ARPost

APRIL 19, 2021

Virtual reality usage has been on the rise throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. It has provided countless hours of entertainment to those sheltering at home. Now, it is also aiding healthcare workers on the frontlines. BehaVR is a VR company specializing in digital therapeutics for behavioral health. It worked alongside John Hopkins HealthCare Solutions to create and deliver a VR-based mindfulness and stress management program called CenteredVR.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

It’s a crazy busy period for me and I really need a good sleep. BTW, I’ve managed to found some time here and there to write this newsletter, because I’m happy to inform you of the community, especially my Patrons that always cheer for me (have you considered supporting me on Patreon as well?). I’m trying to do my best… I hope you’ll appreciate that Before leaving you to the news… I’m hosting a giveaway of Gang V keys… it is a cool VR battle royal game with strong GTA V vibes that has just be

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VRScout

APRIL 19, 2021

“Quest 2 is going to be in the market for a while – for a long while,” says Facebook VP Andrew Bosworth. It appears as though Facebook is just getting started with its Oculus Quest 2 headset. During an online discussion between Facebook Vice President Andrew Bosworth and Oculus Consulting Technical Officer John Carmack, the two execs offered several updates regarding the Oculus Quest platform.

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Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2021

Epic Games, the company known for its hit battle royale title Fortnite and the Unreal Engine game engine, has managed to attract a stunning $1 billion in its quest to establish a metaverse of linked games and services. The new funding round, which was announced early last week, includes an additional $200 million strategic investment from Sony Group Corporation.

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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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VRScout

APRIL 19, 2021

Sinn Studio’s physics-driven VR sword-fighting game adds dismemberment and a new pirate faction. Developer Sinn Studio has released a free update for its VR sword-fighting game Swordsman VR which introduces gruesome dismemberment physics and a ruthless pirate faction complete with new weapons and enemies. Set aboard a sprawling pirate ship caught in stormy weather, your swash-buckling adventure will have you going toe-to-toe against waves of scurvy sea dogs using the new pirate cutlass and

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ARVR

APRIL 19, 2021

Though we spend ample time examining consumer-based AR applications and strategies, greater near-term impact is seen today in the enterprise. As is the case with many emerging technologies, enterprise AR spending has erstwhile outweighed its consumer equivalent. So how big is this opportunity and what are best practices for enterprises to implement AR and realize strong ROI?

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AR Insider

APRIL 19, 2021

W elcome back to Spatial Beats. This week we look at Fortnite’s billion-dollar metaverse, surgical robots, XR art, immersive concerts and Nvidia’s latest. Let’s dive in… . Epic Games Plants Metaverse Flag On Fortnite Island. The maker of the mega-hit game and Unreal Engine game development platform has landed another cool billion in a new round of funding.

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ARVR

APRIL 19, 2021

One striking realization about spatial computing is that we’re almost seven years into the sector’s current stage. This traces back to Facebook’s Oculus acquisition in early 2014 that kicked off the current wave of excitement….including lots of ups and downs in the intervening years. That excitement culminated in 2016 after the Oculus acquisition had time to set off a chain reaction of startup activity, tech-giant investment, and VC inflows for the “next computing platform.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 19, 2021

In an ideal world, virtual reality would be just like regular reality, except without regular reality’s annoying restrictions on human flight, teleportation, endless/consequence-free consumption, etc. As it is VR, it is inescapably VR—you can lose yourself, but only to a point. This has to do partly with the… Read more.

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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.

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Digital Trends

APRIL 19, 2021

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter has made history by becoming the first aircraft to demonstrate controlled, powered flight on another planet.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 19, 2021

Netflix’s wild sci-fi animated anthology Love, Death, and Robots returns next month with tales of post-apocalypses, children in haunted houses, and flying techno-whales. But it’s the AI pooper-scooper in this new trailer for the show that has me the most intrigued. Read more.

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Digital Trends

APRIL 19, 2021

The World's Fair was a technology expo that sparked the world's imagination in a way that no other has. It's time to resurrect it.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 19, 2021

Otters have joined the ever-growing list of animals known to be susceptible to the coronavirus behind covid-19. Over the weekend, officials at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta reported that several of their otters became sick with respiratory symptoms and tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. Thankfully, all are expected to… Read more.

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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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Digital Trends

APRIL 19, 2021

After shortages of CPUs and GPUs today, the upcoming Chia cryptocurrency could be to blame for an imminent shortage of SSDs, adding to gamers' woes.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 19, 2021

Car insurance giant Geico has quietly disclosed that a recent security breach allowed cyber thieves to steal customers’ driver’s license information right off the company’s website. Read more.

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Digital Trends

APRIL 19, 2021

I've revisited the Apple Watch Series 6, and am shocked to discover just how drastically different it is from other smartwatches that work with the iPhone.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 19, 2021

Xbox announced this morning its cloud gaming platform is nearly ready for Edge, Google Chrome, and Safari browsers. Starting tomorrow, the company will send out a limited number of invites to Game Pass Ultimate subscribers in 22 countries to take part in the beta. Read more.

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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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Anand Tech

APRIL 19, 2021

The growth of AI has seen a resurgence in venture capital funding for silicon start-ups. Designing AI silicon for machine learning, both for training and inference, has become hot property in Silicon Valley, especially as machine learning compute and memory requirements are coalesced into tangible targets for this silicon to go after. A number of these companies are already shipping high performance processors to customers, and are looking for further funding to help support customers, expand th

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GizModo VR

APRIL 19, 2021

Shortly after the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd last year, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) flew a Predator drone over the city in an effort to surveil the ongoing protests against police brutality occurring there. The drone, which took off from Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota and flew in a… Read more.

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VR Fitness

APRIL 19, 2021

We’ve heard a lot over the past year or two about how VR is starting to be implemented in real-world sports to help athletes improve their on-the-field skills. While much of these implementations have seemingly been happening more at the youth level, it looks like professional athletes are starting to see the value of virtual reality more for themselves.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 19, 2021

Ergonomic keyboards designed to make typing more comfortable (and reduce long-term injuries) come in many shapes and sizes, but it’s safe to assume that Reddit contributor dapperrogue’s functional Pineapple keyboard , modeled after a hand grenade , is a design you’re not going to see Logitech or Microsoft adopting… Read more.

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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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Digital Trends

APRIL 19, 2021

The iMac is finally getting the huge redesign it so desperately needs. If you want one, make sure you tune in to Apple’s Spring Loaded event tomorrow.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 19, 2021

YouTube temporarily halted ads on frenetic drama magnet James Charles’ channel as of Monday night, disabling the content creator’s ability to earn money on the platform amid allegations that he sexted with minors. Read more.

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Digital Trends

APRIL 19, 2021

NASA has released a high-definition video showing the Ingenuity Mars helicopter taking its historic first flight on the red planet.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 19, 2021

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was so big, it needed three directors to bring it all together. Now we know the sequel will be the same, albeit this time with three new directors. Read more.

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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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