ARPost
MARCH 5, 2021
Augmented reality is bringing positive change beyond the world of gaming and entertainment. From hospitals and medical facilities to corporate facilities, it is being used in a myriad of ways to simplify tasks and improve efficiency. Resonai , an XR and AI company, recently released its The State of Augmented Reality in Facilities Management: 2021 report.
VRScout
MARCH 5, 2021
Step into the block-like world of Roblox on your standalone headset using this step-by-step guide. Those familiar with massively multiplayer online games are no doubt familiar with Roblox. Originally released back in 2006 on desktop PCs, the wildly popular multiplayer sandbox game has since expanded onto multiple platforms, amassing a rabidly loyal fanbase of mostly younger players in the process.
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Road to VR
MARCH 5, 2021
17-BIT, the studio behind Galak-Z: The Virtual (2018), announced its working on a survival adventure game called Song in the Smoke, coming to Oculus Quest, Oculus Rift, and PSVR at some point this year. Song in the Smoke puts you head-first into a world filled with prehistoric beasts where you’re tasked with crafting, scrounging, and hunting to survive.
AR Insider
MARCH 5, 2021
B uilding from this week’s analysis of “camera marketing” and its revenue lead among AR subsectors, Snapchat in turn leads the way in that world. AR is not only aligned with the company’s “camera company” mission, but it has shown a direct correlation to revenue growth. The latter can be a strong motivator. As we’ve examined , there’s a feedback loop at Snapchat that attributes AR investments to user engagement, revenue, and ultimately its escalati
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
MARCH 5, 2021
Augmented reality is bringing positive change beyond the world of gaming and entertainment. From hospitals and medical facilities to corporate facilities, it is being used in a myriad of ways to simplify tasks and improve efficiency. Resonai , an XR and AI company, recently released its The State of Augmented Reality in Facilities Management: 2021 report.
Virtual Reality Pulse brings together the best content for VR professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
GizModo VR
MARCH 5, 2021
After spending more than a decade building up massive profits off targeted advertising, Google announced on Wednesday that it’s planning to do away with any sort of individual tracking and targeting once the cookie is out of the picture. Read more.
ARVR
MARCH 5, 2021
Selected Articles and Commentary Mythical Library, AltspaceVR I am 72, which I consider to be semi-old, and I am very active in social VR. This article is a brief collection of readings, set in an overall commentary about virtual reality, primarily intended as a backgrounder for semi-old friends and colleagues who may be interested. VR is growing but it is still a niche area, within which the non-gaming social platforms are another embedded niche.
GizModo VR
MARCH 5, 2021
Backroom deals, undemocratic processes, shutting out local voices in favor of industry interests. There’s soap-opera level drama happening in an unlikely space: the world of building codes. But the issues at hand are more than made-for-TV drama, and the outcome could have devastating effects on energy efficiency and… Read more.
Digital Trends
MARCH 5, 2021
For nearly as long as A.I. has existed, researchers have used games as a benchmark for intelligence. But why use games to test these systems?
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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
MARCH 5, 2021
NGC 2336 was discovered over a century ago, but the big, blue spiral galaxy has never looked better, thanks to an eye-catching image obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope. Read more.
Digital Trends
MARCH 5, 2021
Garmin makes some of the best fitness wearables, and we can help you find the right one at the right price with this roundup of the best Garmin watch deals.
GizModo VR
MARCH 5, 2021
SITA, a large data firm that works with some of the world’s largest airlines, announced Thursday that it had been the victim of a “highly sophisticated cyberattack,” the likes of which compromised information on hundreds of thousands of airline passengers all over the world. Read more.
Digital Trends
MARCH 5, 2021
AMD's recently announced 6700 XT is an alternative to Nvidia's RTX 3070 at around $500, but how do they compare? Here, we pit the RX 6700 XT vs. the RTX 3070.
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
MARCH 5, 2021
When Dungeons & Dragons fans think of the Sword Coast, they might cast their mind’s eye to its most infamous locale: the city of Baldur’s Gate, the titular trade hub that was brought to life in the legendary CRPG series. But true adventure in the Forgotten Realms is born of knowledge—and adventurers in the know would… Read more.
Digital Trends
MARCH 5, 2021
You don't need to spend a fortune if you're looking to monitor your home or child -- your old iPhone or Android device will do just fine. Here's how.
GizModo VR
MARCH 5, 2021
Meltwater from Antarctic glaciers is changing the makeup of the region’s oceans more than previously known, a new study finds. The measurements that made these findings possible were collected by an unusual group of researchers: seals. Read more.
VR Fitness
MARCH 5, 2021
During last week’s VR Game Roundup, we saw an adaptation of wheelchair basketball, a game where you make ramen for customers, and a new multiplayer shooter called Hyper Dash. Sadly, this week doesn’t have much of anything noteworthy besides The Climb 2. While this week is certainly lacking in quantity, there is a lot to like about The Climb 2 and there are a few other titles that might interest you, so let’s take a look at Crytek’s latest release, a new virtual reality rh
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
MARCH 5, 2021
Scientists are challenging the reported discovery of fossilized lice-like bugs crawling through dinosaur feathers, but the original researchers are standing by their interpretation. Y’all know what this means, right? Science fight! Read more.
Digital Trends
MARCH 5, 2021
Forget printing, signing, and scanning emailed PDFs and online forms. Use one of the best digital signing apps for iOS or Android to streamline the process.
GizModo VR
MARCH 5, 2021
Here’s something that you’d normally see in a post-apocalyptic, zombie TV show, only instead of a mysterious radio message luring Rick and the gang to a group of cannibals, it’s a road closure notice from Obama’s second presidential inauguration. According to The Drive , the same AM radio station in Washington, D.C.… Read more.
Digital Trends
MARCH 5, 2021
The new iPad Pro range has a new accessory -- the floating Magic Keyboard. But is it better than Apple's other keyboard case? We compared the two to find out.
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
MARCH 5, 2021
The chairman of space tourism company Virgin Galactic, Chamath Palihapitiya, has sold his entire personal stake in the company for $211 million, according to a new regulatory filing with the SEC made public on Friday and first noticed by Bloomberg News. Palihapitiya still indirectly owns millions of shares through an… Read more.
Digital Trends
MARCH 5, 2021
If you or someone you know is a sucker for accessories, you'll want to check out our collection of quirky smartphone accessories you never knew you needed.
GizModo VR
MARCH 5, 2021
The Italian government has blocked a shipment of AstraZeneca’s covid-19 vaccine to Australia in the first case of a country stopping vaccine exports in order to make sure it has enough for its domestic population. Italy consulted with the European Commission before halting the shipment of 250,000 vaccine doses,… Read more.
Charlie Fink
MARCH 5, 2021
Microsoft's new Mesh and real time telepresence are THE topic this week.
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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