VRScout

JULY 2, 2020

Japanese store chain Family mart hopes to have robotic employees working in 20 branches by 2022. Imagine walking into your local convenience store only to find the usual checkout person had been replaced by a remote-controlled robot operated in VR by a human being located hundreds of miles away. Science-fiction, right? Perhaps not. Thanks to a recent partnership between Japanese convenience store chain Family Mart and Tokyo-based robotics firm Telexistence Inc. , Tokyo residents may soon find th

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ARPost

JULY 2, 2020

Varjo. Vive. Oculus. Where do you expect the next great XR headset to come from? What about Walker Industries? Walker Industries is … let’s call it “the startup’s startup.” It’s headed by a 16-year-old futurist, inventor, and self-proclaimed “Kid Tony Stark.” His idea for a next-gen XR headset called the “Vector Gear” is currently in the crowdfunding stage on Indiegogo.

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VRScout

JULY 2, 2020

Niantic and Punchdrunk to produce 10 new immersive theater experiences powered by augmented reality. When it comes to location-based AR gaming, San Francisco-based developer Niantic is at the top of the food chain. Pokémon GO proved to be a massive hit upon its release back in 2016, commanding a loyal following of dedicated players from around the globe.

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AR Insider

JULY 2, 2020

“Trendline” is AR Insider’s series that examines trends and events in spatial computing, and their strategic implications. For an indexed library of spatial computing insights, data, reports and multimedia, subscribe to ARtillery PRO. A fter covering the play-by-play from Snap’s recent Partner Summit, it’s time to look back and connect some dots for AR strategic implications.

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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.

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Road to VR

JULY 2, 2020

Facebook has developed an AI-assisted method for supersampling real-time rendered content, something that could become an integral addition to games coming to future generations of high-resolution VR headsets. There’s an ongoing arms race between display technology and GPUs, and adding VR into the mix only underscores the disparity. It’s not so much a question of putting higher-resolution displays in VR headsets; those panels are out there, and there’s a reason many manufacture

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GizModo VR

JULY 2, 2020

For a long time, different people would typically give you different answers about which Silicon Valley giant is, definitively, The Worst. Recently though, Facebook seems to be the name that comes up first in a lot of people’s minds, for any number of reasons. Maybe it’s the way the company’s CEO just stood there … Read more.

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ARVR

JULY 2, 2020

Learn how to create Instagram & Facebook filter with Async, await scirpting in Spark AR! Continue reading on AR/VR Journey: Augmented & Virtual Reality Magazine ».

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GizModo VR

JULY 2, 2020

The Great Barrier Reef has been having a rough year. Warm waters have led to record coral bleaching this year and could hasten the reef’s die-off. But while surface corals are suffering, nearly a mile beneath the surface, deep-sea corals near the Great Barrier Reef are thriving. Read more.

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Anand Tech

JULY 2, 2020

For the past eighteen months, Intel has paraded its new ‘Lakefield’ processor design around the press and the public as a paragon of new processor innovation. Inside, Intel pairs one of its fast peak performance cores with four of its lower power efficient cores, and uses novel technology in order to build the processor in the smallest footprint it can.

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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.

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GizModo VR

JULY 2, 2020

Nostalgia for the ‘90s is rampant online. You can’t escape it. Old shows from the ‘90s are making their way back to streaming platforms. BuzzFeed has an entire tag dedicated to quizzes and listicles about how only ‘90s kids will remember s**t from 30 years ago. Apparently, chokers, bucket hats, and claw clips are also… Read more.

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Digital Trends

JULY 2, 2020

Microsoft has completely revamped its Edge browser. Can the new kid on the block compete against Chrome?

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GizModo VR

JULY 2, 2020

Popular Information recently exposed how the Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro’s right-wing news aggregator, was able to get an unusually high engagement rate on Facebook, even though the website publishes far fewer articles than other major publications and does no original reporting of its own. Through a network of five large… Read more.

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Digital Trends

JULY 2, 2020

A top player and commentators are accused of sexual misconduct involving minors.

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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.

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GizModo VR

JULY 2, 2020

The wildfire crisis in Siberia continues unabated. This year’s blazes have smashed records, including the northernmost fires on record and the highest total of Siberian carbon emissions. If you want to know what a climate emergency looks like, this is it. Read more.

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Digital Trends

JULY 2, 2020

Here's what Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical gets right about the life of Alexander Hamilton and where it diverges.

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GizModo VR

JULY 2, 2020

The world keeps producing more headphones, microwaves, laptops, air conditioners, and other pieces of electronics even as a record amount ends up as e-waste. A new report concluded that in 2019, humanity generated its highest ever total of e-waste globally, underscoring a rapidly growing problem. Read more.

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Digital Trends

JULY 2, 2020

Engineers wanted to verify the strength of the SLS rocket hardware.

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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.

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GizModo VR

JULY 2, 2020

War may never change in the bleak, irradiated dystopia of the Fallout universe, but the way you’re going to experience it is: Amazon Studios is teaming up with Bethesda to bring the beloved RPG series to television, and it’s tapped the minds of Westworld to do so. Read more.

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Digital Trends

JULY 2, 2020

The PS4 has more indie games than Journey and Shovel Knight. Ranging from quirky to scary, here are the best.

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GizModo VR

JULY 2, 2020

Korolev crater on Mars—the largest ice skating rink in the solar system, basically—has never looked more enthralling than it does in this impressive new visualization. Read more.

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Digital Trends

JULY 2, 2020

We've rounded up all the best pressure washer deals so you never have to pay full price again.

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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?

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GizModo VR

JULY 2, 2020

A new bird song is spreading like wildfire among Canadian white-throated sparrows, at a scale not seen before by scientists. Read more.

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Digital Trends

JULY 2, 2020

Thanks Samsung for the sneak peak at the Galaxy Note 20.

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GizModo VR

JULY 2, 2020

Microsoft has struggled to convince people to use its cloud storage service, OneDrive, for quite some time. Whether that’s because of the cost or the feature set is unclear—which storage service you choose comes down to your personal needs, and OneDrive may not do it for you, especially if you don’t use Microsoft… Read more.

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Digital Trends

JULY 2, 2020

There's a whole lot more to the top-load versus front-load washer debate than how the machine's door opens.

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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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