VRScout
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Meta shared with us more information regarding its recently-announced digital venue coming soon to Horizon Worlds. Yesterday, Meta announced that it will be airing a Meta Quest 2 promo during Super Bowl LVI. The 60-second ad spot will center around a group of estranged animatronic friends who reunite using the power of the Quest 2 and Horizon Worlds , the company’s VR metaverse.
ARPost
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
One of America’s great pastimes is going down the rabbit hole on an in-depth true-crime podcast. But, as a story becomes more complex, it becomes harder to follow along without visual aid. To tackle a particularly sticky story, USA TODAY created an AR experience to help listeners of their Accused podcast to follow even more clues. We talked with Gannett senior director of emerging tech Ray Soto and senior designer of emerging tech Will Austin about how they made the AR tool in line with the podc
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VRScout
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
The darkly comedic VR game returns for another mind-bending adventure. Developer Tender Claws ( The Under Presents ) today announced that an official sequel for its mind-bending VR game Virtual Virtual Reality is coming soon to the Meta Quest 2, Oculus Rift, and SteamVR. Originally released in 2017 on a myriad of VR headsets, including the now-defunct Daydream and GearVR platforms, the narrative-driven experience took players on a reality-hopping adventure unlike anything available on VR headset
AR Insider
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
AR has proven itself as a shopping tool. This has taken on new meaning in the Covid era, given the rise of eCommerce and the need to visualize products in 3D. How will this play out in the post-Covid contactless age? This post 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
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Originally released in 2018, Vox Machinae is a gem of a VR mech game that’s well loved by those that have played it. Though the title looked destined to remain focused on multiplayer, the developer today made the surprise announcement that it plans to release a fully featured single player campaign this year. Vox Machinae has a storied history dating back to at least 2014 when the game was first previewed , well before the advent of motion controllers as the standard means of input for
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Road to VR
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Virtual Virtual Reality launched on Google Daydream back in 2017, but thanks to some fun and clever interaction design that worked equally well on both 3DOF and 6DOF headsets, the game made its way to all major VR platforms with marked success in the years following the demise of the ill-fated Daydream. Now developers Tender Claws announced a sequel to Virtual Virtual Reality is arriving on Quest 2 and PC VR headsets this month.
GizModo VR
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
One of the most outspoken proponents of the metaverse is struggling to find its place in this hypothetical virtual world. Microsoft has reportedly scrapped plans to make a HoloLens 3—what would have been a successor to its current mixed reality headset—and infighting within the mixed reality division has fueled… Read more.
Mashable VR
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Spot, the dancing robo-dog from Boston Dynamics, will make a Super Bowl appearance alongside with its robot friends. In a Super Bowl ad that will air during the Feb. 13 game we see the yellow, quadruped robot crack open a cold one, chug it, and burp loudly. An after-hours party ensues at the Boston Dynamics headquarters, with Spot joining a crew of Atlas robots and two human security guards.
TechCrunch VR
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
A top VR web browser is closing down. Today, Mozilla announced it’s shutting down its Firefox Reality browser — the four-year-old browser built for use in virtual reality environments. The technology had allowed users to access the web from within their VR headset, doing things like visiting URLs, performing searches and browsing both the 2D and 3D internet using your VR hand controllers, instead of a mouse.
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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.
Hypergrid Business
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Phillip Rosedale is returning as a strategic investor and advisor to Second Life , a company he founded 19 years ago, but it is unlikely that Second Life is going to change much given the tough company culture, closed nature of the platform, and the fact that High Fidelity is itself more of a failed project. As part of the agreement , High Fidelity’s team will join Linden Lab, which will also gain access to High Fidelity’s patent portfolio.
Mashable VR
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Tech overlord Meta is having a rough time of it lately. Not only has the number of daily Facebook users dropped , but Meta also lost 26 percent of its market value — the equivalent of $230 billion. It's the biggest drop any U.S. company has ever experienced in just one day, with Late Show host Stephen Colbert noting it feels like karmic retribution for hosting all that COVID-19 misinformation.
