AR Insider
AUGUST 28, 2020
XR Talks is a series that features the best presentations and educational videos from the XR universe. It includes embedded video, narrative analysis and top takeaways. Speakers’ opinions are their own. For a full library of indexed and educational media, subscribe to ARtillery PRO. T he AR cloud is a foundational principle that helps contextualize the future of augmented reality.
VRScout
AUGUST 28, 2020
Sign up now to begin crafting your own in-game worlds and activities. Yesterday marked the launch of Facebook Horizon’s invite-only public beta, offering select players the chance to experience Facebook’s ambitious social VR platform ahead of its official release sometime later this year. With the launch of the public beta comes several new games, features, and environments, many of which featured in new promotional videos released by Facebook.
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ARPost
AUGUST 28, 2020
Even in unprecedented times, businesses can go on thanks to digital solutions. Although some countries around the world are easing restrictions, many are still taking extra precautions to protect staff and customers. However, while remote work has its benefits, it is not the easiest to manage. Often, it can lead to isolated and cluttered teams. Fortunately, virtual reality is thriving.
ARVR
AUGUST 28, 2020
A visit to any electronics or tech shop will definitely be for two reasons. One, you really want to buy a product or the other, you want to get your hands on it and just give it a try! I mostly go for the latter! In one such visits I tried on a VR headset just to realize that such a powerful visualizer can effectively simulate unbelievably enchanting experiences that may be difficult to achieve in reality.
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.
GizModo VR
AUGUST 28, 2020
Major fires in the Brazilian Amazon are being set at an unprecedented rate. Between May 28 and Aug. 25, 2020, more than 500 major forest fires blazed across roughly 912,000 acres, new satellite data from the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP) shows. That’s on par with the inferno that’s consumed California … Read more.
Virtual Reality Pulse brings together the best content for VR professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
GizModo VR
AUGUST 28, 2020
It’s been a week bookended with bad financial news for the oil and gas industry. It began with Exxon getting the boot from the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and now comes news that energy companies are the tiniest piece of another venerable stock index, the S&P 500. These may be different indices, but they tell the… Read more.
Anand Tech
AUGUST 28, 2020
ASUS’s ROG Phones over the last few years have been devices of interesting differentiation, with the company delivering experiences that stood out from the crowd in one way or the other. This year, the new ROG Phone III doesn’t quite represent an as radical change compared to its predecessors, however ASUS makes some important upgrades and improvements to the popular gaming phone formula, updating the ROG3 to the newest Snapdragon 865+ SoC, introducing a 144Hz display, as well as mos
GizModo VR
AUGUST 28, 2020
Conservationists at Mount Rainier National Park in Washington State have spotted a wolverine mother and her two offspring, known as kits. A reproductive female hasn’t been seen in this national park for over a century, which suggests ecological conditions in the area are improving. Read more.
Digital Trends
AUGUST 28, 2020
Tesla's Model S has reigned over its class for far too long. Will the upcoming Lucid Air take its crown away?
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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
AUGUST 28, 2020
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine, a U.S. organization representing sleep scientists and clinicians, has called for the eradication of the century-long practice of daylight saving time, in which clocks are moved an hour forward in the spring and returned back an hour in the winter. The twice-a-year transition,… Read more.
Digital Trends
AUGUST 28, 2020
If you're arranging a party or group trip, texting each person individually can be a time-consuming hassle.
GizModo VR
AUGUST 28, 2020
Where technology was concerned, my dad liked things that were cheap. He liked things that did what they supposed to do. And he didn’t like being hassled. Anything else, and he’d excommunicate an entire company it forever, even if the quality improved down the road. His victims were marked by derisive nicknames:… Read more.
Digital Trends
AUGUST 28, 2020
From story predictions to casting news, here's what we know about Marvel's plans for the anticipated sequel.
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
AUGUST 28, 2020
The unusual placement of a sword found in a Viking grave suggests the weapon was brandished by a southpaw warrior, in what is an unusual discovery. Read more.
Charlie Fink
AUGUST 28, 2020
The last week in August used to be slow news week.
GizModo VR
AUGUST 28, 2020
Facebook made “an operational mistake” in ignoring reports about a page encouraging an armed militia to “defend” Kenosha, Wisconsin, against Black Lives Matter protestors, CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged in a video post Friday. Read more.
Digital Trends
AUGUST 28, 2020
The direct pre-order model only helps Sony while creating a terrible system for its fans.
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
AUGUST 28, 2020
Scientists in Nevada are the latest to report a likely case of reinfection from the coronavirus that causes covid-19, with genetic evidence backing up their claim. While it remains to be seen whether reinfection will be a common phenomenon, this newest case suggests that a second infection can cause more severe… Read more.
Digital Trends
AUGUST 28, 2020
Wondering how to root your Android smartphone? Here is our quick guide on how to root any Android device.
GizModo VR
AUGUST 28, 2020
We thought nothing could possibly be worse than shelling out increasingly more expensive premium-video-on-demand costs, as with recent releases like Trolls World Tour and Mulan. Well, how about paying per person for tickets to watch a movie from your own freaking living room? Read more.
Digital Trends
AUGUST 28, 2020
Which is better -- Google Wifi or Nest Wifi? We take a look at each unit's speed, coverage, and features.
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
AUGUST 28, 2020
PowerPoint offers plenty of features for whipping up presentations, but it’s also the same software that everyone’s been using for the past three decades. On top of that, it’ll set you back $7 a month, or $70 a year, as part of Microsoft 365. These alternative programs are fresher, more straightforward, and free to… Read more.
Digital Trends
AUGUST 28, 2020
The Nintendo 3DS is all but dead, but its extensive library of games lives on. These are the best you can get.
GizModo VR
AUGUST 28, 2020
On Friday, Elon Musk demonstrated the tech behind his brain-computer interface startup, Neuralink, in a livestreamed demo that involved significantly more pigs than anyone expected. Read more.
Digital Trends
AUGUST 28, 2020
The device is now smaller and sits flush with the user's skull.
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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