AR Insider

APRIL 30, 2021

W hen it comes to emerging tech buzzwords, it doesn’t get any buzzier than 5G. Possibly in second place is the metaverse. But beyond the jargon, these are legitimate principles in the AR and VR orbit. 5G will be an enabler and a force-multiplier, while the metaverse is XRs endgame. But how do these two concepts come together? This was the topic of a recent VentureBeat Summit panel discussion with Verizon, Niantic and author Joost van Dreunen.

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Road to VR

APRIL 30, 2021

Oculus Air Link is an integrated way to play PC VR games (on Oculus PC or SteamVR) wirelessly on Quest 2. This guide will show you how to activate the Air Link feature on both your headset and your desktop software. Just like Oculus Link allows you to plug into a VR ready PC to play PC VR games, Oculus Air Link allows you to do so wirelessly. Oculus Air Link only supports Quest 2.

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VRScout

APRIL 30, 2021

Pickup Star Wars titles like Tales From the Galaxy’s Edge , the Vader Immortal series, and Squadrons on the cheap. May the 4th, aka Star Wars Day, is right around the corner and developer ILMxLAB is celebrating the occasion with several out-of-this-world deals on a handful of popular Star Wars VR games for Oculus Quest and PlayStation VR headsets.

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Road to VR

APRIL 30, 2021

Facebook today announced its fourth VR studio acquisition. This time it’s Downpour Interactive, the studio behind the popular VR shooter Onward which has been continuously developed since its Early Access launch on PC back in 2016. More recently the game launched on Oculus Quest where it has become one of the headset’s most popular titles.

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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

APRIL 30, 2021

For everyone who still thinks that Augmented Reality ( AR ) and 3D are technologies only available to the most tech-savvy companies with the deepest pockets, think again! ARize provides a solution that is: easy to use for everyone (yes even for those who don’t understand much of technology). affordable, also for smaller companies with a small budget; simply working well!

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ARVR

APRIL 30, 2021

ARize, the 3D and Augmented Reality tool for E-commerce that puts a smile on everyone’s face! Fast, easy, affordable, and of great quality! If there is one thing that we have learned from the COVID pandemic, it’s that technology is saving our asses! Not only to develop vaccines or to digitally keep in touch with our loved ones, but technology also allows all of us to do their shopping online in times of quarantine and social distancing.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 30, 2021

Following yesterday’s launch, the core stage of China’s Long March 5B rocket inadvertently went into low Earth orbit. The booster—now spinning out of control—is poised to perform an uncontrolled reentry from orbit, potentially threatening inhabited areas. Read more.

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Digital Trends

APRIL 30, 2021

Google Photos is one of Google's most loved services, but if you've been using it for free so far, that may soon come to an end.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 30, 2021

Last month, Netflix dropped a trailer for its CG animated film , The Mitchells vs. the Machines , produced by Phil Lord and Chris Miller of The Lego Movie and Into the Spider-Verse fame. I said , “It isn’t nearly as bewilderingly awesome as either of Lord and Miller’s previous two animated outings from what we can see,… 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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Digital Trends

APRIL 30, 2021

Despite what Jurassic Park might lead you to believe, T-Rex skeletons are very, very rare. So instead of digging one up, this museum 3D printed one.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 30, 2021

Virologist and medical researcher Jonas Salk developed a successful polio vaccine that was approved in 1955, helping the world all but eradicate the disease. Read more.

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Digital Trends

APRIL 30, 2021

Though Apple's newly redesigned M1-powered iMac launched in seven flashy new colors, only four colors will be stocked at Apple's physical retail stores.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 30, 2021

An international exercise to simulate an asteroid striking Earth has come to an end. With just six days to go before a fictitious impact, things don’t look good for a 185-mile-wide region between Prague and Munich. 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

APRIL 30, 2021

Mythic Quest, the Apple TV+ series about a fictional game studio, returns for a second season shaped by the pandemic both in front of the camera and behind it.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 30, 2021

The online marketplace Etsy has been flooded with activity since the pandemic’s onset as millions flocked to online shopping to stave off lockdown blues. However, that pandemic-fueled growth is also highlighting Etsy’s struggle to moderate what goes up for sale on its platform. A recent Insider investigation found… Read more.

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Digital Trends

APRIL 30, 2021

Apple's example of its new color-balancing tool in tvOS 14.5 showed a big difference in image quality but repeated attempts to reproduce it did not succeed.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 30, 2021

Elon Musk, one of the wealthiest people on the planet, sent a tweet Thursday night about the real problem with self-driving cars. And as you can probably guess by now, it’s one of those things that sounds profound until you stop to think about it for three seconds. That’s more or less Musk’s brand at this point. 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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Oculus

APRIL 30, 2021

Dante Buckley, Founder and CEO of Downpour Interactive, has stood out over the last several years as a source of inspiration within the VR industry.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 30, 2021

After news leaked out about a feud between Roku and Google earlier this week, today Roku announced its devices would no longer support the YouTube TV app for new subscribers. Read more.

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Anand Tech

APRIL 30, 2021

Today we're taking a look at ADATA's XPG Gammix S50 Lite, a mid-range consumer NVMe SSD based on Silicon Motion's new SM2267 controller. Among other notable features, the Gammix S50 Lite is the first mainstream-focused SSD that supports PCIe 4.0 – though as we'll see in our benchmarks that support is largely incidental, as the drive's performance is mostly the same as high-end Gen3 SSDs.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 30, 2021

When a book franchise has a fanbase as fervent as Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse , some fans will always complain about any deviation from the source material, even if it’s necessary to bring the books to live-action. However, Netflix is confident its Shadow and Bone TV series is so good no fan could possibly find fault… 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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Voices of VR

APRIL 30, 2021

Facebook’s Project Aria announcement in September at Facebook Connect raised a number of different ethical questions with anthropologists and technological ethicists. Journalist Lawrence Dodds described.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 30, 2021

The benefits of two-factor authentication (2FA) are clear: A person trying to get into your accounts will need something else besides your username and password, which makes it more difficult to hack you. That something else is often a code sent via SMS or through an app, but there’s another option: a physical… Read more.

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Digital Trends

APRIL 30, 2021

The Playpulse One is part exercise bike, part game console, and part entertainment center all in one.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 30, 2021

The Rock’s Black Adam , somehow, is continuing to hire half of Hollywood for its cast. The first look at the Children of the Corn remake is here. Samuel L. Jackson is in peril in another new Spiral: From the Book of Saw clip. Plus, Army of the Dead posters, and Krysten Ritter steps behind the camera for a new… 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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