ARPost

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

For most of us, virtual reality is a fun pastime or a handy work tool. For some of us, it can represent something more. Eighty-seven-year-old George Hetrick has always wanted to visit the Grand Canyon. He remembers hearing about it and seeing grainy pictures of it on the television as a child but was never able to make it there in person. Rendever and Wish of a Lifetime from AARP came together to send him there in virtual reality.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Within hours of publishing, the Bernie Sanders Snapchat Lens had hundreds of thousands of downloads. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders may not have won the Democratic nomination for the 2020 election, but he did manage to win the hearts and minds of Americans during the inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris after photographer Branden Smialowski captured Sanders sitting cross-legged in a chair wearing a pair of unforgettable handmade gifted to him by Vermont school tea

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Haaaappy February, amazing XR community! Another week has just passed by and it was a cool one with many news and articles to talk about! Also, the first Awe Nite Florence that I co-organized was good, considering that it was the first one (would you mind registering to the next one at this link ?). Stay tuned on this blog, because in some days I will publish an EXTRAORDINARY interview related to one of the most awaited VR games of 2021!

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Audience members would have a direct impact on the experience via “spectator devices.” According to a recently published patent filed by Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc back in October of 2020, the company has been experimenting with technology that would allow those not in VR to participate in immersive experiences using a method that includes “augmenting the VR scene based on the spectator inputs in response to the interactive content of the audience participation device.&

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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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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Magic Leap CEO Peggy Johnson took the stage at the Future Investment Initiative (FII) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia this past week to talk a bit about her time as the company’s new leader. There’s been precious little information surrounding Magic Leap’s second-gen AR headset, however the company also announced that the enterprise-focused device slated to first release in late 2021 with a few notable improvements.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Get the most out of RealityKit’s material types, using colors and images Setting the right material to your mesh in RealityKit is a crucial part of setting the scene and making your models look just right, and there are a few tools at your disposal with RealityKit. I’ve already talked about the newest and most complex type, VideoMaterial here: Getting Started with RealityKit: Video Materials But there are a few other types of materials you can set by code, and ways to tailor them for your needs

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

W elcome back to Spatial Beats. This week, we look at tech stocks, Quest 2’s continued rise, Google’s VR sunsetting, and horsing around with Snapchat See the full roundup below. Tech Stocks Had A Great Q4. The market has responded today by falling 600 points. The NASDAQ is down 2.4%, taking back nearly half the month’s gain, as trading continues.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

When shopping around for new cars to buy, you are often presented with seemingly endless possibilities in terms of brands, models, and customizations. It is also a time-consuming process since you need to look for a wide variety of options and, even who does find a car you like, you still can’t really get a feel for it from print or online advertising.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

As police struggled futilely to fend off a wave of rioters outside the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, Joel Valdez, an aide to Congressman Matt Gaetz, made his way to the rooftop of his boss’s office building across the street on Independence Ave. Surveying the mob as it surrounded the complex, he captured a… 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.

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Charlie Fink

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Ryff can place new products in old media, creating new integrated advertising opportunities where there were none.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Apple’s watchOS platform doesn’t have quite as many customization options as other smartwatches, such as those built on Google’s Wear OS, do. But there are numerous ways to make your Apple Watch your own, beyond picking your watch color, size, and strap. Here are the top features to know and how to use them. Read more.

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Anand Tech

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Earlier this year Intel indicated that it was launching its new Jasper Lake platform very soon, built on a foundation of 10nm manufacturing with the latest Tremont Atom cores. While Jasper Lake is geared towards consumers and commercial use cases, Intel also has a similar line of processors built for the industrial and IoT markets, also using Tremont on 10nm, called Elkhart Lake.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Prehistoric teeth found over 100 years ago are some of the best evidence yet for hybridized communities of Neanderthals and modern humans. Read more.

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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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Anand Tech

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

One of MSI's most prominent motherboard ranges is its Godlike series, set as the premium model no matter which platform it is aimed at. As Intel has recently launched its new Z590 desktop chipset, MSI got in contact and shipped us a qualification sample of the new Z590 Godlike model. Designed as the flagship motherboard, in this article we are looking at how the MSI MEG Z590 Godlike has changed from the previous generation for Intel's Rocket Lake processors.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Google Stadia, the late 2019 streaming platform that promised to revolutionize gaming by letting users stream games without needing to own a powerful PC or console, is altering course, getting out of the game-making business and will now offer its platform directly to game publishers alongside offering Stadia Pro to… Read more.

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Anand Tech

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Back at the all-digital CES 2021 trade show, ASUS and the other big motherboard vendors announced its Z590 models designed for Intel's LGA1200 processors. With many of the models now common knowledge, Twitter technology enthusiast @momomo_us points out that ASUS is bundling MemTest86 inside the BIOS of its Republic of Gamers motherboards. MemTest86 is a well known piece of software for diagnosing memory failures, not just in faulty memory, but also provides troubleshooting capabilities for u

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

While Apple is still working on its big two-year transition to homegrown Apple chips, even in these early days software developers are already porting their apps over, with Nvidia having just added support for M1 Macs to its GeForce Now game streaming client. Read more.

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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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Digital Trends

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

We've rounded up some of the better USB-C cables on the market that will charge your smartphone super-fast.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

It used to be a joke, but it’s not so funny anymore. Google is threatening to block searches in Australia if the country implements a compulsory profit-sharing deal that would force tech giants like Google and Facebook to pay media companies for their content. But Australia’s Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, isn’t… Read more.

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HoloLens

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Ever since the US Army awarded Microsoft's HoloLens a $480 million contract, the battle for enterprise augmented reality has heated up in earnest. Now, the Redmond, Washington tech giant is looking to strengthen its hold on the burgeoning AR enterprise space by introducing the HoloLens 2 Industrial Edition. • Don't Miss: Next Reality's 30 People to Watch in Augmented Reality for 2020 The new version of the HoloLens 2 is specifically designed to meet the needs of pharmaceutical and semiconductor

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

One of the things people crave most about Marvel’s cinematic output? Connection. Where is this character during this moment, how does this event connect to a hundred other narratives ? WandaVision , Marvel Studios’ first crack at bringing its movieverse to streaming television, is no exception, but it’s doing so in a… Read more.

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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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Anand Tech

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Our new SSD test suite is ready, updated and expanded for the latest trends in storage including PCIe 4.0 and QLC NAND.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Some not-so-great legal news for Apple. For starters, a judge has concluded that Apple CEO Tim Cook should sit for a seven-hour deposition in the upcoming case against Epic Games. Second, Apple’s attempt to subpoena Samsung in the case has also been denied. Womp womp. Read more.

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Oculus

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The NBA is back in Venues on the Oculus Quest Platform. Get front-row seats to NBA League Pass games in VR, all without leaving your.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In a world where cryptids are real but misunderstood, a trio of women (one of whom happens to be a Gorgon) join forces to protect the strange beasts that lurk among us. But as we see in Dash Shaw’s gloriously colorful adult animation Cryptozoo , sometimes the best intentions aren’t always what’s best in the end. Read more.

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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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