AR Insider
OCTOBER 26, 2020
“Vantage” is AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. It enlists spatial computing executives and innovators for first-hand strategic insights. Find out more or contact us to participate here. Authors’ opinions are their own. . A Week in WebAR: Nike, LEGO and McDonald’s Sweden. by Jennifer DeFalco. W hat’s the latest in web AR?
VRScout
OCTOBER 27, 2020
Pressure-sensitive controllers, hip and face tracking, all for just $459? Earlier this month, Singapore-based Deca announced the DecaGear, a PC VR headset boasting some pretty incredible features for a suspiciously low price. Available now for preorder, the DecaGear features 2,160 × 2,160 (4.6MP) per-eye resolution at 90Hz, two inward-facing cameras allowing for face tracking, four-camera inside-out tracking, hip tracking provided by the DecaMove attachment, pressure-sensitive controllers simila
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ARPost
OCTOBER 27, 2020
Squad has partnered with Snap Inc. to utilize Camera Kit. They’ve integrated Snap’s augmented reality capabilities into the Squad camera, which brings new creative outlets for people in quarantine. The COVID-19 pandemic has been devastating for most of the world. While everyone is experiencing it differently, many are finding relief in the same creative outlets.
The Ghost Howls
OCTOBER 26, 2020
Coronavirus is back in Italy and from yesterday we’re having new restrictions like a night curfew, some kind of shops closed, etc… I hope that you and the people you love are safe. These will be complicated weeks, and I hope that we’ll be able to go through them together. Now let’s dig into the best XR news of the week… so we don’t always think about this damn virus!
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
OCTOBER 30, 2020
XR Talks is a series that features the best presentations and educational videos from the XR universe. It includes embedded video, narrative analysis and top takeaways. Speakers’ opinions are their own. For a full library of indexed and educational media, subscribe to ARtillery PRO. T he AR cloud has turned three. This traces back to the principle’s origin in a 2017 landmark editorial by AR veteran and thought leader Ori Inbar.
Virtual Reality Pulse brings together the best content for VR professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Road to VR
OCTOBER 30, 2020
Oculus Quest 2 has celebrated a pretty successful launch, with some developers saying they’ve seen a dramatic jump in both sales and engagement across their games since the standalone headset’s October 13th release. Now Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has revealed during the company’s Q3 investor’s meeting that Quest 2 pre-orders were actually five times higher than the 2019 original Quest.
Cats and VR
OCTOBER 30, 2020
U24 Solutions will be hosting a new one-of-a-kind Virtual Reality Tournament event called ‘Beat & Battle’ composed of music and esports gamings’ biggest stars, set to stream live on Twitch on November 11, 2020 (6 PM, GMT +0, 2 pm EDT). This event will bring out some of the best talent and biggest names from each industry, viewers will recognize well-known DJs such as Steve Aoki , Headhunterz , and Will Sparks , Milwin as well as YouTube and Twitch players like Sodapoppin , xQc , Yassuo , Pro
Slashgear
OCTOBER 26, 2020
From a purely business point of view, it’s no surprise really that Facebook wants to unify all its platforms under a single account. While it can’t really force that on Instagram and WhatsApp, especially not while under intense scrutiny, it was able to put its hand down on the relatively younger Oculus ecosystem. Whether Facebook and Oculus really thought about … Continue reading.
VRScout
OCTOBER 30, 2020
2020 is shaping up to be a pivotal year for VR. Yesterday, Facebook Reality Labs conducted its Q3 2020 Earnings Call , during which company co-founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, stated that the Oculus Quest 2 received 5x as many pre-orders as the original Oculus Quest. According to an official representative, these numbers surpassed the companies expectations.
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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
OCTOBER 26, 2020
According to the original organizer of the initiative to jailbreak Oculus Quest 2 , an XR developer was successful in bypassing Facebook services on the device. Here’s the full statement from the group, which was founded by Robert Long , a senior software engineer at Mozilla working on WebXR: A researcher from the XR community has gained root access to Oculus Quest 2 and is able to bypass Facebook Login.
GizModo VR
OCTOBER 30, 2020
The platypus is nature’s crazy quilt, as this strange creature looks like about a half-dozen different animals all rolled into one. Turns out that platypuses were hiding yet another conspicuous feature: THEY CAN FREAKIN’ GLOW IN THE DARK. Read more.
Slashgear
OCTOBER 27, 2020
The Oculus Quest 2 is an admittedly impressive kit as far as standalone VR systems go. Its otherwise positive debut, however, has been marred by controversy, confusion, and consternation over the requirement to have and use a Facebook account to even use the previously independent product. Unsurprisingly, there have been attempts to circumvent that requirement but the most successful one … Continue reading.
