Road to VR

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Google today announced Android XR, a new core branch of Android, designed as a spatial operating system for XR headsets and glasses. The company is pitching this as a comprehensive spatial computing platform, and hopes to establish its own territory in the XR landscape against incumbents Meta and Apple. Google has revealed Android XR and it’s basically what the name implies: a full-blown version of Android that’s been adapted to run on XR headsets, supports the entire existing librar

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 10, 2024

A couple of days ago, I bought some plane tickets. You will discover where Im going tomorrow, in my announcement post! Now lets look at the coolest XR news of the week! Top news of the week (Image by Google) AI models to generate 3D scenes start to surface This week we had the announcement of two AI models dedicated to the generation of 3D worlds. The first one comes from Google, and it is called Genie 2 , a foundation world model capable of generating an endless variety of action-controllable,

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Amazon has unveiled a new 3D shopping technology to revolutionize how consumers and sellers interact with online products. Will this herald a new era of immersive, personalized, and efficient shopping experiences? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 12, 2024

WinidsorPatania Architects have been awarded the Inspiring Learning Space Award at the Education Estate Awards 2024 in Manchester, UK. The XR space in West Suffolk College offers a space for businesses and the surrounding community to learn, develop, and collaborate. The awards were setup to recognise quality, innovation and sustainability solutions among architects, contractors, consultants, and clients in the education space.

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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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Road to VR

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Samsung isn’t sharing a lot of details on its newly announced Android XR headset, but it has confirmed two key things that existing VR enthusiasts and developers are sure to be happy about. Samsung’s ‘Project Moohan’ headset will be the first to ship with Android XR next year. And though our hands-on with the headset exclusively used hand-tracking and eye-tracking input, the company says it’s also making first-party motion controllers which will be natively supporte

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Xreal is out with its latest hardware: the Xreal Air One. Where does this device fit in the spatial spectrum and what's it like to wear them? Charlie Fink goes hands on and interviews Xreal's CEO Chi Xu. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Cats and VR

DECEMBER 7, 2024

Following the successful launch on Steam and Meta platforms, No Brakes Games and Curve Games are excited to announce that Human Fall Flat VR, is now available for PlayStation VR2 via the PlayStation Store. Bringing the much-loved Human Fall Flat physics-based puzzles into immersive virtual reality, the VR edition allows players to experience the quirky, playful chaos in an entirely new way.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Samsung is the first partner to formally announce a new MR headset based on the newly announced Android XR. The device, codenamed “Project Moohan,” is planned for consumer release in 2025. We went hands on with an early version. Note: Samsung and Google aren’t yet sharing any key details for this headset like resolution, weight, field-of-view, or price.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 11, 2024

One of my dreams has always been the one of going to the CES , which is one of the biggest tech exhibitions in the world. Well, in a month this dream is coming true because I’m going to attend the CES for real! via GIPHY Since when I got passionate about technology, I’ve heard about the CES, this huge event where a lot of innovative gadgets are showcased and a lot of new products are launched.

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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.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Meta wasn't first to market with mixed reality but it added the element of affordability, thus making it table stakes in VR. What will this do for mixed reality as it offers a bigger platform for developers? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 10, 2024

This week, immersive learning leaders ARuVR announced that the Learning and Performance Institute (LPI) awarded the firm its Gold Accredited Learning Technologies status after a year of success under the LPI Accredited Learning Technologies Provider status. The accreditation reflects the LPIs recognition of ARuVRs ability to deliver measurable XR learning technologies to businesses, including Aramco, Amazon, Coca-Cola, the Royal Air Force, Five Guys, ScotRail, NEOM, TechnipFMC, and PwC.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Fallout: London is a total conversion mod based on Bethesda’s popular Fallout 4 (2015) for PC. While the team behind the mod hasn’t mentioned whether potential VR support is in the works, an intrepid modder is taking things into their own hands. As first reported by PC Guide’s Charlie Noon, it’s still early days for this particular VR mod, which hopes to let PC VR players jump into the post-apocalyptic London as envisioned by the FOLON modding team.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Sony, Lynx, and Xreal are building Android XR devices. Hands-On With Samsungs Android XR Headset, Shipping In 2025 Samsungs Android XR headset is launching in 2025, and we went hands on. Read the details and our impressions here. UploadVR Ian Hamilton If you missed the news, Samsung finally revealed its standalone headset today, and Google revealed the Android XR platform that it will run.

