VRScout
DECEMBER 20, 2021
Who doesn’t love a good virtual head pat? This past April, VRChat hosted a developer stream during which the company revealed a new set of features on the way to its ever-growing social VR platform. The Avatar Dynamics system, as it’s referred to by the company, will introduce a wide range of avatar-to-avatar interactions designed to enhance your in-game experience without killing your framerate.
The Ghost Howls
DECEMBER 23, 2021
The demo of our fitness XR game HitMotion: Reloaded is now complete, and we are evaluating the possibility of partnering with a publisher for finding the funds and the support needed to build the full game. I have scouted online a list of companies (I have already contacted), and since I know that there is not a place where there is a comprehensive list of publishers interested in VR , I thought about creating one myself, so as to help all the other indie developers that are in a similar situati
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ARPost
DECEMBER 21, 2021
The news cycle doesn’t really slow down in the XR world. Fortunately, in the last few weeks, a lot of announcements and updates have been in the spirit of the season. Hopefully, these festive mobile AR engagements will help you stay in the holiday spirit. The HERMÈS MERRY SNOWMAN. HERMÈS teamed up with 8th Wall to create the MERRY SNOWMAN experience.
Road to VR
DECEMBER 20, 2021
Social VR platform Rec Room has sealed another big funding round to close out the year. The Seattle-based startup today announced it’s secured a new $145 million financing round, bringing the company’s total valuation to $3.5 billion. The funding round was led by Coatue Management, with participation from existing investors Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, and Madrona Venture Group.
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.
VRScout
DECEMBER 22, 2021
Somnium’s PC VR headset allows you to program its sensors and buttons to meet your individual needs. At the beginning of the year, social VR platform Somnium Space began teasing a new VR headset with a unique modular design. During the first-ever Somnium Space Connect event, Artur Sychov, CEO of Somnium Space, gave us a more detailed look at a combination standalone/PC VR headset centered around an open source community-driven software ecosystem.
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ARPost
DECEMBER 23, 2021
Last Friday, December 17, The VR/AR Association held a one-day event dedicated to the metaverse and avatars as part of the Immerse Global Summit Series. With so much buzz around the term generated by people outside of the industry, this free one-day summit was a welcome opportunity for bonafide experts to comment on the situation. We weren’t able to attend all of the sessions, and as of this writing, recordings have not been made publicly available.
Road to VR
DECEMBER 20, 2021
Earlier this year the Unity Labs team shared an incredible proof-of-concept mixed reality demo that shows the power of blending the real and virtual worlds together. Now the developers behind the project say you’ll be able to get your hands on the experiment on Quest sometime next year. At Facebook Connect at the end of October, the Unity Labs team revealed Unity Slices: Table , a proof-of-concept social mixed reality app that seamlessly connects people—both local and remote—into a shared
VRScout
DECEMBER 24, 2021
Start the new year off right with a collection of fitness challenges led by the famous actress, comedian, and producer. With 2022 just around the corner, it’s time to start thinking about New Year’s resolutions. No doubt this year many of us will be focusing our attention on personal fitness. Instead of clogging up the gyms this January/February, however, why not try VR?
ARVR
DECEMBER 20, 2021
This is not just a phone, it is a whole ecosystem. Continue reading on AR/VR Journey: Augmented & Virtual Reality Magazine ».
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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.
ARPost
DECEMBER 24, 2021
In 1961, Hank Thomas, along with other Freedom Riders, rode buses and made a bold move that changed the face of history. In a bid to give us a glimpse of the past, USA TODAY launched Seven Days of 1961 , a multimedia series that also offers an AR experience of the pivotal events that transpired in May 1961. The AR experience, entitled A Dangerous Ride on the Road to Freedom , and the series itself, highlights the protests of the Freedom Riders, led by Hank Thomas, to end legal segregation in the
Road to VR
DECEMBER 20, 2021
Luke Ross , the modder who brought VR support to a host of non-VR games such as GTA V, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Mafia II, surprise-released a VR mod for the PC version of Horizon Zero Dawn. YouTube channel Cas and Chary got an exclusive first look at the mod. Casandra Vuong (aka ‘Cas’) went hands on, revealing just how the mod’s first and third-person modes look in a 20-minute video.
VRScout
DECEMBER 18, 2021
Birdie Wing is not only the first-ever anime released on Viveport, but the first original anime featuring women’s golf. HTC’s VR platform Viveport is spreading its wings with the announcement of BIRDIE WING – Golf Girls’ Story , an original anime developed in collaboration with Bandai Namco Pictures. The two companies gave anime fans a sneak peek of the new show last week with the launch of its first official trailer.
