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Meta’s Gradual, Grinding & Multitrack Approach to XR

AR Insider

Meta's rumored Project Hypernova will bring visuals to Ray-Ban Meta Smartglasses. Could this be a winning formula that mixes RBMS' style points with visual aids. We examine in the context of Meta's master plan. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Oculus Founder Teases XR Announcement Coming “in a few weeks”, Possibly Pointing to Military-driven Headset

Road to VR

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is announcing something in a few weeks, which he says will prove he isn’t out of the ‘XR game’ Luckey confirmed back in June he’sbuilding a new XR headset , although the device in question seems to be primarily driven by military requirements” in addition to “non-military stuff,” he said at its AWE 2024 announcement.

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XR Streaming Takes Steps Forward with PICO Integration of NVIDIA Geforce NOW

XR Today - Virtual Reality

This week, XR headset vendor PICO introduced the integration of NVIDIA GeForce NOW into its portfolio of headsets, marking a step toward XR streaming for broad enterprise and consumer use. The move allows headset users to stream immersive content and applications directly to a headset without wire tethering, therefore broadening the scale of services the headset portfolio can run and access.

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The XR Week Peek (2025.01.21): The XR autumn continues, Windows 11 update kills WMR, and more!

The Ghost Howls

I can confirm that the CES sickness is a thing, and unluckily it doesnt disappear with the end of CES. But still, my willingness to inform you is stronger than this cold, so here you are a collection of XR news that you will love to read! Top news of the week The autumn of XR continues This is not the best moment for immersive realities : the market is pretty static and its hard to make business.

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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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Digital Twins: Rewriting the Rules of Business Intelligence

AR Insider

From fine-tuning manufacturing processes to reimagining retail experiences, enterprises are embracing digital twins to rethink how they operate, innovate, and engage with customers. We examine the evidence. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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WEART, MAIZE Partner to Drive Immersive Training Adoption and Innovation

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Leading into the new year, virtual reality training is growing as the broader XR market also emerges as a tool for work and everyday life. Regarding the well-established virtual reality market, immersive training and learning tools are easily one of the largest XR opportunities for businesses worldwide outside of gaming and entertainment use cases. Virtual training can save time, money, and lives by allowing workers from dangerous or demanding environments to learn without risking themselves an

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TikTok Still Ticking, The $500 Billion Project Stargate, Google Buys HTC VR Tech

Charlie Fink

TikTok got a short reprieve to make a deal. Project Stargate, a $500B AI plan from OpenAI, Oracle, and Softbank, pushes Musk, Microsoft, aside. Google buys HTC VR tech.

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The Power of Personalization in VR Design

AR Insider

Personalized VR design involves bespoke avatars, dynamic environments, and interactions that respond intuitively to user behavior. Why is this important and how is it done? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Meta Reportedly Plans Smart Glasses with Display, Targeting 2025 Release at Premium Price Point

Road to VR

Even with onboard AI, Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses aren’t as smart as they could be, since the glasses lack any sort of display for doing simple tasks, like reading incoming messages. Now, a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman maintains Meta is not only looking to expand its line of smart glasses with the inclusion of a sportier model this year, but also a high-end model that includes a built-in display.

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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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The Top 7 Reddit Pages for Getting to Grips with Enterprise Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality

XR Today - Virtual Reality

The information space constantly changes, reflecting how the world consumes the latest news. In the technology space, especially in areas like AR/VR/MR, updates come in fast, so staying up to date with the latest hardware and how to leverage it within your business can be a challenge. However, community-led websites like Reddit provide an excellent space for the industry and its enthusiasts to unite and share their thoughts on the latest immersive technology news and real-world challenges.

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Meta Explains Why Some Quest Headsets Were Bricked At Christmas

Upload VR

Meta explained the specific technical reason that some Quest headsets were bricked late last month. If you missed it, in December some Quest headsets, most commonly Quest 2 headsets, stopped booting successfully , getting stuck in what's known as a "boot loop". The issue occurred after an automatic firmware update for headsets which hadn't been updated in a long time, where the difference between the previously installed version and the latest update was significant.

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Spatial Beats: The Clock Ticks on TikTok, Beat Saber Hits 8 Digits

AR Insider

TikTok's fate is soon to be sealed, Beat Saber reaches 10 million downloads, and cinematic AI gets scary good. We have these and other items from XR and AI worlds, through the eyes of Charlie Fink. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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PSVR 2 Team Shooter ‘Firewall Ultra’ Gets Update to Attract Newcomers After Year-long Abandonment

Road to VR

Firewall Ultra (2023) , the tactical team shooter, hasn’t seen an update since developer First Contact Entertainment shut down in late 2023 , or just four months after the game’s release on PSVR 2. Now, Sony has dropped a patch out of the blue, tweaking incentives to get new players in… for who knows what reason. As spotted by Reddit user ‘ROBYER1’ , over the weekend Sony tossed out an update that quadruples the amount of XP and in-game ‘Crypto’ currency

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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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The Top 8 Reddit Pages for Getting to Grips with Enterprise Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality

XR Today - Virtual Reality

The information space constantly changes, reflecting how the world consumes the latest news. In the technology space, especially in areas like AR/VR/MR, updates come in fast, so staying up to date with the latest hardware and how to leverage it within your business can be a challenge. However, community-led websites like Reddit provide an excellent space for the industry and its enthusiasts to unite and share their thoughts on the latest immersive technology news and real-world challenges.

