AR Insider
OCTOBER 23, 2023
How much do enterprise spend on XR productivity? We're talking hardware (e.g., AR headsets) and software (e.g., interactive guidance). Our latest Behind the Numbers installment dives in. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
OCTOBER 23, 2023
A recent rumor, which alleged that TikTok parent company ByteDance is slated to spin down its XR hardware subsidiary Pico Interactive, is false, the company says. China-based publication EqualOcean reported late last week that ByteDance is set to “gradually abandon the PICO business.” The report alleged the person in charge of Pico recently went to Singapore to report to ByteDance founder and CEO Zhang Yiming, maintaining Pico’s performance in the past few years has “no
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XR Today - Virtual Reality
OCTOBER 26, 2023
Atlantic Productions has partnered with Meta Platforms to host an impressive immersive experience highlighting climate change’s effects on the Galapagos Islands. Using stereoscopic 180-degree cinematography, Atlantic Productions will leverage Meta’s extended reality (XR) technologies for the award-winning series Galapagos with Sir David Attenborough, legendary British Biologist, Documentarian, Historian, and Broadcaster.
The Ghost Howls
OCTOBER 23, 2023
It’s been another intense working week… so this newsletter will come in a slightly reduced format again because I must be efficient with my time… but let’s say that the VR ecosystem helped me in keeping this short because this week nothing relevant happened… I have two good pieces of news regarding myself I want to tell you: Finally, in a few days, I can unveil what I have worked on (and I’m still working on) all this time!
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 24, 2023
One of the ongoing challenges in AR is to find killer app(s). One possible candidate was hinted at a Google event last year: foreign-language translation. What does this entail and how big could the market be? This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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XR Today - Virtual Reality
OCTOBER 23, 2023
Watch on YouTube XR Today hosts Rika Nakazawa, Group Vice President, Connected Industry & Head of Sustainability for Americas, NTT Ltd. In our interview, we discuss the following: A recap of the Creativity Conference Challenges global telecoms face and how creativity can tackle them NTT’s role in developing emerging technologies Creating synergy between XR technologies for global sustainability Advocating for cooperation between companies for the benefit of all For more information, ki
Upload VR
OCTOBER 24, 2023
Quest 3's passthrough will improve over time with software updates, according to Meta's CTO. When asked about potential passthrough improvements in an Instagram AMA (ask me anything) session yesterday, Andrew Bosworth replied: "Yes, it will continue to improve as we continue to get real world lighting conditions and information from the headsets that have been picked up, we start to tune the algorithms that drive it more effectively.
AR Insider
OCTOBER 27, 2023
Meta Ray Ban Smartglasses have been in the wild long enough for adequate stress tests and reactions from the hardware pros. We round up our favorite reviews and chime in with broader market position analysis. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
OCTOBER 24, 2023
A recently released fork of one of the premier VR mods for Half-Life 2 (2004) added a number of features that should make you feel a little less like Gordon Freeman, and a little more like John Wick. Mod creator Vittorio Romeo calls the unofficial fork of SourceVR Team’s HL2VR mod ‘HL2VR Unleashed’, which includes unique VR interactions such as dual wielding, universal melee attacks, and a virtual stock for customizable shouldering positions—basically turning you into an indisc
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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.
Forrester VR
OCTOBER 25, 2023
As retailers gear up for 2024, they must confront an array of challenges, from theft and culture wars to the adoption of new technologies such as AR, VR, and genAI. Despite the challenges, the retailers that rise to the occasion and make the right strategic decisions will position themselves for success.
Upload VR
OCTOBER 22, 2023
VRChat is now listed as "coming soon" on the app store on Pico 4. VRChat remains the leading social VR platform, with millions of users. On Meta Quest headsets it's almost always one of the top 10 most popular apps , and on Steam (where it also supports non-VR) it typically has tens of thousands of concurrent players. The platform arrived as a surprising launch title for the original Oculus Quest in 2019, and for Android phones earlier this year.
AR Insider
OCTOBER 23, 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 XR funding and the latest product updates. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
OCTOBER 27, 2023
The NBA announced it’s expanding the number of games it’s recording for Quest headsets by a wide margin, bringing a ton of 180-degree immersive games to NBA League Pass holders. Games will be available in both through the Xtadium app on Quest and Meta Horizon Worlds —both of which require the NBA League Pass subscription viewing service to access.
