AR Insider
OCTOBER 20, 2023
Assisted Reality devices like Rokid Max are primarily smartphone accessories, projecting the mobile phone screen, ipad, computer display or simulating a 200-inch screen. Charlie Fink test reviews the latest. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
The Ghost Howls
OCTOBER 16, 2023
This has been the week of the Quest 3: the headset has started shipping and I have received my unit, too. Unluckily since I’m crunching at work, I’ve only been able to test it for a bit more than one hour, but I was already pleasantly surprised by it. I don’t have the time to write a full review now, but I hope to write this week at least a “first impression” article because many people are asking my opinion (thank you, really, for your trust!).
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Road to VR
OCTOBER 19, 2023
Laser Dance is an upcoming mixed reality game that seeks to use Quest’s passthrough capability as more than just a background. In this Guest Article, developer Thomas Van Bouwel explains his approach to designing an MR game that adapts to different environments. Guest Article by Thomas Van Bouwel Thomas is a Belgian-Brazilian VR developer currently based in Brussels.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Immersive training is one of the top verticals for virtual, augmented, mixed, and extended reality (VR/AR/MR/XR). As more companies explore the profound benefits of XR learning, new use cases develop to meet the needs of each enterprise, often with substantial results. XR Today has the pleasure of interviewing Emma Ridderstad, Vice-President and Founder, Warpin Reality , to discuss her company’s collaboration with the Swedish Red Cross.
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
OCTOBER 16, 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 Quest 3 reactions and more gen-AI action. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Virtual Reality Pulse brings together the best content for VR professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Road to VR
OCTOBER 16, 2023
As a leading social media company, it seemed like Meta would be in the best position to create a rich social experience on its XR headsets. But after almost a decade of building XR platforms, interacting with friends on Meta’s headsets is still a highly fragmented affair. With Vision Pro, Apple is taking a different approach—making apps social right out of the box.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Medical use cases for virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) technologies continue to comprise a large part of the entire extended reality (XR) market. People can better understand how to respond in an emergency scenario using immersive learning and training tools while measuring and monitoring response times, efficacy rates, and emotional reactions to real-life crises.
AR Insider
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Rather than holographic dragons and whales, will AR's near term value lie in AI-fueled relevant information delivered through text and audio? We examine AR's current 'Art of the Possible.' This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Hypergrid Business
OCTOBER 15, 2023
OpenSim land area tally is now at a new all-time-high of 131,257 standard regions, the fourth month in a row it has hit that target. Meanwhile, several grids are hosting Halloween events this month and getting ready for other fall holidays. OpenSim active users tally is, however, down this month by 3,006 despite being an active season, which can be attributed to downtime on a number of grids.
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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
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Less than a week since launch, Quest 3 has already gotten the full iFixit teardown treatment, showing off just how slim (and seemingly difficult to repair) the headset really is. iFixit’s Shahram Mokhtari pried apart Quest 3, revealing the innards of Meta’s new $500 mixed reality standalone. The short of it: it’s pretty complicated to dismantle and there aren’t any repair parts as such, getting a [4/10] repairability score in Mokhtari’s video (linked below).
XR Today - Virtual Reality
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Watch on YouTube XR Today’s Demond Cureton hosts Paul Doherty, President and CEO, The Digit Group. In our interview, we discuss the following: Initial thoughts on the Creativity Conference How The Digit Group contributed its expertise to the conference Defining creativity in the XR sector, and what is required of it to resolve problems in the industry How businesses can creatively apply XR to smart city technologies, building information modelling (BIM), digital twins, and the Metaverse Th
AR Insider
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Geospatial AR is an opportune area, given the relevance of location. Snap is jumping on this opportunity in several ways including custom Landmarkers and Local Lenses. We examine the drivers & dynamics. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Upload VR
OCTOBER 20, 2023
Quest 3 would be lighter if the battery was external, but as much as you might guess. Earlier this week we highlighted the fact that iFixit's Quest 3 teardown revealed that the battery takes up almost all the internal component space when the front plate is removed. Some other headsets like Pico 4 and Quest Pro house the battery in the rear padding instead of in the visor, while Apple Vision Pro has a tethered external battery pack to remove it from your head entirely.