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Into The Radius Has Sold 800K Copies Across All Platforms

Upload VR

VR survival shooter Into The Radius has sold 800k copies over the last five years. Confirmed in a soon-to-be published interview, CM Games CEO Vlad Rannik spoke to UploadVR during PG Connects London 2025 to discuss Into The Radius 2. Touching upon how the original game guided the studio's approach to early access for the sequel, Rannik revealed Into The Radius sold 800k units since the initial launch back in November 2019.

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Layers on Reality: The Ultimate UI

AR Insider

AR can be conceptualized as layers of data that let users toggle between different realities, each serving unique purposes. This concept continues to re-emerge as AR evolves. What are the dynamics behind this vision? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Meta Details Why So Many Quest Headsets Were Bricked This Past Christmas

Road to VR

A non-inconsequential number of new Quest 3 and 3S headsets couldn’t update properly this past Christmas , leaving some users scrambling for last-minute replacements or knee deep in support chats looking for a fix to their freshly bricked VR headsets. Now, Meta has clarified just what transpired. And it wasn’t a buggy update either, as previously thought.

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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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Big XR News from Samsung, HTC VIVE, Google, Sony, Pico, NVIDIA

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Just as the CES dust settles, more major XR news hits the airwaves. From crucial industry-affecting investments to Unpacked 2025, this week paints a busy picture for 2025. Of course, the year has only just begun, and the future can change quickly. However, as the second half of the decade begins, it is clear that the XR industry will see growth in various ways, namely, through the continued business and consumer adoption of RT3D immersive solutions.

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Google Acquires Some Of HTC Vive's Engineering Team For Android XR

Upload VR

Google is acquiring "some of" HTC Vive's engineering team to "accelerate the development of the Android XR platform". The two companies aren't saying how many engineers the deal involves, nor whether it involves software engineering or hardware engineering, but here's what Google is saying about the deal for now: "They are an incredibly strong technical team with a proven track record in the VR space, and we are looking forward to working with them to accelerate the development of the Android XR

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What is Sony XYN? Introducing Sony’s Spatial Content Creation System

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

While tech giants race to claim their slice of the spatial computing pie, Sony’s new XYN platform (that’s “zin” to you and me, by the way) is on the cusp of its full release. The suite combines software offerings – including the XYN Motion Studio for motion capture and a spatial capture solution for transforming real-world objects into 3D assets – with innovative hardware like the XYN Headset, XR Head-mounted Display, Spatial Reality Display, and mocopi motion

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Google Responds to Developer Concerns About Long-term Commitment to Android XR

Road to VR

Google’s announcement of Android XR last month was largely met with excitement, but there was a notable undercurrent of concern about Google’s long-term commitment to the platform. The company has a storied history of launching new products and platforms, only to drop them a few years lateroften leaving third-party developers in the lurch.

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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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XR in Action: Transforming Training, Collaboration, and Workforce Engagement

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Extended Reality is revolutionizing training and collaborationtwo cornerstones of modern business success. Powered by technologies like Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and Mixed Reality (MR), XR is enabling organizations to reimagine how they cultivate skills, enhance teamwork, and engage their workforce. Our latest report, XR Transformation: Challenges, Use Cases, and the Role of AI , explores how XR is helping organizations elevate productivity and foster meaningful, immersive i

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Meta Will Reportedly Offer Orion AR Glasses To Developers Next Year

Upload VR

Meta will offer Orion AR glasses to developers next year, ahead of a consumer AR glasses launch in 2027, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. The claim was included in Gurman's wider report about Meta's full smart glasses plans, in which he also said the company will start selling Oakley smart glasses as part of its partnership with EssilorLuxottica, in addition to the existing Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses.

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Decathlon Leverages Apple-Powered Augmented Reality in Shopping App

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

This week, sports retail giant Decathlon recently highlighted how it started leveraging Apple iOS Reality Capture technology to provide shoppers using its smartphone app with augmented 3D visualisations of products. With the new feature, Decathlon customers can place digital versions of products in their homes before buying. The service enables users to view what a product may look like by observing an augmented reality rendition through an iOS camera, placing it in the world around them.

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Meta is Experimenting with a Home Theater Environment for Quest’s Horizon OS

Road to VR

Meta already has a way to watch your own content on Quest, although browsing through a file system and viewing on a windowed panel is decidedly less immersive than a proper home theater. Now the company says it’s experimenting with the idea. Mark Rabkin, VP leading Horizon OS and Quest, says in a recent X post that Meta is currently working on a home theater environment for Horizon OS, which is not only Quest’s operating system, but the soon-be-the OS used on a host of third-party he

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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