ARPost
JULY 29, 2022
On July 30 the entire world celebrates the International Day of Friendship , a holiday designated by the United Nations. More than ever, this celebration is important. The last two years tested people in the most difficult ways: from fear for their health and safety to the absence of regular meetings with friends at the end of a busy day or during the weekend.
AR Insider
JULY 29, 2022
Following a recent under-the-hood look at Meta's next-gen VR prototypes, the folks at TESTED took a trip to Seattle for a deeper technical dive. We unpack the takeaways in this week's XR Talks. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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Road to VR
JULY 29, 2022
Microsoft’s big defense contract that looks to supply the US Army with modified HoloLens AR headsets isn’t going so well. As first reported by Bloomberg , the Senate panel that oversees defense spending announced significant cuts to the Army’s fiscal 2023 procurement request for the device. Microsoft announced last year it had won a US Army defense contact worth up to $22 billion to develop an Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS), a tactical AR headset for soldiers based on
XR Today - Virtual Reality
JULY 29, 2022
This Thursday, Vection Technologies debuted a Metaverse embedded app in Webex’s application suite for enterprise-grade collaboration. Vection is introducing “3D Frame” to the Webex application by Cisco, a service for conducting business meetings in an immersive virtual reality (VR) environment. Webex built its immersive system as a low-code solution to create bespoke VR collaboration spaces seamlessly.
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.
ARVR
JULY 29, 2022
Groove Jones is thrilled to announce the launch of a new experience that pushes the boundaries of VR gaming. Adventurers on Royal… Continue reading on AR/VR Journey: Augmented & Virtual Reality Magazine ».
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GizModo VR
JULY 29, 2022
It’s the end of a dirty era in Hawaii. The state’s last-ever coal shipment arrived in Oahu on Wednesday, bound for the last remaining coal-fired power plant, which is due to shut down in September. Read more.
Upload VR
JULY 29, 2022
Half-Life: Incursion is a new mod for Half-Life: Alyx that adds a one-hour campaign with wave-based combat and randomized enemy spawns. The creators describe Incursion as “ hour-long campaign with non-linear objectives” that offers more challenging combat than the base game. You’ll be able to choose your own weapon upgrades and forge your own path through Incursion, which is set in an open environment with random enemy and ammo spawn locations.
GizModo VR
JULY 29, 2022
Las Vegas was the center of some intense flooding last night as locations across the Strip and beyond were inundated after a torrent of rain battered the city. This is the second major flooding event the U.S. experienced this week after major flooding hit St. Louis on Tuesday. Read more.
Anand Tech
JULY 29, 2022
As far as top-tier CPU SKUs go, Intel's Core i9-12900KS processor sits in noticeably sharp In contrast to the launch of AMD's Ryzen 7 5800X3D processor with 96 MB of 3D V-Cache. Whereas AMD's over-the-top chip was positioned as the world's fastest gaming processor, for their fastest chip, Intel has kept their focus on trying to beat the competition across the board and across every workload.
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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
JULY 29, 2022
Kenya’s national cohesion watchdog threatened to suspend Facebook from the country Friday if it doesn’t mitigate hate speech ahead of the country’s general elections next month. The regulator has given the company one week to remediate the problem, which included Facebook’s approval of ads advocating for ethnic… Read more.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
JULY 29, 2022
Immersive technologies, including virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR), gamification, and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) were set to influence the next generation of shoppers, a new research survey has learned. Findings from a Bazaarvoice survey 98 percent of those surveyed in the UK responded they would shop based on their customer experiences over prices.
GizModo VR
JULY 29, 2022
Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the latest fancy toys and merch swinging its way onto your future shelves. This week: The Batman ! A friendly neighborhood Spider-Man ! A much less friendly dark lord of the Sith! And a very cool take on the classic Power Rangers megazord. Check it out! Read more.
Digital Trends
JULY 29, 2022
Gamestop is having an excellent deal on a range of gaming desktops and laptops from low to high-end, there's a little something for every budget.
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
JULY 29, 2022
Intel could really use a few bucks from the recently passed (by Congress, at least) $280 billion CHIPS and Science ACT. The U.S. chipmaker shocked investors on Thursday, revealing it lost nearly $500 million in Q2, its first quarterly loss in years. The company cited weakened demand for PC components and downturns in… Read more.
XR Today - Augmented Reality tag
JULY 29, 2022
Startup XRAI Glass has launched software that turns audio into text on augmented reality (AR) glasses, with the prime use case to improve conversation quality for deaf people. The programme, which runs on Nreal glasses, lets people “see” the conversation they’re having in real-time through closed captions via a screen in the glasses. Speaking to XR Today, Founder and CEO Dan Scarfe said the idea was sparked from a willingness to help his Grandfather, who, at 97 years old, is struggling to hear.
GizModo VR
JULY 29, 2022
Given the current onslaught of ‘80s nostalgia (bolstered by Stranger Things and elevated by “sure, why not?” occurrences like the ALF revival ), it only makes sense that one of the coolest characters of the era—artificial intelligence personality Max Headroom —would be angling for a return. Read more.
Digital Trends
JULY 29, 2022
The Adrenaline 22.7.1 driver update gives AMD Radeon GPUs a whopping 92% performance boost, along with some quality-of-life improvements.
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
JULY 29, 2022
In a world of seemingly endless monthly subscription services—Hello Fresh’s meal kits, Patreon’s content creator support, and BarkBox’s dog toys, for example— Twitter has also been getting in on the fun with “Twitter Blue,” a monthly subscription service with extra features that just jacked up its price. Read more.
Digital Trends
JULY 29, 2022
Engineering samples of upcoming Intel Raptor Lake processors have been tested in various benchmarks. They absolutely destroyed current-gen CPUs.
GizModo VR
JULY 29, 2022
Imagine buying something, then being told it’s worth more than what you paid for it. That’s how real estate works, right? At least, that’s how my millennial brain has interpreted it thus far. Maybe I shouldn’t have spent all my money on avocado toast! Anyway, price increases aren’t something we typically expect to… Read more.
Digital Trends
JULY 29, 2022
Linux distros are smooth, slick, and intuitive interfaces, and some are made just for gamers. Here are the best Linux distros for gaming.
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
JULY 29, 2022
Babel Finance, the Hong Kong-based crypto lender, apparently had other designs when its worldwide user base handed over their crypto to the company than just borrowing and lending. It seems to have been doing what everyone else does with crypto, rapidly speculating and trying to make “line go up.” Of course, all that… Read more.
Digital Trends
JULY 29, 2022
The Quest 2 is getting a major price increase that could be the first sign of the Metaverse's downfall if Meta isn't able to properly address the backlash.
GizModo VR
JULY 29, 2022
If you’re still not over the loss of Iron Man in Avengers : Endgame, bust out the tissues before reading any further. Apparently we are now entering the phase where Marvel Studios is just going to make us cry, if the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever trailer is any indication. Read more.
Digital Trends
JULY 29, 2022
Prime Video's adaptation of the Paper Girls comic book series is an exciting sci-fi saga that blends powerful emotional arcs with a nostalgic adventure story.
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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