The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2022

There is one last experience I want to tell you about from my trip to AWE USA a few months ago: the time I visited XCOM Labs to try its remote rendering solution! XCOM Labs. A few friends of mine suggested I visit the booth of XCOM Labs , so I booked a meeting to try their solution in one of their private rooms. As soon as I arrived, an employee made me wear a HoloLens and walk around to see a complete baseball stadium scene rendered around me via servers that were there in the room with me.

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VRScout

JULY 20, 2022

Everyone’s favorite ape simulator is about to get even better. This week developer Another Axiom announced a new game mode for its smash-hit multiplayer game Gorilla Tag. In a video posted on Twitter, players can be seen battling it out across the original map using paintball-firing slingshots. new game mode in gorilla tag: battle! paintball slingshots!

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ARPost

JULY 20, 2022

We’re seeing a lot of self-proclaimed metaverse platforms launching. Many such platforms are “just” virtual spaces, which many argue isn’t enough to constitute the future of collaborative computing that we call the metaverse. This future, according to most futurists, will also involve things like AI and blockchain , and is built on the real world. MeetKai checks a lot of those boxes.

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AR Insider

JULY 20, 2022

VR can have several benefits in experiential learning. And one place where that muscle memory can have high stakes is in crisis preparation. We look at the pros and cons of using VR to prepare professionals to best handle challenging situations. 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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VRScout

JULY 20, 2022

The ViR controller may be the sleekest VR haptic gun we’ve seen yet. First spotted by Yanko Design , the ViR controller promises improved gun haptics for VR headsets with its realistic force feedback and a unique ergonomic design. According to its creator, Tom Man Design, the device is meant to deliver an immersive shooting experience while remaining a charming addition to your living room.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 20, 2022

Global automotive company Nissan began steering towards the Metaverse in a campaign to promote its latest all-electric vehicle, the Ariya, it announced on Wednesday. The Yokohama-based manufacturer announced a partnership between TBWA/London and Meta Creative Shop to debut the web3-ready marketing campaign. Nissan’s ‘Electrified Art’ promotion challenges five UK artists to design artworks depicting the Ariya car in notable real-world locations.

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ARVR

JULY 20, 2022

AR is a field that is filled with both great technology as well as hyperbole and wishful thinking. At the moment, Kura Technologies is the clear frontrunner of being the most intriguing brain-teaser in the group. This tiny company claims to have developed a display technology that simply blows the doors off of anything that any other company has claimed: 8K resolution, 150 degrees FOV, 60+ pixels per degree, 95% transmission, unlimited depth of field, etc.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 20, 2022

Metaverse tech giant Meta Platforms is under fire with legal trouble from two separate entities, global media reported this week. Accusations stem from Meta’s rebranding from Facebook, which occurred last year during the Facebook Connect 2021 event and saw Meta Platforms transition from a social media company to an immersive technology group. The move sparked controversy from pre-existing technology companies using the Meta trademark.

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Slashgear

JULY 20, 2022

Google's Imagen AI can create some impressive images simply from a couple of lines of text. But the tool does come with some concerns. Here's why.

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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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Mashable VR

JULY 20, 2022

Today in " things we learned on the internet ," TikTok users are sharing a handy iPhone screenshotting tip. You may think you already know how to screenshot on an iPhone, but did you know you could screenshot an entire webpage on your iPhone, then save it as a PDF and revisit its contents whenever your little heart desires? Taking full-page screenshots on iPhones is super simple and helpful, yet I, a person who's owned an iPhone for over a decade, had no idea it was possible until I watched this

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Slashgear

JULY 20, 2022

Meta is facing a lawsuit from another company called Meta, with the latter of the two claiming that Facebook (now called Meta) harmed it by rebranding.

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Digital Trends

JULY 20, 2022

AI can easily generate realistic faces that are completely fake, and it's making it harder for us to stop the spread of misinformation.

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Slashgear

JULY 20, 2022

Google has a new pair of smart glasses ready for testing, complete with a few privacy features in order to avoid the controversy that came with Google Glass.

