AR Insider
AUGUST 5, 2024
What do Meta's Q2 earnings tell us about headset unit sales? And what does that in turn signal for aggregate demand and XR sector health? We do some reverse engineering in the latest Data Dive. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
AUGUST 5, 2024
Facepunch Studios announced that s&box , its upcoming physics sandbox and game development platform, is now using OpenXR, which will not only allow the studio to expand its VR feature set, but also the range of supported devices. VR support has been on the table since Facepunch announced in 2015 it was working on a spiritual successor to Gary’s Mod (2006) , which will not only include a sandbox as you’d expect, but also an entire development platform for users to make and pub
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XR Today - Virtual Reality
AUGUST 5, 2024
Recently, VirtualSpeech announced that it is collaborating with Lenovo and Qualcomm to introduce its XR software platform on the ThinkReality VRX headset and Snapdragon Spaces ecosystem. By partnering with Lenovo, VirtualSpeech can reach new milestones in achieving global enterprise scalability. VirtualSpeech provides VR training solutions integrating GenAI technology to create responsive and personalized avatars and scenarios for enterprise soft-skill training.
Road to VR
AUGUST 5, 2024
HTC has reduced the price of Vive XR Elite, its flagship standalone headset, cutting it from $1,100 to $900. The deal appears to only be available in the US, as Vive XR Elite is still selling for its launch price across other major regions—€1,449 in Europe and £1,299 in the UK. Released in February 2023, Vive XR Elite was initially positioned as a Quest Pro competitor, offering up a compact and lightweight standalone design and mixed reality capabilities.
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.
Anand Tech
AUGUST 5, 2024
Samsung is announcing today that it has begun mass production of 12 GB and 16 GB LPDDR5X modules in the industry's thinnest package. Samsung's shrunken memory packages measure approximately 0.65 mm in thickness, making them 0.06 mm (~9%) thinner than standard LPDDR5X packages. The company expects the new DRAM devices to be used to make for thinner smartphones, or improve their performance by enabling better airflow inside.
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Bernard Marr
AUGUST 5, 2024
Thanks to AI, work will look very different in the near future than it does today. According to the World Economic Forum, 85 million jobs will be impacted by AI by 2030, and millions of new jobs will be created that don’t yet exist. In a world where the pace of change is accelerating dramatically, it will be our skills -rather than our education, work history or past achievements – that define our value.
EON Reality
AUGUST 5, 2024
EON Reality Revolutionizes Course Creation and Content Generation IRVINE, CA., August 5, 2024 – EON Reality, the world leader in AI-assisted Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality-based knowledge transfer, today announced the launch a game-changing update on August 5th, 2024. The EON-XR 10.3 release introduces eight major features and product enhancements that promise to transform the landscape of digital learning and double the company’s sales projections.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
AUGUST 5, 2024
Recently, Dr Alex George , a celebrity healthcare professional, visited an NHS training space at the University of Hertfordshire, where student doctors and nurses are leveraging Meta Quest 3 hardware for training and upskilling opportunities. Referring to his experience of the Quest-led immersive training, Dr George noted that “I’ve never been more impressed tech-wise.
Bernard Marr
AUGUST 5, 2024
Every day, it seems, we hear bolder and more grandiose claims about how AI is poised to change the world. Most specifically, we’re told, it will affect every industry and change the way we work. Famously, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said that he thinks AI will be more transformative than fire or electricity. It’s very easy to get caught up in the excitement.
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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.
Oculus
AUGUST 5, 2024
Tonight you can relive a moment of EDM history in Meta Horizon Worlds. Alesso: Red Rocks Live in VR kicks off at 5:00 pm PT, and you won’t want to miss this electrifying performance featuring hits “Words,” “Under Control,” “Heroes,” and more.
Upload VR
AUGUST 5, 2024
Following the success of the original Zero Caliber and its subsequent Quest reworking, Zero Caliber: Reloaded, developers XREAL Games have set about improving its action-packed military shooter in the latest entry. Read on for our full review. 0:00 / 0:39 1× Zero Caliber 2 is a linear, narrative-driven action game that follows the events of the first game.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
AUGUST 5, 2024
This week, reports are emerging that highlight how NVIDIA’s long-awaited Blackwell chipset is delayed due to design flaws. The roughly three-month delay may prove taxing on awaiting firms such as Meta, Google, and Microsoft as each race to the front of AI innovation. An NVIDIA spokesperson said : As we’ve stated before, Hopper demand is very strong, broad Blackwell sampling has started, and production is on track to ramp in the second half.
EON Reality
AUGUST 5, 2024
Transforming XR Education with Personalized, Adaptive 3D Learning Experiences IRVINE, CA., August 5, 2024 – EON Reality, the world leader in AI-assisted Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, today announced the launch of “Learning Paths,” a groundbreaking feature in version 10.3 of its flagship EON-XR platform.
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.
Bernard Marr
AUGUST 5, 2024
The Goodwood Festival of Speed is renowned for showcasing the fastest and most impressive cars from the past and present. But tucked away in the Future Lab, visitors got a tantalizing look at the technologies that may reshape how we move people and goods in the coming decades. From autonomous drones to electric vertical takeoff vehicles, the innovations on display paint a picture of a cleaner, more efficient transportation future.
Bernard Marr
AUGUST 5, 2024
Do you remember what the internet of the past looked like? Static webpages that took an age to load, blurry JPG images and lots of garishly colored text and backgrounds, those were the days! Well, the internet of 2035 will look as different from today’s internet as today’s internet looks from that. In the twenty-plus years that it has dominated our lives, the internet has evolved to become more immersive, accessible, user-friendly and social.
Bernard Marr
AUGUST 5, 2024
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been making waves for years, but it’s the subset of generative AI that’s really captured the public’s imagination lately. If you’ve been anywhere near the internet in the past year, you’ve probably heard of ChatGPT, DALL-E, or perhaps Midjourney. But what exactly is generative AI, and which model stands out as the most famous?
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