January, 2025

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Android XR Might Be a Big Bqualizer (But We Have to Wait)

AR Insider

With Samsung's project Moohan, Android XR will enter the spatial computing competitive field. What will this mean for the sector and how will Google stack up to Apple, Meta and others? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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What’s the future of SteamVR tracking?

The Ghost Howls

It’s the beginning of a new year, and I started thinking about the future of immersive realities for 2025 and beyond. There is one question that is recurring in my mind: with the possible advent of the standalone Deckard headset with inside-out tracking, is Lighthouse-based SteamVR tracking still going to be relevant? Will it survive this year or the next ones?

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Oculus Founder Teases XR Announcement Coming “in a few weeks”, Possibly Pointing to Military-driven Headset

Road to VR

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is announcing something in a few weeks, which he says will prove he isn’t out of the ‘XR game’ Luckey confirmed back in June he’sbuilding a new XR headset , although the device in question seems to be primarily driven by military requirements” in addition to “non-military stuff,” he said at its AWE 2024 announcement.

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XR Streaming Takes Steps Forward with PICO Integration of NVIDIA Geforce NOW

XR Today - Virtual Reality

This week, XR headset vendor PICO introduced the integration of NVIDIA GeForce NOW into its portfolio of headsets, marking a step toward XR streaming for broad enterprise and consumer use. The move allows headset users to stream immersive content and applications directly to a headset without wire tethering, therefore broadening the scale of services the headset portfolio can run and access.

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The Future of eLearning in 2022: A Sensitive Eye for Authentic Translation and Localization

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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CES 2025: The Consumer Everything Show Sets The Stage For The Year Ahead

Charlie Fink

CES, hosted by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), kicks off the new year with over 150,000 industry attendees expected in Las Vegas next week.

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Can Apple Mainstream Visual Search?

AR Insider

Apple recently stripped away some of the friction in visual search. The iPhone 16's new Camera Control button includes a function to launch visual searches on the fly. Could this one-touch approach accelerate visual search's adoption curve? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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The XR Week Peek (2025.01.05): Vivo to launch a mixed reality headset, VR usage on Steam on the rise, and more!

The Ghost Howls

This is the first newsletter of 2025, so happy new year to you all! I wish you all the best! Its a very special day for me because Im taking soon the plane to go to CES! Im very excited because its the first time Im going there and Im sure it will be amazing! Since I have to rush to prepare to take the plane, this first newsletter of the year will be a bit more concise than usual.

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Meta Reportedly Working on a High-end Quest Pro Successor Alongside Quest 4

Road to VR

Meta Quest Pro wasn’t really the prosumer hit it was chalked up to be, leading the company to discontinue its first mixed reality headset a little over two years after release. Now Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports Meta is not only working on an ostensible Quest 3 consumer follow-up, but also a “high-end” model that could succeed Quest Pro.

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WEART, MAIZE Partner to Drive Immersive Training Adoption and Innovation

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Leading into the new year, virtual reality training is growing as the broader XR market also emerges as a tool for work and everyday life. Regarding the well-established virtual reality market, immersive training and learning tools are easily one of the largest XR opportunities for businesses worldwide outside of gaming and entertainment use cases. Virtual training can save time, money, and lives by allowing workers from dangerous or demanding environments to learn without risking themselves an

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How to Train Employees 65% Faster With Virtual Reality

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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CES 2025: A Year Of AI Hype And Quiet Evolution

Charlie Fink

This years CES was all about AIor at least, that was the headline. While AI is poised to change everything, its presence at the show was more theoretical than tangible.

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Apple Reportedly Cancels Mac-Connected Transparent AR Glasses

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Apple has canceled AR glasses that would have required a connection to a Mac (or originally, Apple had hoped, your iPhone), Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. Gurman has a relatively strong track record of reliably reporting on Apple's product plans years in advance, and successfully described most of Apple Vision Pro's hardware and software before it was officially revealed.

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The Future of Furniture: Will CGI and 3D Shape Digital Commerce?

AR Insider

We live in a world where visuals arent just supporting the narrativethey are the narrative. Today, forward-thinking brands are redefining engagement by crafting stunning, immersive… Continue reading → The Future of Furniture: Will CGI and 3D Shape Digital Commerce? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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The XR Week Peek (2025.01.15): Many XR devices were at CES, Quest 3S is the most sold console of 2024, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Im back in Italy after my very positive experience at CES! I still cant believe that Ive been to this huge event I came back home that everything in my body was hurting, but I was happy nonetheless. Its been great going there from all points of view: as a blogger, enthusiast, and entrepreneur all sides of me are happy. Of course, CES is going to be the main topic of this weekly roundup, but there have also been interesting news not coming directly from there.

