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Another Vision Pro knock-off is coming to town, and this time it even has the ‘Vision’ name. While not a household name, China’s Vivo is known for its sensible, mid-range smartphones, regularly ranking it in the top five smartphone creators by market share. Now, at the Boao Forum for Asia in China’sHainan Province today, the company showed off its first entry into the XR segment: Vivo Vision.
This newsletter is coming out a bit late and with a little less commentary than usual because Im overwhelmed by work at the end of this March. This is good in some ways, but less good in others. I hope youll enjoy this article: I think I have a good collection of interesting news, crazy things, and fun stuff, as usual! Top news of the week (Image by Bigscreen) BigScreen launches Beyond 2, and its already a hit Bigscreen announced its new headset, the Bigscreen Beyond 2, which is an iteration ove
SWERYs VR Game Death Game Hotel Goes ALL IN with Free-to-Play Relaunch on Meta Quest! With this relaunch to free-to-play, we want to open up this metaverse to all, said White Owls President and CEO SWERY (Hidetaka Suehiro), the creative mind behind works such as The Missing: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories and Deadly Premonition. And were excited for deadlier, more intense gameplay, and thrilling interactions!
For years, developers have been asking what it would take to catapult VR into the mass market. Could enabling crossplay experiences to flat screens be one way to scale VR and break it it out of its current niche? This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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.
Napster. Now there’s a name you haven’t heard in a few years… or more likely decades. Now, immersive web company Infinite Reality announced it’s acquired the brand for $207 million. Having just closed a $3 billion investment in January, Immersive Reality says the Napster music streaming service will soon include a“social music platform” that will includebranded 3D virtual spaces for virtual concerts and listening parties.
In 2012, Jonathan Coon backed the original Oculus kickstarter project and has a signed Rift DK1 to show for it. In 2025, Coon and a team of technology integrators developed a functioning 5,000-square-foot holodeck on a hilltop overlooking Austin, working through a collaboration between Pureblink , Agile Lens , and DBOX. This first-of-its-kind facility sells the idea of residing on the hill in a few years in a home with a "frictionless lifestyle".
In 2012, Jonathan Coon backed the original Oculus kickstarter project and has a signed Rift DK1 to show for it. In 2025, Coon and a team of technology integrators developed a functioning 5,000-square-foot holodeck on a hilltop overlooking Austin, working through a collaboration between Pureblink , Agile Lens , and DBOX. This first-of-its-kind facility sells the idea of residing on the hill in a few years in a home with a "frictionless lifestyle".
(Image by Maria Korolov via Adobe Firefly.) IDC released their latest headset predictions today , and it’s a bit of a mixed bag. We saw a 10 percent bump in augmented and virtual reality headset shipments last year — but they’re predicting a 12 percent drop for 2025. Do the IDC numbers mean anything? Yes, they do. IDC — International Data Corp. — is the most reputable company out there for this kind of data, and they base in on actual shipment numbers.
XR came to play at SXSW and Roblox and Stability AI find ways to turn 2D into 3D with AI. We have these and other items from XR and AI realms, through the eyes of Charlie Fink. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
We’ve been waiting to hear about Samsung’s entrance into XR for a few years now, with the company’s still unnamed mixed reality headset ‘Project Moohan’ set to debut sometime this year running Google’s Android XR operating system. Now, a report from ETNews (Korean) maintains the South Korean tech giant may also have a pair of XR glasses up its sleeves.
Roboquest VR shows promise with compelling FPS roguelike mechanics, and we recently previewed the PC VR version. Out of Flat2VR Studios' six upcoming games, Roboquest VR is easily my most anticipated title yet. I'll admit that I wasn't familiar with the flatscreen Roboquest before last year's announcement , yet the comic book-inspired art style and roguelike gameplay immediately had me intrigued.
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IRVINE, CA March 26, 2025 EON Reality, the world leader in AI-assisted Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education , today released detailed technical architecture documentation for its groundbreaking EON Exploratory Simulator. This comprehensive resource provides educational institutions and corporate training departments with in-depth insights into the underlying framework that powers the narrative-driven learning experience. “While our pre
While the majority of XR punditry has been negative lately, there's an equal amount of good news and positive signals if you know where to look. We examine the evidence. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Apple announced its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is kicking off on June 9th, which is expected to include news on Vision Pro’s next big operating system update, visionOS 3. The event is taking place online from June 9th to 13th, although the big keynote livestream on June 9th is slated to include Apple’s usual deluge of all things software related.
