The Ghost Howls
JANUARY 3, 2025
It’s the beginning of a new year, and I started thinking about the future of immersive realities for 2025 and beyond. There is one question that is recurring in my mind: with the possible advent of the standalone Deckard headset with inside-out tracking, is Lighthouse-based SteamVR tracking still going to be relevant? Will it survive this year or the next ones?
AR Insider
JANUARY 1, 2025
Apple recently stripped away some of the friction in visual search. The iPhone 16's new Camera Control button includes a function to launch visual searches on the fly. Could this one-touch approach accelerate visual search's adoption curve? This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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Road to VR
DECEMBER 30, 2024
One of the worst things to happen on Christmas morning is downloading updates and charging batteries. Undoubtedly even worse though is downloading an update that then bricks your device before you can even use it. This apparently happened to a number of users last week, which Meta has responded by offering new devices and Horizon Store credit. According to mass user reports that flooded Reddit on December 25th, some new Quest owners encountered a critical error after being forced to apply the la
Upload VR
JANUARY 3, 2025
December 2024 saw the second highest percentage of Steam gamers using a VR headset ever, when adjusted for Chinese users. PC VR is steadily growing, when adjusting for Chinese users. Valve lists the percentage of "Steam users with VR Headsets" in December 2024 as 2.13%. Without adjustment, that's not remarkable. But when adjusting the figures for each month since Valve started reporting this figure to be relative to the number of non-Chinese users, as China essentially has its own tangential VR
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 - Mixed Reality tag
JANUARY 2, 2025
It feels like a lifetime since Valve released the Index headset a high-powered (relatively expensive) VR headset initially introduced in 2019. The Index remains an extremely popular headset today. But its quickly becoming pretty outdated thats where the Valve Deckard comes in. Rumors started circulating about a successor to the Valve Index way back in 2021.
Virtual Reality Pulse brings together the best content for VR professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Road to VR
DECEMBER 31, 2024
Our series Inside XR Design explores the best of immersive design.Today were talking about how to make an incredible VR trailer using just in-game footage. No mixed reality setups, no complicated compositingjust smart planning and a proven playbook.And keep reading, because at the end, Ill share a checklist of key technical considerations to make your trailer shine, and share a trailer that exemplifies everything were about to talk about.
Upload VR
JANUARY 1, 2025
The next generation of Ray-Ban Meta glasses will arrive later this year with a small heads-up display (HUD), The Financial Times reports. This contradicts previous reporting from The Information back in July. That report also said Meta HUD glasses were coming in 2025, but claimed that they won't be a partnership with EssilorLuxottica, and thus won't have Ray-Ban styling or branding, because the company "balked" at the thickness of designs with a waveguide projector included.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
DECEMBER 30, 2024
Pimax Prime is here to revolutionize the extended reality landscape. In the last few years, Pimax has earned quite the reputation in the extended reality market. The companys virtual and mixed reality headsets are some of the most feature-rich, versatile, and appealing products aroundparticularly for those interested in high visual fidelity. The company’s most recent innovation, the Pimax Crystal Super, is actually the worlds first retina-level VR headset.
AR Insider
DECEMBER 29, 2024
What were the biggest XR trends and events in 2024? Our research arm, ARtillery Intelligence, took a deep dive in its year-end report, but a barometer of the years activity can also be seen in the most popular AR Insider posts. We spotlight the top 24 of 2024. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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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.
Road to VR
DECEMBER 30, 2024
With the reveal of Pimax’s upcoming Dream Air headset, the VR community at large had plenty of questions. We put those questions straight to the company, and also got a glimpse of early prototypes, a full list of specs, and an update on unreleased products. Pimax is, at this point, a seasoned maker of VR headsets. But the company has faced recurring criticism regarding product polish, strategic focus, missed release dates, and announcing new products before fulfilling older promises.
Upload VR
JANUARY 1, 2025
Pimax announced and opened preorders for Dream Air, a tethered PC VR headset it says has 4K micro-OLED panels, eye tracking, inside-out tracking, and a weight of less than 200g. 0:00 / 0:59 1 What Is Pimax? Pimax is a China-based VR headset company best known for its 2017 Kickstarter for an ultra-wide field of view PC-based headset, but in recent years it has shifted focus from field of view to resolution.
