Author: XR Today

XR security has long been an overlooked concept in the emerging landscape of immersive technologies. It’s easy to forget just how exposed your data can be when you’re interacting with mixed and augmented reality content or traversing the metaverse.However, as demand for extended reality grows across all industries, so too do associated threats. While any new technology can present risks to an organization, XR’s ability to alter our view of reality and collect endless volumes of data makes security a crucial concern.In 2024, researchers even managed to break into a Meta Quest headset. If, like countless other companies, you plan…

Extended reality security and data governance are becoming crucial concerns for today’s enterprises. Thanks to more advanced technologies and new use cases, demand for XR solutions is growing, forcing companies to rethink how they protect their data.After all, extended reality devices, software, and systems rely on huge volumes of data to create immersive, hyper-realistic, and personalized experiences. Keeping this data safe is crucial not only to avoid financial losses and business disruptions but also to ensure companies can continue to adhere to compliance standards in an immersive world.Based on our assessment of the current extended reality market, here are the…

Watch on YouTubeIn this episode of the Big XR News show, Rory Greener, Tech Journalist, XR Today welcomes some of XR’s top analysts to talk about the latest news from Meta Connect 2024 and other immersive collaboration topics.Our guests include: Kevin ‘O Donovan, Co-Chair, Industrial Metaverse & Digital Twin Committee, VRARA Jay Latta, Founder and Speaker, The Fusionists Letitia Bochud, Director, Virtual Switzerland and Chair of the Board of Directors, XR4Europe Jennifer Rogers, Executive Officer, Learning Technology Standards Committee at the IEEE Thanks for watching. If you’d like more like this, don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE to our channel.You can also join in…

The Roto VR Explorer is grabbing the attention of plenty of XR enthusiasts right now – and I can see why. At a glance, a chair that tracks your movement as you spin around in VR might seem like little more than a gimmick. But, in my opinion, it’s an interesting alternative to all of the other peripherals emerging to tackle the issue of VR locomotion.In the last couple of years, as more companies and consumers embrace extended reality, we’ve seen countless new concepts emerging to change how we navigate virtual spaces. Innovators are introducing VR Shoes, omni-directional treadmills, and…

Meta Connect is approaching. Mark Zuckerberg’s company is generating excitement, with audiences anticipating significant announcements during the September 28th event, which continues to captivate mainstream audiences year after year.To explore the upcoming Connect 2024 event and some of the announcements that may follow, XR Today spoke with Frank Furnari, the CEO and Founder of ARuVR.ARuVR is an enterprise platform that enables immersive training content creation and distribution at scale, to create and manage bespoke workplace services without writing a single line of code.Furnari noted that while the ARuVR platform is hardware agnostic, the firm does “a lot of work with…

Watch on YouTubeXR Today’s Rory Greener hosts Frank Furnari, the CEO and Founder of ARuVR, to discuss Meta Connect 2024 and why it matters for businesses. Thanks for watching. If you’d like more like this, don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE to our channel.You can also join in the conversation on our Twitter and LinkedIn pages. Read the full article here

HTC has launched its no-code metaverse builder VIVERSE Create, which allows users to create and share interactive multiplayer worlds.In fact, the tool suite lets creators share their worlds with anyone and any device, including VR headset, mobile, PC, or Mac, without the need for a gaming machine.The Taiwanese technology corporation HTC explained in a related press release that the solutions cross-platform that this is made possible due to its “no install” feature.Andranik Aslanyan, Head of Growth, HTC VIVERSE, believes that VIVERSE Create will help people to realise the potential of the metaverse:“Gone are the days of keeping your creations locked…

This week, unity, a leading XR and RT3D content creation engine, unveiled a new partnership with 3D content streaming experts Vagon. The partnership will leverage Vagon’s AR/VR/MR streaming advancements to boost accessibility for XR immersive experiences and applications, covering a broad range of end devices.To access a high-quality and sophisticated XR experience, a headset must comply with, at times, high-end technical requirements to operate optimally.However, a commonplace solution for leveraging high-facility experiences is PC streaming, whereby processing power is offloaded on a secondary computing device, wirelessly streaming the 3D content to a headset. A typical example is Airlink for the…

The big news is coming: towards the end of the month, leading headset vendors will debut new headsets at various stages. This comes just in time as Connect rolls in late September, with the XR industry enterprise and beyond leveraging the mainstream companies’ event to bring eyes to their solution.Despite being a consumer-based product, Meta’s Quest lineup is still the most popular brand in the XR headset space, and any real big news will make others in the market take note.The market is somewhat muted at the moment, however, as firms prepare for some big news. Hold tight, as some…

This week, telecoms giant Reliance Jio announced that it partnered with Meta to debut the Horizon OS platform on a new Jio-brand XR device, moving the Quest-based framework to a third-party VR headset.The move comes after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg reintroduced the Horizon platform as an open service for promoting VR content creation on third-party headsets outside the Quest ecosystem.The partnership focuses on bringing the Horizon service to a new Jio VR headset. The news comes just a year after Jio debuted its VR headset, JioDive, to accompany its smart glasses product.At the 2023 Indian Mobile Congress (IMC), Jio unveiled…