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Android XR Might Be a Big Bqualizer (But We Have to Wait)

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With Samsung's project Moohan, Android XR will enter the spatial computing competitive field. What will this mean for the sector and how will Google stack up to Apple, Meta and others? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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The XR Week Peek (2025.01.05): Vivo to launch a mixed reality headset, VR usage on Steam on the rise, and more!

The Ghost Howls

This is the first newsletter of 2025, so happy new year to you all! I wish you all the best! Its a very special day for me because Im taking soon the plane to go to CES! Im very excited because its the first time Im going there and Im sure it will be amazing! Since I have to rush to prepare to take the plane, this first newsletter of the year will be a bit more concise than usual.

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Vision Pro Knock-off Gets High Praise From Former Quest Engineer

Road to VR

Wait, Apple Vision Pro doesn’t come in black, does it? Nope, but Play For Dream MR does. And with what some are calling the ‘Android Vision Pro’, owing to its Android-based OS, Play For Dream seems to have turned some heads at CES 2025 this past week. Initially launched in Asia last year, China-based headset creator Play For Dream had its sights on bringing the heavily Vision Pro-inspired mixed reality headset to the West.

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CES 2025: The Consumer Everything Show Sets The Stage For The Year Ahead

Charlie Fink

CES, hosted by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), kicks off the new year with over 150,000 industry attendees expected in Las Vegas next week.

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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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Survey: What are the Most Popular AR Onramps?

AR Insider

How are consumers finding and consuming AR? Do they turn to apps? mobile web? In-app features? We unpack original survey research in the latest Behind-the-Numbers installment. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Immersive Web Company Infinite Reality Raises $3 Billion From a Private Investor

Road to VR

Infinite Reality, a company building an engine for creating immersive web content underpinned with WebXR support, announced it has raised a whopping $3 billion to continue building the company’s “vision for the next generation of the internet.” Not only is this a huge fundraising round, such an investment coming from a single private investor is highly uncommon.

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CES 2025: A Year Of AI Hype And Quiet Evolution

Charlie Fink

This years CES was all about AIor at least, that was the headline. While AI is poised to change everything, its presence at the show was more theoretical than tangible.

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The ‘Consumer Everything Show’ Kicks Off with XR Treats in Store

AR Insider

CES this year has the standard mix of XR hardware as well as a widening array of technologies under the "consumer everything" umbrella. Charlie Fink gives his tips and picks. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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CES 25: Attention Labs and 2Pi showed me the future of VR for audio and video

The Ghost Howls

Today I want to tell you about two companies that I met at CES that made me think about the future of immersive realities: Attention Labs , which lets people focus on a specific conversation in mixed reality, and 2Pi Optics , which builds very small metalenses. Let me tell you why I think these two companies are working on something that is very cool.

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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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Somnium Begins Shipping VR1 PC VR Headset in the US, Announces Incoming Price Hike

Road to VR

Somnium Space , the Prague, Czechia-based social platform creator, has officially begun launching its PC VR headset, Somnium VR1, in the US. Additionally, the company announced its streamlining the number of available variants, bringing it to just three consumer-focused versions, and also increasing prices soon on its higher-end units. The company says it’s now discontinuing a number of previously offered configurations of Somnium VR1, including Striker Edition, Classic Edition, Specter Ed

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A Florida Judge Used Quest 2 In A Courtroom

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A judge in Florida used a Quest 2 VR headset to view a recreation of events in which a defendant pulled a gun out at a wedding. Miami news outlet WPLG Local 10 reports that the VR headsets were brought into the courtroom during a stand-your-ground hearing last week. The defense team in the case commissioned an artist to make an animation depicting events meant to represent the defendant's perspective, with a segment of the animation formatted for VR headsets and viewed in the courtroom.

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Defining the AR & AI Battlefront, Part 2: Hardware

AR Insider

Spatial computing's potential has been held back to some degree. Along comes AI to help it get over the hump. What does the latest batch of hardware tell us about the near future? Guest author Evan Helda weighs in. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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CES 25: Sony announces XYN headset, and I went hands-on with the sister model

The Ghost Howls

Hello everyone! This is the first article directly from CES of my life. Yesterday it was the second press day before the big opening of the event, and the only big company explicitly talking about VR in its keynote was Sony that announced the XYN headset. Let me tell you about that announcement, and let me tell you about the hands-on I had … not directly with the XYN headset, but with its sibling model!

