AR Insider
MAY 22, 2025
VR has evolved from gaming to treating psychological conditions like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). As its use in therapy grows, what are top design considerations for immersiveness, safety and efficacy? This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
MAY 22, 2025
Valve founder Gabe Newell’s neural chip company Starfish Neuroscience announced it’s developing a custom chip designed for next-generation, minimally invasive brain-computer interfacesand it may be coming sooner than you think. The company announced in a blog update that it’s creating a custom, ultra-low power neural chip in collaboration with R&D leader imec.
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The Ghost Howls
MAY 18, 2025
Recently, I got quite a few projects to do involving multiplayer. One thing that is making my life much easier is the new Unity Multiplayer Play Mode. Let me tell you what it is, why you should use it , and some tips that may be helpful for you, like, for instance, how to use it with SteamVR! Unity Multiplayer Play Mode: What is it and why is it great?
XR Today - Virtual Reality
MAY 8, 2025
XR immersive workspaces are transforming the way we work. The metaverse, and extended reality headsets arent just for consumers anymore. Theyre actively improving how teams innovate, collaborate, and develop new skills across industries. In fact, according to PWC, immersive tech could become just as common (and valuable) as the standard PC or laptop in the next few years.
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 14, 2025
Meta's frequent Horizon OS updates are coming at the cost of performance issues and bugs for developers. Quest headsets arguably get new features, improvements, and changes at a greater pace than any other consumer tech device. Last year alone, for example, Meta overhauled how Horizon OS handles 2D apps to allow free positioning and keeping them open inside apps, delivered significant upgrades to Quest 3's passthrough and hand tracking , and made dozens of other changes.
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AR Insider
MAY 7, 2025
Among other areas of applicability, AR is demonstrating potential as to elevate exercise. That includes everything from overlaying proper workout form to displaying personalized routines. We examine the possibilities. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
MAY 19, 2025
It appears Valve has been developing a standalone XR headset, codenamed ‘Deckard’, for some time. Now, an industry insider has apparently gotten a peek at the headset’s design, calling it “quite amazing,” further noting it’s potentially arriving sometime next year. Stan Larroque , Founder of XR hardware company Lynx,confirmed in a recent X post the he’s actually seen the design for Valve’s next XR headset.
The Ghost Howls
MAY 5, 2025
I would like to say that this has been an exciting week for XR, but it wouldnt be true: actually, probably also because of the vacations for the 1st of May, it has been one of the most boring weeks of the year in our field. But Im excited anyway since Im going to have a couple of interesting trips waiting for me You will discover it all in tomorrows article!
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
MAY 21, 2025
As Extended Reality (XR) technologies continue to mature, their adoption in the aerospace industry is accelerating. From enhancing cockpit displays to reshaping training and streamlining design, XR is becoming a practical solution for improving complex workflows and safety-critical operations in design and training. As industries demand increasingly intelligent, adaptive, and immersive solutions, developing advanced Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs) powered by XR is becoming a vital driver of ope
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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.
Upload VR
MAY 22, 2025
Meta is rolling out the Horizon OS interface overhaul to some Quest owners on the PTC, and will bring it to everyone "over the coming months". Called Navigator, Meta announced the new system interface at Connect 2024 back in September, revealing its name and showing a short teaser clip. Now, with v77 of Horizon OS, the company says Navigator is rolling out to "some people on our Public Test Channel (PTC)", and is "expected to roll out gradually to all users over the coming months". 0:00 / 1:32 1
Charlie Fink
MAY 21, 2025
Invisible Universe launches Invisible Studio, an AI-powered short-form video engine already adopted by major media and toy brands, now open to enterprise partners.
AR Insider
MAY 28, 2025
Android XR has re-energized the XR sector with new possibilities and a reminder that AI will be a force multiplier. But there was some confusion and conflation around the hardware road map. We segment the Android XR landscape and where it could go next. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
MAY 29, 2025
In a twist that promises to make the inevitable Palmer Luckey documentary even more dramatic, Palmer Luckey’s military tech company Anduril has now officially partnered with Meta to build “the world’s best AR and VR systems for the US military.” Luckey founded Oculus in 2012, the company whose Rift headset was the spark that rebooted the modern era of VR.
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.
