AR Insider
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
One of the many fitting use cases for AR that continues to emerge is making soldiers more situationally aware and empowered. What's the current status and trajectory? This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Microsoft’s HoloLens-based headset built on contract for the US Army has passed an important round of field testing by soldiers. The company is now set to fulfill a larger order to be used in more rigorous testing slated to take place in 2025. Awarded in 2019, Microsoft’s $22 billion defense contract is aiming to supply the US Army with a tactical AR headset for soldiers based on HoloLens 2 technology, or what’s called an Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS), According
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EON Reality
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Introducing the Spatial AI Tour Blog Series by Dan Lejerskar, Founder of EON Reality Embark on a global journey with Dan Lejerskar, the Founder of EON Reality, as he takes you through the cutting-edge intersections of technology, education, and innovation in the 24-city Spatial AI Tour. In this ongoing series, Dan offers firsthand insights and captivating stories from cities around the world, spotlighting how Spatial AI is transforming the landscapes of learning, training, and technological grow
Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Leaked documents relating to Microsoft’s business strategy for Xbox show the company eyeing XR technology but continuing to keep it at arm’s length. While Microsoft has previously taken considerable steps into XR with both HoloLens and the Windows Mixed Reality platform on PC, the company’s flagship gaming division, Xbox, has notably not joined the fray.
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
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
During the opening keynote at Intel's Innovation event in San Jose, Chief Executive Officer Pat Gelsinger unveiled a score of details about the upcoming Meteor Lake client platform. Intel's Meteor Lake marks the beginning of a new era for the chipmaker, as they move away from the chaotic Intel 7 node and go into a rollout of their Foveros 3D packaging with EUV lithography for their upcoming client mobile platform.
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Anand Tech
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
As part of Intel’s Innovation 2023 conference, the company is not only showing off their current and soon-to-be-current products like Meteor Lake, but the forward-looking keynote by CEO Pat Gelsinger was also used to showcase future generations of Intel products. Perhaps the biggest surprise this year being Intel’s Lunar Lake platform, which is already up and running to the point where Intel can do demos on it.
Upload VR
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
You can now preorder Immersed's Visor via a "fully refundable deposit". Visor was announced in August as an ultra-compact productivity headset with OLED microdisplays, inside-out tracking, HD color passthrough, hand tracking, and eye tracking set to release in 2024 with support for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Immersed says it has an onboard chipset and battery to support a wireless mode, and has integrated inside-out tracking from Qualcomm.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
This month is proving fruitful for Microsoft’s immersive technology division. As the firm works towards its industrial 2024 Metaverse roadmap, Microsoft is keen to display client success stories highlighting how enterprise partnerships enhance their workplaces with Microsoft’s immersive product portfolio. Recently, Microsoft has showcased how clients such as Nexco-East, the US Army, and Boeing leverage its immersive products.
Anand Tech
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Wi-Fi has seen rapid advancements over the last decade, starting with the introduction of 802.11ac (Wi-Fi 5). 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6) came with significant improvements in total throughput. The Wi-Fi 6E standard brought 6 GHz operation (where allowed) to consumers. A few years back, Wi-Fi 7 silicon was announced with multi-gigabit throughput and significant latency improvements.
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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
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Apple CEO Tim Cook claims he watched "the entire third season" of the show Ted Lasso in Vision Pro. Cook told CBS News he uses Apple Vision Pro "on a regular basis", giving his Ted Lasso watching as an example. Watching traditional media and playing traditional games was one of the core use cases for Vision Pro pitched when it was introduced at WWDC back in June.
Anand Tech
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Kicking off this morning is Intel's annual technology conference, Innovation. The second year of the revived show once again has Intel's CEO Pat Gelsinger leading things off, with what's scheduled to be a 90 minute keynote. Intel has four major themes for this year's show: Accelerating the AI Era Transformative Innovation for the Future of Computing Hype vs.
