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Style & Focus, Part III: 7 Smartglasses to Watch

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Among all the trends in spatial computing – including Apple Vision Pro and the ongoing convergence with AI – accelerated innovation in smart glasses sticks out. We look at exemplars. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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LG Launches Business Metaverse

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Following its recent partnership with Meta, LG Electronics is launching its first enterprise-ready Metaverse platform for HVAC installers and professionals. According to the firm, its “LG Air Solution Village” Metaverse offers HVAC professionals an immersive space for several use cases, including virtual showrooms and functional installation simulation.

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HTC is Giving Devs a Big Revenue Share Boost on Its VR Platform

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HTC is sweetening the pot for VR developers selling content on its VIVEPORT VR storefront, on both PC VR and its standalone Vive XR Elite headset. HTC announced today that it will be increasing the revenue share of sales made on its Viveport VR platform to 90%. That means the developer keeps 90% of the revenue from apps bought on the platform while the platform keeps only 10%.

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Study Finds 120fps Is The "Important Threshold" To Avoid VR Sickness

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A recent study concluded that 120fps is the "important threshold" to avoid VR sickness for most people. The paper comes from Xi'an Jiaotong–Liverpool University in China, where the authors have been studying the effects of VR refresh rates, resolution, haptics, stereoscopy, and more for years, including how these elements all relate to simulator sickness.

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The Future of eLearning in 2022: A Sensitive Eye for Authentic Translation and Localization

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 Expands its Rollout in Estonia Targeting National-Rollout with 10,000 Tailored Courses with the Launch of Spatial AI Center and EON AI Autonomous Agents

EON Reality

EON Reality Announces National Rollout of the Spatial AI Center in Estonia IRVINE, CA – March 18, 2024 – In a significant leap towards revolutionizing the digital and educational landscape of Estonia, EON Reality, a worldwide leader in VR and AR-based knowledge transfer for education and industry, is thrilled to announce the national rollout of the first Spatial AI Center in Estonia.

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HUSH Deploys Magic Leap AR to Showcase Designs

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

HUSH selected the Magic Leap Workshop to help design installations for a building development in New Jersey known as the ‘Helix’. The complex architecture requirements of the Helix led to the HUSH team utilising Workshop so that they could view the installation plans in 3D and, for the first time, with a true sense of scale. Available on Magic Leap 2 devices, Workshop enables real-time collaboration on design works, no matter where team members are based in the world.

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Consistent characters in Midjourney GenAI

Life at the Feeding Edge

Tweet It’s been a while since I posted anything for lots of reasons, that’s an offline conversation. However, this weekend something appeared on my feeds that was just too exciting not to do a quick test with and then share, which I already have on Twitter, LinkedIn, Mastodon and Facebook plus a bit of instagram. So, many channels to look at!

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EON Reality Unveils the New Cutting-Edge Facility for the EON Spatial AI Center

EON Reality

Irvine, CA, March 18, 2024 – EON Reality, a global leader in virtual and augmented reality academic and industry solutions, is excited to announce the launch of the state-of-the-art EON Spatial AI Center. This advanced facility is designed to foster innovation and learning through immersive technologies, revolutionizing the way we interact with digital environments.

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Between Realities VR Podcast ft KenseiGamingVR

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In this week's episode of the Between Realities VR Podcast, Alex and Skeeva host up-and-coming content creator KenseiGamingVR. Kensei explains how his newfound passion for VR has impacted his life. Other topics include making content for younger audiences, the effect social VR can have on real life interactions, and takeaways from SXSW 2024.

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How to Train Employees 65% Faster With Virtual Reality

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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StarTech Unveils 15-in-1 Thunderbolt 4/USB4 Dock with Quad Display Support

Anand Tech

StarTech.com has introduced its latest Thunderbolt 4/USB4 docking station, which has a plethora of ports and supports four display outputs. This makes it suitable for 4Kp60 quad-monitor setups often used for professional applications. The Thunderbolt 4 Quad Display Docking Station can also deliver up to 98W of power to the host, which is enough to feed a high-end laptop, such as Apple's MacBook Pro 16.

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GTC ’24: NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud Debuts on Apple Vision Pro

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Today, at NVIDIA GTC 2024, company CEO Jensen Huang announced that the firm’s enterprise-ready digital twin and immersive content creation hub Omniverse is debuting on Apple’s Vision Pro. NVIDIA is debuting Ominverse Cloud APIs, which allow Apple Vision Pro users to customise and distribute the platform’s high-quality OpenUSD file types on mobile devices without losing content or performance quality thanks to cloud-compensated computing processes.

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EON Reality Unveils the New Cutting-Edge Facility for the EON Spatial AI Center

EON Reality

Irvine, CA, March 18, 2024 – EON Reality, a global leader in virtual and augmented reality academic and industry solutions, is excited to announce the launch of the state-of-the-art EON Spatial AI Center. This advanced facility is designed to foster innovation and learning through immersive technologies, revolutionizing the way we interact with digital environments.

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Flat2VR Studios Is Creating Licensed VR Ports Of Flatscreen Games

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Flat2VR Studios is a new gaming studio developing officially licensed VR ports of flatscreen games. Formed by VR publisher and marketing group Impact Reality, Flat2VR Studios aims to bridge the gap between traditional video games and VR experiences. Created from the Flat2VR community, it's partnering with established VR modders like Team Beef ( Doom , Quake 3 Arena ), Cabalistic ( Half-Life 2 VR ), Raicuparta ( Outer Wilds , Firewatch ) and more.

