The Ghost Howls

APRIL 21, 2025

Yesterday it was Easter here in Italy, and I had a good time with my family eating delicious food. You can read my greetings to the community and see some pictures of the cake Ive eaten on Twitter/X if you want. Today is also a Holiday in Italy (I guess to leave people the time to digest before getting to work, lol), but the XR business never rests, so Im writing anyway for you this roundup of the best news of the week!

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Road to VR

APRIL 21, 2025

Metanaut, the studio behind Rube Goldberg-inspired physics sandbox Gadgeteer (2019) , announced they’re releasing an anthology of virtual and mixed reality experiences designed to mesmerize. Called Wonder, the experience is slated to land on Quest 3/S within the “next couple of months,” aiming to deliver what Metanaut calls a“perfect escape” from your busy life.

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AR Insider

APRIL 22, 2025

Surepoint used AR to let field workers and remote experts connect and share "see what I see" live views of issues in real time. What were the results and tactical takeaways? We examine in our latest case study. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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APRIL 20, 2025

Starship Drift is an exceedingly simple game on Apple Vision Pro that shows how developers are figuring out how to make the most of the platform. Starship Drift puts the player in command of a tiny spaceship dodging asteroids with head or hand movements. The premise is familiar, but the implementation seems to take as much inspiration from the original Asteroids as from Pistol Whip.

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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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EON Reality

APRIL 21, 2025

IRVINE, CA April 21, 2025 EON Reality, the global leader in augmented and virtual reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, today announced the launch of its revolutionary Spatial AI Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) College. This pioneering initiative represents the world’s first comprehensive vocational transformation platform powered by cutting-edge Spatial AI technology and delivered through EON’s proprietary Learn-Train-Perform methodolo

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AR Insider

APRIL 21, 2025

What types of AR apps and experiences are consumers most interested in trying? We dive into the latest consumer survey data from ARtillery Intelligence and Thrive Analytics. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Upload VR

APRIL 20, 2025

Ito Meiky takes you through a VR digital labyrinth inspired by Japanese art history and literature. Produced by Sacrebleu Productions, Les Films Fauves, and Parangon with Boris Labb directing, Ito Meiky is a VR title inspired by The Fukinuki Yatai, The Tale of Genji, and The Pillow Book. This short experience aims to unfold as a large sensory fresco with strong emotional potential, letting you explore this surrealist animated realm comprised of fractal architectures, plants, people, motifs, call

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EON Reality

APRIL 21, 2025

IRVINE, CA April 21, 2025 EON Reality, the global leader in augmented and virtual reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, today announced the launch of its revolutionary Spatial AI University. This pioneering initiative represents the world’s first comprehensive educational transformation platform powered by cutting-edge Spatial AI technology and delivered through EON’s proprietary Learn-Train-Perform methodology.

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Road to VR

APRIL 22, 2025

Zach Tsiakalis-Brown, developer behind the Vertigo series, announced that Vertigo 2 (2023) is getting its long-awaited DLC story expansion ‘Into the Aether’ this week. In late 2023, the studio announced it was pushing its final content update to the game with the the Bottomless Update , bringing a level editor, modifiers, and new playable characters, extending the game well beyond the 10+ hour campaign.

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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.

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XROM

APRIL 20, 2025

VR 0: Prompt to VR App is here!Imagine transforming dense documentation directly into immersive multiplayer VR experiencespowered by AIin just a few hours. This is no longer a futuristic dream but a reality with AutoVRses groundbreaking launch ofVR0, a shippable multiplayer VR app designed to deliver immediate value for enterprise training needs.The AI-Powered Leap in VR TrainingAutoVRse has spent years perfecting its approach alongside global giants like Amazon, AstraZeneca, and GSK.

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APRIL 20, 2025

Rival Stars Horse Racing: VR Edition is the latest installment of the gaming franchise that's now available on Quest and Steam. The VR edition features the same core features most horse game fans look for: raising horses, bonding with them through grooming and feeding them treats, and participating in races for money. I grew up with these kinds of games as a kid, so I'm thrilled to finally see a VR version available for people to enjoy.

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EON Reality

APRIL 21, 2025

IRVINE, CA April 21, 2025 EON Reality, the global leader in augmented and virtual reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, announces the launch of its groundbreaking Spatial AI for Income Academies a comprehensive educational transformation solution designed for forward-thinking academic institutions seeking to revolutionize learning while creating substantial new revenue streams.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 22, 2025

Are XR digital twins better for workplaces than traditional 3D workflows? Increasingly, the evidence suggests that the answer is a resounding yes. For years, traditional simulations and digital twins created with 3D software has helped countless organizations to streamline production cycles, boost process efficiency, and reduce costs. However, XR solutions introduce new opportunities.

