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Florida has the most road rage incidents of any state in the U.S. - Duration: 1:34.
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3E @ VRX San Francisco 2018 - Amy Peck, EndeavorVR | Th3rdEyeXR - Duration: 3:54.
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My name is Amy Peck, and my company is EndeavorVR. We are very focused on sort of
working with enterprise companies, mostly Fortune 500, actually even through Fortune 20,
on looking at this technology and how we can really reshape the workfoce,
and at really looking at it at scale, as well. So not just taking, you know, one problem
and solving it with one technology, but really looking at how
they're gonna change the way they work using immersive technologies.
It's probably me! [Laughs]
We're a consulting and strategy firm, and there are many out there, of all sizes,
but I think that, you know, we're really born out of enterprise,
and my personal experience, I come from a sort of
consumer data and research, and looking at consumer behavior, and then from there
moved into immersive technology, and at the same time, I've always worked with
enterprise, and so, because, you know, I've been working with enterprise entities
for so long, I think I understand really what some of the challenges are, you know,
across multiple verticals. So we're really able to identify ways that
maybe even they didn't think of to leverage this technology, and then the
other piece of it is that we look at a holistic approach to how they're gonna
be able to scale. So it's not just about the content, and what the purpose is, and
what solution is - it's how it can sit with their legacy systems, and then how
they can pull data and data analytics, and how that's going to wire into their
existing KPIs, and it's really this sort of end-to-end approach as opposed to
just delivering a simulation and training application, for example.
I love the whole sort of simulation and training side of things, and I don't
necessarily call it a trend because the military has been using some really
training for decades, but VR enables very very fast iteration on training and
simulation, and also is much more lightweight and much less expensive,
and you don't have to have you know hundreds of thousands of dollars in these these
bucks that you used to have them in the past. In the past year, we've also
started looking at location-based entertainment, and the reason that we've
started looking at that is that one of the challenges, even in enterprise, is the
adoption of the workforce. And what we forget is that enterprise people in the
workforce are also consumers, and consumers don't really have a fluency
with the technology yet. And until they do and they really care about the
technology and it's easy for them to move in and out of virtual environments,
whether it be AR or VR. We're still gonna have a challenge deploying at scale,
and so location-based entertainment is one way that you know AR and VR are getting
socialized into the consumer market, and mobile AR and WebXR, as its termed,
I think are also really big opportunities for companies to build a
really lightweight experiences. We're using a mobile device, which is where
consumers already are, and glasses like Focals which have done a really, really smart job.
Even though it doesn't have a tremendous amount of AR functionality,
that's ultimately what the form factor is going to be. It needs to look like a
pair of Wayfarers before we put them on. So I'm very excited about them,
even though it's a 1.0 product, I think that that's really the direction we need to go,
we need to make this technology actually wearable!
We talk about wearables all the time, but nothing really is wearable,
so this is a great step in the right direction, I think.
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From west coast to west London but will Babel beat THAT Webb tweet? - Duration: 5:49.
With a summer off due to Holland's failure to reach the World Cup, Ryan Babel travelled to California before heading to Miami Beach in Florida, where he started pre-season early
'It's very necessary,' Babel said to the camera in an Instagram video filmed in June
'Next season, no excuses. This season is about to be the best ever. Mark my words
' Now 32, Babel is in the twilight of his career and his return to the Premier League with Fulham paves the way for the Dutchman to remove the sense of unfinished business around his previous spell in England
Make no mistake, he still has something to offer. He may be older and more experienced having emerged from the footballing wilderness with two encouraging years at Besiktas, but he still possesses an eye for eccentricities that helped make his time at Liverpool so memorable
For example, two weeks before he updated his followers about his early pre-season, he shared a picture of himself with a friend stood on the bonnet of their Range Rovers in Beverley Hills
'We parked the cars literally in the middle of the roads to make this picture,' Babel wrote with a laughing emoji
'Others were just driving by like it was nothing.'From the west coast to west London in six months, Babel arrives at Fulham with six goals in 20 games for club and country in 2018-19, although they all came in his first nine matches
He has not found the net since September but has a respectable scoring record in Turkey with 28 goals in 76
Babel's time at Besiktas has seen him settle. He played well and often, even featuring in the Champions League last season and has been a regular in the national setup with a resurgent Holland, where he has over 50 caps
It didn't always look like being this way. After leaving Liverpool in January 2011, his career waned with spells at Hoffenheim, Kasimpasa in Turkey, Al Ain in Abu Dhabi and Deportive La Coruna in Spain
He still operates predominantly as a left-winger, despite insisting during his four years at Anfield that he would convert to a striker
Babel had many inspiring moments at Liverpool. He helped turn a Champions League quarter-final second leg in Liverpool's favour against Arsenal, coming on in the 78th minute to win a penalty and then scoring himself in the 90th minute
He also demonstrated his prowess from long range with stunning Champions League goals against Chelsea and Lyon but struggled to nail down a regular place
Of his 91 Premier League appearances at Liverpool, only 31 were starts.'I soon figured that in the Premier League they call you a flop very quick,' Babel said years later in an interview with The Independent
He arrived at Liverpool in 2007 with heavy praise on his shoulders after Holland boss Marco van Basten said Babel could be the new Thierry Henry
He had just produced a man-of-the-match display in the Euro under 21 final, where Holland beat Serbia 4-1
If that was the height of his potential, he never lived up to it and off the pitch
Babel seemed to produce other moments for which he is still best remembered for outside of Merseyside
In 2008, he appeared in a rap video with musicians Darryl, Ali B, Soumia for a song called 'Eeyeeyo'
But the most notable was after Liverpool were beaten by Manchester United in January 2011
He tweeted a picture of referee Howard Webb wearing a United shirt, saying 'And they call him one of the best referees? That's a joke
' He was fined £10,000, the case being somewhat of a landmark hearing in English football with the use of social media a relatively new fad at the time
With his hair now dyed red, Babel will stand out in whatever capacity if he makes his debut against Tottenham on Sunday
But if he spearheads a Fulham survival between now and May, he could earn more time in the Premier League
With The Cottagers five points adrift, he needs those hard yards in Florida to pay dividends quickly
If they do, Babel will be well worth watching.
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