Mon.May 03, 2021

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Yaw2 Motion Simulator Surpasses $1M On Kickstarter

VRScout

Yaw VR’s smart chair offers a 40-degree motion range for roll, 70-degree for pitch movements, and haptic vibrations. With 34 days left to go in the campaign, Yaw VR’s next-gen motion simulator/smart chair, the Yaw2, this week reached over $1M in funding on Kickstarter, absolutely demolishing its original goal of $100,000. Shipping out to early backers this September, the Yaw2 is able to tilt 70 degrees up and down and 40 degrees side-to-side, allowing for more realistic simulations e

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Snap’s AR Win Streak Continues

AR Insider

S napchat is the engagement and revenue leader in consumer AR. This is driven largely from the high-frequency lens usage it’s been able to generate….and its ability to monetize. This stems from Snap’s AR focus, and the technology’s alignment with its core “ camera-company ” ethos. Snap’s leading AR position also continues to be validated by performance indicators like advertiser ROI metrics.

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The Quick Guide to Augmented Reality Deployment in the Enterprise

ARPost

In the last five years, augmented reality technology has evolved far beyond its most widespread adoption ever – killing digital critters on Pokémon Go. Today, we can safely claim that its implications are more serious and mainstream, spanning industries such as healthcare , manufacturing, and education. The reason for this is that companies have found new applications for AR such as customer education, onboarding and training of employees, security, product design and repair, travel and navigati

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Holoride Secures $12M Funding to Create Immersive in-car VR Experiences

Road to VR

Holoride , the Audi co-founded startup aiming to inject immersive VR and AR into everyday car travel, announced it’s raised a €10 million (~$12 million) Series A investment round. The company first unveiled its tech back at CES 2019 , showing off its platform which integrates a car’s movement with a VR content. The idea is backseat passengers can use a VR headset whilst playing videos and games that are synced-up with the vehicle’s movement, something that aims to not only be fun, bu

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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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AT&T and NBA Launch Mobile AR Experience via Chicago Bulls App

Next Reality AR

The Chicago Bulls may not be very relevant in the current NBA standings, but they do lead the league in one other area. With an assist from Nexus Studios, AT&T has debuted StatsZone, an augmented reality experience that presents game statistics in an immersive format, in the Chicago Bulls app. Don't Miss: NBA AR App Launches on Android & Adds Portals to Playoffs Leveraging ARKit from Apple and ARCore from Google for horizontal plane detection, StatZone anchors a tabletop-sized virtual ba

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How Do AR Ads Resonate with Consumers?

ARVR

AR continues to prove itself as a shopping tool. It can help consumers visualize products on “faces and spaces,” to make more informed decisions. This is amplified during a pandemic when it can bring back some of the product essence and dimension that’s lost in retail lockdowns. AR meanwhile resonates on the sell side: brands and retailers. On one level, it appeals to their creative sensibilities?

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60 Million Stars and Not One Alien Detected

GizModo VR

Astrobiologists with the Breakthrough Listen project have released the preliminary results of a SETI survey, in which the team hunted for radio signals along a line of sight that extends toward the galactic center. Read more.

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AR watch?—?try it, before you buy it

ARVR

AR Watch?—?try it, before you buy it AR Watch by Daniel Pikl For some time I wanted to create Augmented Reality for watches on hand testing. The effect should have options to fit on your wrist and user should be able to switch between watch models or watch the colors. I saw in the past lot of similar applications, but all were app dependent, something I’m not a big fan.

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Print Books Are Still Outselling eBooks, Study Finds

GizModo VR

According to a study by Statista’s Advertising & Media Outlook, ebook sales are still trailing physical book sales globally, especially during the dog days of the covid-19 pandemic. The study, which asked respondents to describe their book purchases in 2020, found that ebooks still haven’t replaced paper in most… Read more.

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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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To save the planet, phone makers need to bring back removable batteries

Digital Trends

Smartphones have an astonishingly large carbon footprint, and most of it stems from the fact that they don't have swappable batteries anymore.

