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Is AI a Force Multiplier for Spatial Computing?

AR Insider

Could AI's integration into spatial computing help make it mainstream? And can AI's integration change what you expect to get out of spatial computing? This is already underway, with ample growth and opportunity to come. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Meta Expects Orion-like AR Glasses to Launch Before 2030, Priced Between Phones and Laptops

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On stage at Connect yesterday, Meta unveiled Orion , an AR glasses prototype that, while impressively slim, isn’t making its way out of the Meta offices anytime soon. Still, Meta CTO and Reality Labs chief Andrew Bosworth says an AR device based on Orion is coming this decade, and will likely shoot for a price point somewhere north of a smartphone.

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Spatial Beats: Meta’s Moonshot & More Gen AI Moves

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Meta's Orion previews AR's future while Quest3s brings more affordable mixed reality, and the cinematic AI train keeps rolling. We have these and other items from XR and AI worlds through the eyes of Charlie Fink. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Precision Glass Maker Completes Major Factory Expansion in Anticipation of AR Glasses Demand

Road to VR

In a strategic move that underscores the expected growth of the AR industry, SCHOTT—a global leader in advanced optics and specialty glass—has announced the completion of a new production facility in Kulim, Malaysia. This development comes just a day after Meta unveiled its latest AR glasses prototype. The new facility in Kulim is set to significantly boost Schott’s production capacity for optical components, which are crucial for AR devices.

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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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Reality Bytes: Instagram, YouTube & Substack

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This week on Reality Bytes, we dive into Instagram's new "Teen Accounts," YouTube's shift to episodic content, and Substack's introduction of live video streaming. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Meta’s Many XR Updates, Distance Technologies Raises $11M For 3D Without Glasses

Charlie Fink

Meta has spent a decade and over sixty billion dollars to make XR glasses the successor to the smartphone. People are starting to think it could work.

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New Spatial SDK Reflects Meta’s Push to Bring ‘Spatial Computing’ to Quest

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Quest headsets have long been great for playing immersive games, but not so great for the kind of basic ‘desktop productivity’ that Apple’s Vision Pro excels at. Now Meta is hoping to bring more ‘spatial computing’ into the fold with the Meta Spatial SDK, which aims to make it easier for Android developers to port and enhance their apps for Quest’s Horizon OS.

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Meta Spatial SDK Lets Developers Easily Build Quest Apps Without A Game Engine

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Meta Spatial SDK is now available for developers. Until now, building even a simple app for Quest headsets required using a full-fledged game engine like Unity, Unreal, or Godot. These are heavy tools that require importing swathes of assets or reinventing the wheel to achieve simple interfaces and interactions. "With Spatial SDK, Meta Quest devices become another form factor in your mobile development process, rather than a completely new technology stack.

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Newly Reduced Quest 3 Price and Quest 3S Pre-orders Now Available on Amazon

Road to VR

The newly discounted Meta Quest 3 (512GB) is now available on Amazon, along with pre-orders of the new Quest 3S (128GB) and (256GB), with that sweet, speedy Prime shipping. All now include the promised bundle that includes Batman: Arkham Shadow and a three month subscription to Meta Quest+. It wasn’t initially clear exactly when the newly reduced Quest 3 price would hit—would we have to wait until Quest 3S actually launches on October 15th?

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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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The Dunder Mifflin Office Is Coming To Meta Horizon Worlds

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The Office's Dunder Mifflin is coming to Meta Horizon Worlds next month. While the explosive (that's what she said!) reveal of the Meta Quest 3S took center stage at Meta Connect 2024, the ability to explore Dunder Mifflin from the hit sitcom The Office could be just as exciting for fans. Of course, work is never fun, but would you ever be able to get work done with the cast of characters from The Office around?

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‘Starship Home’ Review – Gardening Across the Universe in Quest’s Most Compelling Mixed Reality Game

Road to VR

Starship Home isn’t just a clever and infectiously cute sci-fi gardening game with casual ship management stuff. It’s probably one of the best cases right now for how mixed reality developers can break away from the usual gimmicks on Quest 3, and create something truly worth playing in your own living room. Read on to see why I think you’ll fall in love with this big little MR game.

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Immersed Shows Visor Passthrough & Hand Tracking Working For The First Time

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Immersed shared a through-the-lens clip showing Visor's passthrough and hand tracking working. Who Is Immersed? What Is Visor? Since 2020 Immersed has offered a free app now available on Meta Quest, Apple Vision Pro, Vive Focus, and Pico that shows your PC monitor in VR and lets you spawn entirely virtual extra monitors, for up to 5 monitors in total if you pay.

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Logitech Debut Meta Quest 3S Accessory for Virtual Productivity

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Today, hot on the heels of Meta Connect 2024, Logitech debuted the general availability of its MX Ink product, an MR stylus accessory the firm explicitly made for the Meta Quest headset portfolio. Namely, the MX Ink product works with the recently introduced Meta Quest 3S, which Meta is shipping on October 15 th. Allowing users to annotate and interact with a 3D space.

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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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A Case For Pencil!: Why Physical Drawing Is Better In Mixed Reality

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Pencil just released on Quest in Early Access. If you’re keen on the future of mixed reality for hobbies and education, and curious about pushing the boundaries of 2024 tech, give this one a try. Using a pencil in Pencil Like it says on the tin, and like you’ll see in the trailer: in Pencil you draw with regular pencils. 0:00 / 1:12 1× Many drawing apps, including the former whiteboard in Meta’s Workrooms app, compromise: hold your controller in reverse and use its butt as your drawing utensil.