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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

JULY 20, 2022

Tesla's Bitcoin bet hasn't gone all that great. In its earnings report for the second quarter of 2022, the company revealed it has sold three quarters of its Bitcoin holdings. "As of the end of Q2, we have converted approximately 75% of our Bitcoin purchases into fiat currency. Conversions in Q2 added $936M of cash to our balance sheet," says Tesla's latest shareholder deck.

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GizModo VR

JULY 20, 2022

With midterm elections less than four months away, there’s more than a little concern growing about what may come before the first ballot boxes creak open. Sure, there are a few major topics that are driving the conversation leading into November. Sure, we still don’t know how much the “Big Lie ” will spur voters one… Read more.

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Mashable VR

JULY 20, 2022

Yes, a tiny rock particle hit the Webb telescope. No, the mission isn't nearly doomed. You may have read misleading headlines emphasizing that the James Webb Space Telescope — the most powerful such observatory ever built — has incurred some permanent damage. That's a cherry-picked bit from a new 55-page report describing the instrument's excellent scientific performance over the past six months, as engineers prepped and tested its unprecedented cosmic-viewing abilities.

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GizModo VR

JULY 20, 2022

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and former COO Sheryl Sandberg will have to provide testimony to a federal court to discuss their alleged involvement in the company’s notorious Cambridge Analytica scandal , over half a decade since it first captured the world’s attention. 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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Mashable VR

JULY 20, 2022

Receiving a medical diagnosis can be a difficult and scary experience. You may even be left with more questions than answers. For many, Patient Advocacy Groups, or Patient Organizations, can help answer those questions. These groups, typically non-profit organizations, promote the needs and priorities of local patient communities and represent a wide variety of disease types and focus areas.

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GizModo VR

JULY 20, 2022

Deadline reports that Simon McQuoid will return to direct the Mortal Kombat sequel , which does not currently have a release date. The 2021 pandemic hit was McQuoid’s first feature film after a career spent working on video games and directing commercials for ad agencies. HBO used the film to gauge audience’s interest… Read more.

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Mashable VR

JULY 20, 2022

It's not just humans who are into Stray. Cats seem to love it too. From French developer BlueTwelve Studio and Annapurna Interactive publishing, Stray is a new game out this week on PlayStations 4 and 5 and PC (through Steam) which allows you to play as a cat living in a dystopian, cyberpunk world. One of the most anticipated games of the year (and, for that matter, the year before ), the release has been generating a lot of interest around the ways you're rewarded by simply existing as a cat &#

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GizModo VR

JULY 20, 2022

The new MacBook Air is an excellent laptop, but one considerable shortcoming might dissuade power users from purchasing Apple’s least expensive notebook. If you’ve been keeping tabs on the latest model, then you know the limitation I’m referring to: heat management. Under a heavy workload, the fanless MacBook Air with… 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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Mashable VR

JULY 20, 2022

With the rise of banking apps, it’s clear that in-person visits to the bank for everyday transactions are largely a thing of the past. Many millennials will tell you the only bank they need is the one in their hands — and the next generation coming up is even more digitally attuned. At the cutting-edge of smartphone banking, Mashreq Neo launched out of Dubai in 2017 right when fintech, or the merging of finance and technology, was going from burgeoning to booming.

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GizModo VR

JULY 20, 2022

There’s something about mushrooms and fungi that’s inherently creepy. They can grow just about anywhere, feed on anything, and wiggle their weird little mycelia into the cracks, corners, and crannies of any house, home, or body. It makes for very good horror. I’m excited to show you. Read more.

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Mashable VR

JULY 20, 2022

Thanks to Jordan Peele, you're never going to look at the sky the same way again. As teased in the haunting promotional poster for Nope , the supernatural horror at the center of the heralded writer/director's third film is a dark cloud, ominously trailing a string of brightly colored flags. Fear not: The secrets within this creepy cumulus won't be unveiled in this review.

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GizModo VR

JULY 20, 2022

Mojang Studios, the makers of the ever-popular Minecraft , is taking a page from the old U.S. anti-drugs playbook , though it seems “Just Say No” seems to work much better for blockchain-based money making schemes than it ever did for narcotics. 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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