which we’re working on—is going to disrupt the smartphone.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Lenovo is growing its extensive XR partner portfolio to scale enterprise AR/VR/MR solutions alongside its ThinkReality VRX headset, creating new enterprise XR opportunities via an ecosystem of trusted solutions and hardware. Leveraging its XR ecosystem and long history in education, Lenovo partnered with VictoryXR to scale the adoption of immersive learning tools for a new generation of students.
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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.
Upload VR
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
Meta is showing off integrated prototype AR glasses at Connect with a field of view that's remarkable given their form factor. The company claims these AR glasses, codenamed Orion, have a field of view of 70 degrees diagonal. For comparison, Xreal glasses and the new Snap Spectacles have a field of view of 46 degrees, and HoloLens 2 has a field of view of 52 degrees.
Charlie Fink
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
Meta has spent a decade and over sixty billion dollars to make XR glasses the successor to the smartphone. People are starting to think it could work.
AR Insider
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
While consumer XR continues to be held back by several factors, XR has found fertile 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.
The Ghost Howls
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
Every year I like to write a detailed report about all the major news from Oculus/Facebook/Meta Connect. This year I want to do something a bit different: instead of reporting a list of all the announcements from there, I want to give you a detailed commentary about the event from a technical strategy standpoint. This is part of what I do for a living: in companies, I’m not only the developer or lead of developers, but I also work on technical roadmaps for products.
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.
Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
On stage at Meta Connect today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg officially unveiled Quest 3S, Meta’s next headset, which aims to appeal to first-timers as well as Quest and Quest 2 owners looking for their first mixed reality device. As previous leaks suggested, Meta is releasing two variants of Quest 3S, a 128GB model priced at $300 and a 256GB model for $400, launching on October 15th.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
The Roto VR Explorer is grabbing the attention of plenty of XR enthusiasts right now – and I can see why. At a glance, a chair that tracks your movement as you spin around in VR might seem like little more than a gimmick. But, in my opinion, it’s an interesting alternative to all of the other peripherals emerging to tackle the issue of VR locomotion.
Upload VR
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
"Steve Jobs would have made Orion instead of Vision Pro". "Zuckerberg should forget Quest and focus on Orion." Hot takes of this kind have been endless since Mark Zuckerberg revealed Meta's prototype AR glasses , with some even spouted by so-called "analysts". Meta just showed AR that looks like glasses, they argue, so surely Apple was mistaken to make a big bulky headset.
Charlie Fink
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
Fei-Fei Li officially launched her new startup, World Labs, with $230 M in funding from top VCs like Andreessen. Neuralink is helping the blind to see. Snap, HTC introduce new XR headsets.
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.
AR Insider
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
Who's spending what on headworn AR, considering both consumer and enterprise adoption? And what revenue categories are seeing the most action? our latest Behind the Numbers dives in. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
The Ghost Howls
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Every year I like to play the guessing game for the Oculus/Facebook/Meta Connect making my list of predictions… which are not always correct, but they are good because they entice all the community people to play this game with me and to tell how they would love to see XR evolving. So let’s see together what are my predictions for tomorrow’s 2024 edition!
Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
Despite Vision Pro’s $3,500 price tag, which is nearly 12 times more expensive than the $300 Quest 3S , Apple and Meta are destined to be direct competitors in the XR space at some point in the near future. According to a report by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman , Apple may be rethinking its XR strategy moving forward though following Meta’s unveiling of its impressively slim AR glasses prototype, Orion.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
SparkVR is launching augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) edtech solutions in school and universities in India. Immersive STEM Education Solution Gains Industry-Wide Recognition How XR, AI, BCI, and Neural Interfaces are Changing Healthcare Education Avantis Education Reveals 300,000 VR/AR Educational Assets The technologies create ‘highly’ interactive and realistic training modules, according to the Indian technology news provider, Inc42, which shared the story.
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?
Upload VR
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
Quest 3 owners in the US can try photorealistic scenes via Meta's new Horizon Hyperscape demo app. The app was launched today at Meta Connect. It offers six photorealistic scenes, six studios and a Meta HQ conference room. The scenes are fully volumetric, meaning you can move around them with positional tracking. Meta describes these scenes as "digital replicas", and says they were scanned using mobile phones, plus postprocessing in the cloud.
Hypergrid Business
SEPTEMBER 15, 2024
(Image courtesy Storylink Radio.) This year’s Storylink Radio ’s October celebration is more ambitious than ever before, organizers told Hypergrid Business. There will be live in-world Halloween storytelling all month long and dozens of YouTube exclusive presentations, including short Halloween tales every night on Storylink Radio’s YouTube channel.
AR Insider
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
ARtillery Intelligence released a new report that projects VR revenue to grow to $19.75 billion by 2028. How will it get there? We examine strategic takeaways in the latest "Behind the Numbers." This post appeared first on AR Insider.
The Ghost Howls
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Today I want to get back to writing a post about VR startup life and personal development , an article more similar to what you usually find in a personal blog. In particular, I want to talk about a strategy I’ve recently applied to plan my days better and align what I’m doing with what I want to obtain in my VR career. I’ve been using this strategy for a few weeks now and I’m seeing very positive results, so I’m sharing it with you.
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
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