AR Insider
MAY 22, 2025
VR has evolved from gaming to treating psychological conditions like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). As its use in therapy grows, what are top design considerations for immersiveness, safety and efficacy? This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
MAY 22, 2025
Valve founder Gabe Newell’s neural chip company Starfish Neuroscience announced it’s developing a custom chip designed for next-generation, minimally invasive brain-computer interfacesand it may be coming sooner than you think. The company announced in a blog update that it’s creating a custom, ultra-low power neural chip in collaboration with R&D leader imec.
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The Ghost Howls
MAY 18, 2025
Recently, I got quite a few projects to do involving multiplayer. One thing that is making my life much easier is the new Unity Multiplayer Play Mode. Let me tell you what it is, why you should use it , and some tips that may be helpful for you, like, for instance, how to use it with SteamVR! Unity Multiplayer Play Mode: What is it and why is it great?
Upload VR
MAY 22, 2025
Meta is rolling out the Horizon OS interface overhaul to some Quest owners on the PTC, and will bring it to everyone "over the coming months". Called Navigator, Meta announced the new system interface at Connect 2024 back in September, revealing its name and showing a short teaser clip. Now, with v77 of Horizon OS, the company says Navigator is rolling out to "some people on our Public Test Channel (PTC)", and is "expected to roll out gradually to all users over the coming months". 0:00 / 1:32 1
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
MAY 21, 2025
27 percent of U.S. adults have tried VR according to ARtillery Intelligence's latest original survey research with Thrive Analytics. We break down the findings and strategic takeaways for XR players & proponents. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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The Ghost Howls
MAY 19, 2025
At the VR AR Expo China, I had the exclusive opportunity to look at the current iteration of the Pimax Dream Air , the high-resolution ultra-lightweight headset that Pimax is going to launch in the next months. Pimax Dream Air The Pimax Dream Air is a new type of headset that Pimax has decided to launch. While the company has become famous for very bulky headsets able to deliver a high resolution paired with a wide field of view, with the Pimax Dream Air, it is aiming at a tiny and lightweight d
Charlie Fink
MAY 21, 2025
Invisible Universe launches Invisible Studio, an AI-powered short-form video engine already adopted by major media and toy brands, now open to enterprise partners.
AR Insider
MAY 19, 2025
Hollywood hasnt lost its ability to tell great stories, yet its losing the war for attention to platforms that reward engagement and iteration. It's a business based on scarcity in an attention economy ruled by abundance. How can it adapt? This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
MAY 22, 2025
Google has released its second Developer Preview of the Android XR software development kit (SDK) following its initial release late last year, introducing new features and improvements including wider support for immersive video, better adaptive UI layouts, hand-tracking in ARCore for Jetpack, and more. Announced at Google I/O, the billet of updates to Android XR SDK is aimed at giving developers more standardized tools to either make their own XR-native apps, or bring their standard Android ap
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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 18, 2025
The founder of Lynx says that the design of Valve's next headset, codenamed Deckard, "is quite amazing". If you're unaware, Lynx is a French startup behind the Lynx-R1 standalone mixed reality headset. First announced in 2020, had it shipped on time in 2022 it would have been the first standalone headset with color passthrough mixed reality to hit the market.
Charlie Fink
MAY 23, 2025
AWE 2025 brings XR and AI together with 250+ exhibitors, smart glasses demos, and top speakers like Evan Spiegel, Palmer Lucky, and Nolan Bushnell.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
MAY 21, 2025
As Extended Reality (XR) technologies continue to mature, their adoption in the aerospace industry is accelerating. From enhancing cockpit displays to reshaping training and streamlining design, XR is becoming a practical solution for improving complex workflows and safety-critical operations in design and training. As industries demand increasingly intelligent, adaptive, and immersive solutions, developing advanced Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs) powered by XR is becoming a vital driver of ope
Road to VR
MAY 21, 2025
When it launches later this year, Android XR is coming first to Samsungs mixed reality headset, Project Moohan. Now, Google has tapped AR glasses creator XREAL to be the second with its newly unveiled Project Aura. Google announced at its I/O developer event that China-based XREAL will be the second device officially slated to run Android XR, the company’s forthcoming XR operating system currently in developer preview.
