VRScout
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
The company’s latest update introduces a handful of exciting features that revolve around safety and accessibility. Facebook (Meta) today announced the rollout of update v34 for the Oculus Quest platform. Over the course of the next month, you’ll see a variety of new features make their way to your headset, including Android phone notifications, Passthrough API, and improved voice commands.
AR Insider
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Will consumers spend 90 seconds downloading an app for an experience that lasts 30 seconds? This question raises the benefits of Web AR. What are its dynamics and best practices? We examine in the latest report excerpt. The post Will Web AR Pull Ahead as a Go-to Channel? appeared first on AR Insider.
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VRScout
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Joy Way celebrates the one-year anniversary of its high-octane VR platformer with a handful of major updates. STRIDE is a fast-paced VR game that has you navigating a futuristic city by jumping from rooftop to rooftop, sliding down ledges, crashing through windows, and swinging on hooks; all the while battling hordes of faceless enemies determined to kill your flow.
ARPost
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Interactions in the immersive environment become increasingly realistic. Thanks to the improvements in haptics , depth of field, and other factors, users can feel that they are actually interacting with real-life objects. Now, thanks to a new and improved hand tracking platform developed by Ultraleap, these interactions will become even more improved and realistic.
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.
Road to VR
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Meta (formerly Facebook) announced a mixed reality headset at its Connect 2021 dev conference last week—code named Project Cambria. The company’s official teaser video is supposed to leave a little something to the imagination, however leaked 3D models have surfaced now that seems to show a convincing view of the headset. Here’s that teaser in case you missed it: Prior to its unveiling at Connect, a number of leaked videos revealing Project Cambria were posted on Twitter by user Bas
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Road to VR
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Last month HP announced that it was releasing a new Reverb G2 headset with some tweaks designed to improve field-of-view and controller coverage. We got out hands on the new headset and put it through the paces. Reverb G2 is a decent headset and in our review we really loved the clarity of its display and lenses, but were a bit let down by the limited field-of-view.
Slashgear
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Mesh for Microsoft Teams was revealed this week as the company’s key to the doorway that is the metaverse workplace. It is with Mesh for Microsoft Teams that the company shows they understand the way people collaborate and work today – but it’s more important than that. Mesh shows us Microsoft is ready to deliver virtual presence for people that’ve … Continue reading.
Anand Tech
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Today, we’re giving the Tensor SoC a closer look. This includes trying to document what exactly it’s composed of, showcasing the differences or similarities between other SoCs in the market, and better understanding what kind of IPs Google has integrated into the chip to make it unique and warrant calling it a Google SoC.
VR Game Critic
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
November is ringing in the Holiday season and that usually means a busy time for VR game releases! If you’re looking for some new games to play – or to gift, rest assured there are plenty of new titles to choose from, be it action, adventure, sci-fi and even a relaxed farming sim for cozy winter evenings. Below you’ll find our round-up of release highlights for this month.
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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
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
In a move that can only signal good things to come, the Federal Election Commission has apparently ruled that it’s totally cool for foreign donors to financially contribute to U.S. ballot initiatives. The news, which was initially reported by Axios , could mean that America’s domestic policy is now basically up for… Read more.
Digital Trends
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
HBO Max series Doom Patrol might be the strangest comic book show on TV, and it stays that way with some help from plenty of weird, wonderful visual effects.
GizModo VR
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Anyone who’s spent more than a few minutes online is likely acutely aware of the seemingly endless ocean of climate change denial content swirling across social media. But the vast misinformation maelstrom is largely being churned out by less than a dozen publishers. Read more.
Digital Trends
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
SkyDrive's drone-like aircraft has received a safety certification from the Japanese government as the company works toward launching an air taxi service.
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
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Cenotes, submerged limestone sinkholes in Central America , have a fantastic record as repositories of ancient artifacts. Just last week, Mexico’s cultural heritage bureau announced another cave discovery: a centuries-old Maya canoe submerged in water. Read more.
TechCrunch VR
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Microsoft wants a piece of the metaverse, too, so at its Ignite conference today, the company announced 3D avatars for those Teams meetings where you don’t want to be on camera. Those animated personalized avatars are part of what Microsoft calls ‘Mesh for Teams,’ which combines the company’s Mesh platform (not to be confused with Windows Live Mesh ) for powering shared experiences in virtual reality, augmented reality and elsewhere, with Teams and its built-in productivi
GizModo VR
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Remember almost 10 years ago when there were rumblings that Zack Snyder was pitching a Star Wars movie? Obviously, that project never happened. But the general idea behind that film— minus the mythology of a galaxy far, far, away —is still happening, and it just added its first star. Read more.
Digital Trends
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Windows 11 inherited an annoying issue from Windows 10 that creates hundreds of thousands of empty folders deep on your hard drive.
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
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
A new satellite image of Turkey’s Lake Tuz is gorgeous—and, if you know more about what it’s portraying, worrying. The stunning capture from the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-2 satellite shows Turkey’s second-largest lake has completely dried up this year , exposing a haunting expanse of salt. Read more.
EON Reality
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Virtual laboratory interactive procedure. This knowledge metaverse experience took less than 300 seconds to create from scratch with EON Merged-XR in a code-free environment with no preexisting professional development experience from the creator. This is a pragmatic approach for millions of students to build the Knowledge Metaverse for learning, training & performing TODAY just using a mobile device.
GizModo VR
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Researchers in the UK and affiliated with the World Health Organization are sounding the alarm over a common bacteria that can seriously harm pregnant people and their babies. In a new report released this week, the group estimates that infections caused by group B streptococcus were linked to 46,000 stillbirths,… Read more.
EON Reality
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Maintenance, Repair and Operations (MRO) for Sprinkler and Fire system with EON Merged-XR. This MRO Fire system knowledge metaverse experience took less than 300 seconds to create from scratch with EON Merged-XR in a code-free environment with no preexisting professional development experience from the creator. This is a pragmatic approach for millions of students to build the Knowledge Metaverse for learning, training & performing TODAY just using a mobile device.
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
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
The company formerly known as Facebook isn’t the only tech giant trying to sell you on the metaverse. Microsoft is rolling out some new virtual collaboration features designed to make working in a virtual office less terrible or something. In Microsoft’s metaverse version of the office, you’ll use a 3D avatar to… Read more.
Digital Trends
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Meet Jared Leto's Michael Morbius, a living vampire who is rapidly losing his humanity -- and it's anyone's guess which Spider-Man he's connected to.
GizModo VR
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
By modifying a well-known climate model and applying it to the fictional world of Arrakis, a group of scientists has shown that Frank Herbert’s depiction of a desert planet in the book series Dune was surprisingly apt, though with some surprising differences. Read more.
Digital Trends
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Can the Google Pixel 6 Pro take on and beat the latest Apple iPhone 13 Pro's camera in a head-to head test? We found out in this epic, detailed test.
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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