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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AR Insider

DECEMBER 3, 2024

With Quest Pro being discontinued and Quest Pro 2 apparently canceled, the future of Codec Avatars remains unknown. What will Meta end up doing with this technology? We examine the evidence. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Varjo has released the ‘world’s first’ ultra high-resolution 3D scanning solution called Teleport. The global leader in industrial-grade virtual and mixed reality hardware and software, Varjo, has announced the general availability of Teleport, which creates photorealistic digital twins by stitching together 3D scenes made from Apple smartphone photos.

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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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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 5, 2024

Skydance’s Behemoth showcases a lot of hard-won lessons in VR design, which is mostly thanks to the studio’s pioneering work on its most successful VR game to date: The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners (2020). As an original IP in the action-adventure genre, Behemoth goes in a pretty familiar direction when it comes to the game’s narrative, which would otherwise make it difficult to stand out in the crowd were it a standard video game.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Creating realistic experiences is one of the greatest challenges in VR. And one overlooked element in that broader endeavor is color constancy. When done right, it lets users recognize and correctly associate virtual objects and scenes. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2024

This week has been pretty cool for me because Ive announced that Im attending CES in January for the first time in my life! Im already organizing the trip, and setting up some appointments to try AR/VR glasses. If youll be there, let me know! And if you have some pieces of advice on how to make my CES better, let me know, too! I cant wait to share with you everything about my experience.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Yesterday, Vallourec leveraged virtual reality immersive environments for its Delphy hydrogen storage site, enabling visitors to take a comfortable virtual tour without setting foot in the real location. According to Vallourec, Delphy can revolutionize the hydrogen value chain, so the firm clearly wants to showcase this space as efficiently as possible for potential clients.

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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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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 5, 2024

This week, XREAL is closing the year by announcing a new AR smart glasses product, just as the market is set to skyrocket in the new year. The firm is debuting two new AR smart glasses models, the XREAL One Series and a Pro variant, which will ship to buyers worldwide in the coming months, including the US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Czech Republic, Netherlands, China, Japan, and Korea.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 6, 2024

James Cameron announced an exclusive multi-year partnership with Meta to help bring significantly more 3D video content to Quest headsets. The partnership comes through Cameron's new company Lightstorm Vision , which has the goal of "making stereoscopic technology ubiquitous for all visual media by enabling stereoscopic 3D content creation in as seamless a manner as traditional 2D".

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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 3, 2024

How did Toyota reduce training time for novice workers while letting senior experts more scalable? We examine its AR implementation in the latest case study. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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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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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Today I’m writing a deep dive into Visual Positioning Systems (VPS) , which are one of the foundational technologies of the future metaverse. You will discover what a VPS service is, its characteristics, and its use cases, not only in the future but already in the present. As an example of a VPS solution, I will give you some details about Immersal , which is one of the leading companies for what concerns this technology.

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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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Charlie Fink

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Spatial screen anchoring shouldn’t sound like a breakthrough, but it is. When you turn your head, the screen stays where you anchored it.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Batman: Arkham Shadow gets new localizations, new Challenge Maps and more today on Quest 3. Available now as part of the previously announced post-launch roadmap, Update 1.2 for Batman: Arkham Shadow adds several new features. Notably, this adds a Character Viewer and additional challenge maps from chapters 3 and 4. Localized voice acting is also live for French, German, Italian, European Spanish, Latin American Spanish, Japanese, and Korean.

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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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Road to VR

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Meta announced it’s partnering with Lightstorm Vision , James Cameron’s 3D film studio, to produce spatial content across multiple genres, including live events and full-length entertainment. The agreement includes the production of live sports and concerts, feature films, and TV series featuring “big-name IP,” Meta says in a recent blog post , noting that Quest will be Lightstorm Vision’s the exclusive MR hardware platform.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Even though it's just a working prototype, Meta Orion showed the world that it's possible to build AR glasses that are both UX-rich and relatively stylish. Will this inspire others (ahem, Apple) to move in the same direction? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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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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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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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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Charlie Fink

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Supreme Court tackles TikTok ban, Meta & Musk challenge OpenAI shift, Backflips 3D AI emerges, Samsung/Google Adding AI to XR OS, Google Veo 2, 'Party Versus' MR Release

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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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Road to VR

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Halo Combat Evolved (2001) released on the Xbox over two decades ago, but thanks to this mod, you can now play the original PC version in VR, which critically includes motion controller support. The mod, called ‘HaloCEVR’, was created by modder ‘LivingFray’, who is also known for their work on an unofficial Metal: Hellsinger VR mod before the release of the official Metal: Hellsinger VR in September.

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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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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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