Tue.Apr 06, 2021

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Apple CEO Tim Cook: AR Is “Critically Important” For The Company’s Future

VRScout

Augmented reality will forever change the way we communicate says the Apple CEO. According to a recent report by Apple research expert Ming-Chi Kuo , Apple will be launching a mixed reality headset later this year, followed by a dedicated AR headset in 2025 and AR contact lenses in 2030. The companies iPhones and iPads already have AR capabilities, and the current iPhone 12’s have LiDAR that can be used to instantly create your own 3D content through apps like Polycam or 3D Scanner App.

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Augmented Reality in Social Media: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

ARPost

Augmented reality has been thriving on social media in the past few years. From Snapchat and Instagram to Facebook, social media platforms have been using it to create all kinds of filters and experiences for their users. However, AR is no longer just for fun and games. An app called Spotselfie has been using augmented reality to enhance the online experience by blurring the divide between the real and virtual world.

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VR Dungeon Crawler ‘Demeo’ Arrives Next Month On Major Headsets

VRScout

Team up with friends to explore haunted catacombs in Resolution Games’ upcoming turn-based fantasy roguelike. Developer Resolution Games ( Blaston, Cook-Out: A Sandwich Tale, Angry Birds VR ) today announced the official release date for its upcoming VR fantasy roguelike game Demeo. Available May 6th on major VR headsets, Demeo will have you teaming up with friends to explore the darkest bowels of an ancient Elven Necropolis in the hopes of rescuing The Mad Elven King, Taking on the role o

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What Will Drive AR Glasses Adoption?

AR Insider

O ne striking realization about spatial computing is that we’re almost seven years into the sector’s current stage. This traces back to Facebook’s Oculus acquisition in early 2014 that kicked off the current wave of excitement….including lots of ups and downs in the intervening years. That excitement culminated in 2016 after the Oculus acquisition had time to set off a chain reaction of startup activity, tech-giant investment, and VC inflows for the “next computing platform.

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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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‘The Unity Cube’ is the Worst Quest Game on Oculus App Lab—on Purpose

Road to VR

The Unity Cube is an experiment from developer Tony “SkarredGhost” Vitillo to test the limits of what Oculus will allow into the App Lab program. Vitillo submitted a fully functional application which simply presents the user with a cube in a blank environment—and Oculus accepted it. Oculus App Lab is an alternative path for developers to publish applications on Quest.

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New Apple Patents Cover “Micro-gesture” XR Input, Head-worn Haptics to Guide User Attention

Road to VR

A newly published patent application from Apple highlights the company’s internal exploration of “micro-gestures” for AR input, which involves using the thumb against the index finger as a sort of virtual joystick or selector. Another newly granted patent covers the use of head-worn haptics as a means of directing the user’s attention toward virtual objects which are out of sight.

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Accelerated progress in Manufacturing towards digital transformation post Covid-19

ARVR

Accelerated progress in Manufacturing towards Digital Transformation post Covid-19 Disruptive technologies have revitalized manufacturing at other times in history, just as these current technologies are doing today. The current collection of disruptive technologies has been grouped together as Industry 4.0. Four principles make up the focus of Industry 4.0: interoperability, information transparency, technical assistance from artificial intelligence, and the decentralization of decision-making.

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Cas & Chary Present – Hands-on with the SenseGlove Nova Force-feedback VR Gloves

Road to VR

SenseGlove, a Dutch-based producer of VR haptic gloves, has revealed an early prototype of their second glove, the SenseGlove Nova. We recently visited the company to see how it works and feels. Cas & Chary Present. Cas and Chary VR is a YouTube channel hosted by Netherland-based duo Casandra Vuong and Chary Keijzer who have been documenting their VR journeys since 2016.

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What’s Behind Google’s Latest AR Updates?

ARVR

After expanding and contracting in various VR initiatives, Google continues to be committed to AR. It sees the technology more aligned with the future of search. If search and AR had a baby, it would be visual search?—?Google’s prevailing AR play, otherwise known as Google Lens. As examined in our Location Wars series, this also takes form in what we call Google’s Internet of Places.

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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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This ‘Valheim’ Mod Lets You Play in VR, Motion Controller Support in the Works

Road to VR

Valheim , the Viking-themed survival game in early access on PC, doesn’t feature official support for VR headsets. Shortly after its release in early February though, modders got started on letting VR users take their first steps into the game’s impressively large fantasy world. The unofficial modpack was created by Brandon Mousseau and lets you play from the first-person perspective via a SteamVR-compatible headset.

