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Reality Bytes: DeepSeek, OpenAI & Netflix

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his week on Reality Bytes, we travel, to MIT to find DeepSeek's open-source origins, examine ChatGPTs Operator and break down Netflixs move to dominate all entertainment. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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

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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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The XR Week Peek (2025.01.29): Google acquires HTC engineers, Meta plans to release Oakley smartglasses, and more!

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Happy Lunar New Year everyone! May the year of the snake bring you joy, happiness, money, success, love, and a lot of XR headsets! And if you are someone that celebrates this festivity, I wish you to spend some quality time with the people you love and eat a lot of food Im literally swamped with work these days, so this newsletter is coming a bit later and a bit shorter than usual but it still contains everything you need to know about these days in XR!

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Virtualware Gains Industry Praise for Revolutionizing Spanish Rail Worker Training with Virtual Reality

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Immersive training is revolutionizing workplaces by addressing the demand for efficient upskilling. By leveraging XR training solutions available to businesses today, companies can save time, money, and worker risk by creating virtual immersive learning procedures that mirror on-site experiences. Then, when workers do enter a working location, they are ready to tackle anything that may occur thanks to knowledge gained from an immersive training platform, anything from muscle-memory tasks to cus

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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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The 7 Habits of Highly Accessible VR

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VR continues to reach new heights, albeit gradually. As it grows, developers and designers must recognize that the technologys expansion means it must cater to a more diverse audience. What are accessibility best practices? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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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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Meta Quest Customization Options: Tailoring VR for Your Business Needs

XR Today - Virtual Reality

For companies investing in extended reality solutions, there are plenty of reasons why Metas Quest ecosystem stands out. Metas devices and software are easy to use, powerful, and affordable. But, even more importantly, Meta Quest customization options mean you can tailor your experience to your business needs. With Meta, companies can modify everything from their Quest headsets to the software employees use.

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Can AI Save AVP?

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Though Apple Intelligence will cut across Apple products, theres one device where a decent voice assistant represents a make-or-break moment: Vision Pro. How will intelligent and ambient functions drive Vision Pro's utility and appeal? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Pioneering VRMMO ‘OrbusVR’ is Shutting Down in April, Removed from Stores Next Month

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OrbusVR (2019) , the MMORPG for VR headsets, is shutting down, with creator Orbus Online stating it will stop sales on all platforms starting next month and shut down servers completely in April. The studio released the news in a community update (seen below), stating that it’s pulling OrbusVR from Steam and the Horizon Store come February 10th, 2025.

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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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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 Quest ROI Optimization: Post-Implementation Strategies for Enterprises

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Youve identified your XR enterprise use cases, assessed the competition , and decided to choose Meta and the Quest ecosystem to take business productivity to the next level. So, whats next in your roadmap? Meta Quest ROI optimization. Meta offers companies a wide range of powerful (and affordable) hardware options, flexible applications, and software solutions to help them unlock the power of extended reality.

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How Many XR Devices Did Meta Sell in Q4?

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What do Meta's Q4 earnings tell us about headset unit sales? And what does that in turn signal for aggregate demand and XR sector health? We do some financial reverse engineering. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Is Quest 2 Worth it in 2025? Our No-nonsense Recommendation

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So you’re thinking about getting into VR and looking to do it on the cheap. Could a Quest 2 headset be worth buying in 2025? Read on for our no-nonsense recommendation. Lets make this real easy: If you can find Quest 2 (128GB or more) for less than $100: Buy it Why: Quest 2 is officially a last-gen headset, but that doesn’t mean it’s worthless.

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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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New Copyright Protection For AI, Plus New AI Models From Pica, Hailuo, And Bytedance

Charlie Fink

Copyright Office: AI-assisted films qualify for protection if shaped by human creativity. Pika 2.1, Hailuo, and Bytedance launch new AI video tools.

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Virtual Reality Innovation is Increasing, as Samsung Leads ahead of Apple, Qualcomm

XR Today - Virtual Reality

The first month of January was full of innovation and inspiration. In part, thanks to the giant that is CES, a source of annual start-of-year booms in interest in XR innovation, from veterans to start-ups. Ahead of the usual surge of CES-fuelled interest in XR, innovation was increasing in the AR/VR/MR landscape and beyond, according to a new report from Anaqua.