The Ghost Howls
MAY 16, 2025
At the VR AR Expo China , I had the opportunity to try Udexreal’s incredibly thin tracking gloves. Keep reading for my whole first impressions! Udexreal UDCAP VR Glove Presentation video of the Udexreal UDCAP gloves Udexreal is a Chinese company that proposes a tracking glove called UDCAP. The peculiarity of this glove is that it is (according to the company) the most lightweight VR glove on the market.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
MAY 16, 2025
This week, Virtualware, the firm behind the ISO 27001-certified VIROO XR-as-a-Service platform, announced a strategic partnership with Asamaka Industries, a North American and African innovator of engineering and automation. The latter will scale the former’s knowledge of electrical design, controls automation, and robotics across the VIROO platform.
Upload VR
MAY 2, 2025
Lasertag's developer implemented continuous scene meshing on Quest 3 & 3S, eliminating the need for the room setup process and avoiding its problems. Quest 3 and Quest 3S let you scan your room to generate a 3D scene mesh that mixed reality apps can use to allow virtual objects to interact with physical geometry or reskin your environment. But there are two major problems with Meta's current system.
Charlie Fink
MAY 23, 2025
AWE 2025 brings XR and AI together with 250+ exhibitors, smart glasses demos, and top speakers like Evan Spiegel, Palmer Lucky, and Nolan Bushnell.
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.
AR Insider
MAY 26, 2025
XR has spent years as the shiny new thing, while remaining absent from the daily personal and work lives of most people. How is that changing with real application and outcomes. We examine five areas where it's earning its place. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
MAY 22, 2025
Google has released its second Developer Preview of the Android XR software development kit (SDK) following its initial release late last year, introducing new features and improvements including wider support for immersive video, better adaptive UI layouts, hand-tracking in ARCore for Jetpack, and more. Announced at Google I/O, the billet of updates to Android XR SDK is aimed at giving developers more standardized tools to either make their own XR-native apps, or bring their standard Android ap
The Ghost Howls
MAY 19, 2025
At the VR AR Expo China, I had the exclusive opportunity to look at the current iteration of the Pimax Dream Air , the high-resolution ultra-lightweight headset that Pimax is going to launch in the next months. Pimax Dream Air The Pimax Dream Air is a new type of headset that Pimax has decided to launch. While the company has become famous for very bulky headsets able to deliver a high resolution paired with a wide field of view, with the Pimax Dream Air, it is aiming at a tiny and lightweight d
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
MAY 30, 2025
Wondering whats so special about Android XR? Architecture is a good place to start. Google might not be the first major tech company to build an extended reality ecosystem. But its taking a very different approach to its competitors one focused on flexibility, and open standards. While companies like Apple lock organizations and developers into walled gardens, Google is opening the door to an AI-native playground designed to support any workflow or device.
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?
Upload VR
MAY 9, 2025
Meta has revealed a new version of its 3D asset generation AI system that it says is a "significant leap forward". The Meta Horizon Desktop Editor tool, used to create Horizon Worlds experiences, added the ability to AI-generate 3D assets from text prompts last month , seemingly leveraging Meta's original AssetGen model from 2024. This lets anyone build a custom virtual world in a matter of hours for free, with no 3D modeling skills required.
XR Today - Augmented Reality tag
MAY 19, 2025
Recently, UK Animation giant Aardman partnered with AR experience experts Peel X to debut the studio’s famous portfolio of characters as AR visitor attractions in the UK and abroad. Working with Aardman is an absolute joy, noted Laura Thompson, Digital Producer at Peel X , their legacy in storytelling and animation is unmatched, so working in collaboration with them has been an exciting new venture.
AR Insider
MAY 21, 2025
27 percent of U.S. adults have tried VR according to ARtillery Intelligence's latest original survey research with Thrive Analytics. We break down the findings and strategic takeaways for XR players & proponents. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
MAY 16, 2025
The company behind the innovative VR locomotion device Cybershoes has officially shut down, ostensibly closing the final chapter on VR’s weirdest locomotion peripheral. The news was first reported by Antony ‘Skarred Ghost’ Vitillo , who further notes production of Cybershoes stopped two years ago. Then, in 2024, one of its branches closed, Vitillo reports, leading to the Austria-based business folding completely sometime in April 2025.
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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