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Where Do Spatial and Affective Computing Meet?

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Spatial computing intersects with affective computing: “computing that relates to, arises from, or deliberately influences emotions.” UX design specialist Stef Hutka tells us how. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Apple Announces WWDC 2024 with Plans to Highlight “visionOS advancements”

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Apple finally revealed when its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) is happening this summer, and the company says it’s also slated to highlight some “advancements” on Vision Pro’s operating system, visionOS. Coming June 10th – 14th, WWDC is set to feature updates to visionOS in addition to the regular deluge of stuff for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS.

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The Short History and Long Future of Smart Glasses

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Though there's still a ways to go, the past six months have seen a noticeable inflection in the smart glasses category. We look back at the category's history and forward to its potential impact. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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PSVR 2 Firmware Update Points to Wired PC VR Support, Potentially Freeing Users From PlayStation 5

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Sony announced last month it was bringing PC VR support to PSVR 2 sometime this year, although the company didn’t specify how or exactly when this would happen. While we’re no closer to knowing when , all signs now point to a direct wired connection—holding a few implications for Sony’s VR strategy. According to the latest PS5 firmware update , PSVR 2 now works without needing Extended Display Identification Data (EDID) and DisplayPort Compression (DSC), two things which were b

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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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Meta Reportedly Still Plans To Bring Cheaper Version Of Quest 3 To China Via Tencent

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Meta still plans to bring the upcoming cheaper version of Quest 3 to China via partnership with Tencent, The Information reports. Cheaper Version Of Quest 3? A Meta hardware roadmap meeting leaked to The Verge in March last year revealed the company planned to release a new headset after Quest 3 in 2024 "at the most attractive price point in the VR consumer market".

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Gamuda CR111 Harnesses EON Reality’s Technology for Enhancing Workplace Safety

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Setting New Standards: Gamuda CR111 Revolutionizes Safety Training with EON Reality’s XR and AI Solutions IRVINE, CA – March 26, 2024 – EON Reality, a global leader in augmented and virtual reality knowledge transfer for industry and education, is proud to announce its latest partnership with Gamuda CR111. This strategic partnership signifies a commitment to leveraging EON Reality’s EON-XR and EON-AI platforms for revolutionizing workplace safety and training methods.

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5 Ways XR Elevates Medical Training

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Interactive 3D models don't just have applicability in product marketing. They're finding a home in medical training. How is this coming together and how could it transform anatomical education? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Meta Announces “multi-million dollar” XR Development Fund to Boost Newly Formed Studios

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Meta this week announced Oculus Publishing Ignition, a “multi-million dollar” fund aimed at newly formed XR studios. The company is offering money for VR and MR prototypes, with the potential for follow-on funding to turn those prototypes into full titles. Seemingly wanting to tap into the unfortunate number of recently laid off game developers, Meta’s new Oculus Publishing Ignition fund is specifically looking for XR studios that were formed on or after April 2023.

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New Apple Pencil Model With Vision Pro Support Reportedly Being Tested By Apple

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A new Apple Pencil that supports Vision Pro is being tested by Apple, according to MacRumors. MacRumors cites "a source familiar with the matter" as saying Apple has internally tested such a stylus to allow drawing in visionOS apps like Freeform. The report doesn't however go into any specific detail on how the new device works. Supporting the report's claims, in February a VR developer found a reference to a 'Stylus' in the Unity PolySpatial package for visionOS. 0:00 / 0:17 1× Drawing in Visio

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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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Zuckerberg’s VR Vision: Will Rejecting Google’s Android XR Cost Meta in the Long Run?

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(Image by Maria Korolov via Adobe Firefly.) Could Mark Zuckerberg’s lust-driven quest to own VR, AR and mixed reality end up costing Meta at the end of the day? That’s a question being posed after The Information reported recently that Google had approached Meta partner with its new software platform — Google Android XR — that is being developed for virtual reality.

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UBT Elevates Educational Offering with EON Reality’s EON-XR and EON-AI Integration

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Bridging the Gap: UBT Pioneers Next-Generation Learning with Advanced XR and AI Education Technologies IRVINE, CA – March 26, 2024 – EON Reality, the global innovator in augmented and virtual reality-based knowledge transfer for education and enterprise, is thrilled to announce its collaboration with the prestigious University for Business and Technology (UBT).

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visionOS 2 Is Reportedly Coming This Year - Will It Bring 3D Spatial Personas?

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visionOS 2.0 for Apple Vision Pro will release this year, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. Apple Vision Pro launched on February 2 with visionOS 1.0. Earlier this month Apple released visionOS 1.1 with improvements to the realism of Personas, reliability of Mac Virtual Display, positioning of Volumes, and more. visionOS 1.1 Is Out Now, Improving Personas And More visionOS 1.1 for Apple Vision Pro is out now.

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How to use AI to write an opinion column

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(Image by Maria Korolov via Adobe Firefly.) So. You have some thoughts about where OpenSim is going. Or there’s a cool new fashion designer in OpenSim you want to tell people about. Or there’s a feature you’d really like to see implemented. You’ve been thinking for a while about writing it up and sending it to Hypergrid Business to be published, but writing is just so much work!

