Road to VR

MAY 20, 2025

Google today announced that it is working with eyewear makers Warby Parker and Gentle Monster to bring the first Android XR smartglasses to market. The move mirrors Meta’s early partnership withEssilorLuxottica, the dominant eyewear maker that’s behind Meta’s Ray-Ban smartglasses. While no productized Android XR smartglasses have been announced, Google said today it is working with eyewear makers Warby Parker and Gentle Monster on the first generation of products.

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MAY 20, 2025

Google is working with Gentle Monster and Warby Parker on smart glasses with Gemini AI, the company's plan to directly compete with Ray-Ban Meta. EssilorLuxottica, Meta's partner which owns the Ray-Ban and Oakley brands, is the largest eyewear company in the world by far, and has almost 4000 stores in the US alone. Google reportedly wanted to steal the partnership, a move which Meta fought off by taking a 5% stake in the Franco-Italian company last year.

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XROM

MAY 20, 2025

Imagine slipping on a stylish pair of glasses that transport you into immersive augmented or virtual reality (AR/VR) without the clunky headsets were stuck with today. Thanks to groundbreaking research at Northeastern University, that sci-fi dream is inching closer to reality. Led by Francesco Restuccia, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, a team of innovators is tackling the biggest hurdle in AR/VR tech: making it sleek, wireless, and as comfortable as your favorite shades.

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Upload VR

MAY 20, 2025

Every June* and December, UploadVR holds its biannual Showcase where it premiers the latest VR and MR experiences. Over the years, indie creators and larger studios have trusted UploadVR to debut their exclusive teasers, trailers, and developer interviews during the online event. Thank you to the AIXR Awards for their partnership during the last Showcase which was held live in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

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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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AR Insider

MAY 20, 2025

Burns & McDonnell is an engineering and construction firm that employs 7,000 globally. Though this headcount is ample, theres scarcity at the higher levels of the experience spectrum, leading to a skills gap. How did AR help it optimize? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Road to VR

MAY 20, 2025

Today at its annual I/O developer conference, Google affirmed plans to bring its Project Starline immersive videoconferencing platform to market with HP. While this partnership was confirmed last year, the product is now officially called Google Beam, with more info promised soon. Google’s Project Starline is a platform for immersive videoconferencing which was first introduced in 2021.

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Charlie Fink

MAY 20, 2025

Promise is building a new kind of studio from the ground up for AI-native storytelling.

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Road to VR

MAY 20, 2025

Maestro (2024) , the VR rhythm game that lets you conduct an orchestra, is getting an official Star Wars DLC next month, which includes an epic track from Star Wars: Episode 1 (1999) as well asyour very own Yoda-sized lightsaber baton. Previously available on Quest, SteamVR and Pico headsets, VR’s most cultured rhythm game is finally coming to PSVR 2 on June 20th.

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Upload VR

MAY 20, 2025

Xreal just announced Project Aura, new glasses that will support Android XR via tethered compute. Android XR is Google's new XR operating system, designed to both compete with Meta's Horizon OS and power AR glasses too. Announced during Google I/O just now, Project Aura is the second revealed Android XR device, after Samsung's headset , and the first to use a transparent display system, known as optical see-through AR.

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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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Road to VR

MAY 20, 2025

VR indie Giant Stride Games and publisher Creature announced Adepts Arena , an upcoming first-person adventure that’s bringing a very Avatar -inspired earthbending ability to let you take on an army of sinister automatons. The single-player game lets you master earthbending, including the ability to blast flying rocks at enemies, summon jutting boulders to fling baddies across the map, build protective structures, and vault to otherwise inaccessible places.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 20, 2025

HTX Labs, an immersive learning software company, has secured a $5.8 million Strategic Funding Increase (STRATFI) grant from AFWERX. This comes after HTX Labs completed a Small Business Innovation Research Phase II project, in which it created and delivered a virtual training solution on the KC-135 aircraft for personnel at RAF Mildenhall in the UK.

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Road to VR

MAY 20, 2025

Rebellion announced that Zombie Army VR, its first VR entry into the storied Zombie Army co-op shooter franchise, has been delayed to next month. The game was initially slated to release on Quest, PSVR 2, and PC VR headsets on May 22nd, however now the studio says in an X post it’s delaying release to June 12th. The studio hasn’t given a specific reason for the delay beyond saying the “additional time will allow us to deliver the best possible experience for you at launch.̶

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Upload VR

MAY 20, 2025

Days before its intended launch, Zombie Army VR has been delayed once more on all platforms. Originally targeting a May 22 launch on Quest, Steam, and PlayStation VR2, publisher Rebellion confirmed that it's pushed back the release date to June 12. No specifics were provided for this delay beyond this allowing them to deliver the best possible experience, and you can find the full statement below.

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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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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 20, 2025

Following increasing interest in AR smart glasses as an emerging technology and the advancement of mobile computing from the hand to the eye, Meta is helping lead the charge from a consumer point of view with its Ray-Ban partnership, which aims to distribute AR-lite wearables to general audiences outside of XR enthusiasts. The firm is experiencing sales success in the EU, with the Ray-Ban partnership helping to keep its Reality Labs division afloat, alongside the Quest portfolio, as the division

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Upload VR

MAY 20, 2025

Meta released an open-source VR game demo that it claims is "a cutting-edge visual showcase for Meta Quest" with "stunning visuals that elevate the Quests graphical capabilities". Called North Star, the roughly 20-minute experience sees you, a sailor stranded in the middle of the ocean in the Age of Sail, picked up by a ship and its crew to become the new deckhand and join them on an adventure.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 20, 2025

Get ready to immerse yourself in augmented, mixed, and virtual reality at AWE USA 2025, which will take place from June 10 to 12 in Long Beach, California. The event will bring together innovators, thought leaders, and enthusiasts to explore the latest advancements of XR technology. At AWE USA 2025, attendees will have the opportunity to experience groundbreaking XR solutions firsthand, providing valuable insight as the technology is set to go mainstream.

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Instinctively Real Media

MAY 20, 2025

Te Puna Creative Hub Where Innovation Meets Imagination

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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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EonReality

MAY 20, 2025

IRVINE, CA May 20, 2025 EON Reality, the global leader in augmented and virtual reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, today announced the landmark launch of the EON Agent Orchestrator. This advanced new platform is meticulously engineered to empower EON Reality and its users to master the complexities of multi-agent AI systems.

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