AR Insider
MAY 22, 2025
VR has evolved from gaming to treating psychological conditions like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). As its use in therapy grows, what are top design considerations for immersiveness, safety and efficacy? This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
MAY 22, 2025
Valve founder Gabe Newell’s neural chip company Starfish Neuroscience announced it’s developing a custom chip designed for next-generation, minimally invasive brain-computer interfacesand it may be coming sooner than you think. The company announced in a blog update that it’s creating a custom, ultra-low power neural chip in collaboration with R&D leader imec.
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MAY 22, 2025
Meta is rolling out the Horizon OS interface overhaul to some Quest owners on the PTC, and will bring it to everyone "over the coming months". Called Navigator, Meta announced the new system interface at Connect 2024 back in September, revealing its name and showing a short teaser clip. Now, with v77 of Horizon OS, the company says Navigator is rolling out to "some people on our Public Test Channel (PTC)", and is "expected to roll out gradually to all users over the coming months". 0:00 / 1:32 1
Road to VR
MAY 22, 2025
Google has released its second Developer Preview of the Android XR software development kit (SDK) following its initial release late last year, introducing new features and improvements including wider support for immersive video, better adaptive UI layouts, hand-tracking in ARCore for Jetpack, and more. Announced at Google I/O, the billet of updates to Android XR SDK is aimed at giving developers more standardized tools to either make their own XR-native apps, or bring their standard Android ap
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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MAY 22, 2025
Games made in the Godot engine can now run in a window on visionOS, with immersive XR support planned for later this year. If you're unaware, Godot is a free and open-source alternative to Unity and Unreal Engine. It's technically controlled by the non-profit Godot Foundation, but all development takes place in the open. Last month, an Apple employee on the visionOS engineering team created a massive pull request on Godot's GitHub, meaning thousands of lines of code adding support for visionOS a
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MAY 22, 2025
COLD VR: SUB-ZERO Edition overhauls the action shooter with a free update next month, and we interviewed the developer to learn more. Previously launched in February, COLD VR by Allware LLC is an action game where time slows down as you move. Marking its first major post-launch update, the upcoming SUB-ZERO Edition introduces a campaign overhaul with five new levels, updates to existing levels, visual upgrades across Quest and Steam, and native bHaptics support. 0:00 / 0:54 1 The upcoming change
XR Today - Augmented Reality tag
MAY 22, 2025
This week at Google I/O, the leading technology firm announced a trove of new products to unpack, namely expansions to its Gemini AI framework. Part of this expansion comes via Googles AndriodXR initiative, which sees the firm working with a range of XR industry leaders to create MR and AR devices that merge immersive and AI technologies. That’s exactly why we’re building Android XR,” remarked Shahram Izadi, the leader of Googles AndroidXR development team.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
MAY 22, 2025
ReadSpeaker has unveiled a new plugin to help balance immersion and accessibility without sacrificing workloads for video game developers. This plugin is called speechEngine. It aims to eliminate the hurdles faced with traditional TTS, which requires recording audio or creating static audio files. Accessibility as a Competitive Advantage For game studios, enterprise developers, and publishers, accessibility is no longer optional.
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MAY 22, 2025
Mezmer is a hidden gem tucked away in the Meta Horizon store that delivers mind-blowing interactive experiences set to your favorite music in Quest headsets. Over the years, I've tried a few different music visualization apps in VR, but none have ever affected me the way that Mezmer just did. Fankind Media has created a place where sound, visuals, and interaction all combine to form an almost surreal and dreamlike trance state. 0:00 / 0:59 1 Mesmer's menus for music and visuals selection Choosin
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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.
Oculus
MAY 22, 2025
Reality Labs is teaming up with Instagram to make the moments you share a little more magical. .
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MAY 22, 2025
Neon Cipher is a new VR puzzle action platformer inspired by Moss and Portal, and it's out next month on Quest and Steam. Developed by Vancouver studio eXomorph Games, the studio describes Neon Cipher as a blend of the tactile diorama style of Moss with the structured, test-chamber design of Portal. Featuring 50 levels with a mix of first and third-person gameplay mechanics, you play as a hacker and your goal is to fight enemies while solving puzzles as you break into the evil XE_CORP's database
EonReality
MAY 22, 2025
IRVINE, CA May 22, 2025 EON Reality, the world leader in Spatial AI and immersive XR learning, has officially unveiled its most comprehensive and outcome-driven platform to datean integrated suite of solutions designed to accelerate learning, elevate workforce skills, and expand economic opportunities across education, government, and industry. The new outcome-driven platform represents a leap forward in EONs mission to connect learning with real-world results.
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MAY 22, 2025
Alex and the Jets is a lighthearted arcade game that turns your play space into a dogfight arena. Initially released in early access last month, Alex and the Jets is the debut mixed reality title from HOOP-O Studios. Playing as Alex the Squirrel, you'll pilot a plane across your space as you fend off various enemies and tackle different challenges. This aims to turn your surroundings into a battlefield with a unique casual-arcade flight game, which you can see in action below. 0:00 / 1:00 1 As A
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.
Steki Amusement
MAY 22, 2025
Virtual reality (VR) is revolutionizing our digital experiences, and Owatch’s recent exhibitions have been at the forefront of this transformation. Lets take a look back at the key moments that made these events memorable. The exhibition kicked off with a buzz, as visitors flocked to Owatch’s modern booth. Sleek designs, dynamic lighting, and a variety of VR devices set the stage for an immersive journey.
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MAY 22, 2025
A VR high-speed racing game, V-Racer Hoverbike, is making its Quest debut next month. Developed by VertexBreakers, V-Racer Hoverbike is a high-octane motorbike racing game where players fly down futuristic tracks, earning XP and upgrades. It's been on Steam Early Access since 2018, and it's set to make its Quest debut on June 12. Similar to the more recent VRider SBK , it uses a body-based chest-leaning control system instead of traditional joystick-based controls to provide natural, intuitive,
Oculus
MAY 22, 2025
For developer Vaki Games, one of the main ideas fueling first-person shooter Quantum Threshold was to create a seated VR experience that could be just.
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MAY 22, 2025
Out of Sight VR, an atmospheric puzzle-adventure using a second-person perspective, is out now on Steam Early Access. Developed by The Gang and Flat2VR Studios, Out of Sight VR is a puzzle game where you guide a blind girl called Sophie to safety across a mysterious mansion. Using the viewpoint of her teddy bear, Sophie can carry around her stuffed friend and place it across different areas to gain a better perspective of this world and solve environmental puzzles. 0:00 / 1:05 1 Early Access lau
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.
Oculus
MAY 22, 2025
The Blumhouse beckons. Immerse yourself in terroror terrify othersin Blumhouse HORRORVERSE, a new world you can visit today in Meta Horizon on Meta Quest.
AR Insider
MAY 22, 2025
AI can capture & depict the world. but what happens when it understands it? This is contextual computing the topic of the latest episode of the Medium Energy podcast. We spotlight takeaways and embedded video. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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MAY 22, 2025
Apple plans to launch its competitor to the Ray-Ban Meta glasses in late 2026, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. Gurman, who has a strong track record of reporting on Apple products in advance of an official reveal, previously said that Apple planned the glasses for 2027, but now reports Apple is "ramping up work", with an aim to produce "large quantities of prototypes" by the end of this year.
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