Sat.Dec 18, 2021

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Viveport Announces Its Own Original Anime ‘BIRDIE WING’

VRScout

Birdie Wing is not only the first-ever anime released on Viveport, but the first original anime featuring women’s golf. HTC’s VR platform Viveport is spreading its wings with the announcement of BIRDIE WING – Golf Girls’ Story , an original anime developed in collaboration with Bandai Namco Pictures. The two companies gave anime fans a sneak peek of the new show last week with the launch of its first official trailer.

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VR Cover accessories for Oculus Quest 2 Review

The Ghost Howls

I got a package from VR Cover with some cool accessories for Oculus Quest 2 to review. Since they know I am working on a VR fitness game , they sent me the Fitness Facial Interface and some other nice add-ons for it. Let me tell you what have been my experience with these gadgets, telling you the pros and the cons, and also providing you the link to buy them, if you find them interesting (the links are not affiliation ones, so I have no interest in convincing you in buying, I just provide them f

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GM Starts Delivering Hummer EV Even Though the Planet Doesn’t Need Luxury Electric Trucks

GizModo VR

More than a year after its unveiling , General Motors proudly announced that it was now delivering its Hummer EV Edition 1 Pickup, a 9,000-pound (4,082 kilograms) luxury electric beast with a 1,000-horsepower motor that can go from 0 to 60 mph (96 kph) in three seconds. The message: You can do your part to save the… Read more.

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Mars helicopter Ingenuity reaches remarkable milestone in its mission

Digital Trends

The little Mars helicopter Ingenuity has reached an impressive milestone, hitting a total of 30 minutes spent in the air above the red planet.

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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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Dragonlance Returns in 2022 With a New Protagonist After Settled Lawsuit

GizModo VR

Dragonlance is one of Dungeons & Dragons’ most iconic settings, brought to life by designers Margaret Weis and Tracy and Laura Hickman. In late 2020, it seemed as though the creators’ relationship with Wizards of the Coast had soured to the point of a lawsuit from the creators concerning breach of contact regarding a… Read more.

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Matt Reeves Credits The Batman's Nirvana Song for His Moody Dark Knight

GizModo VR

When the first trailer for The Batman hit what feels like forever ago, it didn’t take long for fans to grow attached to the orchestral version of Nirvana’s “Something in the Way.” In the same way that folks now associate Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song” with Thor Ragnarok , Robert Pattinson’s upcoming DC movie has a… Read more.

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Launch of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope delayed until Christmas eve

Digital Trends

NASA has announced that the launch of its next-generation telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, has been delayed until Christmas eve.

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YouTube TV Loses Access to Over 17 Disney-Owned Channels and Reduces Monthly Price by $15

GizModo VR

It looks like YouTube just won’t stop fighting with broadcasters and streaming platforms this year. YouTube’s latest squabble with Disney over YouTube TV, however, might really feel like a punch in the gut because of the amount of content it’s losing. Read more.

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Celestials, a bus, and the Big Bang: Behind the amazing VFX of Marvel’s Eternals

Digital Trends

Marvel's Eternals went all-in on cosmic spectacle with groundbreaking visual effects, from reimagining the Big Bang to destroying the Earth from the inside.

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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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Netflix's The House Offers Up Stop Motion Scares

GizModo VR

No matter what age you are, houses have the potential to be naturally scary, particularly in the period where you’re just getting used to living there. It makes the setting such a fertile ground for horror, hence excellent films like the original Conjuring or Amityville Horror, or Mike Flanagan’s Haunting shows. … Read more.

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How (and why) to give software as a gift this holiday season

Digital Trends

Our tradition of giving physical gifts creates an enormous amount of waste. That’s why this year (and beyond) we should all consider giving software as a gift.

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Bleach's "Thousand-Year Blood War" Anime Gets a Stunning Trailer

GizModo VR

Two years ago, Bleach fans lost their mind when it was revealed that the anime adaptation of Tite Kubo’s supernatural adventure manga would be making a comeback. The beloved anime concluded all the way back in 2014 with the “Lost Substitute Shinigami” arc, just a few years before the manga would close things out in… Read more.

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Perseverance rover data reveals the secrets of Mars’ Jezero crater

Digital Trends

The Perseverance rover has made exciting findings about the location it is exploring on Mars, the Jezero crater.

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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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HTC Vive Concentrate 3 Assessment – Value It For VR Gaming?

VRGames

I get palms on with the brand new HTC Vive Target 3 standalone VR headset. In this video, I’ll unbox the HTC Vive Emphasis 3 and give you all the details you … source.

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As legendary RPGs moved on, turn-based games found new life in 2021

Digital Trends

2021 was a defining year for turn-based games where we saw a changing of the guard of sorts.

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Releases Recap: December 13 – 17

Oculus

This week, we released a bunch of titles and updates across the Quest and Rift Platforms. Here’s a rundown of the highlights.

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How to watch SpaceX’s latest Starlink satellite launch today

Digital Trends

SpaceX will shortly be launching a batch of Starlink satellites today, December 18, and we've got the details on how you can watch along at home.

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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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We Acquired Fulham Players to 'Wander the Plank' on VR and They Nearly S–t By themselves | VR Obstacle

VRGames

Would you be courageous enough to have a go? resource.

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