ARPost
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Immersive technology is rapidly changing how we experience the world around us. When we think of these technologies, we often think of games. However, immersive technologies have expanded to other uses. There are now many applications of augmented reality and virtual reality for disabled persons. Here are some of the ways these technologies elevate life for people with disability.
VRScout
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
These aren’t your grandfather’s NFTs. We’ve seen a lot of unique ideas for NFTs over the past year. Due to the overwhelming popularity of digital collections like Bored Ape and CryptoPunks, it’s easy to forget about the wide range of functional and interactive NFTs currently circulating on the market. This includes Jurassic Punks by Meta-Labs, a relatively new 3D NFT collection that answers the question, what if dinosaurs survived the asteroid?
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AR Insider
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
To emulate the clarifying and high-contrast effect of its eyewear, Bollé looked to AR. Working with M7 Innovations, it engineered an AR experience that achieved elevated ROI metrics. We examine strategic lessons in the latest Campaign Tracker. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
VRScout
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Keep your friends close, and your clones closer. Do you love multiplayer VR games but hate playing with other people? Well then does Flat Head Studio have the game for you. Coming later this year to Meta Quest 2 and PC VR headsets, We Are One is a trippy-looking puzzle shooter that has you working with yourself to bring down an army of greasy machines hell-bent on destroying the environment.
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
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
XREAL Games, the Budapest-based studio behind Zero Caliber VR (2018), announced that its upcoming co-op shooter Gambit! is set to release on Quest 2 and PC VR headsets this year. Gambit! was first revealed around a year and half ago, promising a campaign-driven adventure full of guns, gangs, mayhem, and rock and roll. Although originally hoping to launch in 2021, now the team says it’s coming in Q2 2022.
Virtual Reality Pulse brings together the best content for VR professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
GizModo VR
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Samsung has a slew of new devices dropping this month, and we got a sneak peek at its three new flagship phones and three tablets ahead of its Galaxy Unpacked event. Read more.
Mashable VR
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
What does outer space, a 555.55 carat diamond, and cryptocurrency have in common? Well, a notorious 555.55 carat diamond that's potentially from outer space was just auctioned off for millions of dollars. And the buyer is paying with cryptocurrency. "The diamond has sold for £3,161,000 / $4,292,322," confirmed a Sotheby's spokesperson in a statement to Mashable.
GizModo VR
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Russell Crowe has already fathered a Superman. He’ll soon hang out with Thor. And now it seems he might eventually share a screen with a web-slinger. Crowe has reportedly been cast in Kraven the Hunter , a film based on the popular Spider-Man villain that’ll star Aaron Taylor-Johnson in the lead role and be directed by… Read more.
Mashable VR
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
In honor of Black History Month, Google has released an animated Google Doodle tribute to baseball legend Toni Stone — the first woman to play professional baseball in a men's league. Tweet may have been deleted. Accompanied by a Google Arts & Culture biography , the Google Doodle highlights a story of passion and determination. Marcenia "Toni" Stone was born in 1921 in West Virginia and started playing baseball at a young age.
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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
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Jael Holzman got the message when she was busy planning a work trip—emailing sources, booking a rental car, reaching out to contacts. When one contact heard she was headed out to Nevada, to visit the camp at Thacker Pass at a proposed lithium mine site, they asked, was she going alone? Read more.
Mashable VR
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Tesla has issued a recall for 26,681 vehicles due to heat pump issues which could decrease windshield defrosting performance. This is the company's fifth vehicle recall since November 2021. A notice posted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) on Feb 8 says that the issue affects the following vehicles: Tesla Model 3 (model year 2021-2022), Tesla Model S (2021-2022), Tesla Model X (2021-2022), and Tesla Model Y (2020-2022).
GizModo VR
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Step aside, Eleven from Stranger Things. There’s a new girl with powers so dangerous the government would very much like to capture her and use her as a weapon. And really, she was technically here first : it’s Charlie from Stephen King’s classic novel Firestarter , which has a new adaptation coming very soon, and just… Read more.
