The Ghost Howls

JULY 6, 2022

The hype for the Apple visor is very high, and everyone is waiting for it as a kid waits for Christmas. Poised to arrive around January 2023, it is considered by many the savior of XR, the hardware that will show the real possibilities of immersive realities and make finally VR mainstream. I was thinking about this topic this morning, and I want to share with you my stream of thoughts about Apple making VR mainstream, especially highlighting my doubts about it.

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ARPost

JULY 6, 2022

In the past 100 years, Lowe’s has transformed from a small-town hardware store to a large-scale retailer of building and home improvement products. Now a giant in the industry, it is at the forefront of home improvement, serving millions of customers across the United States and Canada. It is also delivering trailblazing solutions that help metaverse developers and enhance customer experience within and beyond the home improvement industry.

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VRScout

JULY 6, 2022

Steps Of Privilege is available for free on the Meta Quest via the App Lab. We’ve talked heavily in the past about VR’s unique empathetic capabilities. In addition to entertainment, immersive technology can and is being used by numerous organizations to instill a sense of compassion while educating users on a variety of important subject matter.

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AR Insider

JULY 6, 2022

There's a common misperception that Meta wants to operate an insular metaverse that it wholly owns. We break down the business case for its more strategic play to reside on, and feed off, a much larger open metaverse. It's all about network effect. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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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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Road to VR

JULY 6, 2022

Epic Games, the company that makes Unreal Engine, recently released a substantial update to its MetaHuman character creation tool which for the first time allows developers to import scans of real people for use in real-time applications. The improvements glimpse a future where anyone can easily bring a realistic digital version of themselves into VR and the metaverse at large.

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Road to VR

JULY 6, 2022

Display manufacturer Kopin recently demonstrated its latest VR display and pancake optic which promises higher resolution and more affordability for future VR headsets. Most modern VR headsets take on the ‘box on your face’ form-factor because of a simple display architecture which necessitates a certain distance between the display and the lens.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 6, 2022

Last month at The Burnham-Moores Center in the University of San Diego, the institution’s Executive Director, Stath Karras , hosted an expert panel to discuss the rise of digital real-estate and opportunities in the Metaverse. The panel’s line-up included industry experts representing leading Metaverse and real-estate firms. Selected speakers include the Co-Founder of The Metamall Group, Neel Naicker, Qualcomm’s Vice President and General Manager of XM Hugo Swart, and CRG Partn

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Slashgear

JULY 6, 2022

The largest asteroid impact in modern history (since we started recording history) also appears to be one of the most baffling to researchers and scientists.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 6, 2022

Last Monday, Avantis Education, a UK-based immersive learning firm, announced the launch of Eduverse across selected K-12 learning institutions in the country. The UK-based firm provides schools with a Metaverse learning solution that enables students and teachers to interact in virtual reality (VR) classrooms. Students can access educational content in Eduverse learning spaces from a “secure and controlled environment.” The Global Sales & Marketing Director for Avantis Education

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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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ARVR

JULY 6, 2022

AR continues to evolve and take shape. Like other tech sectors, it has spawned several sub-sectors that comprise an ecosystem. These include industrial AR , consumer VR , and AR shopping. Existing alongside all of them?—?and overlapping to some degree?—?is AR marketing. Among other things, AR marketing includes sponsored AR lenses that let consumers visualize products in their space.

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Slashgear

JULY 6, 2022

Stand aside BMW, there's a new "blackest" car on the road, and it's a Porsche. The vehicle was temporarily painted with the blackest acrylic on the market.

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ARVR

JULY 6, 2022

Like many analyst firms, market sizing is one of the ongoing practices of AR Insider’s research arm ARtillery Intelligence. A few times per year, it goes into isolation and buries itself deep in financial modeling. The latest such exercise zeroes in on mobile AR revenues. This takes the insights and observations accumulated throughout the year and synthesizes them into hard numbers for spatial computing ( see methodology and inclusions/exclusions).

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Slashgear

JULY 6, 2022

Phone lock screens are a great place to see your upcoming events and favorite photos, but going forward they may include advertisements and videos.

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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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Charlie Fink

JULY 6, 2022

"The Metaverse" is detailed, meticulously researched, and dense with observations and insight.

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Slashgear

JULY 6, 2022

Strange matter only occurs under very specific circumstances -- and astrophysicists are getting closer to understanding what those are.

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GizModo VR

JULY 6, 2022

Apple announced a new security feature Wednesday designed to protect iPhone users from invasive spyware attacks. Dubbed “ Lockdown Mode ,” the feature promises to “harden” the security posture of your device, drawing a digital moat around its perimeter to protect against infiltration while also hobbling some of its… Read more.

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Slashgear

JULY 6, 2022

Asus is back with a couple of new smartphones designed specifically for mobile gaming, and they include a unique fanless cooling system to deal with heat.

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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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GizModo VR

JULY 6, 2022

The Lost Ark. Sankara Stones. The Holy Grail. A Crystal Skull. An Indiana Jones movie isn’t an Indiana Jones movie if the world’s most famous adventuring archeologist isn’t going after something tangible. This leads us to believe that in next year’s untitled fifth Indiana Jones film , Indy will be doing the same. But,… Read more.

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Slashgear

JULY 6, 2022

The official release date and availability details of the 2022 MacBook Air M2 have been revealed by Apple. That includes prices, colors, and configurations.

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GizModo VR

JULY 6, 2022

The number of products we’re buying online keeps going up and up , and that means you’re likely to have more and more packages coming to your address. When something you’ve ordered doesn’t show up, that can be hugely frustrating—and potentially very expensive too. Here’s what to do should that worst case scenario… Read more.

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Slashgear

JULY 6, 2022

The British Grand Prix is always a major occasion on the racing calendar, but few races have been as exciting as the spectacle we witnessed in 2022.

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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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GizModo VR

JULY 6, 2022

A scorching summer continues in the U.S. as a massive heat dome is slated to affect Southwestern and Central U.S. states. Areas in the region will experience consecutive days of temperatures in the high 90s and low 100s Fahrenheit. Read more.

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Slashgear

JULY 6, 2022

There's a very scientific reason why bread is not allowed at the International Space Station, forcing astronauts to substitute tortillas.

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GizModo VR

JULY 6, 2022

Don’t worry: next up for the Duffer Brothers, the creators of Stranger Things , is Stranger Things 5. After Stranger Things 4 crossed a billion hours watched for Netflix, the streamer is, obviously, going to want that as soon as possible. So writing starts soon. But Netflix wants to stay in business with the brothers… Read more.

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Slashgear

JULY 6, 2022

Apple is expected to release multiple versions of its upcoming iPhone 14 model, but only some of them may offer consumers the type of upgrade they want.

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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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