Road to VR
JUNE 12, 2025
Samsung Unpacked is expected to kick off next month with the usual slate of hardware announcements, which this year could include the company’s latest foldable smartphones, Galaxy Z Flip 7 and Fold 7, and its latest Galaxy Watch 8. Rumors suggest though the company is also looking to put its upcoming XR headset, Project Moohan, in the spotlight too.
The Ghost Howls
JUNE 12, 2025
At AWE 2025, Google made some interesting announcements about the development for Android XR glasses , and I would like to share them with you. Development for smartglasses Me trying the Ray-Ban Meta glasses Smartglasses are the most hyped technology of the moment in XR. Everyone is excited about their possibilities, and especially by how they could be the interface that lets us interact naturally with artificial intelligence.
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Road to VR
JUNE 12, 2025
VR veteran studio nDreams is getting ready to release what looks like one of its most immersive VR games yet, led by its newest internal studio nDreams Elevation. Now, in a behind the scenes VR Developer Direct spotlight, the studio offered up some key insight into just what makes Reach so immersive. nDreams Elevation announced Reach last week, showing off some initial gameplay in what’s shaping up to be a cinematic, parkour-focused combat game, replete with a ton of VR-native movement
Upload VR
JUNE 12, 2025
During the recent VR Developer Direct, Vertigo Games and developer Maze Theory shared an update on the upcoming Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow. Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow is a revival of the cult stealth series Thief, which made its debut all the way back in 1998. Originally confined to a flat screen, Vertigo Games ( Arizona Sunshine , Metro Awakening ) and developer Maze Theory ( Infinite Inside ) are now reimagining the series for VR.
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.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
JUNE 12, 2025
PICO vs Meta Quest Enterprise: Which is the better option? Extended Reality is reshaping the enterprise, transforming training , collaboration, and even customer service experiences across industries. For companies that want to take advantage, the first step is choosing the right partner. So, do you pick a global giant like Meta, or a lesser-known, but growing company like PICO XR?
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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
JUNE 12, 2025
Looking for a partner committed to making training, development, and collaboration more immersive and engaging for business teams? This PICO XR enterprise guide is here to introduce a core competitor you might be overlooking. An extended reality company backed by ByteDance (the company also responsible for TikTok), might not seem very enterprise-focused at a glance.
Upload VR
JUNE 12, 2025
ALVR now supports the PlayStation VR2 Sense controllers in its TestFlight builds for visionOS 26. If you're unfamiliar, ALVR is a SteamVR streaming tool that functions similarly to Quest Link, Steam Link, and Virtual Desktop, but has actually been around for longer and is open source. Shortly after Apple Vision Pro's launch ALVR was ported to visionOS by software developer Zhuowei Zhang.
AR Insider
JUNE 12, 2025
Amidst all the action this week at AWE – including the revelation of consumer Specs launching next year – Snap announced Lens+, As a new subscription service for Lenses, will it have the gravitational pull to create a new AR revenue stream for Snap? This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Upload VR
JUNE 12, 2025
VR MMORPG Ilysia is moving to a free-to-play model this summer. Announced during the VR Game Spotlight at AWE USA, Ilysia is switching from a paid game to a free-to-play structure across Quest and Steam with a live launch of the level 11-20 content. Developer Team 21 Studio confirmed new players will be able to access the game's first full region, Lavea, for free, and existing owners can continue playing uninterrupted.
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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.
EonReality
JUNE 12, 2025
IRVINE, CA – June 12, 2025 – EON Reality, the world leader in AI-assisted Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, today announced the implementation of a revolutionary monetization strategy designed to support its ambitious goal of providing its comprehensive B2C Career Compass platform free of charge to up to one billion individual learners worldwide.
Upload VR
JUNE 12, 2025
Could Samsung's first standalone XR headset launch next month, but only in South Korea? PandaFlash, a Samsung-focused leaker, seemed to strongly hint so in posts on X. The posts suggest the launch would occur during a July Samsung Unpacked event, and that the headset would "slowly slowly" expand globally. First South Korea, than Slowly Slowly Globally. — PandaFlash 𝕏 (@PandaFlashPro) June 11, 2025 However, other rumors suggest that the July Samsung Unpacked event will take place in New York Cit
Charlie Fink
JUNE 12, 2025
This was a strong year for Augmented World Expo (AWE). The show floor was crowded with exhibitors and attendees. "XR is going mainstream," says the founder.
Oculus
JUNE 12, 2025
Everything in your life has been leading up to and preparing you for this moment. Every victory you’ve achieved, zombie you’ve slain, and Nazi you’ve.
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
JUNE 12, 2025
Social sandbox Battlegrounds has announced a crossover update with the fantasy combat game Blade & Sorcery, and it's out now. Developed by Sinn Studio, Battlegrounds is a physics-based multiplayer sandbox game with PvP combat that allows players to platform through levels and take one another down in the name of chaos. Now, Battlegrounds is collaborating with the melee VR game Blade & Sorcery.
Mashable VR
JUNE 12, 2025
Google Cloud was identified by a Cloudflare representative as the cause of a massive outage that disrupted services across the internet Thursday. The widespread internet outage affected a variety of popular platforms, with users reporting problems accessing Google services, Cloudflare, Spotify, Twitch, and Discord. The outage also included popular cloud hosting services such as Cloudflare, which reported service disruptions on its status page.
Slashgear
JUNE 12, 2025
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Mashable VR
JUNE 12, 2025
On Thursday afternoon, a massive list of popular internet services all started experiencing outages at the same time. Thousands of confused internet users took to Google and social media to ask why they couldn't log into their favorite websites and apps. The front page of Down Detector was a menagerie of spiking orange line graphs, starting around 2 p.m.
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.
Slashgear
JUNE 12, 2025
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Mashable VR
JUNE 12, 2025
Meet Tor Alva, the White Tower. Located in the sleepy village of Mulegns, Switzerland, currently home to only 11 people, the 30-metre-tall building rises above its surroundings. This 3D-printed construction relied on robots and digital craftsmanship and was created by the Origen cultural foundation and ETH Zurich.
Slashgear
JUNE 12, 2025
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Mashable VR
JUNE 12, 2025
UPDATE: Jun. 12, 2025, 5:33 p.m. EDT The Google Cloud service page has posted another update saying, "most of the Google Cloud products have confirmed full service recovery." UPDATE: Jun. 12, 2025, 5:12 p.m. EDT The Google Cloud service page says engineers "have implemented mitigation for the issue" and are "seeing signs of recovery" in multiple regions.
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?
Slashgear
JUNE 12, 2025
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Mashable VR
JUNE 12, 2025
UPDATE: Jun. 12, 2025, 5:06 p.m. EDT According to the Cloudflare status page, the service issues have been fully resolved. "All Cloudflare services have been restored and are now fully operational," the company wrote. "We are moving the incident to Monitoring while we watch platform metrics to confirm sustained stability." Large swaths of the internet went down on Thursday afternoon, affecting a wide variety of services, including Cloudflare.
Cathy Hackl
JUNE 12, 2025
As sensing, AI, quantum & space tech accelerate, storied pioneers are reinventing connectivity not just for today but with a bold vision for the next century.
Mashable VR
JUNE 12, 2025
Countless sites and services — stalwarts like Twitch, Gmail, Discord, Nintendo, and more — went down on Thursday afternoon, eastern time. The internet, even as large swaths of it went down, was quick to react on social media. And, in short, people were freaking out. People posted screenshots of Down Detector , which showed, well, just about everything was out.
Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute
The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?
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