Sat.May 04, 2024 - Fri.May 10, 2024

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The Empathy Machine at SXSW, Part I

AR Insider

If virtual reality is the empathy machine, SXSW 2024 was the empathy festival. AR Insider Editor-at-Large Emily Olman reports about her emotive experiences on the ground with immersive works. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Quest 3 Has Higher Effective Resolution, So Why Does Everyone Think Vision Pro Looks Best?

Road to VR

Take a look around the web at reviews of Vision Pro and you’ll find that practically everyone agrees: Vision Pro’s display is excellent. Words like “crisp,” “smooth,” and “4K,” are commonly used when people are talking about the headset’s visuals. But what if I told you Apple’s headset actually has a lower effective resolution than Quest 3?

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The XR Week Peek (2024.05.07): Apple Vision Pro is used by Fortune 100 companies, its cheaper version may come in 2025, and more!

The Ghost Howls

This week has been quite cool for me. One of my biggest highlights has been that my article about Social AR has been featured in the famous New World Notes blog that I usually read… I’ve felt very honored about this! And after a little celebration with you, my amazing readers, it is time for me to start telling you more about the most important XR news of the week!

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Network Rail’s XR Training Pilot Reaches 1,000 UK Students

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Recently, Network Rail officially taught more than 1,000 students at the Trinity Academy in Thorne, Doncaster, a landmark number for immersive training programmes. Industry professionals at Network Rail’s Community Safety team and the British Transport Police hosted five railway safety sessions at the Doncaster school, showcasing the dangers of trespassing on railways.

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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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10 Ways AI Has the Potential to Elevate VR

AR Insider

How will AI elevate VR. Guest author Unborn Tech examine 10 ways these two technologies have the potential to unlock each other – from intelligent and reactive UX to streamlining experience creation. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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COLD VR Demo review: a promising adrenaline action game

The Ghost Howls

Today I’ve tried the free demo of COLD VR, the VR game that is the opposite of Superhot VR (hence the joke of the name). I think this game is fun and has a lot of potential, but it needs a bit more of polish to become a true hit when the full version will be released. Discover why in this review of the free preview demo that is available on Steam.

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University of Miami Builds an Educational Metaverse with ENGAGE

XR Today - Virtual Reality

The University of Miami has implemented ENGAGE’s spatial computing technology to bolster immersive learning experiences across the university. The Top Immersive Education Trends to Watch in 2024 New Meta Quest for Education Product Due this Year How Immersive Learning can Help Education, Governmental Shortages ENGAGE is a SaaS Enterprise advanced spatial computing platform that allows professionals, event organisers, educators, and businesses to create their own virtual worlds.

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Breaking Barriers: Startups Making XR More Accessible

AR Insider

As spatial computing continues to evolve and advance, it’s important that its devices and systems embrace inclusive design accessibility. Who's doing what to fulfill that mission? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Major Auto Makers Are Fully Embracing XR in the Vehicle Design Process

Road to VR

Some major car manufacturers still design cars in clay before heading into production, and while that tradition doesn’t seem to be going away just yet, companies like Ford, Volvo and Rivian say mixed reality headsets are substantially helping them to reduce time and cost in vehicle design. In a new video focusing on the Australia-base ddesign team behind the Ford Ranger, Ranger Raptor and Everest, we get a look at just how one of the world’s largest car manufacturers is using mixed r

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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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OpenAI’s Sora Brings Director’s 10-Year Music Video Vision To Life

Charlie Fink

Filmmaker Paul Trillo’s new music video, The Hardest Part, for the band Washed Out, is the first created entirely using Sora AI.

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Peterman Brothers Scale International XR Training Initiative

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Today, Interplay Learning announced a strategic partnership with Peterman Brothers’ Heating, Cooling, Plumbing, and Electrical divisions to distribute immersive learning services to ten Peterman service branches and their workers. The move sees more than 250 Peterman technicians leverage the XR training solution to improve technical skills, including HVAC, electrical, plumbing, and drain-clearing procedures.

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Spatial Beats: Cinematic AI and Spatial M&A

AR Insider

Niantic brings Peridot to Quest, Matterport gets acquired and Sora opens a new era of music videos. We have these and other happenings from the intersection of AR and AI through the eyes of Charlie Fink. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Marvel and ILM Immersive Announce Vision Pro Exclusive Based on Animated Series ‘What If…?’