GizModo VR
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
If you’re not totally sold on the United States Postal Service’s new, flattened duck-shaped, gas-powered monstrosity of a mail truck , you’re not alone. The Biden administration on Wednesday made a last-minute plea to halt the USPS’ fleet, claiming the new trucks’ laughably poor fuel efficiency would further worsen the… Read more.
Mashable VR
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
All those super yachts aren't going to pay for themselves. Amazon announced Thursday that the price of its Prime subscription service is set to increase. It's the first Prime cost increase since 2018 , and comes at a time when people are more reliant on deliveries than ever following two years of pandemic life. Paris Martineau , a reporter at The Information, broke down the price hike, noting that the monthly cost will jump from $12.99 to $14.99, and an annual membership will shoot up from $119
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
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
It’s official. A second Scream 2 is coming to a theater near you. Paramount and Spyglass just announced that the directing and writing teams behind the brand new Scream are all returning for a sequel. That’ll make it the sixth Scream movie overall, but also a sequel to a film just called Scream so who the heck knows… Read more.
Hypergrid Business
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
(Image courtesy OpenSea.). OpenSea , the largest marketplace for non-fungible tokens openly admitted last Thursday that over 80 percent of the items created using their free minting tool were plagiarized works, fake collections, and spam. In Twitter last Thursday, the company said that creating NFTs on its platform was too easy. “We’ve recently seen misuse of this feature increase exponentially,” they said in the Tweet.
GizModo VR
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
At a Glance on Android presents contextual information on a phone’s home and lock screens, so users can quickly view relevant details without sifting through apps. In its current state, At a Glance contains basic info like current weather conditions and calendar alerts, but it appears Google at one point had much… Read more.
Mashable VR
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
It's all a little on the nose. The internet turned its collective head Thursday at news that a " solid gold " cube had been installed in New York City's Central Park as part of some bizarre cryptocurrency promotional stunt. Photos strategically shot from low angles made the cube seem imposing, and Twitter was briefly impressed by The Cube. That is, until everyone realized the cube is actually pretty small.
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
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Watching Wayne’s World in 2022 is like riding a time machine that’s going backwards and forwards at the same time. Going one way, it’s a picture perfect snapshot of the early 1990s. The music, clothes, references, attitude, all of it is as 1992 as you can imagine. And yet, looking in the other direction, it’s ahead of… Read more.
Digital Trends
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Protec3d is on a mission to replace generic, one-size-fits-all football pads with 3D printed, hyper-personalized ones that offer more protection for players.
GizModo VR
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Yet another thunderous crypto theft has descended from the heavens, predictably threatening to bankrupt everyone involved. The aptly named Wormhole , a DeFi cross-chain protocol, announced Wednesday that it had been the victim of a previously unknown exploit, the likes of which allowed a hacker to suck some $325… Read more.
Hypergrid Business
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
We could end up with a metaverse that is inherently hard to control, will eventually fail, and collapses society, controversial podcaster Joe Rogan said in an interview with Inner Vision on Saturday. The metaverse should be restructured right from the start to get the right design criteria instead of  basing it on existing tech structures.
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
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Clearview AI, the shady face recognition firm which claims to have landed contracts with federal, state, and local cops across the country, has landed a roughly $50,000 deal with the U.S. military for augmented reality glasses. Read more.
Mashable VR
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Years after Nancy Lublin founded Crisis Text Line in 2013, she approached the board with an opportunity : What if they converted the nonprofit's trove of user data and insights into an empathy-based corporate training program? The business strategy could leverage Crisis Text Line's impressive data collection and analysis , along with lessons about how to best have hard conversations, and thereby create a needed revenue stream for a fledgling organization operating in the woefully underfunded men
GizModo VR
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Star Trek: Prodigy almost seems to have left us again as quickly as it returned at the start of the year, but that doesn’t mean that the latest animated series in the franchise is made of lighter stuff. If anything, it just went out having finally delivered a truly fascinating premise for the series. and some very… Read more.
Digital Trends
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Amazon Prime Video has released the first character posters from The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. But only a few close ups of hands give us any hints.
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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