VRScout
DECEMBER 24, 2021
Start the new year off right with a collection of fitness challenges led by the famous actress, comedian, and producer. With 2022 just around the corner, it’s time to start thinking about New Year’s resolutions. No doubt this year many of us will be focusing our attention on personal fitness. Instead of clogging up the gyms this January/February, however, why not try VR?
The Ghost Howls
DECEMBER 24, 2021
It’s that time of the year again where I wish you great Winter Holidays! I can’t believe another year has passed by… and it’s been a crazy one for XR. We had the Quest making strides, new intensifying rumors on the Apple headset, a partial reveal of PSVR, Bytedance entering the field with Pico, Valve that may be working on a standalone headset, and many other things happening.
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VRScout
DECEMBER 24, 2021
Get vaccinated and mask up as you prepare to battle waves of virus variants in order to save the universe. Released back in April 2020 on PC VR and Meta Quest headsets, Starcade Arcade’s Virus Popper is one of the goofiest VR games available at the moment. And thanks to a new patch released earlier this month, Virus Popper: Reopened , the educational action experience just got even better.
ARPost
DECEMBER 24, 2021
In 1961, Hank Thomas, along with other Freedom Riders, rode buses and made a bold move that changed the face of history. In a bid to give us a glimpse of the past, USA TODAY launched Seven Days of 1961 , a multimedia series that also offers an AR experience of the pivotal events that transpired in May 1961. The AR experience, entitled A Dangerous Ride on the Road to Freedom , and the series itself, highlights the protests of the Freedom Riders, led by Hank Thomas, to end legal segregation in the
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.
AR Insider
DECEMBER 24, 2021
AR and VR keep finding new areas of applicability. These include commercial and altruistic use cases. In the latter camp is nonprofit fundraising. How can XR's empathy-evoking tendencies help? We explore. The post How Can AR & VR Empower Fundraising? appeared first on AR Insider.
Virtual Reality Pulse brings together the best content for VR professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 24, 2021
There are times in life when you have to chose between paying a boatload of money or watching a very big explosion. Well, not really, but Finnish man Tuomas Katainen sure did. Katainen is a 2013 Tesla Model S owner who was told he would have to pay more than $22,600 to replace the battery on his car. For him, it… Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 24, 2021
Intel’s Alder Lake Intel Core i7-12800H has appeared in a new benchmark, with the CPU showcasing impressive performance levels over Apple’s M1 Max chip.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 24, 2021
Humanity’s reach into space has never been greater, with 2022 promising to be one of the most thrilling yet. Here are the space stories we’ll be watching in the coming months. Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 24, 2021
Apple’s flagship Mac Pro computer is in line for a refresh, and 2022 is the year it could blow us all away once again. Here’s everything we expect to see.
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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.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 24, 2021
After decades of waiting, the Webb Space Telescope is finally ready to blast off. You can watch this historic launch live right here. Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 24, 2021
Various reports of the Asus ROG Maximus Z690 Hero, one of the most powerful motherboards on the market, burning up have emerged in recent days.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 24, 2021
Fans know to stay put through the credits on a Marvel movie , but maybe not on a Matrix movie. However, they definitely should when it comes to The Matrix Resurrections , which is now in theaters and streaming on HBO Max. Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 24, 2021
Multiple Gigabyte rumors have leaked, indicating that the manufacturer will soon release five new laptops and 29 motherboards optimized for Intel Alder Lake.
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.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 24, 2021
Season six of The Expanse is ripping right along , as Avasarala discovers trouble brewing on Ceres, Drummer builds a key new alliance, and the Rocinante crew’s brief breather after last week’s big discovery is rudely interrupted by a certain Mr. Inaros. And has a smidge of Pet Sematary has entered the chat? Let’s get… Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 24, 2021
WhatsApp is working on several developments at the end of the year, including changes to the interface for placing voice calls.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 24, 2021
The HDMI Licensing Administrator announced a new HDMI 2.1 update, appropriately called HDMI 2.1a, that is designed to improve picture quality when you’re viewing content of varying quality. Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 24, 2021
Did you know HomeKit is capable of a lot more than you might have thought? Here are five under-utilized features.
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.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 24, 2021
It’s been a year of highs and lows, but some—whether they were the fictional stars of our favorite stories this year, or the real-world figures behind them—made the most out of the wild times in which we live to make 2021 a highlight. Here’s a few of io9's select 2021 heroes, fictional or otherwise, who can count the… Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 24, 2021
Disney Melee Mania simplifies gaming's most complicated genre, creating a perfect gateway game for kids.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 24, 2021
Jonathan Frakes may forever be known to Star Trek fans as Commander William Riker, the Next Generation role that he has carried on to this day in Picard and Lower Decks. But arguably his most vital contribution in Star Trek ’s new era has been from behind the scenes, as one of Discovery ’s most reliable directors. But… Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 24, 2021
Kids eager to track Santa as he makes his way around the world on Christmas Eve have several options to choose from.
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
DECEMBER 24, 2021
Boba Fett is dead no more, long live Boba Fett! Next week, The Book of Boba Fett will kick off a new adventure with Temuera Morrison’s legendary Bounty Hunter, paving a new way forward for his criminal empire while exploring just how he cheated his (rather goofy) death in Return of the Jedi. But this is Star Wars : of… Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 24, 2021
Looks like Motorola may finally release a successor to the 2020 Moto Razr sometime next year.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 24, 2021
Ghostface returns in a new batch of Scream images. Batwoman teases the arrival of Poison Ivy. Plus, what’s coming on the next episode of The Flash. ‘Twas the spoilers before Christmas! Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 24, 2021
Fighting games finally saw growth in recent years, despite being a genre left in the dark ages for so long.
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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