VRScout
APRIL 6, 2022
It was only a matter of time… Unless you’ve been living under a rock the past week, odds are you’ve heard about the now-infamous confrontation between comedian Chris Rock and actor Will Smith during the 2022 Academy Awards. We won’t go into the details here—we’ll leave that to the dozens of publications that have already covered the incident in great detail.
ARPost
APRIL 6, 2022
We’ve been keeping our eyes on holoride for a while now. The company promises VR-enabled in-vehicle entertainment and productivity applications – and they’ve delivered. However, those experiences have been demos and attractions at events, not something that an individual could actually use in their personal vehicle. holoride recently announced their first commercial installment with Porsche , featuring Cosmic Chase , holoride’s first original title, developed by Schell Games.
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VRScout
APRIL 6, 2022
2 spooky 4 me. Everyone’s favorite paranormal investigation simulator Phasmophobia is receiving a major overhaul tomorrow aimed specifically at VR players. Originally released on PC in 2020, this addicting psychological horror game has up to four players working together to gather evidence of paranormal activity throughout a variety of haunted locations using unique ghost hunting equipment such as EMF readers, “Spirit Boxes,” and night vision cameras just to name a few.
AR Insider
APRIL 6, 2022
After covering Snap, Pinterest and Shopify in earlier parts of this series, What's Google doing in AR shopping? For one, it's using its gravitational pull to incubate and accelerate AR. We examine. . This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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.
Road to VR
APRIL 6, 2022
The Transformers were set to take their first big step into VR last week on PlayStation VR and PC VR headsets, however developers Meta4 have indefinitely pushed back release of the first-person shooter Transformers: Beyond Reality , saying the game has been “derailed by reasons beyond our control.” The on-rails arcade shooter was set to launch on PSVR and SteamVR headsets on March 31st, however a day before its intended release developers Meta4 announced the game would be delayed.
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Road to VR
APRIL 6, 2022
It seems the Oculus brand is finally departing physical retail. While Quest 2 boxes emblazoned with the new Meta name and logo are already on store shelves in the US, the swap from Oculus to Meta still has a ways to go. Spotted by Upload VR’s Ian Hamilton , Meta has rolled out the freshly-rebranded Quest 2s to Walmart, one of its largest retail partners.
Slashgear
APRIL 6, 2022
A new report out of Asia claims Samsung may make a big mobile hardware change starting with the S22 FE, bringing the future of its Exynos into question.
GizModo VR
APRIL 6, 2022
DC and Warner Bros. executives held an “emergency impromptu meeting to discuss Ezra Miller’s future with the studio,” according to a new report from Rolling Stone. This meeting came after Miller ’s recent arrest in Hawaii for disorderly conduct and harassment after they yelled at karaoke singers, lunged at a man… Read more.
Slashgear
APRIL 6, 2022
Insanely hot exoplanets tend to vaporize the elements in their atmospheres, so why do some of them also rain rocks? The answer is fairly simple.
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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
APRIL 6, 2022
This week’s IPCC report laid out in no uncertain terms how little time we have left to get our act together to prevent disastrous global warming. Hidden inside the dense report is a challenge for, of all industries, fossil fuel producers: Step up your game on methane. Read more.
Slashgear
APRIL 6, 2022
Robots can flip burgers and fry chips, but neither of those tasks is as complex as peeling a banana.without, of course, destroying the banana in the process.
Mashable VR
APRIL 6, 2022
Welcome to Thanks, I Love It , our series highlighting something onscreen we're obsessed with this week. Some one-hit wonders are so much more than an earworm that get stuck in our heads for days at a time. Some truly are wonders, that nestle in our brains, waiting for the perfect moment to stretch out and once more become a vital bit of our very busy lives.
Slashgear
APRIL 6, 2022
Ahead of the model's release, OnePlus has officially shared some details about its upcoming Nord N20 budget handset, one that'll pack an AMOLED screen.
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
APRIL 6, 2022
Some of the U.S. drinking water supply contains unsafe levels of uranium, new research out this month shows. The study analyzed data from the Environmental Protection Agency on drinking water systems across the country and found that uranium was frequently detected during compliance testing, and that a small… Read more.
Slashgear
APRIL 6, 2022
Apple has, according to a memo leak, finally rolled out a big Face ID repair change for the aging iPhone X, one that comes years too late for many owners.
Mashable VR
APRIL 6, 2022
Today, April 6, Pinterest is rolling out a new policy to eradicate climate change misinformation across both user generated content and ads. The new policy removes content that denies the existence or impacts of climate change, the human influence on climate change, or that climate change is backed by scientific consensus. It will also ban content that contradicts well-established scientific consensus, misrepresents scientific data, or misleads users about public safety emergencies like natural
Slashgear
APRIL 6, 2022
A new Doctor Strange trailer has arrived, and though it's only one minute in length, there's a lot to take in. Here are some details you may have missed.
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
APRIL 6, 2022
While it’s not officially a comic, per se, CRC Payne and Starbite’s Batman: Wayne Family Adventure s is currently my favorite DC Comics series. Hell, the publisher’s first WebToon is my favorite Batman anything of the past decade or so. Now, DC will finally follow up the hit series by releasing three new series to the… Read more.
Slashgear
APRIL 6, 2022
Anker, the company best known for its charging accessories, is back with a full 3D printer, one that boasts everything from an AI camera to fast speeds.
Mashable VR
APRIL 6, 2022
Cash App has had a security breach, with a former employee accessing customer information for potentially millions of users. The financial app's owner Block notified the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) of the breach on Monday, as reported by TechCrunch. According to the filing, a former employee downloaded some Cash App investing reports that contained information belonging to U.S. customers.
Slashgear
APRIL 6, 2022
We may only be a couple of years away from Oppo launching its own SoC, one that may follow its first application processor reportedly arriving in 2023.
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
APRIL 6, 2022
U.S. officials have revealed a previously undisclosed law enforcement operation against “Sandworm,” the powerful Russian hacking team known for its dexterous and destructive capabilities. Read more.
Slashgear
APRIL 6, 2022
Google has announced a new Play Store security policy that will target old, possibly abandoned apps. Soon enough, those listings will no longer appear.
GizModo VR
APRIL 6, 2022
Pinterest is enforcing a new climate misinformation policy to combat any type of content that denies the existence or impact of climate change, or spreads false information about natural disasters or extreme weather events. Read more.
Slashgear
APRIL 6, 2022
The Biden administration plans to use TikTok as a way to get the word out to Gen Z voters who may not pay much attention to other, more traditional platforms.
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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