AR Insider
MAY 15, 2025
3D graphics and VR have revolutionized gaming, from a niche hobby to a multi-billion-dollar powerhouse.How did this come about? We take a historical look, leading up to today's positioning and trajectory. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
MAY 15, 2025
VRChat announced it’s officially opened its own Avatar Marketplace, allowing users a centralized way to buy and sell avatars from within the social VR platform. Users have been able to visit VRChat worlds and directly buy and sell avatars for a while, however the company has now rolled out a centralized marketplace to make it easier to find and purchase avatars.
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MAY 15, 2025
Meta AI on Ray-Ban Meta glasses can now be much more descriptive about what it sees, via a new accessibility setting for blind and low-vision people. As well as more complex queries about what's in view of the camera, Meta AI can be used by those with low vision to audibly describe what's in front of them. But Meta AI on smart glasses is fine-tuned to provide brief responses, so that your hearing isn't interrupted for too long by a verbose response.
Road to VR
MAY 15, 2025
The 2025 WNBA season starts this week, and Meta announced it’s again livestreaming a host of season games on Quest across the Xtadium app and Horizon Worlds NBA Arena. Quest users will be able to tune into 20 live games this season, including five games captured in 180-degree immersive video,Meta says in a news update. Games will be hosted in the US-only Xtadium app, which includes live and on-demand games, as well as immersive video steaming.
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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MAY 15, 2025
Wonder, an anthology of mixed reality experiences from Gadgeteer's developer, is out now on Quest 3. Previously announced last month, Wonder is the latest project from Gadgeteer Vancouver studio Metanaut. Described as a new exploration app aimed at XR veterans and newcomers alike, it aims to bring magic and tranquility into your everyday spaces while offering users an escape from their busy lives across different experiences that last for roughly 20 minutes. 0:00 / 0:09 1 At launch, Wonder comes
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MAY 15, 2025
Play For Dream MR, the high-end Android standalone headset, is getting Guy Godin's app Virtual Desktop next week. Originally founded in China as YVR in 2020, the headset company renamed itself to Play For Dream and reincorporated in Singapore alongside launching its third headset, called Play For Dream MR, which it started shipping this year. Play For Dream MR is a high-end standalone headset running the company's own fork of Android, with the kind of specs you might have expected from a Meta Qu
EonReality
MAY 15, 2025
IRVINE, CA May 15 , 2025 EON Reality, the world leader in AI-assisted Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, today announced a significant strategic initiative designed to cultivate the specialized workforce crucial for Wisconsin’s expanding role in Electronics and Advanced Battery Manufacturing.
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MAY 15, 2025
The Smurfs Flower Defense, a VR and mixed reality tower defense game based on the iconic series, has been delayed. Previously targeting a May release window, publisher Microids and studio Kalank Games revealed that The Smurfs Flower Defense is now arriving on June 19, 2025. This new adventure sees Gargamel ruining the Nature Fairy Leaf's planned celebrations and capturing 20 Smurfs, and you're tasked with rescuing them once more.
EonReality
MAY 15, 2025
IRVINE, CA May 16, 2025 EON Reality, the global leader in augmented and virtual reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, today published an extensive retrospective chronicling its remarkable 26-year journey from Virtual Reality pioneers to leaders in AI-driven knowledge transfer, EON Reality’s Journey With AI In The Past, Present, And Future.
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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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MAY 15, 2025
Pirates VR: Jolly Roger is going treasure hunting today on PlayStation VR2. Developed by Split Light Studio, Pirates VR: Jolly Roger previously released on Steam in January, and the action adventure game is now available on Sony's headset. Having reached a strange Caribbean island with your reliably sarcastic parrot companion, you're tasked with exploring this cursed location by fighting off undead pirates, exploring strange ruins and solving puzzles.
metamandrill
MAY 15, 2025
Berlin, Germany - 15 May 2025: Following rallying calls for global tech, research and innovation ecosystems to 'Choose Europe' and the groundbreaking launch of the EU Startup & Scaleup Strategy, Europe's tech sector embarks on a revitalised era of exponential growth and development, fuelled by a renewed focus on research, tech talent and increasing later-stage [.