Mashable VR
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
When it came time to write one of most important episodes of The Office , showrunner Greg Daniels couldn't stop horsing around. On the latest episode of the Office Ladies podcast , former co-stars Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey spoke with Daniels about writing the Season 6 episode "Niagara: Part 1" with Mindy Kaling and a truly bizarre horse-related storyline that ultimately got scrapped.
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
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
New research in animals seems to confirm the frightening resilience of the Ebola virus. The study found that the virus could routinely persist in the brains of monkeys following treatment with monoclonal antibodies, even sometimes resurfacing weeks later to cause acute illness and death. The findings, the authors say,… Read more.
Mashable VR
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
When you think of Stephen King, you think of horror, and of children with extraordinary abilities. In Firestarter , Blumhouse Productions' remake of the 1984 film based on King's novel, Charlie (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) has the destructive ability to create fire. Her parents Andy (Zac Efron) and Vicky (Sydney Lemmon) have attempted to hide her abilities from those who would seek to weaponize her power.
GizModo VR
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
The Book of Boba Fett has come to a close. Well, chapter one at least. Today brought the seventh and final episode of The Book of Boba Fett season one, meaning there’ll be no new Star Wars content on TV for at least a few months. The show also left behind lots of burning questions—though most of those don’t have much to do with the… Read more.
Anand Tech
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
For those of us outside the US, Huawei has maintained its presence in a number of markets in which it has grown its sales over the last decade. Even without access to Google Services or TSMC, the company has been producing hardware and smartphones as it pivots to a new strategy. To lead off in 2022, that strategy starts with the Huawei P50 Pro, the next generation of flagship photography camera.
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
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Today, one show ends and another begins. On the day the most recent Star Wars show, The Book of Boba Fett , finished its first season, Disney just announced that Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi will be its next show. It’ll debut on May 25, the evening before Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim, CA. Read more.
Mashable VR
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Writer and director Alex Garland entranced us and freaked us out with his first two films, Ex Machina and Annihilation. Now he's back with Men. From the looks of its teaser, his latest is going to give us even more nightmares. Academy Award nominee Jessie Buckley plays Harper, a woman who has retreated to the countryside to recover from a personal tragedy.
GizModo VR
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Workers looking to mobilize at Amazon’s Staten Island warehouse and elsewhere are in good company. That’s according to a new Morning Consult/Politico poll which found 77% of registered voters said they support employee rights to collective bargaining. That support, unlike just about everything else nowadays,… Read more.
Digital Trends
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
We're looking back at the legacy of special effects artist Douglas Trumbull and the numerous classic films he worked on, including Blade Runner and 2001.
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
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Anthony Ramos, star of Lin-Manuel Miranda’ movie adaptation of Miranda’s musical In the Heights , has been cast in a very important, yet very secret role in the Ironheart TV series. What’s more interesting is that whoever he’s playing, he’s supposed to have a very important role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe going… Read more.
Mashable VR
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Awards shows can be long, but you can normally count on them to produce at least a handful of moments that get everyone talking. The 2022 BRIT Awards, which celebrates the best in music from the UK and the globe, was no exception, bringing together the likes of Adele, Dave, and Olivia Rodrigo at London's O2 Arena for a night of viral performances and more than a few powerful speeches.
GizModo VR
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Do you have an interest in making films, video games, merchandise, live events, or theme park attractions based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit ? If so, and you have a few billion lying around, you can do just that. Read more.
Mashable VR
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
Everybody loves a good opening title sequence, right? On Wednesday, Netflix shared the hauntingly scored main titles for The House , a three-in-one stop-motion movie from Enda Walsh about a mysterious house affecting the families that live there across different eras. With its eerie string music and slowly revolving rooms, it certainly looks like a suitably creepy opener to a dark animation.
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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