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‘GTA 6’ Gameplay Showcase Showed VR Gameplay, But Not the Kind You Were Hoping For
GTA 6 will surely be among the most asked for VR ports of the next decade, and that made a parody in the newly released gameplay showcase especially vicious.
Developer Rockstar Games today finally made its big GTA 6 gameplay reveal, showing 26 minutes of gameplay from the highly anticipated title. In just two hours, the extended look gameplay showcase has racked up 1.5 million views on YouTube; a glimpse of just how many people are excited about the game.
A major part of the allure of the […]
What My Freshman Daughter Taught Me About AI
As someone who writes and speaks frequently about artificial intelligence in education, I consider myself a strong proponent of its thoughtful use in teaching, learning, and school leadership. Because AI has become such a regular part of my own professional work, I was genuinely surprised to learn how little my daughter, a freshman in high school, had used it, and more importantly, how skeptical she was about its growing role in school.
Her concerns grew largely from her identity as an artist. She spends a great deal of time drawing and creating, so she is especially attentive to the […]
Google Reportedly Working on New Live Translation Feature for Android XR
Google is reportedly testing a new ‘Listening area’ mode for Google Live Translate on Android XR, something that sounds like a headlining feature for the company’s upcoming fleet of smart glasses.
Google has always said it’s bringing real-time translations to its Android XR, so no surprise there, as the company promises its slate of smart glasses will serve up both translated audio matching the tone and pitch of the speaker’s voice as well as the ability to translate text from things like menus and signs.
Now, digging into the 10.32.66 […]
PowerPoint’s Speaker Coach Is A Harsh But Mostly Helpful AI Mentor
I was not prepared for just how much I would hate using Speaker Coach, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t helpful.
The AI-powered speaking coach and presentation mentor built into PowerPoint is designed to help anyone, including educators and their students, improve their public speaking abilities.
I’ve always been comfortable with public speaking, and think I do a solid job. My voice carries, I speak confidently, and I feel I know how to read a crowd and respond in the moment to their moods. But I am by no means perfect. I know that I can mumble, […]
New Dev Tool From Meta Enables AI to Quickly Test Quest Games
Meta has introduced Meta XR Operator, an experimental tool designed to let AI coding agents autonomously build, test, debug, and visually verify VR apps.
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Using AI agents, developers have been able to speed up code-reading and writing in addition to running tests and fixing bugs, although verifying that all of it actually works has been a missing step.
Now, Meta announced it’s introducing Meta XR Operator, an OpenXR API layer that is now available as an experimental component in the Meta XR SDK (v205).
XR Operator lets any […]
Survival Shooter ‘Into the Radius 2’ Comes to PSVR 2 Next Month
CM Games announced its survival shooter Into the Radius 2 is finally coming to PSVR 2 next month.
Into the Radius 2 is slated to arrive on PSVR 2 on September 24th, which is set to include the full single-player campaign at launch. The studio says the game’s planned two-player co-op should arrive sometime in Q4 2026, letting players explore the Radius with a buddy later this year.
Like the full version coming to Quest on Aug 27th, the PSVR 2 release is set to feature a fully voiced […]
Screen Time Is the Wrong Unit of Measurement
The recent PBS NewsHour story on why Los Angeles USD and other school districts are limiting screen time raises a real concern. Students need discussion, movement, hands-on learning, collaboration, play, and relationships. But screen time is the wrong unit of measurement for meaningful learning. It tells us how long a device was open but nothing about the quality of learning.
A student consuming social media or clicking through low-level test prep worksheets is not equivalent to a student translating text, learning to read with Footsteps2Brilliance, borrowing a book through Libby […]
Pico’s Vision Pro Competitor Delayed Amid Cancelled September Reveal
Pico was set to debut its next flagship standalone XR headset early next month, however now the ByteDance subsidiary says it’s postponing the reveal and release date of its long-awaited Apple Vision Pro competitor.
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Initially teased earlier this year as ‘Project Swan’, Pico announced last week it was putting on a big product launch event for the newly-named Pico Space Pro, which was set to take place in Beijing on September 2nd.
