October, 2024

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Does Meta Orion Bring AR’s Future Into Focus?

AR Insider

Much has been said about Meta Orion since it was unveiled two weeks ago. Stepping back, where does the device sit in the AR continuum and how could Meta's massive investment bring AR's future into focus. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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AWE EU – MeganeX Superlight 8K hands-on: impressive resolution but at a price

The Ghost Howls

Yesterday was my first day at AWE Europe , and I tried some very interesting devices there. My first test was with MeganeX Superlight 8K , Shiftall’s new headset with a very high resolution in a very compact design. MeganeX Superlight 8K Promotional image of the MeganeX Superlight 8K (Image by Shiftall) Just a brief history of the MeganeX Superlight 8K, before we delve into the real meat of the hands-on.

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Google Prepares Support for XR Headsets on Play Store, Marking The Next Chapter in XR Competition

Road to VR

Code discovered in a recent Google Play update indicates the company may soon roll out support for XR headsets on its Android app store, which would mark a decisive shift in the competitive landscape. As reported by Android Authority , code in version 43.3.32-31 of the Google Play app contains mention of “XR headset,” including a new headset icon that ostensibly indicates whether an app works with the supported device.

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US School District to Lease Transfr VR Headsets

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Hart District Union School District will discuss the possibility of leasing 69 virtual reality headsets from Transfr. The US school district is look to add 69 headsets to support extended day and summer career experience courses by improving access to VR equipment for all students, including the ‘underrepresented’. This will allow them to explore various career options and learn critical job skills in a safe and engaging setting.

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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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‘Where The Robots Grow’ Is AI’s First Feature

Charlie Fink

Writer, Director and Producer Tom Paton, who comes from a background in visual effects, brought the first AI feature film, "Where the Robots Grow" to life with a team of just nine people.

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Walmart Formalizes and Federates AR & AI Shopping

AR Insider

Walmart recently crystalized its immersive tech integrations in a formal program. Known as Adaptive Retail, it includes several parts AR and several parts AI. We break down drivers & dynamics. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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XPANCEO smart contact lenses hands-on: AR prototypes from the future

The Ghost Howls

At AWE, XPANCEO , a Dubai-based company working on smart contact lenses, showcased a few interesting prototypes of its futuristic technology. I was able to even put my eyes close to one of them and I want to tell you everything about this experience! XPANCEO If you’re not new to this space, you will surely remember Mojo Vision , an incredible company based in the US that was working on smart contact lenses.

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Quest 3S vs Quest 3: The No-nonsense Recommendation

Road to VR

So you’re interested in buying one of Meta’s standalone VR headsets. But Quest 3S and Quest 3 look very similar, so which one should you buy? Read on for our no-nonsense recommendation. Let’s make this real easy: If you’ve never owned a VR headset before (Google Cardboard and Gear VR don’t count in this case): Buy Quest 3S.

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HTC VIVE Holodeck to ‘Revolutionise’ Forensic Investigations

XR Today - Virtual Reality

HTC VIVE partnered with The Bavarian State Criminal Police Office (Bayerisches Landeskriminalamt, BLKA) to launch the ‘Holodeck’ VR platform that will ‘revolutionise’ forensic investigations. AES 2024: XR Leaders Unite to Showcase Workplace XR – Including Meta, HTC VIVE, Qualcomm HTC VIVE Focus Vision: Hands-On Insights for Enterprises HTC VIVERSE Adds Sairo to Reseller Partner Network The Holodeck can be used to create a photorealistic reproduction of crime scenes for police officers, legal exp

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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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Cinematic AI Celebrated At LA Tech Week

Charlie Fink

It’s been a busy week for AI cognoscenti in Los Angeles. There was a packed house for a screening of of AI Competition winners at Culver Studios, and panels at Toonstar's studio.

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Batman: Arkham Shadow Review - A Triumphant Return For The Caped Crusader

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Batman: Arkham Shadow is a brilliant return for the Dark Knight, and it expertly adapts the series for VR on Quest 3 and Quest 3S. Read on for our full review. From the first moment you see your pointy ears casting a shadow onto the ground in front of you, Camouflaj invites you to say "I'm Batman." 2016's Arkham VR from Rocksteady was disappointingly brief, and it left me wanting a full-length game for a long time.

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Will AI Make AR More Conversational?

AR Insider

Though it’s often painted as a technology that will steal XR’s thunder, AI is the best thing that’s happened to XR in a while. This is the topic of a recent ARtillery Intelligence report and we have excerpts and top takeaways for AR Insider readers. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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The XR Week Peek (2024.10.15): Meta Avalanche cloud rendering appears on the store, cheaper Apple Vision may cost $2000, and more!

The Ghost Howls

My Quest 3 has just been shipped and I can’t wait to put my hands on it. But before that moment, I have still one thing to do for you, which is to summarize the best XR news of the past week! Top news of the week (Image by Meta) Cloud rendering Avalanche app appears on the Horizon Store Someone discovered that Meta published its Avalanche app on the Horizon Store.

