Fri.Jan 21, 2022

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Google Reportedly Working On Its Own Mixed Reality Glasses

VRScout

Insiders claim the device resembles a pair of ski goggles and will launch in 2024. According to The Verge , Google is currently in development of its own AR device capable of blending virtual graphics over the real world, citing “two people familiar with the project.” Similar to Snap’s Spectacles 3 glasses, Google’s device will supposedly feature two outward-facing cameras capable of projecting digital graphics over the wearer’s real-world environment.

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Is 2022 the Year for Consumer AR Glasses?

ARPost

We had a lot of news in the XR space in 2021, and a lot of trends could be distilled from that news. Trends around VR adoption, opensource, low and no-code development. However, some of the most exciting trends are all around AR glasses. See Also: 21 Most-Read ARPost Articles of 2021. It’s been said before, but (probably) not by me: this could be the year that we see consumer AR glasses start to break into the mainstream.

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XR Talks: The Many Verses of the Metaverse

AR Insider

Beyond overuse and ambiguation, the metaverse holds some legitimate principles for our connected future. Among the bonafide thought leaders weighing in is Avi Bar-Zeev. We dive into his recent AWE presentation in this week's XR Talks. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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HoloLens Optics Chief Joins Google Amid Reported Push for Upcoming Google AR Headset

Road to VR

Bernard Kress, principal optical architect on Microsoft’s HoloLens team, has left the company to take on the role of Director of XR Engineering at the recently formed Google Labs. A report by The Verge maintains Google is also now gearing up to produce an AR headset that could directly compete with similar offerings from the likes of Apple and Meta.

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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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Metaverse: But Where’s The Chorus?

Tech Trends VR

Metaverse! Metaverse! Metaverse! With a sprinkling of Web3 NFTs! By Gordon Midwood, CEO of Anything World. Now that I have your attention (or mild disgust depending on your predilections) there is a big issue around any notion of Metaverse that we urgently need to address. In true optimise an article for SEO style I won’t be telling you what that urgent need is in the second paragraph though.

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Web Tech Recipe for AR: QR Codes + PWA = Web AR Experience

ARVR

Let’s face it, it’s one of the tech hypes happening for the past few years. AR (Augmented Reality) has made a name across different… Continue reading on AR/VR Journey: Augmented & Virtual Reality Magazine ».

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Leaked Chats Reveal Evidence of Hate Crimes by U.S. Fascists

GizModo VR

For the second time in as many years, American fascist organization Patriot Front is facing a humiliating leak of internal communications, messages revealing a trove of evidence pointing to coordinated criminal activities in multiple states, including New York, Washington, Indiana, Virginia, Massachusetts, and Oregon. Read more.

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Intel Announces Ohio Fab Complex: 2 New Fabs For $20B, And Space For More

Anand Tech

With fab expansions on tap across the entire semiconductor industry, Intel today is laying out their own plans for significantly increasing their production capacity by announcing their intention to build a new $20 billion fab complex in Ohio. With the paperwork already inked and construction set to begin in late 2022, Intel will be building two new leading-edge fabs in their new Ohio location to support future chip needs.

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A 19-Year-Old Just Became the Youngest Woman to Fly Alone Around the World

GizModo VR

Zara Rutherford always dreamed of flying solo around the world, but she never thought it would actually happen. It was “expensive, dangerous, complicated, a logistical nightmare,” Rutherford told herself. However, as she was finishing school, she decided to do something crazy: try to make her dream come true. She… 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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Intel Arc Alchemist benchmarks rival one of Nvidia’s best

Digital Trends

The upcoming Intel Arc Alchemist graphics card was just spotted in a leaked benchmark. The card managed to slightly outperform Nvidia's RTX 3070 Ti.

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Shell CCS Plant Emits More Greenhouse Gases Than It's Captured

GizModo VR

Oil companies love to tell the world about the super cool technologies that have that will allow us to keep burning fossil fuels without cooking the climate. But those technologies are largely b t. Read more.

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The best TVs for Super Bowl 2022

Digital Trends

Your living room deserves the best and the Super Bowl is the ideal occasion to welcome a new TV. But which name, what size, and what features? Let us weigh in.

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Google Pixel Watch Launch Tipped for May

GizModo VR

Rumors surrounding Google’s forthcoming Pixel smartwatch have been circulating for more than a year, and while we know some details about the product, a specific release date hasn’t even been speculated. 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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Dell XPS laptops and desktops get big price cuts today

Digital Trends

If you’re on the hunt for a new computing device, there are some amazing Dell XPS deals and Dell laptop deals going on at Dell today.

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The Batman's Main Theme Is Here, and It's Surprisingly Hopeful

GizModo VR

The Batman ’s trailers have given us plenty of chances to hear those swelling horns and the sinister beat of the film’s main theme. But it turns out the full piece for Robert Pattinson’s dark knight isn’t all ominous gloom—it’s surprisingly stirring. Read more.

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Lenovo’s cool new gaming phone leaked, but you can’t buy it

Digital Trends

Lenovo's upcoming ROG phone rival has some outrageous hardware specs. Unfortunately, the Lenovo Legion Y90 may never make it to the U.S.

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Surreal Coral Rose Garden Discovered Off Tahiti

GizModo VR

A “ work of art ” has been discovered in the South Pacific. But rather a canvas, this one is under the sea. It’s a sprawling coral reef that looks like a beautiful, otherworldly rose garden. Bonus: The reef is surprisingly healthy. 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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Asus gives big bonuses based on demand for crypto-mining GPUs

Digital Trends

A huge increase in profits due to demand for GPUs capable of mining cryptocurrency reportedly prompted Asus to hand out big bonuses to employees.

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New PenguinCam Takes You on a Chaotic Sardine Hunt

GizModo VR

Video from a “PenguinCam” is offering an unprecedented first-person perspective of a Gentoo penguin as it forages for sardines and other fish off the coast of Argentina. Read more.

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I doubled my Rainbow Six Extraction frame rate with 1 setting

Digital Trends

Rainbow Six Extraction supports DLSS, but it has a performance feature that works just as well and supports every graphics card.

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Star Trek: Picard Season 2 Trailer Teases Old Friends and Older Threats

GizModo VR

Jean-Luc’s next trip is going to throw him all over Star Trek ’s realities and timelines, so it’s probably for the best that he knows a few folks who can help puzzle that stuff out. Problem is: he knows a few enemies that can do just that, too. 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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#1045: Process of Shooting a Feature-Length Documentary in VRChat: Director Joe Hunting on “We Met in Virtual Reality” Premiering at Sundance

Voices of VR

We Met in Virtual Reality is feature-length documentary by Joe Hunting premiering today at the Sundance film festival. It follows five different protagonists (2 couples.

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The Arrowverse Returns to Comics, But With a Few Surprises

GizModo VR

Of all the different DC superhero shows airing on the CW, only Arrow , Supergirl , and The Flash have managed to transition (briefly) back into comics, and you’ll note that two of those shows are already over. This makes Earth-Prime , a new series from DC that will explore the other TV series in the Arrowverse before… Read more.

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Android 13: Everything we know so far about the upcoming OS

Digital Trends

Google is working on Android 13, its next as-yet-unannounced major software release. Here's what it's expected to bring.

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Rabbits Across the U.S. Are Dealing With Their Own Deadly Viral Disease

GizModo VR

Wild and domestic rabbits across the country are dealing with a deadly and highly contagious viral illness that can kill up to 80% of victims. Known as rabbit hemorrhagic disease, cases of a relatively new type of the illness have been spotted in over a dozen different states since 2020. Officials are warning bunny… 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?