AR Insider
JANUARY 16, 2024
XR came to play at CES this year, with several new and existing innovations on display. After walking 30 miles in five days to see it all, Charlie Fink reports back on the top features and findings. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
The Ghost Howls
JANUARY 16, 2024
After the announcement of the release date of the Apple Vision Pro, the whole community is just waiting for its preorders to open up this Friday. I actually can’t wait for the release date of February, 2nd, so we will see how much this headset is going to have an impact on the XR market. While you wait to see what is going to happen, I strongly suggest you read my latest article which is basically a mini-book that gives you many insights into what happens behind the curtains when a social VR
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Road to VR
JANUARY 18, 2024
Netflix isn’t planning to launch a dedicated app for Apple Vision Pro, which is an odd move coming from the streaming video giant. According to a Bloomberg report, Netflix isn’t launching an app on Vision Pro, instead offering its streaming service through the web. This marks a reversal of its initial intention to allow the iPad version to run on Vision Pro.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
JANUARY 19, 2024
In this Meta Quest Pro review, we’re taking a hands-on look at Meta’s enterprise-grade VR (and mixed reality) headset, designed for business users. Defined as Meta’s “premium” headset for metaverse explorers, the Pro was designed to elevate Meta from a consumer-focused headset vendor to a competitor in the enterprise space.
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
JANUARY 17, 2024
What companies make up the AR marketing competitive landscape? Our new series profiles the top providers and what differentiates them, continuing here in Part IV with Web AR. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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Road to VR
JANUARY 17, 2024
We’ve had a chance to go hands-on with Apple Vision Pro when the company unveiled it at WWDC last summer. Now it seems Apple has let a few outlets in for another go, as new previews have dropped ahead of the device’s Friday pre-order event. The Verge and Engadget were among those with fresh Apple-sanctioned previews of Vision Pro, which featured a pre-demo scanning session so users would have the right sized strap for their heads.
Hypergrid Business
JANUARY 15, 2024
The total land area on OpenSim’s public grids reached the equivalent of 131,511 standard regions this month, an all-time high, on an increase of more than 1,000 standard regions compared to last month. However, the total number of active users went down by over 3,500. Part of the decrease was due to the fact that the OpenSim Community Conference was last month, driving up those numbers.
AR Insider
JANUARY 18, 2024
Following part one of this series that covered XR's presence at CES broadly, we're back to zero in on a subset: AR glasses. They were in full force at CES, though spread over miles of suites and strip waypoints. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Charlie Fink
JANUARY 15, 2024
Augmented Reality is providing remarkable solutions for hearing and vision impared people.
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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
JANUARY 17, 2024
As Apple Vision Pro pre-orders approach, the company is offering up new details on its headset. Vision Pro will include ‘Guest’ and ‘Travel’ modes, and users will have access to more than 150 3D movies across services. Vision Pro pre-orders open this week on January 19th with the headset launching on February 2nd. Apple is taking the moment to sharpen its marketing message, and that message is clear: Vision Pro is being pitched hardest for passive media consumption.
Hypergrid Business
JANUARY 19, 2024
(image courtesy OSFest.). The organizers of OSFest 2024 , an annual festival that will be held this coming October, recently opened voting for this year’s theme to their Discord community. Festival participants can vote by reacting with a specific emoji to indicate their preferred theme from a selection of options, either via the OSFest Discord server or by sending an email to opensimfest@gmail.com.
AR Insider
JANUARY 15, 2024
A question continues to be asked in AR circles: what are the points of intersection between AR and AI? One answer to that question is brain science. Jason Marsh break it down. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Charlie Fink
JANUARY 18, 2024
Saudi Arabia's additional $590 million investment in Magic Leap is not good news.
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
JANUARY 19, 2024
There have been plenty of hands-on impressions and various glimpses of what using Vision Pro is like, but a new video from Apple offers the clearest look yet at the experience. Today Apple published a “guided tour of Vision Pro,” which might be painfully scripted, but actually does a great job of showing what it’s like to use the headset (and this is coming from someone who has used the headset on multiple occasions ).
XR Today - Augmented Reality tag
JANUARY 16, 2024
This week, AR headset vendor Magic Leap secured roughly $590 million via Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, following the region becoming the firm’s majority owner in 2022. The Saudi Arabia funding has launched Magic Leap’s valuation to more than $4.5 billion, providing the firm with a solid foundation to continue its journey of delivering enterprise-grade XR solutions.
AR Insider
JANUARY 18, 2024
This week on Reality Bytes, we look at SAG-AFTRA’s new AI regulations, Steam’s retraction on its AI policies, and an all-purpose robot made with a global effort. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Charlie Fink
JANUARY 14, 2024
Xreal, Sony, RayNeo, Zapbox, NRMYW, Solos, Nimio, Tilt5, Pimax, Emdor, Vuzix, RealWear, and Everysight.
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
JANUARY 15, 2024
Meta Quest has the biggest standalone VR game library to date and if you’re brand new to the world of VR it might be difficult to know where to start. In this article we’re giving our recommendations of the best Quest 2 and Quest 3 games you’ll find across the whole library. Why This List? Now you might be thinking “who are you and why should I think your suggestions for the best Quest games are any good?
Upload VR
JANUARY 13, 2024
Meta has restored Quest's TV casting capability. Quest headsets had been able to cast the wearer's view to devices that support the Google Cast protocol, such as Google TV sticks, Chromecast sticks, TVs with Chromecast built-in, and Android TV boxes, since the original Oculus Quest in 2019 - and even before that with the Oculus Go. It's incredibly useful for demoing VR, social pass-and-play sessions, or just keeping others in the room engaged with what you're doing.
AR Insider
JANUARY 18, 2024
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 Magic Leap's new funding and a post-CES week in XR. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
JANUARY 15, 2024
Recently, the XR Association organised an opinion survey analysing the real-world adoption of XR in professional healthcare facilities, which the surveyors state showcases a profound optimism held by professionals towards AR/VR/MR technology. The survey, led by the XR Association and 3W Insights, talked to roughly 493 healthcare professionals to analyse XR’s suitability across various medical use cases, such as for nurses, doctors, dentists, and physician assistants.
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
JANUARY 18, 2024
Saudi Arabia has recently injected more than half a billion dollars into augmented reality company Magic Leap, which it hopes will rival Apple’s Vision Pro mixed reality headset. Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund gained majority share of the US-based Magic Leap in January 2023, widening its stake in the AR hardware creator with a deal tallying $450 million.
Upload VR
JANUARY 15, 2024
Leaked videos reveal more details about Quest 3's upcoming 'Augments' feature. Augments were announced at Connect 2023 by Mark Zuckerberg when launching Quest 3. They were described as "persistent spatially-anchored digital objects" in your physical space. Examples shown in a library screenshot included a clock, music player, and portals to your favorite games.
AR Insider
JANUARY 13, 2024
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 CES takeaways and all the XR news happening outside CES. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
JANUARY 17, 2024
This week, amidst rumours stemming from CES 2024, multi-national hardware provider LG is slated to enter the XR device marketplace following a tested period of developing components for immersive industry giants, including Meta and Apple. According to LG CEO Cho Joo-wan , the firm’s television division is working on the unnamed product to ensure a fast-paced development process to “launch an XR device as early as next year,” Joo-wan remarked.
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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