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The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Experiment Is About to Get More Interesting

GizModo VR

It’s not wrong to want Ingenuity to crash. The Mars helicopter getting into a dramatic accident would mean that the NASA team pushed the craft to its limits—that there’s finally a ceiling on the accomplishments of the astonishingly successful chopper. So far, Ingenuity has completed four of its five scheduled test… Read more.

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Star Wars: The Bad Batch preview: Clones, chaos, and the rise of the Empire

Digital Trends

The Star Wars saga continues in The Bad Batch, an animated series set in the aftermath of the deadly Order 66 and in the early days of the Galactic Empire.

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Ethereum Surges to $3,200, Making Its Creator the Youngest Crypto Billionaire

GizModo VR

Amidst an ongoing crypto surge , Ether soared to new market heights Monday, becoming one of the priciest cryptocurrencies in circulation. The Ethereum blockchain-based token is now worth around $3,200, making its total market capitalization higher than Bank of America, Paypal, and Nestle. 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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How to watch Crew-1 astronauts reveal details about their Crew Dragon ride

Digital Trends

Following their historic mission, SpaceX's Crew-1 astronauts will talk about their experiences, including how they felt during the ride home on the Crew Dragon.

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Disney+ Celebrates May the Fourth With The Bad Batch, a Simpsons Spoof, and More

GizModo VR

The most important day in the Star Wars franchise—other than Life Day, of course —is May 4, a.k.a. May the Fourth, when Lucasfilm and its various affiliates celebrate a galaxy far, far away (and the billions of dollars it makes them). This year, Disney’s streaming service seems to be where the party’s happening. Read more.

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Claiming to be the world’s fastest, this SSD just raised over $1.2 million

Digital Trends

Gigadrive hopes to revolutionize the SSD market with its fast external Thunderbolt 4 connected drive, which boasts speeds nearly as fast as internal SSDs.

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In a First, People Had Their Brain Activity Tracked Remotely During Everyday Life

GizModo VR

In a new study out Monday, scientists say they can now record people’s brain activity wirelessly throughout the day—a feat that could allow for better research into the brain’s inner workings. They then used that data to adjust the treatment of people with Parkinson’s disease through deep brain stimulation. It’s an… 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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Intel to Invest $3.5 Billion USD into Foveros and EMIB Production in Rio Rancho

Anand Tech

At a news conference today, Intel has announced that its Rio Rancho campus in New Mexico will be getting an investment of $3.5 billion USD for an expansion of its current state-of-the-art facilities for the company to roll out its new Foveros packaging technology in volume for its own products as well as its customers. This comes on top of the $20 billion USD that Intel has committed to two new fabrication plants in its Ocotillo campus in Arizona for wafer production.

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Clubhouse Is Losing Steam

GizModo VR

Clubhouse—the company that was making headlines just a few months back for drawing major celebrities (and Elon Musk )—seems to have reached a tipping point. In April, the app reached a grand total of 922,000 downloads, new research found, a sharp downturn after bringing in millions of new users just a month earlier. Read more.

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Watch this dramatic drone footage of a tornado before disaster strikes

Digital Trends

Experienced storm chaser Brian Emfinger had a close shave with a raging tornado a couple of days ago, but his drone wasn’t so lucky.

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Apple's Foldable iPhone Reportedly Rolling Out in 2023

GizModo VR

The question was never if, but when, and according to noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the long-rumored foldable iPhone is now expected in 2023. 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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The best money-saving and investing apps for iOS and Android

Digital Trends

We've put together six of the best money saving apps for iOS and Andriod to help you create a budget, track your spending, invest, and save for the future.

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Siberia Is on Fire—and It’s Only May

GizModo VR

It looks like wildfires in Siberia are starting up again—and some fires that never went out after last summer are starting to poke their heads out of the snow. Very normal and cool! Read more.

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RDNA 3 leak hints at how powerful AMD’s next-gen cards will be

Digital Trends

The leak suggests that the new GPU will match the old design, but AMD is a long way from announcing anything.

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Alan Moore's Next Books Sound Alan Moore-y as Hell

GizModo VR

Alan Moore , modern-day Saruman and creator of comic masterpieces like Watchmen, V for Vendetta , and From Hell , has just signed with a new book publisher, and his upcoming fiction series sounds. well, like just the sort of things Alan Moore tends to write. 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?