The Ghost Howls
APRIL 1, 2021
Some days ago, all the community got excited because on the invitation to WWDC 2021, Apple has drawn an Animoji with some applications reflected on her glasses. Everyone started wondering if Apple could announce its AR glasses at WWDC or not. I have some exclusive info to share with you. Let me just start by saying that yes: AR glasses will be the “One more thing…” announcement at WWDC on June, 7th.
VRScout
APRIL 1, 2021
The popular military shooter draws in 3,000 new players after launching on Oculus’s experimental test channel. Earlier this week, Pavlov VR developer davevillz revealed that the popular PvP military shooter will be heading to the recently-announced PlayStation VR 2, making it one of the first games confirmed for Sony’s next-generation VR headset.
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Next Reality AR
APRIL 1, 2021
With NFTs taking the art world by storm, it's a bit refreshing to know that you can enjoy world famous masterpieces in the comfort of your own home via augmented reality without emptying your cryptocurrency wallet. And that's what you get with the Google Arts & Culture app, which adds three new Pocket Galleries with world-famous masterpieces, one of which emulates guided tours in real-world museums.
Road to VR
APRIL 1, 2021
While Facebook has yet to reveal official unit sales figures for Oculus Quest 2, various data points the company has offered, along with data from developers, has allowed us to hone in on a reasonable estimate. Compared to PSVR, the best selling VR headset to date, Quest 2 may be selling three times as fast. Thanks to PlayStation VR’s leading sales position, Sony has confidently offered up official unit sales figures over the years while other headset makers have opted not to.
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.
ARPost
APRIL 1, 2021
The pandemic is causing a shift in brand loyalty with 75% of consumers changing their preferred brands. This modification creates a unique opportunity for smaller, less established retailers to grow their market share. Given this unlikely situation, it’s important that newer and less established brands do not lose sight of what consumers expect when shopping online in favor of exciting technologies that – in theory – could improve conversions.
Virtual Reality Pulse brings together the best content for VR professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
AR Insider
APRIL 1, 2021
Content is King: Here Are the Keys to the Kingdom. by Lucas Nygaard. I f you’re reading this, it’s probably because you’re human. And if you’re human, you have feelings, thoughts, and ideas: Feelings about a certain matter; thoughts where you process information; and ideas about how it all fits together. Studies in biology show that all of this isn’t made up of some kind of cosmic order.
ARVR
APRIL 1, 2021
MeetinVR, a Danish world-leading platform for collaborative meetings in virtual reality, today announced the launch on the Oculus Store. Starting today, every Quest and Quest 2 user can simply download and start using MeetinVR. “We are very excited to be launching on the Oculus Store. This will enable many more people to access MeetinVR’s powerful collaboration tools with minimal effort.”?
GizModo VR
APRIL 1, 2021
Christopher Eccleston transformed Doctor Who forever. Sixteen years ago, the actor—headlining a bold reboot of the beloved British sci-fi classic that had been off screens for nearly a decade—presented a tortured, compassionate take on a Time Traveler without a home. Then, as quickly as we met him, he vanished,… Read more.
Digital Trends
APRIL 1, 2021
Most 'holograms' that you see online aren't holograms at all -- they're visual tricks that only appear to be 3D. This one, however, is the real deal.
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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
APRIL 1, 2021
A small indie bookseller in Chicago is taking on Amazon with a new class action alleging that the e-commerce giant conspired with major publishers to keep prices high and competition low. Read more.
Digital Trends
APRIL 1, 2021
What are the best Samsung phones for gaming? We find out in this comprehensive overview, comparing Samsungs in terms of their performance, displays, and specs.
GizModo VR
APRIL 1, 2021
A recent camera trap survey in a Togolese nature reserve has turned up the first-ever images of a live Walter’s duiker, a petite African antelope species, in the wild. The traps also caught aardvarks and a mongoose species, neither of which had previously been reported in Togo. The team’s findings were published this… Read more.
Digital Trends
APRIL 1, 2021
Choosing the right charger for your new smartphone is a complicated process, particularly if you want to get the fastest charging speeds. Here's our advice.
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
APRIL 1, 2021
Rather than dole out what is, essentially—at least to one of the richest companies on the planet—a handful of spare change, Facebook set out to purposely undermine one of the most important legal protections Americans have against unwanted robocalls. Today it accomplished that mission. Read more.
Digital Trends
APRIL 1, 2021
NASA's latest Mars image shows the Ingenuity helicopter preparing to become the first aircraft to fly on another planet.
GizModo VR
APRIL 1, 2021
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have detected X-rays coming from Uranus, revealing a previously unknown dimension of this majestic ice giant. Read more.
Anand Tech
APRIL 1, 2021
Intel has now launched its latest 11th Generation Core processors for desktop. The highest performing of these is the Core i9-11900K, with 8 cores and 16 threads, and it does have some raw core advancements with an updated microarchitecture. These processors need appropriate motherboards, and although we've seen Intel's Z590 and B560 models already filter into retail channels over the last couple of months, the time is now to start getting to grips with them.
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
APRIL 1, 2021
Police in the U.S., including officials with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE), have been accessing vehicle location data provided by car parts manufacturers, a new report from Forbes reveals. Documents reviewed by the news outlet show police using this data to track suspects involved in criminal… Read more.
Digital Trends
APRIL 1, 2021
Using "lite" versions of apps can help save storage space, data, and processing power, improving performance. Here are the best lite apps for iOS and Android.
GizModo VR
APRIL 1, 2021
The Ever Given is no longer stuck in the Suez Canal, but we’re still dealing with the fallout of the near-weeklong blockage. One of the saddest effects is that thousands of animals will die untimely deaths. Read more.
Digital Trends
APRIL 1, 2021
The Insignia 3.4qt Digital Air Fryer, which can make it easy to prepare healthier food, is available from Best Buy at $70 off, lowering its price to just $30.
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
APRIL 1, 2021
When people think of Industrial Light and Magic , they obviously think of great visual effects, as well as the countless classic movies the company has worked on. But what you might not realize is that for many of those films, some of the effects were completely impossible until ILM specifically created the technology… Read more.
Digital Trends
APRIL 1, 2021
A new rumor suggests that Google's next true wireless earbuds will be cheaper than the current Pixel Buds, and may arrive as soon as the middle of this year.
GizModo VR
APRIL 1, 2021
April Fool’s is the worst holiday, but this is one stunt we can get behind. Someone built an obviously fake Nvidia RTX 4090 and 4090 Ti to get into the spirit—and to poke fun at the current graphics cards situation —and it’s so ridiculous it has to be seen to be believed. Read more.
Digital Trends
APRIL 1, 2021
Eliminating Raptor, Zenith, or Blackheart in Fortnite can be a tricky challenge to complete, but we've got you covered with tips to make it as easy as possible.
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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