The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2022

Today is a watershed moment for virtual reality : Pico has finally done what everyone in the XR community was waiting for with the launch of Pico Neo 3 Link , the first Quest 2 competitor. Let me explain everything you need to know in this article! Pico enters consumer VR. People playing with Pico headsets (Image by Pico). I have always praised Pico for being a smart company: from being a small Chinese startup doing mediocre headsets, it has steadily evolved, until the point it has started manuf

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VRScout

APRIL 13, 2022

Pico Interactive’s consumer-ready standalone VR headset could pose a serious threat to the Meta Quest 2. During the 2022 Laval Virtual event in France earlier today, Pico Interactive, a VR hardware manufacturer based out of Beijing, China, announced that its latest VR device, the Pico Neo 3 Link, will be available for consumer purchase in Europe in the near future.

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AR Insider

APRIL 13, 2022

We often call Instagram AR’s sleeping giant. But a company more deserving of the title may be TikTok. It has exploded as a user-generated media powerhouse with ample AR potential. Now it doubles down on AR with an open platform. We examine drivers & dynamics. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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VRScout

APRIL 13, 2022

Breed your own virtual pets in this upcoming location-based AR game. AR developer Niantic , the same team behind popular titles such as Pokémon GO and Pikmin Bloom , today announced its first original AR (augmented reality) game, Peridot. Similar to The Tamagotchohi, this “real-world AR mobile game” tasks players with breeding and caring for bite-sized virtual creatures referred to as Peridots, aka “Dots.” According to an official blog post , you’ll care for these m

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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.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2022

Rec Room a social VR game which also supports non-VR devices like PC, console, and mobile phones, has reached an impressive 3 million monthly active VR users, which the company says is just a fraction of its total monthly active usership. Rec Room has continued its impressive growth, having tripled its monthly active VR user count in the last year. Key Data Points: Rec Room has peaked at 3 million monthly active VR users, up from 1 million monthly active VR users about a year ago.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2022

Pico Interactive primarily targets enterprise users outside of China, however now the company says it’s taking a step into European consumer markets soon. And surprisingly, its new Neo 3 variant is priced to be competitive with Meta Quest 2. Called Neo 3 Link, the headset is aiming to straddle the PC VR and standalone headset segments by offering built-in PC streaming over either Wi-Fi 6, or tethered DisplayPort connection.

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Slashgear

APRIL 13, 2022

A bunch of space dirt just sold at auction for a stunning amount of money in a once-in-a-lifetime sort of sale we won't likely see again soon.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2022

‘Pokémon Go’ studio Niantic announced Peridot today, its latest game which the company says leans further into AR than prior projects. When developer Niantic launched Pokémon Go back in 2016, many heralded it as ‘the first major augmented reality game’ But as I argued at the time , it really wasn’t ‘augmented reality’ at all… but merely a ‘location-based’ game (lest we want to call Google Maps an ‘AR’ app as well).

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ARVR

APRIL 13, 2022

Shoppability is the new black. There’s a trend towards all things being shoppable. We’re talking buy buttons on everything from YouTube videos to Instagram Stories. This isn’t necessarily a new phenomenon but is one of many trends that’s been Covid-accelerated. Elsewhere?—?and for similar reasons?—?we see a separate trend: visual commerce. This includes product visualization and visual search.

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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.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2022

Fracked (2021), the action adventure game from veteran VR studio nDreams, is set to leave PSVR exclusivity in May, as it’s landing on PC VR headsets via Steam and Viveport. The run-and-gun VR shooter is slated to release on PC VR headsets (including Quest via Link) on May 5th. It will also be available on the Meta PC Store at a later date, nDreams says.

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Slashgear

APRIL 13, 2022

T-Mobile and Google have teamed up to bring back a so-called unlimited storage option for Google Photos, with a catch or two along the way.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 13, 2022

Last week, we had an audio excerpt from io9 co-founder Charlie Jane Anders’ new YA fantasy. Today, we’ve got an exclusive cover reveal and excerpt from io9's other co-founder , Annalee Newitz—author of acclaimed works of both fiction ( The Future of Another Timeline ) and non-fiction ( Four Lost Cities: A Secret History … Read more.

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Slashgear

APRIL 13, 2022

Fans will have to wait a bit longer to get their hands on the next-generation console version of "The Witcher 3," but there's a good reason for the delay.

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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.

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Mashable VR

APRIL 13, 2022

So you've been ripped off. Someone took your art and, without your permission, minted it as a non-fungible token. And now that same scammer has listed those NFTs of your plagiarized art for sale, and is raking in the ill-gotten gains. This is a depressingly common occurrence , and thankfully you're not completely without recourse — though getting your stolen art removed from massive NFT exchanges like OpenSea and Rarible isn't going to be easy.

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Slashgear

APRIL 13, 2022

No Man's Sky gets a major update that brings a whole lot of in-game piracy to the universe, along with a bunch of new fighting mechanics for epic battle action.

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Mashable VR

APRIL 13, 2022

The couch is calling, inviting you in for a good long binge-watch. You crave a story that will sweep you up, characters who will captivate, and a runtime that will wash away more hours than your average movie but not an entire weekend. Nothing is better for such a mood than a superb mini-series. Within a few episodes, such televisions shows can unfurl rich tales, haunting, historic, heady, or even hilarious.

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Slashgear

APRIL 13, 2022

Scientists have discovered some unexpected changes in temperature, both up and down, in Neptune, our Solar System's most distant proper planet.

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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.

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Digital Trends

APRIL 13, 2022

Somnium Space wants to collect a massive amount of data on you, but not to sell. Rather, it seeks to create a metaverse digital avatar for when you pass on.

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Slashgear

APRIL 13, 2022

If you're getting tired of your old Kindle and looking for something a bit more advanced, Onyx may have what you're looking for with the Boox Nova Air C.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 13, 2022

Earlier this year, Apple invited photographers to take their best macro images using the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max. Participants had only a few weeks to submit their top shots for a chance at being featured in a gallery on Apple Newsroom, apple.com, Apple Instagram (@apple), and possibly even in digital… Read more.

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Slashgear

APRIL 13, 2022

Hyperloop technology and development could revolutionize transit around the globe. This is where it stands right now, and who is working on it.

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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?

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GizModo VR

APRIL 13, 2022

The 2020 hurricane season was one of the most extreme on record. Between May and November, there were 30 named storms (the most ever recorded), and 14 of those reached hurricane level (the second-most ever). Cumulatively, all these storms caused hundreds of deaths and more than an estimated $40 billion of damage. Now,… Read more.

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Slashgear

APRIL 13, 2022

Another Motorola smartphone has made an appearance, but for now, at least, it seems to be limited to a single small market. Here's what we know.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 13, 2022

Old Gods of Appalachia (often called Old Gods Pod or OGA by its fans) is a narrative fiction anthology podcast that shares a mythic Appalachian setting amongst its stories. And now, it’s getting a tabletop role-playing game , after years of development. Read more.

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Slashgear

APRIL 13, 2022

The clues are coming fast and heavy when it comes to the launch of Google's Pixel 6a -- ready to hit the midrange phone market with a vengeance.

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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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