VRScout
APRIL 14, 2022
Celebrate your favorite professional team in this limited-time event. Popular VR social platform Rec Room today announced that it has partnered with the National Basketball Association (NBA) for a special in-game event that will take place throughout the 2022 NBA postseason. In the main Rec Center lobby, you’ll now find a variety of new basketball-themed content designed to celebrate the 2022 NBA playoffs.
ARPost
APRIL 14, 2022
XR held promise for art from the very beginning. The boom in digital art and art as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) created even more opportunity for the space. As a reflection of that, there has been a significant rise in immersive art galleries, with some organizations providing that particular service. See Also: Sabby Life is Changing the Way We View Art With VR Art.
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VRScout
APRIL 14, 2022
Other rock legends include Rob Zombie and Gossip. Originally released back in October 2021, Unplugged sets itself apart from competing VR rhythm games with its use of the Meta Quest’s hand-tracking technology. Rather than using standard motion controllers, you instead shred your virtual guitar using your own two hands, sort of like you were playing an air guitar.
AR Insider
APRIL 14, 2022
When formulating a career path, how can one make the jump from academia to AR? Meta's Stefanie Hutka weighs in with key lessons from her own career journey in our latest guest post. 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
APRIL 14, 2022
Earlier this week Meta announced that it would begin testing tools to let creators sell things for real money in Horizon Worlds and would charge a fee of 47.5% of their earnings. The fee structure seemed at odds with prior comments from Meta which have criticized app store fees from the likes of Apple and Google. Now Apple is accusing the company of hypocrisy.
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Road to VR
APRIL 14, 2022
Initially released in early access on Steam in 2018, VR roguelite COMPOUND is slated to get a Quest 2 version following its 1.0 version on PC, its developer says. Though little-known, Compound is the 5th best-rated VR game according to Steam (with an ‘Overwhelmingly Positive’ 97% rating) and the 12th best-rated according to Steam250 (which uses its own algorithm to determine rankings).
Slashgear
APRIL 14, 2022
Hydrogen cars sounded like a great idea, but they're hardly around anymore. What happened? It turns out the tech simply isn't as viable as EV alternatives.
Road to VR
APRIL 14, 2022
HTC announced this week it is making available an OpenXR public beta for the Vive Focus 3. OpenXR is designed to make it easier for developers to create a single app that’s cross-compatible with multiple OpenXR-supporting headsets. OpenXR is a royalty-free standard that aims to standardize the development of XR applications, making hardware and software more interoperable.
ARVR
APRIL 14, 2022
8 Best Instagram AR Filters in Singapore & Hong Kong Chinese New Year is the most important festival celebrated by Chinese around the world, especially in Asia. Needless to say, it is also a very important marketing campaign period for brands that have a presence in Asia to have a Chinese New Year campaign that celebrates with their Instagram followers.
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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.
Road to VR
APRIL 14, 2022
Genies , a 3D avatar company, announced it’s raised a $150 million Series C investment, something it says will be used to hire more engineering talent and continue development on its non-fungible token (NFT) based “avatar universe.” The round was led by private equity firm Silver Lake, and includes participation from existing investors BOND, NEA, and Tamarack Global.
Slashgear
APRIL 14, 2022
Using data from Hubble, researchers were able to shed light on a previously unproven and mysterious period of evolution in the formation of a black hole.
Mashable VR
APRIL 14, 2022
Elon Musk's just taken his Twitter journey to the next level, offering to buy 100 percent of the company for oh, about $41 billion. In a 13D regulatory filing , the Tesla CEO made a "best and final" offer of $54.20 per share in cash for the social media giant (that represents a 54 percent premium over the closing price on January 28, which is the day before Musk started investing in Twitter).
Slashgear
APRIL 14, 2022
The James Webb Space Telescope performs another daring operation that could decide its ultimate fate -- and comes through with flying colors.
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.
Mashable VR
APRIL 14, 2022
This post contains spoilers for Season 1 of Our Flag Means Death. As the inaugural season of HBO's Our Flag Means Death played out last month, survivors of the Tumblr-era queer fandom found themselves anxiously holding their breath, apprehensively awaiting the show's moment of truth. Was this clearly LGBTQ-coded show going to actually deliver on its gay promise?
Slashgear
APRIL 14, 2022
A new Google app has appeared for iOS, and it's designed to make switching to Android easier. The only problem? The app appears to be a work in progress.
GizModo VR
APRIL 14, 2022
Crypto investor Sina Estavi bought an NFT of Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey’s first tweet ever for $2.9 million in March of 2021. And after a year of constant hype for NFTs, most people would naturally assume Estavi might be able to turn a nice profit on his investment by now. But most people would be wrong. Read more.
Slashgear
APRIL 14, 2022
Elon Musk makes a bid for Twitter and gives a few details about why he wants to own the social network and make it a private company once 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.
Mashable VR
APRIL 14, 2022
Donald Trump's social media platform, Truth Social , could really use a win right now. Downloads of the app are way down , two major tech executives recently left the company. Even Trump himself is refusing to use his own social network until things get better. And, earlier this week, it looked like that much-needed win for Truth Social and its parent company, Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG), had arrived: Fox News officially joined the platform.
Slashgear
APRIL 14, 2022
The Motorola leaks are still rolling in. This time around, two models reportedly destined for the U.S. market have surfaced, including official images.
Mashable VR
APRIL 14, 2022
Need a new binge? We've looked through Amazon's catalog for the best shows included with a Prime membership. So whether you're searching for a snappy comedy, a historical adventure, an emotional medical drama, or off-beat muppets, we have got you covered. In no particular order, here are the 19 best shows on Amazon Prime Video that you should be streaming right now. 1.
Slashgear
APRIL 14, 2022
A network of government security agencies has seized one of the world's largest hacker forums in an effort to crack down on digital malfeasance.
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 14, 2022
There are few perfect things in this world, so it’s worth celebrating them when we find them. Case in point: this unbelievably outstanding video from Gazelle Automations, which imagines if the classic animation studio Filmation had managed to get its hands on the Star Trek : The Next Generation crew. Read more.
Slashgear
APRIL 14, 2022
The next OnePlus phone was just revealed by Amazon, while another new OnePlus smartphone sits in the wings, barely confirmed to exist before launch.
GizModo VR
APRIL 14, 2022
Transistors, specifically those made from silicon, are the cornerstone of modern electronics. From toasters to televisions, transistors appear in nearly everything with a circuit. They are also only getting smaller, which is a problem, especially when it comes to energy consumption, heat, and, ironically, total device… Read more.
Slashgear
APRIL 14, 2022
Our writer attended the ride-along for the fabled Mercedes-Benz VISION EQXX Research Car. What he found was innovation and a model for the future.
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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