AR Insider
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
How much do brands spend on software that enables immersive product visualizations such as virtual try-ons? Our latest Behind the Numbers installment breaks down the data from our research arm, ARtillery Intelligence. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
The Ghost Howls
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Finally back to normal with these newsletters! Let’s dig into the most interesting pieces of news of this week! Top news of the week Meta and Tencent are bringing the Quest to China According to the latest rumors, after one year of negotiation, finally, Meta and Tencent have found an agreement to bring the Quest to China. But it won’t be the Quest 3 to be distributed there, but a “cheaper version” of the VR headset, which may be the rumored $199 Quest 3 Lite device that many analysts are specula
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AR Insider
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Welcome back to Spatial Beats. At its first “developer day,” OpenAI unveiled a range of new features, upgrades, and price reductions that will strongly influence… Continue reading → Spatial Beats: Samsung, OpenAI & Humane This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Valve unveiled its Steam Deck OLED late last week, offering up a hardware refresh for the first time since the company launched the handheld gaming device last year. While the company has been full steam ahead on handhelds and developing Steam OS, Valve says it’s “still pushing forward” on VR. Valve ostensibly has a standalone VR headset in the works , and although there wasn’t any big announcement (or acknowledgement) of what the company has in store just yet.
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.
Anand Tech
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
With faster and higher capacity HBM3e memory set to come online early in 2024, NVIDIA has been preparing its current-generation server GPU products to use the new memory. Back in August we saw NVIDIA’s plans to release an HBM3e-equipped version of the Grace Hopper GH200 superchip, and now for the SC23 tradeshow, NVIDIA is announcing their plans to bring to market an updated version of the stand-alone H100 accelerator with HBM3e memory, which the company will be calling the H200.
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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Spatial computing technology has played a role in the evolving XR and digital landscapes for some time. However, hype around the concept has recently increased, thanks to companies like Apple promoting their new “spatial computing system”: the Vision Pro. Though still a relatively misunderstood concept, spatial computing has the power to shape the future of human and technology interaction.
Road to VR
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Apple Vision Pro isn’t slated to launch until early next year, but if you’ve got an iPhone 15 Pro you can already start capturing memories as spatial videos. With the recent release of iOS 17.2 beta, Apple quietly added its first pass at spatial video capture for the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max. “Capture spatial video with remarkable depth on iPhone 15 Pro to view in 3D in the Photos app on Apple Vision Pro,” Apple writes in the update’s release notes. ̶
Upload VR
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
iPhone 15 Pro can now record 3D 'Spatial Video' to watch in Apple Vision Pro. Spatial Video was first teased at WWDC in June when Vision Pro was announced. The headset itself will able to capture them, and the ability for iPhone 15 Pro to do so too with an upcoming software update was announced during its launch event. That update has now arrived, for testers at least, with iOS 17.2 beta 2.
Road to VR
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Developer Flat Head Studio and publisher Fast Travel Games today launched the new Level Creator Update for We Are One (2023) , the time-looping puzzle shooter that landed on VR headsets this summer. The update is available as a free download for existing owners on Quest and SteamVR headsets, bringing with it a Level Creator which is said to bring all of the tools you’ll need to make new challenges.
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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
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Meta cut the entry price of Quest 2 to $250 until January 1st. UPDATE: Meta told UploadVR the discount will last until the end of December 31st, and this article has been updated to reflect this. The discount appears on Meta Store and all Meta's supported retailers. The 128GB model is down from $300 to $250 while the 256GB model is down from $350 to $300.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Virtual reality tools from companies like Neuromersiv can help victims of traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) regain control of their extremities, The Australian Department of Health and Aged Care announced on Monday. For many people suffering from such debilitating conditions, they face long periods of rehabilitation and recuperation after illnesses like stroke, heart attack, aneurysms, and others that damage the brain.
Upload VR
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Following its recent Quest 3 update, Antarctic adventure Genotype marks PC VR as its next destination. Released last month, Genotype is a narrative VR action shooter set in a South Pole research base overrun by dangerous monsters. Initially exclusive to Quest, developer Bolverk Games confirmed a PC VR version is next, though any Steam specific changes remain unknown.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Meta Platforms has officially inked a deal with Tencent Holdings to sell a low-cost virtual reality (VR) headset in the Chinese mainland, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday last week, citing sources familiar with the matter. The successful deal will see Meta Platforms return to the Chinese mainland for the first time in 14 years. In the new deal slated for late 2024, Tencent, one of the largest video game vendors in the world, will receive exclusive sales rights to Chinese buyers.
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.
Anand Tech
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Although AMD doesn’t have any major HPC announcements for this year’s SC23 show, the company isn’t starting this week empty-handed. For the workstation market the company is introducing its latest (and likely final) Radeon Pro W7000 series card, the Radeon Pro W7700. Based on AMD’s latest-generation RDNA 3 architecture, the W7700 slots in between the Navi 31-based Radeon Pro W7800 and the Navi 33-based Radeon Pro W7600.
Bernard Marr
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
One of the most exciting aspects of AI is its implications for healthcare. Today, doctors and other medical professionals routinely augment their human skills and experience with the help of intelligent machines. These machines can process information (including images) and generate data-driven predictions with incredible speed. But they still lack human qualities like empathy and compassion that will always be essential elements of providing healthcare.
Program Ace
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Learn about the development of Flutter apps in 2024. Know how it has evolved, what trends are happening, and how its cross-platform features change the mobile app market.
Oculus
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
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 Reality Labs Andrew “Boz” Bosworth is joined by Thomas Van Bouwel, the indie developer behind beloved puzzle game Cubism.
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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