ARPost
AUGUST 19, 2022
Three months ago, the NCAA allowed college athletes to make their own money. Fourteen months later, they’re implementing NFTs. OCAVU Meets BYU. OCAVU first made a name for itself as SEEK, a 3D product visualization company. When the company was still SEEK, it launched its NFT platform at a VR/AR Association event. “I think, in the future, all of this content is going to be in 3D.
AR Insider
AUGUST 19, 2022
The past few months have seen the standard run of summer developer conferences, including lots of AR action. So we're summarizing and synthesizing the top AR updates for our XR Talks series. starting with Apple. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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VRScout
AUGUST 19, 2022
“ Beam me up, Scotty.” The third annual Star Trek Day is set to kick off next month at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, bringing with it a number of major announcements, panels, and unique programming honoring the legendary science-fiction franchise as well as late cast member Nichelle Nichols. This year’s festivities will also feature a series of augmented reality (AR) Delta Portals available to fans across the United States as well as London, Brazil, and Melbourne
Road to VR
AUGUST 19, 2022
Logitech this week announced a new VR accessory which aims to bring the great off-ear audio solution of Valve’s Index headset to Quest 2. Valve’s unique off-ear headphones were a elegant solution for powerful yet comfortable audio on the company’s Index headset which launched back in 2019. The off-ear headphones approach means the headphones don’t get in the way when putting the headset on, nor do they even contact your ears while wearing the headset.
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.
VRScout
AUGUST 19, 2022
Immersive technology bring the highly-anticipated show to life in the real-world. Snap Inc. has partnered with HBO to launch a series of AR-powered Snapchat Lenses inspired by House of Dragons , the upcoming Game of Thrones prequel series. This includes a selfie Lens that turns you into a fire-breathing dragon as well as a unique worldview Lens and several Landmarker Lenses.
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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
AUGUST 19, 2022
Emirates NBD, one of the largest lenders in the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region, announced on Wednesday it had opened an accelerator programme for startups seeking to promote customer experiences in the Metaverse. The ten-week-long programme will help startups create value, gain experience, and expand the region’s metaverse tech stacks, with a demo set to take place at GITEX for shortlisted entrants.
GizModo VR
AUGUST 19, 2022
Tick tock goes the clock. It seems that every day we find more examples of the ways some of the most popular social media apps are collecting data on users. Now TikTok itself seems to be wound up pretty tight about allegations they’re keylogging users using code found inside the in-app browser. Read more.
TechCrunch VR
AUGUST 19, 2022
To mark the expansion of Meta’s bland virtual reality platform, Horizon Worlds , into France and Spain , Mark Zuckerberg recently shared a selfie. The graphic, featuring the boyish CEO in front of a low-res model of the Eiffel tower, quickly struck a nerve, sparking sneers, jeers and sighs from quippy social media users. And honestly, can you blame them ?
GizModo VR
AUGUST 19, 2022
Claire Legrand is a best-selling YA author —her works include the Empirium Trilogy and Sawkill Girls —but next year, she’ll be releasing her first adult fantasy saga. The first book is titled A Crown of Ivy and Glass , and io9 is thrilled to be revealing the cover and an excerpt today. Read more.
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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.
Ryan Schultz
AUGUST 19, 2022
I am happy to announce that the long-awaited season 2 of the Metaverse Newscast has begun! For our first episode of the second season, I interviewed Jason Moore and Chris McBride of the MetaMovie project! We talked about their latest immersive theatre production, called Alien Rescue , which I had previously reviewed here (October 2021). You can see all eight episodes of season one of the Metaverse Newscast here on YouTube.
GizModo VR
AUGUST 19, 2022
As the credits rolled on the third season finale of For All Mankind , I felt awful. But not because the show was awful. On the contrary. It was legitimately magnificent. I felt bad because I knew that I’d let a bunch of people down. Mainly, you, the reader, for not passionately screaming about just how excellent this… Read more.
Upload VR
AUGUST 19, 2022
Mothergunship: Forge’s first major content update has arrived on Quest 2 and SteamVR, adding new weapon parts, a beta co-op campaign and more. Released in June, Mothergunship: Forge brought us an original VR spin-off to the 2018 flatscreen title Mothergunship. Offering a new roguelike first-person VR shooter, the goal is to fend off large hordes of enemies and get creative with large scale weapons customization.
