Microsoft exec tease Hololens follow-up, after a bumpy 2022 Last week, in an official Microsoft Hololens 2 blog post, Microsoft’s Vice President of Mixed Reality (MR), Scott Evans, alluded to…

The fact that Facebook changed its corporate name to Meta should send a signal about what at least one tech company sees for the future of digital interactions. The metaverse…

Virtual reality (VR) is still a daunting task for most in the tech industry. Although extended reality (XR) technologies are developing at a much faster pace, many people still see…

Als digitaler Raum kann das Metaverse der Industrie quasi als neue Dimension der Interaktion nützlich sein. Die Produktivität der sogenannten Frontline-Worker steigert Teamviewer beispielsweise mithilfe neuer Funktionen seiner Augmented-Reality-Software. Teamviewer…

Are you safe in virtual realities?  Virtual reality (VR) has many excellent benefits for businesses and consumers alike, but security is key. It’s an opportunity to leverage immersive tools and…

Latvian capital Riga signs memorandum to become Europe’s next Metacity. With the increasing interest in the concept of “Metacity” across the globe, it is clear that the metaverse is shaping…

How VR can shape our future of work Preface Several years ago, if you asked someone what they thought the future would look like, they would often talk about flying…

Your choice of virtual environments and avatars can promote positive psychological outcomes when you’re using virtual reality headsets. Stanford University researchers reported in a research paper that personalized avatars and pretty environments can…

Microsoft has recently announced that it is expanding the cross-platform interoperability for its Mixed Reality Toolkit 3 (MRTK3) to now support Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Spaces platform. According to Microsoft, cross-platform tools…

How to digitally protect oneself in the Metaverse Data protection and privacy are major concerns for metaverse companies, developers, and users alike. For users, it could mean violating their personal…

Loft Dynamics AG (formerly VRM Switzerland), a provider of virtual reality (VR) simulators that have been authorized by major aviation regulators, has this week announced a partnership with Air Greenland…

How can we make sure our immersive Instructional Design experience gets the job done? Best Practices For Immersive Instructional Design For the Instructional Designer (ID) tackling the brave new world…

Go behind the scenes of the culinary world in this beautifully shot episodic series. The Meta Quest TV app features no shortage of immersive 360-degree content to enjoy, from groundbreaking…

How can social VR platforms present effective community guidelines? Like this. We’d all like to be safe in social VR experiences. Barring the human race one day waking up and…

The workplace is preparing for a major shift aas the Metaverse progresses to reality The metaverse workplace may seem like a distant possibility, but innovators have been planning how to…

Here’s the definitive guide to XR technology and its multitude of use cases XR Today is tackling the confusing subject of extended reality (XR). This up-and-coming technology seamlessly blends virtual…

The „Immersive Learning News“ team wishes a Merry Christmas and thanks all readers for an exciting VR / AR 2022. I wish you all a happy new year and good…

Meta Quest Pro now supports shared-space colocation. Colocation means having multiple headsets sharing the same physical play space with the same virtual coordinate space. Facebook showed off an “arena scale” prototype…

Looking Back and Forward: Learning with Augmented Reality  There is significant interest and experimentation in a “Metaverse” format for Learning Activities in 2022. Facebook changed it’s name to Meta. Accenture and…

XR Today explores the science behind the real-time 3D alter ego The avatar-based Metaverse is adding a new dimension to the world of social media. Following Facebook’s big reveal at…