The Ghost Howls
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
The last demo I had during my CES in January wasn’t for sure the least in terms of importance. I was able to go hands-on with Afference , a very special ring meant to give haptic sensations. Why was it so special? Well, let me explain to you Afference Ring and the referred sensations Afference concept image (Image by Afference) Afference is a startup proposing a haptic ring.
Road to VR
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Meta today announced a $50 million fund to incentivize the creation of new and improved content in Horizon Worlds , the company’s first-party social gaming platform. The move comes as many seasoned studios that build self-contained VR apps for the Quest platform are struggling to sustain themselves due to what Meta says is a shifting demographic of headset users.
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XR Today - Virtual Reality
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
This week, the NHS made further strides in leveraging XR technologies via a government-led 4.3 million VR training initiative. The initiative attempts to reduce related travel and material costs while also addressing skill shortages among STEAM students and NHS staff. Innovate UK is leading the multi-million VR training initiative , bringing outreach programs and hands-on training for students, professionals, and NHS staff.
AR Insider
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Since the current era of XR emerged about a decade ago, there have been a thousand little things that mark its evolution. But a few events jumped out from the past week as defining and symbolic moments to mark the next era of XR. 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
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
Im back in Italy, tired but happy. I hope you had a good Valentines Day with your special ones and that in general, you are happy, too. Do you want to know one of the reasons for my happiness? My article about Android XR granting permissions for the camera frames has earned me mentions in important magazines like Road To VR , Upload VR , and Android Authority !
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XR Today - Virtual Reality
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
The XR Awards are back for a fourth year, celebrating the best in augmented, virtual, and mixed reality innovation from the past 12 months. Each year, the XR Awards proudly showcase a diverse range of end-users, individuals, and companies leading the enterprise XR space. With 2025 already shaping up to be a significant year for the immersive technology industry, it builds upon an innovative 2024.
AR Insider
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
This week on Reality Bytes, we dive into Netflix's bold move into video podcasts, the NBA's game-changing AR experience, and Meta's controversial digital safety education. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
The Ghost Howls
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
I have still a lot of things to tell you about my experience at CES. In this post, I want to describe three interesting pieces of hardware that I’ve tried: it’s going to be all about visual displays, each one with its own peculiarity! Optix optical system I went to check out Optix because my CES-mate Tyriel Wood suggested I try it after he enjoyed its demo.
Road to VR
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
3R Games, the studio behind Thief Simulator VR: Greenview Street (2022) , revealed the game has sold over 310,000 units on Quest alone. Announced in an X post last week, the studio says this includes sales across all supported Quest headsetsQuest 2, 3, 3S and Pro. Notably, the game is also available on PSVR 2. 3R Games maintains these are indeed sales, which at its regular price of $20 on Quest puts its theoretical maximum revenue around $6.2 million.
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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
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
Palmer Luckey described how Anduril's Eagle Eye helmet will give soldiers superhuman senses, describing it as "by far the best AR/VR/MR vision augmentation system that has ever been built". Last week, Anduril announced that it is taking over the US Army's IVAS program from Microsoft. Anduril is the defence company Luckey founded after being fired from Oculus, currently valued at $28 billion.
AR Insider
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
XR continues to reshape education with immersive and experiential learning But unlocking the full potential requires designing tools inclusively to meet the needs of all learners. How is that done and what are best practices? This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Hypergrid Business
FEBRUARY 15, 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 is planning a complete inventory reset on March 21, 2024. That means that if you have an OSgrid avatar or region, you will have five weeks to make a backup of your inventory before everything is permanently deleted. “All avatars that don’t have a backup of their OSgrid assets elsewhere within now and five weeks will irrevocably los
Road to VR
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
Toast Interactive, VR veteran studio behind Richie’s Plank Experience (2017) and Max Mustard (2024) , announced it’s closing office and laying off a majority of staff. The Gold Coast, Australia-based studio revealed the news in an X post (seen below), noting that the “majority of our talented staff have suffered redundancies.” This follows the studio’s first layoff round in November 2024 , which affected 10 employees.At the time, the studio maintained that while Max
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
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
Meta Connect 2025 will take place on September 17 and 18. Connect is Meta's annual XR conference, its primary event since the last F8 in 2021. Originally called Oculus Connect, from the first in 2014 until the sixth in 2019, the event sees the company announce VR, AR, and smart glasses hardware, software, and new developer tools, as well as show off some of its research towards the future of XR.
