ARPost
MARCH 25, 2021
We live in an age of enormous data creation. The amount of global data generated per year has increased by more than 30x over the past 10 years, and it is projected to more than quadruple over the next five. The problem for humans is no longer access to data — it’s how to possibly process the immense amount of data that is now at our fingertips.
VRScout
MARCH 23, 2021
Turn boring 2D floor plans into fully immersive 3D walkthroughs with the first Quest app designed specifically for architects. When it comes to planning and design, a proper 2D floorplan can provide you with a bounty of critical information. Translating those measurements into a 3D format, however, can often be a difficult and time-consuming process.
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AR Insider
MARCH 25, 2021
New Study Reveals 29 Percent of U.S. Adults Have Used Augmented Reality. New data from Thrive Analytics and ARtillery Intelligence uncovers who’s using mobile AR apps, how often, and in what categories. MARCH 25, 2021 – KETTERING, OH – Thrive Analytics and ARtillery Intelligence today released a new report: AR Usage & Consumer Attitudes, Wave IV.
The Ghost Howls
MARCH 21, 2021
Happy Spring everyone! The Winter is over, and the trees are blossoming again! I hope that wherever you are, even if in lockdown (like me), you can enjoy the sun, the birds, and the love that this season carries with it Before leaving you to the news of the week, I want to remind you that on Thursday, at 17:00 CET we’ll have an amazing Awe Nite meeting about psychology in XR, with some of the best Italian minds on the matter!
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.
ARPost
MARCH 26, 2021
The virtual Game Developers Conference Showcase was held from March 15-19. The event wasn’t exclusively devoted to VR gaming, but a number of VR gaming companies and independent designers use Unity’s game engine. A Quick Update on GDC Since COVID-19. The annual Game Developers Conference has, historically, been one of the biggest annual events in the technology industry.
Virtual Reality Pulse brings together the best content for VR professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
AR Insider
MARCH 24, 2021
A s you likely know, one of AR’s foundational principles is to fuse the digital and physical. The real world is a key part of that formula… and real-world relevance is often defined by location. That same relevance and scarcity are what drive real estate value….location, location, location. Synthesizing these factors, one of AR’s battlegrounds will be in augmenting the world in location-relevant ways.
Road to VR
MARCH 25, 2021
Last month Oculus launched App Lab for Quest which allows developers to distribute their games on the headset without going through Oculus’ curation process. There’s now more than 100 games and apps available on App Lab. There’s now 103 apps available for Quest via App Lab, according to submissions tracked by App Lab DB. The apps are functionally ‘unlisted’ (unsearchable) in the main Quest store, but receive a normal store page which can be accessed directly via a U
ARPost
MARCH 21, 2021
Virtual reality has been moving mountains across a myriad of verticals. In the past few years, we’ve also been seeing VR as a force for social good. REM5 , a Minnesota-based company, is doing just that with a virtual exhibition space called “1 City. 2 Realities.” which is part of their REM5 For Good initiative. It illustrates and educates people on the realities of racial inequity and inequality across the nation.
VRScout
MARCH 21, 2021
Get your virtual YouTube career started today with the following apps. What the hell is a Vtuber exactly? Well, put simply, a Vtuber can best be described as an online personality who disguises their appearance using a custom digital avatar. The trend has been around for some time but has only recently gained steam in the United States, thanks in large part to popular figures such as PewDiePie, Pokimane, and a variety of other influential personalities.
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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.
GizModo VR
MARCH 26, 2021
Slack—following in the grand old tradition of companies like Facebook , TikTok , and Twitter —is planning on cloning buzzy app Clubhouse’s voice chatroom functionality. Read more.
Road to VR
MARCH 26, 2021
With nearly all major XR events cancelled in 2020 due to the pandemic, it’s been a somewhat odd year for the industry. With vaccines starting to roll out in the US, AWE has set a hopeful November date as one of the first XR conferences to return to an in-person event—but offering a money-back guarantee in case things don’t pan out. AWE is a long running XR-focused conference held annually in Santa Clara, CA.
