The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

As you for sure know, this Saturday I have been one of the hosts of the Virtual Reality Day organized by Bob Fine. I have invited and moderated some amazing speakers : Gianluigi Perrone , Ivan Varko, Gijs Den Butter , Louis Cacciuttolo, Rob Cole, and Alvin Wang Graylin. All the speakers have said very interesting things, but the last one, our dear “Mister President” has made a little public reveal of the upcoming strategy of HTC that interests us all.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In 2019, the demand growth for augmented reality and virtual reality engineers skyrocketed 1400% from the previous year, surpassing the demand for blockchain engineers (the most in-demand skill in 2018). Venture capital investment in augmented reality and virtual reality hit $4.1 billion in 2019, with many billions more being invested in R&D by the likes of Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and many more.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

W hat’s the state of AR as we enter 2021? We spend lots of time tracking the dynamics of the sector, but sometimes it helps to broaden our perspective and step outside of our own bubble. We recently did just this with AR Insider partner Matt Maher for his view on AR growth drivers. As co-founder of digital agency and innovator M7 innovations , Maher is on the front lines of AR experience creation for brand clients like Panera and Chanel.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

OpenBCI, the neurotech company behind the eponymous open-source brain-computer interface (BCI), are making a new hardware and software platform specifically for immersive headsets. Called Galea , the company says its new hardware is designed to attach to both AR and VR headsets, arriving with a multiple sensors designed to monitor biometric data streams in real time.

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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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ARVR

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

We are providing an entry-level guide to understanding Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality applications, the differences between each, and how all of these experiences, when enabled, form what is known as mixed reality. First things first, let’s define the term virtual. It can be used as an overall term to describe other technologies similar to, but different from, an actual Virtual Reality experience.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Welcome back to Part 3 of my series on Apple Glass. Part 1 elaborates on their aesthetic design, and Part 2 discusses potential features… Continue reading on AR/VR Journey: Augmented & Virtual Reality Magazine ».

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The Steam Autumn Sale is here, running today through December 1st, 2020. With it comes rare discounts on top VR games like Half-Life: Alyx (2020) and Boneworks (2019) , and heaps more popular VR titles, just in time for Black Friday and Cyber Monday. If you’re looking to jump into some new VR content, you’re in luck: Steam’s Autumn Sale is here and offering discounts as high as 84% on VR and VR-supported titles.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In the summer of 2019, months before the word “coronavirus” meant anything to most people, a mysterious respiratory illness began popping up around the U.S., ultimately sending over 2,700 primarily young and healthy people to the hospital and dozens to an early grave. The culprit wasn’t an infectious disease, but a… Read more.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Whether behind a bookcase or beneath a trapdoor, these eight regal dwellings each contain one or more secret rooms, hidden passageways, or covert architecture.

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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

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

As the owner of a substantial portion of the world’s most popular pieces of intellectual property , the Walt Disney Company is more than used to seeing its characters and branding pop up in unofficial, unlicensed places. In some instances, like when the family of a recently deceased child attempted to feature… Read more.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Choosing the right gaming console can be difficult. Here, we compare the Series X, PS5, Nintendo Switch, and more in terms of games, power, and versatility.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Researchers have uncovered what they’re calling a “bonanza” of ancient arrows and other hunting equipment, as well as signs of prey, on a remote Norwegian ice patch. The cache is a striking example of the burgeoning field of ice patch archaeology , which is unfortunately growing as the planet melts down. Global warming… Read more.

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VR Fitness

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Success of one developer or product manufacturer in the overall VR ecosystem can have reverberating effects throughout the industry. Cybershoes, the world’s first accessory for walking and running in VR, launched their second successful Kickstarter campaign last week and that success will benefit VR esports. In 2018 Cybershoes conducted a successful Kickstarter and raised more than 214,000 Euros from over 1,000 backers.

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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

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Who has ever written a letter to someone without the intention of ever giving it to them? How many of you also burned that letter? Felt nice, I bet, purging all those negative emotions. I’ve done this a lot. Burned a lot of pictures, too. Watched the glossy paper bubble up and split open as it was reduced to ash. Fire… Read more.

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Anand Tech

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

AMD-based ultra-compact form-factor (UCFF) systems are slowly gaining market acceptance, with the Zen architecture slowly catching up with Intel on both the performance as well as power consumption front. AMD's latest and greatest has been reserved for the high-end desktop market, with the parts meant for low-power / compact systems appearing a few quarters later.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The economic fallout of the covid-19 pandemic has hit the oil industry hard, and Exxon in particular is feeling it. Internal documents show the company’s not expecting to make a grand recovery any time soon despite putting on a good face for shareholders. Read more.

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Anand Tech

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In the past month, three SSD controller designers have announced new enterprise NVMe SSD controllers, bringing a wave of new competition to the high-end enterprise/datacenter SSD market. FADU is a relative newcomer to the market, having only released one previous SSD controller. Silicon Motion and Phison are both very familiar competitors, but they have been most successful with their client/consumer SSD controllers; they have been stepping up their enterprise controller efforts in recent years,

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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

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Was it aliens or artists? Yesterday, the internet was enthralled by the discovery of an unexplained metallic monolith in the middle of nowhere by officers for Utah’s Department of Public Safety. Roughly 24 hours later, we have a lot more answers, all thanks to amateur sleuths online. And given the area’s long history… Read more.

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Anand Tech

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Along with our quarterly laptop guide , near the end of every year we also like to take a look at the state of the gaming laptop market. With a much more cyclical upgrade cycle, gaming laptops tend to evolve in lockstep with the major components inside them. For the gaming laptop market, this includes not only more powerful CPUs, but also more unique (for a laptop) components like discrete video cards, mechanical keyboards, and perhaps an IPS panel or high-refresh TN display.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Ultraviolet lamps meant to kill viruses and bacteria seem to be causing unfortunate eye damage in some people. In a new paper this month, doctors report several cases where people developed inflamed corneas due to UV radiation exposure from “germicidal lamps” put in place during the covid-19 pandemic. Some of the… Read more.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

With Disney Channel Original Movies now readily available on Disney+, we decided to go through the whole catalog and pick the best for your viewing pleasure.

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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

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

After a summer of nationwide protests against unchecked state violence brutalizing Black people in America, Amazon’s ever-escalating push to make itself indispensable to daily police work is drawing fresh scrutiny from a host of leading civil rights advocates. The tech giant’s efforts to support and enhance police… Read more.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

You can switch it on alright, but how exactly do you switch off your brand-new iPhone? Here's everything you need to know about how to reset an iPhone 12.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

A fascinating batch of new research papers are highlighting the various health risks associated with long-duration space missions, including troublesome observations having to do with the aging process and radiation-induced DNA damage. Read more.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Destiny 2 can be confusing for new Guardians and returning veterans. From choosing a class to managing gear, our Destiny 2 beginner's guide covers it all.

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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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