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Industry Insider Expects New Valve XR Headset to Launch in 2026

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It appears Valve has been developing a standalone XR headset, codenamed ‘Deckard’, for some time. Now, an industry insider has apparently gotten a peek at the headset’s design, calling it “quite amazing,” further noting it’s potentially arriving sometime next year. Stan Larroque , Founder of XR hardware company Lynx,confirmed in a recent X post the he’s actually seen the design for Valve’s next XR headset.

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Is Hollywood Losing the War for Attention?

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Hollywood hasnt lost its ability to tell great stories, yet its losing the war for attention to platforms that reward engagement and iteration. It's a business based on scarcity in an attention economy ruled by abundance. How can it adapt? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Pimax Dream Air preview: a promising headset

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At the VR AR Expo China, I had the exclusive opportunity to look at the current iteration of the Pimax Dream Air , the high-resolution ultra-lightweight headset that Pimax is going to launch in the next months. Pimax Dream Air The Pimax Dream Air is a new type of headset that Pimax has decided to launch. While the company has become famous for very bulky headsets able to deliver a high resolution paired with a wide field of view, with the Pimax Dream Air, it is aiming at a tiny and lightweight d

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Meta CTO Addresses Quest 3 Battery Setting Issue Following Bungled Horizon OS Update

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Meta’s latest Horizon OS update for Quest (v76) introduced a new Battery Saver setting as default, which has led users to experience frame rate issues in apps and games. Now, Meta CTO Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth says the company is rolling out a fix and “taking a serious look” at how OS updates are communicated in the future.

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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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Former Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe Didn't Think Oculus Go Was A Good Idea

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Brendan Iribe, the CEO of Oculus between 2014 and 2016, says he didn't think the 3DoF Oculus Go headset was a good idea. Iribe joined Oculus as CEO near the end of its Kickstarter, and was declared a co-founder alongside Palmer Luckey, Nate Mitchell, and Michael Antonov. Iribe held the CEO title through the launch of the Oculus Rift until just after the Touch controllers shipped, when he stepped down to lead the Rift PC VR teams.

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Laser Dance Confirms Early Access Launch This Fall On Quest 3

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Laser Dance, the mixed reality obstacle game from Cubism's creator, will launch in early access this fall on Quest 3 & 3S. Originally targeting a 2024 launch, Laser Dance adapts to your room and involves dodging lasers to reach and press buttons on your walls. It was later delayed , with developer Thomas Van Bouwel citing Meta's evolving APIs and scene drift issues.

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Microsoft Fabric Debuts Enterprise-Ready Digital Twin Builder Amidst XR Strategy Shift

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Today at Microsoft Build, the leading technology giant announced a new fabric feature that allows the creation of enterprise-ready digital twins. Today marks the debut of the Digital twin builder in Microsoft Fabric, a feature available in preview mode as the company refines the solution. The digital twin builder provides an avenue for building and managing digital representations of real-world environments, including 3D, highly detailed models and associated information points.

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Xreal One Glasses Become 6DoF With Xreal Eye & Xreal Beam Pro

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When used with Xreal Beam Pro, the new Xreal Eye camera addon adds 6DOF positional tracking to Xreal One display glasses. If you're unfamiliar, Xreal devices are display glasses that act like monitors, taking in power and HDMI or DisplayPort over USB-C from your existing devices and displaying this input on a virtual screen in front of you. The current Xreal One series have built-in 3DoF tracking, meaning the screen stays in place when you rotate your head.

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#1562: Highlights of Creature’s IGN XR Gaming Showcase + State of VR Vibe Check with Doug North Cook

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The Creature label features a lot of really innovative VR and MR games with rich and innovative gameplay mechanics, and they just featured three new games, a new DLC pack, and lots of updates about the games in a half-hour Creature Feature gaming showcase hosted on IGN. I had a chance to catch up with […] The Creature label features a lot of really innovative VR and MR games with rich and innovative gameplay mechanics, and they just featured three new games, a new DLC pack, and lots of upd

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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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Wordbound Is A Language Puzzler Coming Soon To Quest 3 & Apple Vision Pro

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Wordbound is an educational mixed reality word game coming to Quest 3 and Apple Vision. Announced during the Creature Feature 2025 showcase , Wordbound is the debut title from Kettle Games that lets players pull apart objects to see how they're spelt, before remixing them to create new words and solve visual puzzles. Intended to be relaxing and unobtrusive, Wordbound uses hand tracking with the interactive objects only occupying a small space within your play area.

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EON Reality Unveils the EON Incubator Skills Framework for AI-First Entrepreneurs

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IRVINE, CA May 19, 2025 EON Reality, the global leader in augmented and virtual reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education , today announced the expansion of its AI-First EON Incubator Framework with a new comprehensive Essential Skills Program designed to develop the distinctive human capabilities required for success in the emerging AI economy.

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Crossings Explores The Norse Afterlife With A VR Roguelite Adventure

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Crossings promises an action-adventure roguelite set in the Norse afterlife, and a Steam demo will be available next month. It's the latest game from Neat Corporation, who previously made Budget Cuts and Garden of the Sea. Crossings sees you fighting through an ever-changing world in a quest for vengeance that involves fighting through the Norse afterlife against trolls, Draugr, ghosts, and other dark beings while searching for the Nornir.

