The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2022

At AWE 2022 I had the opportunity of having a very short hands-on with the Shiftall MeganeX glasses, one of the most awaited pieces of hardware in the XR community. And even better, I have also had the pleasure of speaking with the CEO of the company! Let me tell you in this post everything I learned… Shiftall MeganeX. At CES 2020 , one of the best in the show for us VR people were the Panasonic prototypical VR glasses.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Epson has a very diverse selection of AR wearables in its enterprise tech portfolio. This month, that selection got more diverse with the launch of two new smart glasses in a new BT-45 product line. Let’s take a look. The Moverio BT-45 Series. Moverio’s previous line of headsets, the BT-40 series, was based around virtual screens and heads-up displays.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The Quest Pro is even better with these nifty accessories. The Meta Quest Pro features a generous selection of accessories at launch, from a premium carry case to dedicated VR earphones and everything in between. Some of these useful add-ons come included with your headset, while others can be purchased for an additional price through Meta. The following is a list of every VR accessory announced for the Meta Quest Pro: What’s in the box?

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 26, 2022

ARtillery Intelligence released a new report that projects VR revenue to grow from $$8.3 billion in 2021 to $28.8 billion in 2026, a 28.3 percent compound annual growth rate. We examine strategic takeaways in the latest "Behind the Numbers.". This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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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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Road to VR

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In Meta’s most recent quarterly earnings call the company shared the latest revenue figures of Reality Labs, the company’s XR division. In the third quarter of the year the division hit new milestones… unfortunately not the kind investors like to see. Meta has been clear about its plan to spend aggressively on its XR initiatives over the next several years.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Meta quietly confirmed that its next consumer-focused Quest headset (likely called Quest 3) will launch in 2023. While it was a bit more than a year between the launch of the first Quest and Quest 2, it’s now been more than two years since the launch of Quest 2 and Meta has yet to formally announce the next consumer-focused Quest headset. Just a day after the launch of the $1,500 Quest pro, Meta today confirmed plans to launch what it called the “next generation of our consumer Quest

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The latest beta release of VRChat adds experimental support for hand tracking on Quest 2 and Quest Pro. Referred to as experimental ‘finger tracking’ in the announcement tweet , this will allow Quest users to enter VRChat without controllers and use various hand and finger gestures to control their avatar and interact with the virtual world.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Demand for immersive interactions is on the rise. Everything from the increase of remote and hybrid work, to growing interest in the “Metaverse” has prompted rapid adoption of powerful new experiences in “Extended Reality”. However, the more companies explore the XR environment, the more they discover new demands for tools which help to embed users in digital experiences.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Reality Labs quarterly revenue dropped year-over-year in Q3 for the first time since Meta started reporting the division’s financials. Reality Labs is the division of Meta behind Quest, smart glasses , Meta Avatars, Horizon, and research & development toward future devices such as the neural wristband project and AR glasses. The division brought in $285 million revenue in Q3 2022, the lowest since it started reporting the division’s financials in Q4 2020.

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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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TechCrunch VR

OCTOBER 26, 2022

A follow-up to the Quest 2, Meta is launching another consumer-grade virtual reality headset next year. The company announced this during today’s Q3 earnings call , in which the company marked yet another $3 billion quarterly loss to its metaverse investments. But CFO David Wehner says that some of this continued cost can be explained via Meta’s continued investment in new hardware development, including another consumer-grade headset that will come out next year.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The “next generation consumer Quest” will launch “later next year”, Meta’s CFO told investors. During Meta’s Q3 2022 earnings call, David Wehner mentioned the headset while warning investors of increasing costs next year: “Conversely, our growth in cost of revenue is expected to accelerate, driven by infrastructure-related expenses and, to a lesser extent, Reality Labs hardware costs driven by the launch of our next generation of our consumer Quest heads

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Charlie Fink

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Meta Reality Labs had a 49% drop in revenue due to slowing Quest sales.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Meta’s high-end standalone Quest Pro headset is now arriving to buyers with apps adding new mixed reality capabilities for its color cameras. Here’s a list of some of the first ones you can check out. If we miss any apps on this list, please email tips@uploadvr.com and let us know. Room-Aware Apps & Games. Some of the most interesting software available on Quest Pro can be experienced in mixed reality by marking the walls or furniture in your room.

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Rock legend Ozzy Osbourne is set to perform at a key metaverse festival along with some of the world’s biggest artists, it was revealed last week. In a tweet, top metaverse platform Decentraland announced it would open the Metaverse Music Festival 2022 , a novel platform hosting over 100 artists, including the Godfather of Heavy Metal, rap superstar Soulja Boy, and electronic music icon Dillon Francis, among many others.

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Anand Tech

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The e-Paper market has enjoyed steady growth over the last decade, starting with the introduction of the Amazon Kindle back in 2007. While there are many vendors attempting to make a mark in the technology required in this space, E-Ink's offerings have ruled the roost. The most popular category of products using E-Ink's technology has undoubtedly been eBook readers.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The HaptX SDK makes it easy for any developer to bring a realistic sense of touch to their VR games and apps. HaptX Inc. has been pushing the limits of haptic technology since the launch of its HaptX DK2 gloves back in January 2021. Now the company is opening pre-orders for its first-ever commercial product, the HaptX Gloves G1, a ground-breaking haptic device optimized and designed for large-scale deployment, and ready for the enterprise metaverse.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 26, 2022

We’ve been putting Quest Pro through its paces since the weekend – here’s what we think. Quest Pro is not a variant of Quest 2, nor is it a successor. It’s the first in Meta’s new high-end product line targeting professionals, early adopters, developers, and businesses. Meta markets Quest Pro as a headset for both virtual and mixed reality.

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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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Upload VR

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Espire 2 releases next month for Quest 2 , this time featuring a co-op campaign that lets you and a friend revisit levels from Espire 1, reimagined for multiplayer. The key takeaway from my time with Espire 2’s single player campaign at Gamescom earlier this year was that Digital Lode is building a toolkit and framework that encourages experimentation and gives the player as much freedom as possible.

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