AR Insider
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
One of the many fitting use cases for AR that continues to emerge is making soldiers more situationally aware and empowered. What's the current status and trajectory? This post appeared first on AR Insider.
The Ghost Howls
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
I’m writing this article to give you all a heads-up about a good thing that happened today. In one of those many webinars that Varjo organizes, the Finnish company has revealed that it is going to slash the price of the Aero… by a 50% factor! Varjo Aero at $990/€990 Varjo Aero (Image by Varjo) Varjo has announced that the new price of the Varjo Aero will be $990/€990, down -50% from the previous original price.
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Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Creating a VR that truly immerses the user is no easy feat. To pull this off correctly requires a careful blend of graphics, animations, audio, and haptics that work together in deliberate concert to suspend disbelief and engross the user. Fujii is a joyful interactive adventure and a masterclass in rich VR interactions. The President of Funktronic Labs, the studio behind the game, is here to tell us more about his design approach.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
As the XR industry grows, more regions are stepping foot in the immersive sector – both consumer and enterprise. Worldwide XR distribution and adoption success depends on inclusive and accessible software and hardware – with a particular focus on regional availability and understanding. The XR space and its vendors commonly use remote collaboration and communication as a selling point.
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 22, 2023
Hollywood has been wary of AI – a central sticking point in the writers and actors strikes. Yet a world away, at the Venice Film Festival earlier this month, a more hopeful AI embrace was underway. Charlie Fink breaks it down. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Flat2VR, the modding team known for bringing unofficial VR support to games such as Final Fantasy XIV, Half-Life 2, Jedi Outcast, and Left 4 Dead 2 , recently released a mod for Portal 2 which finally brings SteamVR support to the iconic puzzle game. [link] The mod is free, and posted to Giovanni ‘Gistix’ Correia’s Github , a contributing member of Flat2VR.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
This week, the World Economic Forum (WEF) partnered with Microsoft and Accenture to scale its Global Collaboration Village , a Metaverse space for international business leaders and decision-makers. The expansion plans to add a Polar Tipping Points Hub to the Metaverse service. WEF designed the new virtual space to bring global stakeholders from businesses, governments, and academia to collaborate over climate concerns virtually.
AR Insider
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Since launching Effects House, TikTok's AR efforts have been fairly quiet, but gaining steam in the background. This is evident in the figures it released when coming out of beta last week. We dive into the figures. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
EON Reality
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Introducing the Spatial AI Tour Blog Series by Dan Lejerskar, Founder of EON Reality Embark on a global journey with Dan Lejerskar, the Founder of EON Reality, as he takes you through the cutting-edge intersections of technology, education, and innovation in the 24-city Spatial AI Tour. In this ongoing series, Dan offers firsthand insights and captivating stories from cities around the world, spotlighting how Spatial AI is transforming the landscapes of learning, training, and technological grow
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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
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
Valve is a notorious black box when it comes to basically everything. A recent update to Steam client for VR though suggests the company is still working behind the scenes on what appears to be its long-awaited standalone VR headset. As revealed by tech analyst and consummate Steam data miner Brad Lynch, a recent update to Steam’s client included a number of VR-specific strings related to batteries, which seems to support the idea that Valve is currently readying the platform for some sort
Upload VR
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Varjo Aero just got a permanent price cut. Aero is a tethered PC VR headset that launched in 2021 with the highest angular resolution on the consumer market, a position it solely held until Pimax Crystal started shipping this year. All Varjo's previous headsets were for businesses only - Aero was a new direction in selling to consumers. It features 2880×2720 per eye LCD displays, aspheric lenses, and eye tracking enabling automatic IPD adjustment and foveated rendering in supported software.
