VRScout
DECEMBER 23, 2020
VAR’s somatosensory system brings an extensive catalog of multiplayer LBVR experiences to life. We’ve come a long way since the early days of location-based VR entertainment. From multi-level VR arcades to temporary location-based pop-ups, free roam VR technology offers what could arguably be considered the most immersive VR experiences currently available at the moment.
Road to VR
DECEMBER 23, 2020
Jurassic World Aftermath unabashedly hijacks the hide-and-seek gameplay of Alien Isolation (2014) while bringing it to VR with a Jurassic Park context and a well executed unique visual style. Though it feels like it gets cut short, the game delivers a solid dose of suspense and a polished experience. Jurassic World Aftermath Details: Available On: Oculus Quest.
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ARPost
DECEMBER 23, 2020
The effects of climate change are evident across the globe, including the summit glaciers of Mount Kilimanjaro. You’ll be able to witness this for yourself through an augmented reality video experience with Canadian ice climber Will Gadd. Image credit: Red Bull Content Pool. In The Last Ascent , he goes on what could be his final climb of the Tanzanian peak.
Road to VR
DECEMBER 23, 2020
Skydance Interactive today announced that it’s bringing its wave-based mode to the Quest version of its hit single-payer zombie shooter, The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners (2020). Called ‘The Trial’, the game’s one-year anniversary update is slated to launch for free on the Quest platform on January 20th, 2021. The Trial game mode lets players take on increasingly difficult waves of zombies.
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
DECEMBER 23, 2020
Looking Back and Looking Forward to AR in 2021. by Jon Cheney. W hat will AR look like in 2021? How will leading revenue categories like AR advertising take shape? Contextualizing AR’s future requires looking at its recent past. So we’ve decided to do just that. Here’s our take on where AR has been in the past year… and where it’s going in the next.
Virtual Reality Pulse brings together the best content for VR professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 23, 2020
SpaceX has released its most detailed footage yet showing the key stages of its Starship prototype test flight that took place earlier this month.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 23, 2020
After more than three years of drifting through the Southern Ocean and taking a run at an biodiverse island, iceberg A68 is beginning to fall apart. The latest satellite imagery shows massive cracks forming along the surface of the biggest iceberg on Earth in what could be a sign of the iceberg finally losing its… Read more.
VR Fitness
DECEMBER 23, 2020
As time has gone on, the VR space hasn’t only continued to receive more games of differing genres, but other developers have come along with more experimental applications that utilize the technology. Now, one such company has released a new experience this week that might be specifically helpful for some folks around the globe right now. Continue reading on VR Fitness Insider.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 23, 2020
Disappointments are a natural part of life. Sometimes you buy a new game that doesn’t live up to the hype, or you end up with a new gadget that, while cool in concept, is actually kind of useless. In my case, that meant (possibly) breaking a playlist-roasting bot that my coworkers and colleagues were raving about. 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.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 23, 2020
You can get ahead of the next crop of sci-fi movies coming out of Hollywood by picking up the books that inspired them. Here's where you can start.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 23, 2020
Dating apps are usually cutesy, at best. The questions they ask are always geared toward the agreeable and the design is chipper and romantic. Taste , a new dating app, isn’t that. Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 23, 2020
Memes are designed to make you feel in on the joke, unless you aren't. They are jokes and shared understandings conveyed in a collection of words and images.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 23, 2020
Nearly three weeks after the abrupt exit of Black artificial intelligence ethicist Timnit Gebru, more details are emerging about the shady new set of policies Google has rolled out for its research team. 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
DECEMBER 23, 2020
The sequel to Wonder Woman goes all-in on spectacle with some compelling new characters, but Wonder Woman 1984 tries a little too hard to surpass the original.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 23, 2020
A few years back, a lot of major laptop makers began quietly paring down the number of 17-inch laptops they made (aside from monstrously large gaming rigs), with Apple and Dell dropping the 17-inch MacBook Pro and XPS 17 respectively. However, thanks to improvements like smaller bezels and improved energy efficiency,… Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 23, 2020
We've put together a quick-hit guide to teach you everything you need to know about smart TVs, who makes them, and why you might want one for your living room.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 23, 2020
The Libyan government released a suspected Russian intelligence agent, Maxim Shugaley from prison, in part because someone paid actors Dolph Lundgren, Charlie Sheen, and Danny Trejo to endorse his release on video app Cameo. 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
DECEMBER 23, 2020
Whether you always use an Instant Pot or you just bought one, we've rounded up the most useful tips and tricks to help you prep your next Instant Pot meal.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 23, 2020
Telegram, the encrypted messaging app and longtime drug-dealer haven , is planning to monetize in 2021, founder Pavel Durov said on Wednesday. Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 23, 2020
Finally, iPhone and iPad owners can now stream games to their devices using Google Stadia, although the capability is still in development. We show you how.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 23, 2020
Driverless delivery service Nuro has been cleared for California’s first Autonomous Vehicle Deployment Permit, meaning the company could soon launch a fleet of autonomous commercial vehicles on city streets around the state. 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
DECEMBER 23, 2020
A new Apple patent would enable its AirPods Pro earbuds to detect a variety of signals coming from within your body, like the clicking of teeth or your tongue.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 23, 2020
Apple is getting ready to remove thousands more video games from its App Store in China due to pressure from the Chinese government, reports the Wall Street Journal. The company had previously warned Chinese video game developers that premium gaming apps were at risk of removal from the App Store, but the Chinese… Read more.
Anand Tech
DECEMBER 23, 2020
Following the launch of Thunderbolt 4 earlier this year as part of Intel's Tiger Lake CPUs, the next piece of the TB4 hardware stack has dropped this week with the release of Intel's first stand-alone Thunderbolt 4 controller, Maple Ridge (JHL8540). Previously announced back in July as part of Thunderbolt 4's reveal , Intel this week updated their Ark database to add a product page for the Maple Ridge controller family and flag that the first part is now shipping.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 23, 2020
Anyone who has sat through an interminable panel discussion on a random topic and thought to themselves, “I wish this would never end,” will find a lot to like on Clubhouse. But due to the closed beta nature of the audio-focused social network, most people will have to make do with reading trend pieces about how much “ … 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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