The Ghost Howls
MARCH 17, 2023
South by SouthWest (SXSW) is coming to an end, but for me, it is already over. I’m currently at the Schipol airport in Amsterdam, waiting for the connecting flight that will take me back to Italy. And since I’ve some hours to spend, I thought it could have been nice to tell you some thoughts I had about my experience at SXSW this year. This has been my second year at SXSW: 2022 was the first time I have attended SXSW.
VRScout
MARCH 17, 2023
Those who pre-order the game through the Meta Quest Store will receive a special gun skin. Triangle Factory, the developer behind the popular VR game Hyper Dash , today revealed the official release date for its next multiplayer experience, Breachers. Coming next month to Quest, Rift, and PC VR headsets, this tactical first-person shooter pits two teams of five against one another in close-quarter firefights throughout semi-destructible environments.
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AR Insider
MARCH 17, 2023
3D and AR continue to surface to the top of marketers’ wish lists. Though others still view them as novelties, campaign data and case studies data validate a real business case. How is that playing out today? Guest author Katherine McInnes examines 8 ways. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
ARPost
MARCH 17, 2023
Immersive spaces can be very immersive visually. But they can still sound pretty flat. This can disrupt immersion in games and social applications but in automotive, engineering, and construction (AEC) , understanding how a space sounds can be crucial to the design process. That’s why Treble is working on realistic sound reproduction for virtual spaces.
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.
Road to VR
MARCH 17, 2023
Triangle Factory, the studio behind Hyper Dash (2021), announced its squad-based shooter Breachers is set to launch next month on Quest 2 and SteamVR headsets. The Rainbow Six Siege- inspired shooter has seen over 60,000 players play since the studio launched the open alpha late last year. Now the studio says Breachers will officially launch on April 13th.
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Road to VR
MARCH 17, 2023
While Oculus doesn’t offer much publicly in the way of understanding how well individual games & apps are performing across its Quest 2 storefront, it’s possible to glean some insight by looking at apps relative to each other. Here’s a snapshot of the 20 best rated Oculus Quest games and apps as of March 2023. Some quick qualifications before we get to the data: Paid and free apps are separated Only apps with more than 100 reviews are represented App Lab apps are not represented (see our lat
ARVR
MARCH 17, 2023
Though AR hasn’t demonstrated the world-changing capabilities that were touted in its circa-2017 hype cycle, it’s finding success in specific areas. Those include enterprise productivity and brand marketing, both of which were examined in recent ARtillery Intelligence reports. Zeroing in on the latter, one company leading the way in providing — and generating meaningful revenue from — AR marketing is Snap.
Hypergrid Business
MARCH 17, 2023
The size of OpenSim virtual land just got bigger this month by an additional 996 standard-size regions even as the number of active users dropped by 991, mostly likely due to normal seasonal variations. OpenSim also added close to 3,000 new registered users this month, reversing the hefty loss of 8,000 registered users recorded last month due to AviTron no longer publishing its statistics.
ARVR
MARCH 17, 2023
Like many analyst firms, market sizing is one of the ongoing practices of AR Insider’s research arm, ARtillery Intelligence. A few times per year, it goes into isolation and buries itself deep in financial modeling. One such exercise recently zeroed in on VR revenues. This takes the insights and observations accumulated throughout the year and synthesizes them into hard numbers for spatial computing ( see the methodology and inclusions/exclusions).
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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.
Charlie Fink
MARCH 17, 2023
They all deserved recognition for innovation, ambition, and relevance.
ARVR
MARCH 17, 2023
VR traction over the past few years has been slower than many had anticipated. But it’s still finding small wins and is growing at a fairly healthy pace. So the question is how well it’s landing with consumers today, and are those sentiments trending in the right direction? So we set out for answers. Working closely with Thrive Analytics , ARtillery Intelligence authored questions to be fielded through its established survey engine to more than 98,000 U.S. adults.
XR Today - Augmented Reality tag
MARCH 17, 2023
This week, Google officially announced the retirement of its flagship smart glasses product. In a company document , the firm confirmed the retirement of Google Glass Enterprise Edition effective this Wednesday (March 15). Google will also drop official support for its enterprise-grade immersive hardware on September 15, 2023. Google Glass enthusiasts will still be able to use their XR device and related software after the retirement date.