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EON Reality Engages with Ivory Coast’s Technology Leader on Digital Transformation Partnership

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IRVINE, CA May 19, 2025 EON Reality, the global leader in augmented and virtual reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, has engaged with key technology leaders in Ivory Coast accelerate the country’s digital transformation journey. During a productive meeting, EON Reality presented its comprehensive XR and AI ecosystem to Kafana Sitionni, President of the Ivorian Society of Tropical Technology (I2T) and former Director General of the National Office of Civil Status a

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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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Ping Pong Club Rallies With Hand Tracking On Apple Vision Pro

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The first rally against the computer in Ping Pong Club feels enough like the real thing with hand tracking that youll be satisfied with its price. Ping Ping Club is free, $3500 Apple Vision Pro not included. Soon after that first successful rally of a ping pong ball back-and-forth across the virtual table youll want to grab a physical paddle. Unfortunately, at writing time, that simply doesn't make sense with Vision Pro.

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New Quest Games and Updates Revealed in Today’s Debut ‘Creature Feature’ Showcase

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Today, Creature aimed to solidify their place in the industry even further by presenting the first-ever Creature Feature, a showcase hosted by IGN, which included several new game reveals and updates for existing games.

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Knights of Neon Enters Full Release On Quest Today

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Created by solo-developer Reality Shift, Knights of Neon is an action RPG available on Quest now. Knights of Neon is a high-octane VR hack 'n' slash game set in a blazing futuristic world called Cyberspace. Here, you become cybernetic knights, wielding melee weapons like axes, hammers, and swords as you complete missions and take out opposing cult members that seek to take control of this vaporwave land.

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The 5 Cloud Computing Mistakes You Must Avoid This Year

Bernard Marr

In the past decade, cloud computing has become foundational to the way the world does business. It’s given rise to entirely new categories of services, products and entire business models. From global e-commerce to the cloud AI tools used by millions of small businesses, cloud computing makes it all possible. This is why the most successful businesses look beyond the cloud as simple IT infrastructure and embrace it as a new strategic capability.

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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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Adepts Arena Fights Golems In A New VR Fantasy Adventure

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Adepts Arena is a new first-person fantasy adventure coming to Quest and Steam. Developed by Seville studio Giant Stride Games, Adepts Arena promises advanced physics-based effects where you master the earth element to save your world and learn new abilities. Playing as an 'Earth Adept of the Order', we find this fantasy world threatened by the rogue Artificers who have built an army of Golems to drain the Earth Spirits of their energy, and we're tasked with stopping them. 0:00 / 1:38 1 Reveal t

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Quantum Vs. Classical Computing: Understanding Tomorrow’s Tech Balance

Bernard Marr

Computers, the internet and digitization have been major driving forces of innovation over the last 50 years, but classical computing architecture has its limits. Quantum computing is emerging as a solution to the problem of rapidly cranking up the amount of processing power we can throw at cracking particularly tricky conundrums, such as the vastly complex calculations necessary for accurately modeling the effects of medicines on humans, or predicting extreme weather events.

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Iron Rebellion Update Lets You Decorate Mechs With Custom Camo

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Iron Rebellion adds two new community maps, a custom camo maker and more to the VR multiplayer mech game in today's update. Following its full release last December, the latest Iron Rebellion update is now live following a smaller patch back in February. Developer Black Beach Studio confirmed this includes a custom camo maker for your mechs with three layers of 'unique textures and colors,' alongside a camera toolkit for improved gameplay capture with additional settings.

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Find Your Next Amazing Experience with Our Magic Moments Sale!

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Nows the time to expand your library of incredible VR and MR experiencesour Magic Moments Sale. Its the perfect opportunity to discover immersive magic moments.

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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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Dungeons Of Eternity Teases Major Update With First Look At PC VR Visuals

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Dungeons of Eternity teased its biggest content update yet alongside its first look at the PC VR version's visual upgrades. Developed by Othergate, Dungeons of Eternity is a fantasy action RPG playable alone or in four-player co-op. Initially launched in 2023 on Quest, we've known for a while that a Steam release is on the way. We've now got a first look at the upcoming enhancements like real-time lighting, volumetric effects, ambient occlusion on PC VR, and you can see that in action below. 0:0

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The Great Skill Shift: How AI Is Transforming 70% Of Jobs By 2030

Bernard Marr

In my recent conversation with Aneesh Raman, LinkedIn’s Chief Economic Opportunity Officer, he shared a statistic that should grab everyone’s attention: by 2030, 70% of the skills required for the average job will have changed. Let that sink in. Seven-zero percent. As Raman puts it, “Everyone in every job is gonna generally be in a new job by 2030 ’cause the skills required for your job are gonna change at a fundamental level.” This isn’t just another incremen

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Syndicator Sequel Prison Boss Prohibition Sneaks Onto Quest & Steam Soon

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Announced during the Creature Feature 2025 showcase, Prison Boss Prohibition, is making its debut on Quest and Steam this July. The sequel to Prison Boss VR , Prison Boss Prohibition is a business management simulator with a twist: everything you stock is illegal. Set in the poultry populated city of New Yolk, the mayor has outlawed everything from cigarettes to exotic magazines.

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Live Updates From Google I/O 2025 🔴

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Skip to content Gizmodo Search Home Latest Tech Reviews Science io9 AI Video Deals Gadgets Live Updates From Google I/O 2025 🔴 Follow along with the Gizmodo crew as we unpack everything Google announces at its annual developer conference in Mountain View, Calif. Raymond Wong, James Pero, and Kyle Barr Published June 6, 2025 | Comments ( 11 ) | 𝕏 Copied!

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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?