VRScout
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
How VR technology is revolutionizing the heatlhcare sector. When you hear the term “VR,” you might think of entertainment, social media, or the exploration of virtual worlds; perhaps the last thing you’d ever think of is the healthcare industry. Does this sector of the world actually use VR and does it really bring with it any unique benefits?
ARPost
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
The use of augmented reality is now more widespread. Various industries use AR apps and tools to improve employee experience and streamline business processes. Manufacturers utilize AR to increase production speed and reduce downtimes. Architects and builders leverage the technology to enhance designs and bolster structures. Medical practitioners hone their skills using simulations of surgical procedures.
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VRScout
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Walt Disney Animation, Qualcomm, ILMxLAB are just a few of the winners announced during the 2020 VR Awards. The Academy of International Extended Reality (AIXR) has been celebrating momentous accomplishments in VR since 2017 with their annual VR Awards. Each year over 70 experts in immersive technology come together to meticulously inspect everything from innovative new hardware to groundbreaking VR experiences to other colossal advancements that will push VR into brand new directions.
AR Insider
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
A R continues to evolve and take shape as an industry. Prominent sectors include industrial AR , social , gaming , and shopping. But existing alongside all of them is AR advertising. This includes paid/sponsored AR lenses that let consumers visualize products on “spaces & faces.”. Advertising is one of the most lucrative AR subsectors, on pace to reach $1.41 billion this year and $8.02 billion by 2024.
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
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Oppo, the China-based smartphone manufacturer, held its second annual Inno Day in Shenzhen, China today, showing off a new version of its concept AR glasses. Called Oppo AR Glass 2021, the company’s latest augmented reality hardware boasts a new ‘split’ design, something that makes it both more compact and lighter than the previous HoloLens-style model, which made its debut at last year’s Inno Day.
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Road to VR
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
While Oculus doesn’t offer much publicly in the way of understanding how well individual apps are performing across its VR storefronts, it’s possible to glean some insight by looking at apps relative to each other. Here’s a snapshot of the top 20 Oculus Quest games and apps as of November 2020. Why We Publish This Data. While the SteamVR library already has a comprehensive tracking database thanks to SteamDB , Steam 250 , and more, no similar database exists to track applications on Oculus stor
GizModo VR
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
The Star Wars Holiday Special is one of the most mysterious and intriguing pieces in all of Star Wars history. Released after A New Hope , but before The Empire Strikes Back , the bizarre variety show was unlike anything fans had ever seen or would ever see again. After its release, George Lucas famously tried to erase… Read more.
Road to VR
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Bigscreen, the social screen-sharing app for VR, is striding into new territory with its new green screen environment, which aims to let creators repurpose their avatars for anything from Zoom chats to YouTube videos. The platform has a number of theater environments that are great for chatting, viewing videos and playing games; since there’s no user-generated environments, it can’t really be used for much else though.
Anand Tech
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Last week, Apple made industry news by announcing new Mac products based upon the company’s new Apple Silicon M1 SoC chip, marking the first move of a planned 2-year roadmap to transition over from Intel-based x86 CPUs to the company’s own in-house designed microprocessors running on the Arm instruction set. Since a few days, we’ve been able to get our hands on one of the first Apple Silicon M1 devices: the new Mac mini 2020 edition.
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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.
GizModo VR
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Great news for chickens: It’s now easier than ever to pretend you never posted that cringe to Twitter, which is rolling out a new, Instagram Stories-like type of post that auto-deletes after 24 hours. These are called Fleets, which is slightly confusing until you realize it’s a bad pun. Read more.
VR Fitness
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
It is not news to most folks, working out has a great and lasting impact on mental health. Getting up and moving the body surges with dopamine, adrenaline, endorphins, and endocannabinoid. These chemicals are what trigger feelings of happiness, joy, relaxation, and act as our natural anti-depressants. Virtual Reality also has a positive impact on the brain.
GizModo VR
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
In addition to presiding over our food , the supply chain , and acting as a rent-seeking middleman for retail while quietly picking off the competition , Amazon will now oversee drugs. Today, the behemoth launched Amazon Pharmacy , which is certain to leave more small business owners out in the cold. Read more.
VR Fitness
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Thanks largely to the growing popularity of Facebook’s Oculus Quest platform, and the excellent early sales of its latest Quest 2 model, more and more consumers are becoming aware of virtual reality’s surprising utility as an exercise tool. Yet it wasn’t always this way. One of the earliest titles to tap into VR’s latent energy busting potential was BoxVR, offering structured boxercise workouts paired to thumping soundtracks that got you jabbing, hooking, twisting, and du
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.
GizModo VR
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Of all 20 member countries in the G20—a group of powerful nations which accounts for 85% of the world’s GDP and creates some 78% of all global greenhouse gas pollution—the U.S. has been hit hardest economically by extreme weather fueled by the climate crisis. But when rather than using covid-19 economic stimulus bills… Read more.
Digital Trends
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Creating an autonomous robot for the moon is easier said than done, because researchers can't rely on GPS.
GizModo VR
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Scientists are urging caution over a mysterious, Ebola-like viral disease that appears to have spread from person to person during a small outbreak in Bolivia last year. The disease, caused by the Chapare virus, killed three people and is thought to have sickened at least five during the outbreak, including three… Read more.
VR Fitness
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
The Oceania (OCE) Echo VR community will host an OCE Echo Arena 2v2 tournament on November 28. As a result of the committed leadership team that regularly hosts such as this, the community continues to grow. Servers for the OCE region opened for Echo VR on May 12 soon after the game went into open beta on the Oculus Quest. Continue reading on VR Fitness Insider.
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.
GizModo VR
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
A team of astronomers is reviving an idea that NASA sidelined a decade ago, in which a huge observatory would be installed on the Moon. Dubbed the “Ultimately Large Telescope,” the facility would easily outperform every other telescope in its class and spot objects that are predicted by theory but have never been seen. Read more.
Digital Trends
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Need to transfer files or take them with you on trips? Here are the largest flash drives currently available so you're not lugging around bulky external drives.
GizModo VR
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Plenty of big-name tech giants have tried their hand at augmented reality headsets or smart glasses. Most have failed. That’s not stopping Oppo, however, which announced at its Oppo Inno Day conference today that it plans to release its own pair of smart glasses next year. Read more.
Digital Trends
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
If you need a surge protector, don't settle for a standard one. These are the best surge protectors around.
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?
GizModo VR
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Disney’s shockingly excellent reboot of DuckTales has given us countless joys: The introduction of Huey, Dewey, and Louie’s mother Della ; David Tennant voicing Scrooge McDuck ; and the origin of Chip and Dale and the Rescue Rangers , just to name a few. But the series has also given me a scene that changed everything I… Read more.
Digital Trends
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Dive into our comprehensive guide on how to pick a smartphone. We look at devices, wireless carriers, operating systems, service plans, features, and more.
GizModo VR
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Apparently drunk with power after slapping ‘ misleading information ’ labels on several of President Donald Trump’s tweets, Twitter is now reportedly “exploring” the option of adding a ‘dislike’ button. Read more.
Digital Trends
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Disney+ allows you to have 10 unique profiles. If you need to delete an account for whatever reason, you can easily do so with just a few clicks. Here's how.
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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