VRScout
DECEMBER 9, 2020
In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only VR. This week marked the launch of Warhammer 40,000’s first original VR game, Warhammer 40K: Battle Sister on the Oculus Quest/Quest 2. What began as a tabletop wargame has over the past several decades expanded into a massive fictional universe composed of numerous graphic novels, comic books, and video games.
ARPost
DECEMBER 9, 2020
Giving, receiving, and enjoying adult beverages has long been a part of the holidays for many people. And, with alcohol sales on the rise, that isn’t likely to change this year. However, what it looks like will change. To make that change as easy as possible, ROSE and Patrón have partnered on a first-of-its-kind WebAR-enabled packaging solution in the spirits industry.
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VRScout
DECEMBER 9, 2020
One of the largest shopping center in the US is turning to AR to help keep shoppers safe during the holidays. With the holiday season finally upon us, Westfield shopping centers are hosting an interactive AR scavenger hunt designed to help spread some holiday joy while at the same time offering shoppers the chance to unlock serious savings with each AR experience they find.
Road to VR
DECEMBER 9, 2020
The United States Federal Trade Commission today announced it has filed a lawsuit with the Washington, D.C. US District Court alleging anticompetitive practices that constitute an illegal monopoly on “personal social networking.” The Commission is seeking a remedy which includes spinning out Instagram and WhatsApp. Oculus, the company’s XR organization, is not directly mentioned in the suit, but it’s clear that the case’s outcome would have wide ranging repercussion
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.
AR Insider
DECEMBER 9, 2020
T ech giants see different versions of spatial computing’s future. These visions often trace back to their core businesses. Facebook wants to be the social layer to the spatial web, while Amazon wants to be the commerce layer and Apple wants a hardware-centric multi-device play. Where does Google fit in all of this? It wants to be the knowledge layer of the spatial web.
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ARVR
DECEMBER 9, 2020
No More Things Creating in VR is different for me because I’m not very good with things. I don’t mean ‘things,’ like, the situations. I mean ‘things,’ like objects. Especially devices. Players and screens and consoles and mixers. They stop working for no good reason. No one knows how to repair them. Most of all, they are inflexible. They only do what they do.
Road to VR
DECEMBER 9, 2020
Munich, Germany-based AR/VR software company Arthur Technologies today announced it’s successful raised $2.5 million in seed funding. The company is also launching a beta of its VR collaboration software, Arthur. The seed round was led by Silicon Valley venture capitalist firm Draper Associates , a previous investor in companies such as Tesla, Skype, Baidu, Twitch, and Cruise Automation.
ARVR
DECEMBER 9, 2020
The arrival of consumer-grade AR smartglasses isn’t here just yet. We know we are only a few years off from seeing some amazing augmented reality products from Apple and Facebook. In the meantime, we have to immerse ourselves in a few AR products that are currently available and we can bring them home today. From devices equipped with LIDAR and depth sensors, 3D holographic displays, and conversations covered in AR experiences this year has brought some innovative goodies to enjoy.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 9, 2020
What to do with Boston Dynamics? That’s seemingly the question a few companies have been unable to answer because for the third time in seven years the robotics research company has a new owner as The Korea Economic Daily is reporting that Hyundai Motors has spent almost $1 billion dollars to buy the R&D company from… 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.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 9, 2020
As the year draws to a close, the Digital Trends editorial staff wanted to look back and highlight our favorite products of 2020. Here's the cream of the crop.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 9, 2020
While live-action productions were dealt a significant blow this year by the ongoing covid-19 pandemic, the animation industry was in a prime position to step up to the plate and tell some of 2020's most riveting stories. Here are the ones that transported the io9 staff to far-off worlds and dimensions this year. Read more.
Hypergrid Business
DECEMBER 9, 2020
Half Life: Alyx is the 2020’s VR game of the year. If you want to play the game the best way, we’ve put together a guide to the best VR headset for Half Life: Alyx. What is Half Life: Alyx? Half Life: Alyx is a VR game built from the ground up for virtual reality. It is one of the first true VR-only games from an AAA top studio. In the game, you control Alyx Vance on a mission to seize a super weapon belonging to the alien Combine.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 9, 2020
A new United Nations report—yeah, another one—warns that the world is on track to exceed the level of global warming laid out in the Paris Agreement. But a green recovery plan to handle the fallout of the covid-19 pandemic could significantly improve our future odds of survival. 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.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 9, 2020
Humans love the sight of freshly fallen snow. Self-driving cars? Not so much. This Finnish startup is trying to change all that.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 9, 2020
Dozens of attorney generals, as well as the Federal Trade Commission, filed two separate lawsuits against Facebook on Wednesday which attempt to break the social media giant into its component parts: specifically, the divestiture of WhatsApp and Instagram. Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 9, 2020
From games to education, augmented reality (AR) is everywhere. And a company called MetaVRse has a platform to make it easy to create AR apps.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 9, 2020
NASA announced on Wednesday the team of 18 astronauts — nine men and nine women — who have been selected to participate in the upcoming Artemis Moon landing missions. 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
DECEMBER 9, 2020
Users that follow the AI silicon space will have heard of SambaNova – a quiet company that has made very little noise but has racked up some serious backing. After three funding rounds, led by Google Ventures, Intel Capital, and Blackrock, and semi-hushhush deployments at the US Department of Energy at Laurence Livermore and Los Alamos, there is now a new product offering for limited customers.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 9, 2020
After an eight-year fight to get New York to divest its $226 billion pension fund from fossil fuels, activists have won a major victory. On Wednesday, New York Comptroller Tom DiNapoli announced the state will take a systematic approach to ensure the third-largest pension fund in the U.S. divests from fossil fuels by… Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 9, 2020
The iPhone 7 may be water-resistant, but it's not waterproof. These waterproof iPhone 7 cases provide additional protection from water and environmental damage.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 9, 2020
Evidence is mounting that certain bacteria spread by cat scratches and other animal exposures can sometimes have startling effects on our brain. In a new study, researchers detail a group of patients with psychiatric illness who simultaneously showed signs of infection from bacteria called Bartonella , including… 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
DECEMBER 9, 2020
A shortage of components is plaguing both AMD and Nvidia, and this means that new GPUs and consoles could be in short supply until February 2021.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 9, 2020
The impact of covid-19 lockdowns on wildlife living on land has been clear , but emerging research shows the quiet has extended to the oceans, too. Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 9, 2020
NASA's newly unveiled team of Artemis astronauts likely includes the first woman and next man to step on the moon.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 9, 2020
A report released today by BroadbandNow reveals the FCC grossly overreported the availability of gigabit internet in the U.S. As of 2020, the FCC reported gigabit internet was available to 84% of Americans, up from just 4% in 2016. But according to BroadbandNow, those numbers are closer to 56% in 2020, up from 2.4% in… 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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