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Efficient text entry without an actual keyboard remains an industry-wide challenge for unlocking productivity use-cases in XR headsets. Researchers have created a comprehensive catalog of existing text entry techniques to codify different methods and analyze their pros and cons. By making the catalog freely available, the researchers hope to give others a head start on creating new and improved techniques.
Its not the most active period for the XR space, but at least this week we had the April Fools that shook our ecosystem a bit! And there have also been a few interesting pieces of news Ill talk about all of them in the current roundup, so youre sure not to miss anything interesting happening in XR Top news of the week Metas upcoming smartglasses can cost up to $1400 A report by Bloomberg revealed what could be Metas plans related to its upcoming smartglasses to be released this year.
A developer ported the first scene of Half-Life: Alyx to Unity to experience it running standalone on Quest 3. Valve's award-winning AAA VR game is currently for Windows PC VR only. But a long-standing unanswered question looms in the VR industry: when will it be able to run on standalone headsets, without a PC? Developer Boris Novikov didn't want to wait for Valve to answer this question.
How are consumers liking mobile AR experiences overall? And what types of experiences do they like most? We break down original survey data from our research arm, ARtillery Intelligence. 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.
Meta announced last year it was partnering with German airline Lufthansa to bring Quest 3 headsets to passengers. Now, after its apparent success, the company hopes to expand in-flight XR entertainment programs to even more airlines. Meta first released its long-awaited Travel Mode last year, letting anyone with a Quest 2 and above use the feature to offset the discrepancy in motion between the user and the airplane itself, which has long-foiled VR users by land, air and sea.
IRVINE, CA April 8, 2025 A groundbreaking agricultural supply chain platform has been successfully launched using EON Reality’s AI-Powered Entrepreneur Guide. The Agricultural Supply Chain Platform provides a mobile-first digital marketplace that connects farmers directly with end consumers, retailer networks, and institutional buyers, addressing the critical challenges that small farmers receive only 20-30% of the final selling price due to multiple intermediaries, 40% of fresh produce
IRVINE, CA April 8, 2025 A groundbreaking agricultural supply chain platform has been successfully launched using EON Reality’s AI-Powered Entrepreneur Guide. The Agricultural Supply Chain Platform provides a mobile-first digital marketplace that connects farmers directly with end consumers, retailer networks, and institutional buyers, addressing the critical challenges that small farmers receive only 20-30% of the final selling price due to multiple intermediaries, 40% of fresh produce
James Cameron is excited by how XR headsets solve the problems of traditional 3D glasses. In December, Cameron's new company Lightstorm Vision, which has the goal of "making stereoscopic technology ubiquitous for all visual media by enabling stereoscopic 3D content creation in as seamless a manner as traditional 2D", announced an exclusive multi-year partnership with Meta to help bring significantly more 3D video content to Quest headsets.
Chrono Craft is a fleet of 20-seat immersive buses that dont just tour the Yuanmingyuan Park in Beijing they transform it into a living, shared theater. The creators tell us how they did it. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
China-based PC VR headset creator Pimax has issued a statement addressing the impact of the recent USChina trade war on its operations, particularly concerning its Crystal Super VR headset. It’s going to be slightly more expensive for US-based customers, but Pimax’s recent subscription-based payment structure seems to be offsetting much of the costs.
Irvine , CA April 7, 2025 EON, the global technology pioneer with 26 years of innovation experience, today announced the launch of its Comprehensive program for the EON AI for Income Academy, a revolutionary program designed to democratize access to the unprecedented economic opportunities created by artificial intelligence. The initiative provides governments and organizations across emerging economies with a complete blueprint, technological platform, and implementation framework to transfor
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.
Meta and Lufthansa's trial providing Quest 3 headsets to business class passengers won an airline industry award for best inflight entertainment. The scheme began in summer last year, and the two companies say that 4000 Lufthansa Allegris Business Class Suite customers have now tried it, with "overwhelmingly positive" feedback. We are thrilled with the success of this initiative and the positive feedback from our passengers" Lufthansa says.
Despite its operational acumen, PBC Linear faced challenges in training novice staff in equipment maintenance. So it turned to AR to replace training with just-in-time knowledge through live guidance. What were results & takeaways? This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Varjo, creator of high-end enterprise MR headsets, dipped its toes into the consumer VR market with the release of the Aero headset back in 2021. But now the company says its focus is narrowing on training sims and deeper integrations focused on enterprise customer needs, making a followup to the Aero headset is unlikely. In an interview with Road to VR , Varjo chief product officer Patrick Wyatt talked about the company’s latest focus on deeper integrations of its headsets for specific us
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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.
Quest v76 adds Live Captions for any app, including VR, and no longer lets you uninstall Horizon Worlds. As with all Meta Horizon OS updates, v76 will "roll out" gradually, so it may take a few days or even weeks for your headset to get the v76 update. Further, Meta rolls out some features separately to the main update itself, so even having the v76 update doesn't guarantee having everything listed here yet.
What's the trajectory of Apple Vision Pro and the rest of its spatial road map? We pan back in the latest episode of ARtillery Briefs to triangulate likely directions based on Apple's motivations. And that's all about following the money. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
nDreams, the studio behind free-to-play arena shooter FRENZIES, announced that the game is heading out of early access later this year, although it won’t be coming to PSVR 2 as previously planned. The studio released a statement, saying it has “other exciting PS VR2 announcements coming” in lieu of Frenzies coming to PSVR 2: “We’re excited to confirm that FRENZIES will be free-to-play when it leaves Early Access later this year!
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A Chinese news outlet claims that Apple VIsion Pro 2 has entered mass production already, though this contradicts other rumors. IT Home cites a pseudonymous source, which it says claims that the "panels, shells and other key components" of the headset are already in mass production. It even names specific suppliers for the glass and shell. No specifications or details about the potentially upcoming headset are given by the new report.
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The Midnight Walk is coming to PSVR 2 and PC VR headsets on May 8th, offering up a twisted adventure featuring a massive number of models built out of clay, scanned and rendered in the game’s environment. MoonHood, the Sweden-based studio founded by developers behind Lost in Random (2021) and Ghost Giant (2019) , sat down with GameSpot for a 30-minute preview of The Midnight Walk’s non-VR mode.
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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?
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Maestro (2024) , the VR rhythm game from indie studio Double Jack , today released a new DLC pack that includes tracks from Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings and HBO’s Game of Thrones, as well as some classical favorites. Released on Quest, Pico and PC VR headsets last year, Maestro lets you step up to the podium and don the coattails of a true orchestra conductor, letting you play via hand-tracking or motion controllers to command the orchestra in a packed opera house.
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Speaker: Micah Eppler, Account Executive for Rehearsal of eLearning Brothers
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