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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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EON Reality Launches Immersive XR Education and Training Platform in Mauritius

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Empowering Mauritian Learning and Professional Development with Next-Gen XR Technologies Port Louis, Mauritius – [Insert Date]: EON Reality, the global leader in Augmented and Virtual Reality-based knowledge and skills transfer for industry and education, announces its official launch in Mauritius. This expansion marks a significant milestone in bringing state-of-the-art experiential learning and training solutions to the island’s academic institutions and businesses.

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Reality Bytes: Apple, Nvidia & Instagram

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This week on Reality Bytes, we discuss Apple’s new AI plans, debate the power of NVIDIA’s newest chip, and redeem a discount on Instagram. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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‘Laser Dance’ Hands-on: Forget ‘the floor is lava’—You’ve Got Lasers Now

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After recently playing a prototype version of Laser Dance , I’ve been trying to wrap my head around what makes it so engaging. And it finally struck me. The game is a manifestation of the kind of simple rules that could turn any ordinary day in my childhood into an exciting adventure. Immediately I recalled the classic childhood pastime of ‘the floor is lava’, the game where everyone has to pretend that the floor is entirely covered in lava, and touching it means you’ll d

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Playing Half-Life: Alyx On Apple Vision Pro Using Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons

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Half-Life: Alyx and other SteamVR games like Walkabout Mini Golf and Beat Saber are technically playable with Nintendo Joy-Cons on Apple Vision Pro. But how well does it all actually work? A port of ALVR enables PC VR streaming to Apple's $3500 headset and maps hand tracking to Valve’s skeletal input system in Steam. Combining this with a Joy-Con in each hand, you have the inputs needed to play VR games like Half-Life: Alyx, Beat Saber, Walkabout Mini Golf and more.

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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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Could Major XR Partnerships Offset High-Risks and Costs?

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Recently, a big piece of news in the XR industry was the announcement that Samsung would enter the XR device marketplace. According to recent reports, the upcoming Samsung headset will have a microOLED display, eight tracking cameras, a ToF sensor, voice commands, eye tracking, and hand tracking features. Additionally, given Samsung’s partnership with Qualcomm, it is highly likely that the device will contain Qualcomm’s latest XR2+ Gen 2 Platform, which was developed in collaboration

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Project Informatica Srl Embarks on a New Era of Digital Transformation with EON Reality

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Innovation Unleashed: Project Informatica Srl Advances Towards the Future with Revolutionary XR and AI Solutions IRVINE, CA – March 27, 2024 – EON Reality, a leader in augmented and virtual reality-based knowledge transfer for businesses and educators, announces a pioneering partnership with Project Informatica Srl. This collaboration marks a significant step for Project Informatica Srl as it integrates EON Reality’s advanced EON-XR and EON-AI technologies into its IT infrastructure to enh

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Will Vision Pro Be a Brand Marketing Vessel?

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Despite the chorus of punditry on Apple Vision Pro, its real fate lies in an x-factor: What the market will bear. But until brands and enterprises vote with their wallets, we can look to survey data to take their temperature. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Meta Slashes Quest 2 Price to New Low Ahead of Suspected Quest 3 Lite

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Meta is once again reducing the price of Quest 2, this time bringing the 128GB version of its 2020-era standalone VR headset to just $200. The company has made its new pricing scheme available at major retailers like Amazon: Quest 2 (128GB) – $200 Quest 3 (256GB, refurbished) – $270 The new low price can also be found at Walmart , Target , Best Buy , New Egg , and more, including direct from Meta.

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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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Quest 3 Has Higher Retention Than Previous Headsets, Meta Confirms

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Meta confirmed that Quest 3 owners have higher retention than owners of its previous headsets. Industry speculation and analysis often focuses on headset unit sales, but what really matters to both Meta and developers is how many buyers actually regularly use the headset instead of leaving it on a shelf or in a drawer. By March 2023 Meta had sold nearly 20 million Quest headsets, and in October 2022 6.37 million owners reportedly actually used their headset that month.

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Snapchat Introduces Sponsored AR Filters for Advertisers

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Snapchat has launched Sponsored AR Filters, enabling brands to place adverts in the post-capture Filter Carousel. XR in Telecoms and Media Case Study: Verizon and Snapchat Snapchat Still a Good Marketing Tool, Says Partner Exec Estée Lauder Launches Snapchat AR Makeup Try-On The new augmented reality (AR) advertising expands the reach for brands beyond the pre-capture Lens Carousel, leveraging the potential of the five billion Snaps created every day.

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Kuwait University Transforms Education Landscape with EON Reality’s Cutting-Edge XR and AI Solutions

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A Quantum Leap in Learning: Kuwait University Integrates Advanced Technologies to Cultivate an Immersive Educational Environment IRVINE, CA – March 27, 2024 – EON Reality, the world’s leading provider of virtual and augmented reality-based knowledge transfer for education and industry, is delighted to announce its strategic partnership with Kuwait University.

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Spatial Beats: Nerd Woodstock & The State of Unreal

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Dueling conferences unfold at GDC & Nvidia GTC, while Xreal flexes muscles. We have these and other items from the spatial spectrum through the eyes of Charlie Fink. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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The Key to Getting the Best Out of Video-Based Practice & Coaching

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