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Will Google’s ‘AI Mode’ Accelerate AR?

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Google's continued convergence of AR and AI took a step forward recently with AI Mode. Specifically, it now works with images to let users have conversational dialogues to contextualize their surroundings a longstanding promise of AR. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Meta Laid Off Employees In Some Of Its Acquired Studios Again

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Meta laid off dozens of employees across its acquired VR studios, including the fitness app Supernatural. The Verge first reported the layoffs a few hours ago, and a Meta spokesperson confirmed to the outlet that some teams within Oculus Studios are undergoing shifts in structure and roles that have impacted team size. In a post in the Official Supernatural Community on Facebook, the developer confirmed "the loss of some of our incredibly talented team members" as part of a move to "work more ef

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Listen: ‘How I Built This,’ with Evan Spiegel

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What's Evan Spiegel's superhero back story? The Snap co-founder & CEO joined Guy Raz on a recent episode of How I Built This to discuss lesser-known company lore. We feature the interview in this week's XR Talks, including takeaways and audio. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Algeria Bets On Web3: How Lamina1 Is Powering The Next Generation Of African Creators

Charlie Fink

Algeria's Numidia Valley initiative focuses on blockchain, immersive media, and creator-driven platforms.

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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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Into The Radius 2 Gets Ghost Town Update With A New Location, Features And More

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A new city-themed location has been added to the Pechorsk Anomaly, courtesy of a major update to Into the Radius 2. Its name (and that of the update) is Ghost Town - not to be confused with the supernatural puzzle game - which released today for PC VR. This late-game map, which offers unique traits and atmosphere, officially constitutes the largest playable area for Into the Radius 2 yet.

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Unravel a Supernatural Mystery in ‘Ghost Town,’ Available Today on Meta Quest

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Hauntings and ghosts make for good business when youre a paranormal investigator. And things are going pretty well for Edith, the witch-turned-detective you play in.

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Android XR Is Coming – Just Don’t Expect Google to Shout About It Yet

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Google released the schedule for its upcoming I/O developer conference, which includes developer-focused sessions promising to deliver more insight into its upcoming Android XR operating system. At least from the schedule, it doesn’t seem Google is getting that vocal about Android XR just yet. Android XR has been squarely out of the limelight since Google announced it back in December alongside Samsung’s ‘Project Moohan’ mixed reality headset.

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Experience the One-and-Only Doja Cat: The Superstar is the Newest Meta Horizon Avatar

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Today, you can express yourself by taking on the persona of Doja Cat in Meta Horizon. The Grammy-winning rapper and pop singer is our first avatar inspired by a musical artist, and the latest addition to our lineup of fantastical avatars, landing just in time for the re-premiere of Doja Cat: The Scarlet Tour tonight at 5:00 pm PT in Meta Horizon.

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StretchSense Unveils Reality XR Glove for Precise Hand Tracking in Immersive Training

XR Today - Virtual Reality

This month, StretchSense announced Reality XR Glove, an XR input device that tracks a user’s hand movements, allowing for more accurate interaction with an immersive application. The firm notes how the XR Glove solution aims to redefine professional XR training by eliminating the limitations of traditional controllers for industry-focused training where precision is key.

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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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Adopt a New Virtual Pet With ‘Stay: Forever Home,’ Out Now

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Meet Ember! She likes long walks in the woods, playing catch, and napping in your living room. Oh, and she loves digging holesthough luckily, not.

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Ghost Town Review: An Utterly Engrossing Supernatural VR Adventure

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Ghost Town delivers a brilliant supernatural puzzle adventure that you won't want to miss. Read on for our full review. Mysteries are one of my oldest loves in fiction, and that's only grown through video games. Watching detectives pour over a murder case is one thing, yet user controlled spaces like games can sometimes struggle without the narrative luxury of pre-defined pacing.

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EON Reality Accelerates Global Leadership in Spatial AI Education with Unprecedented Expansion

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IRVINE, CA April 24, 2025 EON Reality, the global leader in augmented and virtual reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, has been identified as the definitive leader in Spatial AI for education through a comprehensive global analysis of educational technology platforms. The company’s innovative solutions now reach over 42 million users spanning more than 80 countries.

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Stay: Forever Home Brings A Mixed Reality Pet Sim To Quest Today

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Stay: Forever Home, the charming new mixed reality pet sim from the creators of Bogo and First Steps, is now available on Meta Quest headsets. Today, Quest owners will get their first chance to meet Ember, a delightful new virtual pet that brings its own distinct personality and aims to transform your living spaces into a whimsical mixed and virtual reality playground.

