VRScout
APRIL 4, 2022
“Walkin’ though The Sandbox with flip-flops on…” Very few celebrities have embraced the growing Web3 industry (NFTs, crypto, the metaverse) quite like Snoop Dogg. Since his music debut back in 1992, the prolific rapper, media personality, and entrepreneur has managed to remain in the public eye thanks in large part to his fearless embrace of new technologies and mediums.
AR Insider
APRIL 4, 2022
As Q1 closes, we continue the tradition of rounding up VR data and milestones for the past few months. What signals indicate the medium's traction and growth? We break it down for this week's Data Dive. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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VRScout
APRIL 4, 2022
Levitation looks unlike anything we’ve seen before. In March 2020, Half-Life: Alyx officially launched on PC VR headsets, offering players what could easily be considered one of the best VR games to date. Less than a year after launch, developer Valve introduced Steam Workshop support to the popular first-person shooter, allowing anyone the chance to create their own levels, textures, models, and animations via an easy-to-use level creator tool.
AR Insider
APRIL 4, 2022
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's funding, Mojo Vision's latest and Wendy's metaverse play. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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.
Slashgear
APRIL 4, 2022
Car rental company Hertz plans to expand its EV fleet over the next few years with a big purchase from automaker Polestar. It'll buy up to 65k Polestar 2 EVs.
Virtual Reality Pulse brings together the best content for VR professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Slashgear
APRIL 4, 2022
Last year, researchers discovered what they thought was a small black hole not too far from Earth. A reanalysis has found that may not be true.
GizModo VR
APRIL 4, 2022
MailChimp, the well-known email marketing company, has been hacked. Cybercriminals infiltrated the company’s systems at some point last month, stealing information on over 100 users. The criminals then repurposed the stolen data to phish users of the popular crypto wallet Trezor. Read more.
Slashgear
APRIL 4, 2022
Rumors of a rugged Apple Watch variant have been floating around, painting the picture of a smartwatch made for extreme sports. A new patent details the tech.
Mashable VR
APRIL 4, 2022
Christy Carlson Romano is not ready to write a memoir. But she has plenty of stories to tell — from her time as Ren Stevens in Even Stevens to fighting in Kim Possible and Cadet Kelly to portraying Belle on Broadway. While she waits for inspiration to hit for a future book, she's sharing her stories on her YouTube channel ; hosting two podcasts, I Hear Voices and Vulnerable ; and raising two children.
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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.
Slashgear
APRIL 4, 2022
Valve has kicked off Steam Deck shipments for customers who reserved a second-quarter unit, noting that fans should keep an eye on their inboxes.
Mashable VR
APRIL 4, 2022
When Elon Musk tweets, the market listens. Twitter shares skyrocketed Monday as news broke that the Tesla CEO and Twitter obsessive had purchased a 9.2 percent stake in the social media company. At the end of the day's trading, CNBC reported that Twitter stock was up 27 percent — bringing the value of Musk's holding up with it to a staggering $2.89 billion.
Slashgear
APRIL 4, 2022
The Tyrannosaurus Rex famously has very short arms -- but as it turns out there may be a fiercely strong reason for their slightness.
GizModo VR
APRIL 4, 2022
Between Discovery (which just concluded its fourth season ), the ongoing second season of Picard , the hype ahead of Strange New Worlds , and the spiffy new release of 1978's Star Trek: The Motion Picture , one might start to feel a little overstuffed on all things Trek. But here’s something to change your mind. 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.
Slashgear
APRIL 4, 2022
Epic Games and Xbox have wrapped up their "Fortnite" funding campaign, revealing the huge amount of money raised for charities supporting Ukraine.
Mashable VR
APRIL 4, 2022
First, thunderstorms delayed the dress rehearsal for NASA's megarocket over the weekend, the final crucial step before launching it to the moon. Then, lightning "struck twice" for the simulation test — figuratively speaking. Mission operators said they needed to stop mid-rehearsal on Sunday to sort out a problem in the mobile tower that supports the rocket, known as the Space Launch System, on the ground.
Slashgear
APRIL 4, 2022
The massively popular -- and long-dormant -- adventure game series will return for a sixth installment called Return to Monkey Island.
Mashable VR
APRIL 4, 2022
Elon Musk has continued to Elon Musk, floating the idea of a Twitter edit button just days after purchasing almost $3 billion worth of stock in the microblogging platform. Fresh off acquiring a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter , making him the company's largest shareholder , the Tesla and SpaceX CEO took to his account to ask his 80.3 million followers: "Do you want an edit button?
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.
Slashgear
APRIL 4, 2022
Though LG has officially exited the mobile business, it previously said it'll support some of its models. Now it looks like Android 12 is on the way.
GizModo VR
APRIL 4, 2022
This week, Star Trek returns to one of its most important moments : the series’ fictional date for First Contact between humankind and the Vulcans. Paramount is celebrating with one hell of an overhaul—venturing once again to the original Star Trek movie to deliver a brand new overhaul for The Motion Picture - … Read more.
Slashgear
APRIL 4, 2022
The first Honda vehicle to ever be imported to the United States can now be found on display in a museum -- if you know where to look.
GizModo VR
APRIL 4, 2022
Coming to a city near you: the low-frequency buzz of a robot flying over your head. A bevy of companies appear poised to realize the long-held dream of filling America’s cityscapes with the sight of product-clutching drone armadas. 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?
Slashgear
APRIL 4, 2022
Having a properly stocked car trunk can save you time and money while on the road, and can even come in handy in a medical emergency.
GizModo VR
APRIL 4, 2022
Cinematic universes are hard to pull off, with only two full blown successes in the form of the original Universal Monsters and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. That hasn’t stopped many from trying to get in on the action in multiple ways, setting up sequels and planned crossovers that don’t ultimately lead anywhere. F… Read more.
Slashgear
APRIL 4, 2022
Apple's pregnancy-focused fitness program and app now includes a new postpartum series titled "Get Back to Fitness After Having a Baby.".
GizModo VR
APRIL 4, 2022
In an isolated, 19th century Irish home for unwed mothers, the cold wind howls so wildly at night it sounds like something sinister is lurking in the surrounding forest. As one very pregnant young woman (Alex Essoe from Mike Flanagan ’s Midnight Mass ) discovers—“sinister” doesn’t even begin to cover it. 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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