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OpenXR Spatial Entities Extensions Standardize Surfaces, Markers, Anchors & Persistence

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The new OpenXR Spatial Entities Extensions standardize surface detection, marker tracking, spatial anchors, and persistence. OpenXR is the open standard API for AR/VR/MR app development and runtimes. It's managed by Khronos, the same non-profit industry consortium that manages OpenGL, Vulkan, and WebGL. The ideal of OpenXR is that developers can build apps that run on any headset, without needing to use vendor-specific core APIs for different hardware.

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EON Reality Expands Strategic Partnership with University of Prince Mugrin to Integrate Advanced EON-XR Solutions

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I RVINE, CA – June 17, 2025 – EON Reality, the world leader in AI-assisted Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, is delighted to announce the expansion and enhancement of its partnership with the University of Prince Mugrin in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This upgrade partnership brings the latest innovative tools and features from EON Reality’s XR and AI technology tools to the university’s esteemed faculty and students, further e

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Meta's Spatial SDK For Engine-Free Quest Development Got Significant Upgrades

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Since launching it in September, Meta has made significant improvements to its Spatial SDK. Meta Spatial SDK lets developers build Horizon OS apps using existing Android mobile app development tools, rather than needing to use a game engine such as Unity, Unreal, or Godot. That includes IDEs like Android Studio, the Kotlin programming language, and existing mobile frameworks and libraries.

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Assam Down Town University in India Pioneers Educational Innovation with EON Reality’s EON-XR and EON-AI Technologies

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IRVINE, CA – June 17, 2025 – EON Reality, the preeminent leader in AI-assisted Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, proudly announces its strategic alliance with Assam down town University. This prestigious academic institution has embraced the future of learning by integrating EON-XR and EON-AI licenses, complemented by a bespoke course package tailored for Paramedical Sciences.

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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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Jigsaw Night Is A Master Class In Interaction Design For Mixed Reality And VR

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LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA – I'm on the sun deck of the Queen Mary with Steve Lukas on the release day of his app to Meta's storefront. Lukas' 15-year-old son Christian joined him for Augmented World Expo last week, and pressed the button a few hours earlier on stage to launch Jigsaw Night into early access for buyers. A gentle breeze whips away the heat of the sun from our skin as we breathe in the fresh ocean air and talk about what he's built over the last seven months.

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Thief VR Studio's Next Game Based On "Flagship IP" From Major Movie

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A new job listing confirms Maze Theory's next game after Thief VR is based on a “flagship IP” to coincide with an upcoming movie. After announcing Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow earlier this month with Vertigo Games, UK-based studio Maze Theory is looking to its next project following its release. Codenamed Project Xeno, a new job listing for Lead Gameplay Designer/Creative Lead calls this a “groundbreaking” immersive narrative experience built for next-generation VR and mixed reality platforms.

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Alfalite’s SKYPIX Elevates Virtual Production Storytelling with Precision Lighting

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This week, Alfalite, a European manufacturer of virtual production products, announced the release of SKYPIX RGBW & IM, a new series of ceiling-mounted LED panels specifically designed for virtual production XR environments and workflows. This innovative product provides natural and adaptable scene lighting from above. A key feature of SKYPIX is its Invisible Marker system, which replaces traditional physical tracking markers with a virtual, invisible sticker that is compatible with existing

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Five Classic Oculus Rift Gems You Should Play Right Now

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Virtual reality has come a long way since the days of the Oculus Rift CV1, with its Touch motion controllers revolutionizing our interactions and immersing us deeper into strange new virtual worlds. For a while now I've been reminiscing about all those classic gems that are just sitting buried in the depths of the Meta store; thinking how the introduction of motion controls at the time revolutionized immersive gaming, and wondering how many newcomers to the VR community know that these titles ev

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Will SteamOS Let You Avoid Windows On Gaming Handhelds?

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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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Meta Ceases Onward Development & Merges Downpour Into Camouflaj

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Downpour Interactive has been merged into Batman: Arkham Shadow studio Camouflaj as Meta ends development of Onward. Less than three months after the major Onward 2.0 launch, Downpour Interactive confirmed no further updates are coming. Onward will continue to be available across Steam, Quest and Link, but it won't receive further developer support beyond critical bug fixes.

