VRScout
MARCH 24, 2021
Infiltrate dangerous locations, evade armed security, and escape with high-value items. Available on Steam Early Access later this year, The Break-In is an online co-op game that will have you teaming up with friends to loot expensive valuables from a variety of secure locations while evading guards, the police, and neighborhood residents. Your objective is simple.
AR Insider
MARCH 24, 2021
A s you likely know, one of AR’s foundational principles is to fuse the digital and physical. The real world is a key part of that formula… and real-world relevance is often defined by location. That same relevance and scarcity are what drive real estate value….location, location, location. Synthesizing these factors, one of AR’s battlegrounds will be in augmenting the world in location-relevant ways.
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VRScout
MARCH 24, 2021
Save big on Valve’s captivating VR shooter for a limited time. Yesterday marked the one-year anniversary of Half-Life: Alyx’s launch on SteamVR. In celebration of this momentous occasion, Valve is offering a limited-time discount on its award-winning first-person VR shooter. Those who’ve yet to experience Valve’s expertly-crafted VR adventure can pick up the game for just $35.99 now through March 31st.
The Ghost Howls
MARCH 24, 2021
For sure you remember that together with my tutorial on how to develop and submit an application for App Lab , I have actually submitted to App Lab my majestic “The Unity Cube App” , an application with just a cube and some avatar hands (Yes, I’m a troll). After 6 weeks of wait, the application has been rejected by Facebook for two reasons , and one of them was the un-needed audio permissions that Unity has automatically added to my application.
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
MARCH 24, 2021
Rec Room , the social VR platform, announced it has secured a $100 million financing round, bringing the company’s valuation to $1.25 billion. This makes it one of the most valuable VR companies outside of platform holders Facebook, Valve, and HTC. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal , Rec Room reveals its largest round to date was led by Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures, and includes Madrona Venture Group, all of which are existing investors.
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Road to VR
MARCH 24, 2021
Starcaller is an upcoming puzzle game for SteamVR headsets from indie team Monarch Studio. The studio announced it’s coming to PC VR on April 2nd, and will arrive on Quest “soon after.” Described as a “fast-paced puzzle solving virtual reality game,” Starcaller tasks you with solving puzzles as fast as you can. The game is said to come with 30 puzzles which are randomized to make things different every time you play.
ARVR
MARCH 24, 2021
One striking realization about spatial computing is that we’re almost seven years into the sector’s current stage. This traces back to Facebook’s Oculus acquisition in early 2014 that kicked off the current wave of excitement….including lots of ups and downs in the intervening years. That excitement culminated in 2016 after the Oculus acquisition had time to set off a chain reaction of startup activity, tech-giant investment, and VC inflows for the “next computing platform.
VR Fitness
MARCH 24, 2021
Jonathan Ovadia and the team at AEXLAB possess the tools for success as enthusiasm, curiosity, and determination fuel their commitment to provide gamers with an unparalleled experience in immersive reality. While the tech industry at large is known for people who “think outside the box,” game developers in particular often display personality traits seen among successful people and the AEXLAB team is setting new industry standards for user interaction related to VR.
GizModo VR
MARCH 24, 2021
Watch out, firearm lovers. The subtly-named guns.com , a place where Americans can go to pick out whatever stylish boomstick they like and have it shipped straight to their neck of the woods, seems to have a pretty awful data breach on its hands. 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
MARCH 24, 2021
The Myzone MZ-Switch is a fitness wearable which can be worn on your wrist, arm, or chest, and uses either a PPG or an ECG heart rate sensor for accuracy.
GizModo VR
MARCH 24, 2021
Given the state of the current GPU market and, well, the PC hardware market as a whole, it would be an interesting business decision for any company to start selling components. But this is 2021, and all logic be damned; GameStop is going to start selling graphic cards. Read more.
Digital Trends
MARCH 24, 2021
Today's HDTV antennas will get you loads of free over-the-air broadcast television stations. Our handy guide will walk you through how to install a TV antenna.
GizModo VR
MARCH 24, 2021
In a mind-bending development, a team of researchers in China have managed to treat brain tumors in mice by delivering drugs to the tissues using microscopic robots. The robots jumped from the mice’s bloodstreams into their brains by being coated in E. coli , which tricked the rodents’ immune systems into attacking… 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
MARCH 24, 2021
Microsoft started testing new modern folder icons for photos, desktop, documents, music, and more. The icons replace the ones left over from Windows 8.1 .
GizModo VR
MARCH 24, 2021
Back in October, Slack announced it would be intro’ing a product that would allow any paid user—at any organization—to directly message each other across the platform. On Wednesday, the company made good on that promise by opening Slack Connect DMs for anyone currently paying for their Slack subscription. Read more.
Digital Trends
MARCH 24, 2021
Gamers should be prepared to pay double or triple a card's retail price or risk waiting until the third quarter of this year to be able to buy a new GPU.
GizModo VR
MARCH 24, 2021
Time is something that most of us want more of, and one way to reclaim some of the minutes in the day is enlist your computer to automatically take care of repetitive tasks like renaming files, resizing images, and launching apps. With the right software, this is doable, and we’re going to introduce you to some of our… 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
MARCH 24, 2021
Mac OS X launched 20 years ago today. A lot has changed since then, but its legacy as one of Apple’s most important Mac software developments remains.
GizModo VR
MARCH 24, 2021
New research presents evidence that activities such as deforestation, building palm oil plantations, and even converting grassy areas into new forests are associated with outbreaks of disease, particularly those transmitted by mosquitoes and other vector animals. Read more.
Digital Trends
MARCH 24, 2021
From running a farm to navigating a post-apocalyptic landscape or building a state-of-the-art vault, we've picked some of the best simulation games for iPhone.
GizModo VR
MARCH 24, 2021
New research is the latest to find evidence of a link between mental illness and infections caused by a group of bacteria commonly found in cats and other animals. The small study found that people with diagnosed schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder were more likely to carry Bartonella bacteria in their… 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
MARCH 24, 2021
After years of resistance, Sonos has enabled support for hi-res audio on virtually all of its wireless speakers, but only when using a Qobuz streaming account.
GizModo VR
MARCH 24, 2021
A planetary scientist says subterranean water worlds are likely common in the galaxy and probably even better for life than Earth-like environments. Should an intelligent species arise beneath the frozen crust, however, they’d find themselves in perpetual isolation, in what is a possible solution to the Fermi Paradox. Read more.
Digital Trends
MARCH 24, 2021
If you're trying to ditch physical discs, we've got you covered. Here, we outline how to rip a DVD or Blu-ray and convert it into a digital file.
GizModo VR
MARCH 24, 2021
In 2019, a New Jersey high school made national news when it put on a stage production of Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror masterpiece Alien. The production even got the attention of Ripley herself, Sigourney Weaver. It was a huge deal because everyone had the exact same thought: “How the hell do you turn Alien into… 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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