GizModo VR

MAY 12, 2021

Sometime before the disastrous ransomware attack on its network and the East Coast gas shortage that followed, Colonial Pipeline was apparently looking for someone to help run its cybersecurity team. Read more.

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JULY 13, 2022

There’s more trouble with the Colonial Pipeline: The nation’s largest gasoline pipeline reported a spill in Tennessee in early July, adding onto more than a year of public problems with the company, from a catastrophic hacking to being responsible for the largest gasoline spill in decades. Read more.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The man heading up security for the oil transport company Enbridge, which is currently facing down an Indigenuous-led protest movement against the Line 3 pipeline , formerly helped Exxon shield its operations from demonstrations in Nigeria and oversaw global security for Amazon. Read more.

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GizModo VR

JULY 6, 2020

After a years-long campaign waged by environmental justice activists, energy giants Duke and Dominion abruptly cancelled their plans to build an $8 billion, 600-mile fracked gas pipeline on Sunday, citing “ongoing delays and increasing cost uncertainty,” as well as “litigation risk.” Read more.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Environmental activists and Native American tribes attempting to permanently shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline scored a major legal victory on Tuesday as the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from the pipeline’s developers. That rejection means the court will let stand a lower court ruling which called for… Read more.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 6, 2021

The slowly-unfolding, little-reported-on saga in the state involves a company controlled by special interests like the Koch brothers and Shell, and a pipeline… Read more. Unless you’re living in Huntersville, North Carolina, you may be blissfully unaware that the U.S.’s s biggest gasoline spill since 1997 happened this past summer.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

But those ad policies may be letting polluters—including powerful pipeline companies—promote their messages while simultaneously restricting ads from green and Indigenous groups. Since the election, Facebook has cracked down on political ads across its platform in an attempt to squelch misinformation. Read more.

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GizModo VR

JULY 7, 2020

In a 24-hour period, three major planned fossil fuel pipelines were delayed or possibly cancelled altogether: Developers cancelled the Atlantic Coast Pipeline on Sunday, a court ordered the Dakota Access Pipeline be cancelled on Monday, and just hours… Read more. Climate justice activists have had an ecstatic start to the week.

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Road to VR

JULY 3, 2017

Among those listings which look for candidates with experience in VR, the most recent job postings are explicitly for VR roles: VR File Format Engineer and VR Pipeline Engineer. The post Apple’s Job Listings Seek ‘VR File Format Engineer’, ‘VR Pipeline Engineer’, & More appeared first on Road to VR.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 14, 2021

Louisiana’s looking out to protect its pipelines and chemical plants from drone, raising the specter of nefarious climate protesters to pass the legislation. But the main pilots they’ve busted so far appear to be literal children. Read more.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 7, 2021

million ransom paid by Colonial Pipeline to the cybercriminal gang DarkSide following May’s catastrophic cyberattack, the U.S. Federal agents have tracked and seized over half of the $4.4 Justice Department has announced. Read more.

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GizModo VR

JULY 6, 2021

A company that was set to build a hotly contested oil pipeline through Black neighborhoods in Memphis said on Friday that the project is off. It’s hard to find good climate news these days–but there’s some out of Tennessee. Read more.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The city of Charleston, South Carolina filed a lawsuit against two dozen of the largest pipeline and oil conglomerates, saying the firms are responsible for making the floods that often hit the port city more frequent and more damaging. Read more.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 20, 2016

I had a chance to catch up with her at PAX West, and we take a bit of a deep dive into the graphics pipeline and some of her VR optimization tools and processes. The post The Graphics Pipeline: Optimizing VR Experiences & Texture Compression appeared first on Road to VR. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST. Support Voices of VR.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 8, 2024

Knowing what how much latency is in the overall pipeline makes it easier to predict the headset’s position, reducing apparent latency. The Wi-Fi Alliance also says Wi-Fi 7 allows for “deterministic latency,” which could allow wireless VR to better handle situations where there is latency.

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Road to VR

MARCH 12, 2017

The post Google Job Listings Point to New “Mass Production” AR/VR Hardware in the Pipeline appeared first on Road to VR. Whatever Google is working on, it’s clear that the company’s talent in AR/VR hardware has been expanding rapidly as of late, likely alongside its ambitions in this industry.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Tom Goldtooth awoke on Feb. 21 expecting a pretty regular day ahead. And by all accounts, his day was normal. He was on the road by 11 a.m. to catch a flight. But unbeknownst to him, around the same time as he left, U.S. Customs and Border Protection was watching his home in Beltrami County, Minnesota, from 20,000… Read more.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 10, 2021

Protests against Enbridge’s Line 3 have been ramping up in Minnesota—and so has the response from authorities. A video went viral this week of a Department of Homeland Security helicopter sandblasting protesters following mass arrests. But some police tactics are far less visible while causing long-term hardship. Read more.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

With additional integration for NVIDIA Omniverse applications, the platform enables developers to quickly create and place their captured assets into an XR immersive environment or another RT3D production pipeline. According to NVIDIA, automotive, robotics, manufacturing, architecture, and entertainment industries can all benefit from NeRF.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

More than a week after Ida hit the Gulf of Mexico , it’s becoming increasingly clear that the hurricane made a huge mess of the oil and gas activities there. The government is investigating hundreds of reports of oil spills in the Gulf following the storm—and some of these spills may have come from the enormous network… Read more.