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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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XROM

APRIL 21, 2025

In a landmark achievement for Indian tech innovation, Chaarana Labs' "Immersive India" app has earned coveted feature spots across Apple's Vision Pro ecosystem, marking a significant milestone for cultural representation in spatial computing.The app has received premium placement not just within the Vision Pro app on iOS, but also secured a prominent position on the main App Store page for Vision Pro.

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Upload VR

APRIL 19, 2025

Yorutouge is a psychedelic Vocaloid rave world you can explore in VRChat. Created by VR_SMEJ using the works of Vocaloid songwriter and producer Kikuo, Yorutouge offers a nonstop 20-minute rave through a public VRChat world that's designed to be uplifting. We created this work with the hope that it would be a 'manic stopping point' that people can visit when they feel something hazy or heavy, stated the team.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 22, 2025

Recently, at the TED2025 conference, Shahram Izadi , the leader of Google’s AndroidXR development team, gave a public demonstration of the upcoming smart glasses operating system, following its initial launch in the new year, showcasing a prototype pair of smart glasses during the presentation. The live demo showcased real-time translation, image recognition, and interoperable connection between other Android devices.

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Road to VR

APRIL 21, 2025

Missed Metas big Quest Savings sale last month? Good newsyou can still nab 50% off top VR games, experiences, and bundles in Meta’s new ‘Reality Bytes’ sale. There are currently over 200 games on sale, available from now untilApril 27 at 11:59 PM PT ( local time here ). You’ll find top VR games likeSurvios’ shooter adventure Alien: Rogue Incursion (2025) for just $20 (50% off), Schell Games’ roguelike melee game Until You Fall (2020) for $14 (44% off),Space Bu

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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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XROM

APRIL 20, 2025

Multiple media outlets reported that ByteDance is secretly developing aAI smart glasses integrated with its large language model, Doubao. The product hasreportedly entered the stages of supply chain negotiations and technical finalization.It will focus on core functions such as real-time translation, voice interaction, andimage recognition, aiming to break into the highly competitive smart wearable marketby leveraging the combined strengths of hardware, AI, and a rich content ecosystem.

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Upload VR

APRIL 21, 2025

Theres an Apple Vision Pro app that will turn your home into a Blockbuster video store. For readers too young to remember the video store, Blockbuster was a chain of stores where you could rent out movies, TV shows or video games for a couple days and return them before the late fees started stacking up. From VHS to DVD to Blu-ray, Blockbuster didnt survive the rise of Netflix subscriptions and neither did the contemplative physical experience of walking through genres of box art trying to find

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Upload VR

APRIL 21, 2025

Belkins Apple Vision Pro Travel Bag is a must-have for getting around with the headset. Ive used the bag on a trip to San Francisco and for getting around New York, and now I even wear it around the house. When wearing Vision Pro, this is essentially a compact soft-shell wearable case for hiding away Apples dangerously heavy swinging metal battery. 0:00 / 0:59 1 At roughly half the size compared with the first official case sold in Apple Stores, the gray Belkin case features enough storage for a

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Upload VR

APRIL 22, 2025

Unnerving walking simulator POOLS VR invites you to explore its eerie waters next month on PC VR. Released last year as a flatscreen Steam game, we've known for a while that POOLS from developer Tensori is getting official PC VR support following previous beta testing last year. Described as a suspenseful walking simulator with no monsters or jump scares, you'll explore liminal spaces inspired by the backrooms that can feel oppressive at times by invoking fears of getting lost, the dark and tigh

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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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APRIL 22, 2025

Wanderer: The Fragments of Fate developers Mighty Eyes announced a 2025 roadmap, revealing performance improvements and tweaks to NPC behavior among other changes. Recently released on PlayStation VR2 and Quest, Wanderer: The Fragments of Fate hasn't had the breeziest of launches, a reality developers Mighty Eyes acknowledged in their 2025 roadmap announcement yesterday, saying: Wanderer: The Fragments of Fate has had a bit of a rocky start.

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Road to VR

APRIL 21, 2025

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XROM

APRIL 20, 2025

International academic journal Nature Machine Intelligence published aresearch paper introducing a wearable system designed to assist individuals withvisual impairments in navigation.The paper was authored by Professor Gu Leileis team from the Qiyuan ResearchInstitute at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao TongUniversity.

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XROM

APRIL 20, 2025

Lawaken Technology has recently completed a strategic funding roundworth tens of millions CNY. The investors include Hefei Baohe Innovation InvestmentPrivate Equity Fund Management Co., Ltd. and Meorient. The funds will be used toaccelerate the iteration of Lawaken Technologys proprietary Wake-AI large languagemodel technology and the practical implementation of AI-powered smart glasses inreal-world scenarios, further strengthening the companys leadership in the AI +wearable devices sector.

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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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