GizModo VR
AUGUST 19, 2022
“A palabras necias, oídos sordos.” That’s how Meta’s Horizon Worlds has been described in Spain after launching in the country earlier this week. The comment on YouTube —which literally means, “turn deaf ears on stubborn words”—was made in frustration over the fact that Meta didn’t seem to realize that people who… Read more.
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.
Oculus
AUGUST 19, 2022
Welcome back to our weekly spotlight on the people building for Horizon Worlds and their amazing creations.
GizModo VR
AUGUST 19, 2022
If you’re thinking of downloading your YouTube shorts and posting them on another platform, then YouTube is getting ready to take credit. The video sharing platform announced new features for creators of shorts, including the addition of a watermark that will soon be stamped on the brief videos when they’re shared… Read more.
AIXR
AUGUST 19, 2022
The twelfth episode of our Insights Live series five featured moderator Chris Gunby ( AIXR ), Lina Srebrova ( Digitalnauts ), Sophie Thompson ( VirtualSpeech ) and Tom Houston (Sentireal). How do you demystify XR education and training for c-suites and ensure buy-in? XR education and training has several demonstrated benefits that traditional methods do not.
GizModo VR
AUGUST 19, 2022
What comes to mind when you think of a drive-in? Maybe it’s a memory of sitting in your parents’ car, nodding off in the backseat during a mediocre film about talking hamsters? Perhaps trips to the drive-in became a pandemic habit? Or maybe, upon hearing the word drive-in, you immediately think of the Grease fantasy. … Read more.
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.
Anand Tech
AUGUST 19, 2022
Samsung on Friday broke ground for a new semiconductor research and development complex which will design new fabrication processes for memory and logic, as well as conduct fundamental research of next-generation technologies and materials. The company plans to invest KRW 20 trillion ($15 billion) in the new R&D facility by 2028. To make more competitive logic and memory chips, companies like Samsung have to innovate across many directions, which includes new materials (for fins, for gates,
GizModo VR
AUGUST 19, 2022
When a huge plastic producer like Coca-Cola says it’s working to solve the plastic crisis, what does that really look like? An investigation published Friday by Bloomberg documents how one initiative in Ghana was used by some of the world’s biggest plastic producers to battle against threats of plastic bans, while… Read more.
GizModo VR
AUGUST 19, 2022
Android 13 is here for Google’s Pixel devices, and if you’re wielding a compatible model, you can grab the software now by requesting the over-the-air update in the settings panel. The software update is available for the Pixel 4 and up, including the latest Pixel 6a release. Note that this is a staggered rollout, so… Read more.
GizModo VR
AUGUST 19, 2022
NASA is going back to the Moon, but first the space agency needs to decide where it’s going to park. On Friday, it revealed 13 candidate landing regions near the Moon’s south pole for the upcoming Artemis 3 mission , which aims to land a man and a woman on the lunar surface. Read more.
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
AUGUST 19, 2022
There’s more Star Trek now than there’s ever been in the franchise’s history. Legendary shows , new hits, and more Trek appealing to more people than ever before. It can make jumping on board really hard—but the beauty of Star Trek is that you can kind of start anywhere. Here’s the best places to warp into Star Trek ,… Read more.
GizModo VR
AUGUST 19, 2022
It’s been 20 years since someone first held up their phone to a speaker playing a vaguely familiar tune and wondered, “wait, who sings this?” The music recognition app Shazam celebrated its 20th anniversary by releasing a playlist of the most searched songs over the past two decades. Read more.
GizModo VR
AUGUST 19, 2022
Spider-Man: No Way Home is coming back to theaters next month, and if it makes another $100 million, it would be only the sixth movie in cinema history to cross $2 billion worldwide. What could possibly get people to come back and see the Marvel mega-hit ? How about 11 minutes of new footage? Read more.
GizModo VR
AUGUST 19, 2022
Apple has warned of a major security flaw in some recent operating systems of Mac, iPhones, iPads, and some iPods that could allow hackers to take control of your devices. Read more.
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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