AR Insider
OCTOBER 1, 2024
Though it’s often painted as a technology that will steal XR’s thunder, AI is the best thing that’s happened to XR in a while. This is the topic of a recent ARtillery Intelligence report and we have excerpts and top takeaways for AR Insider readers. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
The Ghost Howls
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
Every year I like to write a detailed report about all the major news from Oculus/Facebook/Meta Connect. This year I want to do something a bit different: instead of reporting a list of all the announcements from there, I want to give you a detailed commentary about the event from a technical strategy standpoint. This is part of what I do for a living: in companies, I’m not only the developer or lead of developers, but I also work on technical roadmaps for products.
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Road to VR
OCTOBER 1, 2024
HTC announced that its Vive Ultimate Tracker is now compatible with third-party PC VR headsets that support SteamVR. Originally developed for the Vive Focus 3 and Vive XR Elite, Vive Ultimate Tracker is a puck-like device that comes equipped with two cameras, allowing it to track its position without external devices or base stations, supporting both object and full-body tracking.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
OCTOBER 4, 2024
The VirtuWalk VR treadmill, navigation handlebar, and headset is now available for purchase. According to VirtuWalk’s website, its VR technology centres around its treadmill that allows users to experience the feeling of walking within a virtual world, with a patented handlebar for navigating around corners, and a VR headset to view the simulations.
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
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
Who's spending what on headworn AR, considering both consumer and enterprise adoption? And what revenue categories are seeing the most action? our latest Behind the Numbers dives in. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
Despite Vision Pro’s $3,500 price tag, which is nearly 12 times more expensive than the $300 Quest 3S , Apple and Meta are destined to be direct competitors in the XR space at some point in the near future. According to a report by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman , Apple may be rethinking its XR strategy moving forward though following Meta’s unveiling of its impressively slim AR glasses prototype, Orion.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
OCTOBER 3, 2024
This week, CareerViewXR continued its year of education deployment success in North Dakota; the immersive education firm entered a $9.9 million contract via a partnership with Bismarck State College (BSC) and the U.S. Department of Education’s Disability Innovation Fund (DIF) to deploy XR learning solutions for youth and adults with disabilities. The partnership is ongoing under the “XR for VR project” moniker, and it aims to boost digital vocational training alongside an esteemed list of addi
AR Insider
OCTOBER 3, 2024
This week on Reality Bytes, we unpack Amazon's shoppable reality TV, Meta's ambitious AR glasses, and Zillow's climate-conscious listings. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Charlie Fink
OCTOBER 3, 2024
Future Trash scores $5M to make experiences for Fortnite. Runware AI Raises $3M for super fast AI image generation. Infinite Realty buys Super League.
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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
OCTOBER 2, 2024
Microsoft revealed last year it had plans to pull the plug on support for its entire WMR platform on Windows. Now, with the launch of Windows 11 2024 Update yesterday, those VR headsets have essentially been bricked. Initially kicked off in 2017, Microsoft was well positioned to make Windows a home to a fleet of PC VR headsets , which were notably some of the first headsets with inside-out tracking, including entrants from Acer, Asus, Dell, Lenovo, HP, and Samsung.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
OCTOBER 4, 2024
Changefied’s ‘ Virtual TechLab ’ interactive learning experience is now available for download on the Meta store. How Transportation Sectors are Leading in Scalable XR Training How Immersive Learning can Help Education, Governmental Shortages Developing Social Immersive Training for Government and Education Sectors Virtual TechLab offers users the ability to practice assembling IT components within a virtual environment ‘without limitations’, such as limited hardware, time and money, according t
AR Insider
OCTOBER 3, 2024
In the world of headworn AR, there are several optical approaches. One is the oft-debated laser beam scanning. It involves lasers directed into the eye to render digital images. It's been wrought with challenges but Amalgamated Vision says it cracked the code. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Upload VR
OCTOBER 1, 2024
Microsoft has removed Windows Mixed Reality from Windows 11. With Windows 11 24H2, the latest major version of Microsoft's PC operating system, you can no longer use a Windows MR headset in any way - not even on Steam. This includes all the Windows MR headsets from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung, including HP's Reverb G2 , released in 2020.
