The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

After the latest Unite event, Unity has released in Open Beta the tools to develop applications for the Apple Vision Pro. The development packages are usable only by people having Unity Pro or Enterprise, but the documentation is publicly available for everyone to see. At VRROOM , we have a Unity Enterprise subscription, so I’ll be able to get my hands dirty on the SDK pretty soon. hoping to make for you my classic tutorial on how to develop an application with a cube for this new platform

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Snap is intent on AR as a core part of its feature mix, and its revenue model. But how does visual search – a flavor of AR – manifest in Snap Scan? And how does it all fit into Snap's AR master plan? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The food coma is fast approaching, but you probably still have some fellow Americans to entertain on this holiest of holy feasts. What better way to liven up the post Turkey Day frivolities than popping your brand-new VR headset on a noggin or three? Keep in mind : some of the best results we’ve had over the years tend to be with very noob-friendly games and apps.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Recently, Atlas officially announced the acquisition of roughly $6 million in a seed funding round following two years of the firm developing its enterprise and commercial-grade genAI-powered XR content creation platform under wraps. This marks an essential point in the industry as devices are becoming cheaper and more accessible, meaning content creation will be needed to support the hardware promises.

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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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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

I’m finally back to writing articles after a long time. And since it’s Sunday and it’s a bright day outside of the window, I want to restart writing articles with something bright and funny … a satirical post about all the hype around technology that I’ve seen these months. I hope you will move some muscles around your lips while reading it… The iPhone moment The only true iPhone moment In my 9+ years in XR, I’ve heard countless times that something that

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

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Charlie Fink

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

It is so simple and obvious. Everyone’s going to do it now.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

This year I was too busy with my daily work to attend AWE Europe (and I was pretty sad about that), but luckily I had an opportunity to do an expected final trip of the year. I’m pretty excited to tell you that I’m flying to Helsinki, Finland to attend MatchXR! MatchXR is a cool event to connect to the Finnish and northern Europe XR community in general.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

AR continues to prove itself as a marketing medium in categories from furniture to footwear and cosmetics to cars. Joining that list more recently is food. We dive in with food-focused AR innovator QReal given its recent integration with Denny's. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

DAVIGO, the asymmetric VR/PC battle game in testing since 2020, is getting ready to release on Quest and PC VR headsets starting next week. The David vs. Goliath-inspired combat game lets VR players take on the role of a massive giant who must defeat up to four pint-sized PC players armed with rockets. The little knights can run, fly, shoot, and block incoming missiles.

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Charlie Fink

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Open AI was not the only story this week.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The past week has been a pretty interesting one for the tech world: between Microsoft Ignite, Unity Unite, and the OpenAI drama, there has been a lot to follow. I’ll try to summarize all of that, especially for what concerns the announcements related to our XR space. And in this newsletter, you will also find some cool freebies: the keys to get a cool VR game for free, and a huge discount (… and maybe even more) to go to the Immersive Tech Week in Rotterdam!

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Amex's Small Business Saturday promotion this year will feature AR product try-ons for local merchants in Chicago, New York, and LA. Will this start a trend for AR among SMBs? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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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.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

We’re keeping an eye on the best Meta Quest 2 Black Friday & Cyber Monday 2023 deals, don’t blink or you might miss the best Quest 2 sale of the year! While we can’t recommend Quest 2 at its full price in 2023, a $100 discount is certainly worth considering if you’re looking for your first taste of VR. Updated – November 19th, 2023 The Best Meta Quest 2 Black Friday & Cyber Monday 2023 Sales Image courtesy Facebook Meta Quest 2 (128GB) The best Meta Quest 2 (128GB) Black Frid

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

An analyst firm released detailed reports estimating the cost of each component in Meta Quest 3 and Apple Vision Pro. Wellsenn XR is a China-based startup that describes itself as "a vertical research institution for the VR/AR/MR industry" that "focuses on the upstream supply chain". It's important to note that these estimates don't include the research & product development costs incurred by each company, nor the costs of developing, updating, and supporting the system software and content

