VRScout
MARCH 2, 2023
A group called Fight for Echo has purchased a sky banner in support of the ill-fated VR game. It was recently announced that the popular VR esports game Echo VR will be shutting down on August 1st, 2023 at 10:00 am PST, much to the dismay of the VR community. Originally launched back in 2017 on Oculus Rift, Ready at Dawn’s zero-g sports game has served as a staple for competitive VR experiences for the past six years.
ARPost
MARCH 2, 2023
It’s been over a year since ARPost introduced readers to Frame, the hardware-agnostic web-based virtual meeting platform. The team, a part of Virbela (which has its own app-based virtual world platform), just announced a major update. It was time to step back in with Vice President Gabe Baker. A Peek at the Update Frame ’s update was all about adding power to the platform while making it easier to use.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
VRScout
MARCH 2, 2023
A recent leak could provide new details regarding the company’s hardware roadmap. A new report from The Verge claims that Meta intends on releasing three additional VR headsets over the next several years. This includes a direct follow-up to Quest 2 as well as the more recent Quest Pro mixed reality headset. Citing an internal roadmap presentation shared with Meta employees, the report states that a Quest 3 VR headset is scheduled for release later this year.
Road to VR
MARCH 2, 2023
Meta is planning to ship a VR headset in 2024 which the company wants to make as accessible as possible to consumers. According to a report by The Verge , Meta’s VP of VR, Mark Rabki, told thousands of employees in a memo that it plans to release a consumer VR headset in 2024, codenamed Ventura. “The goal for this headset is very simple: pack the biggest punch we can at the most attractive price point in the VR consumer market,” Rabki wrote in the memo.
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.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
MARCH 2, 2023
In late January, extended reality (XR) hardware provider Varjo and partners The Finnish National Opera and Ballet (FNOB) debuted an immersive opera experience of acclaimed production: Turandot from classic composers Giacomo Puccini and Franco Alfano. The esteemed European art institution premiered its Opera in person on January 27 2022, while hosting Turandot via a varjo-powered immersive environment.
Virtual Reality Pulse brings together the best content for VR professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
MARCH 2, 2023
Metaphysic announced on Thursday that it had appointed Sam Head as its Senior Artificial Intelligence (AI) Model Artist to expand the company’s generative AI solutions. Additional appointments include Thomas Salama, AI and Compositing Supervisor , Scott Bourne, AI Compositing Lead , and Matteo Olivieri Dancey, AI Innovation Lead. The new entrants formally worked for major special effects (SFX) giant Industrial Light & Magic.
Anand Tech
MARCH 2, 2023
OWC has been a key player in the storage industry over the last few decades, particularly for Apple users. Their lineup of portable flash-based direct-attached storage devices has a great reputation in the market, thanks to their focus on performance consistency for professional workloads. The company is also known for being upfront about their products' capabilities under worst-case conditions.
Upload VR
MARCH 2, 2023
The third-generation Ray-Ban smartglasses will reportedly ship in 2025 with a HUD and neural wristband. Ray-Ban Stories shipped in 2021 as the result of a collaboration between Meta and Luxottica. The current Stories are essentially camera glasses for taking hands-free first person photos and videos. They also have speakers and a microphone for music and phone calls but there is no display of any sort.
Charlie Fink
MARCH 2, 2023
Product pictures on ecommerce sites are about to become 3D.
Advertisement
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.
Upload VR
MARCH 2, 2023
The Last Worker, an anti-capitalist VR narrative adventure, arrives this month on Quest, PSVR 2 and PC VR. Jointly developed by Oiffy and Wolf & Wood, The Last Worker is a dystopian adventure packing an all-star cast that includes Zelda Williams and Tommie Earl Jenkins. Playing as world-weary factory worker Kurt (Ólafur Darri Ólafsson), you’re asked to help dismantle his employer from within, and Kurt’s joined by his robotic companion Stew (Jason Isaacs).
