VRScout
MARCH 18, 2021
Square Enix partners with TAITO on a contemporary reimagining of the 1978 Japanese shooter. Square Enix Montreal and TAITO have announced an upcoming Space Invaders mobile game featuring proprietary augmented reality (AR) technology that takes the legendary arcade classic in a bold new direction. This nostalgia-fueled trailer sent me on a trip down memory lane.
ARPost
MARCH 18, 2021
There is a transformation happening from living purely “physical” lives to coexisting in digital spaces through avatars of our creation. This is having profound effects on people’s everyday lives, and also on broader conceptions of “what is real” and “what is of value.”. This is especially noticeable in younger generations whose tech literacy and immersion in social platforms dwarf some of us old folk.
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VRScout
MARCH 18, 2021
PS5 VR users can look forward to improvements such as adaptive triggers, finger-touch detection, and haptic feedback, just to name a few. Last month Sony confirmed that it is currently in development of a direct follow-up to its PlayStation VR headset, promising significant improvements to resolution, better tracking and input, and a larger field-of-view.
The Ghost Howls
MARCH 18, 2021
I have just tried the hands tracking solution offered on the Vive Focus Plus by the Vive Hands Tracking SDK and I want to tell you what has been my experience with it and how it does compare with other hands tracking technologies, like the ones offered by Facebook or UltraLeap. It’s a long time that I don’t write an article about the Vive Focus Plus , and it has been interesting exploring what’s happening on the Vive Wave ecosystem again.
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
MARCH 18, 2021
Facebook today revealed some of its latest research and vision for a wrist-worn input device that the company expects to form the basis of AR and VR interactions and haptics in the future. The device, still in a research prototype phase, senses electrical signals in the user’s arm to detect intentional inputs. In addition to functioning as a simple ‘button’ input, the company says the device can even enable accurate, keyboard-less typing, and more.
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Road to VR
MARCH 18, 2021
A newly published patent granted to Valve envisions new Index headsets that could be wireless or standalone, and include new head-mounts for improved ergonomics. Initially filed back in September, 2020, more than a year after the launch of Valve’s Index headset, a patent published today gives us a glimpse of some of Valve’s thinking about potential next-gen Index headsets.
AR Insider
MARCH 18, 2021
L ike many analyst firms, one of the ongoing practices of AR Insider’s research arm ARtillery Intelligence is market sizing. A few times per year, it goes into isolation and buries itself deep in financial modeling. One such exercise zeroes in on mobile AR revenues. This takes the insights and observations accumulated throughout the year and synthesizes them into hard numbers for spatial computing ( see methodology and inclusions/exclusions).
Road to VR
MARCH 18, 2021
In preparation for the reveal of its next VR headset, Sony today gave a first look at its next-gen VR controller for use with PS5, something that appears very similar to Oculus’ Touch controller. Sony showed off the new controller today, detailing a few of the most impactful changes coming to its VR ecosystem. One large shift that the controllers portend: it appears the company’s next-gen VR headset will include headset-mounted cameras to optically track the controllers, and presumab
ARPost
MARCH 18, 2021
There is a transformation happening from living purely “physical” lives to coexisting in digital spaces through avatars of our creation. This is having profound effects on people’s everyday lives, and also on broader conceptions of “what is real” and “what is of value.”. This is especially noticeable in younger generations whose tech literacy and immersion in social platforms dwarf some of us old folk.
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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.
Road to VR
MARCH 18, 2021
Pimax’s top of the line offering, the “8K” X headset, originally shipped with a max refresh rate of 75Hz for its native resolution mode. Today the company is releasing a beta update which pushes that up to 90Hz. The company says it worked with NVIDIA to overcome prior “bandwidth limitations” to enable the higher refresh rate on most GeForce RTX 30-series GPUs.
