Wed.Dec 13, 2023

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Pico Reportedly Cancels Quest Competitor to Instead Take on Apple Vision Pro

Road to VR

According to a report from The Information , ByteDance subsidiary Pico Interactive is pulling the release of its next consumer-focused standalone headset in effort to no longer compete directly with Meta Quest, instead positioning its next device to compete with Apple’s $3,500 Vision Pro mixed reality headset. Citing people familiar with the situation, the report maintains that TikTok parent ByteDance is canceling Pico’s next VR headset, or what is being referred to as ‘Pico 5&

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2024 Predictions: New APIs & SDKs Elevate AR

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Like other emerging tech, AR is all about developer tools that can democratize advanced functionality. What APIs and SDKs could we see released in 2024? We examine the evidence in our annual predictions. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Xbox Cloud Gaming Comes to Quest, But You’ll Need Your Own Gamepad

Road to VR

Meta and Microsoft today made good on their word to bring Xbox Cloud Gaming and the Game Pass library to Quest. With a subscription to Game Pass Ultimate and a supported gamepad, Quest can now be used to play a wide range of flatscreen games on a giant virtual screen. The Xbox Cloud Gaming app is now available for Quest 2, Quest 3, and Quest Pro. Now those with a Game Pass Ultimate subscription can log in through their Quest to play the majority of the Game Pass library instantly with no install

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EON Reality and CHOC Renew Partnership to Advance Pediatric AR/VR Healthcare Education

EON Reality

Innovative Alliance Continues to Transform Pediatric Patient Experience With Immersive Technology Solutions. IRVINE, CA – December 14 , 2023 – EON Reality, the global leader in Augmented and Virtual Reality-based experience creation for education and industry, is proud to announce the renewal of its strategic partnership with the Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC).

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The Future of eLearning in 2022: A Sensitive Eye for Authentic Translation and Localization

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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Ray-Ban Meta Smartglasses Are About to Get Smarter with Object Recognition Beta

Road to VR

Ray-Ban and Meta’s second-generation smartglasses are slated to get a lot smarter starting this week, as the company launched an opt-in beta in the US that will hook in the device’s camera into AI-powered object recognition, powered in part by Microsoft’s Bing. Ray-Ban Meta Glasses were released in October shortly after the company launched its latest VR headset, Quest 3.

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‘Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord’ Teases “major update” Coming in March

Road to VR

Sony Pictures Virtual Reality (SPVR) and nDreams showed off more of the post-launch roadmap for Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord (2023) , the ghostbusting co-op adventure that landed on Quest and PSVR 2 in October. Owners of the game can look forward to new game modes and content, but the studios say we’re also in for something “major” come March.

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Zhaoxin Unveils KX-7000 CPUs: Eight x86 Cores at Up to 3.70 GHz

Anand Tech

Zhaoxin, a joint venture between Via Technologies and Shanghai Municipal Government, has introduced its Kaixian KX-7000 series of x86 CPUs. Based on the company's Century Avenue microarchitecture, the processor features up to eight general-purpose x86 cores running at 3.70 GHz, while utilizing a chiplet design under the hood. Zhaoxin expects the new CPUs to be used for client and embedded PCs in 2024.

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[Industry Direct] Celebrating 8 Years of Pimax With a Special Offer on Our Best Headset Yet

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Adata, OWC, and Stardom Roll Out USB4 SSDs and Enclosures for Faster External Storage

Anand Tech

When the USB4 specification emerged several years ago, it was quickly positioned as a less expensive alternative to the Thunderbolt 3 technology which ruled the market of high-performance direct-attached storage (DAS) devices and docking stations. Since then, we've seen multiple USB4 docks hit the market, but USB4 DASes and SSDs are still rare. Thankfully, the situation began to change in the recent weeks, as multiple vendors have finally begun releasing their own USB4 SSDs and external driv

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How to Train Employees 65% Faster With Virtual Reality

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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EON Reality and VEDX Solutions Announce Groundbreaking Partnership to Expand Immersive Education Across the Globe

EON Reality

EON Reality and VEDX Solutions Collaborate to Amplify Spatial AI Education Across the Americas and beyond. IRVINE, CA – December 8 , 2023 – EON Reality, a world-renowned leader in Artificial Intelligence and Extended Reality-based experiences for education and industry, is thrilled to announce a significant partnership with VEDX Solutions. With VEDX’s prominent influence and its proficiency in seamless educational VR deployments, this collaboration will empower both our teams to reach more

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HP Z6 G5 A Workstation Review: 96-Core AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7995WX Impresses

Anand Tech

With AMD's recent launch of their Zen 4 architecture-based Threadripper 7000 series CPUs, the company and its OEM partners have unleashed a new wave of high-end PCs and workstations based on the considerable-core-count processors. Though not a massive market in and of itself, the workstation market is by most respects the pinnacle of the PC market, with systems employing the biggest and fastest hardware available, and often a whole lot of it.