ARVR
DECEMBER 21, 2021
#2 of my Tech Predictions for 2022 In November, Disney announced that they are working on their own Metaverse When Mark Zuckerberg announced the name shift of Facebook Corp. to Meta, he set fire to a tech discussion that was already heating up: how will the future of the Internet look, and are we entering a new digital world called the Metaverse? If you have no clue what I am talking about, you should watch the movie: Ready Player One.
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.
ARPost
DECEMBER 20, 2021
MICLEDI Microdisplays is posed to change the face of augmented reality and augmented reality glasses. As a fabless developer of microLED displays for AR glasses, the company has developed an industry-first microLED arrays-for-AR. The technology is built on a 300mm complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) manufacturing platform. This platform enables precision and optimal performance in manufacturing, putting MICLEDI at the forefront of creating more realistic displays for AR glasses.
Road to VR
DECEMBER 24, 2021
Is there a new Meta Quest 2 waiting for you under the tree this year? Or maybe you’re just looking for the best seasonal deals in VR gaming? Either way, this holiday season Meta has whipped up another massive game sale that’s bringing discounts top Quest titles. And as luck would have it, Beat Saber is on sale for the first time ever too, bundled in the Holiday ‘Quest Essentials Pack’ The Quest Holiday Sale goes from now until December 26th at 11:59PM PT ( local time he
VRScout
DECEMBER 24, 2021
Get vaccinated and mask up as you prepare to battle waves of virus variants in order to save the universe. Released back in April 2020 on PC VR and Meta Quest headsets, Starcade Arcade’s Virus Popper is one of the goofiest VR games available at the moment. And thanks to a new patch released earlier this month, Virus Popper: Reopened , the educational action experience just got even better.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 24, 2021
There are times in life when you have to chose between paying a boatload of money or watching a very big explosion. Well, not really, but Finnish man Tuomas Katainen sure did. Katainen is a 2013 Tesla Model S owner who was told he would have to pay more than $22,600 to replace the battery on his car. For him, it… 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.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 24, 2021
Intel’s Alder Lake Intel Core i7-12800H has appeared in a new benchmark, with the CPU showcasing impressive performance levels over Apple’s M1 Max chip.
Anand Tech
DECEMBER 23, 2021
In a short note published by AMD this afternoon as part of an 8-K filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, AMD is disclosing that the company has once again updated its wafer supply agreement with long-time fab partner (and AMD fab spin-off) GlobalFoundries. Under the terms of the latest wafer supply agreement, AMD and GlobalFoundries are now committing to buying and supplying respectively $2.1 billion in wafers for the 2022 through 2025 period, adding an additional year and $500M
Oculus
DECEMBER 20, 2021
For this third iteration of App Lab Spotlight, we’re highlighting a new roomscale experiment, a puzzle game that looks to the stars, the return of.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 23, 2021
The Food and Drug Administration has approved a novel type of cholesterol-lowering drug jointly developed by Alnylam Pharmaceuticals and Novartis. The treatment, called Leqvio, uses RNA to help keep levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol in the blood low, which is important for people with certain… 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?
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 21, 2021
A new video released by NASA features detailed imagery of Mars captured by its Perseverance rover, and also includes all of the points of interest.
Anand Tech
DECEMBER 22, 2021
There are many column inches detailing Qualcomm’s design wins and marketing strategy, however to paint it all with a broad brush, it has often boiled down to ‘where can we stick our advanced wireless technology?’ The company has had great success with smartphones, cornering a large chunk of US market and sizeable numbers worldwide, and in the last few years has pivoted to new markets, such as automotive and virtual reality, but also tried to reinvigorate existing markets, such
Road to VR
DECEMBER 21, 2021
Whether you’re off dodging lasers and defusing bombs, shooting back hordes of zombies with your friends, or just sitting down for a quiet night alone with a photogrammetric jigsaw puzzle, there’s plenty of options out there on how you to teleport yourself to another universe through the magic of virtual reality. And as we look back at this year in VR gaming, we’re hoping to highlight those truly great games that captured our senses and fooled those squishy bits between our ears
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 20, 2021
Evidence of steppe mammoths, gigantic elk, brown bears, and other ice age animals have been pulled from an English quarry, in what experts are calling a significant discovery. Read more.
Speaker: Micah Eppler, Account Executive for Rehearsal of eLearning Brothers
Did you know that companies such as Paychex, 3M, and Honeywell are getting better results by incorporating video-based practice and coaching within their L&D strategy? From sales pitches to soft skills, learners are becoming top performers by applying and validating knowledge transfer using the unique benefits of video. Whether used as a stand-alone application or integrated with a learning platform, video-based practice and coaching platforms give learners the ultimate opportunity to repeatedly
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