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
OCTOBER 2, 2024
Meta has aggressively expanded its VR game portfolio with the acquisition of nine VR studios since 2019. We take a look what’s come of these deals over the last five years. Acquisition by Meta usually means a few things. Sometimes it means studios get a ton of new resources and the sort of stability that comes with being beamed up into the mothership of any platform holder.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
OCTOBER 3, 2024
This week, immersive education solutions provider Avantis Education entered a partnership with ICESCO. The partnership will see the immersive learning experts launch pilot programmes of its ClassVR product in four Islamic member states. The move will see Avantis Education launch its ClassVR service as a pilot programme in the affiliated states via an “effective process of thought leadership, planning, and execution,” stated Huw Williams, CEO of Avantis Education.
AR Insider
OCTOBER 2, 2024
One week after Meta's Orion unveiling and other updates at the Meta Connect keynote, how do developers feel? How do Meta's updates accelerate and empower their efforts? We tap the wisdom of the crowds. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Upload VR
OCTOBER 1, 2024
HoloLens 2 production has ended. Microsoft confirmed to UploadVR that it told its customers and partners now is the last time to buy the device before stock runs out. HoloLens 2 will continue to receive "updates to address critical security issues and software regressions" until 2028. As soon as that year starts, software support for HoloLens 2 will end.
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.
Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
MoonHood, a studio founded by developers behind Lost in Random (2021) and Ghost Giant (2019) , finally unveiled their long-teased VR project, The Midnight Walk. MoonHood first announced last year it was collaborating with VR veteran Fast Travel Games as a publisher on a mysterious new title, showing off a number of dark and twisted clay objects that, through 3D scanning, would act as the basis for game assets.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
OCTOBER 4, 2024
A Sony XR headset is coming – and it’ll be unlike anything you’ve seen from the tech company before. Sony is advertising this new device as a “spatial content creation system” intended to help organizations and developers create intuitive extended reality experiences. Rumors about the potential features and capabilities have been circulating since the beginning of this year when Sony first announced it would be working on a new XR solution.
AR Insider
OCTOBER 3, 2024
Meta Orion makes Apple think twice about its passthrough AR approach with Vision Pro. And Microsoft says adios to the ill-fated HoloLens. We have these and other items from XR and AI realms through the eyes of Charlie Fink. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Upload VR
OCTOBER 2, 2024
The creators behind some of VR's most impactful experiences for first timers are looking for Quest 3 owners to open their homes to a new virtual pet. Bernie Yee and some of his teammates at Windup Minds worked on a collection of experiences from Oculus, including Bogo and First Steps, that served as memorable introductions to VR across multiple headset generations.
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?
Road to VR
OCTOBER 1, 2024
Announced at Connect last week, Meta is launching its next-generation avatars in Horizon Worlds today, giving users a lot more customization options to choose from before jumping into the company’s social VR platform. Starting today, users can dig even deeper into adjusting their avatars’ appearance, including features like customizable body proportions, nose shape, eye size, and lip size.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
OCTOBER 4, 2024
The HTC VIVE Focus Vision is now available to pre-order, and we’re excited about its potential for the enterprise market. However, the hype around this headset might be confusing for some. After all, many of the specs of this “premium” headset come straight from the much older VIVE Focus 3. Preserving old tech, including the previous-generation Snapdragon processor, might seem like an odd move for VIVE.
XR Today - Augmented Reality tag
OCTOBER 2, 2024
According to a recent Reuters report , Snap is getting closer to securing a trademark registration for the term “Spectacles,” the name of the firm’s upcoming AR smart glasses, bringing the device slightly closer to consumers’ hands following a period of downtime. The news comes after Snap struggled to secure the Spectacles trademark because it is a generic term, according to the USPTO, which also originally denied the trademark in 2020.
Upload VR
OCTOBER 2, 2024
PlayStation VR2 is now the ninth most used VR headset on SteamVR. This data comes from the Steam Hardware & Software Survey , which is offered to a random sample of Steam’s user base each month. If you accept, it uploads a list of your PC specs and peripherals to Valve, as well as any headset used on SteamVR in the past month. PlayStation VR2's official PC adapter and SteamVR driver launched in August, meaning many adapter buyers will have been surveyed while they were still waiting for it t
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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