The Ghost Howls
OCTOBER 2, 2020
Thanks to my job as an XR consultant and blogger, I have had the pleasure of trying many AR and VR headsets. There are some that I miss experiencing, and one of my biggest regrets of the past was that I had never been able to try the now-defunct Meta 2 augmented reality glasses. This week, thanks to the Italian consultancy company Magnetica (they’re very talented, check them out!
ARPost
OCTOBER 2, 2020
Starting September 24, organizations and developers can use a new, powerful SDK to create AR apps and solutions for interactive customer support and remote collaboration. Streem, the award-winning video communication platform, recently featured in an Apple’s Augmented Reality in Business guide has launched an SDK that uses its proprietary AR and AI-enabled platform.
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Road to VR
OCTOBER 2, 2020
Star Wars: Squadrons is here, the space dogfighter from EA’s Motive Studios. Although it was created primarily for console and PC, the game also includes a VR mode for SteamVR headsets and PSVR which allows you to play both the entire single player campaign and multiplayer component from the immersive first-person view of your VR headset. While it lacks a few of the things we’ve come to expect from a game built from the ground up for VR, it makes up for these design concessions by de
VRScout
OCTOBER 2, 2020
The XR Market is a platform where international artists and producers can meet with distributors and financiers. It takes place in Paris as a part of the NewImages Festival , an international festival of digital creation and virtual worlds. Developing a market that puts art and business strategy on a level playing field while keeping an eye on accessibility and public education is a challenge that many emerging technology economists are facing in the implementation of funding and growth strategi
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.
AR Insider
OCTOBER 2, 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. D evelopers and creators are the lifeblood of the AR ecosystem.
Virtual Reality Pulse brings together the best content for VR professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
GizModo VR
OCTOBER 2, 2020
House Resolution 1154 is a simple bill that barely fills five pages in Congressional formatting, and which passed the House of Representatives easily this afternoon with 370 votes in favor. Read more.
TechCrunch VR
OCTOBER 2, 2020
Daydream, Google’s mobile-focused virtual reality platform, is losing official support from Google, Android Police reports. The company confirmed that it will no longer be updating the Daydream software, with the publication noting that “Daydream may not even work on Android 11” as a result of this. This isn’t surprising to anyone who has been tracking the company’s moves in the space.
GizModo VR
OCTOBER 2, 2020
Inspired by the work of Simone Giertz who was once known across the internet as the Queen of Shitty Robots (her words, not ours) an Austrian-based design studio created what is easily the most unsettling tool that modern man has ever forged from the earth. Is it a paint brush? Is it a basting brush? Is it one of the… Read more.
Digital Trends
OCTOBER 2, 2020
A nuclear thermal propulsion system will enable the U.S. military to carry out missions in cislunar space, the area between the Earth and the orbit of the moon.
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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
OCTOBER 2, 2020
The catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago is famous for preserving its many victims in volcanic ash. New research suggests this preservation extends to the cellular level, owing to the apparent discovery of neurons in a victim whose brain was turned to glass during the eruption. Read more.
Charlie Fink
OCTOBER 2, 2020
What if I had told you in 2000 that in 20 years recommendation algorithms would become powerful enough to exert mind control.
GizModo VR
OCTOBER 2, 2020
Google’s history with hardware has been somewhat hit-or-miss, but there’s no doubt that its Chromecast streaming stick has been a huge success, helping to change the way we watch movies and shows and listen to music since 2013. Read more.
Digital Trends
OCTOBER 2, 2020
Using a smartphone to control a drone isn't new. But using a smartphone to control a fleet of miniature helicopter drones? That’s something pretty impressive.
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
OCTOBER 2, 2020
The popular LGBT+ hook-up app Grindr has fixed a glaring security flaw that allowed hackers to take over any account if they knew the user’s registered email address, TechCrunch reports. Read more.
VR Fitness
OCTOBER 2, 2020
During our last VR Game Roundup, there were several interesting games highlighted including Solaris Offworld Combat, a rhythm shooter, and several PlayStation VR ports. This week’s VR Game Roundup is a bit light in quantity but features two notable releases and a fitness favorite coming to more headsets. Headlining this week are Star Wars Squadrons, The Walking Dead Onslaught, and Until You Fall arriving on additional platforms.
GizModo VR
OCTOBER 2, 2020
It looks like Halloween 2020 plans are covered. HBO Max has unveiled the first trailer for Warner Bros.’ adaptation of The Witches , starring Anne Hathaway, which will be heading to HBO Max just in time for the spookiest of holidays. Read more.
Digital Trends
OCTOBER 2, 2020
Whether you're starting your first home theater or making upgrades, a solid receiver is one of your most important components. Here are several we recommend.
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
OCTOBER 2, 2020
If you happen to be one of the few people who still use Google’s Daydream VR platform, I’m sorry to tell you that it’s officially dead. (If you didn’t know Daydream was a thing, that’s totally OK. I forgot it was, too.) Spotted by Android Authority , Google recently issued a service update for Daydream letting any… Read more.
Digital Trends
OCTOBER 2, 2020
Samsung makes great Android tablets, and the Galaxy Tab S7 does its best to pull double duty as a laptop replacement. Unfortunately, it comes up short.
GizModo VR
OCTOBER 2, 2020
Some birds are gifted with shockingly long lives. In captivity, crows can live into their 50s. Certain parrot species can live nearly a century. Curiously, these birds also have proportionately massive brains, which power considerable (and sometimes unnerving) intelligence. According to new research, it turns out that… Read more.
Digital Trends
OCTOBER 2, 2020
Want to watch your favorite films and TV shows on Netflix but don't have a data connection? You can download them for offline viewing. Here, we show you how.
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
OCTOBER 2, 2020
Tis the season: It’s the spooky month of Halloween that’s become known for tormenting children. Luckily, Halloween costumes are already doing the job for us! Here are io9's picks of some of the worst costumes parents can force their babies and toddlers into this socially distant season. Read more.
Digital Trends
OCTOBER 2, 2020
We stop to look at some landmark displays in the battle to compress TVs ever thinner. Here are the slimmest!
GizModo VR
OCTOBER 2, 2020
It’s been a rough couple of weeks for anyone trying to order a shiny new graphics card or game console , and in order to prevent its next launch from going awry Nvidia is delaying the release of its RTX 3070 GPU. Read more.
Digital Trends
OCTOBER 2, 2020
Google's new Chromecast with Google TV looks like a pretty great streaming media device considering it's just $50. But why buy it, when you can get it for free?
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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