Executive summary
Welcome to your weekly briefing on the metaverse and spatial computing. Here are your snippets to sound smarter in meetings this week:
Top story: Smart specs raise fresh alarm over exam cheating (more below)
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Other stories: WIRED reports that Meta is developing smart glasses with experimental facial recognition and “Nametag” features that could identify and surface information about people in real time (more below)
What is cheese if not milk persevering?
Top story
Ofqual raises concerns over smart glasses and exam cheating.
What happened? Ofqual, a regulator, warns that rapidly evolving wearable tech like smart glasses and hidden earpieces is making exam cheating harder to detect and faster to spread, putting traditional assessment security under strain.
Your thoughts? Apart from pointing out the obvious, it’s the role of the regulator to pinpoint new ways for people to cheat on exams. This feels like a minor point that will be addressed in the next round of exams. iPhones do not face new regulations when it is exam season etc.
This week’s stories
Cirrus has launched Let’s Go Fly!, a free Apple Vision Pro app that offers immersive demonstration flights and interactive 3D aircraft experiences to promote flight training and aircraft ownership.
WIRED reports that Meta is developing smart glasses with experimental facial recognition and “Nametag” features that could identify and surface information about people in real time.
NASA has partnered with Fusion Media to develop Mars 2030, a VR experience that simulates a human mission to Mars using NASA research and scientifically accurate Martian environments.
NHS Scotland Academy is developing a VR-based endoscopy training programme to support immersive skills development for nurses and other endoscopy professionals.
A US magistrate judge has recommended dismissing Meta Platforms’ virtual reality patent dispute in Texas, potentially narrowing or ending part of the company’s legal challenge over VR-related intellectual property claims.
VRKiwi has announced that Cave Crave, its VR cave exploration game, generated more than $1 million in revenue within a month of launch on Meta Quest.
Note: The Immersive Wire is run by Tom Ffiske, who also works at Accenture. The contents of the newsletter should not be regarded as Accenture’s views.
All spelling mistakes are deliberate, actually.
