AR Insider
JUNE 3, 2025
AI's ability to infuse intelligent and personalized assistant functions takes the burden off visuals as a central smart-glasses selling point. Has this engendered a new set of standards and success factor and thus a new era in AR glasses? This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
JUNE 5, 2025
According to a Wall Street Journal report, Meta may be looking to some of Hollywood’s top brands to produce exclusive content for its next XR headset, which is expected to feature a completely new thin and light design when it reportedly ships next year. Citing people familiar with the matter, Meta has recently been in talks with a number of entertainment brands, including Disney, A24, and smaller production companies to create both episodic and standalone immersive video tied to well-know
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XR Today - Virtual Reality
JUNE 5, 2025
Traditional corporate training has a lot of problems. Its static, inflexible, and often struggles to keep up with the real changes happening in todays workplaces. Just think about the fact that about 60% of the global workplace will need reskilling by 2030 (according to the World Economic Forum). That means your existing training strategies are probably already outdated.
Upload VR
JUNE 2, 2025
Meta is prioritizing shipping an ultralight Horizon OS headset with a tethered compute puck in 2026, multiple sources tell UploadVR. The two previously leading candidates for a Quest 4 series, codenamed Pismo Low and Pismo High , have been canceled, these sources suggest, while the next candidate for a traditional form factor Quest most likely wouldn't ship until 2027.
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.
AR Insider
JUNE 4, 2025
Almost one year after Snap announced Lens Studio 5.0 from the AWE conference stage, it has released version 5.10. Featuring a new development toolset called Bitmoji Suite and new assets to unlock AR games, we break down the highlights. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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XR Today - Virtual Reality
JUNE 3, 2025
Wondering how AI immersive learning benefits your business? You might already be familiar with the incredible impact extended reality can have on training and development. Studies have shown that XR can improve speed to competence by 52%, reduce training times by 75%, and even strengthen learning retention by 75%. Introducing AI into your development strategy could lead to even better return on investment.
Charlie Fink
JUNE 5, 2025
Meta courts Hollywood for VR, automates ad creation with AI. AWE 2025 opens in Long Beach. Cannes and Tribeca spotlight immersive and AI-driven storytelling.
AR Insider
JUNE 5, 2025
Based on its operational size, efficiency gains achieved by companies like DHL can amplify at scale. This motivated the company to streamline its warehouse logistics with AR and the art of vision picking. We break it down in the latest case study. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
JUNE 4, 2025
Rumors surfaced late last year that Apple was looking to finally add VR motion controllers to Vision Pro, albeit through an unusual collaboration with Sony to support PSVR 2’s Sense Controllers. Now, 9to5Mac reports that the project is still on track, and official news could come as early as next week. The report states that not only is visionOS slated to add official support for PSVR 2’s Sense Controllers,but also PlayStation and Xbox gamepads. 9to5Mac wasn’t able to confirm w
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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 31, 2025
Inspired by Wing Commander and X-Wing, Alliance Peacefighter brings a story-driven space sim to PC VR next week. Created by Manchester-based studio Urban Logic Games, Alliance Peacefighter previously appeared in February's Steam Next Fest with a now removed demo. Aiming for an aesthetic somewhere between Homeworld and Star Fox, the developer states the upcoming title is a tribute to the golden age of space sims, and a love letter to the people who grew up with them. 0:00 / 0:49 1 Using first-per
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
JUNE 5, 2025
Next week, Apple will host its annual WWDC showcase from June 9 to 13, 2025, at Apple Park. The showcase will provideinsight into Apple innovations across its portfolio, including the Vision Pro. Susan Prescott, Apples Vice President of Worldwide Developer Relations , said during the event’s first announcement: Were excited to mark another incredible year of WWDC with our global developer community.
AR Insider
JUNE 5, 2025
Meta courts Disney, A24 and others to make immersive cinema while Glance AI blows minds and the countdown to AWE begins. We have these and other items from XR and AI realms through the eyes of Charlie FInk. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
JUNE 5, 2025
The long-awaited next entry into the critically-acclaimed Thief series is coming to all major VR headsets this year, promisingtoblend the storied franchise’s stealth gameplay with next-gen immersion. Unveiled during PlayStation’s State of Play, Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow puts you in the stealthy boots of a cunning thief who was orphaned by The City’s tyrant, Baron Ulysses Northcrest.
