VRScout
JUNE 21, 2022
Volumetric video brings former comedic actor and current Ukrainian President to life on your coffee table. With the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia putting a strain on Ukrainian resources, President Volodymyr Zelensky has begun reaching out to the global technology community for support in rebuilding the county’s digital infrastructure.
The Ghost Howls
JUNE 21, 2022
At AWE, I have finally been able to try the upcoming Conquest VR audio accessory. It’s a while since I know about this project, because the CEO of the company, Raghu Bathina , is one of my patrons , and so I was very happy to finally be able to try this interesting device. Discover it with me! (Ok, before we go, actually, it’s fair if I make a disclaimer: Raghu is a donor on my Patreon page, so in this review, I will just say that his product is amaz… ok, I was kidding… n
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VRScout
JUNE 21, 2022
The location-based VR platform features motion controls, spatial audio, and temperature haptics. We first covered UNCONTAINED back in 2021. Developed by XR Immersive Tech Inc., the one-of-a-kind VR entertainment platform uses industrial shipping containers to immerse you in hyper-realistic location-based VR experiences via a combination of haptic feedback technology and physical interactions.
AR Insider
JUNE 21, 2022
Picking up where we left off in last week's report excerpt, who are the biggest players in AR marketing and commerce? We break down the landscape including the moves and machinations of Snap, Google, TikTok and Amazon. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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
JUNE 21, 2022
Khronos Group, the consortium behind the OpenXR standard, is helping to assemble other XR industry players in service of cooperatively building interoperability standards for what it hopes will be an “open and inclusive metaverse.” The so-called Metaverse Standards Forum was founded by platform holders, hardware companies, engine/tool creators, and users, with participants including companies such as Adobe, Autodesk, Epic Games, Unity, Meta, Microsoft, nVidia, OTOY, Qualcomm, and Son
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Slashgear
JUNE 21, 2022
According to a study commissioned by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, blockchain technology might not be so decentralized and immutable after all.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
JUNE 21, 2022
Emplomind , a global provider of accessible, on-demand mental health coaching, recently announced it was set to launch a first-ever Metaverse Mental Health Hub. According to the company, roughly 75 percent of young people failed to receive sufficient access to mental health support, sparking demand for new mental health solutions. Emplomind aims to provide such facilities to users to elevate its company mission “on the next level,” it said in a statement, adding it aimed to launch th
ARVR
JUNE 21, 2022
AR continues to evolve and take shape. Like other tech sectors, it has spawned several sub-sectors that comprise an ecosystem. These include industrial AR, consumer VR, and AR shopping. Existing alongside all of them?—?and overlapping to some degree?—?is AR marketing. Among other things, AR marketing includes sponsored AR lenses that let consumers visualize products in their space.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
JUNE 21, 2022
Croquet Corporation has released its Microverse integrated developer environment (IDE), the company announced on Tuesday. The firm’s Croquet operating system (Croquet OS) powers the IDE, providing Web3 developers access to interoperable Metaverse worlds, low-latency and high-performing virtual spaces, and a platform with standards-based operations.
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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
JUNE 21, 2022
The AI system called DALL-E 2 seems to have developed its own language that researchers have not yet been able to parse, and that's a problem.
XR Today - Virtual Reality
JUNE 21, 2022
HTC VIVE announced on Tuesday it will expand the availability of its VIVE Flow compact VR goggles with a novel Business Edition version. The devices are set to train, work, collaborate remotely, and enhance classroom interactions for its users across sectors, including education, healthcare, and many others, HTC VIVE explained. According to a study from the National Training Laboratories, retention rates for VR learning are 75 percent, compared to 5 percent for classroom lectures and 10 percent
Slashgear
JUNE 21, 2022
AI has the potential to revolutionize society, but that may not be a good thing if it leads to robots that harbor harmful stereotypes from humans.
ARVR
JUNE 21, 2022
In consumer AR’s still-early stages, relatively few companies are producing real revenue. One of those is Snapchat, which is a leader within a leading revenue category: AR marketing. According to ARtillery Intelligence, AR advertising revenues were $2.9 billion last year. But within that value chain, sponsored lens providers?—?predominantly Snapchat and Meta?
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
JUNE 21, 2022
A "failed to install" error found when attempting to load an Android update might seem like the end of the world, but it can be relatively easy to fix.
GizModo VR
JUNE 21, 2022
Scientists have finally unraveled the genetic secrets of humanity’s coziest roommates: Demodex folliculorum , also known as the skin mite. Among other things, the findings confirm that these mites actually do have anuses, contrary to previous speculation. They also indicate that the microscopic animals may not be as… Read more.
Slashgear
JUNE 21, 2022
New iOS devices will soon be able to skip some of the most annoying CAPTCHA login security protocols thanks to a new process developed by Apple for iOS 16.
Mashable VR
JUNE 21, 2022
An outage of Cloudflare' s servers caused a slew of websites and services to go down today, including big names such as Discord, DoorDash, and League of Legends. The online security company was quick to identify the problem and rectify the issue, getting these service back up and running, but it was a chaotic few minutes there. Tweet may have been deleted (opens in a new tab).
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
JUNE 21, 2022
If you've invested in Apple's ecosystem, there's a good chance your nightstand is home to AirPods, an Apple Watch, and an iPhone. That's where HiRise3 comes in.
Upload VR
JUNE 21, 2022
Open standards to accelerate the development of the metaverse will be the subject of discussion on a Zoom video call next month as members of the Metaverse Standards Forum meet for the first time. The effort to “foster the development of open standards for the metaverse” is hosted by the Khronos Group and already joined by the likes of Microsoft, Meta, Google, Adobe, Epic Games, Unity, and NVIDIA among many others, and membership even includes other standards developing organizations
Slashgear
JUNE 21, 2022
If you keep opening Safari on iPhone, iPad, or Mac and finding your tabs have mysteriously disappeared, there are some easy fixes to this browsing headache.
GizModo VR
JUNE 21, 2022
Guitar nerds who can’t quite cough up the dough for a weekend excursion to this massive guitar shaped hotel in Florida may now have a lifeline…in the metaverse. 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?
Slashgear
JUNE 21, 2022
We got a high speed lesson in why - even with some SUVs and sedans promising supercar-level horsepower - not all performance cars are created equal.
GizModo VR
JUNE 21, 2022
Nothing, the smartphone brainchild of CEO Carl Pei, co-founder of OnePlus, is once again testing the efficacy of its hype machine. The company is currently known for its economical earbuds, the Ear (1) , which offer a pretty impressive bang for the buck at $100. It’s also been relentlessly teasing the upcoming launch… Read more.
Slashgear
JUNE 21, 2022
Honda's 2023 HR-V gets bigger, more powerful, and more features. Expectations are high for this affordable crossover trying to turn buyers into brand loyalists.
GizModo VR
JUNE 21, 2022
Today is officially the first day of summer, but seriously hot weather first arrived in some parts of the country over a month ago. And the scorching trend is set to continue. The National Weather Service is forecasting more triple-digit temperatures across large swathes of the U.S. this week. 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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