XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This week, Avantis continues its expansion mission, bringing its brand of immersive learning to worldwide education institutions and groups by recently debuting new ClassVR integrations at the Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles Unified).

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 27, 2025

The leading expert in 3D-driven enterprise software as a service Virtualware, for example, recently won a coveted Brandon Hall Group Bronze award for excellence in the Best Advance in Augmented and Virtual Reality category for its work integrating immersive training modules for ADIF rail professionals.

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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.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 9, 2025

.” Much like the older CAVE (cave automatic virtual environment) setups, which use projectors instead of headsets, The Last of Us LBE concept experience allows a group of users to explore the infected tunnels below Seattle, which is plagued by a fungal infection that’s turned the world’s population into monsters.

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VRScout

JANUARY 11, 2022

As part of the study, 77 participants were split up into three groups—a control group with no gum, an experimental group chewing peppermint gum, and a second experimental group chewing ginger gum—and immersed in a 15-minute VR helicopter flight. So, how exactly does chewing gum combat VR motion sickness?

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

” Ibrahim explained that the Immersive Tech Africa team first started an online webinar group inviting guest speakers to share challenges and experiences, which then “grew into a community, where we now decided to register it as an official nonprofit.” Ibrahim added: I’m glad to say that it has been successfully deployed.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 22, 2025

Innoactive is actively working to deploy its Vision Pro-ready solutions in professional environments, including collaborations with the automotive firm Volkswagen Group and healthcare leaders Syntegon.

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VRScout

JULY 29, 2021

This new facelift will make it easier for you to find workouts that target specific muscles groups. Here’s everything to look out for in the update: Browse Hand-Curated Collections: find the Supernatural Community’s favorite workouts grouped into carousels that make discovering them a breeze. Image Credit: Supernatural.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Meta this week announced that it has given a select group of users the ability to grow and moderate their own communities by creating “members-only worlds.” ” These closed spaces feature exclusive VR content accessible by a hand-picked group of Horizon Worlds users.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Flat2VR Studios is a formalization of a group of dedicated modders who were making unofficial VR mods for flatscreen games. A positive early reception bodes well for both the studio’s ability to deliver and its choice of which games to port in the first place.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

ABBA, the Swedish pop group behind massive hits such as “Dancing Queen,” “Take a Chance On Me,” and “Mamma Mia” (you know that every part of that song is a hook!) The process required Morris and his team to capture the group as they rehearsed and interacted with each other.

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Road to VR

MARCH 3, 2025

Social Discovery Group, the company behind Dating.com and DateMyAge.com, announced it’s launched a venture studio that aims to “transform virtual intimacy into the new normal” by backing early-stage startups in AI-powered communication, XR advancements, and social discovery platforms.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 12, 2024

World-Class Learning Journeys XR Lab was commissioned by Easter Colleges Group, which WindsorPatania describes as a forward-thinking educational consortium that provides students with world-class and life-long learning journeys. We are very proud to have been part of this exciting and game-changing educational initiative.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The 60-second commercial will center around a group of estranged friends who reconnect using the Quest 2 and Horizon Worlds , Meta’s very own VR social platform, aka metaverse. That said, the odds are good we can expect Meta’s animatronic friend group to make an appearance. Credit: Meta.

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VRScout

JULY 31, 2022

Similar to the group’s famous Alive 2007 performance, these DJs will perform on a 3D LED stage. . In 2021 the group announced its official retirement, much to the dismay of EDM fans around the globe. . Formed in 1993, Daft Punk is widely considered one of if not the most influential figures in electronic dance music.

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Road to VR

APRIL 16, 2025

This follows a wider leadership shakeup at Apple, reported by Bloomberg last month, which also saw Apple’s Vision Products Group (VPG) redistributed across the company.

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VRScout

MARCH 2, 2023

A group called Fight for Echo has purchased a sky banner in support of the ill-fated VR game. The news hit hard among players, so much so that one group, Fight for Echo , took it upon itself to purchase a sky banner encouraging Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg not to shut down the beloved VR game.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 21, 2025

In late 2020, a crowd-funded group, which even attracted cash from Oculus founder Palmer Luckey , spurred on the race to jailbreak Quest 2, which, at the time, led an apparently successful method. At the time of this writing, there is no widely publicized, confirmed jailbreak for Quest 3, although there have been attempts in the past.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

As for Team Beef, the modding group has also unofficially ported a laundry list of other titles, includingCore Design’s Tomb Raider (1996) and Valve’s Half-Life series, but is also currently working withFlat2VR Studios to officially port flatscreen shooter Wrath: Aeon of Ruin (2024) to PC VR headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2022

