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.
Road to VR
MAY 6, 2024
Some major car manufacturers still design cars in clay before heading into production, and while that tradition doesn’t seem to be going away just yet, companies like Ford, Volvo and Rivian say mixed reality headsets are substantially helping them to reduce time and cost in vehicle design. In a new video focusing on the Australia-base ddesign team behind the Ford Ranger, Ranger Raptor and Everest, we get a look at just how one of the world’s largest car manufacturers is using mixed r
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The Ghost Howls
MAY 10, 2024
Today I’ve tried the free demo of COLD VR, the VR game that is the opposite of Superhot VR (hence the joke of the name). I think this game is fun and has a lot of potential, but it needs a bit more of polish to become a true hit when the full version will be released. Discover why in this review of the free preview demo that is available on Steam.
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 9, 2024
Pokemon Go studio Niantic now offers one of Quest's most interesting examples of mixed reality experimentation. The free Hello, Dot app available now lets loose one of the virtual creatures from the AR game out into your environment. You can grab the jiggly little creature from the air, dip it in a bucket of paint, or point at a surface to direct its interest.
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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
XR Today - VR Headsets tag
MAY 9, 2024
The XR Awards 2024 is incoming. The annual online showcase event is on Thursday, May 23rd 2024, at 4 PM BST/11 AM EST. During the live online event, XR today showcases some of last year’s winners and highlights the talent behind each finalist entry. XR Today is proud to announce the finalists of this year’s event. The XR Awards 2024 had an expected impressive lineup of industry leaders and innovators; the judges were tasked with separating the vast number of applications into this year’s f
XR Today - Virtual Reality
MAY 6, 2024
The University of Miami has implemented ENGAGE’s spatial computing technology to bolster immersive learning experiences across the university. The Top Immersive Education Trends to Watch in 2024 New Meta Quest for Education Product Due this Year How Immersive Learning can Help Education, Governmental Shortages ENGAGE is a SaaS Enterprise advanced spatial computing platform that allows professionals, event organisers, educators, and businesses to create their own virtual worlds.
Upload VR
MAY 7, 2024
The new Apple Pencil Pro would make a perfect accessory for Apple Vision Pro. Alongside new iPad Pro and iPad Air models, today Apple announced the $130 Apple Pencil Pro for use with them. 0:00 / 0:27 1× The new Apple Pencil Pro. In addition to the pressure sensing and double tap detection of the existing second-generation Apple Pencil, the new Pro model has a gyroscope, squeeze sensor, and haptic feedback.
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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.
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 3, 2024
The PC VR population has been growing ever so steadily over the last four years. Meanwhile, the MacOS population has shrunk and been overtaken by VR. If you were just looking at the percent of the Steam population with monthly-connected VR headsets, you’d probably conclude that VR on the platform has shrunk slightly over the last four years. Here’s a look at the trend of the percent of the VR population on Steam: But the total population of Steam itself has been growing at a steady
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
MAY 7, 2024
Rivian deployed Autodesk’s virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) solution alongside Varjo headsets to enhance sustainability processes. NTT and the Role of Sustainability in the Industrial Metaverse Digital Twins, Where Profitability and Sustainability “Coexist” Lenovo Outlines Metaverse, Sustainability Pledge The software, Autodesk VRED, provides full support to virtual and mixed reality and, combined with Varjo’s headsets, allows the design department to work with life-like digital model
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 5, 2024
Chinese news outlet WallStreetCN reports Apple plans to launch the cheaper and lighter Vision headset as early as June 2025. The report cites "the supply chain" as saying Apple is accelerating the launch from an original plan of September 2025, and claims the headset will weigh roughly 400 grams, significantly lighter than the 600-650 gram Vision Pro.
AR Insider
MAY 7, 2024
AR content – with its demand for high-quality, real-time rendering – presents challenges that go beyond traditional digital-creation paradigms. How can render farms add value? This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
MAY 8, 2024
Marvel Studios and ILM Immersive today announced a new interactive story coming exclusively to Apple Vision Pro, which is based on the popular Disney+ animated series What If…? Called What If…? – An Immersive Story, the developers call it an “immersive, narrative-driven and innovative story in mixed reality,” which is promised to be an hour-long experience.
EON Reality
MAY 8, 2024
“Empowering Saint Vincent with Skills for a Sustainable, Resilient Future.” IRVINE, CA – May 8th, 2024 – EON Reality, a pioneering force in virtual reality and augmented reality technologies for education, proudly announces a new transformative educational initiative in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. This initiative is designed to revolutionize learning and skill acquisition, focusing on sustainable development and disaster resilience through a custom blend of educatio
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 - Mixed Reality tag
MAY 9, 2024
This week, UK-based immersive technology innovators eXtended Reality Peterborough (XRP) partnered with Igloo Vision and the wider ARU education group to open a £5.7 million XR training facility in the heart of education institutions across the east of England. The “XR Lab” grand opening came with the aforementioned multi-million capital support from the Office for Students, which aims to support simulated learning opportunities at the new Peterborough site and beyond.
Upload VR
MAY 6, 2024
This post was produced by UploadVR in partnership with Kluge Interactive and Mighty Coconut. Fans of Synth Riders and Walkabout Mini Golf, we’ve got some news: The base games of both are available as a discounted bundle ! The Synthabout bundle launched May 3rd, 2024 and will be available until May 17th, 2024 on the Meta Quest and Steam VR for $31.99 USD.
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.
Road to VR
MAY 6, 2024
Searching for Vision Pro apps when not actually wearing the thing has been a hassle since day one. Now Apple has added a nifty new search function to its App Store web portal which makes it a lot easier to browse and download stuff. Apple launched its Vision Pro web portal a while ago, but if you were left scratching your head looking for a search function, scratch no more.
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?
XR Today - Augmented Reality tag
MAY 7, 2024
This week, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth noted in his most recent Instagram Q and A session that while the firm’s Reality Labs division – an XR research and development space – can produce incredibly high XR device displays up to roughly “100 [PPD]” in testing scenarios, the firm cannot make such details for consumer end-devices; at least not yet.
Anand Tech
MAY 8, 2024
Further to our last piece which we detailed Intel's issue to motherboard vendors to follow with stock power settings for Intel's 14th and 13th Gen Core series processors , Intel has now issued a follow-up statement to this. Over the last week or so, motherboard vendors quickly released firmware updates with a new profile called 'Intel Baseline', which motherboard vendors assumed would address the instability issues.
Upload VR
MAY 8, 2024
Commenting on UploadVR articles is now free, UploadVR Membership is now more affordable than ever, and you can now support us even more with UploadVR Patronage. We relaunched the UploadVR website just over a year ago with a cleaner reading experience, faster loading time, far fewer bugs, and the ability to support our work directly by becoming an UploadVR Member instead of seeing programmatic ads.
AR Insider
MAY 9, 2024
Niantic brings Peridot to Quest, Matterport gets acquired and Sora opens a new era of music videos. We have these and other happenings from the intersection of AR and AI through the eyes of Charlie Fink. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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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