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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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AR Insider

DECEMBER 12, 2024

With visual search Google's current stage is to cultivate user behavior before it monetizes. To that end, we've observed two big recent updates for Google Lens, both of which support shopping and commercial searches. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Haply Robotics announced that next month at the Consumer Electronics Show 2025 in Las Vagas, the firm will be recognised via the events Innovation Awards 2025 for its Miniverse product, a device that looks to provide a mouse-style solution for workers operating in a 3D spatial environment. At the event, CES will recognise the Miniverse product as part of its “Metaverse and XR Technologies & Accessories categories, whereby Haply Robotics has won the “Best of Innovation” and

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Skydance’s Behemoth(2024) launched last week across all major VR headsets with the proviso from the studio was planning patches to address a variety of performance and gameplay issues. Developer Skydance Games says we can expect a patch on December 12th, 2024 covering issues experienced across all platforms, which includes Quest 2/3/Pro , PSVR 2 , and PC VR headsets via the Horizon Store (Meta only) and Steam.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Crystal Commanders, a real-time strategy game you can play in both VR and mixed reality, heads for Quest next year. Developed by DB Creations, Crystal Commanders is an upcoming RTS game where you work alongside members of the Crystal Vanguard to push back the opposing Crimson Blade force. Previously targeting a November launch, that's now aiming for February 27, 2025, and you can watch the new gameplay trailer below. 0:00 / 0:45 1 Crystal Commanders promises a fully voiced campaign that supports

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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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AR Insider

DECEMBER 12, 2024

This week on Reality Bytes, we break down the ongoing TikTok Ban Saga, spend $200 on ChatGPTs newest model, and dive deep into Oura's new health metrics. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Charlie Fink

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Without an injunction from the Supreme Court, TikTok will shut down in the US next week. New AI companies are still raising large sums. Samsung intros its new MR headset.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Meta’s final Quest update of the year is bringing some big improvements to hand-tracking and using the headset as a virtual desktop with Windows computers. But it might be some time before the features reach everyone. The Quest v72 update is starting to roll out today. Its headlining feature is the Windows 11 Remote Desktop seamless connection feature the company had announced earlier this year.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Apple and Sony are working to bring support for PlayStation VR2's controllers to Vision Pro, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. Gurman has a strong track record when it comes to reporting Apple's moves in advance, and he even revealed many details of Vision Pro itself before it was officially revealed or even acknowledged to exist by Apple. Apple Vision Pro's gaze-and-pinch interaction system is ideal for interface interaction, and its hand tracking is suitable for casual gaming.

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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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EON Reality

DECEMBER 12, 2024

IRVINE, CA December 12, 2024 – EON Reality, the world leader in AI-assisted Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education , today demonstrated its groundbreaking EON Skill Simulator , showcasing the platform’s ability to automatically generate interactive technical training content. The debut, featuring a comprehensive automotive brake pad replacement tutorial, marks a significant advancement in automated training simulation technology.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 7, 2024

Second Life founder Philip Rosedale is coming to OpenSim tomorrow, Sunday Dec. 8, at 4 p.m. Pacific Time for a fireside chat at the OpenSimulator Community Conference. Rosedale founded Linden Lab in 1999 and continues innovating in virtual worlds. Watch the conversation in person at the OSCC conference grid, hypergrid address cc.opensimulator.org:8002.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Beat Saber (2018) just dropped a massive Metallica music pack, bringing some of the band’s greatest hits to VR’s favorite block-slashing rhythm game. The Metallica Music Pack is one of the biggest and most expensive to date, priced at $20 for 17 songs or $2 per song. Previously, paid Beat Saber music packs were priced no higher than $15 and typically included around a dozen tracks.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Samsung's first standalone headset is coming in 2025, running Google's new Android XR operating system and powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 chipset. Currently known as "Project Moohan", the headset will feature "state-of-the-art displays", eye tracking and hand tracking. Beyond this, Samsung isn't yet sharing specifications. I went hands-on with an early headset developer kit showcasing Google's software and Samsung's hardware.

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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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