AR Insider
AUGUST 19, 2024
In part 1 of this series, we covered AR and smart glasses basics and use cases, along with some of their design challenges. Now we… Continue reading → A First-Principles Analysis of Smart Glasses, Part 2 This post appeared first on AR Insider.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
AUGUST 20, 2024
Tesla is using virtual reality technology to train its Optimus AI robot. The revelation came via the US-based electric car company’s career pages where it is currently advertising for a new position that involves wearing VR headset and motion-capture suit for up to $48 per hour. Google Rebrands its Open-Source VR Modelling Tool DPVR’s VR Headset Deployed by Travel Africa Network Pimax Crystal Light Review: Affordable PCVR Clarity This is not Tesla’s only virtual reality-related job on offer.
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Road to VR
AUGUST 21, 2024
According to a report by The Verge , both Snapchat and Meta will each reveal new AR glasses for the first time next month. Both companies have been working on such projects for years. According to The Verge’s Alex Heath , Snapchat parent company Snap Inc. will reveal its fifth generation of ‘Spectacles’ AR glasses on September 17th at the company’s annual Partner Summit conference in Los Angeles.
Charlie Fink
AUGUST 20, 2024
Tony Rapacioli has been developing The Visual Dome since the dawn of generative-AI in 2022. It now has over 700,000 followers on Instagram.
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
AUGUST 22, 2024
Rumors and leaks abound regarding Meta and Snap's upcoming AR glasses (deliberate or not.), and Conde Nast gets in bed with OpenAI. We have these and other items from XR and AI worlds through the eyes of Charlie Fink. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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Road to VR
AUGUST 22, 2024
The developer of Gorilla Tag , one of VR’s most popular and commercially successful games, has revealed the first clear look at its next game. Previously codenamed ‘Project AR’, the title has been officially dubbed Orion Drift, and aims to take Gorilla Tag’s social structure to the next level. Another Axion is the indie studio behind Gorilla Tag , the viral VR game that’s taken on a life of its own and earned more than $100 million in revenue —making it one of VR
Charlie Fink
AUGUST 22, 2024
The social media giants will release their respective devices at dueling developer events next month. Plus more Cinematic AI and deep fakes you can make at home.
AR Insider
AUGUST 22, 2024
The AR market has been propelled by the presence of free and open developer platforms. What are these platforms and how do they stimulate a flywheel effect for AR development and usage? This post appeared first on AR Insider.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
AUGUST 23, 2024
Meta Quest casting allows you to share whatever you see in your VR headset with your computer, mobile device, or (certain) television sets. This isn’t just a handy way to show off how skilled you are in your favorite VR games, like Beat Saber. It’s also a handy tool for immersive collaboration. You can use the casting feature to show your team the products you’ve been developing in XR or share various types of content with them on various devices.
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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
AUGUST 20, 2024
Pico has unveiled its next XR headset, the Pico 4 Ultra, which is slated to launch in China next month starting at around $600. It was reported early this year that Pico was preparing some sort of XR headset based on the Pico 4 platform following a supposed leak. Now Byte Dance’s XR subsidiary Pico Interactive has finally announced Pico 4 Ultra, the promised ‘next-gen’ platform refresh of its Pico 4 headset, replete with color passthrough cameras and depth sensors for mixed an
Upload VR
AUGUST 23, 2024
Meta has canceled the high-end headset it planned to launch in 2027, The Information reports. The report comes from The Information's Wayne Ma and Sylvia Varnham O’Regan, citing two Meta employees as the sources. Ma has accurately reported Meta's Quest headset and smart glasses plans in advance multiple times in the past. According to the report, Mark Zuckerberg and his CTO Andrew Bosworth told employees to stop work on the headset, codenamed La Jolla, earlier this week at a product review meeti
AR Insider
AUGUST 22, 2024
This week on Reality Bytes, we monitor offside calls in the Premier League with a few iPhones, take a drone flight into an IKEA warehouse, and cash in on Google Wallet’s new upgrade. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
AUGUST 23, 2024
The Pimax Crystal Super, available for pre-order today, represents the next stage in the leading extended reality vendor’s journey towards state-of-the-art headsets. Pimax has already earned an excellent reputation in the VR market, thanks to its commitment to developing headsets with greater visual fidelity than its competitors. The Pimax Crystal, for instance, delivers one of the most advanced display experiences on the market, offering an impressive 2880 x 2880 pixels per eye resolution and a
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
AUGUST 20, 2024
