VRScout
AUGUST 25, 2020
My dream of starting a virtual polka band is slowly becoming a reality. What do you get when you combine the most popular VR rhythm game available on headsets with traditional Czechoslovakian polka music? It’s a question we’ve all been asking ourselves these last few years. And thanks to developer Daniel Beauchamp, we finally have our answer.
ARPost
AUGUST 25, 2020
Virtual reality is one of those technologies that has been hyped for several years. Especially with a host of low-cost VR devices such as the Google Cardboard and Samsung Gear headset, it’s already speculated that marketers will take advantage of this new messaging channel. While most virtual reality applications would find a home in the consumer market, such as gaming or media consumption, there are individual companies in the B2B segment that have been using it to promote their products.
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VRScout
AUGUST 25, 2020
The company’s VR/AR division will now be referred to as Facebook Reality Labs. Oculus Connect is now Facebook Connect according to an update by Andrew Bosworth, head of the new Facebook Reality Lab. Kicking-off September 16th , this years’ Facebook Connect will be the first conducted exclusively in a virtual format. Despite the lack of a physical venue, however, event organizers are promising big-name keynotes, educational developer sessions, and “tons of exciting announcements
AR Insider
AUGUST 25, 2020
This post is adapted from ARtillery Intelligence’s report, AR Advertising Deep Dive, Part I: The Landscape. It includes some of its data and takeaways. More can be previewed here and subscribe for the full report. A R continues to evolve and take shape as an industry. Prominent sectors include industrial AR , social , gaming , and shopping.
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.
Road to VR
AUGUST 25, 2020
After six annual Oculus Connect conferences, Facebook is rebranding its XR developer event with the name Facebook Connect. This year the event will be held online on September 16th. Although it no longer bears the Oculus name, Facebook says that Facebook Connect will continue to focus on the company’s XR efforts. Ostensibly the company’s other events, like F8, will still focus on Facebook’s broader portfolio of services.
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Anand Tech
AUGUST 25, 2020
One of the key metrics on how well a semiconductor process is developing is looking at its quantitative chip yield – or rather, its defect density. A manufacturing process that has fewer defects per given unit area will produce more known good silicon than one that has more defects, and the goal of any foundry process is to minimize that defect rate over time.
GizModo VR
AUGUST 25, 2020
Fitbit really needed to impress this fall. Not only did Samsung just up the ante in the smartwatch realm with its excellent Galaxy Watch 3 , but Apple also has some neat features lined up for the Apple Watch with watchOS 7. And when it comes to budget trackers and smartwatches, players like Xiaomi and Amazfit have been… Read more.
Anand Tech
AUGUST 25, 2020
High-performance computing chip designs have been pushing the ultra-high-end packaging technologies to their limits in the recent years. A solution to the need for extreme bandwidth requirements in the industry has been the shifts towards large designs integrated into silicon interposers, directly connected to high-bandwidth-memory (HBM) stacks. TSMC has been evolving their CoWoS-S packaging technology over the years, enabling designers to create bigger and beefier designs with bigger logic dies
GizModo VR
AUGUST 25, 2020
Spending 92 years doing anything is an accomplishment, so let’s cheers to Exxon Mobil Corp., which spent more than nine decades as a member of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, pillaging the planet, lying about climate change, and making rich people even richer. Read more.
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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.
Slashgear
AUGUST 25, 2020
Oculus Connect 2020 is now no longer an event, as the name of the event has been changed to Facebook Connect. Facebook introduced “the new Facebook Reality Labs” at the same time as they’ve announced a re-naming of the annual Oculus developer event. This new event will begin in a “virtual” format – though not entirely in the virtual reality … Continue reading.
GizModo VR
AUGUST 25, 2020
This week, Louisiana caught a fortunate break from Tropical Storm Marco, which rapidly lost steam before its a projected landfall. But the state’s luck doesn’t look like it will last, because Hurricane Laura is on the way. Read more.
