The Ghost Howls
MAY 13, 2024
This is a period with many tech announcements: we had Meta telling about its Horizon OS, yesterday OpenAI unveiled the new GPT-4o, and today Google will hopefully unveil its Android XR operating system. What a time to be alive! Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Apple Vision Pro 2 may come in 2026 The rumors about the Apple Vision Pro 2 continue.
AR Insider
MAY 8, 2024
If virtual reality is the empathy machine, SXSW 2024 was the empathy festival. AR Insider Editor-at-Large Emily Olman reports about her emotive experiences on the ground with immersive works. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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Road to VR
MAY 10, 2024
The latest major SteamVR update has arrived, coming with it an improvement to Steam Link for Quest. Initially released in November 2023, Steam Link is Valve’s own app on the Meta Quest Store which allows users to quickly and easily connect their Quest headset wirelessly to SteamVR to play PC VR or flatscreen PC content, essentially letting you bypass Meta’s own Air Link.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
MAY 8, 2024
Recently, Network Rail officially taught more than 1,000 students at the Trinity Academy in Thorne, Doncaster, a landmark number for immersive training programmes. Industry professionals at Network Rail’s Community Safety team and the British Transport Police hosted five railway safety sessions at the Doncaster school, showcasing the dangers of trespassing on railways.
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.
Upload VR
MAY 13, 2024
Apple will soon start selling Vision Pro outside the US, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. Apple Vision Pro is currently only sold in the US. At launch Apple said it will come to other countries "later" in 2024, but has only so far only confirmed China and hasn't yet set a specific window or date. Gurman, who reliably reported many details of Vision Pro before it was officially revealed or even acknowledged to exist by Apple, reports today that Apple is now conducting Vision Pro training sessions
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AR Insider
MAY 14, 2024
To celebrate the film release of Sing 2, Universal Pictures looked to TikTok to create an interactive campaign utilizing AR effects. What were results and, best practices, and strategic takeaways? This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
MAY 13, 2024
Researchers from Meta Reality Labs, Princeton University, and others have published a new paper detailing a method for achieving ultra-wide field-of-view holographic displays with retina resolution. The method drastically reduces the display resolution that would otherwise be necessary to reach such parameters, making it a potential shortcut to bringing holographic displays to XR headsets.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
MAY 13, 2024
The official Welsh governmental tourism board has debuted a browser-based Metaverse experience to promote the region’s cultural destinations ahead of a traveller’s journey. According to the Welsh Tourism Board, the region’s promotional Metaverse is the first time a UK or European country leveraged shared immersive spaces for promoting tourism – official sources say.
Upload VR
MAY 14, 2024
1 in 4 US teens told Pew Research Center they play games on a VR headset. The survey was conducted on 1453 US teens aged 13 to 17. Pew claims the participants were "recruited primarily through national, random sampling of residential addresses" and "weighted to be representative of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17 who live with their parents by age, gender, race and ethnicity, household income, and other categories".
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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.
Charlie Fink
MAY 13, 2024
Seven years after featuring Innaratu's seminal VR work, "Carne y Arena," the Cannes Film Festival has created a new immersive Category and Award.
AR Insider
MAY 9, 2024
How will AI elevate VR. Guest author Unborn Tech examine 10 ways these two technologies have the potential to unlock each other – from intelligent and reactive UX to streamlining experience creation. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
MAY 13, 2024
Meta is finally rolling out the long-awaited travel mode for Quest 2 and Quest 3, ostensibly hacking away another unique feature from Apple Vision Pro. Update (May 13th, 2024) : Meta says the new Quest 2/3 Travel Mode was specially tuned to account for the motion of an airplane, even when it comes to looking out the window. The company says in a blog post it will be updating Travel Mode in the future to work with other modes of transportation, such as trains.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
MAY 10, 2024
Today, Interplay Learning announced a strategic partnership with Peterman Brothers’ Heating, Cooling, Plumbing, and Electrical divisions to distribute immersive learning services to ten Peterman service branches and their workers. The move sees more than 250 Peterman technicians leverage the XR training solution to improve technical skills, including HVAC, electrical, plumbing, and drain-clearing procedures.
