VRScout
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
This mixed reality stargazing experience for Quest opens the windows into outer space. When Facebook—now Meta—introduced its Passthrough API Experimental earlier this year, it opened the doors for developers, allowing them to harness the power of the Quest’s Passthrough+ technology to create immersive mixed reality experiences that blend the real world with the virtual.
ARPost
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
As the embodied XR technologies (VR, AR, and MR) have emerged out of their infancy over the past few years, the corresponding terminology and its correct application has become bewildering for many. Only recently has the term XR become pertinent as the three platforms have begun to conform making each of them less discernible. For example, Project Cambria, the codename for Meta’s (previously Facebook) MR hardware, is continuously being classified as either AR, VR, or MR depending on the article
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VRScout
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
This latest update introduces a third beanstalk to explore along with a new temperature system, weapons, and enemies. Since its launch on PC VR headsets earlier this year, VR Storm Studio’s action-adventure game Bean Stalker has been winning over critics and gamers alike thanks to its one-of-a-kind setting and unique gameplay mechanics. In this twisted take on the classic children’s story, you step into the shoes of a Stalker, a professional explorer tasked with traversing beanstalks in search o
Road to VR
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
We’re keeping an eye on the best HP Reverb G2 Black Friday & Cyber Monday 2021 deals, don’t blink or you might miss the best Reverb G2 sale of the year! The Best Reverb G2 Black Friday 2021 Sales. Image courtesy HP. The best HP Reverb G2 Black Friday 2021 deal so far is $450 from Microsoft (25% discount). This is the cheapest we’ve seen the headset sold to date.
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
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
The goal of gaming has always been to escape reality. And VR is getting us there gradually. But what about fully immersive experiences that include all the senses, including haptics? We break down the outlook for full-dive VR. The post Will Full-Body VR Like “Sword Art Online” Ever Be Possible? appeared first on AR Insider.
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ARVR
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
Although it has only recently begun to be widely adopted, Augmented Reality ( AR) has in a short time managed to gain great popularity among various industrial sectors. This technology is being seen as one of the most exciting technologies that make it possible to integrate virtual objects into existing surroundings. Its ability to provide more interactive and realistic experiences for users is leading to its mass adoption by various companies.
GizModo VR
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
For many people, family gatherings at the holidays mean suffering through painful conversations with antivax relatives. While there may be little sense in trying to change anyone’s mind, here are some common antivax talking points about the covid-19 vaccines to be aware of. Read more.
Charlie Fink
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
The big news this week may be Niantic’s tremendous raise and epic $9B valuation, but it is also the week I am finally figuring out NFTs.
GizModo VR
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
The world may never know a distraction and procrastination tool as effective as the social media feed: an endless list of bad news, takes, comments, and ego-trips. It’s become so much a part of our lives that companies are now building computer screens specifically designed for doomscrolling , presenting these feeds… 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.
Digital Trends
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
If your iPad has frozen up or it's acting a little strangely, you may want to consider resetting it. Here's how to do it and what each option does to your iPad.
GizModo VR
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
John Deere spent the last few months feeding lines about supposed great pay and benefits while 10,000 plant workers went on strike for five weeks. Now that it’s reached a contract agreement with the union, it can breathe easy and release the profits ! $6 billion so far, with $7 billion on the end-of-year horizon.… Read more.
Digital Trends
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
Children of the '80s will find plenty to love in 8-Bit Christmas, a holiday film about a kid's quest for a Nintendo console — but everyone else will, too.
GizModo VR
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
The Russian government has told 13 mostly U.S.-based tech firms that they need to set up local offices in Russia by next year or maybe just get the hell out, according to Reuters. Read more.
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.
Digital Trends
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
With eight Jackbox Party Packs out there, you might not have a chance to play all the games. We've picked out the best ones to help you decide which to play.
GizModo VR
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
The Department of Defense isn’t ready to give up on UFOs just yet. This week, the Pentagon announced the formation of the new organization called the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group,(AOIMSG) tasked with investigating reports of UFOs (or as the Pentagon prefers to call them, UAPs) in… Read more.
Digital Trends
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
Verizon and AT&T have agreed to temporarily lower the power of their new midband 5G towers to quell fears that the new spectrum could interfere with aircraft.
GizModo VR
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
Another day that ends with Y means another big platform is trying to copy TikTok’s format in the hopes of capturing more users in the coveted 18-34 demographic. This is the cycle we’re doomed to repeat, day in and day out, until either TikTok or time itself ceases to exist. This time, the platform in question is… Read more.
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.
Digital Trends
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
The smart home continues to grow and encompass a wide field of categories, but here are the transformative trends that will continue to fuel it.
GizModo VR
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
Movies like Silent Night, Deadly Night and Gremlins are go-to Christmas horror classics. But that doesn’t mean that filmmakers haven’t kept up the ghoulish spirit of the season in more recent years. For this list, we’re looking back no farther than 2015 to find recent holiday horror to fill your stocking. Read more.
Digital Trends
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
Security researchers have discovered a flaw in a MediaTek audio chip that could have been used to listen in on private conversations.
GizModo VR
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
Drivers interested in accessing Tesla’s Full Self-Driving beta will now have to submit images and videos of themselves to the company in the event of a collision or other serious safety event. That’s according to new warning language from the company, first noted by Electrek, which requires FSD beta drivers to consent… Read more.
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?
Digital Trends
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
A security researcher angry with Microsoft over bug bounties has disclosed a zero-day vulnerability in Windows.
GizModo VR
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
UK lawmakers are sick and tired of shitty internet of things passwords and are whipping out legislation with steep penalties and bans to prove it. The new legislation , introduced to the UK Parliament this week, would ban universal default passwords and work to create what supporters are calling a “firewall around… Read more.
Anand Tech
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
To support the launch of Intel's latest 12th generation 'Alder Lake' processors , Intel has also pulled the trigger on its latest Z690 motherboard chipset. Using a new LGA1700 socket, s ome of the most significant advancements with Alder Lake and Z690 include PCIe 5.0 support from the processor, as well as a PCIe 4.0 x8 link from the processor to the chipset.
GizModo VR
NOVEMBER 24, 2021
The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban sent a letter to so-called “stablecoin” issuer Tether on Tuesday, asking for an explanation of how the company operates and “mints” tethers that can be exchanged for various forms of cryptocurrency like bitcoin. Why does it matter? Because some people believe… Read more.
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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