VRScout
APRIL 12, 2021
Surgeons were able to view 3D anatomical information in real-time thanks to Dr. Steve Murphy’s AR guidance platform. According to a report by WCVB-TV , a new intra-operative AR guidance platform ‘HipInsight’ was used for the first time last month during a live operation at New England Baptist Hospital, marking one of the first times AR technology has been used inside the operating room during live surgery.
Road to VR
APRIL 12, 2021
Following subsequent teases of an unannounced Vive headset, HTC today announced an event called VIVEcon, set for May 11th & 12th. While there’s no details so far on what the event will entail, the company is clearly teasing the reveal of its new VR headset. Following subsequent teases of a new headset, HTC today announced the “Vivecon 2021” event, but posted no additional details beyond the name, date, and a headset teaser, in a photo posted to the Vive twitter account.
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ARPost
APRIL 12, 2021
VR giant VIVE just released their “Top 100 Global VR Social Influencers of 2021” list. You can (and should) check out their full list, but we’ve put together some context and commentary on some of our favorite entries as well as some trends that we identified in VIVE’s top picks, with a focus on our primarily English-speaking audience. About the List.
Road to VR
APRIL 12, 2021
NVIDIA is continuing the rollout of its CloudXR technology on the three leading cloud computing platforms: AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. With the tech readily available from these providers, companies building products and services on these cloud providers will be able to offer real-time XR streaming right off the shelf. Today during the company’s GTC 2021 developer conference, Nvidia announced that its CloudXR tech is now available on Amazon Web Services, and it’s coming s
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
APRIL 12, 2021
O ne of the biggest news items from the past few weeks in the AR sphere is the U.S. Army’s renewed contract with Microsoft. As we covered recently in Spatial Beats , it’s doubling down on AR, including combat-optimized HoloLens 2 units for battlespace awareness and effectiveness. But what is the financial impact of this deal? It’s been reported that the price tag is $22 million, but how does this stack up to current enterprise AR spending?
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AR Insider
APRIL 12, 2021
W elcome back to Spatial Beats. This week, Apple and Epic continue to exchange blows, Tom Brady leans into NFTs and Vuzix forms partnership with TechSee. Let’s dive in… Apple says Epic’s Fortnite lawsuit is a marketing stunt to revive ‘flagging interest’ in the game. Apple believes this lawsuit is Epic’s “project liberty” media strategy, despite Epic’s claim regarding the App Store raising prices due to Apple’s share of profit.
Road to VR
APRIL 12, 2021
AmazeVR , a Los Angeles-based company creating on-demand VR video, has raised $9.5 million in funding to refocus its efforts to create virtual VR concerts. The company says its immersive concerts will be coming to movie theaters, VR headsets, and special pop-up events at some point this year. The latest round was led by Murex Partners, with participation from We Ventures, Bass Investment, and Dunamu & Partners.
Slashgear
APRIL 12, 2021
Virtual reality has had the reputation for being something only for games and entertainment, a perception that VR companies and advocates are trying to dispel with more serious applications. That said, there’s no denying that the technology is perfect for immersive interactive content, at least the kind that puts you in the middle of the action.
Road to VR
APRIL 12, 2021
NVIDIA is upgrading its Variable Rate Supersampling (VRSS) with support for headsets with eye-tracking, allowing the rendered application to improve performance by increasing quality where the user is looking, while decreasing it elsewhere. Nvidia today announced the latest version of VRSS , a foveated rendering implementation that works with any of the company’s RTX series GPUs and any application which supports DirectX 11, forward rendering, and MSAA.
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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.
ARVR
APRIL 12, 2021
Augmented Reality Changing the Real State Landscape In recent years we have heard a lot about Augmented Reality (AR) as an example of a very innovative technology that is being adopted by many businesses operating in different fields. This technology is an improved version of the real physical world achieved through the use of various elements such as digital visual, sound, or other sensory stimuli.