AR Insider
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
This week on Spatial Beats, the end of an era in XR is marked by Niantic Games division including Pokmon Go rumored to be for sale. Meanwhile HP buys Humane's AI Pin and other events ensue at the intersection of XR and AI. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
As reported by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman ; the Apple visionOS 2.4 update expected in April will bring AI capabilities to the $3,499 device; potentially transforming how users interact with spatial computing. This marks an evolution evolution in the company’s mixed reality strategy, as Apple recently ceased development of its planned Mac-ready AR smart glasses to focus exclusively on Vision Pro.
Road to VR
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
Indie studio Chipo y Juan announced their Minority Report -inspired mixed reality game Detective VR is set to release on Quest next week. Coming to Quest 3 and 3S on February 27th, Detective VR is a narrative-based MR game that lets you control time, collect clues and interview witnesses in Passthrough mode bringing the investigation to your living room.
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
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
Quest v74 is starting to roll out, bringing web shortcuts in Library, the system menu to Quest Link, DisplayPort Out to external monitors, improved casting, and more. As with all Meta Horizon OS updates, v74 will "roll out" gradually, so it may take a few days or even weeks for your headset to get the v74 update. Further, Meta rolls out some features separately to the main update itself, so even having the v74 update doesn't guarantee having everything listed here yet.
AR Insider
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
How do you prove the value of 3D marketing to hesitant stakeholders in a given organization? How do you scale production from a handful of assets to thousands without sacrificing quality? We have direct insights from Lego and its immersive shopping journey. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
This week, XRHealth made further strides in deploying virtual and mixed reality solutions for healthcare end users and patients. Those strides come from XRHealths recent acquisition of RealizedCare, an immersive digital therapeutics firm that enables XRHealth to integrate AI services within its product portfolio. Outcome Capital acted as a strategic and financial advisor throughout the acquisition process.
Road to VR
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
Another Axiom announced that Orion Drift , its follow-up to hit VR game Gorilla Tag , is set to launch in early access next week, coming to Quest 2 and above. Orion Drift has been in closed early access since late last year, letting up to 200 players take on an activity-packed social VR space while blasting around and playing various mini-games with its Gorilla Tag- styleimmersive movement mechanic.
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
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
visionOS 2.4 will bring Apple Intelligence to Vision Pro, a Spatial Gallery app, an iPhone app for remote installs, and a new iPhone/iPad-driven guest flow. The last significant visionOS update was 2.2 in December, which brought the Wide and Ultrawide Mac Virtual Display modes. visionOS 2.3 instead focused on bug fixes and security updates. The first visionOS 2.4 developer beta is available to install now, and Apple says the stable release will arrive in April.
AR Insider
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
Prolific Apple sleuth Mark Gurman revealed that Apple Intelligence will soon make its way to Apple Vision Pro. This is a logical convergence of both products, and one we predicted in our annual predictions exercise.What does it all mean and where could it lead? We revisit the topic. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Extended reality is revolutionizing the enterprise landscape, giving businesses incredible opportunities to optimize productivity, reduce operational costs, and enhance collaboration. Innovative offerings, like Microsofts Azure Mixed Reality solutions, are offering companies the flexibility to create customized digital environments for everything from remote device monitoring, to training.
Road to VR
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
Embracer Group, the media conglomerate behind a host of game studios, announced in a recent financial report that Metro Awakening (2024) “ underperformed” financial expectations. Developed by Embracer Group’s Vertigo Games, Metro Awakening brought the storiedpost-apocalyptic shooter franchise to VR for the first time, serving as the latest ‘AAA’ quality VR game to target all major headsets, including Quest 2 and above, SteamVR headsets, and PSVR 2.
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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