VRScout

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Despite not yet being available, Unreal Engine’s MetaHuman Creator is already making people talk. There’s no avoiding it, digital humans are here to stay. Back in 2016, we saw our first look at Epic Games’ game-chaning digital human technology with its Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice preview at the Game Developers Conference. The demo, while brief, blew audiences away, teasing the next-generation of real-time animation.

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Next Reality AR

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Two years ago, the 50th anniversary of the moon landing gave flight to a handful of Apollo 11 augmented reality apps and experiences, including one from the Smithsonian Channel. Now, as NASA's latest unmanned mission to Mars is scheduled to land on Thursday, the Smithsonian Channel's digital team has crafted yet another timely space-based AR app for the occasion.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Control the landing sequence, drive a rover, and pilot a helicopter drone in this multifaceted AR experience. This afternoon, NASA’s Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter are scheduled to touch down in the Jezero crater on Mars in search of habitable conditions as well as biosignatures of microbial life and water. Dubbed “Mars 2020,” this will mark the 6th-most expensive robotic planetary mission conducted by NASA with an estimated cost of $2.8 billion over the course o

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Google stopped active development on Tilt Brush late last month, but also made the VR creation suite open source so anyone could get under the hood. We’ve seen a number of clones already, but this is the first port we’ve seen that lets you access directly from a WebXR browser. Dubbed Silk Brush by developer Daniel Adams of msub2 , the app is a near 1:1 port of the original, replete with all default brushes, the ability to save and load sketches, take snapshots, and even export t

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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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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

3 D mapping is a technology that’s perpetually on the horizon. We’ve seen various flavors over the years such as Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D , and of course Google Earth and Street View. These have each scratched the 3D itch in various ways, but we still haven’t reached the holy grail. Speaking of Google Earth, its VR edition is an immersive dive into 3D cities around the world.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

W hat are the biggest insights and observations in AR and adjacent sectors this week? Welcome to Reality Bytes , featuring lightning-round commentary from AR Insider partner M7 Innovations. Founder Matt Maher lends his insights from the trenches of AR experience creation. We continue the narrative this week with Maher’s look at Epic Games’ MetaHumans, TikTok’s eCommerce moves and Snapchat’s desktop AR.

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Next Reality AR

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

A year and change into its shift towards enterprise customers, Magic Leap has updated Lumin OS and the corresponding Lumin SDK with some key prerequisites for the business sector. First and foremost, Magic Leap has added support for Web Real-Time Communications (WebRTC) in Lumin OS 0.98.20, including an update to the Helio browser to improve compatibility with audio and video communications platforms.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Virtual reality continues to be challenged in gaining traction. Its world-changing potential that was trumpeted during the circa-2016 hype cycle didn’t pan out. But that doesn’t mean it’s dead. There are several bright spots and the sector continues to move forward at a moderate pace. So to quantify the VR industry today and projected forward, ARtillery’s Intelligence’s latest revenue forecast does a deep dive on market sizing, growth drivers and strategic implications.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Since November, hundreds of thousands of farmers and their supporters have been protesting across India, calling for an end to a series of new agricultural laws introduced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration. The demonstrations have seen record-breaking turnout in the streets—and sparked historic… Read more.

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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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FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Snapchat continues to solidify its leading position in consumer mobile AR. After announcing several milestones at its December developer event and Q3 earnings, its Q4 earnings last week signaled continued momentum. In fact, AR was a bright spot in an otherwise mixed Q4. Among other lens-based updates, more than 200 million Snapchat users engaged with AR daily in Q4.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

You don’t need me to tell you that 2020 was a terrible year. Covid-19 killed nearly 2 million people, including more than 350,000 Americans, and the pandemic left the global economy in shambles. But a new report shows that all things considered, one sector actually saw wild economic success: renewable energy. Read more.

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Digital Trends

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

NASA has released precise timings for the crucial final stages of the Perseverance rover's journey to Mars, and you can watch the whole event as it happens.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The veil between dreamworld and reality may be thinner than we thought. In a new study released Thursday, scientists in four countries say they’ve shown it’s possible to communicate with people while they’re lucid dreaming. At least some of the time, the dreamers were reportedly able to respond to yes-or-no questions… Read more.

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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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Digital Trends

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Researchers are training generative adversarial networks so that they can progressively and automatically learn how to create artificial genetic sequences.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Springhares are cute as can be, but their fur looks kind of dull under normal conditions. When cast under UV light, however, their fur comes alive, featuring vibrant patches of red, orange, and pink. As new research shows, these creatures are now one of only a handful of mammals known to emit a biofluorescent glow. Read more.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2021

In an incredible feat of engineering, NASA has once again landed a rover on Mars. The rover touched down safely today after a picture-perfect landing sequence.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

E-commerce giant and surveillance technology purveyor Amazon is already in your walls , your doorbell and your secret union drive Facebook group, but the question on everybody’s lips is: When will they be more in the sky? The answer, apparently, is soon. Read more.

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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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Digital Trends

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Marie Van Brittan Brown was a nurse who began the home security revolution that directly led to the current and somewhat troubled ecosystem.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

A massive cold snap hit 25 states in the south and central U.S. this week, unleashing chaos. Millions are without power. Hospitals are being evacuated even as people suffer from carbon monoxide poisoning after trying to heat their homes with grills, generators, and other dangerous items. The air is more toxic than… Read more.

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Digital Trends

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

NFC has become more popular largely through mobile payment systems like Apple Pay and Samsung Pay. Our guide explains what NFC stands for and how it works.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

It’s been a hard week for everyone living in Texas as blackouts , boil notices , and bone-chilling cold rattle the state. But data shared with Earther shows the suffering maybe be particularly acute for the millions of Texans living near oil wells and refineries. Read more.

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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

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The Windows 10 Start Menu is a functional mix of old and new. Here's how to use and customize the Start Menu to make your Windows 10 PC feel more personal.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Jim Henson’s The Muppet Show —the one and only—is finally going to be more easily accessible to fans with its arrival on Disney+ this week. You might be so excited you’re just going to dive in headfirst, but if you’re down to skip around a bit, we have some suggestions for the best of the best. Read more.

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Digital Trends

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

If you're looking to buy a new electric car, but don't have a place to plug it in, Chevy's got you covered. It's paying for home-charging outlets for EV buyers.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Attempting to get ahead of cryptocurrency miners who might snatch up a good chunk of RTX 3060 stock when the GPU goes on sale next week, Nvidia announced this morning it now has a dedicated card for professional mining. Read more.

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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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