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
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Quest 3 is here and comes with a bunch of quite helpful but often hidden features (most of which will also work on Quest 2!). Here’s a breakdown of tips and tricks you’ll definitely want to know. Quest 3 Tips & Tricks Contents: Quest 3 Screenshot & Video Capture Shortcut Quest Voice Commands Switch Between Controller-tracking and Hand-tracking Force Screenshots & Videos to Actually Sync to Your Phone Double-tap for Passthrough Turn on 120Hz Refresh Rate Extended Battery M
XR Today - Virtual Reality
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Watch on YouTube XR Today’s Demond Cureton hosts Seth J Bennett, CMO, Charlotte Hornets, James Kaplan, CEO and Co-Founder, MeetKai, and Weili Dai, Executive Chairwoman and Co-Founder, MeetKai. In our interview, we discuss the following: The impetus for MeetKai and the Charlotte Hornets to collaborate for their virtual sports apparel store Using MeetKai’s XR solutions to engage sports fans in fresh and innovative ways How using XR and the Metaverse can lead to greater engagement rates
AR Insider
OCTOBER 16, 2023
How much do consumers spend on immersive games, apps, and experiences? We examine the drivers and dynamics in the latest Behind-the-Numbers installment. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Hypergrid Business
OCTOBER 20, 2023
Meta has not seen the results it has hoped for with its investments in the VR space, with an operating loss of $31 billion. However, the recent announcement of Apple’s Vision Pro last June is set to reinvigorate the marketplace. Rolf Illenberger “I and the entire industry was waiting for Apple for a decade,” said Rolf Illenberger, CEO of VRDirect, which provides company software solutions to build their own VR projects.
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
OCTOBER 20, 2023
Walkabout Mini Golf has been on a roll ever since it launched in late 2020, now counting 22 courses strong with the addition of a very spooky level just in time for Halloween: ‘Widow’s Walkabout’ Developers Mighty Coconut say Widow’s Walkabout brings to the game a “mysterious cliffside manor [.] haunted by a playful spirit who’s possessed an eerie mini golf course like no other.” The haunted course is said to pack in a bunch of spooky surprises and hints to an unset
Upload VR
OCTOBER 18, 2023
We’re excited to announce the return of the UploadVR Showcase this December 6th, 2023, and we want to hear about all of the cool and original games you’ve been working on! We are partnering with the ever-amazing IGN where the showcase will be syndicated live, and trailers chosen by us for the Showcase have a chance to be released on their channels as well.
AR Insider
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Haptics have come a long way since the N64 Rumble Pak. Now they're an increasingly critical component of achieving immersion in VR. What's the current state and trajectory? This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Charlie Fink
OCTOBER 19, 2023
Meta's Mixed Reality is promising. They need a “Game of Thrones” to sell 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?
Road to VR
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Quest 3 just began shipping last week and headsets are rapidly arriving in the hands of eager buyers. While the 128GB model appears to be in strong supply, the more expensive 512GB model might be more popular than Meta expected. We checked stock availability for direct purchases from Meta.com for Quest 3 (128GB) and Quest 3 (512GB) across all regions where the headsets are sold.
Upload VR
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Could a Quest 3 Lite arrive in the first half of next year to replace Quest 2 from as low as $200 without controllers? Earlier this year, Meta's internal roadmap leaked to The Verge revealing the company planned to release a new headset in 2024 "at the most attractive price point in the VR consumer market." Last week Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported that this headset "looks a lot like the Quest 3 but uses less costly components" and described it as a "mixed reality headset".
AR Insider
OCTOBER 19, 2023
What are the biggest insights and observations in immersive tech & media this week? Welcome to Reality Bytes' lightning-round commentary.
Anand Tech
OCTOBER 17, 2023
In what is to be the last of Intel's processor families to use the well-established Core i9, i7, i5, and i3 naming scheme, Intel has released its 14th Generation Core series of desktop processors, aptly codenamed Raptor Lake Refresh (RPL-R). Building upon the already laid foundations of the 13th Gen Core series family, Intel has announced a variety of overclockable K and KF (no iGPU) SKUs, including the flagship Core i9-14900K, the reconfigured Core i7-14700K, and the cheaper, yet capable Co
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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