GizModo VR
APRIL 12, 2021
Tesla’s cars already feature a wide range of Easter eggs, like the ability to turn on “fart mode,” support for volume settings that go to 11, and more. But recently, Tesla owners have discovered a new trick that might be the most childish one yet. Read more.
ARVR
APRIL 12, 2021
As technology improves, augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) training programs have become increasingly popular over the years. Unfortunately, many myths have been propagated over the years, all of which are false. Here we will look at precisely what AR training is, the most common myths associated with the technology, and the rebuttals. What Is AR Training In short, AR is an emerging technology that allows users to interact with the real world with digital objects superimposed on it.
Anand Tech
APRIL 12, 2021
Kicking off another busy Spring GPU Technology Conference for NVIDIA, this morning the graphics and accelerator designer is announcing that they are going to once again design their own Arm-based CPU. Dubbed Grace – after Grace Hopper, the computer programming pioneer and US Navy rear admiral – the CPU is NVIDIA’s latest stab at more fully vertically integrating their hardware stack by being able to offer a high-performance CPU alongside their regular GPU wares.
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
APRIL 12, 2021
The human brain, just like whatever you’re reading this on, uses electricity to function. Neurons are constantly sending and receiving electrical signals. Everyone’s brain works a bit differently, and scientists are now getting closer to establishing how electrical activity is functioning in individual patients’… Read more.
Digital Trends
APRIL 12, 2021
Scientists at Tufts University have created a strange new hybrid biological/mechanical organism that's made of living cells, but operates like a robot.
GizModo VR
APRIL 12, 2021
If you’re visiting Alaska this year, you may get to experience a once-in-a-lifetime geologic event. A glacier in Denali National Park has started moving between 50 to 100 times faster than normal. Read more.
Digital Trends
APRIL 12, 2021
Eager for some entertainment from across the pond? Hulu's got a bunch of great British TV shows, and we've found the best of them so you don't have to!
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
APRIL 12, 2021
As long as the original Superman has had counterparts like Steel and, more recently, Final Crisis ’ Calvin Ellis of Earth-23, there have been comics fans who struggled to comprehend—and often pushed back against—the idea of a Black Superman. Read more.
Anand Tech
APRIL 12, 2021
Join us at 8:30am PT for our coverage of NVIDIA’s annual GPU Technology Conference keynote address. The traditional kick-off to the show – be it physical or virtual – NVIDIA’s annual spring keynote is showcase for NVIDIA’s vision for the next 12 to 24 months across all of their segments, from graphics to AI to automotive.
GizModo VR
APRIL 12, 2021
The debate over whether or not Starfleet is a military organization, a scientific one, or a messy, often contradictory combination of both has been a part of Star Trek since it began. One thing that we can always be certain of though? It loves a wardrobe shakeup. With Discovery ’s upcoming season adding yet another… Read more.
Digital Trends
APRIL 12, 2021
“Heads Up” is a new feature for Android phones that prompts you to stay aware of your surroundings if it detects you’re using your handset while walking.
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
APRIL 12, 2021
Google is officially pulling the plug on its Play Movies and TV app on all Roku devices and Samsung, LG, Vizio or Roku smart TVs, the company announced via 9to5Google on Monday. Read more.
Digital Trends
APRIL 12, 2021
Even though your Apple Watch is strapped to your wrist most of the time, it's not immune to harm. Invest in one of these reliable Apple Watch screen protectors.
GizModo VR
APRIL 12, 2021
If you’re trying to enlarge a digital image, or zoom in on a particular part of it, the picture can get pretty pixelated pretty fast. Image editors can’t magically insert data that wasn’t captured in the first place.or can they? The latest in artificial intelligence algorithms promise to smartly fill in details to… Read more.
VR Fitness
APRIL 12, 2021
This month will see the inaugural launch of an exciting new Oculus event, a special gaming showcase to take place on Wednesday, April 21st. The event will be live-streamed on Youtube, Twitch, and of course, Facebook starting at 3 pm Pacific Time. Full details of the event are being kept under wraps, but from the snippets of information, Oculus is revealing it’s definitely going to be an event to tune into.
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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