VRScout
JUNE 18, 2021
Impulse Gear’s class-based team shooter is now available on Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift. Coming soon to SteamVR. If there’s one genre of VR that players never tire of, it’s first-person shooters. Just take a look at the excess amount of mil-sim VR shooters currently flooding the market. Onward, Pavlov VR, Zero Caliber —the list goes on.
ARPost
JUNE 18, 2021
Developers of immersive games and apps, rejoice! From now on, you will only need to write one code for all the devices that users may have. This is the big news the XR development world was waiting for for a long time. And it is made possible by VIRTUOSO , an open-source SDK created by Charles Rivers Analytics, which is now available for Epic Games’ Unreal Engine.
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Road to VR
JUNE 18, 2021
A report from Bloomberg citing unnamed sources points to a Holiday 2022 launch of Sony’s next-gen PSVR headset. The report says that PSVR 2 may be the only next-gen VR headset to use OLED displays rather than LCD. Following reports of leaked PSVR 2 specs last month —which claim a 4.1MP (2,000 × 2,040) per-eye resolution, eye-tracking, head-mounted haptics, and more—this week a new report from Bloomberg , citing unnamed “people with knowledge of the matter,” says that the head
AR Insider
JUNE 18, 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.
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
JUNE 18, 2021
ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos (2020) , the anime-style narrative adventure from Japan-based studio MyDearest , has finally released its paid DLC ‘Episode Yamato’ on the Oculus Store for Quest. Both Quest & Quest 2 users are officially the first to jump into the game’s DLC expansion, as it’s a timed exclusive on that platform. Here’s how the studio describes it: In the new DLC, ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos EPISODE YAMATO, you play as Second Lieutenant Yamato Amanagi, a memb
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GizModo VR
JUNE 18, 2021
Star Wars: The Clone Wars may have focused on the Jedi but the time was equally as stressful for senators—especially a senator who was secretly married to one of those Jedi. That’s Padmé Amidala’s situation in the upcoming book Star Wars: Queen’s Hope by E.K. Johnston. Johnston’s third Padmé book is coming November… Read more.
ARVR
JUNE 18, 2021
Every year is bringing us more spatial devices, advancing fidelity, field of vision and general feeling of immersion for both business and consumer users. 2021 is no exception, with tech giants announcing and giving hints of the next big news for Virtual Reality (VR) headsets. The VR market has continued its growth over the past years and is predicted to reach $20.9 billion by 2025.
GizModo VR
JUNE 18, 2021
It’s hot. It’s toxic. It spins backwards and is covered in volcanoes. And we’re headed there soon. Three Venus missions, recently announced by NASA and the European Space Agency, are going to reveal more than we’ve ever known about the scorcher of a planet, a place that many scientists describe as Earth’s evil twin. Read more.
Digital Trends
JUNE 18, 2021
A new report shows up to a 50% drop in European graphics card prices, which could indicate that an end to the GPU shortage may be coming.
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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
JUNE 18, 2021
Watching Synthetic Messenger is a somewhat dissociative experience. It operates in a Zoom call with 100 participants, all of whom are bots. Observers can watch these bots—which are strangely anthropomorphized with images of disembodied hands and voices that say “scroll” and “click” repeatedly—methodically scroll… Read more.
Anand Tech
JUNE 18, 2021
Since the launch of Intel’s Third Generation Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors in April , it was widely expected that the initial volumes of hardware would be going towards Intel’s biggest customers through their OEM partners. Users who want retail hardware would have to wait a while, although exactly how long was a bit of a mystery. The answer to this seems to be that Ice Lake Xeon hardware is now available at retail: both motherboards and a CPU or two.
GizModo VR
JUNE 18, 2021
Falcon and The Winter Soldier might be in the rear-view mirror for Marvel and Disney as the company turns its eyes to Loki , but the discourse around the show returned to the forefront of fandom last night in the wake of a new interview with Captain America himself, Anthony Mackie. But the furor around Mackie’s answers… Read more.
Digital Trends
JUNE 18, 2021
NASA has posted a 360-degree video of its awesome SLS rocket that could be on its way to the moon by the end of this year.
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
JUNE 18, 2021
At long last, the YouTube app on iOS is getting picture-in-picture support, allowing users to continue watching videos in a small pop-up window while scrolling on their iPhones and iPads. Read more.
Digital Trends
JUNE 18, 2021
Snap is removing a controversial speed filter from its Snapchat app that for many years has been in the sights of road safety campaigners.
GizModo VR
JUNE 18, 2021
In just a few more weeks, Godzilla Singular Point is finally hitting Netflix , and that means we’re getting a brand new version of one of our favorite super robot pals, Jet Jaguar. To celebrate, we’re looking back at his origin story in Godzilla vs. Megalon , and finding a movie that is, for better or worse, the… Read more.
Digital Trends
JUNE 18, 2021
Amazon is offering its Fire TV Stick 4K, for media streaming, at a huge discount as part of its Early Prime Day Deals. Find out just how cheap it is here.
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
JUNE 18, 2021
It’s still hard to believe—after so many lengthy delays between previous seasons —that season five of Adult Swim’s Rick and Morty is almost upon us. While we count down the moments until the Emmy-winning series returns on June 20, we thought we’d also look back on season four, highlighting 14 of our favorite and most… Read more.
Digital Trends
JUNE 18, 2021
Reasonably priced 5G smartphones are becoming a lot more common, and most are driven by one of two different processors. Is one better than the other?
GizModo VR
JUNE 18, 2021
The girl of steel is upon us—but before she flies off to cinematic adventures on her own, she’ll be suiting up in Andy Muschietti’s multiversal shenanigans in The Flash , and we’ve got a tiny new glimpse of her costume. Read more.
Digital Trends
JUNE 18, 2021
Save big on this fantastic time-saving robot vacuum from Roomba at Walmart right now.
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
JUNE 18, 2021
You know the phrase “Stuck between a rock and a hard place?” Well, that was the latest episode of Star Wars: The Bad Batch. Except this time there were several rocks, several hard places, and in the middle? Clone Force 99, aka, The Bad Batch. Read more.
Digital Trends
JUNE 18, 2021
The Dell XPS 13 laptop and its 2-in-1 version are available from Dell with significant discounts, so now's your chance at savings when you buy either device.
GizModo VR
JUNE 18, 2021
The Toxic Avenger expands its cast once more. Get ready for a new look at Snake Eyes next week with new teasers. Masashi Ando and Masayuki Miyaji’s gorgeous post-apocalyptic film The Deer King is coming to the states. Plus, get ready for Van Helsing ’s last hurrah. To me, my spoilers! Read more.
Digital Trends
JUNE 18, 2021
Save a massive $70 on this cheap but practical Lenovo Chromebook.
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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