ARPost
DECEMBER 21, 2021
The news cycle doesn’t really slow down in the XR world. Fortunately, in the last few weeks, a lot of announcements and updates have been in the spirit of the season. Hopefully, these festive mobile AR engagements will help you stay in the holiday spirit. The HERMÈS MERRY SNOWMAN. HERMÈS teamed up with 8th Wall to create the MERRY SNOWMAN experience.
The Ghost Howls
DECEMBER 21, 2021
I’m super-late with this newsletter because we of New Technology Walkers are working on some cool stuff for our game HitMotion: Reloaded! Be sure to check it out on App Lab in a few hours, even if you have already completed it in the past… And please, give it 5 stars, it’s super-important to have a positive review for our future… do it as a Christmas gift to me!
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AR Insider
DECEMBER 21, 2021
Tis the season for predictions. So to add to the chorus of next-year narratives, we've extracted a few takeaways from ARtillery Intelligence's (our research arm) latest report on 2021 lessons, and 2022 predictions. The post 3 Predictions for AR in 2022 appeared first on AR Insider.
ARVR
DECEMBER 21, 2021
#2 of my Tech Predictions for 2022 In November, Disney announced that they are working on their own Metaverse When Mark Zuckerberg announced the name shift of Facebook Corp. to Meta, he set fire to a tech discussion that was already heating up: how will the future of the Internet look, and are we entering a new digital world called the Metaverse? If you have no clue what I am talking about, you should watch the movie: Ready Player One.
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.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 21, 2021
TikTok is truly unstoppable: The video-sharing platform just pushed Google aside to become the most popular website in the world, according to web performance and security company Cloudflare’s 2021 Year in Review internet traffic rankings. Read more.
Virtual Reality Pulse brings together the best content for VR professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 21, 2021
Antarctica is often portrayed as a barren wasteland of ice and snow, about as inhospitable as any place on Earth. But a team of researchers just pulled up a huge amount of life from underneath the frozen continent, a testament to the tenacity of these extremophile organisms. Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 21, 2021
A new video released by NASA features detailed imagery of Mars captured by its Perseverance rover, and also includes all of the points of interest.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 21, 2021
U.S. carriers have talked a big game around 5G for years now, claiming its “ blazing fast ” upload and download speeds could usher in everything from driverless cars and smart cities to HD movie downloads in less than a minute. That clearly hasn’t happened, and until relatively recently most everyday consumers couldn’t… Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 21, 2021
Planning to buy an iPhone 13 next year? There is a good chance that the device you buy was made at a factory in India.
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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 21, 2021
Researchers have discovered a total of nine software vulnerabilities in a commonly used metal detector product. If exploited, the security flaws could allow a hacker to take detectors offline, read or alter their data, or just generally mess with their functionality, the research reveals. Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 21, 2021
The Matrix Resurrections sends Neo and Trinity back into the simulation, but finds the right balance of reverence for the past and innovative twists and turns.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 21, 2021
The headquarters of SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, a suburb of Los Angeles, is currently experiencing an outbreak of covid-19 far worse than any other private business in the county, according to the L.A. Times and a tally from the L.A. County Public Health website. At least 132 SpaceX employees have recently tested… Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 21, 2021
As per a reliable source, Apple will equip the iPhone 15 series phones with a periscope-style telephoto camera to deliver a higher optical zoom output.
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 21, 2021
A Texas-based conservative think tank is joining fishermen in the North Atlantic to fight an offshore wind farm. That may sound like a mad lib fever dream, but it’s real and it shows how fossil fuel money is everywhere. Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 21, 2021
OnePlus CEO Pete Lau has confirmed via an official Weibo post that the OnePlus 10 Pro will break cover in January next year, likely alongside the OnePlus 10.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 21, 2021
Owners of Apple’s iPhone are about to have a much easier time getting through airport security. Apple is slated to release its digital wallet feature next year, and the TSA is getting ahead of the launch by preparing a phased rollout of the feature at select airports. Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 21, 2021
Texting isn't the same without emojis. We created a step-by-step guide on how to install the special characters on your iOS device or Android.
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 21, 2021
The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new form of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PReP) for preventing cases of HIV. The treatment is called Apretude, and it’s the first PREP medication to be taken via injection instead as a once-daily pill. Apretude will only need to be taken once a month initially, then every… Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 21, 2021
The non-K series of Intel's 12th Gen of processors is on the way. Although Intel hasn't officially released these CPUs, the entire lineup leaked via Best Buy.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 21, 2021
The Spider-Man of Marvel’s Cinematic Universe was hailed when he truly arrived in Homecoming as the Spidey with no unnecessary origin —we’d all experienced Uncle Ben, great power, and greater responsibility enough that it was thought unneeded. But No Way Home ultimately concludes that in order to grow and move on, our… Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 21, 2021
Apple has achieved great success with using its own M1 Max or Pro chips in the MacBook Pro, but the next Mac Pro may still run on an Intel processor.
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 21, 2021
Fans of animation will probably not be shocked to hear that three of the four most nominated films for this year’s Annie Awards this year hail from Disney. Raya and the Last Dragon leads all nominees with 10 total, followed by Encanto with nine and Pixar’s Luca with eight. However, right on the heels of those films is… Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 21, 2021
iPhones have stuck with their trusty 12-megapixel camera for the past few years. The iPhone 14 Pro will finally make the leap to 48-megapixel sensors in 2022.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 21, 2021
The rare fossil embryo of an oviraptor is revealing a surprising connection between the hatching behavior of dinosaurs and modern birds, according to new research. Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 21, 2021
Intel's Arc Alchemist gaming graphics cards are just around the corner. One of the upcoming GPUs was spotted in an Ashes of the Singularity benchmark.
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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