VRScout

JANUARY 6, 2021

But good lord those controllers… Despite some initial hiccups and a handful of questionable decisions regarding the controllers, we thoroughly enjoyed our time with the original HP Reverb. Released back in 2019 for the Windows Mixed Reality platform, the HP Reverb features incredible 2160×2160 per eye resolution and a comfortable lightweight design, resulting in one of the most impressive PC VR headsets available to consumers; if you were able to get your hands on it that is.

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ARPost

JANUARY 6, 2021

Not everyone is on the same page with VR terms. While some acronyms and words are intuitive, others are more obscure and require some explanations. Thus, we prepared for you this glossary which, we hope, will help you understand 100% of the information we share in our articles. See Also: The Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Terms You Need to Know.

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VRScout

JANUARY 6, 2021

The future of personal holographic displays looks bright. Looking Glass Factory , purveyor of holographic light field display technology such as the Looking Glass Portrait and Looking Glass Pro , this week unveiled a new cloud-based service capable of transforming conventional 2D photos into 3D holographic images in a matter of seconds; no programming or 3D modeling experience required.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 6, 2021

O ne of our longstanding picks for potential AR killer apps is visual search. Its utility and frequency mirror that of search, while it carries a relatable “search what you see” proposition. It’s also naturally monetizable and Google is highly motivated to make it happen. As background, visual search has several meanings including reverse-image search on Google desktop.

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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.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 6, 2021

In yet another dastardly twist in the ongoing SolarWinds debacle, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday that hackers had accessed the inboxes of over 3,000 DOJ employee Microsoft email accounts. Read more.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 6, 2021

Newly-elected member of West Virginia’s House of Delegates Derrick Evans was among the insurrectionists who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, and we know this because he streamed video of himself doing it in which he referred to himself in the third person. Read more.

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Digital Trends

JANUARY 6, 2021

Apple is a company that loves keeping a good secret. According to a former employee, Apple kept the Mac’s M1 chip under wraps for ten years before it launched.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 6, 2021

Tile is looking to make its Bluetooth item-finders more powerful with ultra-wide band technology and by adding augmented reality to its mobile phone app, reports TechCrunch. Read more.

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Digital Trends

JANUARY 6, 2021

Before CES 2021, let’s take a look back at the gear we’ve highlighted from the last decade to see when we picked the marvels … and when we’ve missed the magic.

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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.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 6, 2021

Some 33 million people in the U.S., or 1 in 7 Americans, have disabilities related to mobility, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Considered something of a silent health epidemic, the degree to which older and middle-aged Americans struggle with difficulties walking or climbing is immense. Read more.

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Digital Trends

JANUARY 6, 2021

Huge demand for Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3080 has resulted in GPU shortages. We are learning that profitable cryptocurrency mining is also a contributing factor.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 6, 2021

As a child of the 80s, I didn’t have an Atari, an NES, or even a Sega Master System. My first console was actually our family’s first computer: the Commodore 64. It was a passable gaming system, but more importantly, it was a device that taught me that technology was something that could be fun to explore and its… Read more.

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Digital Trends

JANUARY 6, 2021

AirPop has made face masks for years, and now has a smart version that connects to your phone to monitor the air around you, and the way your breathe.

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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.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 6, 2021

Researchers at UCLA have created a model to distinguish conspiracy theories from actual conspiracies which will possibly allow robots to differentiate between things like Pizzagate and Bridgegate in the future. Read more.

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AffinityVr

JANUARY 6, 2021

Chess is not something most people do not know about it has been entertaining millions of millions of people over hundreds of years. My skills as a chess player are a bit low. I know how to play the game but most of the part I get defeated easily, so that’s what [.]. The post Chess Ultra VR Learning Reviews 2020 appeared first on Virtual Reality Augmented Reality Technology Latest News.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 6, 2021

Transformers is a franchise that from the get-go has almost been ceaselessly fascinated with its past. The long shadow of the fabled “G1” era—from its design sensibilities to its origin deep-dives—has cast a long shadow over so much of what has come since, including Netflix’s latest re-litigation of the War for… Read more.

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Digital Trends

JANUARY 6, 2021

Science fiction? Not for long if a new deal struck by the Israeli company Urban Aeronautics lives up its promise.

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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.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 6, 2021

While AT&T prematurely scared its customers about the upcoming shutdown of its older 3G network, Verizon has recently decided to take things slower by delaying the shutdown of its 3G service indefinitely. Read more.

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Digital Trends

JANUARY 6, 2021

An Israeli defense firm has shown off a new A.I.-powered system that allows for drones and robots to enter buildings to scan the insides to create maps.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 6, 2021

Amazon might be working on an Alexa-enabled device that could potentially track sleep and detect sleep apnea, according to a Business Insider report. Read more.

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Digital Trends

JANUARY 6, 2021

While The Elder Scrolls VI is in active development, you won't get to play it for quite some time. Here's everything we know about the follow-up to Skyrim.

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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?

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 6, 2021

The Expanse season five has somehow already reached episode six with “Tribes,” a somewhat calmer installment that’s still packed with action and incredible character work, especially for Cara Gee’s Drummer and Wes Chatham’s Amos. Tensions are sky-high as the season enters its second half. Read more.

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Digital Trends

JANUARY 6, 2021

Whether you're hunting for a Windows PC, MacBook, or Chromebook, here are our picks for the best laptops in every category, from gaming to budget to Chromebook.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 6, 2021

Amazon has purchased 11 passenger planes from Delta and WestJet that will be converted into cargo jets, according to a press release from the Seattle-based online retailer. It’s the first time Amazon has purchased planes outright rather than just lease them and comes as the airline industry struggles from a slowdown… Read more.

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Digital Trends

JANUARY 6, 2021

Intel is still the top dog, but the competition has never been so tight. With AMD and ARM closing in, Intel needs to use CES 2021 to make a big impression.

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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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