The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Tomorrow is the day the Meta Connect starts! Every year I like to play the speculation game about what to expect from there… and every year I predict a lot of things wrong (like that year that I said that the Quest Link was not going to happen… shame on me). This is a tradition I can’t skip this year, too. I’m swamped with work so I do have not much time to write a long post… but I still want to play the prediction game with you!

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

After examining Snap's strategy around Lens Studio in the last installment of this series, we pan back to examine supporting efforts to bring AR to brands' in-house development environments. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Quest 3 is an impressive leap in hardware, especially in the visual department, but it continues Meta’s tradition of building great hardware that feels held back by its software. Update (September 27th, 2023): Fixed the link to the second page at the bottom of this page. After months of teasing and leaks, Quest 3 is finally, officially, fully announced.

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EON Reality

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

EON Reality and VedX Solutions Collaborate to Amplify Spatial AI Education in Colombia and Across Latin American Territories. IRVINE, CA – September 26, 2023 – EON Reality, a world-renowned leader in Artificial Intelligence and Extended Reality-based experiences for education and industry, is thrilled to announce a significant partnership with VedX Solutions.

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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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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The keynote of Meta Connect 2023 finished a few instants ago, and if you follow me on social media, you know that I’ve not been enthusiastic about it, to say the least. But let’s anyway analyze together what have been the most important pieces of news we got from it! IMHO this #MetaConnect2023 keynote was the worst ever, with no surprise announcement, and with AI totally stealing the spotlight from XR #VirtualReality #Meta pic.twitter.com/z0M4CG0MhF — TonyVT SkarredGhost (@Skar

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

After a period of significant silence about VR from the company, Valve today surprise-released a beta for SteamVR 2.0, a major upgrade to the platform’s VR interface which finally brings more of the platform’s core capabilities into VR. Valve originally said it planned to release “SteamVR 2.0” in 2020. But it would be Valve without the infamous Valve Time.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Quest 3 is scheduled to get upper body tracking and AI estimated legs in a software update in December. All other major VR systems only track your head and hands, while some also track your eyes, and a few track facial expressions. Quest 3 doesn't have eye or face tracking, but it will get a tracking feature not seen in any other headset to date. Quest 3's side cameras face downwards.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Happy Autumn everyone! Temperatures are getting colder, but not in VR… here it is going to be a very hot week with the launch of the Quest 3! Today I was thinking “Oh it’s cool that the Quest 3 is coming in a few weeks…” and then I realized that is going to be fully launched in just 2 days. Oh wow. I’m super excited, and you? Top news of the week (Image from Upload VR) Pico 5 leaks show a very ambitious product line The leaks on the Pico 5 are intensifying , which usually means that the device i

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Amazon's latest visual search play lets users find products using images of visually similar items that they encounter in the physical world. How does this compare to Google's leading visual search efforts? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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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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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today at Connect, the company’s annual XR developer conference, that it’s going to launch a set of mixed reality mini-apps on Quest 3 that you can stick anywhere in your house. Relying on Quest 3’s room-mapping capabilities, the so-called ‘augments’ are due to launch sometime next year on Meta’s newly fully unveiled mixed reality headset , bringing what the company calls “interactive, spatially aware digital objects tha

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Meta Quest 3 ships October 10, starting at $500 for a 128GB base model and $650 for a higher storage 512GB model. First revealed by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in June , Meta revealed more Quest 3 details during today's opening keynote at its annual Connect conference and announced that pre-orders for the headset are now live. Quest 3 will be available for purchase on the Meta Store in 23 countries.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The Tokyo Game Show, one of the most important gaming events in the world, is happening these days. Like the past 2 years, there is also a digital edition of it that lets you enter into a virtual world dedicated to the event, and that is also accessible in virtual reality. This space was designed and developed by the Japanese company Ambr , which has its own “metaverse platform” called xambr.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Qualcomm announced its next wave of chips, purpose-built for AR and VR devices. Unveiled from the stage at Meta Connect, this one-two punch includes the Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 and Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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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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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Meta announced at its Connect developer conference today that LEGO is releasing a mixed reality game for Quest 3, named LEGO Bricktales. The blocky puzzle game essentially puts you in front of a number of diorama biomes, which were crafted brick by brick. “Your journey will take you to the deepest jungle, sun-drenched deserts, a bustling city corner, a towering medieval castle, and tropical Caribbean islands,” Meta says in an announcement.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Valve announced that it is shipping SteamVR 2.0 in beta today. In a prepared statement, the company said that it sees SteamVR 2.0 as "the first major step toward our goal of bringing all of what's new on the Steam platform into VR." The news arrives on the precipice of a busy week for VR. Meta will host its annual Connect event in just a few days, where it will share more details on Meta Quest 3 , its latest standalone headset shipping this fall.