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MAY 15, 2025
I staved off creepy monsters, crawled through tight tunnels, climbed rocky walls, all while constantly looking over my shoulder during a tight hands-on demo with Tunnels, an upcoming horror game from Nomad Monkey at PAX East. It's certainly not for everyone, especially claustrophobic people, but it's always a treat to see games push the limits of VR the way it looks like Tunnels will.
Oculus
MAY 15, 2025
For its seventh birthday, Beat Games is celebrating the community by dropping a collaboration from veteran Beat Saber artists Teminite and Boom Kitty. Their brand-new.
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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MAY 15, 2025
Pinball FX VR released nine new Williams tables today on Quest. For the unfamiliar, Williams is one of the world's most prolific pinball machines manufacturers, and they continued making tables until the division's closure in 1999. Unsurprisingly, it's consistently collaborated with Zen Studios across the years to adapt the manufacturer's different tables.
Oculus
MAY 15, 2025
If your perfect summer getaway involves goats playing soccer, youre in luck. Everdream Valley VR from developer Mooneaters hits Meta Quest today, giving you the.
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MAY 15, 2025
Beat Saber is celebrating its 7th anniversary with Danger, a free new track that's out now. Available on all platforms, Beat Saber is bringing back Teminite and Boom Kitty for a new song to celebrate seven years since its original launch. That's free for all existing owners and follows the two artists previously collaborating on The Master on OST 7 that arrived last year.
AR Insider
MAY 15, 2025
Apple follows Meta's lead and its market validation into AI smart glasses, including its own chips. Google meanwhile has some tricks up its sleeve with AndroidXR, and we'll know more after I/O next week. We have these and other items from XR and AI worlds from Charlie Fink. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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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MAY 15, 2025
Synth Riders goes back to the 90s with its latest music pack, adding Blur, Radiohead and more later today. Available from 8am PT for most supported platforms, the Synth Riders - 90s Rock Music Pack is the latest song pack themed around a particular decade following this year's 80s Mixtape - Side B. Alongside Blur and Radiohead, this paid DLC pack also features a song from Red Hot Chili Peppers, Soundgarden, and The Presidents of the United States of America. 0:00 / 0:53 1 Similar to previous pac
AR Insider
MAY 15, 2025
This week on Reality Bytes, we look into gamified NBA streams, Netflixs TikTok envy, and Instacarts party trick. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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MAY 15, 2025
Starvault is a brand-new VR MOBA, and I walked away impressed by its initial offering. Read on for our hands-on experience with its open beta. MOBAs cemented themselves as a mainstay genre in gaming at large, so much so that it is a predictable affair every time you play the myriad options available. But what if those same rules were applied to a well-translated, authentic VR experience?
The Ghost Howls
MAY 15, 2025
During my first day at VR AR Expo China , I tried various interesting pieces of hardware. The first one that I’m going to describe to you today is the Bear Sunny transition lenses for AR glasses! [A little disclaimer: the organizers of the VR AR Expo China paid for my accommodation in Shanghai for the event] Bear Sunny transition lenses Bear Sunny is a Chinese startup (based in Suzhou, close to Shanghai) that produces transition lenses for AR glasses.
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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MAY 15, 2025
Of Lies and Rain is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi VR shooter where you fight to save humanity, and a free demo is out now on Quest and Steam. Two years after launching ARK and ADE , Castello Inc. is gearing up for its next game with Of Lies and Rain, which is described as a story-driven FPS in a dark sci-fi world. Crossing between the real and digital realms, you're tasked with saving humanity from the brink of extinction following a 20-year war against a rogue AI, A.D.E., as both sides fight for su
Charlie Fink
MAY 15, 2025
Cartwheel's 3D animation platform generates rigged 3D characters from text and video, and is backed by $10M from Craft, WndrCo, and Khosla.
Ryan Schultz
MAY 15, 2025
Photo by Clint Patterson on Unsplash So, I am back. Well, kind of back. A different kind of “back.” First, a week and a half ago, my gaming-level Windows 11 home PC crashed, hard , and wouldn’t reboot. I landed up having to take it in to the computer repair store, and they landed up having to reinstall Windows. Unfortunately, that also means that I now have to reinstall all of my softwareValve Index, Steam, etc. all of it.
Charlie Fink
MAY 15, 2025
Apple is chewing its heart out with envy as it races to catch up.
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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