ARPost
JUNE 25, 2021
There is a growing interest in augmented reality and its potential to improve special education. It has the ability to create interactive experiences by enhancing the real-life environment with virtual elements. When applied to special needs learning, lessons can be accessible to children with different types of disabilities. Thus, teachers can meet the needs of all the learners in the classroom.
VRScout
JUNE 25, 2021
Score big on some of the biggest VR games on Oculus Quest and SteamVR headsets. It’s officially Summer 2021 and what better way to spend the next few sunny months than drowning in a pile of incredible VR games? After all, who needs reality when you have larger-than-life experiences like Half-Life: Alyx and POPULATION: ONE ? If you still haven’t had the chance to play some of these incredible titles, well, this is your lucky day.
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Road to VR
JUNE 25, 2021
TRIPP, the Los Angeles-based startup behind the eponymous VR meditation app, has secured a Series A investment amounting to $11 million. The investment, which was announced via TechCrunch , was led by Vine Ventures and Mayfield with participation from Integrated. This brings the company’s overall outside funding to $15 million, with its first $4 million secured back in September 2017.
Next Reality AR
JUNE 25, 2021
The Paris-based technology conference Viva Technology, which hosted the likes of Apple's Tim Cook and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, is now over. But there are still a few more treats to discover from the annual gathering. Namely, from new Magic Leap CEO Peggy Johnson. • Don't Miss: 'The Matrix' Movie Effects Pioneer & Former Magic Leap Exec Reveals 'Tragic Story' of Startup's Recent Struggles Unlike Cook and Zuckerberg, who both appeared at last week's tech conference via remote video, Johnson
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
JUNE 25, 2021
A s we examine in our ongoing Space Race series, one of AR’s most opportune areas is geospatial experiences. Because AR’s inherent function is to enhance the physical world, its relevance is often tied to specific locations. This is a foundational principle of the AR cloud. For this reason, one of AR’s competitive battlegrounds will be in augmenting the world in location-relevant ways.
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ARVR
JUNE 25, 2021
AR traction over the past few years has occurred mostly through the smartphone camera. As our research arm ARtillery Intelligence quantified in its mobile AR revenue forecast , this early AR modality has reached scale by piggy-backing on a ubiquitous device we all carry. But that scale has a tradeoff. Mobile AR’s quantitative benefits come with qualitative detriments.
GizModo VR
JUNE 25, 2021
A comprehensive analysis of an unusually large skull found in Harbin, China has led to the reported discovery of a previously unknown species of extinct human, dubbed “Dragon Man.” Dating back some 146,000 years, the skull is forcing a re-think of human evolution in Asia during the Middle Pleistocene, but… Read more.
ARVR
JUNE 25, 2021
As you may have heard, Apple recently launched 3D urban navigation?—?its answer to Google Live view. Not to be outdone, Google fired back with an update of its own: better landmark detection in Google Lens. This is just the latest in its ongoing “Internet of places,” ambitions. But buried in that announcement was a notable nugget: Google Lens is used 3 billion times per month.
GizModo VR
JUNE 25, 2021
Microsoft says the cybercriminals behind the SolarWinds attack compromised a Microsoft customer service agent’s device to launch hacking attempts against its customers. 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.
Anand Tech
JUNE 25, 2021
It’s been a few months since AMD first announced their new third generation EPYC Milan server CPU line-up. We had initially reviewed the first SKUS back in March, covering the core density optimised 64-core EPYC 7763, EPYC 7713 and the core-performance optimised 32-core EPYC 75F3. Since then, we’ve ben able to get our hands on several new mid and lower end SKUs in the form of the new 24-core EPYC 7443, the 16-core 7343, as well as the very curious 8-core EPYC 72F3 which we’ll b
GizModo VR
JUNE 25, 2021
Evil is back—streaming on Paramount+ instead of CBS in its second season—and its most memorable character, Leland Townsend , is already causing mischief for its trio of Catholic Church-sponsored supernatural investigators. To learn more about what’s to come, we hopped on the phone with the actor who brings him to life:… Read more.
Digital Trends
JUNE 25, 2021
Microsoft just announced Windows 11, but you might be wondering how it compares to Windows 10. We've got you covered with a look at all the differences.
GizModo VR
JUNE 25, 2021
Here are some terrifying images of the growing tick threat in North America, courtesy of NASA satellite data. The images accompany recent research showing that warmer climates over the past two decades have allowed Lyme disease-carrying deer ticks to survive and spread farther into Canada and parts of the Northern U.S. 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.
Digital Trends
JUNE 25, 2021
Digital zoom photos will never match the quality of an optical zoom photo, yet some phone makers are now encouraging you to use the feature. It needs to stop.
GizModo VR
JUNE 25, 2021
Perhaps weary of America’s gruesome mass-murder ritual, cows across the country have decided to do something else and go somewhere. We can’t know why or where because we can’t talk to them, but the thought process was probably along the lines of: There’s somethin’ happenin’ somewhere. Baby, I just know that there is. … Read more.
Digital Trends
JUNE 25, 2021
The iPad Pro's apps may soon start to catch up with its hardware, thanks to a new behind-the-scenes tweak that Apple will begin offering some apps.
GizModo VR
JUNE 25, 2021
The rumor mill surrounding Samsung’s next-gen smartwatches has been absolutely buzzing these past few weeks. The latest contends that Samsung’s next flagship—the Galaxy Watch 4—might add a bioimpedance analysis (BIA) sensor. If you’ve never heard of BIA before, it’s the same tech used in smart scales to determine your… Read more.
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.
Digital Trends
JUNE 25, 2021
If you're a fan of the more tactical style of co-op shooters the series is known for, you'll want to check out everything we know about Rainbow Six Extraction. .
GizModo VR
JUNE 25, 2021
Even after you watch the titular boogeyman of director Bernard Rose’s 1992 Candyman tear into victims with his gruesome hook hand, it’s inexplicably tempting to find the nearest mirror and speak his name five times just to see what will happen. Everything about Candyman explains why you shouldn’t do this. And yet… Read more.
Digital Trends
JUNE 25, 2021
A Microsoft engineer has confirmed that users will be able to sideload Android apps on Windows 11. That doesn't mean you should, though.
GizModo VR
JUNE 25, 2021
An Aboriginal group is accusing an Australian mining giant of destroying priceless historical materials and keeping their destruction secret for decades, claiming that some artifacts were quite literally thrown into the trash. 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?
Digital Trends
JUNE 25, 2021
The Steam Summer Sale has begun again and is featuring big deals on games like The Master Chief Collection, Horizon, and more.
GizModo VR
JUNE 25, 2021
It’s been nearly 30 years since a NASA spacecraft went to Venus, a yellowish planet 67 million miles from the Sun and 141 million miles from us. Venus is often thought of as a sibling planet to Earth, both being rocky worlds close enough to the Sun to bask in its heat. And yet, at some point in their histories, the… Read more.
Digital Trends
JUNE 25, 2021
Following in the footsteps of MacOS, Windows will now be releasing major updates once a year starting with Windows 11.
GizModo VR
JUNE 25, 2021
Researchers peering at layered deposits on Mars’ south pole found what appear to be dozens of subsurface lakes, though many of them are in areas where water would be frozen. 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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