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Getting Started With ‘Beat Saber’ Multiplayer

VRScout

Here’s how the games new competitive game mode works. Alongside the launch of the Oculus Quest 2 this past Tuesday came a handful of new games, such as The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners as well as Little Witch Academia: VR Broom Racing , as well as significant updates to existing titles like Arizona Sunshine , Red Matter , and Trover Saves the Universe.

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This Developer is Offering $5,000 to Anyone Who Can Jailbreak Quest 2

Road to VR

Facebook’s walled garden approach to its Quest app store has already been subverted somewhat by projects like SideQuest , an unofficial library for Quest games and apps. There’s still no getting around Oculus services or the need for a valid Facebook account to use Quest 2 though, which is why Robert Long , a senior software engineer at Mozilla working on WebXR, is offering up $5,000 to anyone who can successfully jailbreak Facebook’s latest standalone headset.

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Cybershoes Announces Wireless Foot Tracking For Oculus Quest & Quest 2

VRScout

Pre-orders will be available soon as part of the official Kickstarter campaign. The Oculus Quest 2 has finally arrived and so far we’re loving Facebook’s new-and-improved standalone headset. Despite having released just a few days ago, we’re already beginning to see a healthy lineup of Quest accessories begin to hit the market, from VR-focused headphones to premium facial interfaces.

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Experience Sword Fighting With Stunning Visuals in the VR Game “Until You Fall”

ARPost

October 27 is a date worth noting for VR game fans looking for top-notch adventure and visuals. This is the date when Until You Fall , a sword fighting game developed by an award-winning company, will be available on the most popular VR game platforms. See Also: The Walking Dead Onslaught Is Coming to Virtual Reality in September 2020. The VR sword fighting adventure created by Schell Games has been available as version 1.0 on PlayStation VR and Oculus Quest since September 29.

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The Future of eLearning in 2022: A Sensitive Eye for Authentic Translation and Localization

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.

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‘Blaston’ is a Fantastically Creative VR ‘Shooter’ That’s All About Making You Move

Road to VR

Blaston , the latest VR title from Resolution Games, is a 1 vs. 1 multiplayer VR game that thinks completely outside the box and explores new and interesting mechanics that challenge the notion of what a ‘VR shooter’ can be. I’ve spent nearly a decade now reporting on the VR industry and watching VR content grow from the earliest demo experiences for dev kit headsets to the shiniest big budget exclusive titles.

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Oculus Quest 2 Facebook account requirement has a terrible consequence

Slashgear

It was inevitable that Facebook would eventually leave a more tangible mark on its Oculus VR business but it still ruffled some feathers when it was revealed that to even use an Oculus headset, one would need to have a Facebook account. Facebook probably presumed everyone these days has one and that Oculus users, both present and future, also do. … Continue reading.

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Will AR Advertising Reach $8 Billion by 2024?

AR Insider

“Behind the Numbers” is AR Insider’s series that examines strategic takeaways from the original data of its research arm, ARtillery Intelligence. Each post drills down on one topic or chart. Subscribe or login to access the full library of data and reports. L ike many analyst firms, one of the ongoing practices of AR Insider’s research arm ARtillery Intelligence is market sizing.

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Europe Predictions 2021: Manufacturers Will Accelerate Their Digital Transformations

Forrester VR

In 2021, European manufacturers will leverage emerging technology to accelerate the digital transformation efforts.

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YouTube Bans QAnon, With a Catch

GizModo VR

Over the last couple of weeks, social media networks have finally enacted a glut of the content moderation policies that critics have spent years demanding. The latest crackdown comes from YouTube, which announced on Thursday that the ban hammer is dropping on QAnon videos—with caveats, of course. Read more.

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How to Train Employees 65% Faster With Virtual Reality

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.

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The Corsair H150i Elite Capellix AIO Cooler Review: Go Big Or Go Home

Anand Tech

Today we are taking a look at the largest member of Corsair's new Elite Capellix AIO cooler family, the H150i Elite Capellix. An upgrade for the renowned H150i Pro RGB, the H150i Elite Capellix features a 400 mm long radiator that holds three 120 mm fans, all the while incorporating improved iCUE integration and more powerful cooling fans.

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Google Hangouts Is Officially Biting the Dust

GizModo VR

Earlier today, Google announced in a corporate blog post that the die-hards currently left on the Hangouts messaging platform are officially getting the boot. Starting in early 2021, the company will start making moves to “automatically migrate” everyone’s Hangouts chat history and contacts to the Google… Read more.

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Why aren’t smartphones designed for a woman’s hand size?

