AR Insider
JULY 31, 2024
One of the many ways AI and AR are colliding is in eCommerce. Generative AI is being used by eCommerce engines to let merchants augment and optimize their product images. We examine the evidence. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
JULY 31, 2024
Meta announced its released a new Acoustic Ray Tracing feature that will make it easier for developers to add more immersive audio to their VR games and apps. Released in the Audio SDK for Unity and Unreal, the new Acoustic Ray Tracing tech is designed to automate the complex process of simulating realistic acoustics which is traditionally achieved through labor-intensive, manual methods.
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XR Today - Virtual Reality
JULY 31, 2024
The gamification trap… XR is always linked to gaming, whether business like it or not. The real-time 3D engines powering AR/VR/MR applications, like Unreal and Unity, found fame and traction as gaming development tools. Now, these services are leveraged to create enterprise solutions. For example, Unity is a critical component of the workplace-focused Vision Pro.
Charlie Fink
AUGUST 1, 2024
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.
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.
AR Insider
AUGUST 1, 2024
Most AR shopping so far happens on mobile devices, due to their ubiquity and AR's natural home on smartphones. But will the leap from handheld to headworn AR transform immersive shopping? This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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XR Today - Virtual Reality
AUGUST 2, 2024
Connect is around the corner. While not the biggest event of the year, it generally draws more mainstream attention to XR in spaces than more niche but larger overall events like MWC, AWE, and CES. With the broader audience that comes with Connect, expect new product announcements from firms looking to join the moment, such as HTC VIVE, which is also readying a new product.
Charlie Fink
AUGUST 1, 2024
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?
AR Insider
JULY 30, 2024
AR is still in its early adoption stages, but it's becoming increasingly common in a range of use cases as people get acclimated. How can it specifically elevate personal finance and banking services? This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
JULY 31, 2024
In this edition of XR News Bits we see a newly released Walkabout Mini Golf DLC course, a big update to Contractors Showdown , game director Hideo Kojima exploring Vision Pro, the release of VR action-arcade game Thrasher, and signs of life from cooperative WWII VR bomber game The Mighty Eighth. XR News Bits An incredible amount of exciting XR news comes our way every day.
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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.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
JULY 29, 2024
Big news came in last week. Meta is making big moves to scale its smart glasses and AI investments, as the two technologies are becoming closer as parallel use cases emerge. The XR hardware space is growing to include more hardware variety than in years past when the general market focused on VR headsets. Now, significant vendors deploy emerging hardware; on the flip side, software providers must follow suit and leverage the tools provided to create device-shifting applications.
Upload VR
JULY 31, 2024
Meta Reality Labs' quarterly revenue is continuing to grow year-over-year in 2024. During the company's Q2 2024 earnings call today, Mark Zuckerberg told investors Quest 3 sales are "outpacing our expectations". Reality Labs is the division of Meta behind Quest headsets, the Horizon platform, Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, and research & development toward AR glasses and their neural wristband input device.
AR Insider
AUGUST 1, 2024
Meta's Q2 earnings outperform on the backs of ample AI action while OpenAI unveils SearchGPT. We have these and other items from XR and AI realms through the eyes of Charlie Fink. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
AUGUST 2, 2024
Taking a dance course can be intimidating, not to mention time consuming—but it doesn’t have to be. At least not when you can do it in VR (and MR). Led by instructors Rodrigo Cortazar and Asya Sonina, The New Salsa Academy launched recently, guiding you through each step of an entire beginner salsa course. Exclusively available on Quest, The New Salsa Academy comes with a few unique features to get you up and salsa-ing, making for a much more immersive experience than simply following da
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.
Anand Tech
JULY 28, 2024
During the opening keynote delivered by AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su at Computex 2024, AMD finally lifted the lid on their highly-anticipated Zen 5 microarchitecture. The backbone for the next couple of years of everything CPU at AMD, the company unveiled their plans to bring Zen 5 in the consumer market, announcing both their next-generation mobile and desktop products at the same time.