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Hypergrid Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Well, the NFT craze certainly crashed and burned quickly. According to a new report by DappGambl , 95 percent of NFT collections now have zero value. That’s not a typo. Zero. Out of over 73,000 collections, only around 3,500 still have any market cap at all. And only a tiny fraction of those are worth more than a few bucks. (Image courtesy DappGambl.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

This week on Reality Bytes, we go to court with Fortnite, generate our AI dreams with YouTube’s new tool, and listen to ChatGPT’s new voice. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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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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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

It’s been a bumpy ride for social VR platform Neos VR over the past two years partly due to being removed from Steam for heavily featuring its own cryptocurrency. While Neos VR was eventually reinstated on Steam, original Neos VR developer Tomáš “Frooxius” Mariančík has since departed the project and now announced a spiritual successor called Resonite.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Even without updates from developers, almost all VR games run at higher resolution on Quest 3. In the Unity and Unreal engines, which almost all VR apps are made with, Quest developers don't set the rendering resolution with pixel values. Instead, they set it as a multipler relative to the default, ie. 1.0x or 1.4x or 0.9x. Alternatively, they can use Meta's Dynamic Resolution Scaling system to set a minimum or maximum scale and let the system adapt the resolution in real time relative to the cu

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Anand Tech

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Although Low Power DDR(LPDDR) memory has played a pivotal role in reducing PC laptop power usage, the drawback to the mobile-focused memory has always been its tight signaling and power delivery requirements. Designed to be placed close to its host CPU in order to minimize power expenditures and maximize clockspeeds, LPDDR memory is unsuitable for use in traditional DIMMs and SO-DIMMs – instead requiring that it be soldered down on a device in advance.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Welcome back to Spatial Beats, AR Insider's weekly series that features observations and insights of author and futurist Charlie Fink. This week, we look at the continued collision of AI and XR. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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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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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Bigscreen Beyond is the most interesting and promising new dedicated PC VR headset to come out in years, and while there’s a lot to like, we’re still waiting on a key piece that will make or break the headset. Bigscreen Beyond has one goal in mind: make the smallest possible headset with the highest possible image quality. Generally speaking, this unlikely headset (born from a VR software startup, after all) has ‘pulled it off.’ It’s an incredibly compact VR headset

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Mark Zuckerberg was interviewed by Lex Fridman in VR, with both using Meta's prototype photorealistic Codec Avatars. Codec Avatars is Meta's long-running research project aiming to revolutionize remote communication by achieving truly convincing photorealistic real-time avatars driven by headsets with face tracking sensors, and eventually glasses too.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Last week, Immersed announced its Visor XR headset portfolio for productivity. The firm is debuting a device with spatial computing features similar to the Apple Vision Pro. Moreover, Immersed is debuting its Visor product at a lower price than the Vision Pro, perhaps creating a wild card in XR competition alongside significant players such as Meta, Microsoft, HTC, Lenovo, Xreal, and Varjo.

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VR Fitness

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Fitness and esports enthusiasts will soon have a new game to enjoy in Resolution Games’ Racket Club. While there are similarities to other racket sports like tennis and pickleball in physical reality, Racket Club is a brand new racket sport built from the ground up for VR. This is fantastic news for those of us who use our headsets for exercise and for fun!

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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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