There, we expected Pico to fill in the gaps of the […]
Arm Patents Method to Reduce XR Motion Sickness Using Ultrasound
A newly granted patent from Arm describes a head-mounted system that analyzes motion in the images headed to a display, then sends control signals to ultrasonic transducers intended to stimulate the wearer’s vestibular system and control their sense of balance. The basic aim is to reduce the discomfort, dizziness, and motion sickness that the application associates with a mismatch between what a wearer sees and what their balance system reports.
The patent, “Method for minimising motion sickness for head-mountable extended reality,” was first filed in the US […]
What is Rumie and How Can I Use It To Teach?
Sometimes teachers need a quick, useful resource that can slot into a lesson without hours of preparation, which is exactly what Rumie is designed to provide.
Rumie Learn is a nonprofit learning platform built around short, interactive “Bytes,” with more than 2,500 published learning experiences covering everything from digital literacy and career skills to health, financial planning, and learning strategies. The platform has reached more than 2.5 million learners, with new Bytes added regularly.
This doesn’t use lengthy courses, but instead breaks down subjects into small chunks that can generally be completed in around five minutes. That makes it great […]
Best AI-Powered Tutors for Education
The pace of advancement in artificial intelligence tools is breathtaking. Since the public release of ChatGPT in November 2022, multiple platforms have entered the AI arena, all vying to win adherents to their particular flavor of AI. While students may welcome the ability to quickly get answers without much work, educators and education leaders have been deeply uneasy about the potential effects of AI on learning.
With the growth of these platforms comes some desirable changes for education. One of the greatest concerns from the beginning has been its potential to disrupt genuine learning in favor of the nearly-instant […]
XREAL AURA Surpasses 10,000 Unit Reservations Ahead of Launch This Fall
XREAL today announced that XREAL AURA, the first AR glasses running Google’s Android XR operating system, has now surpassed 10,000 global reservations.
Xreal says the reservation milestone for the company’s latest flagship AR glasses has shown “strong early demand across consumers, developers, and enterprise customers,” as the initial $99 reservation offer for a $199 launch credit has now sold out.
That said, Aura still doesn’t have final pricing, which could affect some of those 10,000+ refundable reservations when all is said and done. The company has said however Aura […]
Steam Frame Unboxing & Setup Videos Leak, Pointing to Imminent Launch
It looks as though Valve is actually gearing up to release Steam Frame, as user setup videos have leaked showing off unboxing and first-time user experience with Valve’s first standalone VR headset.
As first reported by Steam Hardware Updates on X, the ARM Steam Client got an update this week that contained a number of videos, including an unboxing, sign-in, and setup video of Steam Frame.
Although Valve immediately pulled the videos in a subsequent update, all three video has been reuploaded multiple times by now; here’s one such […]
8 of the Best Tools To Teach Math
Math can be a difficult subject to teach because so many of its concepts are abstract. Students have to understand numbers, formulas, shapes, patterns, and relationships that aren’t always easy to visualize on a page.
The right digital tools can help bring those ideas to life. Interactive graphs, virtual manipulatives, games, simulations, and instant feedback can give students more ways to explore mathematical concepts and practice what they’ve learned.
We’ve covered plenty of math-teaching tools at Tech & Learning, ranging from comprehensive learning platforms to focused resources designed for a particular part of the curriculum. These are eight of the […]
Math Facts Practice – Slides
Google Slides with all the math facts to practice.
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Pico’s Vision Pro Competitor Gets Official Name and Debut Date
Pico’s Vision Pro competitor is set to debut at a special event in Beijing early next month, which is now officially named Pico Space Pro.
As first reported by Chinese outlet Nweon, Pico Space Pro is suspected to be the company’s Project Swan standalone VR headset, which the company first teased in March.
While Pico hasn’t revealed the full specs sheet yet for Project Swan/Space Pro, the company’s next flagship is slated to arrive with microOLED displays boasting […]
Best Mindfulness Apps & Sites For Schools
Mindfulness is the practice of intentional attention to the present moment, focused on observing thoughts and feelings without judgment.
Teaching mindfulness to students has provided an array of benefits, including improving learning outcomes, boosting wellbeing, bolstering self-management skills, and enhancing social awareness and relationship skills.