The results showed the VR group had a 44% higher addiction tendency than the control group, meaning VR created a habit more quickly , but that should not be interpreted as an absolute negative. We are conducting a time-series case tracking study generating a large number of biometric data and survey reports for each subject.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

This includes Warner Music Group, the PGA, Science Museum Group, TRIPP, and Coachella to name a few. Image Credit: Niantic. Niantic has already begun working with several major organizations as part of a private beta of the Niantic ARDK. “At the festival, attendees will be able to experience the show in new, interactive ways.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The Grammy award-winning group will perform their new single “Skinny Ape” at Times Square in NYC at 2:30 pm ET on December 17th and in Piccadilly Circus at 2:00 pm GMT on December 18th. Prior to that, the group released a 360-degree music video for their song “Saturnz Barz.”

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Check out the specs below: Specification Detail Focal Length 7.8mm Maximum and Minimum Aperture f/4.0 – f/16 (1/3 stops, 1/2 stops) Lens Mount Type Canon RF Mount; Plastic Mount Interpupillary Distance / Baseline Length 11.8mm Minimum Focusing Distance 0.49 in.) / 0.15 30%, Vertical: approx. ″ x 1.6″

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NOVEMBER 29, 2024

VRChat plans to offer age verification to its adult users starting with certain early access groups. Age-verified users can also opt to have a Verified 18+ badge added to their profile," VRChat explains on a form for groups to apply for early access. We're keeping it small to start so that we can work out the kinks."

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2025

But when a project does get traction, the group building it is generally comprised of people who genuinely believe in what they’re building. As described by the Valve Employee Handbook , it’s largely up to employees at the company to choose what projects to take on, and to inspire others to join them.If

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Apple Vision Pro spatial F1 viewer app Lapz has been forced to pause its TestFlight distribution by the Formula One Group. But now, Lapz has suspended its TestFlight at the request of the Formula One group. That suggests that if it can't work out some kind of deal with the Formula One Group, it'll pivot to another motorsport.

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VRScout

AUGUST 23, 2021

This month’s update also makes sharing your fitness accomplishments easier by allowing you to upload your workout stats directly to Facebook, including Groups and Messenger. These goals will change based on your in-headset performance; as you progress, so too will the difficulty of your workouts. Image Credit: Facebook. App Gifting.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

It was still very good, but it was the worst one of the group, first of all because it showed more scanning artifacts, and also because it was a bit colder and more impersonal. This scene was very convincing, too, and I could feel their happiness while watching them. The third scene was about a chef teaching how to cook a certain dish.

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VRScout

MAY 24, 2022

These local groups already exist,” said CEO John Hanke in a keynote speech. We’re giving them a platform to better conduct their activities and … for players to find these groups. “There are the Niantic gaming communities that have already been formed all around the world, with tens of thousands of enthusiastic explorers.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 17, 2024

I loved this mechanic because it created a sense of group belonging with the other people there. So even if the game is not enforcing a group decision, actually I’ve noticed the players are having a sort of group decision anyway even in this scenario.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

All of this factored into Eastern Colleges Group's XR Lab, which architect Giovanni Patania breaks down for us. Educational spaces must fuel the desire to learn and fit practical needs of teachers, students and community. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 21, 2025

r/augmentedreality – Some of the Best and Brightest One of the biggest and brightest groups of XR enthusiasts, r/augmentedreality hosts various users sharing the latest news on augmented reality technology, namely smartphone and smart glasses solutions.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 22, 2022

A group of researchers based out of Aalto University, Åbo Akademi Universit, and the University of Helsinki has developed a VR game that can supposedly help diagnose attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children. ADHD currently affects roughly six percent of the world’s children.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

This initiative is driven by collaboration between internal and external development teams, including Revolve Labs, the North East Essex Training Hub, and the Eastern Education Group.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Code references to Valve 'Roy' controllers were first discovered earlier this month by XR enthusiast Brad Lynch's Discord group of SteamVR dataminers. This code revealed that the controllers would include bumpers and a D-pad to be able to act as a gamepad for flatscreen gaming.

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VRScout

MAY 22, 2023

Last week, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta and the BMW Group have partnered to develop a research project focused on the integration of virtual and augmented reality (AR) into vehicles. That said, the BMW Group believes that it could be used to improve the passenger experience.

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VRScout

AUGUST 5, 2021

Tickets will range in price depending on which days you go and the age range of your group. There is also discounted pricing for groups larger than 10. Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, additional fall tickets will be offered based on changing guidelines. For more information check out the exhibition’s website here.

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