Anand Tech
MARCH 23, 2021
The new CEO of Intel, Pat Gelsinger, has today outlined his vision for Intel over the coming years. During an online presentation entitled ‘Intel Unleashed: Engineering The Future’, Pat Gelsinger outlined five key topics upon which Intel will work towards and what it means for the company at large. At the center of this is a reaffirmed commitment for Intel to retain its own fabs, but also double down on its ability to drive the latest technologies at scale by building new manufacturi
VRScout
MARCH 22, 2021
The limited-edition pizza boxes headline the companies retro-driven “Newstalgia” ad campaign. Everyone’s favorite pellet-eating video game protagonist Pac-Man is set to return in a brand new augmented reality (AR) game launching as part of Pizza Hut’s “Newstalgia” ad campaign. According to Pizza Hut’s chief marketing officer, George Felix, the idea behind the campaign is to “re-establish a strong brand identity rooted in decades of bold innovations
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
MARCH 26, 2021
An entire lineage of French rabbits has been doing handstands for nearly a century. The acrobatic bunnies are not so much performing a stunt as they are a product of stunted genetics, according to a paper published this week in PLOS Genetics. Read more.
Road to VR
MARCH 25, 2021
Zen Studios, one of the most prolific virtual pinball creators, has teamed up with Disney and Lucasfilm Games to release a Star Wars- themed VR game filled to the brim with pinball machines. Much like the studio’s previous VR pinball game, Pinball FX2 VR(2016) , Star Wars Pinball VR feels like it’s essentially the closest thing to owning your own fleet of pinball machines, albeit with more bells and whistles that simply can’t exist outside of the digital world.
VR Fitness
MARCH 24, 2021
Jonathan Ovadia and the team at AEXLAB possess the tools for success as enthusiasm, curiosity, and determination fuel their commitment to provide gamers with an unparalleled experience in immersive reality. While the tech industry at large is known for people who “think outside the box,” game developers in particular often display personality traits seen among successful people and the AEXLAB team is setting new industry standards for user interaction related to VR.
VRScout
MARCH 20, 2021
Could this wearable device solve the headache that is typing in VR? You can do some pretty amazing things in VR. Unfortunately, typing is not one of them. Currently, entering your password and username or typing out a message in VR means awkwardly selecting keys using your motion controllers. Developers have explored potential solutions in the past, such as Google Daydream’s ultra-fun Drum Keys or Logitech’s VR compatible keyboards.
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
MARCH 25, 2021
There are some signs the world may be finally gearing up to tackle the root cause of the climate crisis by reducing carbon emissions. But on Wednesday, a group of scientists detailed how to develop an insurance plan if the world fails to do so. Read more.
Road to VR
MARCH 26, 2021
Sandbox VR, the out-of-home virtual reality destination, went through a rough patch this past year as the company both filed and subsequently emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy following debt restructure. With the United States doing fairly well in terms of COVID-19 vaccinations now, the company appears confident in getting back to business as usual soon, as it plans to open a new location at the Grand Canal Shoppes inside The Venetian Resort, Las Vegas, in addition to operating 15 locations wo
Digital Trends
MARCH 21, 2021
Chemistry and nanotechnology have collided to create a groundbreaking new category for cannabis: Sublingual strips that bypass your digestive system.
VRScout
MARCH 24, 2021
Infiltrate dangerous locations, evade armed security, and escape with high-value items. Available on Steam Early Access later this year, The Break-In is an online co-op game that will have you teaming up with friends to loot expensive valuables from a variety of secure locations while evading guards, the police, and neighborhood residents. Your objective is simple.
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
MARCH 25, 2021
It’s freaking hot in Kuwait right now. On Thursday, the country recorded a temperature of 112.3 degrees Fahrenheit (44.6 degrees Celsius). That’s the hottest temperature the country—and the entire Arabian Peninsula—has ever seen in the month of March. Read more.
Road to VR
MARCH 23, 2021
Now through March 31st you can pick up Half-Life: Alyx on sale at a 40% discount in celebration of the game’s one year anniversary. Half-Life: Alyx is clearly one of the best VR games released thus far, and if you’ve somehow avoided playing it up to this point, here’s one more reason to give it a look: the game is currently on sale for its best price yet: a 40% discount, bringing it to $35.
Digital Trends
MARCH 24, 2021
The Myzone MZ-Switch is a fitness wearable which can be worn on your wrist, arm, or chest, and uses either a PPG or an ECG heart rate sensor for accuracy.
VRScout
MARCH 22, 2021
Ludact’s physics-driven, comic book-inspired journey arrives March 26th on SteamVR headsets. Arriving later this week on Steam Early Access, Unbinary is a futuristic VR adventure that will have you navigating a variety of physical and mental challenges in an effort to prepare a super-powered artificial intelligence for its role as leader of humankind.
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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