Digital Trends

As smartphone sizes exploded, more than half of the population was left wondering how they were going to use the new super-sized devices.

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The Story Behind the Ultimate Star Wars Lightsaber Book

GizModo VR

Star Wars fans are about to get a book all about lightsabers and they have Harry Potter to thank. It’s called Star Wars: The Lightsaber Collection, a slick, wide-format, hardcover book that features exclusive images and information on almost 60 different lightsabers in the Star Wars universe. None of which would’ve… Read more.

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Are You Still Watching? How to Create Engaging Presentations for Virtual Learning

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.

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Archery VR Fitness Games – Which Is Right For You?

VR Fitness

Virtual reality fitness games have changed the way that many people work out and enjoy gaming. A mainstay of exercise titles is archery games, as they provide a great arm workout for players due to the physical act of shooting. Over the years, we’ve seen many games get released that feature the player using a bow and arrows to take down waves of enemies.

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Old Faithful Might Not Survive Climate Change

GizModo VR

Yellowstone National Park is home to a magnificent geyser known as Old Faithful that spits out boiling hot water at regular intervals (on average, every 90 to 94 minutes ). I’ve never seen it in person, but I figured there was no rush since with a name like Old Faithful, it’d probably be around forever. Turns out I was… Read more.

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Europe Predictions 2021: Manufacturers Will Accelerate Their Digital Transformations

Forrester VR

In 2021, European manufacturers will leverage emerging technology to accelerate the digital transformation efforts.

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This Touchscreen Digital Board Game Table Is Rage Flip Resistant and Has Tons of Hasbro Games

GizModo VR

In just a few years’ time Arcade1Up has managed to make a name for itself with a collection of DIY, Ikea-like arcade cabinets perfect for retro gaming collectors with limited space. The company is now targeting board game fans too with its new Infinity Game Table that lets players crowd around a giant touchscreen to… Read more.

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

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.

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The best Prime Day Ninja deals for 2020: The best sales you can still shop

Digital Trends

Amazon Prime Day 2020 is over, but there are still big discounts on Ninja Foodi kitchen appliances.

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Star Trek: Lower Decks' Mike McMahan on Making Sure Cameos Matter

GizModo VR

Lower Decks is a show that rejoices in the nerdy little details of Star Trek. From Pakleds to Exocomps, from Kirk punches to movie riffs , its first season delivered a show that earnestly loved Trek ’s ideals and the callbacks that made it such a rich franchise in the first place. But when the show wanted to pull out… Read more.

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#954: Stanford Study Shows Motion-Tracked VR Data Can Be Identifiable

Voices of VR

Stanford University has just published an important research paper that hows how motion tracked data in VR can be identifiable of specific users. The paper.

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Star Trek: Discovery Boldly Returns to Remind Us of the Burden of Hope

GizModo VR

When the crew of the U.S.S. Discovery chose to sacrifice their livelihoods in the 23rd century by catapulting themselves into the 32nd, they did so on the promise that they would themselves be hope : hope that a future would be there for them to arrive in the first place. But as Discovery returns for season three, it… Read more.

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Who C.A.R.E.S.!? How Learning Got Its Bad Rap & What We Can Do About It

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?

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Tupac Martir of "Cosmos Within Us"

Everything VR & AR

Tyler and Sophia sit down with Tupac Martir - to talk about his life with art, immersive story-telling and how he strives to bring humanity to technology. He is the Creative Director at Satore Studios and the mind behind the award winning virtual reality immersive story-telling experience, “Cosmos Within Us”. Links: LinkedIn - [link] Twitter: @tmartir @tylerhgates @sophiamosh Satore Studios: [link] Cosmos Within Us: [link] Cosmos Within Us: [link] Visit the VR/AR Association at www.TheVR

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Google Made Some Improvements to Search, and I Have Concerns

GizModo VR

Google is taking a cue from the Apple-owned music recognition app Shazam by enabling a search feature that will recognize any song you hum to it—and you don’t need to hum on-key either, apparently. Hum to Search, along with a few other new features, is one of a few ways Google is improving its search with AI technology Read more.

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VR Lineup: October 2020

Oculus

Welcome back to the VR Lineup, our recap of must-play content on the Oculus Platform. In each edition, we look at some new releases and.

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Methane Emissions Are Up Even Though Natural Gas Demand Is Down

GizModo VR

New satellite images show that the world’s number of large methane hotspots increased by nearly a third in the first eight months 2020, despite industry pledges to reduce greenhouse gas pollution and tanking fuel demand tied to the pandemic. Read more.

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How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular

Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute

The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?