VRScout
MAY 12, 2022
Check out the NBA Lane experience in VR via the Horizon Worlds metaverse. Meta today announced that it has partnered with the National Basketball Association (NBA) to bring the NBA Lane experience to its Horizon Worlds VR metaverse in honor of the league’s 75th anniversary, offering you the chance to explore an NBA-themed wonderland complete with various games and activities to complete.
ARPost
MAY 12, 2022
The Augmented World Expo (AWE) is returning live and in-person to Santa Clara, California, June 1-3. While sessions will also be available live and as recordings on AWE.LIVE, ARPost will be covering the event from the expo floor. Whether you attend the event on foot, online, or just rely on our coverage, here are just a few of the speakers and events that you can look forward to.
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VRScout
MAY 12, 2022
Mixed reality is going to be huge. Earlier today, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared never-before-seen footage of the company’s new mixed reality headset, codenamed Project Cambria , teasing a full-colored passthrough experience unlike anything we’ve seen yet. In a video posted to Facebook, Zuckerberg can be seen using the mysterious workplace device to access an original mixed reality experience called The World Beyond.
AR Insider
MAY 12, 2022
The Green Planet AR Experience was an AR-fueled physical installation inspired by the BBC’s Natural History series. What were the biggest learnings? Its production company Factory 42 breaks it down in our latest guest post. 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
MAY 12, 2022
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg talked a bit about the company’s upcoming high-end VR headset Project Cambria today and what it can do. The headset is still basically under wraps, however Zuckerberg showed off a bit of the experience of using the device, giving us a good look at Cambria’s color passthrough function, which allows it do some pretty convincing augmented reality tasks.
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ARVR
MAY 12, 2022
Shoppability is the new black. There’s a trend towards all things being shoppable. We’re talking buy buttons on everything from YouTube videos to Instagram Stories. This isn’t necessarily a new phenomenon but is one of many trends that’s been Covid-accelerated. Elsewhere?—?and for similar reasons?—?we see a separate trend: visual commerce. This includes product visualization and visual search.
Slashgear
MAY 12, 2022
Right on the heels of a major leak of the Galaxy Z Fold 4, the new Galaxy Z Flip 4 takes the spotlight with a series of 3D renders that show all angles.
Mashable VR
MAY 12, 2022
South Korean dramas are growing increasingly popular, with people everywhere learning to love tropes such as amnesia, childhood best friends, and attractive young CEOs. Fortunately, Netflix has noticed this interest, and now offers a sizeable collection of some of the best K-dramas for you to peruse, featuring everything from romance, to action, to horror and political drama combined Netflix's selection of Korean dramas is a great way to test the waters if you're new to subtitles, or if you aren
Slashgear
MAY 12, 2022
Smart cities are slowly becoming more than just a futuristic concept, and one such location is already being built in Japan by none other than Toyota.
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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.
Anand Tech
MAY 12, 2022
Last month Samsung Foundry quietly announced that it was set to begin producing chips using its 3GAE (3 nm-class, gate-all-around transistors, early) process technology in the second quarter. While the industry's first 3 nm-class node with GAA transistors is a noteworthy achievement by itself, one thing that is particularly important is that to make GAA transistors efficiently, fabs have to be equipped with new production tools.
Slashgear
MAY 12, 2022
The Anglo American nuGen Hydrogen Mining Truck is an absolute monster of a dump truck made to haul gigantic loads in open-pit mines while running on hydrogen.
Upload VR
MAY 12, 2022
Project Cambria has a depth sensor and cameras with 3 times the resolution of Quest 2’s. Cambria is the public codename for Meta’s upcoming high end standalone headset, announced at Connect 2021 in October. It will be sold alongside Quest 2 with a price tag “significantly” higher than $800 , aimed at remote workers and mixed reality enthusiasts.
Slashgear
MAY 12, 2022
Discovery marks the main difference between black holes and wormholes, with the former being observed by scientists while the latter has yet to be found.
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
MAY 12, 2022
The Legendary and Warner Bros. Dune franchise has found its Emperor Shaddam. Deadline reports that Christopher Walken has been cast in Denis Villeneuve’s highly anticipated sequel for the sci-fi series. Read more.
Slashgear
MAY 12, 2022
The MIRI instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope has delivered its first fully-focused image and the results are very exciting.
Charlie Fink
MAY 12, 2022
Mixed reality headsets, wrist controllers for AR, and glasses that translate the world.
Slashgear
MAY 12, 2022
Anker is back with a docking station that packs just about every port you could want. Given the size of the market, however, is it worth its hefty price tag?
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
MAY 12, 2022
In its first 10 years of moviemaking , Marvel Studios established something of a myth that persists to this very day: “In Feige We Trust,” fans would exult, as if a prayer to ward against evil rather than a parasocial relationship with a man worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The idea that Marvel’s movies were all… Read more.
Slashgear
MAY 12, 2022
Bethesda's next two major-label video games have been given an official delay, owing to what appears to be the default reasoning for late games in recent years.
GizModo VR
MAY 12, 2022
A brand-new take on Stephen King’s 1980 novel Firestarter , previously adapted as a Drew Barrymore film in 1984, arrives in theaters and on Peacock this week , and it struck us just how many TV and movie versions of the prolific author’s popular works have been made. and then re- made. Read more.
Slashgear
MAY 12, 2022
When it comes to professional cameras, most people still immediately think of DSLRs. There's a new contender to consider, however: mirrorless cameras.
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
MAY 12, 2022
Oil and gas companies are gearing up to invest in so many new projects that they’ll blow away potential progress to mitigate emissions and stop worst-case climate scenarios, says a new investigation from the Guardian. Read more.
Slashgear
MAY 12, 2022
You've probably heard about VR and AR, but what's the difference between the two? While similar, each technology works in its own unique way.
GizModo VR
MAY 12, 2022
On Thursday, the chair of an international financial watchdog said that he expects there will be a global cryptocurrency regulatory body within the next year. In light of recent panicked freefall of multiple “stable” coins, we probably need one. Read more.
Slashgear
MAY 12, 2022
HP is back with its next update to the Z-series laptop lineup, introducing new ZBook Studio and Fury models alongside an upcoming display and more.
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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