XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 16, 2025

The Khronos OpenXR Working Group recently updated its OpenXR framework with new extensions to support standardisation across XR-ready devices. The mvoe sees OpenXR OS now equipped with new Spatial Entities Extensions via its public review channel, increasing support for interoperable XR spatial experiences. Interestingly, the move comes just as Google’s AndriodXR OS emerges as a framework for agile XR applications and hardware that covers a wide range of devices from various manufacturers.

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JUNE 16, 2025

Through a partnership with Meta, Puma has launched a Quest-only WebXR mixed reality shopping experience for its latest basketball shoe. The experience lets you view the various colors and sizes of the All Pro Nitro, and grab it to view it at 1:1 scale. It includes a tool to measure your feet to determine your shoe size, as well as a guide to what Puma clothing to wear to match each color.

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EonReality

JUNE 16, 2025

IRVINE, CA – June 16, 2025 – EON Reality, the world leader in AI-assisted Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, today outlined its strategic vision for building the world’s largest AI-powered knowledge platform. With 25 years of experience, 136+ million users , and partnerships with Fortune 1000 companies worldwide, the company is positioned at the convergence of four significant forces driving educational technology transformation.

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Upload VR

JUNE 16, 2025

10 million Quest owners have completed at least one track of Beat Saber standalone on their headset. Beat Saber's first achievement crossing 10 million unlocks on Quest was spotted by UploadVR reader James Kelley , who brought it to our attention. Arguably the most widely known VR game of all time, Beat Saber has become somewhat of a cultural phenomenon.

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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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EonReality

JUNE 16, 2025

IRVINE, CA — June 16, 2025 — EON Reality, the global leader in Artificial Intelligence-powered augmented and virtual reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, today announced a landmark agreement with Daystar University to seamlessly integrate EON AI Academy across the institution’s academic programs. This strategic partnership transforms conventional education at one of Kenya’s leading private universities into “The Third Way” – an entirely new e

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EonReality

JUNE 16, 2025

IRVINE, CA – June 16, 202 5 – EON Reality, the world leader in AI-assisted Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, is proud to announce a groundbreaking partnership with Victoria University, in Kampala, Uganda, through the prestigious Spatial AI R&D Grant Program. This collaboration will establish the Spatial AI University, redefining 21st-century education by merging the best of traditional and online learning with immersive Spatial AI-pow

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JUNE 16, 2025

Oakley and Meta are teasing a joint launch for Friday. A new verified Instagram page called "Oakley | Meta" posted a collaborative video with the official Meta and Oakley pages teasing the June 20 launch, and the video has been reposted by Mark Zuckerberg. The branding for the new page mirrors the "Ray-Ban | Meta" branding for the current Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, strongly suggesting Meta's partnership with eyewear giant EssilorLuxottica is about to expand to Oakley too. 0:00 / 0:15 1× Exactly

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AR Insider

JUNE 16, 2025

Augmented World Expo 2025, now in its 16th year, wrapped late last week in Long Beach, California. What were the biggest takeaways and what did the show tell us about XR's current stage and near-term trajectory? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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JUNE 16, 2025

Connect the dots takes on a whole new dimension of color, scale, and fluidity in virtual reality with Connectome on Quest. Who among us didn't play connect the dots at some point in their childhood? Connectome aims to bring this simple game of creating shapes to VR by drawing lines between points in space using hand tracking on Quest. In this game, though, connecting the dots takes on a new approach since it's now played out across your room versus drawing on a flat piece of paper. 0:00 / 0:58 1

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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.

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Road to VR

JUNE 16, 2025

Jim Henson’s Muppets could be coming to VR following talks with Disney—possibly offering a clue at the sort of content Meta reportedly hopes to bring to its next VR headset. Disney held an event on June 14th celebrating the 70th anniversary of The Jim Henson Company. The event was also a bittersweet sendoff for one of Disney’s Hollywood Studios most famous long-running attractions, Muppet* Vision 3D.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 16, 2025

A big hello from Cupertino, the city of Apple, here in the Silicon Valley! I’ll stay here a week to have meetings before going to Berlin to be a mentor at XRCC. I hope my time in the Bay Area will be nice, after the troubled week at AWE (I got sick during the event and moved across the event like a zombie in Resident Evil, in case you didn’t know). Send me good vibes, and I’ll send you a summary of the most important XR news of the week!