XR Today - Augmented Reality tag
JANUARY 2, 2025
Last year was a busy year for XR. Avid XR Today readers will be more than familiar with the big XR moments in 2024, including the likes of MR headsets, digital twins, Apple Vision Pro, Orion, and others; those moments are becoming history, however, and tomorrow’s innovations will take a stride. In 2024, the AI tidal wave dominated the emerging technology landscape, overtaking many XR technology ambitions.
AR Insider
DECEMBER 31, 2024
At its core, XR depends heavily on data to collect information and deliver personalized, real-time experiences. However, this reliance raises serious questions about privacy and transparency. What are best practices? This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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
DECEMBER 30, 2024
Rec Room is full of first-party adventures you can play with friends and randos alike. The social VR platform’s next big offering is already here in ‘Run the Block’, which has taken a number of cues from Dreamcast retro-favorite Jet Set Radio (2000). The multiplayer mini-game ‘Run the Block’ launched on December 11th, having already attracted over one million players.
Upload VR
JANUARY 1, 2025
Meta Horizon was the #1 free iPhone app on Christmas Day 2024. The top free iPhone apps on Christmas Day 2024. The app is required to set up Quest headsets, suggesting Quest 3S and Quest 3 were very popular Christmas gifts in 2024. This also happened on Christmas Day in 2021 and 2023, but it didn't seem to in 2022 after Quest 2 got a price hike that affected sales. "100K+ bought in past month" on Amazon US alone.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
DECEMBER 31, 2024
Ready to upgrade your productivity with the Apple MR headset? Heres how you can take advantage of the Apple Vision Pro keyboard passthrough feature, and leave the virtual keyboard behind. Ultimately, its starting to seem increasingly likely that Apple will discontinue the original Apple Vision Pro eventually. However, for now, plenty of people are still using the mixed reality device.
AR Insider
JANUARY 2, 2025
Azeroth is more than a world; it’s the heart and soul of World of Warcraft, having been the home for players since 2004 where journeys… Continue reading → Why Azeroth is Still Relevant Today in World of Warcraft This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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.
Steki Amusement
JANUARY 2, 2025
Virtual reality (VR) technology, as an emerging field that has developed rapidly in recent years, is gradually changing people’s lifestyle and entertainment experience. Through advanced VR technology, users can experience the virtual world in person and enjoy a new immersive and interactive experience. This article will delve into the current situation of the VR industry and analyze its future development trends. 1.
Upload VR
JANUARY 2, 2025
Meta is now offering a 10% education discount on Quest headsets and Ray-Ban smart glasses for university students and educators in the US. The discount is available to anyone in the US with a.edu email address, and is similar to the 10% discount Apple offers students on most of its products, though notably not Vision Pro. Meta's education discount means students in the US should now be able to jump into VR from $270 with the base 128GB model Quest 3S, or grab the higher-end Quest 3 with its adju
Full Dive Gaming
JANUARY 3, 2025
JayBratt and Assassin32 sit down with TonyStarkVR to discuss client based events in the Metaverse!!
Program Ace
JANUARY 3, 2025
Program-Ace delivers industry-specific immersive fire safety training for employees to prepare for real emergencies. Learn more about our offerings.
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?
XROM
DECEMBER 28, 2024
Li Qiang, member of the Standing Committee of the 20th CPC Central Committee Political Bureau, premier of the State Council, conducted a inspection tour in Zhejiang from December 18 to 20. In Hangzhou, Li Qiang visited the science innovation center and a national laboratory, exchanged views with enterprise leaders, and learned about the progress of key scientific research projects.
Upload VR
JANUARY 1, 2025
From Pirates VR to Arken Age, January has plenty of choice for new VR games. Here's our monthly highlights on Quest, Steam, PS VR2 and more. 2025 is finally upon us, but not before 2024's final hectic push for VR gaming. December continued delivering big releases and at UploadVR, we reviewed Skydance's Behemoth , Alien: Rogue Incursion , Action Hero , Home Sports , The House of Da Vinci VR , and Attack on Titan VR: Unbreakable.
XR Today - VR Headsets tag
DECEMBER 30, 2024
Ill be honest, I wasnt as excited about conducting this Meta Quest 3S review as I probably should have been. After taking a deep-dive look at the major differences between the Quest 3, and the Quest 3S , I came to the conclusion that Metas new headset wasnt really going to blow anyone away. Now that Ive had an opportunity to test the headset for myself, I can confirm that its not exactly revolutionary.
Program Ace
JANUARY 3, 2025
Identify the right software development consulting partner to achieve measurable outcomes. Optimize processes, align goals, and gain more value for your business.
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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