ARPost
MAY 29, 2020
The third day of AWE 2020 may go down in history as the most wholesome day in the history of XR technology. The day included a discussion on how to create a virtual world society from Tom Furness, a discussion on ethical responsibility in the immersive tech industry from Professor Donna Davis, a panel on women in XR, and more. There were also huge announcements from Unity, HP, Microsoft, and others.
VRScout
MAY 29, 2020
Quench your virtual thirst with the ‘Boozy Liquid Shader.’ With a majority of the United States still under lockdown as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, Matthew Wilde, Visual Effects Developer at Valve, has been using his newfound free time to develop brand new liquid physics for Half-Life: Alyx and the results are nothing short of incredible.
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Road to VR
MAY 29, 2020
Qualcomm today announced new Wi-Fi 6E wireless chips. Designed for mobile devices, the company says the chips support “VR-class latency” for streaming VR over Wi-Fi. Qualcomm’s new FastConnect 6900 and 6700 chips are designed to bring the latest Wi-Fi 6E standard to Snapdragon-based mobile devices like smartphones and standalone VR headsets.
AR Insider
MAY 29, 2020
This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. Find out more or contact us to participate here. Authors’ opinions are their own. . Augmented Reality for E-commerce: the Why and How. by Olga Ezzheva. W ith the relentless pursuit of customer experience excellence and the competition getting tougher by day, online merchants are often spread too thin.
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
MAY 29, 2020
Magic Leap pivoted to the enterprise space recently after an extended lukewarm reception by consumers for its $2,300 AR headset. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, company founder and CEO Rony Abovitz then announced layoffs last month that were slated to occur at “every level” of the company. Although those layoffs were allayed by a fresh $350 million funding round at zero hour , Abovitz now says he’s stepping down as CEO.
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Road to VR
MAY 29, 2020
Half-Life: Alyx was updated this week with an intriguing new feature: a new shader which simulates liquid inside of the game’s many bottles; a small but impressive immersive addition. The update also brought some bug fixes, new subtitle languages, and improved the game’s modding tools. At launch, Half-Life: Alyx already included a cool immersive detail: many of the game’s small bottles and containers had an associated audio event which—when shaken—makes it sound like there̵
EON Reality
MAY 29, 2020
What is competency based education? How can competency based education play a role to help in COVID-19 recovery? In short, competency based education is an approach that allows students to master skills and competencies at their own pace. Learners are then assessed on how well they can demonstrate what they learn. With learning outcomes tied closely to workplace skill competencies, the CBE model offers a systematic process of reskilling workers for reentry into the workforce.
GizModo VR
MAY 29, 2020
Featured Deal: TaoTronics Warm and Cool Mist Humidifier | $63 (clip coupon + code: KINJIA66) Read more.
EON Reality
MAY 29, 2020
In his latest post on LinkedIn, Founder Dan Lejerskar shares his thoughts and invites a conversation on the need to urgently revamp and transform education. “Why are we continuing with an Industrial Age education model, when our students are now in a world that looks nothing like it did a century ago? Are we setting them up for failure? Geoffrey Canada puts his case across for transformation in this inspiring TEDx talk and I cannot agree more. “ What are your thoughts?
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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.
Charlie Fink
MAY 29, 2020
The exit of the Magic Leap founder sucked the air out of the room.
Full Dive Gaming
MAY 29, 2020
Welcome to the Full Dive Gaming podcast, bringing a weekly dive of all the news, discussion, and condensed nerd talk you need for VR gaming every Friday. We begin our third week of the podcast with 2:03 some quick Q&A. We then dive into the news section with 7:20 HTC’s new VR headset, 12:55 launch details on Tower Tag, 19:15 Five Nights at Freddys coming to the Oculus Quests, 26:10 the release of the Pico Neo, and finally 32:35 the suspect release of the HP Reverb G2 specs.
Trenzi VR
MAY 29, 2020
As the world battles the coronavirus pandemic, technology has assumed even greater significance in the AEC… The post Webinar Alert: Bridging Architects & Product Manufacturers in the Collaborative post-COVID19 World appeared first on Trezi.
Voices of VR
MAY 29, 2020
Back in November 2018, Daniel Dyboski-Bryant and Lorelle VanFossen started a regular meetup of Educators in VR within AltSpaceVR. They’ve been meeting consistently for the.
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.
Oculus
MAY 29, 2020
YouTube and Tribeca Enterprises recently joined together to announce We Are One: A Global Film Festival, and today, we’re excited to share that you can.
Trenzi VR
MAY 29, 2020
As the world battles the coronavirus pandemic, technology has assumed even greater significance in the AEC industry. With professionals continuing to work from home, and with building product manufacturers facing severe constraints in brand marketing and sales, a Virtual Reality platform like Trezi – combined with cutting-edge hardware from HP – is accelerating digital transformation.
Oculus
MAY 29, 2020
Ready to get started with hand tracking on Quest? We’ve got an exciting roundup of popular games that now support hand tracking. These recently updated.
Tech Trends VR
MAY 29, 2020
Meet the spatial mapping companies looking to bring our lives into the cloud in real-time. Why would we want to build a parallel reality populated by digital twins ? Sure, it sounds cool, yet this “virtual twinning” effectively extends the possibilities of both the “world of atoms and the world of bits“ as HoloLens inventor Alex Kipman eloquently put it in a TED talk which has been viewed over 3.5 million times.
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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