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
MAY 13, 2024
Lufthansa and Meta announced they will provide a Quest 3 headset to business class passengers on some flights starting in summer. Described as a "pilot program (pun intended)", the scheme will see customers on "selected flights" in Lufthansa's new "Allegris" Business Class this summer offered a Quest 3 headset with a streamlined launcher preloaded with certain apps.
Charlie Fink
MAY 9, 2024
M&A activity in AI and XR drove the news this week. Sandbox VR adds 25 more locations, and Niantic tries MR for the first time.
AR Insider
MAY 13, 2024
Director Paul Trillo’s new music video for the band Washed Out is the first commercial use of OpenAI’s new text-to-video generator, Sora. What does this mean for the future of video production? This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
MAY 8, 2024
Meta announced Batman: Arkham Shadow last week, which is coming exclusively to Quest 3 in late 2024. And wouldn’t you know it, YouTube users absolutely hate it. Although YouTube disabled the dislike button counter in 2021, you can still get a good idea of how the public is reacting to any given video by installing an extension to your browser, like Chrome’s ‘ Return YouTube Dislike ‘ Released officially through both IGN’s main YouTube channel and Meta’s own Y
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.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
MAY 14, 2024
XR Today invites the extensive immersive industry to join XR Awards 2024 for its yearly online showcase event, which will broadcast live on Thursday, May 23 2024, at 4 PM BST/11 AM EST. The XR Awards are a great way to get ahead and learn about the firms leading in transforming business with immersive technology. Finalists include roughly 36 unique finalists, showcasing the very best in the enterprise XR industry covering a wide breadth of categories including but not limited to Best Virtual Rea
Upload VR
MAY 13, 2024
Quest 2 and Quest 3 now have an "experimental" Travel Mode for use on airplanes. You can add Travel Mode to your headset's Quick settings via the toggle in the Experimental section of settings. Meta says you need to be on stable (not PTC) system software v65 to see this and should restart your headset if you still don't. Note that Quest Pro isn't supported, only Quest 2 and Quest 3.
XR Today - Augmented Reality tag
MAY 13, 2024
Tomorrow, Google’s I/O conference is poised to showcase its latest updates concerning its extensive technology portfolio. From smartphones to AI, Google is very much positioned in the enterprise solutions space with its products. However, recent revelations ahead of the Google I/O Developer Conference kicking off May 14th highlight that XR solutions may take centre stage during the event.
AR Insider
MAY 9, 2024
This week on Reality Bytes, we try Instagram's new interactive stickers, YouTube's AI skipper tool, and Dave & Buster's gamified loyalty. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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?
Road to VR
MAY 14, 2024
Google announced it’s partnering with HP to commercialize Project Starline, the company’s light-field display for immersive, headset-less video conferences. Google says it’s partnering with HP to start commercialization of Starline in 2025, which the company says will “focus on connecting distributed teams and individuals in the workplace.” Additionally, Google says it wants to eventually bring Starline support to video conferencing services such as Google Meet and
Charlie Fink
MAY 8, 2024
Dnsys used artificial intelligence, biomedical engineering, and rehabilitative medicine to create a new kind of wearable tech.
Upload VR
MAY 14, 2024
Google showed a brief demo of AI smart glasses with a HUD I/O 2024. The pre-recorded demo was shown as part of Google's announcement of Project Astra, an in-development real time natively multimodal AI assistant that can remember and reason about everything it sees and hears, as opposed to current multimodal AI systems which capture a image on-demand when asked about what they see.
Anand Tech
MAY 10, 2024
Coming out of the dark times that preceded the launch of AMD's Zen CPU architecture in 2017, to say that AMD has turned things around on the back of Zen would be an understatement. Ever since AMD launched its first Zen-based Ryzen and EPYC processors for client and server computers, it has been consistently gaining x86 market share, growing from a bit player to a respectable rival to Intel (and all at Intel's expense).
Speaker: Micah Eppler, Account Executive for Rehearsal of eLearning Brothers
Did you know that companies such as Paychex, 3M, and Honeywell are getting better results by incorporating video-based practice and coaching within their L&D strategy? From sales pitches to soft skills, learners are becoming top performers by applying and validating knowledge transfer using the unique benefits of video. Whether used as a stand-alone application or integrated with a learning platform, video-based practice and coaching platforms give learners the ultimate opportunity to repeatedly
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