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JUNE 9, 2025

Apple’s next big Vision Pro update, coming in visionOS 26 later this year, is adding the ability for developers to create co-located AR experiences so users can interact with the same app, 3D model, and more. There probably aren’t a lot of friends and families out there that have one Vision Pro between them, let alone two, making the feature drop most likely something enterprise can get behind, as well as the most ‘pro’ of prosumers.

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JUNE 9, 2025

3D design isn’t just about making things look good — it’s about making things make sense. On a recent episode of The Future of, Jonathan Beals breaks down lessons learned at Nike’s virtual material studio, Adobe and other career waypoints. We have the episode video and summary. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Road to VR

JUNE 9, 2025

Apple ‘Personas’ on Vision Pro are already the most likelife real-time avatars you can find on any headset today, but in the next version of visionOS, they’re taking another step forward. Apple today announced that its Persona avatars for Vision Pro will get a major visual upgrade with the launch of visionOS 26, due out later this year.

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Upload VR

JUNE 9, 2025

A lone Microsoft employee is unofficially working on a native SteamVR driver to bring Windows MR headsets back to life. In October, Microsoft started rolling out Windows 11 24H2, the latest major version of its PC operating system which removed support for Windows MR headsets. This means you can no longer use Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, or Samsung PC VR headsets, not even on Steam, since Windows MR had its own runtime and only supported SteamVR through a shim.

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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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Road to VR

JUNE 9, 2025

Apple announced visionOS 26 today, its new naming scheme for the next big update coming to Vision Pro later this year. Among Vision Pro’s list of new features comes something we’ve been waiting for: actual support for VR input devices, including motion controllers and a spatially-tracked stylus. In 2023, Apple said it had no plans to make or support VR controllers on Vision Pro, but that’s about to change.

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Road to VR

JUNE 9, 2025

VisionOS 26 is Apple’s next major update to Vision Pro. Expected to be released to the public later this year, Apple says developers will be able to start testing the new version starting today. The update adds some major changes, including support for PSVR 2 motion controllers and a spatial stylus from Logitech. Apple previewed visionOS 26 today during WWDC 2025.

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Upload VR

JUNE 9, 2025

Datamining could reveal key features of Meta's next headset, and a potential leak suggests it will feature micro-OLED panels. If you missed the news last week, UploadVR reported that Meta is prioritizing shipping an ultralight open-periphery Horizon OS headset with a tethered compute puck in 2026, and might not ship a new traditional form factor Quest until 2027.

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Road to VR

JUNE 9, 2025

At WWDC today, Apple announced the headlining features of visionOS 26, its next big OS release for Vision Pro. Among them is a new revamped spatial photos feature that ought to make them even more immersive. Vision Pro launched with the ability to view spatial photos, captured either with the headset itself or with iPhone 16, 15 Pro and Pro Max. These spatial photos created a sense of depth and dimensionality by combining stereo capture and applying depth mapping to the image.

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JUNE 9, 2025

Apple just announced visionOS 26 for Apple Vision Pro at WWDC25. visionOS 26 will bring PlayStation VR2 Sense controllers & Logitech Muse stylus support, much more realistic Personas, spatial Widgets, volumetric Spatial Scenes, local SharePlay, and much more. 0:00 / 0:12 1× While you might have expected the next version of Vision Pro's operating system to be visionOS 3, Apple has switched to a unified year-based naming system for all of its operating systems.

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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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JUNE 9, 2025

Apple today announced at WWDC that Vision Pro is getting spatialized Widgets, coming along when visionOS 26 drops later this year. On basically all of Apple’s devices, Widgets are designed to offer up personalized and useful info at a glance. Now Apple says Vision Pro is also getting spatial Widgets too, which will let you place a variety of these mini-apps around your house which reappear every time you put on Vision Pro.

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JUNE 9, 2025

From Ghost Town to Virtual Skate, Steam Next Fest is now live with over 30 participating PC VR games. While we've previously covered some participating games individually, like Ghost Town , Of Lies and Rain , Don't Move and Puzzling Places , we're rounding up all the listed PC VR demos that we can currently find. Other highlights listed before today's festival went live include RAGER , Virtual Skate , Ultima Chess and Retronika.

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Road to VR

JUNE 9, 2025

One of the biggest pieces of Vision Pro news from today’s WWDC is that the headset will be getting support for PSVR 2 motion controllers and a Logitech motion stylus with the release of visionOS 26. Now we’re learning more of the details, including the fact that developers will be able to publish Vision Pro apps that ‘require’ motion controllers, and those which make them ‘optional’ The change is a surprising shift compared to the hand-tracking only approach t

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Mashable VR

JUNE 9, 2025

Apple’s 2025 Worldwide Developers Conference keynote was sparse on the kind of groundbreaking announcements it’s usually known for. With no major hardware reveals until September and no pressure to wade into undercooked tech categories like AI or augmented reality, the Silicon Valley giant went back to basics. The message was clear: iOS needs an update.

