The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 8, 2023

There’s been a very interesting piece of news that the last week went below the radars of many XR magazines but that I think it’s worth talking about : CREAL has announced the commercial availability of its lightfield solution for XR glasses for 2024. Why is it cool and why should we matter? CREAL’s Light Field “display” CREAL showcasing its technology (and the news of the day) CREAL is one of the most interesting startups for what concerns XR display solutions.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Lowe's continues to blaze a trail for spatial commerce. Its latest play is a kitchen simulation for trying out products and educational how-to purposes. Editor-at-Large Emily Olman goes hands on. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Laser Dance is an upcoming mixed reality game that seeks to use Quest’s passthrough capability as more than just a background. In this Guest Article, developer Thomas Van Bouwel explains his approach to designing an MR game that adapts to different environments. Guest Article by Thomas Van Bouwel Thomas is a Belgian-Brazilian VR developer currently based in Brussels.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Atlantic Productions has partnered with Meta Platforms to host an impressive immersive experience highlighting climate change’s effects on the Galapagos Islands. Using stereoscopic 180-degree cinematography, Atlantic Productions will leverage Meta’s extended reality (XR) technologies for the award-winning series Galapagos with Sir David Attenborough, legendary British Biologist, Documentarian, Historian, and Broadcaster.

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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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Charlie Fink

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Rock star CEO John Riccitiello was the face of Unity. Since the IPO three years ago, things have not gone well.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Welcome to this new edition of the XR Week Peek, which this week will be a bit special because I will summarize here what happened during the Meta Connect, the event during which Mark Zuckerberg launched the Quest 3, the Ray-Ban Meta smartglasses, and new techniques for data harvest… cough cough I mean, new AI services. I was used to making a dedicated roundup for the Meta Connect every year, but this year it has been so disappointing that I don’t think it deserves its own article But there

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Assisted Reality devices like Rokid Max are primarily smartphone accessories, projecting the mobile phone screen, ipad, computer display or simulating a 200-inch screen. Charlie Fink test reviews the latest. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Like many of Valve’s best titles, Half-Life: Alyx (2020) is a lot more moddable than your average game, which for PC VR headset owners means hundreds of new modes, missions, and mini-games. Now one of the HLA’s most talented modders announced they’ve been snapped up by Valve. Nate Grove was responsible for two of the best HLA campaign-style mods, Incursion and Re-Education—both of which are uncannily Valve-like in pacing, setting… everything.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Virtual reality (VR) medical training firm Vantari VR has begun rolling out its software platform across the Middle East and Italy to help democratise medical training worldwide, the company announced last week. With the expansion, the Sydney, Australia-based firm aims to boost access for clinicians seeking remote medical training solutions and democratise the use of emerging technologies.

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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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Charlie Fink

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Computing wants to be as invisible as the engine of your car.

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Hypergrid Business

OCTOBER 3, 2023

HIE Welcome Center. (Image courtesy Hypergrid International Expo.). This year’s Hypergrid International Expo kicks off at 11 a.m. Pacific Time on Friday, October 6 at the HIE’s Auditorium in Craft World grid , featuring an opening party with music from Zoree Jupiter at 11 a.m., Arianna Nightfire at 1 p.m., and Forest Azure at 10 p.m. Pacific Time. “The three artists will bring us an international mix of songs on a unique music stage built by Nyx Breen with a sort of crosswords in all lang

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

A bit late, but here I am again writing for you about the best XR news of the week! The past week most of the debate has been about Quest 3 vs Apple Vision Pro, and I’m pretty sure that the battle of Meta vs Apple will be something we of the XR community will talk about a lot for the next months… Top news of the week (Image by Meta) New rumors hint at a cheap Quest 3 coming in 2024 Mark Gurman, the famous Bloomberg journalist who spread a lot of rumors and leaks about the Apple Vision Pro for mo

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 10, 2023

One of AR’s foundational principles is to fuse the digital and physical. The real world is a key part of that formula….and real-world relevance is often defined by location. We examine the potential value behind geospatial AR. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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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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Road to VR

