The Ghost Howls
MARCH 3, 2025
Today I want to tell you about a little but very cute project I’ve developed for Pico headsets. It’s called PicotionAI and it is a game that includes mixed reality, camera access, and artificial intelligence! As I have done in other similar cases, I’m telling you this story hoping that it can inspire you to do cool projects of your own.
Road to VR
MARCH 6, 2025
Animal Company, the free-to-play early access game on Quest, nabbed the top spot for Quest’s highest-earning game this week , overtaking long-time viral hit Gorilla Tag in the weekly charts. Now, developer Wooster Games tells Road to VR it’s not only already profitable, but Animal Company has surpassed one million monthly active users (MAU), cementing its status as VR’s next big F2P game.
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XR Today - Virtual Reality
MARCH 7, 2025
Rounding off a busy week for the XR industry, PIXO VR made further strides in bringing VR immersive training solutions to the forefront by collaborating with safety and regulatory compliance solutions provider J. J. Keller & Associates to scale and enhance workplace training into the latter’s portfolio of training services. The move allows J.
AR Insider
MARCH 6, 2025
We hear a lot about the visceral learning benefits of VR training. But how is it playing out today? What makes it effective? And what verticals and industries are applying it to best effect? This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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.
The Ghost Howls
MARCH 6, 2025
Once in a while, I remember that this is a blog, and so I like to tell you something about the lessons I’ve learned in my working life as a VR developer, entrepreneur, and blogger , hoping that they may be useful for other people who, like me, are facing similar challenges. Today is one of those days, and I want to tell you about a new approach I started to follow in the last few weeks.
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XR Today - Virtual Reality
MARCH 6, 2025
While MWC 2025on the XR side of thingsprimarily focused on the surging AR smart glasses market and, of course, Samsungs Moohan, display technology leader TCL CSOT took to the event to unveil a new virtual reality display that promises competitive visual fidelity and low power consumption for headset vendors that wish to adopt its technology innovation.
AR Insider
MARCH 4, 2025
AR is often most effective when it's integrated with other systems such as IoT, PLM, and other enterprise acronyms. How did Volvo bring it all together to elevate its quality assurance processes? This post appeared first on AR Insider.
The Ghost Howls
MARCH 4, 2025
Today is the last day of the Carnival celebrations, and there are many people having fun in the streets here in Italy. On my side, Ill just celebrate by eating some typical sweeties of this period. I actually have a second reason to celebrate: Feedspot has put me in 3rd place in its classification of the best 60 Virtual Reality websites , ranked by authority.
Road to VR
MARCH 4, 2025
Rockstar Games announced it’s acquiring Video Games Deluxe, the Sydney-based studio behind L.A. Noire: The VR Case Files (2017) and the shelved Quest port of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004). The details of the acquisition haven’t been made public, however Rockstar says in a press statement that Video Games Deluxe has now been renamed to ‘Rockstar Australia’, and will “continue [its] efforts to make the best games possible.” In addition to those VR ports,
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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
MARCH 6, 2025
Meta's Unity and Unreal "OpenXR" integrations block other PC VR headsets, and developers aren't happy about it. OpenXR is the open standard API for AR/VR/MR supported by the vast majority of the industry. The ideal of OpenXR is that developers can build apps that run on any headset, without needing to use vendor-specific APIs for different hardware.
AR Insider
MARCH 3, 2025
AR-based virtual try-ons are rewriting the rules of consumers shopping. This requires that brands transition from traditional shopping models to immersive, AR-driven experiences. How is this done? We have insights from Snap This post appeared first on AR Insider.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
MARCH 7, 2025
This week was another busy period for XR; between two significant events, the XR world saw continued innovation towards increased adoption in the workplace and beyond. At Industrial Immersive 2025, enterprise XR firms and industry experts gathered to explore how immersive solutions are helping to solve broad vertical challenges today. Meanwhile, Mobile World Congress 2025 saw XR take a strong position as a leading emerging technology, following just behind the AI market.
Road to VR
MARCH 7, 2025
Take IT Studio , the developer behind Electrician Simulator (2022) , is bringing a VR version of the game to Quest, PSVR 2 and PC VR headsets this month. Electrician Simulator VR is getting things up to codeby letting you go hands-on as a Sparky, tasking you with everything fromrepairing outlets and switches, laying cables in walls, to connecting electrical appliances.
