VRScout

MAY 24, 2022

VR technology and wrist trackers combine to offer a next-level training program. Axon, a weapons technology company based out of Arizona, today launched a new VR simulation designed to train law enforcement officers in de-escalation tactics by immersing them in realistic scenarios they may face out in the field. Not only that, but trainees can actually bring their TASER energy weapons and training firearms with them in VR.

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ARPost

MAY 24, 2022

The realistic metaverse is no longer a thing of the past. With technological leaps in the past few years, multi-dimensional interactions, in what seems like parallel worlds, are now possible. Victoria VR is among the first to harness the latest augmented, virtual, and mixed reality technologies to offer a hyper-realistic metaverse created and owned by users.

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AR Insider

MAY 24, 2022

Location has been a value driver in several industries to emerge and advance in the smartphone era, including search, mapping, and social media. Now AR enters the picture with the potential to add dimension to local commerce. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Road to VR

MAY 24, 2022

New research from Kent State University and Meta Reality Labs has demonstrated large dynamic focus liquid crystal lenses which could be used to create varifocal VR headsets. Vergence-Accommodation Conflict in a Nutshell. In the VR R&D space, one of the hot topics is finding a practical solution for the so-called vergence-accommodation conflict (VAC).

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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.

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ARVR

MAY 24, 2022

Last week, Google held its annual I/O developer conference?—?and in physical form for the first time in two years. Returning to the campus-adjacent Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, CA for its signature event, it rolled out the standard slate of search, mapping, and AI updates. Buried in all the keynote action, there was also a notable nugget for AR: Google Lens is now used for 8 billion visual searches per month.

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ARVR

MAY 24, 2022

One of AR’s most opportune and under-exposed strategies is what we call B2B2C. This involves AR software that helps companies better reach or serve their customers. This segment is bigger than you may think, as it includes consumer AR developer tools or enabling tech. But it also applies to non-tech sectors that use AR to improve products. As we’ve examined, companies like Streem bring AR to home-services pros to help them streamline operations by remotely diagnosing leaky faucets and broken hea

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Slashgear

MAY 24, 2022

Smart phones can do a lot more than call, text, and email. These widely unknown abilities make your smartphone the most powerful tool you own.

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GizModo VR

MAY 24, 2022

Walmart announced today in a press release that they are expanding their drone delivery fleet to bring customers their orders. The retailer is also looking to rollout more warehouse robots. Read more.

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Slashgear

MAY 24, 2022

Particle accelerators have gone from niche scientific communities to the mainstream in recent decades, and technology keeps improving.

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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.

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Upload VR

MAY 24, 2022

A new experimental room setup feature on Quest 2 allows owners to map out their walls, doors, windows, and furniture for a new class of mixed reality experience. The new “Room Setup – Experimental” feature sees you mark out surfaces in your home to build out a basic outline of your walls and the objects within. Using the feature I was able to quickly make boxes for a table as well as an island in my kitchen.

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Slashgear

MAY 24, 2022

Major tech companies have explored the idea of buying game publishing giant EA, according to sources. Whether one will follow through is another matter.

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GizModo VR

MAY 24, 2022

General Motors suffered a hack that exposed a significant amount of sensitive personal information on car owners—names, addresses, phone numbers, locations, car mileage, and maintenance history. Read more.

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Slashgear

MAY 24, 2022

Google has introduced a new Street View feature that makes it easy for anyone to take a look into the past. The feature is heading to desktop and mobile.

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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.

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Mashable VR

MAY 24, 2022

Finally, another excuse to lose hours staring at your phone. To commemorate the 15th anniversary of Google Maps Street View, the iconic feature that has allowed countless people to see their parents mowing their lawns with their faces blurred out, Google announced that one of the best parts of Street View is finally coming to mobile. As of Tuesday, iOS and Android users can look at Street View images from previous years on the Google Maps mobile app.

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Slashgear

MAY 24, 2022

The next hotly anticipated installment in the "Call of Duty" franchise will be a sequel to 2019's "Modern Warfare," and we finally know when it'll arrive.

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GizModo VR

MAY 24, 2022

It’s finally happened: Your kid is old enough to have their own smartphone. By the age of 11, half of all youngsters in the US have a cell, and your first thought after you’ve made the purchase is likely to be how you’re going to set up parental controls to stop them from wasting too much time on the thing and seeing… Read more.

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Slashgear

MAY 24, 2022

Google Maps Street View photo capture system just got an upgrade -- if you'd like to see one in the wild, here's what you're going to be looking for, soon.

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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.

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The AR Show

MAY 24, 2022

Nils Pihl is the CEO and co-founder of Auki Labs, a company solving the limitations of GPS to accurately position virtual content, particularly for shared experiences. Nils and the team at Auki are building advanced, peer-to-peer positioning protocols and AR cloud infrastructure to enable a new era of spatial computing. Nils is also the CEO of Matterless Studios, a venture-backed startup creating AI companions and pets made for the augmented reality metaverse.

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Slashgear

MAY 24, 2022

The Panasonic Toughbook 40 continues the company's legacy of hardcore notebook devices made to withstand all work environments -- with a new slimmer figure.

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Mashable VR

MAY 24, 2022

In 2008, tech entrepreneur Christopher Wilson came across an old cruise ship for sale on Craigslist that would change his life. Now, a decade and countless hours of renovations later, Wilson hopes The Aurora can make its way back to the public.

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Slashgear

MAY 24, 2022

Lewis Hamilton suffered a major set back the first lap of the 2022 Spanish Grand Prix, but despite wanting to quit, he managed an impressive recovery.

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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?

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Digital Trends

MAY 24, 2022

Logitech announced the MX Master 3S wireless mouse and a productivity-focused mechanical keyboard that takes some cues from the company's gaming keyboards.

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Slashgear

MAY 24, 2022

Formula One 2022 Spanish Grand Prix winner Max Verstappen -- with Red Bull Racing -- nearly missed the whole show for a reason you might not expect.

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Upload VR

MAY 24, 2022

Cities: VR and Wraith: The Oblivion developer Fast Travel Games is working on multiple PSVR 2 projects. The studio confirmed as much in a tweet today. A teaser image showed the back of Sony’s upcoming VR headset with the company logo in the lenses. The message ‘#morethanone’, meanwhile, confirms it’s working on more than just one game for the device.

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Slashgear

MAY 24, 2022

British supercar manufacturer Lotus has crafted some of the most high-performance vehicles ever made. These are the best of their lineup.

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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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