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MARCH 11, 2025

THIS IS MY 400TH ROUNDUP OF XR NEWS. I cant believe Im writing these words. When I started writing these weekly summaries of AR/VR news I couldnt imagine I would have continued for such a long time. Thank you to all of you, my readers, for having kept reading these posts of mine and giving me the strength to keep writing them by telling them they are useful for you.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 11, 2025

This week, at the 2025 SXSW festival, alongside arts and technology, immersive technology innovator GIGABYTE announced a partnership with the Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) to promote the deployment of an AI-powered XR content creation platform. The event is famed for showcasing the latest in arts and technology, and this year at the SXSW 2025 XR Lounge, the partnership underlined the events reputation.

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Road to VR

MARCH 11, 2025

Hitman World of Assassination is coming to PSVR 2, and we just got a fresh look at the action during the VR Games Showcase today, showing off some promising graphics that (hopefully) eclipses the series’ disastrous launch on Quest. Hitman World of Assassination the bundle including HITMAN 1, HITMAN 2 and HITMAN 3 was initially supposed to arrive on PSVR 2 in December, although developer IO Interactive delayed the release to March 27th, 2025likely for good reason.

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AR Insider

MARCH 11, 2025

VR training continues to prove its efficacy in immersing individuals in visceral sequences and experiential learning. How does it apply to the massive shipping & logistics industry? 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

MARCH 11, 2025

Windlands studio Psytec Games today unveiled its first new project in seven years, a co-op adventurer platformer called Titan Isles. The game looks to be somewhat of aspiritual successor to Windlands 2 (2018), the studio’s most recent game, letting co-op teams take on rope-swinging parkour challenges and fight off monsters of all shapes and sizesbosses included.

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Road to VR

MARCH 11, 2025

During the VR Games Showcase today,Patient 8 Games announced it’s bringing its long-awaited sci-fi action horror game Memoreum to Quest in September. Patient 8 Games is best known for its hit Half Life: Alyx mod, ‘Return to Rapture’ , which mashed up Bioshock levels with Half-Life lore. Ever since we heard about how the studio was aiming to similarly recreate Dead Space in Half-Life: Alyx mod , but later pivoted to launch it as a standalone title built in Unity, we’vebeen

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MARCH 11, 2025

A Metallica Apple Immersive concert experience featuring three songs, performed during the band's current tour, is releasing on Friday. The experience was filmed in Mexico City during Metallica's ongoing M72 World Tour, and will let Apple Vision Pro owners experience the band performing the songs Whiplash, One, and Enter Sandman from vantage points as close up as the famed Snake Pit, to wide-angle views of the bands energetic performance in the round. 0:00 / 0:32 1 To produce the experience, App

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Road to VR

MARCH 11, 2025

Alta, the studio behind open-world VRRPG ATownship Tale (2021) , revealed during the VR Games Showcase today more about its next VR game, a multiplayer dungeon-crawler called Reave. Previously revealed last year as ‘Project 2’ ,we now know the game is not only leaning into PvE, but also throwing in PvP for good measure, making for some deadly trips into its loot-filled dungeons.

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MARCH 11, 2025

2003 shooter Postal 2 is being fully rebuilt for VR on Quest, PC VR, and PlayStation VR2. Originally released in 2003 by Running With Scissors, Postal 2 takes place in the fictional town of Paradise, Arizona. Playing as The Postal Dude, this involves completing various tasks across your in-game week while choosing how violently to respond. Your actions then influence the town's dynamic AI, which can cause riots or other violent events. 0:00 / 2:17 1 The original game faced considerable criticism

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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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MARCH 11, 2025

Triangle Factory, the studio behind team shooter Breachers , today revealed its next VR game: Forefront , a multiplayer shooter inspired by the Battlefield series. The game, which supports up to 32 players, will offer vehicles of all types, including land, air and sea, letting you traverse large-scale maps for the sort of large, dynamic encounters you rarely see in VR.

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MARCH 11, 2025

Deep Cuts delves into the magic of movie making, letting you become the protagonist in a myriad of genres. The elusive world of the seventh art is one that fascinates me, telling stories from a unique perspective that evokes emotions like few other things in life can. Movies, and the filmmaking process, are at the heart of Deep Cuts, pun intended. It takes you behind the scenes to create your own action-packed scenes as eccentrically as you wish them to be.

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Road to VR

MARCH 11, 2025

AWE USA 2025 has announced a new Gaming Hub program that expands the event’s focus and programming to include XR game development and publishing. As far as industry events go, AWE USA has become our must-attend XR event of the year. This year it’s being heldJune 1012 in Long Beach, CA. FYI, the last chance to get the most affordable tickets is March 13th!

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 11, 2025

Imagine a training experience where youre not just reading from books or watching videos of someone else completing tasks. Instead, youre practicing techniques in a hands-on environment, working on machines, interacting with virtual customers, or even performing medical procedures without risks. Thats immersive learning. According to our research , enhancing training is one of the top use cases for extended reality technologies among organizations today and its easy to see why.