OCTOBER 16, 2023

As a leading social media company, it seemed like Meta would be in the best position to create a rich social experience on its XR headsets. But after almost a decade of building XR platforms, interacting with friends on Meta’s headsets is still a highly fragmented affair. With Vision Pro, Apple is taking a different approach—making apps social right out of the box.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Meta Platforms has begun rolling out virtual reality (VR) sports matches for the National Basketball Association (NBA). After the season kicked off last week, the major sports organisation began showcasing on the Meta Quest. With the partnership, Meta will offer immersive live games with 180-degree video. It will also showcase on-demand seasonal games and content via Xtadium and a dedicated NBA Arena platform on its Horizon Worlds metaverse.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Quest 3's passthrough will improve over time with software updates, according to Meta's CTO. When asked about potential passthrough improvements in an Instagram AMA (ask me anything) session yesterday, Andrew Bosworth replied: "Yes, it will continue to improve as we continue to get real world lighting conditions and information from the headsets that have been picked up, we start to tune the algorithms that drive it more effectively.

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Hypergrid Business

OCTOBER 15, 2023

OpenSim land area tally is now at a new all-time-high of 131,257 standard regions, the fourth month in a row it has hit that target. Meanwhile, several grids are hosting Halloween events this month and getting ready for other fall holidays. OpenSim active users tally is, however, down this month by 3,006 despite being an active season, which can be attributed to downtime on a number of grids.

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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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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This has been the week of the Quest 3: the headset has started shipping and I have received my unit, too. Unluckily since I’m crunching at work, I’ve only been able to test it for a bit more than one hour, but I was already pleasantly surprised by it. I don’t have the time to write a full review now, but I hope to write this week at least a “first impression” article because many people are asking my opinion (thank you, really, for your trust!).

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 9, 2023

How much do brands spend on immersive marketing campaigns such as sponsored AR lenses and VR ad placements? Our latest Behind the Numbers installment breaks down the data from our research arm, ARtillery Intelligence. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 6, 2023

One of the most interesting things about Vision Pro is the way Apple is positioning its fully immersive capabilities. While many have interpreted the company’s actions as relegating VR to an afterthought, the reality is much more considered. Vision Pro is somewhat ironic. It’s an incredibly powerful and capable VR headset, but Apple has done extensive work to make the default mode feel as little like being in VR as possible.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Immersive training is one of the top verticals for virtual, augmented, mixed, and extended reality (VR/AR/MR/XR). As more companies explore the profound benefits of XR learning, new use cases develop to meet the needs of each enterprise, often with substantial results. XR Today has the pleasure of interviewing Emma Ridderstad, Vice-President and Founder, Warpin Reality , to discuss her company’s collaboration with the Swedish Red Cross.

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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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Upload VR

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Meta released a Depth API for Quest 3 as an experimental feature for developers to test mixed reality dynamic occlusion. Basic description of the general concept of occlusion from Meta. In our Quest 3 review we harshly criticized the lack of mixed reality dynamic occlusion. While virtual objects can appear behind the crude Scene Mesh generated by the room setup scan, they always display in front of moving objects such as your arms and other people even if further away, which looks jarring and un

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Hypergrid Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Meta has not seen the results it has hoped for with its investments in the VR space, with an operating loss of $31 billion. However, the recent announcement of Apple’s Vision Pro last June is set to reinvigorate the marketplace. Rolf Illenberger “I and the entire industry was waiting for Apple for a decade,” said Rolf Illenberger, CEO of VRDirect, which provides company software solutions to build their own VR projects.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 23, 2023

It’s been another intense working week… so this newsletter will come in a slightly reduced format again because I must be efficient with my time… but let’s say that the VR ecosystem helped me in keeping this short because this week nothing relevant happened… I have two good pieces of news regarding myself I want to tell you: Finally, in a few days, I can unveil what I have worked on (and I’m still working on) all this time!

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 6, 2023

There’s a popular new heavy-metal band on social media, the Frostbite Orckings, whose animated videos rack up millions of views. There's one catch. the music is created by AI. Is this the future of music? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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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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