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VR STEM Tools Heading To California & Nevada Libraries

VRScout

Nanome partners with HTC to extend their virtual science, mathematics, engineering and tech tools to new locations. Now it appears as though these California and Nevada VR systems will be receiving an upgrade in the form of a series of advanced STEM tools. Image Credit: HTC / Nanomi.

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Amazon Targets Google, Meta Ad Spending with AR Shopping Update

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Amazon has recently introduced several new features for shoppers to find products from their mobile devices using augmented reality (AR) shopping technologies. Google previously debuted its own multisearch tool via its Google Lens platform, with Lens initially debuting in October 2017.

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A Tour of the Mytaverse Enterprise Immersive World

ARPost

There are a number of great virtual world platforms out there – and a smaller number of those are dedicated to enterprise use. Mytaverse is an enterprise-only platform with special tools for digital twins and virtual assets, and I got the world tour. These can be digital collectibles or digital twins.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.12.04): Varjo announces XR-4 headset, Quest 2 sells much more than Quest 3, and more!

The Ghost Howls

But things on the consumers’ side may not be going as well: according to some data scrapped from Amazon, the Quest 2 outsold the Quest 3 by a factor of 3:1 in the last 30 days. More info A Universal Unity VR injector may be in the works, or maybe not Raicuparta has just added an old simple Universal Unity VR Mod tool to its Rai Pal tool.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.06.20): Roblox may come to Quest, Meta launches Avatar Store, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The reason why I think that this news is super-important is two-sided: On one side, it means that a platform with 50M of daily users is coming into virtual reality. Engage is one of the most appreciated virtual reality professional social ecosystems, and it is used a lot for enterprise meetings and presentations and for university lessons.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.08.22): Zuck’s selfie gets viral, Meta accounts are arriving, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Many journalists wrote bad things about Meta’s M-word efforts: they said that Meta invested $10B just to have this cringy virtual world. The Chorus headphones for Quest 2 are currently available for pre-order from Amazon and Logitech for $100 with a release date planned for September 2nd. More info (Logitech Chorus?—?Road

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Editorial: Artificial Intelligence and the Metaverse (And a Look at an AI-Assisted Social VR Platform, Riff XR)

Ryan Schultz

I have written before on this blog about artificial intelligence (AI) applications, such as the image manipulation and animation tools WOMBO and Reface , the text-to-art creation programs DALL-E 2 , Midjourney , and Stable Diffusion , and most recently, the AI-powered chatbot Replika and the text-generation app ChatGPT. So please stay tuned.