VRScout
DECEMBER 17, 2020
The Grammy-winning artist’s Chi-Town Christmas spectacular will fill you with holiday cheer. Grammy winning rapper , producer, actor, activist , philanthropist , and all-around-stellar dude, Chancellor Bennett—AKA Chance the Rapper —is teaming up with Supersphere for a special holiday-themed VR performance called “Chi-Town Christmas”.
Road to VR
DECEMBER 17, 2020
Following its expansion onto new VR and non-VR platforms alike, social virtual world Rec Room is seeing serious growth. Today the company behind the project announced it has raised a $20 million Series C investment to support its growing population. What started as a small social PC VR app in 2016 has since expanded to support not just every major VR platform, but now Xbox, PlayStation, and iOS too.
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VRScout
DECEMBER 17, 2020
Interact with 3D holograms of coworkers directly from your living room. Social VR coworking platform Spatial has seen a massive spike in usage this year as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020 alone the platform has hosted over half a million virtual meetings. The award-winning application allows teams to collaborate with one another in a 3D workspace brought to life using VR technology.
AR Insider
DECEMBER 17, 2020
New Study Projects VR Revenue to Reach $12.2 Billion by 2024. ARtillery Intelligence publishes its five-year outlook for VR revenues. 12/17/20 – SAN FRANCISCO – ARtillery Intelligence today released a new report that projects VR revenue to grow from $4.98 billion in 2019 to $12.19 billion in 2024, a 19.6 percent compound annual growth rate.
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.
Next Reality AR
DECEMBER 17, 2020
Google, you have something that I want. You may think you have some idea of what you are in possession of, but you do not. In a few moments, it will be mine.and it can be yours, too, dear readers. That something, of course, is Baby Yoda.er, Grogu.from the Disney+ Star Wars series The Mandalorian. But you won't have to fight Mando or Moff Gideon to obtain him.
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Next Reality AR
DECEMBER 17, 2020
This year, as part of the Next Reality 30, in partnership with Snap, we're spotlighting an up-and-coming innovator in augmented reality. Specifically, we were searching for an independent developer or creator who embodies the bleeding edge spirit of AR and its ability to leverage machine learning. This year's honoree is Aidan Wolf. • Don't Miss: Next Reality's 30 People to Watch in Augmented Reality for 2020 When Magic Leap first made its way into the hands of developers, an informal posse known
ARVR
DECEMBER 17, 2020
With the AR/VR market set to touch almost 19 billion dollar in sales in 2020, including hardware and software, it is now clear that is increasingly and rapidly becoming a mass market , collecting the interest of consumers and professionals from many areas, from industry to architecture , from marketing to publishing. The opportunity Augmented Reality offers to content creators is to provide an engaging way to explore traditional media , turning them into live contents, rather than just still one
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 17, 2020
In a groundbreaking decision on Wednesday, a UK court ruled that polluted air was a contributing factor to the 9-year-old Ella Kissi-Debrah’s untimely, tragic passing in 2013. She is the first person in the world to have a death certificate that lists air pollution as a cause of death. The declaration could… Read more.
Charlie Fink
DECEMBER 17, 2020
Pro Putt’s goal is to make golf more accessible, requiring less skill, money and time to get started.
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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
DECEMBER 17, 2020
Among all of the antitrust probes facing Google right now, the case dropped on Wednesday by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton stands out for a few reasons. First, it focuses on the tech giant’s dominance in digital ads, rather than focusing on search the way that the Justice Department and more than 30 states have in… Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 17, 2020
There are hundreds of thousands of podcasts out there for nearly every subject. We’ve compiled a list of the best podcasts, whatever your interests may be.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 17, 2020
Just in time for the winter sports season, GoPro just released an updated remote designed to help you control the company’s action cams even if they are far away or mounted somewhere hard to reach. Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 17, 2020
The air we breathe indoors should be as clean and pure as possible. Our picks for the best air purifiers help rid your home of allergens and contaminants.
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
DECEMBER 17, 2020
Conflict is at the very heart of Star Wars. Light vs. Dark. Good vs. Evil. Empire vs. Rebellion. So many of the stories we have seen woven throughout its world are rooted in the very idea of combat and war. It’s in the name! So in order to do something radically different for The High Republic , its creative team had… Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 17, 2020
How long do appliances last? Here's how many years to expect for many different devices, along with what you can do to keep your essentials lasting longer.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 17, 2020
After suspending the program back in 2017, today Twitter announced that it’s bringing back its verification process supported by an updated policy beginning next month in January 2021. Read more.
VR Fitness
DECEMBER 17, 2020
Jurassic World: Aftermath is the latest commercially licensed movie franchise based game to make its VR debut on the Oculus Quest. As with the Star Wars tie ins Vadar Immortal and Tales From the Galaxy’s Edge Quest series, Aftermath is the first installment in an episodic adventure that sees the player take on the role of Sam, a security expert, and professional smuggler, whose assignment to recover valuable data from the Isla Nubla facility inevitably goes badly wrong when the plane he is
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
DECEMBER 17, 2020
A trove of elephant tusks found in the cargo hold of an old Portuguese shipwreck is yielding new insights into the 16th-century ivory trade and lost African elephants. Read more.
VR Fitness
DECEMBER 17, 2020
Phantoms Esports encourages growth of the VR community through competition, positive interaction with the userbase, and content creation. As 2020 comes to a close and VR esports players finish competitive seasons for their favorite games, Phantoms celebrates all the players have accomplished this fall with an After Season Party that takes place today.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 17, 2020
This year, California’s record-breaking fires caused untold suffering and destruction, and future wildfire seasons are expected to be even worse. New findings show that poorer communities of color aren’t receiving as much funding to prepare for future fires as their wealthier, white counterparts. Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 17, 2020
The Samuel L. Jackson voice is a fun skill for your Alexa-enabled devices. We show you how to get this skill on your Echo device and customize the options.
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
DECEMBER 17, 2020
The social media company that brought you the Fleet began testing its take on audio-0nly chat rooms on Thursday. In a thread announcing the private beta tests, Twitter said a small group of users would be able to create Spaces, as the feature is now being called, and invite any of their followers or other Twitter… Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 17, 2020
Twitter is testing Spaces, a new voice chatroom feature that lets users discuss their thoughts and opinions, with followers using speech instead of text.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 17, 2020
Giancarlo Esposito is having a moment. The acclaimed television and film actor has recently starred in some of the biggest franchises around, including The Mandalorian , The Boys , and Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. But with almost 200 acting credits to his name, there’s so much more to love. Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 17, 2020
The Mandalorian is a massive hit for streaming service Disney+, so here's everything we know about season 3 of the Star Wars spinoff series.
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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