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
MARCH 7, 2025
Meta will recommend that developers use the built-in OpenXR support of Unity and Unreal from next week. What Is OpenXR? OpenXR is the open standard API for AR/VR/MR, supported by the vast majority of the industry. The ideal of OpenXR is that developers can build apps that run on any headset, without needing to use vendor-specific core APIs for different hardware.
AR Insider
MARCH 6, 2025
Smart glasses showed up at Mobile World Congress while Google launches 'AI Mode' and SXSW kicks off. We have these and other items from XR and AI realms, through the eyes of Charlie Fink. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Hypergrid Business
MARCH 5, 2025
OSgrid’s LBSA Plaza is the cross-roads of the hypergrid and a popular virtual hangout for developers, region owners, and metaverse travelers. OSgrid has entered emergency long-term maintenance after discovering that “all IAR files have been corrupted,” the grid announced yesterday. This is really bad news for residents who hadn’t yet had time to get their inventory backups downloaded ahead of the grid’s previously announced March 21 database reset.
Road to VR
MARCH 4, 2025
VR Games Showcase is returning next week, promising to feature 20+ VR games from over a dozen developers and publishers. The livestream, kicking off on March 11th at 12 PM ET, is slated to not only include updates to upcoming releases, but also new game announcements as well as exclusive peeks at gameplay. Event organizers have already teased a few of the 15+ publishers taking part in the VR Games Showcase next week, which thus far is set to include Flat2VR Studios, Triangle Factory, Fireproof G
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
MARCH 5, 2025
We may now know the resolution and display type of Samsung's headset. So far, Samsung has only officially said that its upcoming headset , which will be the debut of Google's Android XR, will feature "state-of-the-art displays". But the company hasn't confirmed what kind, or what resolution. Now, South Korean news outlet The Elec reports that Samsung will use Sony's 1.35-inch 35523840 micro-OLED display, the same being used in Sony's own SRH-S1 standalone headset.
AR Insider
MARCH 5, 2025
In Osaka Japan, Mawari is launching an ambitious project that integrates AI-powered avatars, spatial computing, and decentralized infrastructure at a city-wide scale. Charlie Fink talks to the visionaries driving it. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
XR Today - Augmented Reality tag
MARCH 3, 2025
This week at Mobile World Congress 2025, XPANCEO continues its legacy of drip-feeding details about its emerging AR smart contact lens portfolio at leading industry events. The firm commonly attends leading XR events to showcase prototypes of its futuristic AR product, which may not be available today but could be a glimpse of XR tomorrow. At MWC 2025, XPANCEO updated the status of its emerging technology promise by unveiling three new smart contact lens prototypes.
Road to VR
MARCH 3, 2025
Batman: Arkham Shadow (2024) just got its ‘Game of the Year’ update that brings a host of new features, including three new maps, an ‘Extreme’ difficulty setting, and a new permadeath mode. Camouflaj released the game’s 1.4 update to celebrate its recent Game of the Year win at the annual D.I.C.E. Awards last month, where it took home the Immersive Reality GOTY category.
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
MARCH 7, 2025
Meta says suppliers across the world are now "heavily pursuing" producing optical-grade silicon carbide, the "wonder material" that made the Orion AR glasses prototype's relatively wide field of view possible. The Orion prototype , presented at Meta Connect 2024 back in September, stunned the world by achieving what no other fully-integrated transparent AR device in true glasses form factor ever has: a relatively wide field of view, 70 degrees diagonal.
AR Insider
MARCH 6, 2025
This week on Reality Bytes, we dive into Threads' Oscars push, Walmart's gaming gambit, and Amazon's AI-powered Alexa Plus. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
XR Today - Augmented Reality tag
MARCH 3, 2025
The MWC 2025 gears are already turning. Alongside the emergence of next-generation mobile technology solutions at the event, XR and its hardware derivatives are making an expected splash. A notable firm investing in the emerging AR smart glasses market is NTT QONOQ Devices, which is showcasing new XR products ready to launch into the AR smart glasses shark tank later this year.
Road to VR
MARCH 7, 2025
Mighty Coconut just released a new course for Walkabout Mini Golf (2020) , letting you putt-putt your way around the home of the gods: Mount Olympus. As the game’s latest paid DLC, the Mount Olympus map brings two 18-hole courses (one easy, one hard) intertwined around classical Greek temples. As per usual, there’s also an unlockable putter, a new collection of themed Lost Balls to hunt, and some themed cosmetics too.
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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