VRScout
DECEMBER 9, 2021
Learn how to begin crafting your own worlds and experiences in Meta’s highly-anticipated VR social platform. When Meta’s Horizon (now called Horizon Worlds) launched as an invite-only beta last year, a small group of Quest users was permitted access to the ambitious social experience and given the tools to start building their own world, play games, create safe spaces for discussions, and make new friends.
Road to VR
DECEMBER 9, 2021
Cyberpunk 2077 doesn’t officially support VR headsets, but leave it to prolific VR modder Luke Ross to get under the hood and beat CD Projekt Red to the punch—one they haven’t exactly prioritized given the litany of bugs the studio has needed to fix over the past year. As first reported by PC Gamer , the mind behind R.E.A.L. VR mod for a host of flatscreen games including Grand Theft Auto V, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Mafia II is vowing to tackle the open-world RPG Cyberpunk 207
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VRScout
DECEMBER 9, 2021
Categories included fashion and beauty, environment and social good, gaming, utility, and more. . Since the launch of Snapchat Lens Studio in 2017 , Snapchat creators have created and published nearly two million Lenses on the popular social platform, resulting in a combined two trillion Lens views by Snapchatters, and that number grows every day. To celebrate these funky and quirky Lenses and help encourage more creation, Snapchat created Lens Fest , an annual event that is currently celebratin
Road to VR
DECEMBER 9, 2021
Social party game Among Us rose to viral success in the midst of the pandemic. Calls to bring the game’s ‘imposter-hunting’ gameplay to VR were immediate, and unofficial VR versions of the game sprang up in no time. Now the game is getting a full blown Among Us VR remake, headed by one of VR’s most experienced studios. Among Us is a low-fi, top-down game about running around a spaceship with friends and trying to find out which one of you is secretly an imposter whose o
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 9, 2021
VR users find themselves steeped in terminology: Haptics. Frame Rate. Field of view. Resolution.the list goes on. It's easy to get lost in this vocabulary, so we zero in on two factors: field of view and resolution. The post VR Resolution, Field of View and the Science of the Human Eye appeared first on AR Insider.
Virtual Reality Pulse brings together the best content for VR professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
ARVR
DECEMBER 9, 2021
SuperWorld and SuperRare partner up for a groundbreaking NFT Takeover in Augmented Reality RAREWORLD This past week, SuperWorld spent time at Miami Art Week, and we’ve got lots to report. First and foremost, RAREWORLD , our collaboration with NFT platform SuperRare at the Miami Convention Center, was a resounding success. In what was dubbed an “NFT Takeover,” SuperWorld and SuperRare exhibited 3D digital art and sculptures from renowned NFT artists in Augmented Reality (AR), with the works on di
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 9, 2021
Ford this week stopped taking reservations for its upcoming all-electric F-150 pickup after around 200,000 customers paid a $100 deposit for the vehicle.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 9, 2021
A new kind of community is needed to flag dangerous deployments of artificial intelligence, argues a policy forum published today in Science. This global community, consisting of hackers, threat modelers, auditors, and anyone with a keen eye for software vulnerabilities, would stress-test new AI-driven products and… Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 9, 2021
Apple is working on an AR headset that may offer unprecedented realism. A new report says it will use Face ID technology to track hand gestures.
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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
DECEMBER 9, 2021
A German court has ruled that a man who fell down a staircase while walking from his bedroom to his home office injured himself at work and is therefore covered under his company’s workplace accident insurance policy. Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 9, 2021
Microsoft is bringing back the weather widget initially introduced in Windows 10 to Windows 11, as well as adding a new voice access feature for the OS.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 9, 2021
Dementia, the as-yet incurable loss of memory and cognition, is a devastating illness, both for the victim and their families. And it’s likely to become an even larger health problem over time. Over 6 million Americans are currently living with Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia. By 2050, that… Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 9, 2021
It's taken a while, but Dolby Atmos has cemented itself as the premier surround sound format -- and 2021 was the year it became nearly ubiquitous.
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
DECEMBER 9, 2021
For all the talk we’ve heard from tech giants in recent weeks about the future in which we all work and play in something called the metaverse , few people have actually been able to experience this grand vision for themselves. Well, now you can: Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, has opened its Horizon… Read more.
TechCrunch VR
DECEMBER 9, 2021
The company formerly known as Facebook is taking a step toward its goal to transport us to the metaverse. Now, Horizon Worlds — the Second Life or Minecraft of Meta’s VR apps — is expanding out of invite-only beta, opening up to all users over 18 years old in the U.S. and Canada. This is a huge milestone for the app, which was first announced in 2019.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 9, 2021
The government of New Zealand is preparing to ban cigarette smoking forever by anyone born after 2008, according to a new report from the news outlet Stuff. The move would eventually make it illegal for anyone in New Zealand to smoke, no matter how old they got, while allowing those who are currently addicted to… Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 9, 2021
The Game Awards gave us our first real look at the next Sonic the Hedgehog game and movie.
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
DECEMBER 9, 2021
As a vacuuming fanatic with a deep-seated hatred of crumbs on my floors, the greatest thing to happen to my daily routine was the convenience of a cordless vacuum—but they’re not perfect. Cordless vacs are often a pain to empty without creating another mess, and if you’re not willing to permanently attach a charging… Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 9, 2021
In a major cross-platform move, Google is bringing Google Play games to Windows PCs, starting next year. .
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 9, 2021
A cheap $300 TCL TV is one of the best tech purchases I’ve made in recent years. I had just moved to Brooklyn as a cash-strapped 20-something out of college and needed a TV that just got the job done. The TCL with Roku built in was the ideal solution, and since then, I’ve been recommending it to folks on a similar… Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 9, 2021
Who won Game of the Year at The Game Awards? We've got it here along with a complete list of winners.
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
DECEMBER 9, 2021
We’ve seen the helmet. We know who from Halo lore is showing up, and what new faces will join them. Now it’s time to get our first proper look as the Master Chief warthogs his way to his very own streaming series. Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 9, 2021
A new Star Wars game is on the horizon from Quantic Dream, the developers behind games like Heavy Rain and Detroit: Become Human.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 9, 2021
Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop ended on something of an interesting cliffhanger with its first season, but from the sounds of things, the recently released show’s luck has run out. Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 9, 2021
The Eddy star Amandla Stenberg is in negotiations for a leading role on Lucasfilm and Disney+'s original series Star Wars: The Acolyte.
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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