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

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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The NVIDIA GTC 2024 Keynote Live Blog (Starts at 1:00pm PT/20:00 UTC)

Anand Tech

We're here in sunny San Jose California for the return of an event that's been a long-time coming: NVIDIA's in-person GTC. The Spring 2024 event, NVIDIA's marquee event for the year, promises to be a big one for NVIDIA, as the company is due to deliver updates on its all-important datacenter accelerator products – the successor to the GH100 GPU and its Hopper architecture – along with NVIDIA's other professional/enterprise hardware, networking gear, and, of course

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5+ Generative AI Writing Tools Everyone Should Know About

Bernard Marr

One of the most popular use cases for generative AI is writing. This is thanks to the ability of tools like ChatGPT and Gemini to create any kind of text, from poetry and fiction to technical documents. Their ability to understand context and mimic any human writing style in order to create comprehensive content on any subject is probably their most impressive ability right now.

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Crazy XR devices that will blow away your mind – Episode 1

The Ghost Howls

This morning I was browsing the web to do research for one of my next articles, and I found a picture of that Japanese headset that people could use only by lying on a bed. My mind so started thinking about all the crazy XR devices that I saw in the almost ten years that I’ve been in the XR space: some of them were totally nonsense, while others were genius; some became products, others were just research; some of them I managed to try, others I did not.

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Sony Is Reportedly Pausing PlayStation VR2 Production Due To Slow Sales

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Sony is reportedly pausing PlayStation VR2 production. Bloomberg's Takashi Mochizuki cites "people familiar with its plans" as saying Sony is temporarily stopping production to clear a backlog of unsold units. Those people also reportedly revealed Sony has produced "well over" 2 million PSVR 2 headsets. But market research firm IDC estimates Sony shipped less than 1.7 million in 2023.

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Are You Still Watching? How to Create Engaging Presentations for Virtual Learning

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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NVIDIA Blackwell Architecture and B200/B100 Accelerators Announced: Going Bigger With Smaller Data

Anand Tech

Already solidly in the driver’s seat of the generative AI accelerator market at this time, NVIDIA has long made it clear that the company isn’t about to slow down and check out the view. Instead, NVIDIA intends to continue iterating along its multi-generational product roadmap for GPUs and accelerators, to leverage its early advantage and stay ahead of its ever-growing coterie of competitors in the accelerator market.

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7 Tips For Implementing Generative AI In Your Organization

Bernard Marr

There is no doubt about it: generative AI is a transformative technology – a revolutionary tool that will change how we work. However, adopting any transformative technology requires careful thought. It’s not just a case of “futz around and see.” If there’s one thing I’ve learned from my long career consulting with organizations, it’s that transformation never starts with the technology itself.

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Sony Reportedly Pauses PSVR 2 Production Due to Low Sales

Road to VR

Sony has reportedly paused production of PSVR 2, as it looks to clear its backlog of inventory first before resuming. According to a Bloomberg report , PSVR 2 sales have “slowed progressively” since its February 2023 launch. Citing people familiar with the company’s plans, Sony has produced “well over 2 million units” since launch, noting that stocks of the $550 headset are building up.

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Viveport Will Introduce 90% Developer Revenue Share

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HTC is revamping its Viveport revenue share, giving PC VR and Vive XR Elite developers a 90% cut. Announced today at the Game Developer Conference (GDC), HTC confirmed the new revenue share will go live on April 1, 2o24, for new titles and applies retroactively from March 1st for existing games. "Developers will keep 90% of revenue on games and apps sold as one-time purchases on VIVEPORT for PCVR or VIVE XR Elite," says the company in a press release.

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Who C.A.R.E.S.!? How Learning Got Its Bad Rap & What We Can Do About It

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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NVIDIA's 'cuLitho' Computational Lithography Adopted By TSMC and Synopsys For Production Use

Anand Tech

Last year, NVIDIA introduced its cuLitho software library, which promises to speed up photomask development by up to 40 times. Today, NVIDIA announced a partnership with TSMC and Synopsys to implement its computational lithography platform for production use, and use the company's next-generation Blackwell GPUs for AI and HPC applications. The development of photomasks is a crucial step for every chip ever made, and NVIDIA's cuLitho platform, enhanced with new generative AI algorithms, s

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How Stitch Fix Is Using Generative AI To Help Us Dress Better

Bernard Marr

Business leaders looking to harness generative AI – the technology made famous by ChatGPT – are facing some major strategic questions. What are the best ways to use generative AI within the organization? Where can the technology add the most value? And how can you find a delicate balance between human expertise and machine intelligence? Online personal styling service Stitch Fix is a business that all organizations can learn from.

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NVIDIA Omniverse Expands Worlds Using Apple Vision Pro

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NVIDIA is bringing OpenUSD-based Omniverse enterprise digital twins to the Apple Vision Pro. Announced today at NVIDIA GTC, a new software framework built on Omniverse Cloud APIs , or application programming interfaces, lets developers easily send their Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD) industrial scenes from their content creation applications to the NVIDIA Graphics Delivery Network (GDN) , a global network of graphics-ready data centers that can stream advanced 3D experiences to Apple Visi

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How Apple Vision Pro Gaming Differs From Meta Quest

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Gaming with Apple Vision Pro is like playing in a strange new alternate universe. You can play Helldivers 2 on a giant floating screen via Steam Link while Solitaire or Stardew Valley floats nearby for a quick card game, or a bit of farming in between drops. For a change of pace, pull up a window into Myst island or Sayonara Wild Hearts and listen to the waves lap the dock or start to vibe with the music. 0:00 / 0:54 1× Myst from Cyan designed for iPad and iPhone plays great on Apple Vision Pro

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The Key to Getting the Best Out of Video-Based Practice & Coaching

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