The Ghost Howls
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
I have had the joy of trying the new UltraLeap Stereo IR 170 hands-tracking sensor for VR and evaluate its performances. I have appreciated it a lot, so I thought it could have been a cool idea to make a post for you to describe how it is and compare it with the previous Leap Motion controller. Are you in? UltraLeap Stereo IR 170. UltraLeap Stereo IR 170 Evaluation Kit (Image by UltraLeap).
VRScout
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
Manus’ plug-and-play solution promises “the most sensors in any SteamVR tracker available.” Manus VR, best known for its line of haptic VR gloves , today revealed the Manus Pro Tracker, a new tracking solution for the SteamVR platform aimed specifically at professional creators working in motion capture, virtual production, and VR.
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Road to VR
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
Quest 2 has simple built-in video capture capabilities. In this article you’ll see how to use them and, for advanced users, you’ll learn how to increase the quality of the videos captured on Quest 2 and how to transfer videos to your computer. Record, Stream, or Cast Your VR Gameplay on Quest 2. With something as cool as VR, it’s natural to want to share the experience.
VRScout
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
Go for the hat-trick in this 3v3 multiplayer experience. Originally released on the Oculus Go back in 2019, Pick-up League Hockey this week arrived on Oculus’ App Lab , offering Oculus Quest/Quest 2 users a simple yet surprising entertaining VR hockey experience. Electric Falcon’s “simulator” lets you go behind the biscuit (puck) and deliver powerful clappers (slapshots) against other players in somewhat fast-paced 3v3 multiplayer matchups.
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
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
Sometimes, it can be hard to find your beach. Maybe that’s because of distancing restrictions, snow, or traffic. But, it won’t be because of lacking brand awareness. Corona Hard Seltzer is hopping on the “connected packaging” bandwagon and working with Blippar to help more people find their beach through an AR experience launched when users aim their smartphone camera at participating branded packaging.
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AR Insider
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
SAP shapes the future of work with Unity. by Nick Davis. W ith 200 million cloud users worldwide, SAP helps companies everywhere become a “best-run business.” Since 2016, the company has invested in AR, VR and XR to help its customers accelerate time to insight and enhance the way SAP data is visualized and understood. For years, enterprise resource planning (ERP) from SAP has been conducted on computers and mobile devices.
ARVR
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
Some may remember Gowalla as the late 2000’s social/local/mobile check-in app that competed with Foursquare in the “ location wars.” It was acquired by Facebook in 2011, then mostly faded away. But now it’s back for more SoLoMo action….this time with an AR focus. Specifically, it will launch later this year to offer geo-relevant AR experiences, such as location-specific lenses around businesses and points of interest.
GizModo VR
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
As the crisis of rolling blackouts in Texas unfolds this week, some of the state’s loudest Republican politicians are falsely dragging “frozen wind turbines” as the cause. But behind every wind energy smear by a Texas politician is a dizzying amount of money contributed by the fossil fuel industry. Read more.
ARVR
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
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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
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
An Elon Musk tweet can do everything from moving the stock market to convincing people to invest in a joke cryptocurrency. So when the richest man on Earth tweeted in late January about kicking $100 million to whoever could come up with the best technology to capture carbon from the air, the world took notice. Read more.
VR Fitness
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
I’m not sure where the time has gone, but it’s been more than six months now since FitXR launched on the Oculus Quest, as a free, and mandatory replacement for the much loved (among VR fitness enthusiasts at least), boxercise workout program BoxVR. For anybody using virtual reality for exercise over the last few years, BoxVR was an absolute staple. Continue reading on VR Fitness Insider.
GizModo VR
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
An international team of scientists has sequenced DNA from mammoth teeth that is at least a million years old, if not older. This research , published today in Nature, not only provides exciting new insight into mammoth evolutionary history, it reveals an entirely unknown lineage of ancient mammoth. Read more.
Hypergrid Business
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
Employees using their avatars on Audi Spaces, which enables learning, collaboration, and working together. (Image courtesy Audis.). Many companies have switched to virtual offices and Zoom meetings during the COVID-19 pandemic, but some are going a step further, into immersive 3D office environments, similar to that of Second Life or OpenSim. Auto manufacturer Audi, for example, has rolled out Audi Spaces , a virtual 3D version of Audi’s actual working environment.
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
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
Doctors are warning that covid-19 may be capable of causing lingering eye problems. A new study suggests that some people who survive a severe infection can develop growths in the back of their eyes that could lead to vision loss. It is not yet clear how covid-19 might cause these growths, or if people with milder… Read more.
Digital Trends
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
If you have an iPhone, obtaining and storing your boarding pass via Apple Wallet will be one less item on your to-do list at the airport. Here's how to do it.
GizModo VR
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
Early on in the pandemic New York Attorney General Letitia James promised an investigation into Amazon’s safety practices and, by god, she delivered. Read more.
Anand Tech
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
Samsung is one of the few brands still launching new high-end SATA SSDs in the consumer market. The new Samsung 870 EVO is a fine update to a very successful product line, but sticking with their long-time strategy of being the premium option doesn't make much sense when NVMe has taken over the high-end SSD market segment.
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
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
A teardown of the DualSense controller for the PlayStation 5 appears to have zeroed in on several contributing factors to the issue of joystick drift. Read more.
Digital Trends
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
MicroSD cards allow you to store more files locally, but they can be complex. Here's how to use a microSD card on your Android device, if you still can.
GizModo VR
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
A ransomware gang claims to have stolen over 100 gigabytes of data from Jones Day , a prominent global law firm that recently stirred backlash for its entanglement in the 2020 presidential election. Read more.
Digital Trends
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
If your Chromecast isn't working, there are several remedies you can attempt. In this guide, we explore five common Chromecast issues and how to fix each one.
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
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
Tim Boyd, the mayor of Colorado City, Texas, announced his resignation on Tuesday following a viral Facebook post where he whined about residents who wanted help during the extreme weather that has caused widespread power outages and dangerously cold conditions for millions of people throughout the state. Boyd accused… Read more.
Digital Trends
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
What exactly are MicroLED TVs, and how are they different from both LED and OLED TVs? Join us to learn how the tech works, and whether it's the next big thing.
GizModo VR
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
Toys and Star Wars are almost inextricably linked. From the days of the Early Bird preview set to modern collectibles lining the shelves and desks of ardent fans, the galaxy far, far away’s relationship with merchandise is as old as Star Wars itself. But what’s going to happen when paraphernalia clashes with the… Read more.
Digital Trends
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
Finding a good weapon in Black Ops 4's Blackout mode is hard, but we've found which guns in the game are best for every situation you can find yourself in.
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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