VRScout

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

We’ve seen our fair share of bizarre VR experiments over the years, but this one might just take the cake. Last month, neuroengineer Viktor Tóth published an article entitled Rats in Doom in which he details a “VR” setup that automatically trains rodents to traverse 3D environments without the need for excessive restraints or any surgical procedures. “I built a VR setup for rodents from scratch and trained three rats in an automated fashion, without manual intervention, t

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Niantic, the company behind Pokémon GO , today announced it has raised a $300 million Series D investment which values the company at $9 billion. Beyond its geo-location games, the company has been building out a world-scale framework which it believes will be critical for a future full of rich augmented reality. Niantic is best known for games like Pokémon GO and Pikman Bloom , and while these games focus mostly on geo-location gameplay, the company has long been steadily building up the to

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Niantic’s lesser-known Sponsorship Platform positions sponsors’ real-world locations as in-game waypoints. This can result in measurable foot traffic and ringing cash registers. We examine the evidence in this week's Data Dive. The post Can Retailers Generate Foot Traffic with AR? appeared first on AR Insider.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

We’re keeping an eye on the best Oculus Quest 2 Black Friday & Cyber Monday 2021 deals, don’t blink or you might miss the best Quest 2 sale of the year! The Best Oculus Quest 2 Black Friday 2021 Sales. Image courtesy Facebook. Oculus Quest 2 (128GB). The best Oculus Quest 2 (128GB) Black Friday 2021 deal so far is $300 with a $50 gift card from whichever retailer you choose : Amazon. enter OCULUS50 at checkout. deal expires November 29th.

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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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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Welcome back to Spatial Beats, AR Insider's weekly series that features observations and insights of author and futurist Charlie Fink. This week, we look at Nreal Light's U.S. expansion, Qualcomm's Quest 2 estimates, and metaverse startup funding. The post Spatial Beats: Nreal, Qualcomm & Meta appeared first on AR Insider.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

US consumers have been waiting for NReal Light glasses for what feels like ages. The company has announced software and partnerships, released SDKs, and even new hardware – all without putting products on American shelves. Starting now, that all changes. For Verizon customers, anyway. Nreal Light’s Path to Shelves. ARPost has been covering Nreal since the spring of 2019 – with the full understanding that the company wasn’t operating in the US and the full expectation that one day the

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Resident Evil 4 launched on Meta Quest 2 back in October, bringing the survival horror game to VR for the first time. Unlike more recent ports, the Quest 2 version of the game only shipped with the main campaign, however its seems Capcom may have a roadmap of additional content in mind, as it now appears ‘The Mercenaries’ game mode is coming in 2022.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Last month at Meta’s annual Connect conference, it made a big splash by detailing its metaverse plans. As you likely know, this was coupled with a corporate rebranding to its new Meta moniker, which caused the internet to lose its mind. Metaverse mania is in full swing. But buried in these updates was an overshadowed data nugget that signals Meta’s mobile AR growth trajectory.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Everything’s bigger in Texas—including problems with its electric grid and energy demand for bitcoin. A new analysis shows that the electric grid is just as vulnerable to crisis as it was before February’s blackouts just as the state is gearing up to welcome cryptocurrency operations that will add an enormous amount… 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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ARVR

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

There’s growing sentiment in the mobile AR world that apps aren’t the optimal vessel. Yet the technology lives on a device where apps rule. 90 percent of mobile users’ time is spent in apps versus the browser. Can AR break that cycle? And if so, could web AR be the answer? What is web AR? In short, it delivers AR experiences through the mobile browser.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

I spend an uncomfortable amount of my life thinking about the death of the Arctic. Whether it’s covering studies , writing about the tundra exploding , or trying to find the perfect photo to illustrate a story on the sudden meltdown of the Greenland ice sheet , the Arctic is a large part of my professional life. Read more.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

YouTube has recently taken a decision to make dislikes on the platform private. However, the decision has not gone down well with the creator community.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

“The internet not only connects us to our friends, families and communities, but it is also the foundation of the global knowledge economy.” - Mark Zuckerberg, Aug. 21, 2013. 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

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Twitter has partnered with Walmart for the launch of its livestream shopping platform designed to compete with similar ones from Facebook, TikTok, and others.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In an old experimental hall previously used for particle physics experiments, a team of French engineers are checking the filters on what will be the largest digital camera ever built. It’s October 2021, and I’m seeing the camera during its assembly at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, California.… Read more.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Now is a great time to outfit your smart home and upgrade your cleaning arsenal. Or, you could do one better and grab a smart home cleaning device for your friends or family for the holidays! With the shortages and supply chain problems, that may not seem true, but there is stock available, and the […].

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Marine invertebrates like octopuses, squids, shrimp, and crayfish are capable of feeling pain, hunger, joy, and excitement, among other expressions of sentience. The U.K. government will now update its new animal welfare bill accordingly. 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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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The Google Pixel 6a is coming soon, but it might just be the first A-series Pixel to not get a 3.5mm headphone jack.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

One of the Netflix employees at the center of the worker-led movement to get the company to answer for a string of perceived homophobic comments made by comedian Dave Chappelle has officially resigned from the company. Read more.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Making a smart Christmas tree is easier than you think with the right products and apps. Here's how to set schedules, control colors, sync to music, and more!

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Have you ever imagined getting to the airport in a flying taxi, soaring over the chumps who are stuck in traffic below? It’s been a dream of the future for decades. But the New York Times says it could be coming soon. Again. 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

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The launch of the James Webb Space Telescope has suffered another delay after an incident at the launch site that means more checks will have to be carried out.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

If you happen to own an iPhone 12 or 12 Pro and have recently experienced some annoying speaker issues, you may be in luck and eligible for a free Apple repair. Read more.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The Roborock S7 is both a smart robot vacuum and a mop, with an auto-empty dock. It's also on sale for Black Friday.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

NASA’s DART mission to redirect a non-threatening asteroid is set to launch later this week. Here’s what you need to know about this historic deep-space test and how “kinetic impactors” could eventually protect our civilization from an asteroid apocalypse. 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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