VRScout
JANUARY 29, 2021
A new mod brings the hit title to life in Mojang’s survival crafting game. Beat Games’ uber-popular VR rhythm slasher Beat Saber is heading to Minecraft thanks to a new mod from Reddit user u/Swifter1243. In a video posted to Reddit earlier this week, u/Swifter1243 can be seen ripping through a section of “Haunted Bus” from directly within the block-like world.
ARPost
JANUARY 29, 2021
Most people don’t know augmented reality was first created and tested in the late 1960s: by a Harvard professor, with a wired head-mounted display. Incredibly secular and in need of the right software and hardware components to get off the ground, AR as we know it wouldn’t see major leaps in the public sector until the mid 2010s. In 2014, Google Glass launched–to much fanfare, and nascent jokes online–quickly followed by the original Microsoft HoloLens.
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Road to VR
JANUARY 29, 2021
Google’s VR art creation app Tilt Brush isn’t free, but the company made it open source a few days ago after announcing it has stopped active development, so it was only a matter of time before independent developers got under the hood to publish their own Tilt Brush -derived apps. Now you can play around with the first batch on PC VR and Oculus Quest.
AR Insider
JANUARY 29, 2021
F ollowing our analysis yesterday on the drivers for Apple’s rumored VR play, we continue the narrative in this week’s XR Talks. Specifically, we’re featuring a wide-reaching and technically-astute discussion from Ian Hamilton and David Heaney at UploadVR… fittingly set in VR. First, to level set, Bloomberg reported last week that Apple plans for a VR headset to release next year.
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.
GizModo VR
JANUARY 29, 2021
The hacker group behind the ongoing SolarWinds scandal found other ways to intrude on U.S. firms and public agencies than just compromising the titular software company. In fact, nearly a third of the victims of the hack—approximately 30%—have no connection to SolarWinds at all, said a senior federal security official… Read more.
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GizModo VR
JANUARY 29, 2021
Following the disastrous announcement of changes to its privacy policy, WhatsApp is losing the trust of millions of users who are now looking for a new encrypted messaging platform. Telegram claims it’s added 100 million new users this month alone, and it hopes its new ability to transfer WhatsApp chat histories will… Read more.
Charlie Fink
JANUARY 29, 2021
Sales of the Quest 2 drove a 156% increase in Facebook’s non-advertising revenue, while Google tosses VR assets.
GizModo VR
JANUARY 29, 2021
After the Capitol was overrun by insurrectionists , Chevron sent out a tweet calling for a “peaceful transition of the U.S. government.” Brand tweets are always fraught, particularly as democracy stood on a knife’s edge. Doubly so if you’re a brand that, say, funded the members of Congress that incited an attempt to… Read more.
CraneMorley
JANUARY 29, 2021
Back to Blog Page. Microsoft announces HoloLens 2 Industrial Edition. Big News! Microsoft announced on Wednesday during their HoloLens Industry Summit. The newest member of the HoloLens family the HoloLens 2 Industrial Edition. Designed with the intent for use in critical environments. This latest edition will allow HoloLens users to operate in heavy regulated industrial locations.
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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 29, 2021
Executives in BlackBerry, one of many struggling companies whose stock prices are being juiced in a Reddit-instigated speculative frenzy, jumped on the chance to dump shares at a wildly inflated rate. Read more.
VR Fitness
JANUARY 29, 2021
During our previous VR Game Roundup of 2021, we saw X-Booster arrive on the Oculus Store, Brain Beats come to additional platforms, and the release of a VR cricket game featuring aliens. After a slow start to the year, 2021 is finally picking up as there are multiple exciting releases this week. Continue reading on VR Fitness Insider.
GizModo VR
JANUARY 29, 2021
People have been talking about the advent of 3D-printed homes for quite some time now, but now a listing for a home in New York has popped up on Zillow boasting to be the “world’s first 3D-printed home for sale.” Read more.
