Post Pandemic Pedagogy: Video & Virtual Are Alive and Well!

Asynchronous learning, an educational model in which students learn on their own schedule, is exploding in popularity in K–12 schools. As the number of devices…

David Heaney / UploadVR:
In a new paper, Meta researchers demonstrated a system that can reconstruct a user’s plausible pose from only the Quest 2’s sensors using reinforcement learning  —  Meta researchers demonstrated Quest 2 body tracking without extra trackers.  —  Current VR systems ship with a headset and held controllers …

Andrew E. Freedman / Tom’s Hardware:
Robert Hallock, AMD’s director of technical marketing and a public-facing figure on Reddit, Discord, YouTube, and others, is leaving the company after 12 years  —  The director of technical marketing is stepping down.  —  Robert Hallock, AMD’s director of technical marketing …

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Stockholm-based Mavenoid, which offers human- and AI-enabled product support and troubleshooting tools for hardware companies, has raised a $30M Series B  —  Mavenoid, a Swedish company that provides both human- and AI-enabled support and troubleshooting tools for hardware companies …

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
AWS launches Application Composer, a low-code tool for visually designing and building serverless applications with a drag-and-drop interface  —  At its re:Invent conference today, AWS announced the launch of AWS Application Composer, a new low-code tool for visually designing and building serverless applications.

Brian Feldman / Bloomberg:
Gamers, who have embraced pay-to-play models and paid digital goods, have largely succeeded in rejecting the video game industry’s efforts to incorporate NFTs  —  Nick Kaman’s video game development studio, Aggro Crab, has tied its image closely to making fun of cryptocurrency.