The Ghost Howls
MAY 4, 2022
It’s a typical situation for me: I wake up and reading the VR news, I find that Meta is releasing a new interesting update for the Quest. Wow, a new feature is coming out, starting from today! I can’t wait to try it and review it! Then I turn on the Quest and… nothing has changed Ok, I understand I have to be a bit patient, so I wait some more days… and there is finally a new update to the firmware of my device!
VRScout
MAY 4, 2022
The first Live Nation concert to use Snap AR Lenses will be the Electric Daisy Carnival later this month. Snap and Live Nation Entertainment are teaming up for a multiyear deal that will bring Snapchat AR (augmented reality) experiences to select Live Nation concerts that you can use to find your friends in the crowd, bring the stage and festival grounds to life with AR content, and of course share content on social media.
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ARPost
MAY 4, 2022
A recent report from market intelligence agency IDC addresses questions about AR technologies in enterprise as we move out of the pandemic. While offices are opening up, many companies have embraced hybrid work models or continue to employ remote workers. Further, training and education remain important use cases for augmented reality.’. The report, shared with ARPost , gives a by-the-numbers look at how hundreds of companies are using AR.
Road to VR
MAY 4, 2022
Researchers at Meta Reality Labs have created a prototype VR headset with a custom-built accelerator chip specially designed to handle AI processing to make it possible to render the company’s photorealistic Codec Avatars on a standalone headset. Long before the company changed its name, Meta has been working on its Codec Avatars project which aims to make nearly photorealistic avatars in VR a reality.
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.
AR Insider
MAY 4, 2022
AR advertising is poised to make inroads this year, with Twitter and Meta among the players looking to this subset of ads as a potential growth driver. How is it all coming together? This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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Slashgear
MAY 4, 2022
The 2023 Polestar 2 is gaining some range but also going up in price, as it's the latest EV facing cost changes during the big automotive supply shortage.
GizModo VR
MAY 4, 2022
Late Monday, Politico published a 98-page bombshell from the heart of the Supreme Court detailing—in Justice Samuel Alito’s caustic, disdainful language—SCOTUS’ plans to overturn Roe v. Wade , the landmark decision that made abortion legal in the U.S. in 1973. Read more.
Slashgear
MAY 4, 2022
After the customization company behind the Star Wars Toyota Celica became involved in smuggling, kidnapping, and murder, the vehicle itself seemed to vanish.
GizModo VR
MAY 4, 2022
Before European colonizers arrived in the Americas and other parts of the world, Native peoples were cultivating tons of seafood—specifically oysters—the right way for millennia. 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.
Slashgear
MAY 4, 2022
NASA is eager to get humans to Mars, but the concept of long-term habitation in space is far from new, with classic concepts presenting entire cities.
Mashable VR
MAY 4, 2022
TikTokker akcrucial has proposed a week-long strike beginning Sunday, May 8 in reaction to the draft majority opinion from the Supreme Court that would strike down Roe v. Wade leaked to Politico earlier this week. According to an official website , the Mother's Day Strike would "break the economy over the course of one week" as "everyone who will suffer immensely and possibly die under the right-wing extremists repeal of Roe v.
Slashgear
MAY 4, 2022
During WW2, American troops in the 42nd Infantry's "Rainbow Division" took possession of one of the world's first Porsches and drove it until it blew up.
GizModo VR
MAY 4, 2022
High-tech meets vintage television for a fascinating new project that sounds like the perfect meeting of media and medium: a life-sized hologram recreation of “ The Cage ,” the first Star Trek pilot. It’s framed as a way to preserve, study, and celebrate the start of Gene Roddenberry ’s enduring sci-fi franchise. 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.
Slashgear
MAY 4, 2022
Zhengzhou, home of the largest iPhone factory, is the latest city in China hit with a COVID-19 lockdown, putting iPhone production in limbo.
Mashable VR
MAY 4, 2022
If I know anything to be true is this mixed-up world, it's that ape holders can absolutely use multiple slurp juices on a single ape. Any fool knows that. It's a simple as two plus two equals four. An ape holder can use multiple juices on a single ape; this is fact. OK, so you might be lost. Let's take a step back. SEE ALSO: Elon Musk changes Twitter avatar to Bored Ape NFTs.
Slashgear
MAY 4, 2022
Streaming services are a cheap, convenient way to watch shows, but now that there are more options than ever, some say they're returning to piracy.
Mashable VR
MAY 4, 2022
The days of Twitter being completely free for everyone may be over. The company might introduce a "slight" fee for commercial and government users, said Twitter's soon-to-be new owner, rich guy Elon Musk. Tweet may have been deleted. Musk tweeted that in the context of a cryptic tweet about Freemasons. "Ultimately, the downfall of the Freemasons was giving away their stonecutting services for nothing," he tweeted.
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.
Slashgear
MAY 4, 2022
As in most cases when using Apple devices, zooming in on a FaceTime call is incredibly easy. Also like Apple, though, directions aren't exactly advertised.
GizModo VR
MAY 4, 2022
During the “ Spelljammer : confirmed !” announcement at the recent live-streamed D&D Direct, there was a quick blip on the stream that showcased some of the upcoming minis that would be made for the new adventure. WizKids is producing the minis, and while we don’t have final designs, the company was kind enough to share… Read more.
Slashgear
MAY 4, 2022
The Nintendo Switch has a dedicated button for snapping screenshots, and you may not realize it also has a simple method for sending them to a smartphone.
Anand Tech
MAY 4, 2022
The last few months have seen multiple vendors launch products in the Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) space. Mediatek demonstrated working 802.11be-compliant silicon under the Filogic lineup earlier this year. Concrete technical details and part numbers were not announced during the event. Last month, Broadcom introduced a comprehensive Wi-Fi 7 portfolio, detailing multiple 802.11be radios for access points, a networking SoC built keeping 802.11be bandwidth in mind, and a client radio for mobile applications
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?
Slashgear
MAY 4, 2022
It isn't often you hear of one-off concept cars becoming daily drivers, but that's exactly what happened with this one-of-a-kind BMW team-up.
GizModo VR
MAY 4, 2022
On Tuesday, the federal government announced that it will take unprecedented steps to maintain water levels in Lake Powell and stave off an electricity supply catastrophe for the Southwest. Read more.
Slashgear
MAY 4, 2022
T-Mobile USA aims to replace competing home internet providers by offering to pay customers' fees for quitting their broadband plans.
Mashable VR
MAY 4, 2022
The U.S. is currently reeling over a leaked draft Supreme Court judgement which would overturn Roe v. Wade — the landmark 1973 ruling that protects the right to get an abortion. As Late Show host Stephen Colbert pointed out, it certainly wasn't the historical throwback we had been expecting this week. "I wanted to begin tonight's show talking about the Met Gala ," said Colbert.
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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