ARPost
JUNE 25, 2020
Oculus Quest is a VR headset that helps users enjoy tetherless immersive experiences. It consists of a headset and a pair of hand controllers. Players do not need a computer or a mobile phone to start a game, thus they can play both indoors and outdoors. Also, for some time now , users have been able to find VR hand tracking games compatible with Oculus Quest.
VRScout
JUNE 25, 2020
Share you personal videos without the need of a VR-ready PC. Since the launch of the social VR platform Bigscreen , movie fans have been jumping into VR to checkout a huge catalog of awesome 2D and 3D blockbuster flicks alongside friends and strangers from across the globe. The movie genres span from sci-fi, drama, action, comedy, to films that reflect our current political landscape , offering a little something for everyone.
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Road to VR
JUNE 25, 2020
Bigscreen today released an update that brings to the social VR viewing platform a video player that lets you watch your own video files. Yes, even on Oculus Quest. Bigscreen’s new video player lets you watch your own files alone, or with friends—provided they have the same file stored on their local machine. If your friends do happen to have the same file, Bigscreen automatically syncs everyone in the room so you can watch it together.
VRScout
JUNE 25, 2020
Developer nDreams offers a unique stealth experience that doesn’t overstay its welcome. “Just keep paddling. Don’t look behind you. Just keep paddling.” These are the words I told myself while attempting to escape a barrage of incoming machine gun fire after drawing the attention of nearby enemies by destroying an active missile silo.
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 25, 2020
Want to step into the iconic red boots of Sonic the Hedgehog? This fan-built VR experience will let you do just that, and with some serious attention to detail that Sonic fans are sure to appreciate. Coming to the annual Sonic Amateur Games Expo ( SAGE ) 2020 in September is a new VR experience that lets you jump into a number of original Sonic the Hedgehog Zones.
Virtual Reality Pulse brings together the best content for VR professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Road to VR
JUNE 25, 2020
The Steam Summer Sale is here and runs through July 9th. For the first time the event puts Half-Life: Alyx on sale, bringing the price down to $45 (25% discount), and you’ll get another $5 off Alyx or any other purchase over $30. Heaps more VR games like Boneworks , Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners, Vacation Simulator , Until You Fall , and Pavlov VR are on sale too.
ARVR
JUNE 25, 2020
This is a continuation from On Art & Reality I, found here. “Reality is our canvas; digital is our brush.” This is a new mantra we’re trying on for our team. What does it mean? In the mixed reality (“ MR ”) art world, we see “reality” as a spectrum. But this is not “reality” in the psychic, mind-bending-substance kind of spectrum that separates sanity from insanity.
GizModo VR
JUNE 25, 2020
In its push to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from the U.K., the U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday published a superseding indictment aimed at broadening “the scope of the conspiracy surrounding alleged computer intrusions with which Assange was previously charged.” The names of certain organizations… Read more.
ARVR
JUNE 25, 2020
The Mixed Reality Toolkit (MRTK) is a reference in the world of XR interactions and UI creation for both VR and AR and specifically for Hololens. It is a solid system working on many platforms and providing various tools to help you create your XR experience. However, depending on your project it might not fit properly with your expectations or needs.
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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 25, 2020
It’s lawsuit week for Big Oil. A day after Minnesota filed a groundbreaking suit , Washington, DC District Attorney General Karl Racine sued ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, and Shell, alleging that the companies “systematically and intentionally misled consumers. about the central role their products play in causing… Read more.
Digital Trends
JUNE 25, 2020
Microsoft Surface devices run the gamut when it comes to features and pricing, and with the lineup expanded with two new models for 2019, it’s not as easy as it was to find the right one for your needs. To help you out, we’ve scoured the web to bring you this list of the best Microsoft Surface Pro deals.
GizModo VR
JUNE 25, 2020
We’re gonna need a bigger TARDIS. After over a decade apart, and several Doctors in between, Big Finish has announced that David Tennant and Alex Kingston are returning as the Tenth Doctor and River Song in a new Doctor Who audio series. Read more.
Anand Tech
JUNE 25, 2020
One of the stories bubbling away in the background of the industry is the AMD self-imposed ‘25x20’ goal. Starting with performance in 2014, AMD committed to itself, to customers, and to investors that it would achieve an overall 25x improvement in ‘Performance Efficiency’ by 2020, which is a function of raw performance and power consumption.
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 25, 2020
Google’s push to become a privacy-positive company over the past year has been, depending on how you look at it, an act of genuine benevolence , a brilliant marketing decision , or straight-up b t. So when Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced the company’s latest moves in the privacy-protecting space on Twitter… Read more.
Digital Trends
JUNE 25, 2020
We’ve rounded upsome of the best desktop PC deals out there, covering a spectrum of features and prices.
GizModo VR
JUNE 25, 2020
Are you a frontline worker dealing with new stresses or irresponsible management? Is working (or not working) from home starting to take a psychological toll? How are you coping with reopening? Submit a story using this Google form or send me an email with the subject line “My Covid Story” and provide as much … Read more.
Digital Trends
JUNE 25, 2020
Cold weather is here. A good action camera is a perfect way to record your adventures.
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 25, 2020
In 2016, The 100 went into a metaphorical butthole. In the span of a few episodes the show murdered one of its most prominent Black characters in a brutal manner and then murdered its most high profile lesbian. The audience fled in droves , the show was critically panned, a national conversation about the wanton… Read more.
Anand Tech
JUNE 25, 2020
Absent from the discrete GPU space for over 20 years, this year Intel is set to see the first fruits from their labors to re-enter that market. The company has been developing their new Xe family of GPUs for a few years now, and the first products are finally set to arrive in the coming months with the Xe-LP-based DG1 discrete GPU , as well as Tiger Lake’s integrated GPU , kicking off the Xe GPU era for Intel.
GizModo VR
JUNE 25, 2020
Faced with the increasingly vocal criticism that it’s one of the primary reasons why newsrooms are struggling, Google announced today a new licensing program that will pay certain publishers for content ahead of launching a “new news experience” later this year. Read more.
Digital Trends
JUNE 25, 2020
The Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 has been yet again previewed in a new leak. Shared by Evan Blass (via XDA Developers), the render offers a clear look at the upcoming smartwatch and falls in line with previous rumors that suggested a familiar exterior. The Galaxy Watch 3 largely appears to resemble its predecessor and refines […].
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 25, 2020
There’s a buffet of things to be scared shitless about these days, but for those who have sampled even a taste of big tech’s eagerness to build and sell facial recognition surveillance software to law enforcement, it’s uniquely rancid. Read more.
Digital Trends
JUNE 25, 2020
If you are planning on getting into shape and need some new home gym equipment, we have you covered.
GizModo VR
JUNE 25, 2020
It only took 84 years but someone involved with distributing Gone With the Wind has finally acknowledged that its glorification of the antebellum south is racist and that it perhaps should not be disseminated to audiences without some kind of warning. Read more.
Anand Tech
JUNE 25, 2020
Absent from the discrete GPU space for over 20 years, this year Intel is set to see the first fruits from their labors to re-enter that market. The company has been developing their new Xe family of GPUs for a few years now, and the first products are finally set to arrive in the coming months with the Xe-LP-based DG1 discrete GPU , as well as Tiger Lake’s integrated GPU , kicking off the Xe GPU era for Intel.
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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