AR Insider
JULY 24, 2024
Walmart’s virtual showroom is its sixth AR project in two years. Along with its full blown in-house platform, Retina, this signals a real commitment to AR shopping. We examine the evidence. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
JULY 22, 2024
Storied AR headset unicorn Magic Leap has laid off its entire sales and marketing departments, making for around 75 jobs cut from its rolls. Initially the focus of a Bloomberg report, Magic Leap has now confirmed the layoff round, stating the move was to adjust its strategy moving forward: “Magic Leap has been evolving our go-to-market approach to better align with market dynamics and emerging opportunities, optimizing how we support our customers and our ecosystem,” Magic Leap told Bloo
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XR Today - Virtual Reality
JULY 25, 2024
HTC has released a YouTube video that hints at the impending release of a ‘game-changing’ Vive headset. The Taiwanese consumer electronics company ‘HTC’ posted the video titled ‘HTC VIVE: A Vision for You’ on its company YouTube channel, with what appears to be a silhouette of a new headset at the end of the video. It is likely that the headset will support virtual reality experiences, as well as contain the latest Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 chipset.
Charlie Fink
JULY 25, 2024
Cohere is now valued at $5.5 Billion. Meta’s got four major-ish items in the news, including the release of a new open-source LLM, Llama 3.
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
JULY 22, 2024
How big is the AR glasses market today and what are its revenue projections? ARtillery Intelligence's latest forecast dives into AR glasses and all their revenue subsegments. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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Upload VR
JULY 26, 2024
Search your favorite immersive platform's hashtag, and you're guaranteed to spot snapshots of new maps waiting to be visited or the image of a fashionista in a custom avatar. What is all this? It's virtual photography, and it's a popular pursuit in virtual reality. For those unfamiliar, virtual photography is the act of taking pictures of digital spaces.
Charlie Fink
JULY 24, 2024
Rapid improvements in AI video generation tools, like Runway, Kling, Luma's Dream Machine, and Hapier, are enabling more cinematic and realistic films.
AR Insider
JULY 25, 2024
VR and 5G continue to be two technologies in the process of a slow motion collision. How can these acronyms come together and elevate each other. There's speed and low latency, yes, but much more. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
JULY 24, 2024
HTC released a new video promising something “coming soon,” teasing what promises to be the next XR headset from the company. The video is largely a sizzle reel of its recent standalone headsets, Vive XR Elite (2023) and Vive Focus 3 (2021), focusing on their use for both enterprise and gaming. “Soon, out innovation will offer you a new kind of power.
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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.
Upload VR
JULY 22, 2024
Dynamic occlusion on Quest 3 is currently only supported in a handful of apps, but now it's higher quality, uses less CPU and GPU, and is slightly easier for developers to implement. Occlusion refers to the ability of virtual objects to appear behind real objects, a crucial capability for mixed reality headsets. Doing this for only pre-scanned scenery is known as static occlusion, while if the system supports changing scenery and moving objects it's known as dynamic occlusion.
Charlie Fink
JULY 22, 2024
A review of the second edition of the NY Times Bestseller about the 3D successor to today's Internet.
AR Insider
JULY 23, 2024
Consumer AR experiences can be categorized as ice cubes or oceans. The former are meant for one user while the latter can be experienced synchronously by large geofenced audiences. Spatial cinema artist Stephen Black breaks it down. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
JULY 24, 2024
Arken Age, the upcoming single-player sci-fi shooter from Shadow Legend VR (2019) studio VitruviusVR, is almost here. The team announce it’s completed the first large beta test with SteamVR users, and are currently sending out a second batch of codes, noting that a release date will be revealed in the “next couple weeks.” With it, the studio also teased a new bit of gameplay, seen below: Arken Age Update – For the past week we’ve been beta testing with a larger gr
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.
Upload VR
JULY 23, 2024
HTC is teasing a new Vive headset. 0:00 / 0:14 1× At the end of a new video posted across the company's YouTube channel and social media channels titled HTC VIVE: A Vision for You , the silhouette of the new headset can be seen. The video description reads: Dedicated people have always found ways to break down barriers and redefine the human experience.
