AR Insider
MARCH 13, 2024
Businesses continue to discover ways AR can help them boost efficiency. Inventory management is just one of these developing areas. We examine the why and the how. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
MARCH 13, 2024
A widespread charging fault with Meta’s $130 Elite Battery Strap for Quest 3 forced the company to pause shipments back in December and start replacing units on a case-by-case basis. Now, it seems Meta has zeroed in on just which units could potentially be defective, and issuing what it calls “voluntary replacements”—but only if they contact you first.
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Anand Tech
MARCH 13, 2024
ARCTIC GmbH, originally known as Arctic Cooling, first burst onto the PC cooling scene in 2001 and has since maintained its stature as a leader in cooling technologies. The company made its mark with top-notch thermal compounds and has since kept its focus on cooling solutions while also expanding into other tech accessories, including advanced monitor mounts and audio products.
Road to VR
MARCH 13, 2024
Virtuix, the creator of the Omni One VR treadmill, announced it now has a lineup of 35 games ready for the device’s broader launch later this year, including some big ones. Omni One was originally pitched in a crowd-based investment campaign in 2020, but is now slated to arrive to customers sometime in Q2 2024, bringing the at-home version of its VR treadmill to non-investor enthusiasts for the first time.
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.
Upload VR
MARCH 13, 2024
Niantic and Meta partnered to fund three multiplayer mixed reality demo games that run in the browser and support crossplay between Quest 3 and mobile. The demos were built over a ten week period using Niantic's 8th Wall web-based AR engine, which has a fully in-browser editor and offers cloud hosting for built projects. Niantic is the company behind smartphone AR games like Pokémon GO, Pikmin Bloom, and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite.
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Anand Tech
MARCH 13, 2024
Corsair has launched its latest Hydro X series iCUE LINK XH405i RGB custom open-loop water cooling kits, replacing the older XH305i kits from 2020. The new kits feature Corsair’s latest XD5 RGB ELITE pump and reservoir, the XC7 RGB ELITE CPU waterblock, three QX120 RGB fans, and a 360mm radiator. The pump, waterblock, and fans all have the namesake iCUE LINK integration, which Corsair has been pushing throughout its entire recent generation of products.
Road to VR
MARCH 13, 2024
Apple announced that Vision Pro-native versions of two popular iOS games are coming to Apple Arcade next month, Crossy Road Castle and Solitaire Stories , both of which put an immersive spin on inherently flatscreen gameplay. Coming to Vision Pro on April 25th, Crossy Road Castle and Solitaire Stories seem to highlight how the company is directly supporting development of games on its first XR headset.
XR Today - Augmented Reality tag
MARCH 13, 2024
Apple’s Vision Pro headset has been used in surgery for the first time during a UK operation. Two surgeons used the device at the private hospital Cromwell as a “surgical logistics and organisational tool”, according to spatial computing healthcare firm eXeX. The Vision Pro is available in the US, but Apple has yet to reveal when it will be launched in other regions.
Upload VR
MARCH 13, 2024
Meta is reaching out to Quest 3 Elite Strap with Battery buyers telling them to redeem their replacement due to the charging issue the company acknowledged in November. Since Quest 3's launch in October some buyers of the $130 official Elite Strap with Battery accessory had reported it not being recognized by the headset or not charging correctly. In November Meta briefly paused sales of the Quest 3 Elite Strap with Battery.
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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.
EON Reality
MARCH 13, 2024
EON Reality’s XR and AI Revolutionize Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina IRVINE, CA – March 13, 2024 – EON Reality, the global leader in Virtual and Augmented Reality-based knowledge and skills transfer for industry and education, unveils its groundbreaking initiative to launch the first-ever Spatial AI Center in Bosnia and Herzegovina, aiming to revolutionize the educational landscape and foster an ecosystem of technological innovation across the nation.
XROM
MARCH 13, 2024
In a significant move towards nurturing the thriving Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming, Comics, and Extended Reality (AVGC-XR) sector, the Karnataka cabinet has given the green light to the revised AVGC-XR Policy 3.0 for the period 2024-2029. The announcement, reported by The New Indian Express on Thursday, February 22, underscores the government's dedication to fostering innovation, job creation, and economic growth through strategic policy interventions.
The Ghost Howls
MARCH 13, 2024
I had the pleasure of interviewing again “Mister President” Alvin Wang Graylin in the occasion of the launch of his book, Our Next Reality , that he wrote together with Louis Rosenberg. During the interview we talked about practical stuff, like if HTC is working on a new product, and when we can expect to see lightweight AR glasses on the head of everyone.
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