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Style & Focus, Part III: 7 Smartglasses to Watch

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Among all the trends in spatial computing – including Apple Vision Pro and the ongoing convergence with AI – accelerated innovation in smart glasses sticks out. We look at exemplars. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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After Building One of VR’s Most Successful Games, ‘Beat Saber’ Founder Plans to Take a Break from VR

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Jan ‘Split’ Ilavsky, founder of Beat Games and creator behind VR’s favorite block-slashing rhythm game Beat Saber (2018) , left the studio late last month, stepping down from his position as the game’s Creative Director. Now, Ilavsky tells Road to VR he’s taking an extended break from VR altogether. After creating one of VR’s most successful games financially to date, which generated over $100 million in revenue in 2021 alone , it’s safe to say Ilavsky d

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Lessons From Developing a Vision Pro App

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What are early lessons in Vision Pro app design as the playbook is still being written? Ludenso breaks down its biggest learnings and insights from its educational AVP app. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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The XR Week Peek (2024.03.12): Apple aims at a $1500 Vision device, Plutosphere shuts down, and more

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Today is a tough day for me. You can see why at this LinkedIn post: [link] And now let’s dig into the most interesting pieces of XR news of the week. Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Apple aims at a $1500 Vision device Let me tell you what have been the main pieces of news about the Vision Pro I’ve found this week. First of all, Apple has updated the runtime VisionOS to version 1.1, bringing many quality-of-life improvements.

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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 Issues Voluntary Recall of Early Quest 3 Elite Battery Straps Due to Charging Fault

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A widespread charging fault with Meta’s $130 Elite Battery Strap for Quest 3 forced the company to pause shipments back in December and start replacing units on a case-by-case basis. Now, it seems Meta has zeroed in on just which units could potentially be defective, and issuing what it calls “voluntary replacements”—but only if they contact you first.

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Study Finds 120fps Is The "Important Threshold" To Avoid VR Sickness

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A recent study concluded that 120fps is the "important threshold" to avoid VR sickness for most people. The paper comes from Xi'an Jiaotong–Liverpool University in China, where the authors have been studying the effects of VR refresh rates, resolution, haptics, stereoscopy, and more for years, including how these elements all relate to simulator sickness.

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Spawning into the IRL Metaverse at Europapark’s AUREA Award

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The AUREA Awards recently took place in Germany. AR Insider Editor-at-Large Emily Olman attended and has all the takeaways and additional color. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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OpenSim area continues growth streak

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The total land area on OpenSim’s public grids reached the equivalent of 132,969 standard regions this month, an all-time high — and the third month in a row that OpenSim land area has broken records. There was an increase of 1,089 standard region equivalents compared to last month. Meanwhile, the total number of registered users went up by more than 1,338.

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LG Launches Business Metaverse

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Following its recent partnership with Meta, LG Electronics is launching its first enterprise-ready Metaverse platform for HVAC installers and professionals. According to the firm, its “LG Air Solution Village” Metaverse offers HVAC professionals an immersive space for several use cases, including virtual showrooms and functional installation simulation.

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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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Virtual Desktop Can Now Use Quest 3's Inside-Out Body Tracking To Emulate Worn Vive Trackers

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Virtual Desktop's latest update lets you use Quest 3's Inside-Out Body Tracking and Generative Legs to emulate worn Vive Trackers for SteamVR body tracking. Vive Trackers are mainly used by VRChat users to track body parts such as their torso, elbows, legs, and feet to drive their avatar in real-time. But this incurs a significant added cost. The traditional Vive Trackers cost $130 each and require SteamVR Tracking base stations ($150 each) while the inside-out Vive Ultimate Trackers cost $200 e

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EON Reality Expands its Rollout in Estonia Targeting National-Rollout with 10,000 Tailored Courses with the Launch of Spatial AI Center and EON AI Autonomous Agents

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EON Reality Announces National Rollout of the Spatial AI Center in Estonia IRVINE, CA – March 18, 2024 – In a significant leap towards revolutionizing the digital and educational landscape of Estonia, EON Reality, a worldwide leader in VR and AR-based knowledge transfer for education and industry, is thrilled to announce the national rollout of the first Spatial AI Center in Estonia.

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Why “Embodiment” is More Important Than “Immersion” – Inside XR Design

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Our series Inside XR Design examines specific examples of great XR design. Today we’re looking at the game Synapse and exploring the concept of embodiment and what makes it important to VR games. You can find the complete video below, or continue reading for an adapted text version. Defining Embodiment Welcome back to another episode of Inside XR design.

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Apple Vision Pro Used by UK Surgeons

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Apple’s Vision Pro headset has been used in surgery for the first time during a UK operation. Two surgeons used the device at the private hospital Cromwell as a “surgical logistics and organisational tool”, according to spatial computing healthcare firm eXeX. The Vision Pro is available in the US, but Apple has yet to reveal when it will be launched in other regions.

