AR Insider
MAY 27, 2021
Four Myths About AR Advertising. by Tony Parisi. It’s not a fad — it’s here to stay. Here’s why. A R advertising: it’s a thing. I’ve been writing about it for over a year, and working on related products at Unity for much longer. “From upper funnel to purchase, brands are increasingly turning to Augmented Reality to market their products and services online,” was the tale I spun a year ago.
VRScout
MAY 27, 2021
The creator of 1080 Snowboarding returns with a brand new game built from the ground up for VR headsets. Available now on Oculus Quest, Carve Snowboarding is easily one of the most interesting action sports games currently accessible on VR headsets. From the one-of-a-kind snowboarding gameplay to the plethora of content to unlock, Chuhai Labs totally nailed what it feels like to hit the slopes and shred some gnar.
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ARPost
MAY 27, 2021
Enterprise AR/MR hardware provider ThirdEye recently announced an investment fund for AR/MR software providers. ThirdEye CEO and founder, Nick Cherukuri, spoke with ARPost to explain how the fund works, what the plans are for the future, and how the fund benefits the XR market in general as well as ThirdEye in particular. Announcing the ThirdEye Investment Fund.
AR Insider
MAY 27, 2021
W hat are the biggest insights and observations in AR and adjacent sectors this week? Welcome to Reality Bytes , featuring lightning-round commentary from AR Insider partner M7 Innovations. Founder Matt Maher lends his insights from the trenches of AR experience creation. We continue the narrative this week with Maher’s look at Snap’s latest AR blitz, Google’s Starline 3D video calls and Amazon’s grand acquisition.
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
MAY 27, 2021
Sony announced that Star Wars: Squadrons (2020) , the PSVR-compatible space dogfighter, is going to be one of June’s free PlayStation Plus titles. Starting June 1st, Star Wars: Squadrons will be free to keep for PS Plus members, and will be available to claim until July 5th. The game, which was launched back in October 2020, is regularly priced at $40.
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Road to VR
MAY 27, 2021
Dungeon Full Dive is an upcoming tabletop gaming platform that aims to bring PC and PC VR players together online to play their favorite role-playing games. Now its month-long Kickstarter campaign is over, garnering the team over $285,000 to bring the project to life. Cologne, Germany-based studio TxK Gaming finished their Dungeon Full Dive Kickstarter campaign today with a total of €234,343 (~$285,000), which was pledged by over 3,800 backers.
ARVR
MAY 27, 2021
Value of high-tech in the preservation of historical heritage: VR visit to the Great Synagogue of Slonim The history of every nation is rich and unique. Knowing the history of your country connects you to your ancestors, allows you to understand the origins of your state, and helps you build a bright future. Today, modern technologies, such as AR and VR , allow people all over the world to plunge into the history of previous years and study in detail the topic they are interested in.
GizModo VR
MAY 27, 2021
Have you seen that photo of a product called “Roundmeal,” the “protein-blasted” macaroni and beef product? The image has been making the rounds on Twitter and Reddit over the past 24 hours with people expressing both their disgust and delight at this weird food. But you’ll be sad (or relieved) to learn that it’s… Read more.
Anand Tech
MAY 27, 2021
Many billions have been poured into the industry when it comes to AI processor development. If you were to list the number of AI processors currently in development or production at the wide variety of start-ups, then that number quickly surpasses 50 and is seemingly forever rising. Each one of these companies is aiming to build a compelling product to meet the needs of their intended customers, all the way from small-scale inference workloads up to multi-datacenter scale training.
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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
MAY 27, 2021
Amazon came up with a dystopian solution for when its warehouse employees struggle to keep their sanity amid workloads so grueling they often don’t have time to use the bathroom : Banish them to the meditation box. Read more.
Digital Trends
MAY 27, 2021
Twitter's new subscription service, Twitter Blue, is showing on its App Store page for iPhone. It offers various features, though doesn't appear to reduce ads.
GizModo VR
MAY 27, 2021
In spite of the environmental and regulatory ills that generally come with crypto as a currency, PayPal’s bitcoin ambitions keep on ramping up. On Wednesday, Jose Fernandez da Ponte—the company’s VP of all things blockchain— confirmed in an interview that PayPal-ers will soon be able to withdraw their crypto into any… Read more.
Digital Trends
MAY 27, 2021
Tracking health with wrist-worn wearable devices is relatively common, but soon you might be able to do so via a chip implant.
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
MAY 27, 2021
Though movie theaters are starting to allow patrons these days, the safer option remains streaming. Those who choose to stay home and stream are constantly rewarded with so much new content it’s mind-boggling. At the start of each month , most streamers— Netflix , Hulu, Amazon, Disney+, and HBO Max —do a little shuffle,… Read more.
Digital Trends
MAY 27, 2021
Xiaomi has joined in the battle for affordable 5G phone supremacy with the new Redmi Note 10 5G. Announced for the U.K., it's part of a growing trend.
GizModo VR
MAY 27, 2021
I don’t look at my DVR anymore. The last time I did, I had piles of new episodes of DC Entertainment’s The Flash , Batwoman , and Supergirl on there—all of it from the most recent seasons. I feel like I should catch up because I’ve watched virtually every episode of all of them since the CW’s Arrowverse was created back… Read more.
Digital Trends
MAY 27, 2021
We’ve gathered the most common Windows 10 problems and collected workarounds or potential solutions. Read on to learn more about how to fix these issues.
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
MAY 27, 2021
Some states get to be popular states because of their big reputations, which attract visitors to make them backdrops for Instagram content. New York is where artists create ostensibly intellectual theme parks. California is where every teen gets a mansion. Florida is where a man throws an alligator into a Wendy’s.… Read more.
Digital Trends
MAY 27, 2021
Nvidia's newly launched CMP cards, designed for Ethereum mining, generated $155 million in revenue for the first fiscal quarter for Nvidia.
GizModo VR
MAY 27, 2021
Researchers recently discovered security flaws in PDFs that could allow a savvy hacker to surreptitiously manipulate or deface the contents of certified documents. While the vulnerabilities in question have already been patched by most reader applications, the new research provides a weird little look at how online… Read more.
Digital Trends
MAY 27, 2021
Sony showed off gameplay for Horizon Forbidden West during its State of Play today, but much to the surprise of fans, did not reveal its release date.
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
MAY 27, 2021
A drill aboard a Japanese research vessel has set a new record for the deepest ocean hole in history. The hole is located in the Pacific Ocean near the epicenter of the catastrophic 2011 T?hoku earthquake, which is perilously close to Kaiju country. Read more.
VR Fitness
MAY 27, 2021
Virtual reality appeals to people of various ages, backgrounds, and lifestyles, and when it comes to VR for wellness, we continue to see middle-aged or older women taking advantage of this technology for its many benefits. Likewise, some apps seem to have particular appeal and definitely people are picking up headsets specifically to use Supernatural , a full-body cardio workout synced to music and set in beautiful locations.
GizModo VR
MAY 27, 2021
Researchers are looking for good boys and girls to volunteer their time and paws for the sake of science. This week, scientists at Hunter College’s Thinking Dog Center sent out an open call for everyday cats and dogs, as well as their owners, to participate in a citizen science project. The study is intended to help… Read more.
Digital Trends
MAY 27, 2021
NASA’s Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, suffered a scare during its sixth flight on the red planet when the aircraft lost stability in the air.
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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