Thu.Jul 28, 2022

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VR Sim Teaches You The Art Of Baggage Handling 

VRScout

Immerse yourself in five challenging airport scenarios. Airport Ground Handling Simulator VR is an upcoming VR simulator for PC VR headsets that puts you in the shoes of a ground handler and tasks you with completing a variety of activities as part of the turnaround process at a busy airport. . The app was developed by AVIAR and is actually based on training software used by real airports around the world.

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Save the Date for the Most Important XR Events in Q3 and Q4 2022

ARPost

The last two years were a challenge for everyone, including the thriving XR community. All events had to take place online – which technically is where most immersive reality experiences happen. But nothing replaces the meaningful interaction with your peers and the inspirational leaders you admire. Also, testing new gadgets is one of the main reasons people attend XR events – both consumers and experts in various fields.

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Snapchat’s New AR Game Let’s You Hunt Ghosts

VRScout

Do you love hunting ghosts but find yourself lacking any haunted property in which to investigate? Ghost Phone is a new in-game app from Snapchat that turns your smartphone into an augmented reality (AR)-powered ghost hunting device. The game has you searching for clues hidden in text messages and hunting supernatural entities with your smartphone’s camera. .

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Reality Bytes: Apple, Microsoft & Best Buy

AR Insider

This week on the Reality Bytes Microsoft ‘blocks’ blockchain technologies in Minecraft, Apple opens its Ultra Wideband chip (U1) to developers, and Best Buy plans to launch mini-retail stores. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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The Future of eLearning in 2022: A Sensitive Eye for Authentic Translation and Localization

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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Sony’s PSVR 2 to Offer VR Passthrough, Streaming Updates

XR Today - Virtual Reality

This Tuesday, Sony, the firm behind the Playstation line-up of console gaming devices, announced new details for its upcoming PlayStation Virtual Reality 2 (PSVR 2) headset. In an official blog post , Sony introduced several new features to improve the PSVR 2 user experience. According to industry analysts like Ming-Chi Kuo , rumours find the sophomore device is due in 2023.

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Meta Faces FTC Buyout Block, First-Ever Sales Fall

XR Today - Virtual Reality

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) aims to block Meta Platforms and Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s Chief Executive and Founder , from buying out Within Unlimited, the organisation announced on Wednesday. Within’s hit fitness app Supernatural has become involved in a fresh anticompetitive case against the Menlo Park-based firm, with the FTC slamming Meta’s “attempt to illegally acquire” the app.

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Intel To Wind Down Optane Memory Business - 3D XPoint Storage Tech Reaches Its End

Anand Tech

It appears that the end may be in sight for Intel’s beleaguered Optane memory business. Tucked inside a brutal Q2’2022 earnings release for the company (more on that a bit later today) is a very curious statement in a section talking about non-GAAP adjustments: In Q2 2022, we initiated the winding down of our Intel Optane memory business.

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The outlook is getting more complicated for Meta’s virtual reality dreams

TechCrunch VR

For an industry that rarely has major news anymore, this was an awfully big week for virtual reality. Unsurprisingly, all of the important data points are related to the industry’s sole benefactor these days, Meta, which managed to raise the cost of entry to its VR ecosystem, find itself in a new battle with the US government over VR, and announce that it had, again, burnt an awful lot of money on its Reality Lab efforts this quarter.

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Most Popular XR Hand and Eye Tracking Reviews 2022

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

As XR technologies become more accessible for companies and consumers alike, the demand for immersive hand and eye tracking solutions is growing. With tracking technologies, companies can build more immersive experiences for XR users. Eye tracking helps users to navigate a space more effectively, while improving software performance and minimising discomfort.

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How to Train Employees 65% Faster With Virtual Reality

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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Twitter's New 'Status' Feature Is Here to Make Tweeting Even More Embarrassing

GizModo VR

Have you ever thought, “I’m about to tweet, but that’s not enough self-expression. I need to tell the internet how I really feel?” If so, you’re in luck—maybe. As long as your true inner feelings align with the options in Twitter’s new status feature, which is currently in testing. The concept was hinted at in a leak… Read more.

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Metaverse, DAOs to Change Future of Work, WEF Reports

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

This Monday, World Economic Forum (WEF) advisors Ravin Jesuthasan, Senior Partner and Global Leader for Transformation Services, Mercer , and George Zarkadakis, Senior Fellow, GeoTech Centre of the Atlantic Council , posted a report exploring the role of extended reality (XR) technologies in the future of the work. The WEF representatives spoke positively of immersive technologies such as cryptocurrency, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), the blockchain, and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs

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Zuck Says Instagram Is Going to Suck Twice as Much Next Year

GizModo VR

Despite the surge of public backlash over Instagram’s recent changes , fueled by internet powerhouses Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian , Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is unmoved. He said the photo-sharing app, if it can still be called that, will show twice as much AI-recommended content by the end of next year in the… Read more.

