Operator XR Secures $3.7M VR Training Contract with Texas Department of Public Safety

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Image courtesy xReality Group, Operator XR

Australian immersive training technology company xReality Group announced its subsidiary Operator XR has secured a contract with the Texas Department of Public Safety (Texas DPS) worth up to AUD $5.71 million (~$3.7 million USD), which will see the rollout of it VR police training system across the state.

VR Design Unpacked: Everyone Should Know These VR Interface Basics

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Our series Inside XR Design examines specific examples of great XR design. Today we’re looking at the game Electronauts and what it can teach us about smart VR interface design.

Google’s ‘Genie 3’ Interactive Generative Video Model Takes Us One Step Closer to the Holodeck

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DeepMind, Google’s AI research lab, announced the release of Genie 3, a new AI system capable of generating interactive virtual environments in real-time—and bringing us one step closer to the Holodeck.

Meta Releases New AI Features to Make ‘Horizon Worlds’ Development Easier

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Meta just released a few new generative AI features for its Horizon Worlds desktop editor, which the company says will streamline the development of user-generated environments on its metaverse platform.

‘Oasis’ WMR Driver Expected Later This Month, Bringing New Life to Microsoft’s PC VR Headsets

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The first wave of WMR headsets launched in 2017 | Image courtesy Microsoft

Microsoft stopped supporting its WMR platform on Windows 11 last year, essentially putting an end to its first foray into PC VR headsets. However, an unofficial SteamVR driver called ‘Oasis’ aims to bridge the gap when it releases later this month.

Red Bull’s ‘Touching the Sky’ is an Hour-long Immersive Documentary on Wingsuit Flying and More, Now on Quest

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Red Bull and Jonathan Griffith Productions have released Touching the Sky on Quest, now letting you follow wingsuit base jumpers in the European Alps and a paragliding team across the Himalayas in Pakistan in an hour-long immersive documentary.

Samsung Confirms ‘Project Moohan’ XR Headset is Still Coming This Year

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Samsung Project Moohan | Image courtesy Google

Samsung didn’t highlight its upcoming mixed reality headset at Unpacked last month, nor at Google I/O the month prior—but no fear, the South Korean tech giant confirmed its Android XR-based headset is still coming this year.

Brilliant Labs Unveils All-day Smart Glasses with Color Display, Pre-orders Launch at $300

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Brilliant Labs unveiled Halo, its next-gen smart glasses that pack in a full-color micro OLED display, bone conduction speakers, and real-time voice-based AI assistant—priced at a surprisingly reasonable $300.

‘Star Citizen’ Claims Testing of VR Support Will Begin Soon, More Than 10 Years After Promising It

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Image courtesy Roberts Space Industries, Cloud Imperium Games

Star Citizen promised to include VR support as a core feature more than a decade ago—long before it scope-creeped its way into becoming the MMO of today. Now, Cloud Imperium Games (CIG) says they’re actually going to put VR support to the test, but you still probably shouldn’t hold your breath.

Meta Avatars Get a Major Makeover With New Body Types, Poses & AI-driven Clothing Styles

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Meta is giving its Avatars another big upgrade, offering users finer control over things like face shape, body part sizes, hair, makeup and more.

‘Spotify’ Finally Comes to Quest, Letting You Listen to Music in the Background

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Spotify finally has its own Quest web app, letting you listen to music in the background as you go about your virtual ways.

Meta & Stanford Reveal Ultra-Thin Holographic XR Display the Size of Glasses

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Researchers at Meta Reality Labs and Stanford University have unveiled a new holographic display that could deliver virtual and mixed reality experiences in a form factor the size of standard glasses.

Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses Revenue Triples, Fueling Meta’s $3.5 Billion Bet on EssilorLuxottica

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Meta's second-gen Ray-Ban smart glasses

EssilorLuxottica released its second quarter earnings report, revealing that Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses have tripled in revenue year-over-year.

Meta Admits There’s a “Goldilocks Zone” for VR Session Length Due to Form Factor Concerns

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It’s been the same basic story for more than a decade now: wearing a VR headset is easy, but not as easy as simply looking at a monitor. While a lot has changed since the early days, Meta admits Quest developers should be making their VR games more bite-sized to work around the inherent friction of putting on a headset.

‘Blade & Sorcery’ Studio Confirms Next “modder-friendly’ VR Game Isn’t a Sequel

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Warpfrog, the studio behind Blade & Sorcery (2024), announced they’re working on their next VR title. While the studio say it won’t be a sequel, it will be “super modder-friendly” and share “a lot of DNA” with the hit physics-based combat game.

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