Upload VR
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Pistol Whip prepares for Halloween with Elixir of Madness on all major VR platforms. Previously revealed in the latest roadmap , Elixir Of Madness promises "ghastly delights" in time for Halloween, taking inspiration from vintage horror cinema and "seedy absinthe speakeasies." Focused on electro-swing music with "phantasmagorical" visuals, that begins with 'Halloween Party' on October 5th, soundtracked by Odd Chap.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Meta Platforms has reportedly launched plans to boost its metaverse technology investments in Vietnam. VN Express International reported on Tuesday that Joel Kaplan, Vice President for US Public Policy, Meta , said his company had begun shifting production to the nation four years ago. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Meta shelved its plans to move forward with the initiative.
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.
Upload VR
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
New Luxottica smart glasses were approved by the FCC ahead of the expected launch of the next generation Ray-Ban Stories. The current Ray-Ban Stories are camera glasses for taking hands-free first person photos and videos. They also have speakers and a microphone for music and phone calls but there is no display of any sort. Snapchat has been selling successive generations of a similar product, Spectacles , since 2017.
VRGames
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Ghost Signal: A Stellaris Game, a fast-paced roguelite spin-off to the popular grand strategy game by Paradox, is preparing for an exciting return next month with improved visuals on PSVR 2 and PC VR. Players take control of the spaceship Aurora to investigate the mysterious Ghost Signal and uncover its ancient secrets.
Upload VR
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
A new Racket Club dev diary detailed its social mechanics and it's launching this December on Quest and SteamVR. Hosted by Mathieu Castelli, Chief Creative Officer at Resolution Games, he explains that the team wanted to create something like a real tennis club. "That means you step in a place where other people are playing around you, you can hear them play, you can interact or not, it's your choice," Castelli confirms.
XR Today - Augmented Reality tag
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Amazon has recently introduced several new features for shoppers to find products from their mobile devices using augmented reality (AR) shopping technologies. The additions aim to challenge firms like Google, Pinterest, and others dominating the eCommerce search sector. Google previously debuted its own multisearch tool via its Google Lens platform, with Lens initially debuting in October 2017.
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.
Bernard Marr
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Once again, we’ve reached the time of year when we look ahead at what technology has in store for us in 2024. Digital transformation doesn’t end – it’s an ongoing process, and the breakthrough trends that have made 2023 one of the most exciting years for innovation will continue to reshape our world in many exciting ways. Machine intelligence, the blurring of the boundaries between the real and the virtual, and shaping the ongoing evolution of the internet will all radically impact our lives.
The AR Show
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Replay of an interview originally published in April 2023: Maryam Sabour is the General Manager and Head of Business for the AR Headsets group at Niantic, where the goal is to enable everyday adventures and real-life social interaction through location-based augmented reality. Maryam studied law and business at university, going on to earn a Juris Doctorate at McGill University.
Doc-Ok
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Now that’s a clickbaity title, you might say, but it’s actually the title of a video I watched the other day: Linus Torvalds is a fun speaker, so go watch the video. I’ll wait here. That was the bait, now here is the switch: I don’t think that Linux sucks as a desktop. I have been using Linux as my desktop computing environment since SGI IRIX stopped being a thing, so maybe in 2001, and it’s fine.
CraneMorley
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Back to Blog Page The University of Adelaide has recently unveiled a groundbreaking innovation that promises to revolutionize the diagnosis and treatment of foot wounds. Researchers at the university shared the news about their pilot program which utilizes Microsoft’s Mixed Reality headset the HoloLens to improve the assessment and management of patients’ leg and foot ulcers.
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?
VRGames
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
It’s finally here – Portal 2 is officially compatible with SteamVR courtesy of the modding team known as Flat2VR. Through their hard work and dedication, gamers across the world can now experience the classic puzzle game in a whole different way due to their free mod which was shared on Giovanni ‘Gistix’ Correia’s Github page.
Oculus
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Meta Horizon Worlds v128 is here! We made some changes to the way your Meta Horizon name displays in your Worlds profile and fixed a few bugs, including an issue impacting leaderboards and quests. We’re T-minus eight days until this year’s Meta Connect, and we look forward to seeing you there!
Oculus
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
It’s not often that you get to be on the ground floor of a brand-new sport, but you'll get that chance this December when Racket.
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