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
JUNE 5, 2025
Quest's web browser now has experimental support for automatic colocated WebXR, meaning sessions involving multiple headsets in the same space. Currently, practically achieving colocation in WebXR requires manually touching a shared reference point with either controllers or hands. Version 39 of the Horizon OS web browser, "rolling out" now, adds a new Shared Spaces experimental setting, and enabling it lets WebXR pages automatically create a shared coordinate space among headsets in the same ro
Charlie Fink
JUNE 4, 2025
Glance AI and Samsung bring selfie-based shopping to fifty million lock screens, letting users see and buy AI-styled outfits instantly, powered by Googles Imagen 4.
AR Insider
JUNE 5, 2025
This week on Reality Bytes, Meta is handing the keys of ad creation to AI, Discord is turning ads into platform currency, and YouTube is making Shorts shoppable with Google Lens. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
JUNE 6, 2025
AWE USA 2025, one of the XR industry’s largest annual conferences, kicks off next week. We got a preview of what four interesting companies attending the event will be showing. As far as industry events go, AWE USA has become our must-attend XR event of the year. It kicks off next week on June 10–12 in Long Beach, CA. As the Premier Media Partner of this year’s event, our exclusive exclusive 20% discount on tickets is still available.
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.
Upload VR
JUNE 3, 2025
Skydance's Behemoth gets a revamped arena and boss rush mode in today's free update. Now live following a brief tease last week, Skydance Games confirmed that The Rites of Wrath update introduces a brand-new boss rush mode called The Behemoth Trials. This lets you fight any of the campaign's Behemoths immediately using bespoke loadouts, allowing you to challenge Nightscraper, Dreddstagg, and Shacklehide individually or in a set order of your choosing.
Slashgear
JUNE 6, 2025
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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
JUNE 5, 2025
If youve been searching for an innovative way to upgrade your employee training strategies, youve probably already heard about the benefits of immersive learning. Extended reality can accelerate training cycles, improve employee confidence and boost engagement. Now, XR training vendors are kicking things up a notch, with the addition of artificial intelligence.
Road to VR
JUNE 3, 2025
VR indie Retrocell announced its working on a liquid physics simulator that lets you go hands-on on with some very slimy creations. Targeting Quest and SteamVR headsets, Slime Lab isn’t just about creating different slimes for fun, but making cold hard cash by fulfilling custom orders and bottling them up for your fellow slime lovers. You’ll also have to keep your lab stocked and running, which means you’ll nee to order supplies, upgrade your tools, and unlock new ingredients f
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
JUNE 1, 2025
The cast and crew of the new documentary The Reality of Hope gather on the virtual couches of a Furality map to grant me an interview in VR. Its a mix of different avatars facing me: a sunny-looking human, an otter wearing a green button-up shirt and brown jacket, a more fantastical furry wearing a scarf and coat, and a sleek, taller canine-like being with large ears and a long tail.
XR Today - Augmented Reality tag
JUNE 3, 2025
Recently, smart glasses vendor Vuzix Corporation announced a new partnership with Ramblr, marking yet another stepping stone towards the veteran AR hardware firm’s success in 2025. The move also allows Vuzix to continue its journey of AI integration for its AR hardware portfolio, a notable trend across the smart glasses market, which Google recently highlighted as reaching a convergence point this year.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
JUNE 4, 2025
AI & immersive learning have both offered companies ways to improve training and development experiences for a while now. Artificial intelligence introduces opportunities to personalize educational content at scale, support employees with real-time feedback, and dive deeper into performance data. On the other hand, immersive technologies , like augmented, virtual, and mixed reality solutions pave the way for contextual, hands-on, and experiential learning opportunities.
Road to VR
JUNE 3, 2025
Skydance’s BEHEMOTH (2024) just got a major update called ‘The Rites of Wrath,’ which brings two new game modes to the VR adventure game’The Arena’ and ‘The Behemoth Trials’ Arena Mode Leaves Beta Arena Mode was initially available in beta when the game launched in December 2024, although it lacked a progression system and only had on map to play through.
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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