ARPost
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Some people enjoy interactive games that do not isolate them from the real world. So, we looked at the best and most popular AR games you should play this year. We considered all the kinds of games our readers may enjoy and tried to make a good compilation that will satisfy everyone. AR Games Turn the Outside World Into a New Space. AR games became super popular after the launch of Pokémon Go.
Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Google’s Owlchemy Labs, the VR studio behind Job Simulator (2016), just revealed a totally new game called Cosmonious High. It’s heading to PC VR and Oculus Quest next year. First revealed today, Cosmonious High launches you into an alien high school where you unlock powers in order to fix up the place post-disaster, and meet a quirky cast of characters who attend classes with you along the way.
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AR Insider
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
V isual search is a flavor of AR that could represent a breakout use case. It positions the camera as a search input – applying machine learning and computer vision magic – to identify items you point your phone at. 400 million people use it according to ARtilery Intelligence. Seen in products like Google Lens , visual search is all about annotating the world.
Slashgear
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Roblox Spatial Voice is ready to roll in Beta mode, bringing the Roblox Metaverse one step closer to reality. I mean, technically Roblox already IS a Metaverse of sorts, but with Spatial Voice, the entire experience will become a whole lot more like Ready Player One than it is today. Spatial Voice will be available to test first in the … Continue reading.
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
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
W hat are the biggest insights and observations in AR and adjacent sectors this week? Welcome to Reality Bytes , featuring lightning-round commentary from AR Insider partner M7 Innovations. Founder Matt Maher lends his insights from the trenches of AR experience creation. We continue the narrative this week with Maher’s look at Clubhouse’s spatial audio, iPhone satellite connections, and Instagram’s discovery engine.
Virtual Reality Pulse brings together the best content for VR professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
GizModo VR
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk has “consistently” praised the “social policies” of the state of Texas during his “frequently” chats with Greg Abbott, the Texas governor said Thursday, in an interview focused on his state’s landmark abortion ban. Read more.
Anand Tech
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
At Hot Chips last week, IBM announced its new mainframe Z processor. It’s a big interesting piece of kit that I want to do a wider piece on at some point, but there was one feature of that core design that I want to pluck out and focus on specifically. IBM Z is known for having big L3 caches, backed with a separate global L4 cache chip that operates as a cache between multiple sockets of processors – with the new Telum chip, IBM has done away with that – there’s no L4, bu
GizModo VR
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Welcome to Burning Questions, a series where Earther answers the most common asks we get on how to address climate change. Many people want to do something, anything to help address the climate crisis. We answer your questions about how to help change your life—and the systems that will save us. Check out our past … Read more.
VR Game Critic
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
September is off to a slow start, but it’s great to see some titles that will launch across all major VR platforms. This includes Rhythm of the Universe: IONIA, a fantasy adventure game about preserving the environment with the power of music. We love the idea behind the game and what’s even better, every purchase will benefit real-world wildlife, with a portion of proceeds going directly to environmental non-profit organizations.
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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
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
In an effort to get more people onboard with their whole sharing-intimate-thoughts-and-opinions-with-strangers-on-the-internet thing, Twitter plans to trial a host of new features that will allow for greater privacy customization. Read more.
Digital Trends
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Check out the trailer for this month's Netflix docuseries following SpaceX's first all-civilian mission that will send four passengers into orbit.
GizModo VR
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Hugo nominee Robert Jackson Bennett began his critically acclaimed Founders trilogy in 2018 with epic fantasy Foundryside , followed by 2020's Shorefall. Next year, he’ll reveal the much-anticipated concluding volume, Locklands —but we’ve got a sneak peak, including the cover and an excerpt, to share today. Read more.
Digital Trends
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Locast is no longer streaming live feeds of local broadcast channels, but you still have plenty of options to watch what you want. It's just not quite free.
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
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
An enormous randomized trial of communities in Bangladesh seems to provide the clearest evidence yet that regular mask-wearing can impede the spread of the covid-19 pandemic. The study found that villages where masks were highly promoted and became more popular experienced noticeably lower rates of covid-like symptoms… Read more.
Digital Trends
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Fujifilm announced the GFX 50S II, a 51.4-megapixel medium-format camera with a remarkably affordable price tag.
GizModo VR
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Here’s some Mr. Robot- level intrigue for you: Imagine an innocuous-looking USB-to-Lightning cable that, once plugged into your machine, actually helps hackers steal all of the data from your iPhone and inject malware onto your device. If that sounds like something from a far-fetched TV show, it is, surprise, actually… Read more.
Digital Trends
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Take your smart home to the next level by integrating Google Home into productivity powerhouse IFTTT. Learn how to use IFTTT with Google Home.
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
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Look what’s rolled into town! Why, it’s the first trailer ( finally ) for Amazon’s much-anticipated fantasy television series The Wheel of Time. It’s later than we expected, given the show is currently set to premiere on November 19, but was it worth the wait? Read more.
Charlie Fink
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
ByteDance dropped $775 million on the third largest VR HMD company.
GizModo VR
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Amazon is urging the fleets of contract delivery drivers that get packages to its customers to advertise themselves as 4/20-friendly employers, according to Bloomberg. Read more.
Digital Trends
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
The Asus Vivobook Pro 16X is everything a content creator needs in a laptop, and it comes in at a great price.
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
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
New research from the UK is some of the first to examine the potential risk of experiencing lingering symptoms after a case of covid-19 in vaccinated people, a phenomenon often known as long covid. The study suggests that vaccinated people who become infected are half as likely to experience long-lasting symptoms than… Read more.
Digital Trends
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
EVGA reports that it has fixed a recent issue where playing New World killed several of its RTX 3090 GPUs. It turns out that the game was not the problem.
GizModo VR
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
The Perseverance rover had a bit of a false start to its science campaign on Mars last month, when it appeared to have successfully collected a rock only to find its sampling tube empty. In its second coring attempt, NASA directed the rover to a different patch of rock, and images received on Earth today suggest the… Read more.
Digital Trends
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
NASA says it’s confident its Perseverance rover has successfully collected its first Mars rock sample following a failed attempt last month.
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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