In development by Meta first-party studio Camouflaj, Batman: Arkham Shadow is one of the most highly anticipated VR games of 2024, and one the first title from the company to be Quest 3 exclusive. A new trailer for the game gives us quite a bit: the first look at real gameplay, what we can expect from Quest 3 graphics, and a Fall release window. Batman fans with a Quest 3 will be happy to see a newly revealed “October 2024” release date for Arkham Shadow , which means we’ll be
Upload VR
AUGUST 17, 2024
A developer figured out a clever way to access Quest 3's passthrough cameras to run custom computer vision models. Meta does not allow third-party developers to access the cameras of Quest headsets, but Michael Gschwandtner, the co-founder and lead developer of the hand tracking fitness app XRWorkout , posted a video to social media platforms showing the results of an interesting workaround to this restriction. 0:00 / 0:57 1× The demo video shows the open-source MobileNet V2 object detection mod
AR Insider
AUGUST 21, 2024
What are best practices for enterprises to implement XR and realize strong ROI? This is the topic of ARtillery Intelligence’s recent report and the focus of the latest AR Briefs episode. We have the video and takeaways. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
AUGUST 19, 2024
Wigan Council’s digital teams have given its borough access to virtual reality (VR). Local news publication Wigan Today asserted that VR has been ‘boosting health and happiness’ in the UK town located northwest of Manchester. Google Rebrands its Open-Source VR Modelling Tool DPVR’s VR Headset Deployed by Travel Africa Network Pimax Crystal Light Review: Affordable PCVR Clarity The headsets provide a number of services from a virtual kitchen to help users plan and cook healthy meals to creatin
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
AUGUST 22, 2024
Behemoth from Skydance and Alien: Rogue Incursion from Survios are two of the most anticipated VR games coming in 2024, and both are headed for release on Quest, PSVR 2, and PC VR. And now we know when we’ll first be able to get our hands on them. Behemoth Release Date on Quest Starting off with Behemoth , the highly anticipated VR title from Skydance Interactive is set to debut on November 14, 2024, on Quest.
Upload VR
AUGUST 22, 2024
A VR developer found a lower friction way to access Quest 3's passthrough cameras. Meta does not officially allow third-party developers to access the cameras of Quest headsets, but earlier this week we reported on a clever workaround from Michael Gschwandtner the co-founder and lead developer of the hand tracking fitness app XRWorkout. A Developer Figured Out How To Access Quest 3’s Cameras A developer figured out how to access Quest 3’s passthrough cameras to run custom computer vision models.
AR Insider
AUGUST 20, 2024
One of AR's strengths as a marketing medium is to make static packaging come to life. Discovery Wines took this to heart to enliven its physical labels. What were tactics & takeaways? This post appeared first on AR Insider.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
AUGUST 19, 2024
As reported by Smart Energy International , E.ON recently partnered with FocusXR, a Liverpool-based XR training solutions provider, to help upskill English West Midlands engineers at its Kingswinford, Birmingham net zero training academy. The move sees the Birmingham Net Zero training academy leverage a UK technology firm, driving regional innovation in Liverpool and nationally.
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
AUGUST 19, 2024
If you’re looking for some fun on Quest this Summer, there’s a lot happening. In this roundup we’ve got a look at new Quest game launches, upcoming titles, and big updates. XR News Bits An incredible amount of exciting XR news comes our way every day. Very often we see news come across our desk that’s worth highlighting, but we don’t always have the bandwidth for a full article on every one of them.
Upload VR
AUGUST 21, 2024
Quest 2 now supports multimodal input, bringing it in line with Quest 3 and Quest Pro. Since February , shipping Quest apps have been able to use hand tracking and either Quest 3 or Quest Pro controllers simultaneously, a feature Meta calls Multimodal. That included Quest 2, but only with Pro controllers, not its default Touch controllers - until now.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
AUGUST 21, 2024
Recently, the US Army announced that it would be considering new XR hardware partners for its Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) initiative roadmap to create an MR headset for in-the-field armed forces. Over the past few years, the US Army has worked with Microsoft and its HoloLens division to create a bespoke headset purpose-built to boost military tactics and awareness.
XR Today - Augmented Reality tag
AUGUST 22, 2024
According to a report by the Verge , Snap Inc. is looking to revamp its Spectacles product. This product offers a consumer-level AR smart glasses experience based on the firm’s history of developing the Snapchat social media and marketing platform. The firm looks to continue leveraging lite AR integrations from its Snapchat and doubling down via smart glasses-based immersive interactions and content.
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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