VRScout
DECEMBER 20, 2021
Who doesn’t love a good virtual head pat? This past April, VRChat hosted a developer stream during which the company revealed a new set of features on the way to its ever-growing social VR platform. The Avatar Dynamics system, as it’s referred to by the company, will introduce a wide range of avatar-to-avatar interactions designed to enhance your in-game experience without killing your framerate.
ARPost
DECEMBER 20, 2021
MICLEDI Microdisplays is posed to change the face of augmented reality and augmented reality glasses. As a fabless developer of microLED displays for AR glasses, the company has developed an industry-first microLED arrays-for-AR. The technology is built on a 300mm complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) manufacturing platform. This platform enables precision and optimal performance in manufacturing, putting MICLEDI at the forefront of creating more realistic displays for AR glasses.
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Road to VR
DECEMBER 20, 2021
Social VR platform Rec Room has sealed another big funding round to close out the year. The Seattle-based startup today announced it’s secured a new $145 million financing round, bringing the company’s total valuation to $3.5 billion. The funding round was led by Coatue Management, with participation from existing investors Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, and Madrona Venture Group.
AR Insider
DECEMBER 20, 2021
One of the ways mobile AR can create value is to deepen fan experiences in sports. Future-gazing use cases include getting live informational overlays on players and plays. But what formats are here today? We examine the landscape. The post AR in Sports: Moneyball Meets 3D appeared first on AR Insider.
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
DECEMBER 20, 2021
Earlier this year the Unity Labs team shared an incredible proof-of-concept mixed reality demo that shows the power of blending the real and virtual worlds together. Now the developers behind the project say you’ll be able to get your hands on the experiment on Quest sometime next year. At Facebook Connect at the end of October, the Unity Labs team revealed Unity Slices: Table , a proof-of-concept social mixed reality app that seamlessly connects people—both local and remote—into a shared
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Road to VR
DECEMBER 20, 2021
Luke Ross , the modder who brought VR support to a host of non-VR games such as GTA V, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Mafia II, surprise-released a VR mod for the PC version of Horizon Zero Dawn. YouTube channel Cas and Chary got an exclusive first look at the mod. Casandra Vuong (aka ‘Cas’) went hands on, revealing just how the mod’s first and third-person modes look in a 20-minute video.
ARVR
DECEMBER 20, 2021
This is not just a phone, it is a whole ecosystem. Continue reading on AR/VR Journey: Augmented & Virtual Reality Magazine ».
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 20, 2021
Evidence of steppe mammoths, gigantic elk, brown bears, and other ice age animals have been pulled from an English quarry, in what experts are calling a significant discovery. Read more.
ARVR
DECEMBER 20, 2021
Three main eXtended Reality (XR) interaction toolkits/platforms are: ?? WebXR ?? Unity Game Engine ?? Unreal Engine eXtended Reality (XR) Technology Platforms | Source: [link] How to Select Extended Reality (XR) Toolkit? ? Supported AR/VR devices ? Maturity of Toolkit ? Stability of Toolkit ? Developer Community ? Widget libraries ? Interactions Supported ?
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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 20, 2021
Hello and welcome to the third installment in Giz Asks ’ ongoing investigation into Firsts. Having opened with the first recreational drug , progressed to the oldest disease , and moved from there to the earliest music , we now turn our attention to the oldest sport. Unlike drugs, diseases, and music, sports are not… Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 20, 2021
Apple's AirTags' use of the Find My network is their greatest strength. But it's also opened the door to abuse by stalkers.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 20, 2021
Lenovo’s Chromebook Duet wasn’t supposed to be a success. Who’d bet on a $269 tablet running Chrome OS powered by a Mediatek chip? On paper, none of it should’ve worked. And yet, the modest 2-in-1 detachable proved greater than the sum of its parts, earning a spot among the best tech of 2020. People caught on, and the… Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 20, 2021
Intel Core i9-12900K was overclocked and then tested in a benchmark against the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X. Despite many differences, the CPUs hit an exact tie.
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 20, 2021
Cryptocurrency has entered the culture wars, and everyone’s picking sides. Administrators at Creative Commons recently discovered that many of their supporters can’t f **g stand NFTs. The squabble raises questions about the future of ownership, sharing, and the philosophical outlook of techno-utopians everywhere. Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 20, 2021
Rumors that Apple is working on a secret monitor just received a huge boost from a reliable source. In fact, the news has implications for Apple’s Macs, too.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 20, 2021
In April, Florida passed a bill that restricted cities and towns from banning fossil fuel use, a defensive piece of legislation similar to bills being pushed around the country by the natural gas industry. Now, the bill is doing exactly what its authors and industry interests intended: stopping cities from setting… Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 20, 2021
NASA this week announced the target date for the launch of its first space tourism mission to the International Space Station.
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 20, 2021
We’ve all been there: You need the wifi password to the network you’re already connected to, either to give it to someone else or to set up a new device, and you can’t for the life of you remember what it is. Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 20, 2021
Disney-owned channels like ESPN and ABC have returned to YouTube TV. But they're not reappearing for some people. Here's how to fix that.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 20, 2021
Quidditch players from across the globe are ready to deliver a bludger to the name of the sport they so deeply love , thanks in part to You-Know-Who. No, not Voldemort, but J.K. Rowling, a woman now known for needlessly expressing transphobic views who created the sport for her Harry Potter book series. Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 20, 2021
The Realme GT 2 Pro's wide-angle camera will have a massive 150-degree field of view, eclipsing the competition and enabling a fun 'fisheye' camera mode.
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 20, 2021
When I was a kid who tagged along with my mom to the grocery store, I loved sitting in the blood pressure monitoring kiosks. The chair was so big! I could push a button! It would fill up a balloon that squeezed around my arm! I had no idea what the numbers meant on screen, but I knew something technological had… Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 20, 2021
With Alexa's Sound Detectors, the voice assistant can now listen for the sounds of running water and beeping appliances in your home. Here's how to configure.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 20, 2021
One of the most highly anticipated iPhone features won’t arrive in next year’s models, after all. Apple will reportedly equip the iPhone 14 with a 48-megapixel rear camera before adding a periscope lens to the iPhone 15 in 2023, according to reliable analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, which means we’ll have to wait to get that… Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 20, 2021
A new HBO Max trailer highlights the cast of the Harry Potter films as they reunite at Hogwarts for the franchise's forthcoming 20th Anniversary special.
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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