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Voices of VR

OCTOBER 5, 2023

I interviewed Ethereal Engine co-founder and CEO Liam Broza at Meta Connect 2023. See more context in the rough transcript below. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality I interviewed Ethereal Engine co-founder and CEO Liam Broza at Meta Connect 2023. See more context in the rough transcript below.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 25, 2022

Accessible photogrammetry tools also allow developers to facilitate system-intensive RT3D production pipelines using consumer-grade hardware and software. Both firms provide the technology to speed up extended reality (XR) production pipelines. Reality Scan.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

in decades , the owners of a massive pipeline are being taken to court. The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the Colonial Pipeline, which owns the eponymous pipeline, alleging… Read more. More than a year after the discovery of what’s the largest gasoline spill in the U.S.

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VRWorld

JANUARY 9, 2018

Notably, although this week’s CES announcement marks the first reference design for OEMs and ODMs for a visor-based AR device from Lumus, the company indicates it has several more new products, aimed at the consumer market, in its pipeline. The post CES: Lumus provides sneak peak of its AR pipeline appeared first on VR World.

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Upload VR

MARCH 28, 2024

To make this happen, we had to update our Unity version, switch from the Standard Pipeline to the Universal Render Pipeline, update all the lighting and shaders, and redo elements that were not supported by our new workflow," confirms the developer, thanking their supporters. Mixed Realms states this took six months to implement. "To

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 14, 2022

A decades-old pipeline spilled 315,000 gallons (1.2 The spill happened a little over a year after a safety inspection found that the pipeline was severely corroded—but the… Read more. million liters) of diesel into an environmentally sensitive area in Louisiana last month, killing thousands of animals, the AP reported Thursday.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The new generation of Agora SDK contains a robust interface which provides a more granular architecture for its media pipeline. Liu also explained that Agora’s new APIs give greater control over an SDK pipeline while maintaining compatibility with previous versions. What are Extention APIs.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Qualcomm says Snapdragon XR2+ introduces a new image processing pipeline providing less than 10ms latency for the sort of full-color passthrough seen in Quest Pro and ThinkReality VRX.?

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GizModo VR

JUNE 24, 2022

Leaks from the pipelines that supply gas to your home and stove are happening more often than you may think—with deadly consequences. gas pipeline system, adding… Read more. A new report from a group of environmental nonprofits finds that, over the past decade, there were around 2,600 reported cases of methane leaks in the U.S.

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VRScout

MARCH 23, 2023

The Shopping Suite’s AR asset creation services help businesses create digital versions of their apparel, footwear, and eyewear products using proprietary photogrammetry hardware and machine learning creation pipelines to deliver high-fidelity assets optimized for end-user performance.

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VRScout

JUNE 7, 2023

In order for us to get there, we need to build infrastructure and tools.” “The issue is that these productions are so often cost prohibitive.

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VRScout

MAY 26, 2022

Right now, there is a considerable amount of money being spent on partnerships with independent and other third-party developers to secure a considerable pipeline of attractive VR content at the launch of PlayStation VR2,” said Ryan during the presentation, entitled ‘PS VR2: New Levels of Immersion.’

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

are cracking down on anti-pipeline protests—namely, that the protests really work to limit planet-warming pollution. A new report provides new insight into why right-wing legislators all over the U.S. Read more.

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Road to VR

MAY 25, 2021

In theory, that means if you were holding an augmented reality book in front of you at a normal distance, you’d easily be able to make out the letters on the page (assuming the image processing pipeline applied during head tracking doesn’t sacrifice any clarity). Image courtesy Karl Guttag.

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Upload VR

APRIL 8, 2024

Here's specifically what Meta claims has been improved in v64: Improved resolution We have improved the perceived resolution for passthrough by optimizing the passthrough pipeline. Improved image quality We have fine tuned the camera processing pipeline to improve color, exposure, contrast and dynamic range in passthrough.

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Road to VR

MAY 16, 2023

Another generation is also in the pipeline, Kuo maintains, which he suggests may come at some point in 2025. Independent tech analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says Apple’s highly anticipated mixed reality headset is very likely set for its reported Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) unveiling in June.

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Road to VR

APRIL 12, 2020

.” Because WebXR apps can be visited from virtually any device, Mozilla recommends developers build WebXR apps in Unity using the Universal Render Pipeline (previously known as the Lightweight Render Pipeline) to maintain high performance.

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