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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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EON Reality Launches Initiative to Enhance United Kingdom’s Defence Capabilities with Spatial AI & XR, Forging an AI-Ready, Multi-Domain Workforce

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IRVINE, CA April 24, 2025 EON Reality, the world leader in AI-assisted Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, today announced a major strategic initiative designed to support the United Kingdom’s defense modernization ambitions, its focus on multi-domain integration , and its global security posture as outlined in the Integrated Review Refresh.

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Horizon Worlds Now Supports 3D 180° Video For Events Like Concerts

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Meta Horizon Worlds now supports 3D 180 video on Quest for its streamed events such as concerts. Previously, immersive videos such as the Sabrina Carpenter, Shawn Mendes, and Doja Cat concerts were streamed in 2D in the Music Valley of Horizon Worlds, despite being filmed in 3D and available to watch in 3D in the Meta Quest TV app. That meant that Quest owners who wanted to watch these events in VR with a friend or just didn't know that only the Meta Quest TV version was 3D (Meta heavily pushes

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Is Your Store Delivering Experiences or Just Transactions?

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The process feels fairly familiar when you walk into most stores these days. After selecting a product and paying for it, you leave. Mission accomplished. But is “familiar” enough in a world where consumers can purchase nearly anything with a tap from the comfort of their couch? The priority has shifted from convenience to genuine connection.

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VR MMORPG Eldramoor: Haven In The Mist Teases Gameplay

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A new fantasy VR MMORPG, Eldramoor: Haven in the Mist, is coming to Quest and PC VR. Developed by Resolute Games, Eldramoor: Haven in the Mist enables you to become avid adventurers, uncovering the secrets of a mythic land with friends. Across five unique biomes, you can take on tasks like mining, raiding, crafting, PvP combat, and finding hidden treasures.

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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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Second Life Steals, Deals, and Freebies: The New Line of Starter Avatars, and Where to Find Free and Inexpensive Clothing for Them (Get 521 Items for Women for Only L$21!)

Ryan Schultz

Please note that I am still taking a hiatus from blogging ; I only wrote this blogpost because it was the most convenient way to share a lot of detailed information, in a way people can easily refer back to. Dont get me wrong, Primfeed is great, but stuff tends to disappear from peoples feeds very quickly, whereas a blog is much more permanent! Thank you.

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How To God Aims To Channel Black & White With A New VR Sandbox Sim

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How to God is a new VR sandbox god simulator inspired by Black & White that's coming to Quest. Created by Thoughtfish, who previously released Living Room last year, How to God is a colorful sandbox game where you can choose how to shape this world. You can construct villages, solve the problems presented to you by the local population through quests, raise a loyal creature that evolves based on your teachings, or even fight other gods. 0:00 / 1:06 1 How to God isn't just a tribute to class

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Spacetop For Windows Brings Spatial Computing To Xreal Air 2 Ultra

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Spacetop for Windows is $200/year software for Intel Core Ultra laptops that brings true spatial computing to the Xreal Air 2 Ultra glasses. Xreal glasses already support showing your Windows laptop's screen as a head-fixed virtual monitor. But Spacetop lets you spawn and position individual Windows applications in front of you, and these windows will stay anchored in place thanks to positional tracking, uniquely possible on the Air 2 Ultra model.

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Symphoni Adds Custom Songs & Mod Support To The Mixed Reality Rhythm Game

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Mixed reality rhythm game Symphoni introduced mod support and custom songs in today's update. Following last month's launch on Quest, the first major post-launch update for techToy Studio's Symphoni is now live. This lets you create custom songs through an open beta release of ' Symphoni Composer ,' a new timeline-based map editor with visual creation tools for designing, testing and sharing your songs.

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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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Contractors Showdown: ExfilZone Adds New Zone, Hideout Overhaul & More

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Contractors Showdown: ExfilZone received a hefty content update today with a new deployment zone, updated hideout and more. Marking its first server wipe since the alpha launched in December, Contractors Showdown ExfilZone notably added a new urban combat environment called 'Resort', which features three new bosses. Air-drops are also being introduced for high-risk loot across Resort, Dam and Suburb, while the Contractors Showdown's Battle Royale reborn mode also features this area.

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Vertigo 2: Into The Aether Is A Strong Conclusion For The Series

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Vertigo 2: Into the Aether delivers a strong expansion to the PC VR hit that ends the series on a high note. Read on for our full impressions. When Zach Tsiakalis-Brown released the ' Bottomless Update ' back in late 2023, I was prepared to accept that Vertigo 2 had run its course. While I didn't review it myself, my former colleague Harry summed it up well.

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