AR Insider
JULY 25, 2023
Local search represents a sizable portion of Google’s revenue. This is because local modifiers like "near me" are strong user intent signals. How does this drive Google's geolocal AR ambitions? This post appeared first on AR Insider.
ARPost
JULY 25, 2023
The metaverse can be summed up as the augmented world. So, naturally, it has implications for travel. How and when people travel may both seriously change as spatial communication and digital twins make some kinds of travel less likely, while AR and automation reimagine the travel that we do engage in. A report by Booking.com for Business , titled “The Future of Business Travel” explores the next 30 years of travel.
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VRScout
JULY 25, 2023
Immersive technology brings the iconic doll to life in Dubai. After a single weekend in theaters, the Barbie movie has already managed to amass a whopping $350 million in international and domestic sales. This immense success is in no small part due to Warner Bros’ absolutely massive $150 million marketing campaign, which involved everything from an official clothing line collaboration with Zara to a real-life Barbie dream house.
Road to VR
JULY 25, 2023
Apple has now opened applications for Vision Pro developer kits, which it’s sending out to app developers in effort to kickstart its first XR-specific App Store. Vision Pro is set to launch sometime in early 2024, coming part and parcel with a load of first-party apps originally developed for iPad. This includes basic things like Safari, Photos, Music, Messages, and even an avatar support for Facetime.
Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions
To avoid awkward and sometimes disastrous learning content, instructional designers must use authentic translation in the right context to get optimal results. For example, even a simple phrase like “got milk” translates to “are you lactating” in Mexico. Can you imagine what a straight translation might do to your course? With over 317 million people in the US and over 6.7 billion potential customers in the world, personalizing training seems logical.
VRScout
JULY 25, 2023
Get up close and personal with every women’s national team in the new Global Fan Selfie Experience. The FIFA Women’s World Cup is here and fans are revved up and ready to root for their favorite teams. To commemorate the occasion celebrated by sports fans all around the world, Snapchat is introducing brand new ways for you to immerse yourself in the excitement via a handful of new augmented reality (AR) experiences.
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XR Today - Virtual Reality
JULY 25, 2023
VIVEPORT is HTC VIVE’s digital storefront and subscription service. The firm operates the storefront to support distributing PCVR applications, games, and immersive videos across roughly 80 countries for its XR headset product portfolio user base. To scale and support its storefront ecosystem, HTC also founded ‘VIVE for Developers,’ an online network of resources to educate individuals on developing immersive content.
The AR Show
JULY 25, 2023
David Fattal is the founder and CTO of Leia, a company dedicated to revolutionizing visual experiences through light field display technologies. Lightfield displays are able to create 3D images without glasses. You might remember Leia for its work on the LumePad tablets and the Hydrogen One Smartphone from Red. David is a quantum physicist who got his Ph.D. from Stanford with a focus on Quantum Computing and Quantum Communications.
Bernard Marr
JULY 25, 2023
Artificial Intelligence has transformed our world, redefining how businesses operate. Among the various forms of AI, one emerging technology — generative AI — is proving to be a game changer. As a CEO, understanding this technology and how it can be used to add value to your business is essential. This article explores the key facets of generative AI and offers practical tips to integrate it into your organization.
Anand Tech
JULY 25, 2023
TSMC on Tuesday announced plans to construct a new advanced chip packaging facility in Tongluo Science Park. The company intends to spend around $2.87 billion on the fab that will employ some 1,500 people when it becomes operational several years from now. "To meet market needs, TSMC is planning to establish an advanced packaging fab in the Tongluo Science Park," a statement by TSMC reads. "TSMC expects to invest nearly NT$90 billion for the project, and create 1,500 job opportunitie
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With a rapidly changing economy, Avangrid Renewables looked to virtual reality to develop a standardized form of immersive training in order to onboard and upskill technicians faster than ever before.
Program Ace
JULY 25, 2023
We’ve collected a list of the most trustworthy providers, to help you find the best VR development company that will meet your requirements
Anand Tech
JULY 25, 2023
Intel has announced two new x86-64 instruction sets designed to bolster and offer more performance in AVX-based workloads with their hybrid architecture of performance (P) and efficiency (E) cores. The first of Intel's announcements is their latest Intel Advanced Performance Extensions, or Intel APX as it's known. It is designed to bring generational, instruction set-driven improvements to load, store and compare instructions without impacting power consumption or the overall silicon die
XR Today - VR Headsets tag
JULY 25, 2023
Meta Platforms announced on Monday that it had introduced its Platform Integrity Attestation application programme interface (API). For the company’s Quest product lineup, the new tool aims to tackle piracy and fraud by verifying whether people have tampered with their devices. The authenticator aims to crack down on pirated games and alterations to the headset’s operating system (OS).
