ARPost
JUNE 5, 2020
Spark AR continues to expand Instagram’s digital creative canvas with its new augmented reality features and capabilities. They simplify AR creation, giving brands and online users fresh creative opportunities. One of the world’s leading mobile AR platforms is expanding the creative canvas with music and effects. Moreover, it makes content creation so much easier for users with fun, quick, and easy templates.
The Ghost Howls
JUNE 5, 2020
Some months ago I published a guide for all Unity developers on how to request Android permissions for the Vive Focus Plus, because it took me a while to sort out how to do it to access the camera stream to do augmented reality on that headset. Recently, I had a similar problem with the Oculus Quest , not to access the cameras (it is not possible, the applications can’t see them for privacy reasons), but to save a file on the storage from Unity.
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EON Reality
JUNE 5, 2020
EON Reality is unlocking plug and play virtual reality learning experiences with the Vault. For the first time in the company’s 21 year history, we are providing unprecedented access to a library of more than 1,200 virtual reality applications. This means any virtual reality learning application now be transferred directly to any operating system and deployed immediately for teaching and learning.
GizModo VR
JUNE 5, 2020
If you’ve finally splurged on a brand new Apple Watch (or been the lucky recipient of a very nice gift), you’re probably wondering: Now what? The Apple Watch comes with plenty of great built-in features, but you should hit the watch’s App Store to find third-party options that can make the device even more useful. Read more.
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.
Charlie Fink
JUNE 5, 2020
While it’s critically important to voice support and give money, it would do so much more for tech diversity if the dominant companies set up code academies in undeserved communities with jobs and serious mentorship for students who earn certificates.
Virtual Reality Pulse brings together the best content for VR professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
VR Fitness
JUNE 5, 2020
During our last VR Game Roundup, there were a number of intriguing titles including Pro Putt by Topgolf that allows you to increase some of your golfing skills. This week’s VR Game Roundup features four games that all have some fitness potential. What’s available includes an Oculus Quest port of a great bowling game, VR disc golf, and several interesting new titles!
Anand Tech
JUNE 5, 2020
Collaborations between hardware vendors and Esports teams isn't a new thing, but it is becoming an apparent and common trend within the industry. GIGABYTE and G2 Esports has announced the Z490 Aorus Ultra G2 motherboard which is a limited edition version of its Z490 Aorus Ultra model, but with a few refinements. The new board updates the aesthetics to a mixture of red, silver and black, with an inclusive ESS Sabre ES9280CPRO USB Type-C DAC bundled with the board.
GizModo VR
JUNE 5, 2020
Jabra Elite 75t (Refurbished) | $100 | Newegg Read more.
Full Dive Gaming
JUNE 5, 2020
Welcome to the Full Dive Gaming podcast, bringing a weekly dive of all the news, discussion, and condensed nerd talk you need for VR gaming every Friday. We begin our fourth episode of the podcast with 1:45 some amazing Q&A questions from the Discord community. We then dive into the news section with 11:24 Elite Dangerous getting Space legs in new FPS gameplay, 17:38 a new Star Wars VR game, 22:32 Playstation 5’s reveal event gets delayed, and 26:44 Apex Construct sells 100,000 copies.
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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
JUNE 5, 2020
Dyson V10 Motorhead | $250 | Newegg Read more.
Oculus
JUNE 5, 2020
This World Oceans Day, we’re pleased to debut ecosphere, a new documentary series for Oculus Quest. Produced in partnership with World Wide Fund for Nature.
Tech Trends VR
JUNE 5, 2020
A deep-dive into the world of Spatial Computing. By Irena Cronin and Robert Scoble. The Infinite Retina comprehensively documents everything you need to know about Spatial Computing and where it’s heading Click To Tweet. Spatial Computing, the fourth paradigm of personal computing, sounds like science fiction but isn’t. Unlike previous paradigms of computing, like working on a laptop or a mobile phone, Spatial Computing allows you to move around inside computing.
VRScout
JUNE 5, 2020
The now-infamous psychological horror demo returns as a HL:A Workshop mod. Released in 2014 on the PlayStation 4 as a demo for a now-cancelled Silent Hill sequel being developed by Hideo Kojima (Metal Gear Solid series, Death Stranding) in collaboration with celebrated film director Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, The Shape of Water, Pacific Rim), P.T. (“Playable Teaser”) made waves upon its release, offering PS4 players a refreshing take on the horror gaming genre with a
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.
Anand Tech
JUNE 5, 2020
After many months of waiting, Amazon today has finally made available their new compute-oriented C5a AWS cloud instances based on the new AMD EPYC 2 nd generation Rome processors with new Zen2 cores. Amazon had announced way back in November their intentions to adopt AMD’s newest silicon designs. The new C5a instances scale up to 96 vCPUs (48 physical cores with SMT), and were advertised to clock up to 3.3GHz.
AR Insider
JUNE 5, 2020
XR Talks is a series that features the best presentations and educational videos from the XR universe. It includes embedded video, as well as narrative analysis and top takeaways. Speakers’ opinions are their own. S patial computing continues to be equal parts excitement and disappointment. Its game-changing potential clashes with the reality check of low consumer traction today.
Anand Tech
JUNE 5, 2020
Launched earlier this year, AMD’s Ryzen 4000 “Renoir” APUs brought several new features and technologies to the table for AMD. Along with numerous changes to improve the APU’s power efficiency and reduce overall idle power usage, AMD also added an interesting TDP management feature that they call SmartShift. Designed for use in systems containing both an AMD APU and an AMD discrete GPU, SmartShift allows for the TDP budgets of the two processors to be shared and dynamical
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