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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

Snapchat patent points to AR Spectacles content, Oculus Story Studio shuts down while continuing their VR for Good program, Congress gets into VR, Milwaukee gets sued by an AR company, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… You can enjoy the full audio recording below: SNAPCHAT PATENT POINTS TO AUGMENTED SPECTACLES CONTENT.

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Austin’s Rapidly Growing VR Community

VRScout

This year was a perfect example of that. A native of Milwaukee, WI, his journey to Austin followed a similar path as mine. Texas’ business incentives have attracted the attention of IBM, Motorola, Apple, and Indeed. Like me he “discovered” Austin through SXSW.

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Black holes aren't evil cosmic vacuum cleaners, and other misconceptions

Mashable VR

"Some people imagine that they're Hoovers [vacuum cleaners] in the sky," Jean Creighton, an astronomer and the director of the Manfred Olson Planetarium at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, told Mashable. "Of Of course, that's not true." At times, these invisible objects can essentially scream into the cosmos.

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These 8 athletes win the award for Twitter excellence

Mashable VR

This was Maxwell's response to the Milwaukee Bucks winning the NBA title in 2021. Between his truly excellent “Greek Freak” nickname, the fact that he does incredible things on the court for the Milwaukee Bucks every night, and his infectious smile, there’s nothing to dislike about him. Tweet may have been deleted.

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Off to Digital Market We Go, with InContext Solutions’ Tracey Wiedmeyer

XR for Business Podcast

Tracey is also the former president of the VR/AR Association chapter in Chicago, Milwaukee and a board member for the Information Research Technology Institute at Sam Walton College of Business. So, I’ll give you a retail example and then a brand example. One other example would be on the brand side. Tracey: Yeah.

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Off to Digital Market We Go, with InContext Solutions’ Tracey Wiedmeyer

XR for Business Podcast

Tracey is also the former president of the VR/AR Association chapter in Chicago, Milwaukee and a board member for the Information Research Technology Institute at Sam Walton College of Business. So, I’ll give you a retail example and then a brand example. One other example would be on the brand side. Tracey: Yeah.

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The James Webb telescope's first stunning cosmic images are here

Mashable VR

Some planets, for example, might contain water, methane, and carbon dioxide, which could potentially mean they're habitable worlds. Using instruments called spectrometers, Webb can sleuth out what the atmospheres of distant, alien worlds are composed of. There are perhaps a trillion or more exoplanets in our Milky Way galaxy alone.)

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