VRScout
MAY 22, 2021
Start a virtual band using this clever Snapchat Lens from smart musical instruments creator Artiphon. Artiphon, creator of smart musical instruments such as the Orba and INSTRUMENT 1, this week unveiled its first Snapchat Lens, Scan Band. Available now via the Snapchat app, Scan Band uses a combination of augmented reality (AR) and machine learning to convert everyday objects into interactive virtual instruments.
GizModo VR
MAY 22, 2021
Physicists have built two tiny drums, each as large as a human hair is wide, and synchronized their vibrations exactly. They achieved this perfect unison of drums using a quantum mechanics phenomenon known as entanglement—and the drums could be useful for developing quantum computers. Read more.
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Digital Trends
MAY 22, 2021
ESA wants to creating a network of satellites in orbit around the moon which could help with landing missions, navigating rovers, and communicating with Earth.
GizModo VR
MAY 22, 2021
Starting next week, Twitch is adding more than 350 new community tags to its streaming platform related to gender, sexual orientation, race, nationality, ability, mental health, and other categories, the company said in a blog post Friday. Read more.
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.
Digital Trends
MAY 22, 2021
Before NASA sends humans back to the moon, it plans to send a robotic explorer: The Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, rover.
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Digital Trends
MAY 22, 2021
It's been a busy week on Mars, and NASA recently shared an update on what the Perseverance rover has been up to.
GizModo VR
MAY 22, 2021
It is well known that one of the top complaints about Apple’s last Siri Remote for its Apple TV was its ability to get itself lost in the abyss of living rooms. Apple could have fixed this with its second-generation Siri remote by adding, for instance, a handy dandy AirTag. Apparently though, the company thought that… Read more.
Digital Trends
MAY 22, 2021
If you dislike messy wires, the Belkin SoundForm Elite Hi-Fi smart speaker doubles as a wireless charger.
GizModo VR
MAY 22, 2021
Apple’s recent hifi audio streaming launch for Apple Music was received with enthusiasm, but also all sorts of confusion when it comes to lossless audio. Today, Apple tried to clear up user questions about lossless audio and also announced that the HomePod and HomePod mini would support the feature. 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.
Digital Trends
MAY 22, 2021
European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft has captured video of an explosion of plasma from the sun, called a coronal mass ejection, for the first time.
GizModo VR
MAY 22, 2021
Do you remember Mark Water’s disastrous 2014 directorial adaptation of Richelle Mead’s book Vampire Academy ? The film currently sits at 16 percent on rotten tomatoes and an equally lousy audience score, labeling it a box office dud. However, Peacock TV, and executive producer Julie Plec intends to the right that wrong… Read more.
Digital Trends
MAY 22, 2021
Jupiter's most famous feature is its Great Red Spot, but it has a sibling -- and a new image of this second spot shows it's getting stranger.
GizModo VR
MAY 22, 2021
The Nintendo GameCube turns 20 years old this year. While part of its claim to fame has always been its compact design, one Reddit user has proven that you can, in fact, squeeze an entire PC capable of running high-end games into the classic home console. 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
MAY 22, 2021
This week, we released several titles and updates across the Oculus Platform. Here’s a rundown of the highlights.
GizModo VR
MAY 22, 2021
There’s no denying The Conjuring universe is massively successful with two Conjuring movies , three Anabelle movies, The Nun , The Curse of La Llorona (2019), and a third Conjuring film on the way. Read more.
GizModo VR
MAY 22, 2021
I became a mom for the first time this year—a dog mom, that is. In January, I adopted my first dog, a 1-year-old black lab/dachshund mix named T-Rex. (He has a huge head, a long body, and tiny, stumpy legs; he is perfect, thank you.) Read more.
GizModo VR
MAY 22, 2021
Hulk actor Mark Ruffalo will star opposite Emma Stone in Yorgos Lanthimos adaptation of the Alasdair Gray novel, Poor Things. 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.
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