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
MAY 22, 2025
Games made in the Godot engine can now run in a window on visionOS, with immersive XR support planned for later this year. If you're unaware, Godot is a free and open-source alternative to Unity and Unreal Engine. It's technically controlled by the non-profit Godot Foundation, but all development takes place in the open. Last month, an Apple employee on the visionOS engineering team created a massive pull request on Godot's GitHub, meaning thousands of lines of code adding support for visionOS a
XR Today - Augmented Reality tag
MAY 19, 2025
Recently, UK Animation giant Aardman partnered with AR experience experts Peel X to debut the studio’s famous portfolio of characters as AR visitor attractions in the UK and abroad. Working with Aardman is an absolute joy, noted Laura Thompson, Digital Producer at Peel X , their legacy in storytelling and animation is unmatched, so working in collaboration with them has been an exciting new venture.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
MAY 22, 2025
ReadSpeaker has unveiled a new plugin to help balance immersion and accessibility without sacrificing workloads for video game developers. This plugin is called speechEngine. It aims to eliminate the hurdles faced with traditional TTS, which requires recording audio or creating static audio files. Accessibility as a Competitive Advantage For game studios, enterprise developers, and publishers, accessibility is no longer optional.
Road to VR
MAY 23, 2025
Meta announced it’s now running a test in Quest’s latest Horizon OS release (v77) that overhauls the platform’s dock-based UI for a new launcher overlay. Additionally, Meta says some users will also see 3D Instagram photos in their feed on Quest too, which is neat. First teased at Connect 2024, Meta is finally bringing Navigator to Quest, which serves as a new centralized hub for apps, quick actions, and system functions. “As part of our work to develop a fully spatial op
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
MAY 23, 2025
A new research paper published by Stanford VR researchers in the top social science journal combs through decades of study and suggests five ground truths about the medium. The chart below from the paper in Nature Human Behavior outlines the implications for researchers and consumers of key findings from decades of psychological research in VR. Regular readers will be familiar with some of these ideas, but for those reaching this page through a VR-initiated friend who sent it to them?
XR Today - Augmented Reality tag
MAY 22, 2025
This week at Google I/O, the leading technology firm announced a trove of new products to unpack, namely expansions to its Gemini AI framework. Part of this expansion comes via Googles AndriodXR initiative, which sees the firm working with a range of XR industry leaders to create MR and AR devices that merge immersive and AI technologies. That’s exactly why we’re building Android XR,” remarked Shahram Izadi, the leader of Googles AndroidXR development team.
Charlie Fink
MAY 21, 2025
Arcana Labs used its model-agnostic AI platformbuilt on tools like Veo, Runway, and Lumato create Echo Hunter, a cinematic sci-fi short for less than $10,000.
Road to VR
MAY 20, 2025
Google today announced that it is working with eyewear makers Warby Parker and Gentle Monster to bring the first Android XR smartglasses to market. The move mirrors Meta’s early partnership withEssilorLuxottica, the dominant eyewear maker that’s behind Meta’s Ray-Ban smartglasses. While no productized Android XR smartglasses have been announced, Google said today it is working with eyewear makers Warby Parker and Gentle Monster on the first generation of products.
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
MAY 20, 2025
Google is working with Gentle Monster and Warby Parker on smart glasses with Gemini AI, the company's plan to directly compete with Ray-Ban Meta. EssilorLuxottica, Meta's partner which owns the Ray-Ban and Oakley brands, is the largest eyewear company in the world by far, and has almost 4000 stores in the US alone. Google reportedly wanted to steal the partnership, a move which Meta fought off by taking a 5% stake in the Franco-Italian company last year.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
MAY 19, 2025
Today at Microsoft Build, the leading technology giant announced a new fabric feature that allows the creation of enterprise-ready digital twins. Today marks the debut of the Digital twin builder in Microsoft Fabric, a feature available in preview mode as the company refines the solution. The digital twin builder provides an avenue for building and managing digital representations of real-world environments, including 3D, highly detailed models and associated information points.
Voices of VR
MAY 19, 2025
The Creature label features a lot of really innovative VR and MR games with rich and innovative gameplay mechanics, and they just featured three new games, a new DLC pack, and lots of updates about the games in a half-hour Creature Feature gaming showcase hosted on IGN. I had a chance to catch up with […] The Creature label features a lot of really innovative VR and MR games with rich and innovative gameplay mechanics, and they just featured three new games, a new DLC pack, and lots of upd
Road to VR
MAY 19, 2025
Meta’s latest Horizon OS update for Quest (v76) introduced a new Battery Saver setting as default, which has led users to experience frame rate issues in apps and games. Now, Meta CTO Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth says the company is rolling out a fix and “taking a serious look” at how OS updates are communicated in the future.
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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