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EON-XR Education HMD Bundle Enhances Learning and Training with Spatial AI and VR Integration

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Revolutionizing Classrooms and Training Facilities: EON Reality’s Latest Solutions Set to Transform Knowledge Transfer IRVINE, CA – September 26, 2024 – EON Reality, the world leader in AI-assisted Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, proudly unveils the EON-XR Education HMD bundle, a comprehensive solution designed for 30 users to radically improve education and professional training.

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Ghosts Of Tabor Doubles Early Access Revenue To Reach $20 Million

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VR extraction shooter Ghosts of Tabor has earned over $20 million in total revenue. Before moving from App Lab to the Quest Horizon Store earlier this year, developer Combat Waffle Studios and publisher Beyond Frames Entertainment announced that Ghosts of Tabor had earned over $10 million and hit 500k players. Following its relaunch in February, it's now doubled those earnings to surpass $20 million.

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Meta CTO Discusses Project Orion, AR Smart Glasses, Neural Interfaces, and Developmental Hurdles

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

At Meta Connect 2024, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and Founder of Meta , unveiled a prototype for the much-hyped Orion device, a pair of breakthrough AR smart glasses. During the event, Zuckerberg called the device “the most advanced glasses in the world and our first prototype of full holographic AR.” Zuckerberg also unveiled a significant breakthrough: neural interface interaction.

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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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VR Hero Shooter X8 Gets Contra Crossover Event This December

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Konami's run-and-gun Contra series will crossover with free-to-play VR hero shooter X8 in a new event this December. Announced today with a brief teaser trailer, Thirdverse revealed this upcoming X8 event collaborates with Contra: Operation Galuga , the latest Contra entry that launched for flatscreen platforms in March. X8 will introduce Operation Galuga's main protagonists - elite commandos Bill Rizer and Lance Bean - into the main roster.

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Are the new VR Headsets Any Good?! Wordle On Quest?!

Full Dive Gaming

Meta Quest 3s and HTC Vive Focus Vision information and lots of VR game news!! This week’s podcast was made in partnership with Asterion Products. Get $5 off any order $19.99 or more with the code FULLDIVE at [link] Welcome to the Full Dive Gaming podcast, where we dive into all the news, discussion, and insights you need for VR gaming! We release NEW EPISODES on all Your Favorite major platforms: Spotify, Apple, Google. etc.

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Supernatural Together Adds Group-Based Workouts To The VR Fitness App

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Supernatural Together is a new expansion that adds group-based workouts to the fitness app on Quest. Confirmed during its annual Connect conference yesterday, Meta revealed that the Supernatural Together expansion lets you carry out joint workouts that support voice chat with up to two additional people. Alongside open lobbies through a 'Quick Play' option, private online rooms are also available via the 'Play with Friends' choice.

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EP #36 - What Happened at Meta Connect 2024 in Under 15 minutes

ARVR Magazine Podcast

Yesterday, Meta finally announced the big secret that they have been working on for several years. Join me in the podcast for this and the rest of the key highlights from the event in 15 minutes. Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ www.futurecreatorsmagazine.com⁠ Show Notes: ⁠- Meta Connect 2024 Keynote Subscribe and Follow! Be sure to subscribe to our podcast so you don’t miss all the weekly episodes.

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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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Quest's Meta Horizon Store Now Accepts 2D Android Apps

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The Meta Horizon Store now accepts 2D Android apps, which could bring more apps and services to the platform. This means developers of existing apps on the Google Play Store or other Android app stores can bring their app to Quest headsets without needing to add any specific support for the technology. These apps can be run alongside other 2D apps and windows in Horizon OS, and even brought up inside immersive apps and games.

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Meta Orion AR Glasses with Neural wristband - The Future is Here

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Meta Unveils Groundbreaking Orion AR Glasses: A Glimpse into the Future of Computing Mark Zuckerberg's surprise reveal at Meta Connect 2024 wasn't just a prototype; it was a glimpse into the future. Ditch the bulky headsets – Meta's Orion AR glasses are unlike anything we've seen before. Packed with cutting-edge technology, Orion promises to bridge the physical and virtual worlds seamlessly, all within a stylish, lightweight form factor.

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Starship Home Review: Mixed Reality Space Dreams Stuck in Repetition

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Starship Home from Creature promises an adventure to the stars from your living room. Does it deliver on its goal of transforming our homes into starships that will take us on an adventure to save the galaxy or does it burn up on entry? Read on for our full review. Starship Home - The Facts What is it? A narrative-driven mixed reality adventure game where you rescue different plant species across the galaxy.

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Introducing Meta Quest 3S, The Most Affordable Mixed Reality Headset

XROM

Meta has announced the Quest 3S, a new mixed reality headset that offers the same powerful features as the Quest 3 but at a more affordable price. Priced at just $299.99 USD, Quest 3S is perfect for those new to mixed reality or looking for an upgrade from older models like Quest and Quest 2. Key Features: Immersive Experiences: Enjoy watching movies on a giant screen, working out with a personal trainer, or multitasking with ease.

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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?