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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 9, 2025

Microsoft pulled the plug on support for  its entire WMR platform on Windows 11  last year, putting an official end to the company’s foray into PC VR headsets. Now, an unofficial SteamVR driver hopes to bring it back. Microsoft deprecated the Mixed Reality Portal app, Windows Mixed Reality for SteamVR, and Steam VR Beta when Windows 11 24H2 update rolled out last October, making a fleet of PC VR headsets from Acer, Asus, Dell, Lenovo, HP, and Samsung essentially expensive paperweights.

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JUNE 9, 2025

Will games like Assassin's Creed Mirage & Resident Evil Village come to Vision Pro later this year? AAA games available on iPad. Apple Vision Pro can theoretically run almost all iPad apps by default, unless developers opt out. So far, developers of AAA games available on iPad have chosen to opt out, and this may be down to performance limitations.

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Mashable VR

JUNE 9, 2025

Apple's WWDC this year focused on design changes with iOS 26 and Liquid Glass, but we also saw some updates and new announcements for Apple Intelligence, the company's suite of AI features. New Apple Intelligence announcements build on existing AI-powered features like Writing Tools, Message and Mail summaries , the ChatGPT integration, and others. But Apple has expanded on its Apple Intelligence offerings to all of the software updates announced for iOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, iPadOS 26, and WatchO

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Upload VR

JUNE 9, 2025

VRider SBK, an official game of the Superbike World Championship, is making its PS VR2 and Steam debut later this month. Developed by Funny Tales, VRider SBK is a motorbike racing simulator that allows players to compete in various racing game modes for vehicular glory. Initially released on Quest last year, VRider SBK is now launching on PS VR2 and Steam at the end of June, bringing performance improvements and an upgraded grid with it. 0:00 / 1:14 1× Alongside the new platforms, VRider SBK is

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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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Mashable VR

JUNE 9, 2025

New artificial intelligence research from Apple shows AI reasoning models may not be "thinking" so well after all. According to a paper published just days before Apple's WWDC event , large reasoning models (LRMs) — like OpenAI o1 and o3, DeepSeek R1, Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking, and Google Gemini Flash Thinking — completely collapse when they're faced with increasingly complex problems.

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JUNE 9, 2025

Pickle Pro, from Resolution Games, is the first announced Apple Vision Pro game to use the PS VR2 Sense controllers. If you missed the news, earlier today Apple announced and released the first developer beta of visionOS 26 , which includes support for the PlayStation VR2 Sense controllers. visionOS 26 Brings PS VR2 Controllers, Photorealistic Personas, Spatial Scenes & More visionOS 26 will bring PS VR2 controllers & Logitech Muse stylus support, much more realistic Personas, spatial Wi

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Mashable VR

JUNE 9, 2025

Apple is trying to fix the problem it created with the iOS Photos app interface. Let's just say Photos leaves something to be desired, at present. At its annual WWDC keynote on Monday, Apple revealed updated looks for both the Camera and Photos apps that will come with iOS 26 later this year. Like everything else on iOS 26, these updates bring the apps' aesthetics more in line with the new "liquid glass" concept Apple also introduced at WWDC.

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JUNE 9, 2025

Adobe is making a visionOS app "powered by Premiere" for natively editing Spatial Video on Apple Vision Pro. Announced during WWDC25 by Apple, no further details were given, but the company shared a short clip of the upcoming app in action, showing it being used to add text in front of a horse. 0:00 / 0:10 1× Spatial video is Apple's term for stereoscopic 3D video using the Apple HEVC Stereo Video Profile format.

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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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JUNE 9, 2025

If you’re looking for real-world PICO XR enterprise use cases, you’re in the right place. The days of enterprises viewing extended reality as a novelty are over. Our own research shows that countless companies are using XR solutions to enhance productivity, make training experiences more engaging, and even boost creativity. PICO XR has evolved from a niche player in the XR space (with limited global reach) into one of the top companies building a dedicated immersive ecosystem for business teams.

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Upload VR

JUNE 9, 2025

Soon, Apple Vision Pro owners will be playing games using officially supported tracked controllers in their hands from Sony. The controllers, of course, will be sold separately, as Apple was sure to note in its WWDC 2025 press announcement. The feature is coming to visionOS 26 , set to arrive roughly one and a half years after the headset launched. Though still gated for now behind a $3500 entry fee for the headset itself, as well as getting your hands on the additional hardware, direct support

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Mashable VR

JUNE 9, 2025

Need to translate something? With Apple 's new iOS 26, it should be easier than ever. During its opening WWDC keynote on Monday, Apple detailed a host of new Live Translation features built right into iOS and powered by in-house models that run on iPhones. Credit: Apple Now, Live Translation can automatically translate your text in Messages, live captions in FaceTime, and even your phone calls as you talk.

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JUNE 9, 2025

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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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