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.
Anand Tech
OCTOBER 24, 2023
While Qualcomm has become wildly successful in the Arm SoC market for Android smartphones, their efforts to parlay that into success in other markets has eluded them so far. The company has produced several generations of chips for Windows-on-Arm laptops, and while each has incrementally improved on matters, it’s not been enough to dislodge a highly dominant Intel.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
OCTOBER 26, 2023
Microsoft has reportedly filed a new patent to develop a microLED display solution to enhance virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) experiences. Microsoft’s latest patent aims to improve functionality for devices like its HoloLens 2 and others, indicating a potential revival of its research and development (R&D) push, a report from MS Power User revealed.
AR Insider
OCTOBER 26, 2023
What are the biggest insights and observations in immersive tech & media this week? Welcome to Reality Bytes' lightning-round commentary.
Road to VR
OCTOBER 27, 2023
Vertigo Games finally revealed the release date for its upcoming sequel to Arizona Sunshine (2016) , which is set to bring us back to the dusty post-apocalyptic desert for another tango with the undead hordes. Also: the first gameplay trailer. Arizona Sunshine 2 is slated to launch on all major VR headsets on December 7th, which the studio has confirmed will include a co-op mode as well as single player campaign at launch.
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.
Upload VR
OCTOBER 27, 2023
Apple reportedly cut full body tracking from Vision Pro "years ago". Vision Pro has downwards-facing cameras, announced as being for hand tracking. Last year The Information's Wayne Ma reported that the headset - still only a rumor at the time - would also use these cameras to track your body, including your legs, but Apple didn't announce this. The same report described the headset's OpticID iris authentication system, which did turn out to be true. 0:00 / 0:23 1× Apple Vision Pro's sensor arra
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
OCTOBER 25, 2023
This week, reports from BussinessInsider highlighted how Microsoft is closing down Project Airsim, an AI ambition tied to the firm’s Industrial Metaverse roadmap. As part of the closure, Microsoft is also laying off the project’s employees as it plans to discontinue the Azure AI-based service by December 15 2023. An official Microsoft statement on the layoffs said: We are proud of the impact this incubation created for our customers and we will continue to invest in both Azure as the
AR Insider
OCTOBER 26, 2023
Lex Fridman's recent interview with Mark Zuckerberg caused a stir, mainly for its ultra-realistic avatars. But there’s more to the interview than meets the eye once you start reading between the lines. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
OCTOBER 26, 2023
It’s been a while since we first busted ghosts in VR , but this time around veteran VR studio nDreams and Sony Pictures Virtual Reality are serving up an at-home co-op game for Quest and PSVR 2 that will finally let you strap on a proton pack and go head-to-floating-head with a good variety of belligerent specters. Check out our review below to see if it’s worth getting the whole squad involved.
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?
Upload VR
OCTOBER 26, 2023
52 NBA games this season will be streamed in immersive 180-degrees to Quest headsets in the US for free. That means that American owners of Quest 2, Quest Pro, or Quest 3 can virtually sit courtside at no extra cost, through the Xtadium XR sports viewing app. Xtadium also streams NASCAR for free, and UFC fights for Fight Pass subscribers. 0:00 / 0:13 1× NBA games in Xtadium in immersive 180° The free NBA games come by way of an ongoing multi-year partnership between Meta and the NBA, which sees
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
OCTOBER 26, 2023
Valve absolutely stole consumer VR headlines in 2019 when it debuted its technologically groundbreaking Index headset, which blew pundits away with high-quality VR gaming applications. The Valve Index headset and related immersive applications brought a lot of eyes to the XR marketplace. Subsequently, third-party VR headsets found a home on the SteamVR dashboard, providing an easy avenue for PCVR streaming.
AR Insider
OCTOBER 25, 2023
VR continues to reshape how businesses connect with audiences, In that evolution, it has moved from sci-fi to a tool for education and commerce. How is it specifically materializing on event showroom floors? This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
OCTOBER 25, 2023
Meta today announced its third quarter earnings, revealing that revenue of its Reality Labs XR division dropped to its lowest point on record, just ahead of the launch of Quest 3. All eyes are now on the holiday season to see if Meta’s new hardware will move the needle. Meta announced the latest Reality Labs revenue figures today during its Q3 earnings call.
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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