The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

“Sam & Max: This Time It’s Virtual!” is one of the most awaited VR games of 2021. If you, like me, were a fan of LucasArts’ point-and-click adventures and are excited for this game, then I’m sure you will love this article, because here you will discover a lot of interesting info about the game! I had the occasion of having a 1-hour long interview with Michael Levine, the CEO and Creative Director of HappyGiant , the company developing the game.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

A common occurrence in the analyst corps this time of year is predictions and projections. Our research arm ARtillery Intelligence got a jump on that process with its December report that looked back at the biggest lessons of 2020… and forward to the biggest predictions for 2021. This was also the theme of AWE Nite SF ‘s January meetup (disclosure: we’re on the AWE Nite SF production team).

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

It’s been about a week since Google announced it had stopped active development on VR creation suite Tilt Brush (2016) and made the app open source. Now that it’s in the hands of the developer community, we’ve seen Tilt Brush clones aplenty, however SideQuest app MultiBrush gives it something we always hoped it would have: multiplayer mode on Quest.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2021

SPREE Interactive enables location-based VR gaming by working with content developers and hardware manufacturers. While one might think that 2020 and 2021 would be a hard time for a location-based anything, SPREE is clearing funding, forming funding, and looking toward a post-COVID world. Meet SPREE. SPREE Interactive was founded in 2017 as “Holodeck VR.

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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

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The latest update to Oculus Quest and Quest 2 began rolling out this week with a range of improvements, including the addition of Facebook Messenger, an improved stationary Guardian boundary, support for bluetooth mice, interface improvements, and a navigation tutorial to help new users learn the headset’s various menus. With a gradual rollout starting this week, the Quest v25 software update is bringing a range of enhancements to the headset.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Tundra Tracker, the upcoming SteamVR tracker alternative to the Vive Tracker , was originally expected to hold a Kickstarter in January, but the company behind the project, Tundra Labs, says the crowdfunding campaign has been pushed back in light of delays in component sourcing. Image courtesy Tundra Labs. In the latest official update on the project , Tundra Labs notes, “Right now the semiconductor industry is going through incredible supply shortages due to a ‘double whammy’

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Photo by UNIBOA on Unsplash With rapid growth in the Augmented Reality industry, it is key to get a handle on best practices in UX/UI Design. Creating a simple, intuitive, and engaging experience for users takes on different approaches and intriguing questions. This past week, I decided to take on a quick challenge to introduce myself to Augmented Reality UI Design using Figma.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece for the Columbia Journalism Review about the way that my lifelong interest in heavy metal and ongoing career as a metal journalist had equipped me with a very specific skill set—namely, spotting Nazis, especially when they would prefer not to be found. In this respect, I am nothing… Read more.

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Digital Trends

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Today’s top athletes aren’t just good. More often than not, they’re statistically and objectively better than athletes of the past. Why? The answer isn’t that humans born today are inherently stronger, faster, or more athletic than earlier generations; it’s that we have better technology today. We have better tools, better equipment, and better data — […].

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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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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

If you eat oysters in Galveston, there’s a chance your discarded oyster shells will end up back in the bay near the Texas city. Unlike throwing trash in the sea, that’s a good thing. Read more.

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Digital Trends

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

You don’t have to be a celebrity chef to make a delicious meal -- you just need an easy recipe app. We’ve rounded up the best recipe apps for Android and iOS.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Plex Media might be best known as the streaming service suited for creating custom TV channels , but it turns out those servers can be abused for more nefarious purposes. On Thursday, the cybersecurity firm Netscout reported that the same custom servers used to host these channels are also being used to beef up denial… Read more.

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Digital Trends

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

It's going to be a weird year for video games as delays sweep through the industry. Here's every major date change announced so far.

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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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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

For Apple fans eagerly waiting for the long-rumored Apple car to become a reality, I have some good news and bad news. The good news: Word is Apple has been chatting with Hyundai and Kia about collaborating on an electric vehicle. The bad news: Those talks have apparently stalled. Read more.

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Digital Trends

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Looking to get your Among Us fix on a Mac? We'll show you the best way to get a smooth Among Us gaming experience on MacOS and everything else you need to know!

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Around 50,000 years ago, a bunch of Neanderthals made a home—and a bathroom — out of what is now a rocky escarpment south of Valencia, Spain. Over the last few years, some of those paleo-poops, the oldest known to come from a human species, have been excavated and analyzed. Now, researchers have caught a glimpse of the… Read more.

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VR Fitness

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

When Holodia’s Holofit software finally left its home of relative obscurity on Sidequest and moved to the bright lights of Oculus’s curated Quest store, I was happy for them and excited that many more people would be given the opportunity to try out this wonderful workout app that brings your cardio machines into virtual reality. Continue reading on VR Fitness Insider.

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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

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

WhatsApp has been the de facto messaging app in countries around the world for years. But recently, some news about the company’s extremely shady privacy policy changes has prompted many to consider switching to another service. After all, there are tons of choices out there, most of them not owned by Facebook. Read more.

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Digital Trends

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Apple's iOS 14 has brought home screen widgets to the iPhone. Here's our roundup of the best and most useful iOS 14 widgets, from the fun to the productive.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

A last-ditch attempt by Amazon to delay a vote on unionization at one of its larger warehouses has failed, paving the way for the first serious effort to organize workers at the tech giant since a failed attempt in Delaware in 2014. Read more.

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Digital Trends

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

They're harder to find now, but phones with physical keyboards still exist. Here are the best QWERTY phones.

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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

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Climate change is basically messing up everything in our lives. It’s tempting to find a way to pin the coronavirus pandemic on it, and a new study released today does just that, claiming that climate change “may have driven the emergence” of coronavirus. But it may be more complicated than it seems at first blush. Read more.

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Digital Trends

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

It's not just gamers who are being squeezed by component shortages. Lenovo claimed that unprecedented demands have caused its PC inventory to dwindle.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

So, you’ve heard about a new feature that will allow you to unlock your iPhone while you’re wearing a mask, and you want it. (Who could blame you?!) The good news is, you can access it with a public beta that’s now available. The bad news is that you’ll have to jump through a few hoops before you’re able to use it.… Read more.

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Charlie Fink

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The tech boom is heating XR, too.

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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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