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MARCH 22, 2024

After recently playing a prototype version of Laser Dance , I’ve been trying to wrap my head around what makes it so engaging. And it finally struck me. The game is a manifestation of the kind of simple rules that could turn any ordinary day in my childhood into an exciting adventure. Immediately I recalled the classic childhood pastime of ‘the floor is lava’, the game where everyone has to pretend that the floor is entirely covered in lava, and touching it means you’ll d

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MARCH 22, 2024

ALVR, the app that enables Apple Vision Pro to work on SteamVR, is now available for anyone to download. If you're interested in VR you're probably familiar with the three most popular tools to make Meta Quest headsets act as PC VR headsets on Windows: Virtual Desktop, Steam Link, and Quest (Air) Link. But you might not be as familiar with ALVR , the open-source alternative that has been around since before any of those.

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Road to VR

MARCH 22, 2024

Thirdverse , the Japan-based VR studio behind Swords of Gargantua , Altair Breaker, and X8 , announced that its VR multiplayer JRPG SOUL COVENANT is coming to all major headsets next month. Developed by the core team behind SOUL SACRIFICE (2013), players are thrust into a post-apocalyptic Tokyo in the franchise’s first VR expansion. Soul Covenant is said to feature a “deeply emotional narrative,” letting players explore humanity’s last bastion against the relentless o

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MARCH 22, 2024

Laser Dance is an incredible demonstration of mixed reality's potential on Quest 3 and beyond. Read on for our full impressions: Even if you don't watch spy or heist films, you're likely familiar with the idea of seeing people dodging lasers to reach their prize. Whether it's Vincent Cassel dancing his way past in Ocean's Twelve or Catherine Zeta-Jones carefully dodging detection in Entrapment, there's something fun about imagining yourself expertly avoiding these traps to secure your prize.

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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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Road to VR

MARCH 22, 2024

It’s time to go out and touch grass, or rather cut it, because Lawn Mowing Simulator is now available on Quest 2/3/Pro. UK-based studios Curve Games and Skyhook Games originally released Lawn Mowing Simulator on flatscreen monitors back in 2021, which included everything from modest country homes to palatial gardens ready for the trimming—all of which are patently British.

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Anand Tech

MARCH 22, 2024

Being the first company to ship HBM3E memory has its perks for Micron, as the company has revealed that is has managed to sell out the entire supply of its advanced high-bandwidth memory or 2024, while most of their 2025 production has been allocated, as well. Micron's HBM3E memory (or how Micron alternatively calls it, HBM3 Gen2) was one of the first to be qualified for NVIDIA's updated H200/GH200 accelerators, so it looks like the DRAM maker will be a key supplier to the green company.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 22, 2024

IDC has predicted the number of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) headset shipments to rocket upwards due to the rise of mixed reality (MR). Despite shipments for AR and VR headset declining by 23.5 percent last year, new IDC data points to shipments in 2024 rising by 44.2 to 9.7 million units. The new Apple Vision Pro, which launched an update earlier this month , and other products due to come out soon will also help to promote growth, while macroeconomic conditions improve world

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EON Reality

MARCH 22, 2024

Revolutionizing Education and Workforce Development with Immersive Technologies in the Baltic Region Irvine,CA – 22 March, EON Reality, a global leader in augmented and virtual reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, is proud to announce its expansion into Latvia, bringing the next step in educational technology to Baltic educators, students, and professionals.

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MARCH 22, 2024

Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord gets new narrative missions based on Frozen Empire next week. Bringing back Dan Aykroyd for an upcoming tie-in with the next movie, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, developer nDreams calls the latest Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord patch its "biggest content update yet." Promising powerful new equipment and new ghosts, this culminates with a fight against Frozen Empire’s villain, Garraka.

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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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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MARCH 22, 2024

The Medway Maritime NHS Hospital offers therapeutic virtual reality (TVR) to reduce feelings of pain and anxiety for patients undergoing Interventional Radiology (IR) procedures under local anaesthetic. It is understood to be the only NHS hospital in the UK currently offering TVR for IR treatments like angioplasty, stent changes, and inserting feeding tubes.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 22, 2024

What a massive week for spatial computing. At GTC, NVIDIA wowed the world with robotics, digital twins, automatic vehicles, AI processors, and countless more innovations, and behind many, many, many of these innovations, spatial data. With XR/spatial computing data, whether 3D environmental data or user tracking data, 3D services are working hard behind the scenes to elevate the future of industry and work by using a deep computing understanding of the world around us.

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Anand Tech

MARCH 22, 2024

Micron this week announced that it had begun sampling of its 256 GB multiplexer combined (MCR) DIMMs, the company's highest-capacity memory modules to date. These brand-new DDR5-based MCRDIMMs are aimed at next-generation servers, particularly those powered by Intel's Xeon Scalable 'Granite Rapids' processors that are set to support 12 or 24 memory slots per socket.

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