I try to practice mindfulness while I’m running–listening to my steps on the track (sounds like a Clydesdale), my gasps of breath (also like a horse pulling a wagon full of beer belly), my heart thumping against my ribcage–all to try and encourage divergent thinking, which I […]
‘Into the Radius 2’ Leaves Quest Early Access Aug 27, Including Campaign & New Content
CM Games announced its VR survival shooter Into the Radius 2 is officially leaving early access on Quest 3 and Quest 3S next week, bringing along with it a host of new (to Quest) content.
First launched on PC VR headsets in late 2024, Into the Radius 2 actually already left early access on Steam back in April, bringing to the PC VR version a full campaign, new zones, anomalies, equipment, and four-payer co-op over the course of multiple updates.
Now, CM Games announced it’s getting ready for its big […]
5 Predictions For Tech in The 2026-27 School Year
Change is afoot. Or at least that’s the impression I get from the college writing classes I teach, as well as my conversations with educators who teach at various grade levels, and just from generally observing societal trends around education.
As we emerged from the pandemic era in education, we jumped right into the early AI era. Yet as AI skepticism mounts in and outside of education, I think/hope we’re about to enter a new era.
Though readers be warned, when it comes to predictions, I’m not exactly the Oracle of Delphi. After all, I truly thought this […]
How to Find Every Major PC VR Mod in One Place
Finding PC VR mods has always meant wading through a patchwork of Discord threads, news articles and GitHub repositories. Thanks to a new PCVR Central database though, you can now find it all in one place.
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Reddit user ‘camracks’ launched the PCVR Central database last week, aiming to be the one searchable place for VR mods that let you play flatscreen PC games in VR.
And while you might not find every single last PC VR mod there right this second, the newly launched database already […]
What is Atlas and How Can I Use It To Teach?
Atlas is an AI-powered learning platform designed to help students study more effectively by providing personalized support across subjects. Unlike a simple chatbot, it aims to become a study companion that can answer questions and more. It helps to explain concepts, summarize documents, create revision materials, and even work with a student’s own course content.
To minimize the risks of overreliance or academic dishonesty, Atlas positions itself as a platform built specifically for learning, with features designed to encourage understanding instead of simply producing finished answers.
Students can upload class notes, PDFs, presentations, and assignments, allowing Atlas to provide responses […]
8 of the Best AI Teaching Tools
AI teaching tools have moved well beyond simple chatbots, with the best options now offer teachers practical help. That can mean lesson planning, assessment, differentiation, feedback, and classroom management. Some put AI directly into students’ hands as a learning assistant.
The challenge is knowing which ones are actually useful. Countless AI tools now promise to transform education, but vary wildly in what is offered, designs for schools, and how much work teachers still need to do themselves.
These are some of the best AI teaching tools we’ve covered at Tech & Learning, selected for the different ways they can support […]
Copy the Link in Chrome
Hate copying the URL from a website? Chrome makes it fast.
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‘High on Life’ is Getting an Official VR Port for Quest, PC VR & PSVR 2 Next Year
Announced during the VR Games Showcase, Flat2VR Studios revealed it’s collaborating with Squanch Games to again work its flatscreen-to-VR magic on the comedic sci-fi shooter, High on Life (2022).
The official VR port is targeting Meta Quest, PSVR 2 and SteamVR headsets.
In the announcement video (seen below), we get a behind-the-scenes look at some of the work Flat2VR is doing right now on High on Life, translating the game’s living guns, traversal, and NPC interactions into VR-native interactions.
Notably, the studio […]
What Are Outcomes-Based Contracts and Why Do They Matter?
We talk with Brittany Miller, Chief Innovation Officer and Executive Director of the Center for Outcomes Based Contracting, Southern Education Foundation about outcomes-based contracts and why they matter for students. You can enjoy Miller’s engaging insights into these important topics during The EdExec Exchange: Critical Issue Roundtable Discussion at the upcoming EdExec Summit, taking place September 10-11 in Chicago.
“We’ve learned over time that in order to develop a strong contract between a district and provider, there is a misconception that the contingent payment is all there is to it,” Miller says. “You can’t simply make […]