Tue.Apr 29, 2025

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The Future of Tone Mapping: A Simpler Path to Visual Truth

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What is tone mapping and why does it matter? This is the topic of the latest Future Of podcast episode, featuring Emmett Lalish, an aerospace-engineer-turned-3D-rendering-expert whose journey spans rocket science, 3D printing, real-time rendering and VFX. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Homerise For Apple Vision Pro Makes Smart Homes A Reality

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Managing a smart home while somewhere in VR is doable with Homerise for Apple Vision Pro. Smart homes have been promised for decades while the reality of functionality and features remain out of reach for a range of technical reasons. One such reason still with us today is that a physical switch installed on a lamp in the 20th century can effectively take the device offline by simply killing the power at the wrong point in the circuit.

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Exclusive Interview: Skywalker Sound’s Kevin Bolen, Plus ILM’s May the 4th Sale

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Star Wars Day is just around the corner, and we’re celebrating by offering discounts up to 66% off all Star Wars titles currently live on the Meta Horizon Store, now through 11:59 pm PT on May 5.

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Meta-Funded VR Space Sim Remnant Protocol Coming To Quest & Steam This Year

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Remnant Protocol is a VR space sim with a strategy layer funded by Meta, and it's coming to Quest and Steam in Q4. Developed by Progenitor Game Studios , Remnant Protocol will seat you in the cockpit of a spaceship and have you mixing up space dogfighting action with between-mission campaign strategy elements reminiscent of the classic WWII dogfighting games that LucasArts were once famed for.

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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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The 20-Step Innovation: How EON Vibe Coder’s Complete AI-Human Partnership Redefines App Development

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IRVINE, California – April 29, 2025 – EON Reality, the global leader in Augmented and Virtual Reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, has announced the launch of EON Vibe Coder , a groundbreaking AI-powered application development framework that fundamentally transforms how applications are conceived, designed, and implemented.

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EON Reality and UBT Launch First Spatial AI University: Pioneering the ‘Third Way’ to Transform Higher Education Across Europe and Global South

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IRVINE, California – April 29, 2025 – EON Reality, the global leader in Augmented and Virtual Reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, proudly announces a groundbreaking partnership between its recently launched Spatial AI University and the University of Business Technology (UBT). This collaboration represents the innovative “Third Way” approach to higher education, fundamentally reimagining how education is delivered in the AI era.

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Lowe's Lets Customers In Austin & The Bay Area Design Their Kitchen With Apple Vision Pro

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Lowe's is letting customers in select Austin & Bay Area stores design their kitchen in VR with an Apple Vision Pro. The headset is running Lowe's Style Studio , a visionOS app that Vision Pro owners have been able to use at home since the headset's launch to customize the colors, materials, styles, and furniture of a realistic virtual kitchen's sinks, cabinets, ranges, countertops, flooring, and more at 1:1 scale.

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Amazon Continues AR Smart Glasses Journey

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This week, following its internal experimental deployment of AR smart glasses for delivery drivers, Amazon, via its Alexa Fund , helped to provide a total of $36.5 million to Helsinki-based AR smart glasses developers IXI-in collaboration with other investors. Following an operational stealth period, the move helps IXI create its first device. Plural led the Series A funding round, with other contributors to the IXI Series A funding round including Tesi, byFounders, Heartcore, Eurazeo, FOV Ventu

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Why Psytec Games Made Titan Isles Over Windlands 3

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Titan Isles aims to make its mark with a new co-op VR action adventure, and we recently interviewed Psytec Games to learn more. Seven years on from Windlands 2 , it's been over a month since Psytec lifted the curtain on Titan Isles , and you can see the parallels between them. Whether you're playing alone or in co-op with four people, both games involve exploring a ruined world as you fight various titans throughout the campaign.

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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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WAVES Summit 2025 in Mumbai: Catalyzing India’s XR Industry

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The World Audio Visual & Entertainment Summit (WAVES) 2025, taking place from May 14 at Mumbais Jio World Convention Centre, marks a pivotal moment for Indias media and entertainment (M&E) sector-especially for the burgeoning Extended Reality (XR) industry.

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Hellsweeper VR Refreshes Combat In Reckoning Update

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Hellsweeper VR adds a new weapon, move upgrades and more in today's Reckoning update. Now live across all platforms, Hellsweeper VR introduced a Chakram as the game's first ranged weapon that returns to you like a boomerang, while flicking your wrists can split that into two separate half-blades. Other existing weapons also received new abilities, like giving the Mace a hookshot update that lets you fling enemies.

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Owatch VR Global Exhibition Preview in May 2025

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Owatch, which continues to develop in the field of VR amusement equipment, will bring cutting-edge products and solutions to multiple international exhibitions in May 2025. Here’s a detailed look at the highlights and attractions of these exhibitions. 1. Batimatec Expo Date : May 4 – May 8 Venue : Palais des Expositions Pins Maritimes, Algiers, Algeria Owatch Highlights : Although this is a maritime-themed exhibition, Owatch will break the mold by showcasing the charm of its VR amuse

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Spacetop’s AR Productivity Promise Unleashed on the AI PC Wave

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Recently, Sightful released another update regarding its emerging productivity AR laptop product: the launch ofSpacetop for Windows, marking a strategic shift to a software-only model for Windows to match the growth of AI PCs. Following Sightful’s initial focus on developing proprietary AR hardware, the company turned to also support the emerging AI PC marketplace.

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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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Meta View Is Now the Meta AI App: Here’s What’s New & What Stays the Same

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An important update for Ray-Ban Meta glasses owners today: The Meta View app is now the Meta AI app on iOS and Android. Along with a new name, your AI glasses companion app is getting an upgrade, with new features to make your experience more fun, useful, and personal than ever before. We’re here to walk you through the changes. But rest assured, the core features you’ve come to know will stay the same.

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