VRScout
JANUARY 27, 2021
The long-running VR painting app will cease receiving updates as the company opens the project up to the public. Google this week announced that it will be ending its support for its genre-defining VR painting app, Tilt Brush by Google , marking the end of a historic era for the immersive art & design scene. Tilt Brush is going open source! Head on over to our blog post to learn more!
Road to VR
JANUARY 27, 2021
During Facebook’s Q4 2020 earnings call today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that Quest 2 is “on track to be the first mainstream virtual reality headset,” noting that the device drove a 156% increase in the company’s non-advertising revenue. In past earning calls, Zuckerberg has generally downplayed the company’s XR business as a forward-looking investment that isn’t expected to pay off for years.
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VRScout
JANUARY 27, 2021
The award-winning VR puzzler returns later this year with new spy-themed missions. VR/AR development company Schell Games today revealed the highly-anticipated sequel to its multiple award-winning spy-themed VR puzzle game I Expect You To Die. Available later this year on select VR headsets, I Expect You To Die 2: The Spy & Liar will have you once again stepping into the role of a secret agent as you set out on a series of daring missions that will put your finely-tuned spy skills to the tes
Road to VR
JANUARY 27, 2021
Love them or hate them for it, Bethesda’s games offer up a great opportunity for modders to get under the hood of impressively large-scale virtual worlds and summarily fix whatever messes the studio left behind. The same goes for Skyrim VR (2018), which for all its charms, is still obviously in need of tweaks to make it more like the VR-native game it should have been when it was first released on PC VR headsets in 2018.
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
JANUARY 27, 2021
The company augmented reality that Rony Abovitz was trying to build at Magic Leap apparently wasn't working out the way he hoped it would. That company, built on dreams, music, and future-looking entertainment, rather than truly new technology, came with a $2,300 price tag for a device using dynamics most mainstream consumers have never even tried. The hurdles were steep.
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AR Insider
JANUARY 27, 2021
I n 2006, I attended a launch event in San Francisco for Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D. The product’s main feature was 3D graphical renderings of U.S. cities, starting with San Francisco. It let you essentially fly around a city, sort of like Google Earth but in three dimensions. The issue was that it required untenable levels of local memory and processing.
Road to VR
JANUARY 27, 2021
HaptX, the company building high-end haptic VR gloves for enterprises, launched its latest model, DK2, which is now available for purchase. The new version is said to have improved haptics, force-feedback, size, comfort, and manufacturability. HaptX builds VR gloves which include finger tracking, skin-displacement haptics, and force-feedback. As far as VR gloves go, they’re the most convincingly immersive I’ve used yet.
ARVR
JANUARY 27, 2021
Source: vsight.io AR Remote Support is often considered as a concept that is not easily accepted, but the benefits it is showing are changing the mentality of the managers of different companies. This technology is widely used in many industries and offers many opportunities for different actors to collaborate in real-time for solving various problems.
Road to VR
JANUARY 27, 2021
Schell Games today announced that its breakout VR spy adventure game, I Expect You to Die (2016) , is getting a sequel sometime this year. The studio unveiled the game, called I Expect You to Die 2: The Spy and The Liar, without mention of specific target platforms for the espionage-themed escape game. For now, the only store listing is on Steam , ostensibly for PC VR headsets.
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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
JANUARY 27, 2021
Death is inevitable. But Seattle-based company Recompose is giving people a new way to exit this mortal coil: Having their remains laid in a tube of mulch and soil and letting bacteria turn them into compost in a month’s time. After having opened their doors earlier this winter, Recompose is now fully getting to work… Read more.
Digital Trends
JANUARY 27, 2021
In its ongoing fight to protect user privacy, Apple will block all apps from tracking users by their unique advertising identifier.
GizModo VR
JANUARY 27, 2021
Health authorities in China have deployed anal swab tests to detect covid-19 in the lead up to the Lunar New Year celebrations, according to the Chinese state media outlet the Global Times , a technique that some claim might be more accurate than traditional nasal swabs, throat swabs, and antibody tests. But not… Read more.
Digital Trends
JANUARY 27, 2021
The 3D music format is now available for home theaters and phones. We explain what it is and how to get it.
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
JANUARY 27, 2021
The two wealthiest men in the world—Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos—are bickering about their competing satellite internet projects, in an argument prompted by SpaceX’s recent request to move some Starlink satellites to a lower orbit. Read more.
Digital Trends
JANUARY 27, 2021
Getting started in South Park: The Stick of Truth is simple, but you'll need more to master the game. Here are a few tips and strategies to help you along.
GizModo VR
JANUARY 27, 2021
The current scoreboard on the Reddit meme stock war here. Reddit: 1, Hedge Fund Antagonists: 0. Citron Capital and Melvin Capital—the latter, the main loser in the massive inflation of GameStock prices, thanks to the subreddit WallStreetBets—have reportedly pulled out of their short positions in GameStock. Meaning… Read more.
Digital Trends
JANUARY 27, 2021
Get ready to cringe as this durability test subjects Samsung's $1,200 Galaxy S21 Ultra smartphone to the blade of a razor knife, among other implements.
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
JANUARY 27, 2021
The U.S. Department of Defense spent close to half a million dollars—at least $466,810—on fringe science research, in the hopes of someday creating an aircraft that bends the laws of physics. That news comes via a new report from the War Zone , which recently acquired DoD documents via a public records request as part… Read more.
Digital Trends
JANUARY 27, 2021
Did you know Alexa can be the life of the party? Here's a rundown of some of the most entertaining questions and commands you can direct to your Alexa devices.
GizModo VR
JANUARY 27, 2021
After kicking off a historic rally around GameStop stock that has incited the ire of hedge fund tycoons and the SEC, the r/wallstreetbets channel was banned from Discord on Wednesday over apparent hate speech violations. Read more.
Digital Trends
JANUARY 27, 2021
This is our selection of the best sources for the best dual-monitor wallpapers. They often offer beautiful nature shots, space vistas, and gaming screengrabs.
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
JANUARY 27, 2021
The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, a congressional advisory panel—helmed by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt—has mulled whether or not the U.S. should deploy artificially intelligent autonomous weapons, and, after taking into account the numerous reasons it would be a terrible idea, decided … Read more.
Digital Trends
JANUARY 27, 2021
The Galaxy Buds Pro are Samsung's latest true wireless headphones, but how do the $200 earbuds perform next to the cheaper Galaxy Buds Live and Galaxy Buds Pro?
GizModo VR
JANUARY 27, 2021
I liked the original Bose Frames. They were stylish sunglasses that featured audio-based augmented reality, which actually seemed like a clever workaround for the technological challenges of smart glasses. But alas, Bose AR wasn’t meant to be. Last summer, the company shuttered that division and as a result, Bose… Read more.
Digital Trends
JANUARY 27, 2021
The Xbox One is home to some of the best shooter games around, including first-person shooters, third-person shooters, and classic arcade shooters. These are the best Xbox one shooters.
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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