VRScout
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
Chase the ever-elusive snitch, cast various spells, and discover magical creatures in this fan-made broomstick flying simulator. Available now on Oculus Quest 2 headsets, Seeker VR is a Harry Potter VR game developed by fans for fans. You can navigate the sprawling grounds of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry, chase the Snitch across the Quidditch pitch, and cast spells with your trusty wand.
AR Insider
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
We hear a lot about AR's benefits as a shopping tool, but what are the proof points that it's working. After covering conversion rates last week we dive into AR's data-backed ability to reduce eCommerce returns. The post Does AR Really Reduce eCommerce Returns? appeared first on AR Insider.
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VRScout
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
The one-of-a-kind location-based platform uses everything from wind and heat to immerse you in a variety of VR experiences. Due to a series of financial issues brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, mixed reality entertainment provider The VOID was forced to shut down operations in 2020, shuttering the doors on multiple locations across the globe, from London and Dubai to Hollywood and Toronto.
Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
Fast Travel Games , the Sweden-based VR developer behind Wraith: The Oblivion – Afterlife (2021) and Apex Construct (2018) , today announced it’s opening a publishing arm which is aimed at helping smaller teams to break into the VR games market. The publishing team will be led by Patrick Liu, a games industry veteran of more than 15 years.
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.
ARVR
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
The term metaverse continues to be a runaway train in the AR and VR sectors and beyond. Though it has legitimate principles and promise?—?most notably presented in Matthew Ball’s Metaverse Primer ?—?it’s been obscured through overuse and marketing speak. Speaking of Ball’s Metaverse Primer, he writes in its introductory segment that it’s challenging to even define the term because it will be a moving target.
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ARVR
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
Immersive shopping is proving to have experiential impact for consumers, and revenue impact for brands. Related to?—?but separate from?—? AR advertising , this is when AR is used as a tool to visualize and contextualize products to engender more informed consumer purchases. This is a subset of AR that we call camera commerce. It comes in a few flavors, including visualizing products on “spaces and faces.
GizModo VR
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
Alibaba, China’s largest online retailer, will stop selling cryptocurrency mining machines, according to an announcement published online Monday. The ban comes after the Chinese government made its own sweeping announcement on Friday banning all cryptocurrency trading in the country. Read more.
Digital Trends
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
The iPhone 13 Pro Max has a very good claim on being the ultimate premium phone, but so too does the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3. We find out which device is best.
GizModo VR
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
Finding a compact keyboard that’s as clean and minimalist as the Apple Magic Keyboard—but not so Apple-centric—isn’t easy. There are lots of options featuring fancy switches and RGB lighting targeted at gamers, but for the rest of us, Logitech has lopped off the number pad from its excellent MX Keys keyboard and… Read more.
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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.
Digital Trends
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
The Surface Pro 8 was just announced by Microsoft, which means that it's the perfect time to compare it to Apple's 2021 iPad Pro model.
GizModo VR
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
AirTags, Apple’s Bluetooth-powered item trackers, were designed with good intentions: They’re useful for attaching to important things like keys and luggage to help you track them down. However, said devices also apparently come with a small design flaw that could allow an unscrupulous individual to use them in a… Read more.
Digital Trends
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
Samsung successfully tested mmWave 5G on a subway in Seoul. It promises to bring high-speed networking to other public transport.
GizModo VR
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
No, you’re not seeing double. The new Amazon Halo View looks almost exactly like a Fitbit Charge 5. Announced as part of Amazon’s devices and services event, the $80 tracker adds a color AMOLED display and two new fitness and nutrition modes for its Halo service. 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
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
Alexa Together is Amazon's new aging in place service launching in 2022. Here's how it connects families and caregivers while helping out seniors on their own.
GizModo VR
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
No Time to Die , the 25th James Bond movie, almost feels like 25 movies in one. So much happens in its complex story—filled with so many sprawling, varied set pieces—that by the time you get to the end, the events of the beginning feel like they happened 18 months ago. Which, if you remember, they were supposed to.… Read more.
Digital Trends
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
The Amazon Astro can cruise around your house to offer a remote view while you're away. It builds a dynamic floor map, so you can ask it Alexa questions anywhere.
GizModo VR
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
So Amazon has a new robot —a sly little cyber-pet called “Astro” who is supposed to be a goofy domestic helper reminiscent of R2D2 but is, in reality, both a privacy nightmare and a dysfunctional mess. 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
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
To mark the launch of its Astro home robot, Amazon has released a video in which engineers who worked on the device chat about how the project developed.
GizModo VR
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
It’s getting harder and harder for Google to pretend it’s not the anticompetitive bully we all know it to be. Case in point: as part of the company’s ongoing battle to fend off the largest antitrust fine ever imposed by the European Union, the company argued in an EU court on Tuesday that it’s. the most-searched-for… Read more.
Digital Trends
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
Microsoft recently discovered FoggyWeb, a new malware currently being used by attackers.
GizModo VR
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
Yesterday brought the shocking news that ‘90s sci-fi cult classic Babylon 5 would be returning to screens with a brand new reboot on the CW. But its original creator J. Michael Straczynski —who will write and produce the new series—wanted to calm fans down who were immediately concerned. He explained why now was the… 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
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
YouTube TV today sent an email to subscribers warning that it still hasn't reached a deal to renew carriage of more than a dozen channels owned by NBCUniversal.
GizModo VR
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
In its never-ending quest to bring entire families into its ecosystem, Amazon has announced a new smart speaker/video chatting device called Glow. It’s meant for kids to video chat with other folks with Alexa-enabled devices in a controlled environment. Amazon says it “reimagines the way kids can connect with remote… Read more.
Digital Trends
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
A new type of event in Apex Legends reveals bits and pieces of the game's story and its characters. Titled Apex Chronicles, these events are character-specific.
GizModo VR
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
As the number of smart home devices continues to increase, Amazon and Ring’s latest device is designed to help consolidate your gadgets by combining a home security hub with a built-in router. 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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