Anand Tech
JULY 22, 2024
In what started last year as a handful of reports about instability with Intel's Raptor Lake desktop chips has, over the last several months, grown into a much larger saga. Facing their biggest client chip instability impediment in decades, Intel has been under increasing pressure to figure out the root cause of the issue and fix it, as claims of damaged chips have stacked up and rumors have swirled amidst the silence from Intel.
AR Insider
JULY 25, 2024
Meta dominates the AI and XR news cycles and the Olympics kick off with an artful & elegant trailer. without AI. We have these and other items through the eyes of Charlie Fink. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
JULY 22, 2024
Metro Awakening is set to launch on all major VR headsets sometime later this year, and while we got a good eye-full in its announcement trailer from January, developer Vertigo Games tells us a bit more what to expect in an interview on the PlayStation blog , including new screenshots, VR implementation details, and a bit about locomotion too. The game’s standalone story, which has been created in collaboration with the series’ original author Dmitry Glukhovsky, is slated to take pla
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
JULY 24, 2024
The upcoming Meta Avatars graphics overhaul is being tested by Meta employees. VR enthusiast Luna has spotted that some Meta employees' Horizon profiles show a completely different avatar style to the current Meta Avatars, and provided UploadVR with links to independently confirm this. The upcoming overhaul was first announced with a CGI mockup by Mark Zuckerberg at Meta Connect 2022 almost two years ago.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
JULY 23, 2024
GenAI is the trending tech term of 2024, with Apple Vision Pro and spatial computing following closely behind. GenAI is sending shockwaves across the globe, from consumer to enterprise. It is proving to be a fruitful tool and an important area of investment for many. In the Extended Reality (XR) space, genAI is emerging as a core accompanying technology that helps enable and enhance various AR/VR/MR solutions.
AR Insider
JULY 25, 2024
This week on Reality Bytes, we explore AI's Olympic debut with Google, Instagram's ephemeral engagement play, and Starbucks' electric pit-stop strategy. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
JULY 23, 2024
Walkabout Mini Golf developer Mighty Coconut announced its long-awaited ‘Wallace & Gromit’ paid DLC course is coming this Thursday. Starting July 25th you’ll be able to step into the duo’s 62 West Wallaby Street residence where you’ll play through a bevy of ingenious contraptions and “iconic moments from the beloved films.” Granted, it’s not a 1:1 replica of the original, although you’d be pretty hard-pressed to see where the studio took
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
JULY 25, 2024
The tool for using PlayStationVR2 on PC is now listed on Steam, two weeks ahead of the official PC adapter launch. The Steam page includes screenshots of the setup process, showing how you pair the controllers, update the firmware, and prepare to set up your playspace boundary. The PlayStation VR2 PC Adapter was announced in June as coming on August 7, priced at $60.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
JULY 26, 2024
Are VR Shoes the next big thing for extended reality? As demand for XR experiences continues to increase in both the consumer and enterprise space, innovators are constantly searching for ways to make our immersive experiences more engaging and user-friendly. Countless vendors are already experimenting with advanced spatial computing capabilities to transform how we interact with digital content.
XR Today - Augmented Reality tag
JULY 23, 2024
Magic Leap has reportedly laid off its sales and marketing teams as a result of the company’s decision to focus on licensing the technology behind its headsets. The technology news provider Bloomberg shared the news that the augmented reality startup cut 75 jobs last week, according to two of its sources “familiar with the matter”. Only a few years ago Magic Leap was making headlines after raising $3.5 billion from Alphabet and other key investors.
Road to VR
JULY 24, 2024
CM Games, the developer behind the single-player survival shooter Into the Radius (2020) , have released its long-awaited sequel via Steam Early Access today, bringing us back to the deadly Pechorsk Security Zone. Like the original, Into the Radius 2 is an immersive VR survival shooter set in a surreal landscape filled with deadly anomalies. Serving up both single-player and two-player co-op (four-player to be added at a later date), you arm yourself with realistic weapons and venture deeper i
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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