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A First-Principles Analysis of Smart Glasses, Part 2

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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.

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Snapchat and Meta Reportedly Plan to Reveal Dueling Visions of AR Glasses Next Month

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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.

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Tesla Leverages VR for Robotics Development

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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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Quest Pro 2 Reportedly Canceled By Meta

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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

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The Future of eLearning in 2022: A Sensitive Eye for Authentic Translation and Localization

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.

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Spatial Beats: Meta & Snap’s Dueling AR Leaks

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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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Meta Quest Casting: How to Cast with Your Meta Quest

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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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New Meta, Snap Glasses, GTA VR Nixed, Deep Fakes You Can Make

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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.

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Are Free and Open Platforms the Keys to a Healthy AR Ecosystem?

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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.

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New ‘Batman: Arkham Shadow’ Trailer Reveals Gameplay, Quest 3 Graphics, & Fall Release Date

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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

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How to Train Employees 65% Faster With Virtual Reality

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.

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Pimax Crystal Super: Everything We Know So Far

XR Today - Virtual Reality

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

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Inside The Visual Dome, A World Prompted Into Existence With AI

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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.

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Reality Bytes: Google, IKEA & Premier League

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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.

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Pico Reveals ‘Pico 4 Ultra’ Headset, Launching in China Next Month

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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

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

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.

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Over Half Of Major US Senior Care Providers Now Use VR

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A new study suggests that over half of the largest US senior care providers now use VR. The Evolution of VR in Senior Care Report, conducted by immersive healthcare solutions provider Rendever, conveys compelling figures that illustrate VR’s extensive adoption in the senior care industry and its influence on the ageing experience. The research highlights how VR technology is being utilised to enhance cognitive, emotional, and physical health, its effects on various industry stakeholders, a

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Quest 2 Can Now Track Your Hands And Its Controllers Simultaneously Too

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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.

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AR Briefs, Episode 75: Enterprise AR Case Studies

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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.

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Two of the Most Anticipated VR Games in 2024 Now Have Release Dates

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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.

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Are You Still Watching? How to Create Engaging Presentations for Virtual Learning

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.

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E.ON Leverages Immersive Learning to Create a “Greener Way to Learn”

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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.

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A Developer Figured Out How To Access Quest 3's Passthrough Cameras

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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

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Case Study: Boozing and Branding with AR

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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.

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Hands-on: ‘Action Hero’ Revives ‘SUPERHOT’ with a Clever Premise

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First released eight years ago, SUPERHOT VR is not just a notable VR classic—it’s still a great game. Although it never got a sequel, it left enough of a mark for not just one but several spiritual successors. The upcoming Quest game Action Hero from Fast Travel Games revisits SUPERHOT’s innovative mechanic with a smart premise. But to meet or surpass its predecessor, Action Hero will need to take it to the next level.

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Who C.A.R.E.S.!? How Learning Got Its Bad Rap & What We Can Do About It

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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Wigan Council Debuts a Virtual Reality Borough

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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

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Pico Motion Trackers Add Leg Tracking And Use A Clever Calibration Technique

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Pico Motion Trackers add leg tracking to Pico 4 Ultra, Pico 4, and Pico Neo 3. 0:00 / 0:16 1× Like Sony's Mocopi , each Pico Motion Tracker features an inertial measurement unit (IMU) containing a tiny accelerometer and gyroscope. But unlike other IMU trackers like Mocopi, Pico Motion Trackers also feature 12 infrared LEDs each, which are tracked by the headset for two purposes.

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Qualcomm Adds Snapdragon 7s Gen 3: Mid-Tier Snapdragon Gets Cortex-A720 Treatment

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Qualcomm this morning is taking the wraps off of a new smartphone SoC for the mid-range market, the Snapdragon 7s Gen 3. The second of Qualcomm’s down-market ‘S’ tier Snapdragon 7 parts, the 7s series is functionally the entry-level tier for the Snapdragon 7 family – and really, most Qualcomm-powered handsets in North America.

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XR News Bits – New Quest Game Launches, Updates, and a Big Discount

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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.

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The Key to Getting the Best Out of Video-Based Practice & Coaching

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