ARPost

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

For a few years, a few years ago, Blippar was one of the most promising AR experience builders on the scene. Then, in 2018, the company entered administration and seemingly went dark. Thankfully, the story doesn’t end there. Blippar is back and making a very strong showing with a series of public and historical experiences. To understand more about where they are now and where they’re going next, we talked with Blippar CEO Faisal Galaria.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Step into the blood-soaked shoes of your favorite Walking Dead characters today. The Walking Dead Onslaught is now available on Oculus Rift, SteamVR, and PlayStation VR, offering fans of the long-running series the chance to experience the zombie apocalypse first-hand as their favorite Walking Dead characters. Players can choose from the following options beginning today: Standard Edition ($29.99) – Includes the base game.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 29, 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.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Blasters of the Universe returns alongside a new family-friendly free-roam experience. Emmy Award-winning VR studio Secret Location ( The Great C, Transpose ), is back with a brand new helping of location-based VR experiences developed specifically for select VR arcades once again opening their doors to the general public. Teaming up with experienced LBVR content providers such as Escape VR, Hologate, SynthesisVR, and VRstudios, Secret Location is launching three new VR arcade experiences in tot

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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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Charlie Fink

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Oculus Venues will present a groundbreaking show by 2X Grammy Nominated producer/DJ Steve Aoki Wednesday night, September 30th, showcasing the new VR live performance platform from Supersphere, ArcRunner.

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Anand Tech

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Announced back at CES, Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Fold is now available for preorder. Combining a foldable 13.3-inch OLED display with Intel’s Lakefield Hybrid CPU, this Always Connected PC ushers in a new form factor for the PC, mirroring some of the development on the smartphone side of the fence. Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold. Component. X1 Fold.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In theory, quantum computers should be faster at solving many problems compared to classical computers. But because their components are extremely delicate, existing quantum computers are still rudimentary and error-prone, and academic and industry researchers have yet to demonstrate a profitable use for them. In… Read more.

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Digital Trends

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

It might not be too long before paramedics are flying through the air using jetpacks after a recent test flight in the U.K. demonstrated the possibility.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Biologists in Thailand have documented a behavior never seen before in snakes, in which the limbless reptiles eviscerated and consumed the organs of living toads. 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.

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Digital Trends

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Multiple Apple services suffered a serious outage Tuesday night, with iCloud, the App Store, Apple TV+, Apple Music, and Apple Arcade among those affected.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Disney+ is finally giving U.S. users an official watch party feature, just in time for the Mandalorian ’s return next month. Read more.

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VR Fitness

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Even though disc golf is probably one of the more socially-acceptable sports that you could play in this strange year that has been 2020, one developer is now looking to replicate the experience in the virtual realm for those who may not be able to get to their local course as often as they’d like. Continue reading on VR Fitness Insider.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The Boys ’ second season has poked fun at Zack Snyder and Joss Whedon’s blockbuster comic book movies and has been gaming out what it might be like if the most popular superhero team in the world invited a whole ass Nazi with a suspect undercut to join its ranks. That’s all quite on-brand, but the most recent episode… Read more.

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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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Anand Tech

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The fall rush of laptop announcements is upon us, thanks to Intel announcing their latest 11th generation Core processor, codenamed Tiger Lake, and packaged as part of the Intel Evo program. Today Lenovo is announcing the new ThinkPad X1 Nano, featuring Intel’s Evo platform, as well as a few tweaks to the traditional ThinkPad design. Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting released a massive report Tuesday morning detailing how Amazon has been hiding the true extent of warehouse workforce injuries for the last several years. Reveal obtained a trove of internal safety reports and weekly injury numbers from more than 150 of Amazon’s… Read more.

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VR Fitness

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The Walking Dead property has been no stranger to VR headsets over the course of 2020. Hot off the heels of the release of The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners earlier this year, the second title associated with the franchise, this time which is based directly on the hit TV show, has now landed on virtual reality devices today. Continue reading on VR Fitness Insider.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Thanks to an accidental leak from Walmart, we’re pretty sure a new Google Nest speaker is on the docket for tomorrow’s Launch Night In event. You know who’s not too happy about that? Sonos. Read more.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Avid listeners will have noticed a few weeks without a podcast - that’s because Alan’s been hard at work behind-the-scenes building capital for several MetaVRse projects, including the MetaVRse Engine. This gave Alan a chance to reflect on the investment landscape of 2020, and is joined by VP of Marketing Alex Colgan to discuss the new normal that COVID has ushered into the VC world.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Using a combination of archaeological and geological evidence, scientists have finally pinpointed the date of the infamous Tierra Blanca Joven eruption, which likely devastated Maya communities in what is now El Salvador. Read more.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Avid listeners will have noticed a few weeks without a podcast - that’s because Alan’s been hard at work behind-the-scenes building capital for several MetaVRse projects, including the MetaVRse Engine. This gave Alan a chance to reflect on the investment landscape of 2020, and is joined by VP of Marketing Alex Colgan to discuss the new normal that COVID has ushered into the VC world.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Viewers are turning to streaming entertainment more than ever thanks to the global pandemic—the plethora of services can serve as a much-needed escape. At the start of each month , most streamers do a little shuffle, adding new movies and taking some away, and io9 is here to help with your decision making. Read more.

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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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Digital Trends

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Lenovo has finally unveiled the full details on the ThinkPad X1 Fold, the company's first PC device with a foldable OLED screen.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

On Monday, lawyers filed two suits against Lockheed Martin. They allege that the weapons manufacturer spawned an “environmental nightmare” by exposing people to toxic chemicals in Orlando. Just in case you needed another reason to fight the military industrial complex. Read more.

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Digital Trends

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

There are two kinds of revolutions happening around Smart Home products right now: in products and in homes.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Out of all the ambitious phones of 2020 including the handsets with monstrous specs like the ROG Phone 3 , forward-thinking devices like the Surface Duo , and futuristic phones like the Galaxy Z Fold 2 , LG’s weird and wacky Wing is easily the funnest phone of the year. Read more.

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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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