The Ghost Howls
DECEMBER 18, 2020
Christmas is coming, and it is the time of the year where people make gifts for each other. One of the best gifts that you can make to a virtual reality gamer is a VR game , and finally, after years that we have awaited for this feature , it is possible to gift a game to a friend of yours in the Oculus Store. But how to do it? How can you give a game as a gift for a Quest 2 user?
VRScout
DECEMBER 18, 2020
Shredding an air guitar never felt so good. Vertigo Games, publisher behind hit VR games such as Arizona Sunshine and After the Fall , is collaborating with developer Anotherway on a new VR music game that will have you shredding a virtual guitar on-stage in front of a sold-out crowd. Inspired by popular rhythm games such as Guitar Hero , Unplugged puts you in the shoes of a globe-trotting rockstar as you slay your way through song after song using your trusty air guitar.
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Road to VR
DECEMBER 18, 2020
Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) VR support was scheduled to arrive sometime this month, but the wait is nearly over. ASOBO announced that PC VR headset support is coming to the game next week. ASOBO UX designer François Dacquin announced in a video (linked below) that the long-awaited VR update for Microsoft Flight Simulator is scheduled to arrive on December 22nd, 2020 as a free update.
Next Reality AR
DECEMBER 18, 2020
You won't have to ask Santa for holiday-themed augmented reality experiences, because practically any social and shopping app that offers AR effects has them available now. Despite the relative ubiquity, a new set of seasonal AR Lenses in Snapchat (iOS | Android) stand out, as they also showcase the app's powerful machine learning chops. Don't Miss: Next Reality Snap Spectacles 3 Holiday Giveaway!
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.
ARPost
DECEMBER 18, 2020
KHAITE has once again teamed up with ROSE to use AR technology to bring fashion to the masses at a time when fashion shows are canceled or postponed due to social distancing requirements. The two companies worked together to use AR to showcase items from the Spring 2021 line in September, but this new experience packs a lot more punch. 2021’s First AR Fashion Experience.
Virtual Reality Pulse brings together the best content for VR professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 18, 2020
With more services than ever collecting your data, it’s easy to start asking why anyone should care about most of it. This is why. Because people start having ideas like this. Read more.
Anand Tech
DECEMBER 18, 2020
Earlier in the year we have a good look at the first ever Arm Neoverse-N1 CPU in the form s of the Graviton2 from Amazon. Whilst that chip was great – it wasn’t really a true competitor in the market as it was availably only to Amazon’s cloud business. Today’s release of the new Ampere Computing Altra processors is bound to change that.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 18, 2020
Outbound Vice President/gynophobe-in-chief Mike Pence announced at a press conference on Friday that enlisted personnel in the Space Force will be referred to as “Guardians.” Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 18, 2020
Unlimited resolution, eye-searing brightness, and colors that dazzle? Even though today's TVs are pretty amazing, they're just the tip of the TV tech iceberg.
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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 18, 2020
An executive at the videoconferencing company Zoom schemed with Beijing officials to leak user data and squash video meetings discussing the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre earlier this year, according to federal prosecutors. The Justice Department’s case races a fresh wave of concern about Zoom’s… Read more.
Anand Tech
DECEMBER 18, 2020
Today Qualcomm is disclosing a set of benchmark results for the new Snapdragon 888 SoC that’s set to power next year’s flagship Android devices. Usually, as years past, we would have had opportunities to benchmark Qualcomm’s reference designs ourselves during the chipset launch event, or a few weeks later during CES – however due to obvious circumstances this wasn’t possible this year.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 18, 2020
After infiltrating a Texas-based software company, an elite group of hackers turned its most widely used product into a Trojan horse. Their plan couldn’t have worked better. At least a half dozen government agencies (so far) and an untold number of America’s wealthiest corporations led them heedlessly right through… Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 18, 2020
Emails are generally better than SMS, phone calls are better than emails, and Zoom-style video calls are better than phone calls. Could VR be best of all?
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 18, 2020
Santa Claus runs a pretty tight ship up at the North Pole , so it’s reasonably safe to assume most of his elves belong on the nice list. But as Christmas movies over the years have shown us, sometimes the holidays bring out some awfully naughty behavior, too. Here’s how 13 of Santa’s cinematic elves stack up. Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 18, 2020
So what is HDR TV? In a nutshell, it’s the best thing to happen to TV since the arrival of 4K. Here's everything you need to know about the picture technology.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 18, 2020
While Google is infamous for killing off its creations, there’s a good chance you’ve never even heard of Android Things—a platform Google launched in 2018 for the Internet of Things. And although Google said last year it was shifting Android Things away from the smart home , it’s now officially pulling the plug on the… Read more.
Charlie Fink
DECEMBER 18, 2020
Though 2020 has been a great year for XR, we'll be glad to have it in our rear view mirror.
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 18, 2020
For years, climate scientists have been sounding the alarm about the increasing likelihood that the Amazon rainforest, now one of the biggest absorbers of carbon in the world, could actually become a source of carbon within just 15 years. New research shows that for some other kinds of tropical forests nearby, that’s… Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 18, 2020
CES is going online-only this year, but manufacturers still have plenty of tricks -- and absurd products -- up their sleeves.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 18, 2020
The entire iPhone 12 lineup is capable of connecting to lightning fast 5G networks, which is great news for when those networks are actually lightning fast. But tapping into those gigabit speeds requires a sacrifice: battery life. But Apple baked a Smart Data Mode setting into new iPhones to give you more control over… Read more.
Anand Tech
DECEMBER 18, 2020
Samsung this morning has dropped as brief teaser about their next-generation Exynos SoC. Dubbed “Exynos is back”, Samsung is revealing that there will be a proper announcement for the new SoC on January 12, which would fall on the first full day of CES. Being that this is a teaser, any details are non-existent. But it’s worth noting that Samsung is promising “A whole new Exynos is coming” Which hopefully is a sign that Samsung has spent the last couple of years hard
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 18, 2020
Seems like Microsoft isn’t going to sit back and let Apple take all the glory with its new M1 processor. According to The Verge (via Bloomberg News ), Microsoft is reportedly designing its own ARM processor for its Azure cloud servers and possibly even a future Surface device. Read more.
Hypergrid Business
DECEMBER 18, 2020
(Image courtesy ARtillery Intelligence.). Sales of virtual reality hardware and software will grow at double-digits rates over the next four years, according to a report by ARtillery Intelligence. VR revenue is predicted to grow from $4.98 billion in 2019 to $12.19 billion in 2024, a 19.6 percent compound annual growth rate. There was a dip in 2020 thanks to a pandemic-related decline in consumer spending, but it’s expected to start bouncing back next year, the report said.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 18, 2020
The federal agency that controls the safety, security, and effectiveness of the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile was also breached in the massive SolarWinds hack suspected to have been perpetrated by Russian operatives, Politico reported. Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 18, 2020
Apple TV+ has added a host of new shows and movies to the streaming service this year, with even more to come in 2021. Here are some of the latest additions.
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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