AR Insider
JANUARY 30, 2025
his week on Reality Bytes, we travel, to MIT to find DeepSeek's open-source origins, examine ChatGPTs Operator and break down Netflixs move to dominate all entertainment. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
JANUARY 27, 2025
Meta Quest Pro wasn’t really the prosumer hit it was chalked up to be, leading the company to discontinue its first mixed reality headset a little over two years after release. Now Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports Meta is not only working on an ostensible Quest 3 consumer follow-up, but also a “high-end” model that could succeed Quest Pro.
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The Ghost Howls
JANUARY 29, 2025
Happy Lunar New Year everyone! May the year of the snake bring you joy, happiness, money, success, love, and a lot of XR headsets! And if you are someone that celebrates this festivity, I wish you to spend some quality time with the people you love and eat a lot of food Im literally swamped with work these days, so this newsletter is coming a bit later and a bit shorter than usual but it still contains everything you need to know about these days in XR!
XR Today - Virtual Reality
JANUARY 27, 2025
Immersive training is revolutionizing workplaces by addressing the demand for efficient upskilling. By leveraging XR training solutions available to businesses today, companies can save time, money, and worker risk by creating virtual immersive learning procedures that mirror on-site experiences. Then, when workers do enter a working location, they are ready to tackle anything that may occur thanks to knowledge gained from an immersive training platform, anything from muscle-memory tasks to cus
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
JANUARY 28, 2025
VR continues to reach new heights, albeit gradually. As it grows, developers and designers must recognize that the technologys expansion means it must cater to a more diverse audience. What are accessibility best practices? This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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Charlie Fink
JANUARY 30, 2025
Copyright Office: AI-assisted films qualify for protection if shaped by human creativity. Pika 2.1, Hailuo, and Bytedance launch new AI video tools.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
JANUARY 28, 2025
For companies investing in extended reality solutions, there are plenty of reasons why Metas Quest ecosystem stands out. Metas devices and software are easy to use, powerful, and affordable. But, even more importantly, Meta Quest customization options mean you can tailor your experience to your business needs. With Meta, companies can modify everything from their Quest headsets to the software employees use.
AR Insider
JANUARY 28, 2025
Though Apple Intelligence will cut across Apple products, theres one device where a decent voice assistant represents a make-or-break moment: Vision Pro. How will intelligent and ambient functions drive Vision Pro's utility and appeal? This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
JANUARY 28, 2025
OrbusVR (2019) , the MMORPG for VR headsets, is shutting down, with creator Orbus Online stating it will stop sales on all platforms starting next month and shut down servers completely in April. The studio released the news in a community update (seen below), stating that it’s pulling OrbusVR from Steam and the Horizon Store come February 10th, 2025.
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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
JANUARY 31, 2025
As of today, developers can no longer support the original Oculus Quest in their store app updates, ending their ability to still support it. Since May last year, new store apps haven't been allowed to support Quest 1. Now, even apps which existed before that date can't support Quest 1 in new updates. If developers attempt to include Quest 1 support in their app manifest, Meta's store system will automatically block it.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
JANUARY 29, 2025
Youve identified your XR enterprise use cases, assessed the competition , and decided to choose Meta and the Quest ecosystem to take business productivity to the next level. So, whats next in your roadmap? Meta Quest ROI optimization. Meta offers companies a wide range of powerful (and affordable) hardware options, flexible applications, and software solutions to help them unlock the power of extended reality.
AR Insider
JANUARY 30, 2025
What do Meta's Q4 earnings tell us about headset unit sales? And what does that in turn signal for aggregate demand and XR sector health? We do some financial reverse engineering. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
JANUARY 31, 2025
So you’re thinking about getting into VR and looking to do it on the cheap. Could a Quest 2 headset be worth buying in 2025? Read on for our no-nonsense recommendation. Lets make this real easy: If you can find Quest 2 (128GB or more) for less than $100: Buy it Why: Quest 2 is officially a last-gen headset, but that doesn’t mean it’s worthless.
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.