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A New Phishing Campaign Sends Malware-Laced Job Offers Through LinkedIn

GizModo VR

With unemployment at formidable levels and the economy doing weird, covid-related reversals, I think we can all agree that the job hunt is a pretty hard slog right now. Amidst all that, you know what workers really don’t need? A LinkedIn inbox full of malware. Yeah, they don’t need that at all. Read more.

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‘RUNNER’ Brings Breakneck Speeds & ’80s-style Arcade Shooting Action, Trailer Here

Road to VR

RUNNER is an upcoming arcade-style racing game that tasks you with running and gunning in a high-speed, ’80s nostalgia-soaked adventure. Inspired by classic anime Akira, Ghost in the Shell, and Patlabor, Runner takes you through seven sectors of the of Presidium, the capitol of an off-world mining colony. Taking on the role of Mina, you race across a massive highspeed expressway in a motorcycle while fighting off waves of autonomous corporate combat drones.

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Hundreds of Glacial Rivers Are Pouring Into the Belly of Greenland’s Ice

GizModo VR

We use the cliched term “glacial pace” to describe something that moves really slowly. But new research shows that Greenland’s glaciers may actually be moving more rapidly than we thought thanks to rushing rivers on their surface. Read more.

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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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Intel 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable (Ice Lake SP) Review: Generationally Big, Competitively Small

Anand Tech

The launch of Intel’s Ice Lake Xeon Scalable processors has been in the wings for a number of years. The delays to Intel’s 10nm manufacturing process have given a number of setbacks to all of Intel’s proposed 10nm product lines, especially the high performance Xeon family: trying to craft 660 mm2 of silicon on a process is difficult at the best of times.

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Report: Clearview AI's Facial Recognition Has Been Used by Over 1,800 Public Agencies

GizModo VR

A new series of reports from BuzzFeed News shows the wide net cast by shadowy surveillance firm Clearview AI. Individuals at 1,803 public agencies—many of which are police departments—have used its facial recognition software at some point over recent years, according to data reviewed by the news outlet. Read more.

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Hands On With FitXR Official Accessories, plus Exclusive Wrist Weights Discount Offer

VR Fitness

Last month FitXR announced the launch of their first official branded merchandise and accessories, designed to complement and enhance your FitXR boxercise and dance workouts. The debut range has been thoughtfully put together and already covers almost everything you’d need to be VR workout ready, minus the headset of course. Continue reading on VR Fitness Insider.

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Will.i.am Is Back With a Stupid Face Mask

GizModo VR

Overpriced connected face masks are a thing now —a side effect of the pandemic. The latest person to hop on the smart mask train is Will.i.am, the Black Eyed Peas rapper with a penchant for developing tech that falls flat on its face. Read more.

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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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10 things you didn’t know your iPad could do

Digital Trends

The iPad is getting more productive, meaning that there are dozens of tricks that you could learn. Here are 10 things you didn't know your iPad could do.

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Japan's Central Bank Launches One-Year Test of Digital Currency

GizModo VR

Japan’s central bank has started trials of a new digital currency in an effort to experiment with how it might be used, the Bank of Japan announced on Monday. The announcement comes after the Chinese government revealed it was doing something very similar with a digital yuan in early March. Read more.

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Power plants on other planets: How we’ll generate electricity on Mars

Digital Trends

The first Mars explorers will need electricity to survive -- but how do you generate power on a dusty planet where solar energy is in short supply?

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Signal Is Adding a New Privacy-Focused Payments Feature

GizModo VR

Most of us might be familiar with Signal as the privacy-preserving messaging app of choice, but the company is expanding into a new frontier: payments. Read more.

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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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E3 2021 is officially a free, all-digital event featuring Nintendo, Microsoft, more

Digital Trends

The ESA revealed the first official details about E3 2021. The show will be all-digital in and feature many major gaming studios -- and some notable absences.

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Clubhouse Reportedly Thinks It's Worth $4 Billion Now

GizModo VR

Clubhouse, which led a round of investment in January at a reported valuation of around $1 billion , now believes it is worth four times that, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. Read more.

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Mars rainbow turns out not to be a rainbow after all

Digital Trends

It looks like a rainbow and it arcs like a rainbow, but this image captured on Mars by the Perseverance rover definitely does not show a rainbow.

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Godzilla vs. Kong's Humans Ranked (By Usefulness)

GizModo VR

A movie like Godzilla vs. Kong isn’t about humans, it’s about giant monsters fighting each other—and yet, Godzilla vs. Kong is jam-packed with non-kaiju characters. Some of them are crucial to the plot, providing key information that makes more of those fights possible while others are, well, less crucial, as they… Read more.

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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?