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EON Reality Releases Groundbreaking White Paper: “The Death of Code Monkeys” – How 25 Years of VR Market Survival Accidentally Predicted the AI Revolution

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IRVINE, CA – June 17, 2025 – EON Reality, the global leader in Augmented and Virtual Reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, today released “ The Death of Code Monkeys: How AI Turned ‘Idea Guys’ from Punchlines to Profit Centers , ” a provocative white paper that chronicles how the company’s 25-year survival in the notoriously difficult VR market accidentally created the perfect template for AI-era business success.

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Badminton Time VR Arrives Today On PlayStation VR2

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Badminton Time VR brings the multiplayer arcade sports game to PlayStation VR2 today. Developed by Fishing Cactus, Badminton Time VR first appeared last year on Nintendo Switch before getting a VR version on Quest. Now available on PlayStation VR2, this family-friendly multiplayer game comes with mini-games, an arcade mode with power up items, and a more realistic mode for recreating the popular racket sport. 0:00 / 1:41 1× I went hands-on with the new PlayStation VR2 edition before today's laun

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Meta and Oakleys smart glasses are coming this week

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Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses are getting some competition from Meta itself. The company is apparently collaborating with Oakley on a pair of new smart glasses, due to launch on Friday, June 20. Oakley teased the launch on Monday, with a video that displays the two companies' logos, and a caption that reads: "The next evolution is coming on June 20." Oakley also shared the same video on Instagram , with a notable nod by Ray-Ban Meta's official account.

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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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DAZN Gives US Quest Owners A Free 3D Tabletop View Of The FIFA Club World Cup

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Quest owners in the US can watch all FIFA Club World Cup games for free, including a 3D tabletop representation, and the finals will be streamed in 180°. It comes via a free Horizon OS app from the sports streaming service DAZN, compatible with Quest 3, Quest 3S, Quest Pro, and Quest 2. 0:00 / 0:38 1× Not to be confused with the legendary FIFA World Cup, where national teams have competed for almost a century now, the FIFA Club World Cup is a much newer competition which sees the club teams that

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What Is VRAM, And How Much Do You Need In A Gaming GPU?

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Fueling the 3D Creator Community: A Conversation with Adobe

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3D isn’t just about stunning visuals. It’s about connecting people, solving real-world problems, and reimagining how industries work. These are the insights of Adobe creative tech evangelist Michael Tanzillo, our latest podcast guest. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Can A Black Hawk Helicopter Be Flown Remotely?

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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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Ericsson, Volvo Group, and Airtel announce research collaboration on Digital Twins & XR over 5G Advanced in India

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In a groundbreaking step towards accelerating Industry 4.0 and Industry 5.0 adoption in India, Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC), Volvo Group, and.

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Meta AI warns your chatbot conversations may be public. Heres how to keep them private.

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Meta has added a new pop-up to the Meta AI app , warning users that prompts they post are public. As a general rule, you should never assume that anything you tell an AI chatbot is private. However, it seems some Meta AI users hadn't realised that their chatbot conversations could be published for the world to see. SEE ALSO: Zuckerberg is reportedly assembling a 'superintelligence group' for Meta AI The public Discovery feed in the Meta AI app has been filled with people's interactions with the

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Apple Finally Fixed The Biggest Problem With The iPhone's Photo App

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LaurDIY shares her secrets to YouTube success

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Lauren Riihimaki, known to millions online as LaurDIY , has been a creative force on YouTube for over a decade. Back in 2011, feeling creatively stifled by her university courses, she did what many of us did: She started a blog. That blog quickly evolved into a YouTube channel, and 14 years later, Riihimaki has built a digital empire with over 8 million subscribers, plus millions more following along on Instagram (4.3M) and TikTok (2.2M).

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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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T-Mobile Is Bringing Back A Power User Favorite Feature - Here's How (And When) You Can Use It

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T-Mobile's self-service SIM managing tool is back in the T-Life app. Here's how to get it set up and transfer your own SIM cards and eSIMs on your own.

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Americans now use social media as their primary news source, research shows

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The top source of news for Americans is no longer TV; it's social media. This is according to new research by Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) (via NiemanLab ), which found that 54 percent of people in the U.S. get news via social media and video networks, overtaking TV broadcast news and news websites and apps for the first time ever.

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Why Does Always On Display Move Around On Your Android Phone?

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AI adoption has reached 40% among U.S. workers

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Be careful to double-check your colleagues' work — large swaths of the U.S. workforce admits to using AI to get their job done. A new Gallup poll found 40 percent of U.S. employees said they used artificial intelligence in their role "a few times a year or more." Eight percent used it daily, while 19 percent said they used a few times per week or more.

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How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular

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?