Upload VR
JULY 30, 2024
PlayStation VR2 sales reportedly skyrocketed on the first day of the current deep discount. If you missed the news, PSVR 2 is currently on sale for $350 , a significant discount from its regular price of $550. The Shortcut reports a source showed it retailer data revealing a 2350% increase in PSVR 2 headset sales on the first day of the sale compared to the day before, and that this represented more units in one day than had been previously sold all year so far.
AR Insider
AUGUST 1, 2024
This week on Reality Bytes, we explore OpenAI's SearchGPT, Reddit's new paywall, and Sam's Club's enhanced shopping experience. S This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
AUGUST 1, 2024
Virtuix’s latest VR treadmill, Omni One, is finally set to launch next month. The company has updated its launch roster of VR games that will natively support the treadmill, now including Sniper Elite VR. Virtuix is pitching Omni One as an all-in-one system for immersing yourself in VR with full body locomotion. Rather than being merely an accessory to a headset, the treadmill is actually packaged with a headset of its own (Pico 4), customized to make the experience of using the VR tread
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.
Anand Tech
AUGUST 1, 2024
Amidst the backdrop of a weak quarterly earnings report that saw Intel lose money for the second quarter in a row, Intel today has announced that the company will be cutting costs by $10 billion in 2025 in an effort to bring Intel back to profitability. The cuts will touch almost every corner of the company in some fashion, with Intel planning to cut spending on R&D, marketing, administration, and capital expenditures.
Upload VR
JULY 29, 2024
The Quest v68 update brings latency and visual upgrades to Quest 3, a range of further improvements to Quest 2 and Pro too, and a new app called Layout. As with all Quest updates, v68 will "roll out" gradually, so it may take a few days or even weeks for your headset to get the v68 update. Here's everything Quest v68 includes: Reduced OpenXR Latency (Quest 3) Version 68 delivers "a new frame timing algorithm for OpenXR" on Quest 3 that Meta claims "will improve overall frame rate and prediction
AR Insider
JULY 29, 2024
How much is spent on mobile AR software that enables line-of-sight guidance in areas like IT field support and industrial maintenance? We examine recent figures from our research arm, ARtillery Intelligence. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
AUGUST 1, 2024
Vision Hack is a forthcoming remote hackathon for developers building apps for visionOS. Open to all skill levels, the event is set to take place September 13–15th. Guest Article by Cosmo Scharf Cosmo Scharf is an Emmy-nominated product designer and entrepreneur with a decade of experience in XR. He co-founded Vision Hack and visionOS Dev Partners to support visionOS developers.
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?
Anand Tech
AUGUST 2, 2024
Capping off an extensive (and expensive) week for Intel, the company has also announced that they are taking additional steps to address the ongoing chip stability issues with desktop Raptor Lake chips – the 13 th and 14 th Generation desktop Core processors. In order to keep owners whole, Intel will be extending the warranty on retail boxed Raptor Lake chips by two years, bringing the cumulative warranty for the chips to five years altogether.
Upload VR
JULY 30, 2024
Meta's XR Audio SDK now has Acoustic Ray Tracing in its most significant update yet. The feature realistically simulates how sound propagates through the geometry of the virtual world to your ear. This simulation includes reflections, reverb, occlusion, obstruction, and diffraction. Meta isn't the first company to offer an audio SDK with ray tracing.
XR Today - Augmented Reality tag
JULY 29, 2024
As reported by Windows Latest , Microsoft recently filed a patent request showing a potential first look at a pair of augmented reality smart glasses. In two USPTO filings—”Composite Poes Estimate For Wearable Computing Device” and “Resolution Enhancement in Spatital-Frequency Space “—Microsoft seemingly is building AR smart glasses with Co-Pilot genAI integration.
Road to VR
JULY 30, 2024
Alien: Rogue Incursion just got its first gameplay trailer, showing off its first real look at the game’s Xenomorph enemies, weapons, setting and more. When it was revealed back in April, Veteran VR studio Survios said the upcoming action-horror game was set to include an “all-new storyline full of heart-pounding action, exploration, and terrifying Xenomorphs.
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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