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Xbox Cloud Gaming now available on Meta Quest 2, 3 and Pro

TechCrunch VR

Xbox has brought is Cloud Gaming service to Meta Quest VR headset devices, as both companies said it would at the launch of the latest Quest 3 hardware earlier this year. The Xbox Cloud Gaming app has a beta label, and it’s limited to Quest 2, Quest 3 and Quest Pro headsets (sorry OG Quest […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Behind the Industrial Metaverse: Microsoft’s Big Gamble?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Will 2024 be the year for the industrial Metaverse? A familiar question that echoes questions asked by the XR space at the start of 2023. This time last year, Meta promised that the Metaverse would launch immersive remote communication into the mainstream. In October 2022, Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta , noted that “more people work in distributed teams now and being able to share a space with your co-workers and feel like you’re really together is still missing.” however, M

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Are You Still Watching? How to Create Engaging Presentations for Virtual Learning

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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The Latest Big XR News on Apple, Meta, and Microsoft

XR Today - VR Headsets tag

Watch on YouTube. XR Today’s Demond Cureton and Rory Greener host Jay Latta, Speaker and Founder, The Fusionists for a fireside Big News chat. In our discussion, we cover: Updates on the Apple Vision Pro and its release in early next year The Meta Quest 3 and its potential for enterprise use cases Issues with data privacy and security for XR headset end users Thanks for watching.

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The Top Immersive Learning Trends to Watch in 2024

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Immersive learning trends are actively transforming the future of education. Extended reality, the metaverse, and AI are paving the way to a future where training sessions and classes aren’t just more engaging, they’re also more impactful and efficient. In fact, with virtual reality alone, companies can create training and development initiatives that are 52% more cost-effective and drive four times more focus from students.

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Seth MacFarlane’s Fuzzy Door Tech Opens ViewScreen Sales

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Fuzzy Door Tech, the technological brainchild of Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane’s film production firm Fuzzy Door, launched its ViewScreen Studio and ViewScreen Scout solutions on Tuesday. The celebrated augmented reality (AR) solution integrates production visualisation (ProVis) tools for overlaying real-time 3D (RT3D) visual effects onto physical environments.

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The AI On Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Can Now Answer Questions About What You're Looking At

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Ray-Ban Meta glasses now have an early access program for multimodal AI, letting you ask it questions about what you're looking at. The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses launched at Connect 2023 as the successor to Ray-Ban Stories, the first-person camera glasses from 2021 that let you capture hands-free first-person photos and videos, take phone calls, and listen to music.

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

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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Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta) Is Here!

Oculus

The Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta)* app is now available on Meta Quest! Now you can download the Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta) app from the Meta.

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Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord Is Getting 3 New Game Modes - See The Roadmap Here

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Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord detailed its post-launch roadmap in a new developer update. Following its late October launch, we've known that developer nDreams and Sony Pictures VR (SPVR) had a post-launch roadmap in place for Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord. Following on from last month's competitive ' Heist and Seek ' mode, Game Director Nathan Baseley shared more in a developer update.

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Navigating Startup Challenges: The Guiding Hand of an MVP Development Company

Program Ace

An MVP development company helps startups enter the market and plant a seed for future market domination. Learn how this cooperation might work in the Program-Ace’s blog.

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Smash Drums Mixes Paint With Punk In Latest Update

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Smash Drums receives more colorful mixed reality support tomorrow, joining the new 'Punk Rock Legends' DLC on Quest. Available in solo modes, Smash Drums' latest update marks its third premium DLC following the recent ' 70s ' and ' 80s Rock Legends ' song packs. Introducing five licensed songs from artists like blink-182 and Sum 41, you can watch them being played in the ' Smashed Reality ' MR mode below: 0:00 / 1:10 1× Here's the full tracklist: blink-182 – All The Small Things Jimmy Eat World

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Who C.A.R.E.S.!? How Learning Got Its Bad Rap & What We Can Do About It

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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Meta Horizon Worlds v140 Release Notes: Introducing a Fun New Follow Gesture + Drone Camera Mode

Oculus

Meta Horizon Worlds v140 is here!

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