The Ghost Howls
JANUARY 29, 2021
Some days ago, my friend and VR professional John Westra suggested me to connect to an Italian AR company called Univet about which he found an online banner. He told me that it seemed interesting, and since I trust John’s judgment, I immediately contacted them. I so got to know Alessio De Gaetano , that very kindly accepted to have a call with me to explain to me what his company does, and thanks to this, I have discovered that it’s an interesting reality.
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 29, 2021
The fact that Apple is developing its own electric car just be one of the worst-kept secrets in tech. But after Hyundai recently spilled the beans on a potential partnership to produce the car with Apple, a new report suggests Hyundai execs are hesitant to move forward with a deal. Read more.
Road to VR
JANUARY 29, 2021
Ultraleap, the company behind the Leap Motion hand-tracking controller , has released a Developer Preview of its hand-tracking engine Gemini. By many accounts, Ultraleap’s latest software overhaul dramatically increases the ability of the company’s camera modules to do more precise and stable two-handed interactions. Gemini is now available in Developer Preview for Windows 10, and is designed to work with all existent Leap Motion controllers as well as Ultraleap’s more recent
GizModo VR
JANUARY 29, 2021
If you’ve been following the WallStreetBets stock squeeze (more info here , here , here ), you’ve probably grappled with about 6,000 paragraphs that start something like, “if I gave you one banana…” That’s because you’ve probably learned more about shorts and options and margin calls in a few days than from consuming… Read more.
ARVR
JANUARY 29, 2021
© Apple, Inc. While Apple fans have long been waiting for Apple to launch its own augmented and virtual reality ( AR/VR ) wearables, and despite many competitors already presenting market-ready AR glasses and VR headsets , there are still more questions than answers around what Apple’s AR/VR first product will look like. Apple has been discreetly working on a number of AR/VR products for several years now, and has acquired a number of companies in this space in the past, including Metaio in 2015
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 29, 2021
Mojang Studios released a free sustainability city map on Thursday that teaches players how to create a sustainable environment in the real world by exploring a virtual one. The focus is on educating students on how things like recycling plants and clean energy work, while being fun and interactive. Read more.
GizModo VR
JANUARY 29, 2021
The Wrong Turn movies are nobody’s favorite horror franchise. But somehow, the series about cannibal mutants who prey on directionally challenged road trippers has been thriving for nearly two decades. And a since the seventh (yes, seventh! ) Wrong Turn arrived this week, we’re taking a look back at the whole damn… Read more.
GizModo VR
JANUARY 29, 2021
As the largest greenhouse-gas emitting sector in the U.S., the transportation system must be overhauled in order to avoid the worst effects of climate change. That means presumptive Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has a big task ahead of him. Read more.
GizModo VR
JANUARY 29, 2021
A cyber unit believed to be associated with the Shiite militant group Hezbollah has been conducting stealthy espionage missions all over the globe, hacking into internet service providers and telecoms to gather data. 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?
GizModo VR
JANUARY 29, 2021
A small cluster of pro-Huawei Twitter bots reportedly launched a smear campaign attacking the Belgian government’s plan to box out “high-risk” suppliers like Huawei from building the country’s 5G network, according to the latest report from social media research firm Graphika. Read more.
GizModo VR
JANUARY 29, 2021
Several U.S. senators introduced new legislation today that would allow survivors of domestic violence and other crimes to separate from their abusers’ shared cell phone plans. Read more.
GizModo VR
JANUARY 29, 2021
China has been accused of stealing a lot of things from America: intellectual property , “ jobs and wealth ,” even our beloved role as the world’s biggest jerk. Now, U.S. national security officials warn that America’s greatest adversary wants to steal our genetic makeup, too. Read more.
GizModo VR
JANUARY 29, 2021
Carmat, a French startup that claims it’s making the “world’s most advanced artificial heart”, recently announced it plans to start selling its device in Europe in the second quarter of this year. That’s major, as currently there’s only one other company, SynCardia, which has received regulatory approval for a total … 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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