Slashgear
MARCH 18, 2021
In a patent application made public today, Valve showed drawings and descriptions of a new sort of VR headset. This wearable head-mounted display (HMD) included an array of features, including but not limited to wireless functionality, antenna, optical subsystem, IMU sensors, a dedicated processor (or processors), onboard memory, functioning operating system, applications, games, a head tracking module, and an eye … Continue reading.
Road to VR
MARCH 18, 2021
At the all-digital version of SXSW 2021 today, Facebook’s Mark Rabkin, VP of Oculus, showed off an upcoming new version of its avatar system on Quest. In his chat with CNET’s Scott Stein, called The Quest Effect: Inside VR’s Next Chapter , Rabkin revealed the company’s next avatar system. It’s slated to arrive first on its social VR platform Facebook Horizon , and later roll out to the wider Quest ecosystem for other developers to integrate.
ARVR
MARCH 18, 2021
[link] 3D technologies are increasingly popular in online shopping because they give consumers a better understanding of products. This in turn has proven to increase sales and reduce returns. Retailers are working overtime to develop successful 3D pipelines to implement 3D quickly. This includes optimization tools that make 3D models perform better in Augmented Reality ( AR ) platforms and 3D web viewers.
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
MARCH 18, 2021
More than four hours had passed after Twitter was informed on Wednesday that a far-right news network had used its platform to encourage the harassment of a New York Times journalist, going as far as to provide 1.5 million followers easy access to her cellphone number—a clear breach of Twitter’s private information… Read more.
ARVR
MARCH 18, 2021
Photo by Andrea Piacquadio on Pexels Virtual reality was previously associated with gaming and entertainment. However, the technology has grown vastly over the past few years and is impacting several industries globally. The global virtual reality (VR) market is estimated to be around $19 billion this year, and it could grow exponentially higher over the coming years.
GizModo VR
MARCH 18, 2021
Four years on from the release of Joss Whedon’s mangled Justice League —the ramifications of which are still being felt, both at Warner Bros. and among fandom circles alike— Zack Snyder’s Justice League has been unleashed upon the world. But this is a Zack Snyder project, so of course it’s far from over. Read more.
Digital Trends
MARCH 18, 2021
Got a specific hankering to watch sci-fi flicks about the Red Planet? Check out our list of the best Mars movies you can find on the third rock from The Sun!
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
MARCH 18, 2021
The WallStreetBets subreddit has helped drive $383,000 in donations to a gorilla conservation organization this week. The preceding sentence would have been barely intelligible even just last December, and yet here we are. Read more.
Digital Trends
MARCH 18, 2021
If we ever hope to keep astronauts alive on Mars for a long-term visit, we'll need to figure out how to grow crops in Martian soil. Is such a thing possible?
GizModo VR
MARCH 18, 2021
The headless horseman would make fast friends with an Asian ankylosaur; where the former tends to be missing its head, these dinosaurs are often found without their body. In fact, the dearth of ankylosaur bodies has vexed paleontologists, who are eager to learn more about how the hefty herbivores became … Read more.
Charlie Fink
MARCH 18, 2021
Facebook marshals converging technologies to find a path for AR smartglasses.
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
MARCH 18, 2021
Paleontologists have announced the discovery of an extraordinary fossil shark in Mexico. They describe Aquilolamna milarcae , a Late Cretaceous shark that was wider than it was long, with an oddly slender pair of pectoral fins. This shark, far from a ferocious biter, may have survived by eating plankton. Read more.
Charlie Fink
MARCH 18, 2021
The company takes the wraps off pioneering work needed for all day AR glasses.
GizModo VR
MARCH 18, 2021
The Environmental Protection Agency relaunched its website’s climate change section on Thursday, nearly four years after the Trump administration took it offline in a bid to downplay the threats of unchecked greenhouse gas emissions. Read more.
Anand Tech
MARCH 18, 2021
Western Digital has rapidly risen to being a top-tier player in the market, and this is no more evident than with their newest high-end SSD, the WD Black SN850.
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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