Half-Life: Alyx released five years ago. Considered by many to be the best VR game ever made, Alyx arrived just under nine months after Index as the first of the three "full" Valve VR games the company had teased before the headset's release. The problem, of course, is that the other two games never arrived, with Valve confirming upon Alyx's release that they weren't even in development.
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.
IRVINE, CA March 26, 2025 EON Reality, the world leader in AI-assisted Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education , today released detailed mission dialogues for its groundbreaking EON Exploratory Simulator. This comprehensive resource provides educational institutions and corporate training departments with six complete narrative-driven educational experiences designed to engage learners in immersive problem-solving scenarios. “While our pr
The transition from photos to 3D models let IKEA reduce cost, material waste and other inefficiencies. Dan Frith was part of that evolution and breaks down 3D shopping's potential on the latest episode of "The Future Of." podcast. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Meta’s upcoming Horizon OS release is bringing a few more of Vision Pro’s most useful features to Quest, including a video chatting selfie cam for avatars and possibly the ability to share windows with other users when in its Horizon Home social space. Discovered by serial dataminer ‘Luna’, a beta version of Horizon OS v76 is packing in a few new features, including the very Facetime-inspired avatar selfie cam which can be used in video chatting apps.
Meta canceled a System Shock 2 VR port, alongside "a ton of projects", the remaster studio head says, but development could be "restarted" in the future. A 25th anniversary remaster of the cult classic 1999 PC action role-playing survival game is set to launch in June on Steam, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch. But according to a Bluesky post from the head of the studio behind the remaster, Stephen Kick, a VR version "for Oculus" was canceled.
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.
IRVINE, CA March 27, 2025 EON Reality, the world leader in AI-assisted Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education , today released detailed technical architecture documentation for its groundbreaking Mission-Based Decision Simulator. This comprehensive resource provides educational institutions and professional training departments with unprecedented insights into the innovative platform that transforms decision-making training across multiple ind
Evan Spiegel's lore includes building Snapchat, bringing it public, and turning down a $3 billion acquisition offer from Mark Zuckerberg.This all comes out in a sprawling interview this week from Diary of a CEO, which we embed & excerpt. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
GexagonVR announced its action flick-inspired shooter sandbox HARD BULLET (2020) is finally coming to Quest. There’s no specific launch date yet, however Hard Bullet now has a Horizon Store page , which is marked as coming to Quest 3 and 3S sometime this Spring. Initially released in early access on PC VR headsets in 2020, Hard Bullet is the sort of John Woo-inspired Hong Kong throwback that’s heavy on physics-based combatand all the hyper-violence that goes along with it.
The price of VR headsets is now one of the factors used by the UK government to measure inflation. The UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS) takes into account the prices of many hundreds of goods and services to calculate the national inflation rate. Now, one such good is VR headsets, the BBC reports. The ONS says the collection of goods it includes "shows how consumer spending has evolved over the years", and that the inclusion of VR "shows our appetite for emerging technology".
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?
IRVINE, CA March 27, 2025 EON Reality, the world leader in AI-assisted Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education , today released detailed mission dialogues for its groundbreaking Mission-Based Decision Simulator. This comprehensive resource provides educational institutions and professional training departments with an immersive “Code Blue” hospital triage scenario designed to engage learners in critical decision-making experiences.
Bigscreen Beyond 2 orders flooded in last Thursday at a surprising pace. Now, the PC VR headset maker notes that its next slim and light headset outsold the original in 24 hours by an impressive margin, making its first day or sales equivalent to six months of what it did with Beyond 1. We’ve already heard some impressive stats following Bigscreen’s launch for Beyond 2 orders.
Into Black's developer detailed its upcoming PlayStation VR2 port, which it says will bring a "full visual overhaul" compared to Quest. The action/exploration VR game, which we likened to Deep Rock Galactic, launched on Meta Quest headsets back in October. In our hands-on impressions , we described it as "a genuine sci-fi adventure coming out the door with engaging gameplay mechanics and a serviceable story that can be enjoyed alone or in co-op".
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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