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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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MARCH 11, 2025

The next show from friends at VR Games Showcase is here, with more than 30 minutes of trailers and info on upcoming VR games and updates for Quest, PSVR 2, and PC VR. Catch the action right here at 12PM ET. Watch the full VR Games Showcase stream below, starting at 12PM ET ( your timezone here ): VR Games Showcase is presented and produced by VR industry veteransJamie Feltham and Zeena Al-Obaidi.

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MARCH 11, 2025

Minimalist action shooter Vendetta Forever is heading to PC VR this May, and five new levels are coming as a free update. Previously released on Quest and PlayStation VR2 last October, Vendetta Forever is a VR shooter from Meatspace Interactive and publisher nDreams. Designed around the 'LO-KILL-MOTION' mechanic, where you can only move by teleporting to an enemy's dropped weapon, today's VR Games Showcase revealed it's now heading to PC VR soon. 0:00 / 0:45 1 Coinciding with Vendetta Forever's

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Road to VR

MARCH 11, 2025

VR pet simulator Stay: Forever Home is officially coming to Quest in April, bringing its loveable canine companion ‘Ember’ to both virtual and mixed reality. Developer Windup Minds says Stay: Forever Home blends AR, VR, and unscripted AI to create a realistic companion that is unique to each player, resulting in a game that loves you back.

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MARCH 11, 2025

Forefront is a competitive 32-player VR FPS that's inspired by Battlefield, and we interviewed the developer to learn more. Developed by Triangle Factory, whose previous work includes tactical 5v5 shooter Breachers and Hyper Dash , Forefront is a more expansive shooter focused on near-future warfare that splits you into two larger teams. Featuring land, air, and sea vehicles for traversing and fighting, the studio promises large-scale maps with semi-destructible environments.

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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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MARCH 11, 2025

Flat2VR Studios, the team dedicated to porting flatscreen games to VR headsets, announced it has a fresh slate of four games getting the official flat-to-VR treatment. The studio announced during the VR Games Showcase today that it’s bringing official VR versions of Out of Sight, Surviving Mars, and Postal 2 to VR for the first time. Additionally, Flat2VR says it’s also porting Shadowgate VR: The Mines of Mythrok to PSVR 2.

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MARCH 11, 2025

Flatscreen horror game Slender: The Arrival will be released later this year for Steam, PS VR2, and Quest. Announced during today's VR Games Showcase , Slender: The Arrival will be ported from flatscreen to VR in spring this year. Developed by Blue Isle Studios, the first-person horror game pulls from the notorious creepypasta character The Slender Man, asking players to survive eerie environments while avoiding The Slender Man's haunting faceless stare and hair-raising presence. 0:00 / 0:42 1 T

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Road to VR

MARCH 11, 2025

Flat2VR Studios today showed off some fresh gameplay footage of Roboquest VR , its upcoming port of the titular fast-paced roguelite shooter. Like the original flatscreen Roboquest (2023) fromRyseUp Studios, Flat2VR also confirmed Roboquest VR will similarly feature two-player co-op in addition to single player campaign. Set in a vibrant, cel-shaded world, Roboquest throws players into procedurally generated levels filled with hordes of robotic enemies.

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MARCH 11, 2025

Fast-paced FPS roguelike Roboquest VR showed off a co-op mode in today's new gameplay trailer. Originally developed by Starbreeze, Roboquest is a high-octane roguelike that pits players against an onslaught of frenzying ballistic bots. In a post-apocalyptic 2700, players become Guardians, upgrading their loadout and skills to advance against a menacing metallic force.

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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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MARCH 11, 2025

Slender: The Arrival (2013), the hit flatscreen game that pits you against the legendary Slender Man, is releasing on all major VR platforms this spring, coming alongside a fresh (and spine-tingling) new gameplay video. As revealed during the VR Games Showcase today,the game’s original developerBlue Isle Studios is tooling the game for VR, coming to Quest, PSVR 2, and SteamVR headsets this spring.

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MARCH 11, 2025

Hitman World of Assassination received a new gameplay trailer before this month's launch on PlayStation VR2. Scheduled to launch on March 27, IO Interactive released a fresh look at the upcoming PS VR2 adaptation of Hitman: World of Assassination. Today's new trailer shows footage from 'The Finish Line' level in Hitman 2, the second mission where Agent 47 is tasked with infiltrating an endurance racing event in Miami.

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Oculus

MARCH 11, 2025

The creators of Hyper Dash and Breachers are back once again with another standout VR shooter to sink dozens of hours into online with today’s announcement of Forefront. This latest effort from Triangle Factory is focused on near-future all-out warfare featuring up to 32-player battles, vehicles that span land, sea, and air, as well as massive maps and game-changing destruction.

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MARCH 11, 2025

Stay: Forever Home is a virtual pet experience that blends mixed reality and VR modes, and it's coming to Meta Quest in April. Developer Windup Minds has just released a fresh trailer for its upcoming virtual pet experience, which showcases both the game's MR and VR modes. The trailer begins with the player exploring a magical world alongside their virtual pet, Ember.

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Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute

The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?

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