Anand Tech
JULY 25, 2023
Crucial's X6 and X8 Portable SSDs have been attractive budget options for the mainstream consumers looking to purchase high-capacity direct-attached storage drives. The company has been delivering some industry-firsts in these drives. However, these drives use QLC and are not particularly attractive for power users (such as content creators) who require writing vast amounts of data as quickly as possible.
Speaker: Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon
Remote meetings are here to stay - and many are BORING. If you are trying to engage your learners (or any audience), compelling content is critical. But trying to create stimulating content with the same tools you’ve always had is hard, right? Thankfully, wrong! Terrific tools in PowerPoint along with visual assets help you create the kind of dynamic content you need to capture your remote audience’s attention, with functions that allow for interactive sequences and navigation.
Upload VR
JULY 25, 2023
Meta rolled out a new "anti-abuse solution" to developers that may impact piracy on the Quest platform. The Platform Integrity Attestation API "detects whether your app’s server is interacting with an untampered VR device and ensures your app is authentic." The application programming interface could be used for "hardware-based app bans" or as an "anti-piracy" measure, among other use cases.
Program Ace
JULY 25, 2023
What is the best language for Apple devices? Pros and Cons of Swift vs Objective-C. What to choose for your next project.
Anand Tech
JULY 25, 2023
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) unveiled its latest Stampede supercomputer for open science research projects, Stampede3. TACC anticipates that Stampede3 will come online this fall and will deliver its full performance in early 2024. The supercomputer will be a crucial component of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s (NSF) ACCESS scientific supercomputing ecosystem, and it is projected to serve the open science community from 2024 until 2029.
Upload VR
JULY 25, 2023
House Flipper VR is making its way onto PSVR 2 on August 11. One of the popular menial-tasked-turned-addictive-simulator games, House Flipper first released as a flatscreen title before it was reimagined as a VR release for the original Oculus Quest in 2020. It came to PC VR shortly after, but never made its way over to the original PSVR headset. Almost three years later, it'll finally its mark on PlayStation systems, arriving on PSVR 2.
Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor
With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.
VRGames
JULY 25, 2023
Apple is continuing its efforts to support development for their upcoming headset the Apple Vision Pro. The company recently announced that it will be providing Vision Pro kits to approved developers. To qualify, applicants must submit an application and agree to terms with a valid Apple developer account.
Bernard Marr
JULY 25, 2023
The world is changing rapidly, and if businesses want to keep up, there is no alternative but to change with it. Customer behavior, market conditions, and the technological landscape are in a constant state of upheaval. Our business models– the unique combination of products, strategy, and processes that served us well under one set of conditions may very well not work for the next.
CraneMorley
JULY 25, 2023
Back to Blog Page Here is a step-by-step guide on how an executive can identify the best opportunities to improve their organizations return on its training investment. Identify Skill and Knowledge Gaps: Utilize tools like staff surveys, performance reviews, and feedback sessions to understand where your employees might be lacking skills or knowledge.
Life at the Feeding Edge
JULY 25, 2023
Tweet Having my books Reconfigure and Cont3xt I am always using them and the story I created as a way to explore other mediums. I started drawing a few years ago to see if I could maybe go manga with it, that included buying some action figure mini drawing mannequins that have some tech and weapon props. I created some meta humans and have a unity based mocap suit from a kickstarter to see if I could produce anime.
Speaker: Treion Muller, Chief Strategy Officer at ELB Learning
Since when has learning and development (L&D) become such a negative experience with its intended learners? Could it be because learners have been conditioned by very poor learning experiences over the past two decades, combined with the kinks of technological innovation? Or is it because learning has typically been designed as a one-size-fits-all solution, despite the fact that humans are not clones?
XROM
JULY 25, 2023
Immersive technologies such as augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality (MR) are gaining traction in India, with growing numbers of startups working on hardware and software. The Xperential Technology Innovation Center (XTIC) located at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras campus, is one such startup that is at the forefront of the XR educational and evangelist movement in the country.
VRGames
JULY 25, 2023
Summer movie season is always an exciting time for avid movie-goers, offering up big budget blockbusters that are sure to entertain. But what about those films that don’t make the mainstream buzz? This summer, trade in your blockbuster binges for a journey of discovery with some lesser known or cult classic movies!
Oculus
JULY 25, 2023
Meta Horizon Worlds v120 is here! This week, we’re rolling out quests and rewards to everyone, adding a new quick actions menu to Pause, and fixing a number of bugs impacting world builders and editors.
VRGames
JULY 25, 2023
VRSO: Bare Knuckle Fighting, a new VR fighting game by Monologic Games looks like it will be one of the most intense hand-to-hand combat games to ever hit virtual reality.
Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute
The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?
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