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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Road to VR

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Blackmagic Design has revealed full specs and details for its new URSA Cine Immersive camera, specially designed to shoot 8K VR180 footage for the Apple Immersive Video format. Pre-orders for the $30,000 camera are open now, with shipping planned for Q1 2025.A forthcoming update to DaVinci Resolve Studio (also made by Blackmagic) adds editing tools specifically for Apple Immersive Video, including support for calibration data from the camera.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This week on Reality Bytes, we draw on the past 6 years of episodes to predict 3 major trends we expect to see over the next 5 years. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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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: 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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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 19, 2024

It’s the end of the year, and like every December, it is the time to make a balance about how the past year went. There is a particular aspect of my professional year I want to tell you about and it is the attendance at XR events. This year, since my main job vanished and so I had more time, I decided to attend more XR-related events and see what outcomes I could obtain from these opportunities.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 19, 2024

When it comes to Meta Orion, What are the implications? Why did Meta show its cards? Who is going to win? and will anyone even care? Guest author Evan Helda tackles big questions. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Welcome to UploadVR's Best of VR Awards for 2024. 2024 has been a busy year for VR and the wider XR industry, delivering new hardware releases and a strong set of new VR games. As 2024 comes to a close, we're once again using our Best of VR Awards to highlight the most exceptional picks across hardware and software this year. Each category will feature one winner and relevant honorable mentions.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Schell Games has just launched its new game, Party Versus , and in my opinion, it is the first game to find a great formula for multiplayer social mixed reality. It uses a genius idea to make people feel connected in the same mixed reality even if they are remote, and I’m pretty sure that many will copy this concept in the future. I’ve gone hands-on with this revolutionary title in a dedicated press preview and I want to tell you everything about it!

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Although Android XR isn’t properly open-source for the time being, Google hopes the OS will run on multiple partner headsets. While Samsung is said to be the first to launch an Android XR headset, Sony, Lynx, and XREAL are also planning to use the operating system. Meta announced earlier this year that it intends to open its Quest’s Horizon OS operating system to third-parties , but now Android XR presents another choice for headset makers.

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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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AR Insider

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The 3D commerce playbook is quickly evolving. And no one knows it better than Mike Festa. As a veteran of immersive shopping, he's now CTO of SuperDNA 3D Lab and joins us on the latest AR Insider Innovators episode. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Skydance's Behemoth is at its best when facing the titular creatures, though it's not a completely clean sweep through the Forsaken Lands. Read on for our full review. There's a unique fear that only VR's sense of presence can deliver. Your journey begins alone, wandering through a snowy tundra with your mother's message echoing in your thoughts. Seeing the first Behemoth barely a stone throw away immediately sets the scene and while that's only a tease for what follows, these awe-inspiring mome

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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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Road to VR

DECEMBER 19, 2024

COLD VR, a spiritual successor to long-time hit SUPERHOT VR (2016), is officially headed to Quest and PC VR headsets next month, with its PSVR 2 version slated to arrive later. Superhot VR is old, but gold. And it’s a wonder more studios haven’t tried to replicate its game’s unique time-stopping movement mechanic. Cold VR has to a certain extent, although it’s flipping the script by making you move not slower, but faster.

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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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AR Insider

DECEMBER 17, 2024

VR is reshaping modern product development and manufacturing by enabling more precise, efficient and safe processes. This involves prototyping, simulation, and several other functions we break down. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Blackmagic Design's Apple Immersive Video camera is now available to preorder , and DaVinci Resolve Studio will support editing it early next year. What Is Apple Immersive Video? The Apple Immersive Video format is 180-degree 90 FPS video with 8K resolution, stereoscopic 3D, high dynamic range (HDR), and spatial audio. It's served in the Apple TV app with much higher bitrate than many other immersive video platforms.

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Charlie Fink

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Moonvalleys clean AI model, Googles Veo besting Sora, and Higgsfields ReelMagic drive a new era of faster, richer, cinematic AI video experiences

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 19, 2024

AEXLAB , the studio behind VR shooter Vail (2024), announced it’s opened a crowd-investment campaign to support ongoing development of the game. Additionally, the studio revealed the multiplayer shooter has generated over $5.5 million in revenue to date, owing to its 300,000+ unique players across PC VR and Quest platforms. Unlike typical crowdfunding campaigns, which promise a product in exchange for startup funds, the Miami, Florida-based studio is pursuing the equitycrowd-investment rou

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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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AR Insider

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Visual search such as Google Lens continues to fall short of its potential. Could recent moves from Apple, Meta, and Google change that? We predict visual search's fate in 2025. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The Quest Holiday sale is now live, featuring discounts on big names like Metro Awakening and Assassin's Creed Nexus. Similar to past offers, the Quest Holiday sale features discounts that range from individual games to focused bundles. On this occasion, bundles include The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners series , a ' Boxing Day ' deal that includes both Creed: Rise to Glory and The Thrill of the Fight, plus six other choices.

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Charlie Fink

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Moonvalley's new Marey model is designed to provide filmmakers and studios with an AI tool that avoids legal and ethical issues.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Reducing weight and increasing performance are two of the most important factors in pushing standalone XR headsets forward. While Meta has shown off its own Orion AR glasses prototype using a wireless compute unit ,Meta’s CTO Andrew Bosworth doesn’t think a similar setup is the magic bullet for standalone VR gaming. Bosworth, who is also head of the company’s Reality Labs XR team, held another one of his Instagram Q&As earlier this week, where he typically delves into a wid

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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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AR Insider

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Tom Emrichs The Next Dimension is a timely, comprehensive guide for leaders seeking to leverage AR as a transformative tool. Charlie Fink a book author himself gives his honest review for AR Insider readers. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Party Versus is a new mixed reality social party game from Schell Games, and it's out now on Quest 3. Here's our full impressions. Developed by Schell Games ( Among Us VR , I Expect You To Die ), Party Versus is the multi-location mixed reality title previously teased before the launch of the studio's recent Apple Vision Pro exclusive, Puzzle Sculpt.

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EON Reality

DECEMBER 18, 2024

IRVINE, CA December 18, 2024 EON Reality, the world leader in AI-assisted Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education , is proud to announce the launch of EON-XR 10.6 , the latest version of its flagship platform. This release introduces a groundbreaking Knowledge Simulator along with a suite of powerful AI-driven enhancements designed to revolutionize how users create, practice, and assess immersive learning content.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Alien: Rogue Incursion releases today on PSVR 2 and PC VR headsets, while the Quest version of the the Xenomorph-flavored horror-shooter is slated to arrive February next year. Now developer Survios announced its already in full swing crafting ‘Part Two’ We’ve already had a chance to play through Part One in our full review , where we gave the game a solid [7/10] for its immersive atmosphere and strong narrative, which we thought was somewhat dampened by repetitive enemy encoun

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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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