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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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Meta CTO Confirms Mixed Reality Glasses Project, AI Earbuds with Cameras & Cancellation of High-End Quest

Road to VR

In an interview with The Verge , Meta CTO and Reality Labs chief Andrew Bosworth confirmed a number of projects previously subject to speculation, detailed the company’s strategic shift toward AI, and confirmed plans to deepen its partnership with Ray-Ban parent EssilorLuxottica. Meta reorganized Reality Labs earlier this year to better focus on wearables, such as Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses and AI-driven wearable tech, like the newer version of its wrist-worn controller revealed last month

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VirtuWalk VR Treadmill Now Available for Purchase

XR Today - Virtual Reality

The VirtuWalk VR treadmill, navigation handlebar, and headset is now available for purchase. According to VirtuWalk’s website, its VR technology centres around its treadmill that allows users to experience the feeling of walking within a virtual world, with a patented handlebar for navigating around corners, and a VR headset to view the simulations.

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Motion Soccer Brings Realistic VR Football to SteamVR and Meta Quest

VR Bites

Ivanovich Games has launched Motion Soccer , a brand-new VR football game available in Early Access on SteamVR and Meta Quest. With this release, the Barcelona-based studio aims to offer the most authentic virtual football experience yet, building on their previous successes like Final Kick and Final Soccer. A New Era for Virtual Football If you’ve ever wanted to play football in VR, Motion Soccer takes it to the next level with full 11 vs. 11 matches.

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Bigscreen Says Beyond Is Now Shipping Within One Day Of Ordering

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Bigscreen says Beyond orders are now shipping within one day of ordering. It's a remarkable feat because each Beyond is custom-made to the buyer, assembled in the US with its lenses fixed to match the distance between their eyes and a face pad molded to the shape of their face, based on the iPhone 3D face scan they provide when ordering. What Is Bigscreen Beyond?

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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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Reality Bytes: OpenAI, Apple & Grubhub

AR Insider

This week on Reality Bytes, we explore OpenAI's journalism grants, Apple's overdue safeguards and Grubhubs evolution into an ad platform. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Meta Hyperscape hands-on: a wonderful glimpse of the future

The Ghost Howls

When I wrote the article about my 5 main highlights of Meta Connect , I selected among them Meta Hyperscape, the solution to scan environments and enter inside them. I guess this surprised a few of you, who were expecting a mention of Meta Avatars or some of the new games, but after I’ve tried the beta of Hyperscape available on the Horizon Store, I’m not only convinced that I did right at considering it one of the main pieces of news of the show, but I also think that it’s muc

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Shiftall Opens Pre-orders for ‘MeganeX superlight’ Ultra High-Resolution OLED PC VR Headset

Road to VR

Shiftall has launched pre-orders for its newly unveiled MeganeX superlight 8K, a slim and light, high-resolution OLED PC VR headset tracked by SteamVR base stations. While Panasonic sold off its XR hardware startup Shiftall earlier this year, the companies held a joint press conference in Tokyo yesterday to announce MeganeX superlight 8K, which is slated to start shipping between February and March 2025.

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NVIDIA Highlights Omniverse Enterprise Virtual World Success in Q3 Earnings Call

XR Today - Virtual Reality

NVIDIA recently revealed its Q3 earnings, as compiled by Yahoo. Expectably, the firm continued ramping up revenue, which reached $18.1 billion, an uptick of 34% from the previous quarter and more than 200% year-on-year. The firm noted how products like the NVIDIA HGX platform drove Q3 performance. The NVIDIA technology portfolio is incredibly deep, and the Q3 performance is based on many moving parts within that product portfolio, which reach an extensive list of end customers and partners.

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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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OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Search, Inbrain Raises $50 Million, Spot AI Spots $31 Million

Charlie Fink

Google, Microsoft, and Meta are all making money. They are also spending it very, very quickly. As a result, the entire market made a frowny face Thursday.

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Alien: Rogue Incursion Hands-On: Survios Aims For Aliens

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TQ Jefferson helped me through a slice of an early chapter in Alien: Rogue Incursion on PC VR. I trusted the creative director at Survios leading the charge for Rogue Incursion, but at the start of my demo he had me turn around to point out a pair of xenomorphs. One was standing upright in the open and the other hid behind a box, both in plain sight.

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Can ‘Generative XR’ Streamline Creator Workflows?

AR Insider

In the last installment of this series, we looked at the user-facing integrations of XR and AI, such as digital-assistant functions for smart glasses. Now we switch gears to creator-facing functions. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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A chat with Grigore Burdea about the past, the present, and the future of VR

The Ghost Howls

On the occasion of the release of his latest book about VR , I had the honor of interviewing Dr. Grigore Burdea about his last 30 years of work in Virtual Reality and talking about the present, the past, and the future of this technology. The interview spanned various interesting topics like motion sickness, scent emulation, and neural interfaces. Who is Grigore Burdea?

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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