Slashgear
AUGUST 25, 2020
The VR company Oculus was acquired by Facebook, which means Oculus is owned by Facebook. There’s been a bit of worry lately, and pretty much since the acquisition was made, that Facebook might envelope Oculus and dissolve the VR brand. That worry transformed recently when Oculus revealed that all Oculus VR headsets would move away from Oculus accounts, and would … Continue reading.
GizModo VR
AUGUST 25, 2020
The New Mutants is finally getting ready for its debut. It’s the biggest movie to open in the United States since the novel coronavirus pandemic started, and will be followed by an even bigger film, Christopher Nolan’s Tenet. The studios and theaters might swear things will be okay, but all you have to do is look… Read more.
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.
TechCrunch VR
AUGUST 25, 2020
Facebook is moving further away from the Oculus brand. The company says it is changing the name of their augmented reality and virtual reality division to “Facebook Reality Labs,” a division which will encompass the company’s AR/VR products under the Oculus, Spark and Portal brands. The company’s AR/VR research division had its title changed from Oculus Research to Facebook Reality Labs back in 2018.
GizModo VR
AUGUST 25, 2020
Fitbit has been making smartwatches for, oh, about four years now. But despite the fact that those watches were decently affordable with pretty lengthy battery life, none of them really stood out to me as a must-buy. Fitbit’s design team needed some serious help—seriously, do we remember the Blaze ?—and the watches’… Read more.
Digital Trends
AUGUST 25, 2020
Thinking about subscribing to to watch Mulan (2020) when it debuts on September 4? Consider the Disney+ Bundle instead. This sees both ESPN+ and Hulu added to the mix as well for an extra $6 per month, and $5 per month less than it would cost to subscribe to the trio one by one — […].
GizModo VR
AUGUST 25, 2020
Josh Boone’s The New Mutants is a movie years in the making. It’s also technically the final piece of the puzzle to 20th Century Studios’ massive franchise of X-Men cinematic spectacles that have been steadily drawing people into movie theaters for decades now. Sometimes the stories were great and sometimes they were … Read more.
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.
Anand Tech
AUGUST 25, 2020
Most of the time when we speak about semiconductor processes, we are focused on the leading edge of what is possible. Almost exclusively that leading edge is designed for logic circuitry where performance and power efficiency are key drivers of pushing the boundaries, but also there’s a strong market in it. Other markets use semiconductor technology where there are other factors to consider: power, analog capabilities, voltage, and memory, all use semiconductor fabs but they are rarely at
GizModo VR
AUGUST 25, 2020
A new estimate suggests the Milky Way contains more free-floating planets than stars. It’s a big claim, but an upcoming mission might actually prove it. Read more.
Anand Tech
AUGUST 25, 2020
One of the measures of how quickly a new process node gains traction is by comparing how many wafers are in production, especially as that new process node goes through risk production and then into high volume manufacturing. You can tell a lot about how much confidence a foundry has in its new process by looking at the number of wafers in production, as well as the expected range of customers and products that are set to be produced.
GizModo VR
AUGUST 25, 2020
Every browser has a certain something to set it apart from the others. Edge has that logo. Chrome hogs your memory. And Mozilla’s Firefox really, really cares about your privacy. The idea of keeping your web-browsing experience personal is something the company’s been emphasizing in every product update for the past… Read more.
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?
Digital Trends
AUGUST 25, 2020
Here's a list of all the best cheap gaming monitor deals available right now, along with a short buying guide.
GizModo VR
AUGUST 25, 2020
Tenet might not be hitting Video on Demand because Warner Bros. is being stubborn, but it’s not the only time-bending saga out there. io9 can exclusively reveal the first trailer for 101 Films’ Time Loop , about a father and son who find themselves in the middle of a time paradox , unable to escape. Read more.
Digital Trends
AUGUST 25, 2020
The lifespan of a laptop is three to five years. Choose one that will fit both your present and future needs.
GizModo VR
AUGUST 25, 2020
Razer makes some of the highest quality and best-looking gaming laptops on the market. The matte black finish and clean, straight lines of the company’s Blade laptop series exude a subtle, mysterious look—almost as if they’re saying “You want to see power? I’ll show you power.” We’ve called the Blade laptops the… Read more.
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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