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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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Meta Is Funding Godot Veterans To Improve The Engine's OpenXR & Quest Features Support

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Meta is funding a group of Godot veterans to improve the engine's support for OpenXR and Quest feature extensions, as well as to build high-quality samples and documentation. That group is W4 Games, a startup founded in 2021 by Godot's co-creator Juan Linietsky, Godot's Project Manager Rémi Verschelde, Godot's Networking maintainer Fabio Alessandrelli, and serial entrepreneur Nicola Farronato.

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Spatial Beats: AI & XR Converge at SXSW

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AI and XR meet in Austin, while funding flows and OpenAI avoids foes. We have these and other happenings from this week through the eyes of Charlie Fink. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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EON Reality Unveils the New Cutting-Edge Facility for the EON Spatial AI Center

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Irvine, CA, March 18, 2024 – EON Reality, a global leader in virtual and augmented reality academic and industry solutions, is excited to announce the launch of the state-of-the-art EON Spatial AI Center. This advanced facility is designed to foster innovation and learning through immersive technologies, revolutionizing the way we interact with digital environments.

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The Apple Effect: Magic Leap Founder’s Previous Company Launches App on Vision Pro

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Apple’s significant impact on the market tends to draw attention from companies that might not have otherwise entered a specific product category—aka “The Apple Effect.” With the entrance of Apple Vision Pro, one such entity to follow suit is Stryker’s Mako , a robotic surgery group initially founded as a standalone company by Rony Abovitz, the founder and first CEO of AR unicorn Magic Leap.

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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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Asus Adds Support for 64GB Memory Modules to Intel 600/700 Motherboards

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Asus on Thursday said it has released new versions of UEFI BIOS for DDR5-supporting Intel 600/700-series motherboards that enable support for 64 GB DIMMs. As a result, Asus's latest platforms for Intel's 12 th , 13 th and 14 th Generation Core processors with four slots for DIMM slots can now work with up to 256 GB of DDR5 memory, and motherboards with two DIMM slots can now support up to 128 GB of memory.

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Check Out These WebXR Mixed Reality Demos With Crossplay Between Quest 3 And Phones

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Niantic and Meta partnered to fund three multiplayer mixed reality demo games that run in the browser and support crossplay between Quest 3 and mobile. The demos were built over a ten week period using Niantic's 8th Wall web-based AR engine, which has a fully in-browser editor and offers cloud hosting for built projects. Niantic is the company behind smartphone AR games like Pokémon GO, Pikmin Bloom, and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite.

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Reality Bytes: TikTok, Midjourney & Ready Player One

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his week on Reality Bytes, we investigate Midjourney’s hypocrisy, snap a pic with TikTok, and stay ‘Open’ to the idea of a new Metaverse at SXSW. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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EON Reality Unveils the New Cutting-Edge Facility for the EON Spatial AI Center

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Irvine, CA, March 18, 2024 – EON Reality, a global leader in virtual and augmented reality academic and industry solutions, is excited to announce the launch of the state-of-the-art EON Spatial AI Center. This advanced facility is designed to foster innovation and learning through immersive technologies, revolutionizing the way we interact with digital environments.

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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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VR Horror ‘HappyFunland’ Coming to PSVR 2 & SteamVR This Month, Trailer Here

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Perp Games and Spectral Illusions announced the VR horror title HappyFunland is coming to PSVR 2 and SteamVR headsets this month, letting you explore the abandoned remains of a theme park that promises some darkly comedic frights. Here’s how the studios describes it: You had never heard of HappyFunland theme park, or it’s tragic tale, when you agreed to meet a total stranger, named Larry, in the middle of a South Florida swamp.

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BIOSTAR Debuts Barebones A620MS mATX Motherboard For Ryzen 7000 Processors

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BIOSTAR has launched its AM5-based A620MS motherboard today, bringing a new low-end option for PC users on a budget. Though BIOSTAR has not disclosed what MSRP it the A620MS motherboard will carry, the specifications of the board make it clear that it targets the lowest-end segment of the market, though it makes use of the regular A620 chipset instead of the even less expensive A620A chipset.

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Minecraft Inspired cyubeVR Supports 8K Textures & Mods On PSVR 2

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cyubeVR is a Minecraft-inspired voxel sandbox that promises 8K textures, mod support and realistic crafting this week on PSVR 2. Developed by Stonebrick Studios, cyubeVR is an open-world procedurally generated sandbox that launched in 2018 on Steam Early Access. Featuring voxel visuals inspired by Minecraft, this fully destructible world features a dynamic weather system, day-and-night cycle and a 3D crafting system that promises "realistic" VR mechanics.

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5 Ways AR Elevates Inventory Management

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Businesses continue to discover ways AR can help them boost efficiency. Inventory management is just one of these developing areas. We examine the why and the how. 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