Upload VR
JANUARY 31, 2025
Apple has canceled AR glasses that would have required a connection to a Mac (or originally, Apple had hoped, your iPhone), Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. Gurman has a relatively strong track record of reliably reporting on Apple's product plans years in advance, and successfully described most of Apple Vision Pro's hardware and software before it was officially revealed.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
JANUARY 31, 2025
The first month of January was full of innovation and inspiration. In part, thanks to the giant that is CES, a source of annual start-of-year booms in interest in XR innovation, from veterans to start-ups. Ahead of the usual surge of CES-fuelled interest in XR, innovation was increasing in the AR/VR/MR landscape and beyond, according to a new report from Anaqua.
AR Insider
JANUARY 27, 2025
AndroidXR gets a boost with Google's big acquisition of key parts of HTC, while TikTok gets a stay of execution, for now. We have these and other items from XR and broader tech worlds through the eyes of Charlie Fink. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
JANUARY 28, 2025
COLD VR was supposed to launch on January 21st, but was delayed last minute by developerALLWARE and publisher Perp Games, which maintained it still needed a little more polish. Now the studios have announced the game’s new, definitive launch date: February 11th. Couched as a spiritual successor to smash-hit game Superhot VR , Cold VR aims to serve uptime-distorting action, albeit flipping the script somewhat.
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.
Upload VR
JANUARY 27, 2025
Meta is working on a Quest Pro successor again, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports, after reportedly canceling two candidates in recent years. In his latest report, in which he also said that Apple is still working on microLED displays for AR glasses , Gurman writes: " Meta is working on Quest 4 VR goggles, as well as a new high-end model that could eventually become a successor to the Quest Pro ".
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
JANUARY 28, 2025
Should you be investing in Meta Quest for enterprise applications? These days, extended reality systems, like the Meta Quest line of hardware and software solutions , arent just for consumers. Enterprises everywhere are discovering the benefits of immersive technologies for training, collaboration, customer service, and even product development. Though various vendors offer enterprise-focused solutions, from HTC VIVE to PICO and beyond, Metas Quest ecosystem is arguably the most popular and vers
AR Insider
JANUARY 30, 2025
Meta Reality Labs hits a high-water mark, Marques Brownlee reviews Samsung's Project Moohan, and Deepseek upends the AI world. 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
JANUARY 29, 2025
Path of Fury – Episode I: Tetsuo’s Tower is an upcoming combat sim that’s all about punching your way through gangsters while making a one-way trip through the ’80s-inspired underworld. We went hands-on with the first two levels ahead of its March 13th release on Quest, so read on to find out more. I grew up on a steady diet of films like Big Trouble in Little China (1986) and a countless parade of ’80s and ’90s Chinese kung-fu flicks as a kid, which means I&#
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
JANUARY 27, 2025
Apple still has a team at a "secretive facility" developing microLED displays intended for AR glasses, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. The facility is in Santa Clara, 15 minutes away from Apple's headquarters in Cupertino. The team there was originally also building the microLED displays for future Apple Watch models, Gurman reports , but that idea was canceled last year, with many of the engineers laid off.
Charlie Fink
JANUARY 30, 2025
DeepSeeks AI disrupts industry, causing Nvidias $600B plunge. AI investments surge: SoftBank backs Skild AI, ElevenLabs raises $250M, and Infinite Reality buys Obsess.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
JANUARY 28, 2025
If youre a business leader ready to embrace the benefits of extended reality for enterprise use cases, evaluating Meta Quest solutions can be tricky. You probably already know that Meta is one of the most successful XR vendors worldwide. In fact, in 2024, the company captured more than 70% of the VR/AR market share. But what makes Metas ecosystem a great choice for businesses?
Road to VR
JANUARY 31, 2025
Daisy Ridley, who played ‘Rey’ in the recent Star Wars sequel trilogy, has been tapped to star in an upcoming VR experience, which is slated to arrive on Quest in March. As reported in a Hollywood Reporter exclusive, the experience is called Trailblazer: The Untold Story of Mrs. Benz, which recants the story of 19th centuryGerman automotive pioneer Bertha Benzthe first person to drive an internal combustion engine automobile over a long distance, andwife of Carl Benz, creatorof the B
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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