VRScout
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Apple’s latest iPhone event may still be a week away, but you can play with this new AR effect right now. Apple today confirmed the official date for its upcoming September event. Earlier this morning, Apple’s senior vice president of marketing Greg Joswiak posted a tweet revealing a September 14th date for its official live stream, during which the company is expected to announce its next iPhone device.
AR Insider
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Immersive shopping is proving to have experiential impact for consumers and revenue impact for brands. Otherwise known as 'camera commerce' this is the topic of the latest ARtillery Intelligence report, which we excerpt for AR Insider readers. The post What’s the Revenue Opportunity in “Camera Commerce?’ appeared first on AR Insider.
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VRScout
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Explore an open hunting ground filled with various wildlife using a variety of real-world weapons and essential equipment. Arriving next year on PC VR headsets, Virtual Hunter is an upcoming VR FPS that will have you exploring the wilderness in search of various wildlife to hunt. Using a variety of real-world weapons and essential equipment, you’ll track both big game and smaller animals, each of which featuring its own unique behaviors.
Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Rebellion’s Sniper Elite VR (2021) has offered up some satisfying sniping with a bevy of comfort and gameplay options to boot. Now the studio is dialing in even further with a new update for Quest, PSVR, PC VR that promises more customization to the sniping experience. Outside of four difficulty levels, you also be able to toggle settings in a new custom difficulty mode which lets you mix and match things like aim assist, bullet drop, and wind effects.
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.
ARVR
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Visual search is a flavor of AR that could represent a breakout use case. It positions the camera as a search input?—?applying machine learning and computer vision magic?—?to identify items you point your phone at. 400 million people use it according to ARtillery Intelligence. Seen in products like Google Lens , visual search is all about annotating the world.
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GizModo VR
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Facebook planted its privacy flag on WhatsApp, the end-to-end encrypted messaging service which Facebook can’t spy on. In a 2018 Senate hearing, Mark Zuckerberg stated unequivocally that “we don’t see any of the content in WhatsApp, it’s fully encrypted.” Today, upon opening the app, a privacy policy and ToS update… Read more.
Anand Tech
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
When it was announced that AMD was set to give a presentation at Hot Chips on its newest Zen 3 microarchitecture, I was expecting the usual fare when a company goes through an already announced platform – a series of slides that we had seen before. In the Zen 3 presentation this was largely the case, except for one snippet of information that had not been disclosed before.
GizModo VR
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Reports that the iPhone 13 would allow users to text and call even when they don’t have cell coverage by connecting to satellites caused quite a stir last week, especially considering that Apple’s fall reveal event is right around the corner. Yet, another rumor now says that’s baloney, which means you shouldn’t get… Read more.
TechCrunch VR
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Sindhya Valloppillil. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Sindhya Valloppillil is the founder and CEO of Skin Dossier, a venture partner at Next Gen Ventures, a freelance writer and formerly a beauty industry executive and marketing professor. More posts by this contributor. It may not be as glamorous as D2C, but beauty tech is big money. We have been raised to believe in recycling, but it has mostly been a sham — only 9% of all plastic waste produced in 2018 was recycled.
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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.
GizModo VR
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
A new report provides new insight into why right-wing legislators all over the U.S. are cracking down on anti-pipeline protests—namely, that the protests really work to limit planet-warming pollution. Read more.
Voices of VR
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Kevin Mack’s Anandala is an awe-inspiring piece of VR-native, generative, abstract art with some really compelling experiments in interactive, embodied NPC entities he calls “blorts.
GizModo VR
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
The Asian women in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings are some of the fiercest women to ever appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Even though the story centers on Shang-Chi ( Simu Liu ), the women are just as strong—if not stronger—fighters. io9 spoke with newcomer and Shang-Chi standout Meng’er Zhang and… Read more.
Voices of VR
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
GOLIATH: PLAYING WITH REALITY is an interactive VR story that explores the experience of schizophrenia & psychosis through the story of a Twitch Streamer named.
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.
GizModo VR
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Amazon, as in the corporation, is investing in the Amazon, as in the rainforest. The multinational conglomerate announced the new initiative on Tuesday, saying it will help fight the climate crisis. But in doing so, Amazon conveniently skirted addressing its own role in fueling that crisis. Surprise, surprise. Read more.
Digital Trends
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Ending an FPV drone video with something spectacular is hard to do but this one shot at a recent pro golf event in Atlanta absolutely nailed it.
GizModo VR
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
LG is done making smartphones, though that doesn’t mean it isn’t still attempting to one-up its biggest rival. Samsung beat the competition to the punch with foldable phones , but its bendable screens came with a preinstalled layer of protective film to keep the display from falling apart. LG’s solution to this… Read more.
Digital Trends
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
NASA has finally been able to confirm that on its second attempt, the Perseverance rover managed to successfully collect its first sample of Martian rock.
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.
GizModo VR
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
If you’re wandering around Singapore anytime soon, take some time to wave hi to your friendly neighborhood snitch bot. Read more.
Digital Trends
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Some astronauts may like to boogie, but this funky light show aboard the International Space Station is definitely not a disco.
GizModo VR
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
It’s not unusual for large companies to commit occasional data screw-ups, and McDonald’s, glorious provider of caloric excess to billions , is the most recent offender. Read more.
Digital Trends
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Segway's first robot lawn mower uses GPS and cellular data to keep your front yard trimmed. It promises to be safe, quiet, and highly efficient.
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?
GizModo VR
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
A new analysis takes a look at what the authors say is the environmental impact of the first-ever spill of a new kind of marine fuel oil. The fuel was developed in response to regulations intended to lower sulfur emissions from the dirty shipping industry but is raising more environmental questions as it’s more widely… Read more.
Digital Trends
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Leaks and rumors have suggested Intel Arc Alchemist won't stand up to the flagship competition, but it likely isn't supposed to. Here's why.
GizModo VR
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
Epik, the domain registrar which agreed to take in Parler after the Capitol insurrection, has drawn the line. It is: anonymous jackasses ratting out people seeking abortions in Texas, which are now practically outlawed in that state. Users of prolifewhistleblower.com could submit “anonymous tips” to “Help Enforce the… Read more.
Oculus
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
As the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks approaches, now is an opportune time to reflect on the lives lost as well as the.
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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