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

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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Vision Pro Knock-off Gets High Praise From Former Quest Engineer

Road to VR

Wait, Apple Vision Pro doesn’t come in black, does it? Nope, but Play For Dream MR does. And with what some are calling the ‘Android Vision Pro’, owing to its Android-based OS, Play For Dream seems to have turned some heads at CES 2025 this past week. Initially launched in Asia last year, China-based headset creator Play For Dream had its sights on bringing the heavily Vision Pro-inspired mixed reality headset to the West.

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VR Use Cases: 5 Ways to Use VR Headsets in the Workplace

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Think VR use cases are limited to the consumer landscape? Think again. Virtual reality might be great for gaming and entertainment but its also an incredible resource for businesses and their teams. Worldwide, companies are using virtual reality to turbocharge training and development strategies , improve collaboration, and streamline product development.

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TikTok Still Ticking, The $500 Billion Project Stargate, Google Buys HTC VR Tech

Charlie Fink

TikTok got a short reprieve to make a deal. Project Stargate, a $500B AI plan from OpenAI, Oracle, and Softbank, pushes Musk, Microsoft, aside. Google buys HTC VR tech.

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Potential Leak: Asus ROG Horizon OS Headset To Have Face & Eye Tracking

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VR enthusiast Luna received a tip with apparent details of the Asus ROG Horizon OS headset. Months before Meta Quest 3S was revealed Luna received a tip with the name and function of the Action Button, which toggles passthrough, and this turned out to be entirely accurate. Now, Luna has received apparent details of the Asus ROG Horizon OS headset. Meta Horizon OS Will Run On Headsets From Asus & Lenovo Meta is rebranding its Quest software platform to Meta Horizon OS and opening it up to thi

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Are You Still Watching? How to Create Engaging Presentations for Virtual Learning

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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Survey: What are the Most Popular AR Onramps?

AR Insider

How are consumers finding and consuming AR? Do they turn to apps? mobile web? In-app features? We unpack original survey research in the latest Behind-the-Numbers installment. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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CES 25: hands on with Pimax Crystal Super and the 60G Airlink

The Ghost Howls

Today at CES I have been able to go hands-on with two Pimax products: the Pimax Crystal Super and the 60G Airlink for wireless connection. Unluckily there was no Dream Air to try, but I had fun anyway with the two other products. Before describing my experience, take in mind that CES has been very frenetic so my hands on these two devices lasted only a few minutes , not enough for an exhaustive review.

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Immersive Web Company Infinite Reality Raises $3 Billion From a Private Investor

Road to VR

Infinite Reality, a company building an engine for creating immersive web content underpinned with WebXR support, announced it has raised a whopping $3 billion to continue building the company’s “vision for the next generation of the internet.” Not only is this a huge fundraising round, such an investment coming from a single private investor is highly uncommon.

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The Role of VR in the Workplace: Top Benefits for Training and Collaboration

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Around the world, countless companies are discovering the benefits of VR in the workplace. Virtual reality isnt just a novelty for companies anymore. Its quickly becoming one of the most effective ways to turbocharge productivity, enhance team performance, and drive innovation. For enterprises, there are two central areas where virtual reality can have an immediate and incredible impact on teams: training and collaboration.

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Who C.A.R.E.S.!? How Learning Got Its Bad Rap & What We Can Do About It

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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Here Comes CES, Swave Photonics Raises $28 Million, More Cinematic AI

Charlie Fink

It comes the first Monday in January and if you are not there youll begin the year with FOMO, which is why there are over 5,000 journalists and analysts covering the event.

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Developers Can No Longer Support Quest 1 In Store App Updates

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As of today, developers can no longer support the original Oculus Quest in their store app updates, ending their ability to still support it. Since May last year, new store apps haven't been allowed to support Quest 1. Now, even apps which existed before that date can't support Quest 1 in new updates. If developers attempt to include Quest 1 support in their app manifest, Meta's store system will automatically block it.

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Meta’s Gradual, Grinding & Multitrack Approach to XR

AR Insider

Meta's rumored Project Hypernova will bring visuals to Ray-Ban Meta Smartglasses. Could this be a winning formula that mixes RBMS' style points with visual aids. We examine in the context of Meta's master plan. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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CES 25: Attention Labs and 2Pi showed me the future of VR for audio and video

The Ghost Howls

Today I want to tell you about two companies that I met at CES that made me think about the future of immersive realities: Attention Labs , which lets people focus on a specific conversation in mixed reality, and 2Pi Optics , which builds very small metalenses. Let me tell you why I think these two companies are working on something that is very cool.

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The Key to Getting the Best Out of Video-Based Practice & Coaching

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