VRScout
OCTOBER 25, 2020
Designing a new customer experience using immersive technology. Solgaard is a sustainable design company that creates premium lifestyle gear for individuals on the go. Their product line began with a backpack but took off with the carry-on closet; a suitcase with a built-in shelving unit that in 2018 was named one of Time Magazine’s 50 Best Inventions.
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.
Road to VR
OCTOBER 27, 2020
Elite Dangerous (2014), one of the first truly massive VR-compatible space sims, is releasing its biggest DLC for free today to all players who own the base game. Initially announced last month by creators Frontier Developments, the previously separate Horizons expansion has now been folded into the base game. Before today, Horizons cost $30 on top of the base game’s $30 price tag.
GizModo VR
OCTOBER 29, 2020
The tragedy of Exxon continues. On Thursday, the company said it expects to lay off roughly 14,000 workers over the next year. The huge reduction comes even as it pays out shareholders, albeit at a flat level for the first time in nearly four decades. Read more.
Slashgear
OCTOBER 27, 2020
When it comes to virtual reality displays, the screen door effect is a very real concern for manufacturers. The screen door effect gives certain displays a mesh-like appearance that’s particularly noticeable when lower resolution displays are viewed up close, so while it can happen with any display, it’s most prevalent in the world of VR.
VRScout
OCTOBER 29, 2020
A touch of technology in your own hands. After 7 months of beta testing, Interhaptics just released its most ambitious project to date: a mixed reality development suite for deploying haptics across platforms for both head-mounted displays and mobile devices. Eric Vezzoli, head of the French software company, and his team built Haptic Composer and Interaction Builder, to push extended reality experiences to the next level.
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.
Road to VR
OCTOBER 27, 2020
Corning Incorporated, the makers of Corning Gorilla Glass, announced a new partnership with compound material supplier Pixelligent Technologies to develop optics for the coming age of consumer AR headsets. The collaboration is said to rely on Pixelligent’s optically transparent compounds and Corning’s glass manufacturing technology to “help reduce product-development time and expand availability of AR devices,” a company statement reads.
GizModo VR
OCTOBER 28, 2020
As a Climate Person, I strongly believe we urgently need to electrify everything and ditch natural gas completely. The problem is, I love my gas stove. I find the heat from an electric stove’s coils basically impossible to control—last time I used one, I burned a beautiful pan sauce to a brown crisp. Read more.
Anand Tech
OCTOBER 28, 2020
Preparing to close out a major month of announcements for AMD – and to open the door to the next era of architectures across the company – AMD wrapped up its final keynote presentation of the month by announcing their Radeon RX 6000 series of video cards. Hosted once more by AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su, AMD’s hour-long keynote revealed the first three parts in AMD’s new RDNA2 architecture video card family: the Radeon RX 6800, 6800XT, and 6900XT.
VRScout
OCTOBER 29, 2020
With the live music industry in shambles, musicians are turning to immersive tech to connect with fans. The live music industry has been hit hard by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Concerts both large and small have been canceled for several months now, leaving many musicians isolated from their fans. In these unprecedented times, VR has proven to be an effective tool for musicians looking to connect with audiences on a more intimate level.
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?
Road to VR
OCTOBER 26, 2020
With the reveal of the DecaGear headset last week we wanted to learn more about the company behind the project. We got in touch with Or Kuntzman, the founder & CEO of Megadodo Simulation Games (which is building DecaGear) to learn more about its background and future plans. First a quick recap. DecaGear is an upcoming PC VR headset that emerged seemingly out of thin air promising big specs and an ambitious price.
GizModo VR
OCTOBER 29, 2020
One of the obvious giveaways that you’re interacting with a robot is their blank dead-eyed stare. The eyes don’t connect with yours the way they would if they were, you know, human. A research team at Disney is trying to fix that using subtle head motions and eye movements that make the robot seem more lifelike … Read more.
Anand Tech
OCTOBER 27, 2020
After a couple of weeks of rumor, as well as a couple of years of hearsay, AMD has gone feet first into a full acquisition of FPGA manufacturer Xilinx. The deal involves an all-stock transaction, leveraging AMD’s sizeable share price in order to enable an equivalent $143 per Xilinx share – current AMD stockholders will still own 74% of the combined company, while Xilinx stockholders will own 26%.
VRScout
OCTOBER 28, 2020
Celebrate all hallows eve with seven AR costumes and three background dancers. Today, Snap Inc. unveiled a new line of Snapchat Lenses that combine 3D motion capture and multiple neural networks to create over 10 augmented reality costumes powered by 3D full-body tracking. Available now on iOS and Android devices via the Snapchat app, users can step into the shoes of the classic dancing hotdog, a neon jack-o-lantern, and a cloaked skeleton, just to name a few.
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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