ARVR
MARCH 17, 2023
In all the excitement around generative and conversational AI, Google has gotten lots of grief for missing the party. The common refrain is that these technologies are Google killers. However, there’s just one issue with that take: Google is better positioned than anyone for AI. Though it rushed and fumbled its Bard launch, Google is sitting on a knowledge graph that it’s been assembling for 20+ years.
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.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
MARCH 17, 2023
The market for extended reality is booming. Predicted to grow to a value of around $98.74 billion by 2030, XR is attracting the attention of not just countless consumers but endless business leaders too. Over the last couple of years, companies have discovered the benefits of XR for everything from boosting creativity and productivity to enhancing collaboration.
XR Today - Big XR News tag
MARCH 17, 2023
Constantly with the help of new emerging technologies such as conversational AI, the world is figuring out how best to improve their daily lives and work routines with software and hardware solutions. While the emergence of everyday smart glasses and Metaverse usage still seems far away, vendors and developers are using integrated tech to solve marketplace-wide issues like content delivery and accessibility.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
MARCH 17, 2023
Industry events are one of the best ways for professionals or consumers to expand their knowledge, network with thought leaders, and discover new solutions. In the XR landscape, conferences and expos offer a hands-on opportunity for business buyers to test out the latest technology, and gather some useful insights from innovators in MR, AR, and VR. Every year, market-leading events host some of the biggest names from across the globe alongside workshops, keynote sessions, and demonstrations.
Bernard Marr
MARCH 17, 2023
Microsoft has big plans for artificial intelligence (AI), and it’s becoming clear that it believes that ChatGPT – and natural language technology in general – will play a big part. The Seattle-based software giant brought office and home PCs into the mainstream in the eighties, thanks to its Windows and DOS operating systems. In the nineties, it played a big role in making the internet an important part of our lives.
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.
VRGames
MARCH 17, 2023
Gather your closest pals and prepare to face off in the ultimate battle of wits. Breachers is a strategic multiplayer game set for its launch on April 13th for $29.99 USD on Metabarons Corporation, Steam and other digital platforms!
Oculus
MARCH 17, 2023
Welcome back to our weekly spotlight on the people building for Meta Horizon Worlds and their amazing creations.
VRGames
MARCH 17, 2023
Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2, the work-focused version of its iconic but once maligned smartglasses, is being discontinued by Google. Starting on March 15th 2021, it will no longer sell Glass Enterprise 2 and it will only support this device until September 15th 2023.
Upload VR
MARCH 17, 2023
Available at launch for PSVR 2, Unplugged is one of the more curious titles to arrive on Sony’s new VR headset. We’re big fans of Unplugged , which launched in October 2021 on Quest as a hand tracking-exclusive game that built the technology into the very core of the experience. It brought the fantasy of air guitar to life, merging Guitar Hero gameplay principles with cutting edge technology that allows you to shred to your heart’s content in virtual reality with no controllers
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?
VRGames
MARCH 17, 2023
Adding a new level of vibrancy to your virtual cities, the free Little Citizens Update for VR city-building game Little Cities brings an array of miniature citizens. These tiny residents can be seen going about their daily lives with activities such as hang gliding, public park outings, amusement park rides and more.
Anand Tech
MARCH 17, 2023
For everyone who has been eagerly waiting for the first laptops incorporating AMD’s monolithic Zen 4 mobile CPU, AMD sends word on a Friday afternoon that you’ll be waiting a little longer. Laptops based on AMD’s Ryzen Mobile 7040HS series CPUs have officially been delayed by a month, pushing their expected availability from March to April.
VRGames
MARCH 17, 2023
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EON Reality
MARCH 17, 2023
The new partnership delivers EON AI Assistant and more to the Chilean university’s students and teachers. IRVINE, CA, March 17, 2023 – EON Reality, Inc. (“EON Reality”), a global leader in Virtual and Augmented Reality (“XR”) industry and education solutions powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI), announces a new partnership with University of the Andes to bring cutting-edge Spatial AI technology to its students and faculty in Chile.
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?
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