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Road to VR

JUNE 16, 2025

Sandbox adventure I Am Cat (2024) is all about stretching your chubby little paws, exploring the neighborhood, playing with dynamite—you know, cat things. Now the hit single-player game just got a new update that brings multiplayer lobbies to the mix, following an increasing trend in social VR games taking over. Developer New Folder Games just released a new maritime playground, letting you and up to 19 other feline friends set sail together for more patently wacky adventures.

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Upload VR

JUNE 16, 2025

For the first time, an Apple executive has shown themselves using their visionOS Persona. Greg "Joz" Joswiak, Apple's SVP of Worldwide Marketing, shared a short clip on X in response to YouTuber iJustine, who posted a similar clip raving about the all-new Personas in visionOS 26. 0:00 / 0:10 1× visionOS 26 was announced last week at WWDC25, and the significantly more realistic Personas are one of the many improvements the update is set to bring. visionOS 26 Brings PS VR2 Controllers, Photorealis

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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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Road to VR

JUNE 16, 2025

Palmer Luckey’s military tech company Anduril recently announced a partnership with Meta to build “the world’s best AR and VR systems for the US military.” In two recent public conversations, Luckey offered up some details on the XR helmet his company is building for the military and how this unlikely partnership arose years after his VR company Oculus was acquired by Meta, followed by his unceremonious firing.

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XROM

JUNE 16, 2025

Nazara Technologies, India’s only publicly listed gaming company, has made a bold entry into the world of virtual reality and immersive gaming with the launch of Pokerverse VR—a multiplayer poker experience designed for next-generation headsets like Meta Quest and Apple Vision Pro.Developed by Hyderabad-based YesGnome and published by Nazara Publishing, Pokerverse VR is now available to players worldwide.

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Upload VR

JUNE 16, 2025

By turning guns into a tool for creation, Dreams of Another isn't your normal VR adventure. We've known about Q-Games' upcoming philosophical adventure since its announcement back in February, and Dreams of Another explores a key philosophical theme; “no creation without destruction.” Following the stories of the Man in Pajamas and the Wandering Soldier, this occurs within an ephemeral dream-like world that's brought to life with cloud point rendering technology.

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Charlie Fink

JUNE 16, 2025

More on Meta's plans for Scale AI as Hollywood drops the hammer on AI companies that generate its characters. XR goes mainstream with new AR Glasses from Google and Snap.

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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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JUNE 16, 2025

Nine official Williams pinball tables recently launched on Quest, and we’ve got up close looks at all of them. Grouped into three separate offerings costing $9.99 each, pinball wizards can add the Williams Pinball Volumes 1, 2, and 3 DLC packs to their virtual home arcades. Zen Studios is also offering players a discounted bundle, the Williams Collection 1, providing a solid 20% savings.

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Road to VR

JUNE 16, 2025

Meta officially confirmed the expansion of its EssilorLuxottica partnership to include a pair of Oakley smart glasses—possibly arriving soon. Earlier this year, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported that Meta was looking to expand its line of smart glasses beyond Ray-Ban Meta, which would include two possible new devices: a sportier Oakley-branded model, and a high-end model with built-in display—the latter has yet to be announced.

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Bernard Marr

JUNE 16, 2025

Video games have played an important role in the development of AI. Many early demonstrations of machine learning involved teaching computers to play games. Eventually, Google Deepmind’s mastery of the game Starcraft 2 was taken as proof that machines could now compete with us across many fields in which we were previously undisputed champions. Now, games are being used as a testbed for exploring some of the most exciting new areas in AI, including autonomous agents, real-world robots and perhap

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Slashgear

JUNE 16, 2025

CUDA Cores shine the brightest when handling tasks that benefit from parallel computation. Tensor Cores use AI to upscale graphics in video games.

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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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Charlie Fink

JUNE 16, 2025

As lawsuits target Midjourney and Stability AI, studios Gennie and Toonstar use AI to garner TV deals and agency signings, building legally compliant pipelines.

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Bernard Marr

JUNE 16, 2025

I’m excited to share that I’ve joined Nokia as their Futurist in Residence. In this new role, I’ll be working closely with their teams to explore and communicate the technologies that will shape the world of tomorrow. Already, I’ve had the opportunity to immerse myself in some of the most innovative research and product development happening inside the company.

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Slashgear

JUNE 16, 2025

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Bernard Marr

JUNE 16, 2025

Quantum is the next big thing in computing. But while there’s clearly a lot of hype, I do believe it could potentially be a solution to some pretty important problems. From vastly decreasing the time it takes to formulate new drugs to creating greener energy , there will be huge opportunities for businesses to break new ground. There’s a big problem, though: there’s a severe shortage of people with the skills businesses will need for quantum computing to achieve anything like its full potential.

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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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