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This Week In XR: Meta’s No Good Very Bad Week

Charlie Fink

The pivot to the metaverse is facing real headwinds in the physical world.

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Are You Still Watching? How to Create Engaging Presentations for Virtual Learning

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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Jessica Jones' Krysten Ritter Will Star in Orphan Black Spin-Off Echoes

GizModo VR

While OG Orphan Black star Tatiana Maslany is busy getting big and green for Marvel’s She-Hulk on Disney+, the next chapter of AMC’s clone-fascinated series has announced its star, and she happens to have her own Marvel connections: it’s Jessica Jones ’ Krysten Ritter. Read more.

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Zuckerberg Wants Meta’s AR/VR Business To Be As Big As Ads By 2030

Upload VR

Mark Zuckerberg wants Meta’s AR/VR business to be “as big as our current ad business within this decade” The goal was revealed earlier this month in an all-hands company meeting leaked to The Verge. It was part of a response to an employee asking how Apple’s upcoming headset and absence from the Metaverse Standards Forum will affect Meta: Employee question: Apple is absent from metaverse standards and are coming out with their own AR glasses.

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Meta's Done With Paying News Publishers on Facebook

GizModo VR

Several news publishers are going to be out millions of dollars as Meta is now saying, in a very subdued way, there’s no place for dedicated news systems on its ever-more algorithmically based social platforms. Read more.

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Qualcomm, Samsung Extend Snapdragon XR Partnership

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Qualcomm Technologies announced on Thursday that it had boosted its partnership with Samsung Electronics to expand collaboration on the former’s Snapdragon XR platform. The strategic deal will allow the Santa Clara-based firm to expand collaboration for future Samsung products, namely in extended reality (XR), smartphones, laptops, tablets, and others.

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

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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Instagram Will Pause Updates Until All the Yelling Stops

GizModo VR

Less than a day after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg elicited outrage by saying that more than 30% of users’ Instagram feeds would consist of AI-recommended content from people they don’t follow by next year, the photo-sharing app’s head honcho said the company would stop updates in an effort to staunch the flood of… Read more.

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Instagram is undoing its TikTok-like changes you hated so much

Digital Trends

Instagram is reconsidering its pivot to a TikTok-style video feed after recent changes proved to be extremely unpopular with its fan base.

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Nintendo Switch Online NES, SNES, Sega, N64 Controllers Now Supported by Steam

GizModo VR

Attention all classic controller lovers, your favorite classic Nintendo and Sega controllers, which refer to the Switch specific NES, SNES, Sega Genesis/ Mega Drive, and N64 controllers, are now supported by Steam (and thus your PC). This comes after Steam announced a slew of updates and patch notes yesterday, with … Read more.

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Silicon Motion Announces SM8366 PCIe 5.0 x4 NVMe Controller and MonTitan SSD Solutions Platform for Enterprise Storage

Anand Tech

In the lead up to the Flash Memory Summit next week, many vendors have started announcing their new products. Today, Silicon Motion is unveiling their first enterprise-focused PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD controllers set. These controllers find themselves embedded in a flexible turnkey solutions platform encompassing different EDSFF standards. A follow-up to the SM8266 introduced in November 2020 , the SM8366 and SM8308 belong to Silicon Motion's 3 rd Generation enterprise NVMe controller family.

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Who C.A.R.E.S.!? How Learning Got Its Bad Rap & What We Can Do About It

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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Deepmind's Releasing AI Predictions for Virtually Every Protein Known to Science

GizModo VR

The history of AI computing in recent decades follows a somewhat familiar script: brief bursts of industry-shifting breakthroughs followed by months or years of smaller incremental change with a fair share of controversy peppered in between. Today’s one of those watershed moments. Read more.

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This McAfee deal is your best chance at cheap antivirus software

Digital Trends

Protect your digital devices and save big with this impressive discount on McAfee antivirus software, which is just $40 for one year of the McAfee Plus plan.

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Author Tlotlo Tsamaase on the Feminist Sci-Fi Horror of Womb City

GizModo VR

io9 is pleased to announce that Erewhon Books has acquired Womb City, the novel debut of Lambda finalist and Nommo Award-winner Tlotlo Tsamaase , who uses both xe/xem and she/her pronouns. Tsamaase is a Motswana writer currently living in Botswana. Xer novella, The Silence of the Wilting Skin , garnered a massive… Read more.

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Venice Immersive 2022 Selection: Peaky Blinders VR, Space Explorers & More

Upload VR

The Venice International Film Festival unveiled this year’s selection for Venice Immersive (the newly-renamed XR division of the festival) this week, which includes the upcoming Peaky Blinders VR experience , alongside Space Explorers, The Soloist VR and more. The festival returns to an in-person format this year, following online offerings in its last two outings.

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How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular

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?