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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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Physics Action Puzzler ‘BONEWORKS’ is Coming to Quest 3, Pre-production for Next Game Announced

Road to VR

Stress Level Zero’s physics-based sandbox follow-up BONELAB (2022) has done spectacularly well on Quest, although the studio still hasn’t brought its award-winning physics action puzzler BONEWORKS (2019) to Meta’s latest standalone hardware generation. That’s about to change. If you haven’t played on PC VR headset, Boneworks is a narrative VR action-adventure using advanced experimental physics mechanics.

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Epyka Review: A Wonderful Journey Cut Too Short

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Like millions of kids in the 1990s, my first experience with puzzle-adventure games was Myst. The jaw-dropping graphics and cryptic storytelling lit my imagination, but my young age, the extreme obtuseness of the game's puzzles, and the gameplay's intense loneliness squelched that flame. Thirty years later, as I reach the halfway point of Epyka, I suddenly realize I'm playing the game I always wanted Myst to be.

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Reality Bytes, CES Edition: Instagram, Smart Glasses & Smart Cribs

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This week on Reality Bytes, we broadcast from CES about lnstagram's latest AI features, Halliday's new smart glasses, and Boschs smart crib. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Here Comes CES, Swave Photonics Raises $28 Million, More Cinematic AI

Charlie Fink

It comes the first Monday in January and if you are not there youll begin the year with FOMO, which is why there are over 5,000 journalists and analysts covering the event.

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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 Officially Discontinues Quest Pro, Its First (and most expensive) Mixed Reality Headset

Road to VR

Meta has officially discontinued Quest Pro, the company’s first mixed reality headset. Meta announced back in September that it was winding down Quest 2 and Quest Pro sales. At the time, the company said remaining stock would be sold through the end of the year or until they ran out, whichever came first. Now, in place of the Quest Pro order page , Meta is suggesting users tobuy Quest 3 “for the ultimate mixed reality experience and premium comfort.” You can still buy Quest Pro

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Quest Pro Is Now Officially Discontinued

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Quest Pro is no longer available to buy from Meta, though stock is still available at some retailers. Meta announced the retirement of both Quest 2 and Quest Pro at its Connect conference back in September, saying that the two headsets will no longer be available when stock runs out or at the end of the year, whichever comes first. For Quest 2, stock ran out within a few weeks of Connect.

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Where Does Mobile AR Sit as We Enter 2025?

AR Insider

In all the excitement around mixed reality and AI smart glasses, we often forget about XR's most scalable format today: Mobile AR. How does the sub-sector fare as we enter 2025? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Specs Appeal: XREAL’s AR Shades Shine at CES

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

XREAL’s highly anticipated XREAL One Pro glasses debuted at CES 2025, showcasing their cutting-edge AR technology. At an event that was dominated by AI software , XREAL was a real highlight in the wearable hardware space. The stylish specs represent a quantum leap forward in consumer-oriented augmented reality, and have a sleek, wearable design.

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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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Sony’s Standalone MR Headset Now Called ‘XYN’, Release Date & Pricing Still to Be Revealed

Road to VR

Sony announced its previously revealed XR standalone for enterprise is now called ‘XYN’, which the company is targeting at spatial content creators. Initially unveiled at CES last year, XYN (pronounced ‘zin’) packs in some impressive displays, offering13.6MP (3,552 3840) per-eye using Sonys own ECX344A OLED microdisplay. The display is capable of 90 FPS and 1,000 nits (at 20% duty cycle), with 96% DCI-P3 color coverage, putting it above Apple Vision Pro in terms of resolu

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Wicked's Director Used An Apple Vision Pro In The Editing Process

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The director of the film Wicked used an Apple Vision Pro to view and give feedback on drafts as part of the editing process on a giant virtual screen. 0:00 / 1:08 1 Jon M. Chu said he used the app Evercast to coordinate with his editor and the global team of visual effects artists, viewing drafts on a virtual screen the size of a cinema screen from the comfort of his own home, and adding notes by drawing with his finger.

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Apple Vision Pro Helps to Train NVIDIA Robots – CES 2025

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

This week, at CES 2025, NVIDIA took centre stage to showcase its latest innovations in emerging technology. Namely, NVIDIA showed off its robotics and AI investments. The two go hand in hand for NVIDIA. As the firm researches into robotics and self-driving cars, it is taking the necessary steps to develop an AI framework to power this next generation of tech.

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MarineVerse Sailing Club to Host Inaugural Yacht Racing Tournament

VR Fitness

Novice and veteran sailors around the globe are invited to participate in the MarineVerse Inaugural Yacht Racing Tournament. MarineVerse Sailing Club (renamed from MarineVerse Cup in December 2024) is the product of years of research, development, design, and testing.

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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