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Spatial Beats: TikTok Braces, Android XR Beefs Up

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AndroidXR gets a boost with Google's big acquisition of key parts of HTC, while TikTok gets a stay of execution, for now. We have these and other items from XR and broader tech worlds through the eyes of Charlie Fink. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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‘Star Wars’ Actor Daisy Ridley to Star in VR Experience Coming to Quest in March

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Daisy Ridley, who played ‘Rey’ in the recent Star Wars sequel trilogy, has been tapped to star in an upcoming VR experience, which is slated to arrive on Quest in March. As reported in a Hollywood Reporter exclusive, the experience is called Trailblazer: The Untold Story of Mrs. Benz, which recants the story of 19th centuryGerman automotive pioneer Bertha Benzthe first person to drive an internal combustion engine automobile over a long distance, andwife of Carl Benz, creatorof the B

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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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Meta Is Reportedly Working On A Quest Pro Successor - Yet Again

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Meta is working on a Quest Pro successor again, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports, after reportedly canceling two candidates in recent years. In his latest report, in which he also said that Apple is still working on microLED displays for AR glasses , Gurman writes: " Meta is working on Quest 4 VR goggles, as well as a new high-end model that could eventually become a successor to the Quest Pro ".

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Deepseek Freakout, Skild Robotics Raises $500 Million, Eleven Labs AI $250 Million

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DeepSeeks AI disrupts industry, causing Nvidias $600B plunge. AI investments surge: SoftBank backs Skild AI, ElevenLabs raises $250M, and Infinite Reality buys Obsess.

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Spatial Beats: Meta’s Milestone, MKBHD on Moohan

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Meta Reality Labs hits a high-water mark, Marques Brownlee reviews Samsung's Project Moohan, and Deepseek upends the AI world. We have these and other items from XR and AI realms through the eyes of Charlie Fink. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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‘Path of Fury’ Preview – A VR Beat-’Em-Up That Packs a Nostalgic Punch

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Path of Fury – Episode I: Tetsuo’s Tower is an upcoming combat sim that’s all about punching your way through gangsters while making a one-way trip through the ’80s-inspired underworld. We went hands-on with the first two levels ahead of its March 13th release on Quest, so read on to find out more. I grew up on a steady diet of films like Big Trouble in Little China (1986) and a countless parade of ’80s and ’90s Chinese kung-fu flicks as a kid, which means I&#

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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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Apple Is Reportedly Still Working On MicroLED Displays For AR Glasses

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Apple still has a team at a "secretive facility" developing microLED displays intended for AR glasses, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. The facility is in Santa Clara, 15 minutes away from Apple's headquarters in Cupertino. The team there was originally also building the microLED displays for future Apple Watch models, Gurman reports , but that idea was canceled last year, with many of the engineers laid off.

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Samsung’s 3-Year Hyperconnectivity Plan Behind the Moohan XR Headset

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Recently, Samsung’s dive into the XR headset market has been stealing headlines. In a storyline that mirrors the rise of Apple’s Vision Pro, the Moohan headset was finally publicly revealed following years of speculation at the tail end of 2024with further reveal coming in the first month of 2025. Samsung is on a mission, and the timing of Samsung’s AI-powered AR device comes at an interesting time.

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#1519: “The Reality of Hope” Sundance Short Doc Features Journey from VRChat Friend to Organ Donor

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VR filmmakers Joe Hunting and Max Willson are premiering their short documentary filmThe Reality of Hope at the Sundance film festival this week (online tickets are still available here from Jan 30 to Feb 2 and it’ll also be available later this year on Documentary+). Hunting’s previous film We Met in Virtual Reality also premiered […] VR filmmakers Joe Hunting and Max Willson are premiering their short documentary filmThe Reality of Hope at the Sundance film festival this week

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‘Cave Crave’ Brings ‘The Climb’ Mechanics in Claustrophobic Spelunking Sim This Spring

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The Climb (2016) is chock-full of interesting climbing mechanics, although few games have been able to replicate the heart-pounding feel of clattering up a sheer surface, seconds away from losing your grip. Now, the studio behind Thief Simulator VR: Greenview Street (2022) , is getting ready to launch their latest Climb -inspired spelunking sim, Cave Crave.

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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