Road to VR

Marvel Studios and ILM Immersive today announced a new interactive story coming exclusively to Apple Vision Pro, which is based on the popular Disney+ animated series What If…? Called What If…? – An Immersive Story, the developers call it an “immersive, narrative-driven and innovative story in mixed reality,” which is promised to be an hour-long experience.

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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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3D Scanner Matterport Sold For $1.8 Billion, Lamini AI Raises $25 Million, Neurable $13 Million, Freepic Acquires Magnific AI

Charlie Fink

M&A activity in AI and XR drove the news this week. Sandbox VR adds 25 more locations, and Niantic tries MR for the first time.

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Synthabout Is Back…with A Bundle And Quest 3 Giveaway

Upload VR

This post was produced by UploadVR in partnership with Kluge Interactive and Mighty Coconut. Fans of Synth Riders and Walkabout Mini Golf, we’ve got some news: The base games of both are available as a discounted bundle ! The Synthabout bundle launched May 3rd, 2024 and will be available until May 17th, 2024 on the Meta Quest and Steam VR for $31.99 USD.

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Reality Bytes: Instagram, YouTube & Gamified Loyalty

AR Insider

This week on Reality Bytes, we try Instagram's new interactive stickers, YouTube's AI skipper tool, and Dave & Buster's gamified loyalty. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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‘Batman: Arkham Shadow’ Trailer Massively Downvoted for Being a VR Game & Quest 3 Exclusive

Road to VR

Meta announced Batman: Arkham Shadow last week, which is coming exclusively to Quest 3 in late 2024. And wouldn’t you know it, YouTube users absolutely hate it. Although YouTube disabled the dislike button counter in 2021, you can still get a good idea of how the public is reacting to any given video by installing an extension to your browser, like Chrome’s ‘ Return YouTube Dislike ‘ Released officially through both IGN’s main YouTube channel and Meta’s own Y

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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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Runway's Second Annual AI Film Festival: A Window Into The Future Of Filmmaking

Charlie Fink

AIFF is a great thing for the growing community of artists and filmmakers drawn to Cinematic AI.

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Cheaper & Lighter Apple Vision Headset Could Reportedly Launch June 2025

Upload VR

Chinese news outlet WallStreetCN reports Apple plans to launch the cheaper and lighter Vision headset as early as June 2025. The report cites "the supply chain" as saying Apple is accelerating the launch from an original plan of September 2025, and claims the headset will weigh roughly 400 grams, significantly lighter than the 600-650 gram Vision Pro.

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Are Render Farms AR’s Unsung Hero?

AR Insider

AR content – with its demand for high-quality, real-time rendering – presents challenges that go beyond traditional digital-creation paradigms. How can render farms add value? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Apple Makes It Easier to Browse Vision Pro Apps Outside of the Headset

Road to VR

Searching for Vision Pro apps when not actually wearing the thing has been a hassle since day one. Now Apple has added a nifty new search function to its App Store web portal which makes it a lot easier to browse and download stuff. Apple launched its Vision Pro web portal a while ago, but if you were left scratching your head looking for a search function, scratch no more.

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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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Apple Announces M4 SoC: Latest and Greatest Starts on 2024 iPad Pro

Anand Tech

Setting things up for what is certainly to be an exciting next few months in the world of CPUs and SoCs, Apple this morning has announced their next-generation M-series chip, the M4. Introduced just over six months after the M3 and the associated 2023 Apple MacBook family, the M4 is going to start its life on a very different track, launching alongside Apple’s newest iPad Pro tablets.

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Niantic's Hello Dot Demo Gives You A Cute Mixed Reality Pet On Quest 3

Upload VR

Pokemon Go studio Niantic now offers one of Quest's most interesting examples of mixed reality experimentation. The free Hello, Dot app available now lets loose one of the virtual creatures from the AR game out into your environment. You can grab the jiggly little creature from the air, dip it in a bucket of paint, or point at a surface to direct its interest.

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New Dnsys X1 Exoskeleton Changes Workouts And Walks

Charlie Fink

Dnsys used artificial intelligence, biomedical engineering, and rehabilitative medicine to create a new kind of wearable tech.

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VR Attraction Sandbox VR Announces Major Expansion With 25 New Locations in the Coming Years

Road to VR

Sandbox VR, the location-based VR attraction, announced it’s opening 25 new locations as a result of a partnership with Apparel Group, the United Arab Emirates-based fashion and lifestyle company. The partnership is described as a “massive franchise deal” with Apparel Group, which has 85 brands and more than 2,200 stores across 14 countries, including much of the Middle East, South East Asia, India, Pakistan, Egypt and South Africa.

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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