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Anand Tech

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

AMD's Ryzen Threadripper 7000 processors mark the latest additions to the high-end desktop (HEDT) market, a segment AMD wants to bring back to the mainstream. Based on AMD's proven Zen 4 architecture and built on TSMC's 5nm process, both of AMD's new Ryzen Threadripper 7000 lineups – Pro and non-Pro – are designed to bring more cores and more I/O to the high-end desktop and workstation markets.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Welcome back to Spatial Beats, AR Insider's weekly series that features observations and insights of author and futurist Charlie Fink. This week, we look at Humane's AI Pin and other XR & AI intersections This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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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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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Black Friday is almost always when we see the best deals of the year on VR headsets and 2023 is no exception when it comes to HTC. The company is offering a big Black Friday sale on Vive headsets and accessories. Updated – November 24th, 2023 The Best HTC Vive Headset Black Friday & Cyber Monday 2023 Sales Vive XR Elite | Image courtesy HTC Vive XR Elite The best Vive XR Elite Black Friday & Cyber Monday 2023 sale so far is $870 from Amazon.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Mobile Suit Gundam: Silver Phantom is a new VR interactive anime film, and it's coming to Quest. A collaboration between Bandai Namco Filmworks and Atlas V, Mobile Suit Gundam: Silver Phantom was revealed today at Anime NYC 2023. “This is not a game, nor is it just a narrative experience—it’s an immersive adventure that leverages the best of both worlds,” says Pierre Zandrowicz, Atlas V Co-Founder in a prepared statement.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

David Weinstein, Senior Director of Virtual and Augmented Reality, NVIDIA The biggest virtual reality players are launching their latest mixed reality (MR) headsets, prioritizing smaller and lighter designs with impressive spatial computing capabilities. As the extended reality (XR) ecosystem continues to expand, an ever-widening swath of industries and users is embracing XR technologies, forever changing how people work and play.

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Anand Tech

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Asus this week formally introduced its ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 4060 Ti SSD OC Edition 8 GB graphics card, an unusual video card that also offers an M.2 SSD slot. First showcased earlier this year, the card is aimed at small form factor systems, giving system builders access to a full-bandwidth M.2 slot for additional storage without having to occupy a second PCIe slot.

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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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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

nDreams, the veteran VR studio, today announced it was acquired by video gaming group Aonic for $110 million. The Farnborough, UK-based nDreams has changed a fair bit since its founding in 2006. Having taken up VR game development full-time in 2013, the studio went on to release a slew of VR titles complimenting nearly every major headset release, including games such as The Assembly (2016) , Phantom: Covert Ops (2020) , Fracked (2021), and Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord (2023).

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

GOLF+ teased a mixed reality mini golf mode for Quest 3. The game currently offers full-swing courses and mini golf in VR, and is often listed in the top 20 selling titles on the Quest Store. It recently got a graphics upgrade for Quest 3 bringing significant improvements. The GOLF+ developers are now working on a new mixed reality mode for mini golf putting in your real space, and teased its progress this week: 0:00 / 0:35 1× GOLF+ founder and CEO Ryan Engle told UploadVR he's exploring automat

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The industrial Metaverse is looking to be the XR buzzword of 2024. Since mid-2023, firms like Microsoft and Meta moved towards the wordage following the decline of faith towards the initial Metaverse wave towards the start of the year. The industrial Metaverse is simply an umbrella term which includes immersive (VR/AR/MR) digital solutions that support workplace use cases such as remote collaboration, design processes, and training.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The healthcare, patient care, and medical training field is deep, with investments from XR firms in part due to the emerging technology’s perceived potential to improve the qualities of training, life, and work. Across the broad spectrum of healthcare use cases, MR headsets and AR smart glasses are commonly tested as a tool for healthcare professionals to improve workplace performance and patient satisfaction.

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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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