VRScout
MARCH 4, 2021
‘First Steps With Hand Tracking’ and ‘Tiny Castle’ are available now via the Oculus App Lab. It was back in 2019 that Facebook first began rolling out support for hand tracking on the Oculus Quest. Using the headsets’ built-in cameras, players could for the first time ditch the Touch controllers and interact with VR content using their bare hands.
ARPost
MARCH 4, 2021
Tech publications have been showing you loads of AR experiences by major retail brands, distributors, and producers. But, do people use them? How does the average person actually feel about these experiences? Google did the math on e-commerce. See Also: How To Smoothly Incorporate AR Into Your E-Commerce Strategy. A recently released report from Google compiles and contextualizes the results of six polls conducted through Ipsos on how people actually view and interact with AR-enabled e-commerce.
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VRScout
MARCH 4, 2021
Join Tallahassee, Wichita, Columbus, and Little Rock on a zombie-slaying adventure. When it comes to surviving a zombie apocalypse, you should follow a list of rules that will greatly improve your chances of staying alive. For example, Rule #2: The double-tap. Use a second round to make sure the zombie is dead! You don’t want to end up becoming a human happy meal simply because you chose to be stingy with your bullets.
Road to VR
MARCH 4, 2021
Bethesda announced that a VR version of DOOM 3 (2004) is coming to PSVR later this month. The game is said to be developed for PS4, however it features backwards compatibility with PS5. DOOM 3 VR Edition is said to launch on March 29th, 2021, coming exclusively to PSVR. The game is slated to support PSVR’s Aim controller, and will also include the original’s expansions, the Lost Mission and Resurrection of Evil.
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.
VRScout
MARCH 4, 2021
Strap on your combat boots and charge up that BFG 9000. You’re heading to Mars, soldier! Doom 3 is officially heading to PlayStation VR headsets and it’s going to be over 15 hours of pure hell as you make your way through dark corridors and cramped rooms filled with unholy monstrous creatures. In a recent blog post , Sony confirmed that Doom 3: VR Edition will also include both of the original expansion packs: Resurrection of Evil and The Lost Mission.
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Road to VR
MARCH 4, 2021
Zenith: The Last City is an upcoming VRMMORPG by indie studio Ramen VR. Following a successful 2019 Kickstarter for the game which raised $280,000, the studio has released a new trailer and confirmed the game will launch on PSVR and Quest, in addition to PC VR and PC. Zenith is aiming to deliver an anime-inspired VRMMORPG that’s built specifically for VR and includes cross-play between platforms.
ARPost
MARCH 4, 2021
Tech publications have been showing you loads of AR experiences by major retail brands, distributors, and producers. But, do people use them? How does the average person actually feel about these experiences? Google did the math on e-commerce. See Also: How To Smoothly Incorporate AR Into Your E-Commerce Strategy. A recently released report from Google compiles and contextualizes the results of six polls conducted through Ipsos on how people actually view and interact with AR-enabled e-commerce.
Road to VR
MARCH 4, 2021
The Climb 2 has continued to refine what made the first game in the franchise so much fun. It serves up more interesting and challenging climbs across more exotic locales, and it does it with a few new flourishes over the original that will have you revisiting levels and leaving little to dislike about Crytek’s acrophobia-inducing sequel. The Climb 2 Details: Available On: Oculus Quest.
AR Insider
MARCH 4, 2021
W hat are the biggest insights and observations in AR and adjacent sectors this week? Welcome to Reality Bytes , featuring lightning-round commentary from AR Insider partner M7 Innovations. Founder Matt Maher lends his insights from the trenches of AR experience creation. We continue the narrative this week with Maher’s look at Boston Dynamics, Lyft’s newest expansion, and animating old photos with AI and AR.
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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.
ARVR
MARCH 4, 2021
© Poly by Google Augmented reality (AR ) technology is a unique tool empowering restaurants, delivery services, and other vendors in the food service industry. AR is applied in a variety of cases, from streamlining staff training, through visualizing dishes and menus, to enhancing the customer experience. A recent 2021 market research report from ResearchandMarkets.com supports the notion that AR has the ability to transform numerous industries, including the food service industry.
GizModo VR
MARCH 4, 2021
Griddy, the Texas power supplier that’s made headlines recently for customers’ sky-high energy bills in the wake of widespread winter storm outages , has racked up another lawsuit. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the company for “false, misleading, and deceptive advertising and marketing practices” that he… Read more.
ARVR
MARCH 4, 2021
Groove Jones was brought on board to create a web-based AR portal experience as the digital companion piece to an on-premise mobile… Continue reading on AR/VR Journey: Augmented & Virtual Reality Magazine ».
GizModo VR
MARCH 4, 2021
Scientists may be closer to understanding how the brain can function differently in people who have bipolar disorder. In a new study, researchers say they’ve found evidence that certain brain cells trigger inflammation more easily in those who have BPD, and that these wayward cells can be linked to decreased neural… Read more.
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.
Digital Trends
MARCH 4, 2021
Facebook has developed a powerful new image-recognition A.I. that's trained on over a billion public Instagram images. It could be a game changer.
GizModo VR
MARCH 4, 2021
In the latest in a string of “hits” on Russian dark web forums, the prominent crime site Maza appears to have been hacked by someone earlier this week. Read more.
Digital Trends
MARCH 4, 2021
Razer has jumped aboard the audio smartglasses trend with the Razer Anzu. It has done so in an interesting way, by making the glasses suitable for more people.
GizModo VR
MARCH 4, 2021
Seresto, a popular flea collar produced by the company Elanco Animal Health, has been tied to over 1,600 pet deaths in the U.S. alone since 2012, according to a new investigation by USA Today. But the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which regulates flea collars and any other pet treatment containing pesticides,… Read more.
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.
Digital Trends
MARCH 4, 2021
It's more important than ever to keep your work and home networks safe from prying eyes. We'll show you how to secure your Wi-Fi network so you can rest easy.
GizModo VR
MARCH 4, 2021
WhatsApp on Thursday announced the introduction of voice and video calls on its desktop apps for Mac and PC, expanding the ways in which you can create the illusion of meaningful human interaction in this moment of crushing isolation. Read more.
Digital Trends
MARCH 4, 2021
Version 89 of Microsoft's Chromium-based Edge browser is taking aim at Google Chrome with Startup Boost, which can improve the browser's performance by 41%.
GizModo VR
MARCH 4, 2021
Butterflies play essential role in pollinating wild plants and crops. Which makes a new study published in Science on Thursday such bad news. It shows the climate crisis is posing an existential threat to their survival, particularly in the American West. 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?
Digital Trends
MARCH 4, 2021
For gorgeous, high-quality TVs, one of the best brands to look for is Sony. We've searched out for the very best Sony TV deals from across the internet.
GizModo VR
MARCH 4, 2021
Name the greatest sci-fi film franchises ever made. Star Wars. Star Trek. Aliens. Back to the Future. Planet of the Apes. There are others but it’s not a very long list. And yet, these days, any such list would almost certainly be incomplete without World of Tomorrow. Read more.
Digital Trends
MARCH 4, 2021
Here's fixed wireless (FWA) 5G explained! What you need to know about this effective new wireless technology, when it's available, how much it costs, and more.
GizModo VR
MARCH 4, 2021
Virtual private networks can be great for folks wary of how their data is tracked online, but what happens when a VPN provider directly markets itself to those who would use that promise of anonymity to break the law? 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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