Anand Tech
MARCH 2, 2023
G.Skill has announced its first RDIMM memory products to the market, their Zeta R5 memory series. Designed for use with Intel's new Sapphire Rapids workstation processors , the Zeta R5 DDR5 RDIMMs are explicitly intended for use with Intel's Xeon W-3400X and W-2400X series processors, with integrated XMP 3.0 profiles and proper out-of-band ECC support (not just on-die ECC memory as with DDR5 UDIMMs).
Upload VR
MARCH 2, 2023
C-Smash VRS reimagines an obscure Sega classic for PSVR 2, and we went hands-on to preview its upcoming demo. We’re facing tough times in the VR community with multiplayer. Games like Gorilla Tag continue thriving, but Echo VR’s upcoming closure still stings for many, while smaller games like Nerf Ultimate Championship barely got off the ground before announcing closure.
XROM
MARCH 2, 2023
Meta plans to release its first pair of smart glasses with a display in 2025 alongside a neural interface smartwatch designed to control them. Meanwhile, its first pair of full-fledged AR glasses, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg has predicted will eventually be as widely used as mobile phones, is planned for 2027. The details were shared with thousands of employees in Meta’s Reality Labs division on Tuesday during a roadmap presentation of its AR and VR efforts that was shared with The Verge.
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.
Ryan Schultz
MARCH 2, 2023
I have kept my word in significantly scaling back my coverage of Second Life on this blog, but today I chanced upon an Alice-in-Wonderland-themed hunt at a womenswear store called Meander/Me. The proprietor of Meander/Me, Lemania Indigo, is someone whom I actually worked for, back in ye olde pre-mesh Second Life era of system-layers-and-flexiprim clothing!
VRGames
MARCH 2, 2023
Meta’s Quest 3 headset is the next consumer headset coming out of the VR company and reports indicate that it will be a slightly pricier option designed to appeal more to existing VR enthusiasts.
Oculus
MARCH 2, 2023
With countless matches played in the last few months, it’s high time we start changing the game in Among Us VR.
VRGames
MARCH 2, 2023
ZTE Corporation is making a big splash at Mobile World Congress 2023 with the announcement of their new tablet device: The nubia Pad 3D. Its AI and lightfield technology allows users to enjoy 3D games, videos and content without eyewear.
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.
Upload VR
MARCH 2, 2023
Originally released for consoles and PC in 2021, Resident Evil Village is one of PlayStation VR2’s major launch titles and an intense but wholly satisfying experience. Read on for our full Resident Evil Village PSVR 2 review. At this point, the Resident Evil franchise is a staple of virtual reality ecosystems. On Quest, you can play a reimagined VR adaptation of Resident Evil 4 and soon, you’ll be able to play a remake of the same title on PSVR 2.
VRGames
MARCH 2, 2023
Today marks the launch of Divine Duel, a competitive free-to-play 1v1 virtual reality (VR) fighter from Immersion Games. Featuring sci-fi and fantasy-inspired aesthetics with “crazy weaponry,” this game is an exciting venture away from the developer’s earlier works such as Disc Ninja and Extreme Escape.
Upload VR
MARCH 2, 2023
VRNoid brings a mix of retro-themed block breakers and air hockey to VR, which arrives this week on Quest and PC VR. Created by solo Ukrainian developer Taras Solomakha (Fullmetal Developer), VRNoid was initially targeting a Spring 2022 launch, before facing a lengthy delay due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Now arriving on March 4, Solomakha tells UploadVR “I wanted to bring a classic retro game into virtual reality,” and this eventually became VRNoid.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
MARCH 2, 2023
Last Thursday, immersive healthcare training solutions provider GigXR updated its HoloSecnarios platform to include new training models to deepen learning curves. The move brings Basic Life Support (BLS) training to the HoloSecnarios platform – a TIME-awarded immersive learning suite. Project partners Morlen Health, a Northwest Permanente, P.C. subsidiary, assisted in integrating the new learning module into the HoloSecnarios platform.
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?
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
489 
Let's personalize your content