AR Insider
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
RealWear's ruggedized assisted reality devices are purpose built for the rigors of industrial environments. But what are they like up close? Our Editor-at-Large Emily Olman goes hands on and we have the footage. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Hypergrid Business
SEPTEMBER 16, 2023
(Image courtesy Microsoft.) Remember those mixed reality combat goggles that Microsoft was building for the Army that made soldiers nauseous? ( See our previous story here.) Well, they’re back. Microsoft got its hands slapped and had to go back to the drawing board after reports came out last year that its new AR goggles were making soldiers literally sick to their stomachs.
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
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Microsoft’s HoloLens-based headset built on contract for the US Army has passed an important round of field testing by soldiers. The company is now set to fulfill a larger order to be used in more rigorous testing slated to take place in 2025. Awarded in 2019, Microsoft’s $22 billion defense contract is aiming to supply the US Army with a tactical AR headset for soldiers based on HoloLens 2 technology, or what’s called an Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS), According
Upload VR
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
You can now preorder Immersed's Visor via a "fully refundable deposit". Visor was announced in August as an ultra-compact productivity headset with OLED microdisplays, inside-out tracking, HD color passthrough, hand tracking, and eye tracking set to release in 2024 with support for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Immersed says it has an onboard chipset and battery to support a wireless mode, and has integrated inside-out tracking from Qualcomm.
AR Insider
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
ARtillery Intelligence released a new report that projects VR revenue to grow to $20.3 billion by 2027. How will it get there? We examine strategic takeaways in the latest "Behind the Numbers." This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Anand Tech
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
During the opening keynote at Intel's Innovation event in San Jose, Chief Executive Officer Pat Gelsinger unveiled a score of details about the upcoming Meteor Lake client platform. Intel's Meteor Lake marks the beginning of a new era for the chipmaker, as they move away from the chaotic Intel 7 node and go into a rollout of their Foveros 3D packaging with EUV lithography for their upcoming client mobile platform.
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 22, 2023
Ubisoft announced Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR back in June, staying that we’d get the Quest exclusive sometime this holiday. Now the studio has revealed a first look at gameplay, and announced the official release date. Coming to Quest on November 16th, the new Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR trailer shows off a few clips of each of the game’s three protagonists: Ezio ( Assassin’s Creed II ), Connor ( Assassin’s Creed 3 ), and Kassandra ( Assassin’s Creed Odyssey )
Upload VR
SEPTEMBER 17, 2023
Images appearing to show new ringless Pico controllers were shared on Chinese social media. A Chinese source tells us the two images appeared on Baidu Tieba, an online forum they say is somewhat analogous to Reddit. The existing Pico 4 controllers each have a Pico system button with a colored ring icon, red on the left one and purple on the right one.
AR Insider
SEPTEMBER 18, 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 the iPhone 15's spatial stack and XR's ongoing AI infusions. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Charlie Fink
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Frostbite Orckings' heavy metal music is created With AI
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
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
Varjo, the Finland-based creator of high-end XR headsets, announced their businesses and prosumer-focused SteamVR headset Aero is now permanently 50% off its original $2,000 price tag. Aero is essentially a pared down version of the company’s strictly enterprise headsets, offering industry-leading fidelity and advanced features such as eye-tracking.
Upload VR
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Portal 2 receives unofficial VR support through a Flat2VR mod, featuring 6DOF support and full motion controls. While we've previously seen Portal 2-inspired test chambers in Half-Life: Alyx with the ApertureVR mod, this new mod brings the full Portal 2 campaign into VR. Developed by Flat2VR modding group member Giovanni ‘Gistix’ Correia, the project is available now through Github and also supports Steam Workshop content.
AR Insider
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
This week on Reality Bytes, we sing along with TikTok, take out a new line of credit with Microsoft, and see what drops when we shake the proverbial Netflix tree. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Anand Tech
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
As part of Intel’s suite of hardware announcements at this year’s Intel Innovation 2023 conference, the company offered a brief update on their plans for High-NA EUV machines, which will become a cornerstone of future Intel process nodes. Following some changes in Intel’s process roadmap – in particular Intel 18A being pulled in because it was ahead of schedule – Intel’s plans for the next-generation EUV machines.
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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