Road to VR

JANUARY 5, 2024

Archiact, the veteran studio known for a host of VR titles, announced it’s laying off a portion of its staff. The number of staff affected by the layoff hasn’t been confirmed. The studio says however in an X post that it’s currently looking to help transition staff from a number of positions, including animation, art, audio, engineering, game design, IT, narrative, production and QA—implying the layoff is fairly far-reaching. “It was not a decision we took lightly,”

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JANUARY 5, 2024

Every VR developer needs to have a hand tracking plan now. The winds are changing very quickly and not having a plan could potentially be a costly mistake. If you are developing a title that is controllers only, that needs to be a plan of intentionality. For example, if you’ve decided there is a market for a fast-paced VR shooter and controllers are the only way to deliver that?

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 5, 2024

XREAL claims to have shipped “up to” 350,000 pairs of augmented reality (AR) glasses since its inception in 2017. The news comes after market watcher IDC said XREAL was responsible for 51 percent of all AR glasses shipped in Q3 last year, making it the dominant player. Formally known as NREAL, the firm revealed it was close to hitting 200,000 shipments in July last year.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 5, 2024

Catching up on the latest VR gaming updates? Here's what you may have missed over the holidays: Like many of you, the UploadVR team mostly spent the Christmas holidays and New Year period away from our desks. Understandably, this meant that there were numerous updates for VR games that we missed during the ongoing festivities. While this particular roundup looks to the last few weeks, we're looking to make these roundups a regular part of our coverage, so expect more to come.

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 5, 2024

This week, VR and MR device vendor Goertek partnered with hand-tracking experts Ultraleap to announce a VR/MR headset reference design that follows from Qualcomm’s XR2+ Gen 2 chipset revealment yesterday – where Qualcomm also revealed the new reference design. The design aims to support OEMs in creating MR/VR devices with high-quality hand-tracking features from Ultraleap’s Gemini framework – Ultraleap describes this as “the fastest, most advanced, and reliable hand track

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 5, 2024

2024 is on, and the XR industry never sleeps. With CES around the corner, the AR/VR/MR marketplace is already rumbling just days into the new year, with many significant developments in the immersive solutions space. This week saw Microsoft, Google, Samsung, Qualcomm, Meta, and Sony move to optimize their product offerings and business operations. XR vendors are accentuating the importance of 2024 for the XR space due to significant elements such as Apple’s headset, which is months away an

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Upload VR

JANUARY 5, 2024

Archiact joins a growing list of VR studios undergoing layoffs. Best known for developing DOOM 3: VR Edition and Journey To Foundation , the latter having launched last October on most major VR platforms, the Canadian studio is now facing widespread layoffs across most departments. While Archiact didn't state its specific reasons, Journey to Foundation may have underperformed in sales.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

Welcome back for another episode of Boz To The Future, a podcast from Reality Labs. In today’s episode, our host, Meta CTO and Head of.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 5, 2024

Alongside the announcement of the new Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 chip, Qualcomm also revealed its latest reference headset, a mixed reality device that’s likely the foundation of Samsung’s upcoming headset. Samsung announced last year that it’s working with both Google and Qualcomm on an XR device. We’ve been around the block once or twice and can tell you how these things usually go down.

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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

JANUARY 5, 2024

The virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) industries prepare to close out another year. Moving from hype to tangible breakthroughs, 2023 has been an exciting time for Extended Reality (XR) development in hardware and software. ARuVR , one of the United Kingdom’s most visible and prestigious XR companies, continues to trailblaze across the Learning and Development (L&D) landscape with a series of feats and discoveries.

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