VRScout

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Turn your home into a chaotic race track with this unique RC car experience. Today marks the launch of Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit , a brand new kart racing game that combines augmented reality technology with conventional RC cars to offer one of the most unique racing experiences in recent memory. Available now on the Nintendo Switch, Mario Kart Live has players steering remote-controlled vehicles through custom race tracks in a Mario Kart -inspired arcade racing experience.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 16, 2020

It was a little over a year ago when Facebook triumphantly announced that games and apps made for Oculus Go would live on in Oculus Quest. But now with Go long gone and Quest 1 out of production, the company has decided to no longer support Go titles through Quest 2. Quest 2 has been in the hands of consumers for less than a week, and while there’s plenty of great content to play, some were left wondering where the dropdown menu for Go games disappeared to on Quest 2.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 16, 2020

XR Talks is a series that features the best presentations and educational videos from the XR universe. It includes embedded video, narrative analysis and top takeaways. Speakers’ opinions are their own. For a full library of indexed and educational media, subscribe to ARtillery PRO. T he AR cloud has turned three. This traces back to the principle’s origin in a 2017 landmark editorial by AR veteran and thought leader Ori Inbar.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Twitter claimed it was reversing course late Thursday and would no longer forbid users from tweeting links to websites containing hacked material—so long as the hackers themselves weren’t the ones doing the sharing. “We will no longer remove hacked content unless it is directly shared by hackers or those acting in… Read more.

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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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Anand Tech

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The announcement of the new Ryzen 5000 processors, built on AMD’s Zen 3 microarchitecture, has caused waves of excitement and questions as to the performance. The launch of the high-performance desktop processors on November 5 th will be an interesting day. In advance of those disclosures, we sat down with AMD’s CTO Mark Papermaster to discuss AMD’s positioning, performance, and outlook.

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OCTOBER 16, 2020

The new Oculus Quest 2 from Facebook could be the hit gift of the holiday season.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 16, 2020

In what can only be described as a self-own, Google has released a YouTube Music app for the Apple Watch. before making an equivalent version for its own smartwatch platform, Wear OS. Read more.

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VR Fitness

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Most of the time, if you’re looking to utilize VR tech for the purposes of working out, you’ll not only have to invest in an actual headset, but potentially more accompanying accessories as well. Fortunately, if you’re someone who already has plenty of non-VR workout equipment around your home, a new Kickstarter project is looking to help you make use of it in an all-new way.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Ever since Google bought a big chunk of HTC and began integrating its U.S. and Taiwan teams (the Pixel 3a was the first Pixel primarily designed in Taiwan), it’s felt like Google has been a bit confused about the Pixel’s direction. Two years ago we got a large Pixel with dual selfie cams and a fingerprint sensor in… Read more.

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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.

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Anand Tech

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Over the years, the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation's SPECviewperf benchmark has become the industry standard for workstation GPU benchmarking. Owing to the fact that, unlike video games, there's little concept of a "standard" workload for CAD, content creation, and visual data analysis tools, as well as the sheer complexity of these applications, there is an ongoing need for a standardized multi-application benchmark.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Besides the A5 chip, backlit touch surface, support for stereo speaker setups, Ultra Wideband capability and $100 price tag, there’s something else about the new HomePod Mini that you might not have noticed: support for a little-known smart home protocol called Thread. The protocol could become a lot more significant… Read more.

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Oculus

OCTOBER 16, 2020

VR can make anyone feel like a galactic hero, wilderness explorer, or supernatural detective, all without stepping out the front door. That’s because VR experiences.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 16, 2020

It seems like Disney, Hulu’s controlling shareholder , doesn’t know what it wants to do with the streaming service after the covid-19 pandemic delayed plans to finally expand it outside the U.S. According to Bloomberg , those plans were supposed to get underway in January, but that never happened. Instead, Disney has… Read more.

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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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Full Dive Gaming

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Welcome to the Full Dive Gaming podcast, bringing a weekly dive of all the news, discussion, and condensed nerd talk you need for VR gaming every Friday. This week’s podcast was made in partnership with Asterion Products. Get 5% off the Aura headset or any other order $19.99 or more with the code FULLDIVE at [link] With Rip sick this week, we have a far superior guest host this week in the form of Alex from the PLAYPSVR podcast.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Simone Giertz, the self-proclaimed Queen of Shitty Robots , has used her time in quarantine wisely to create the kind of serotonin injection we could all use right about now: a paw-operated (pawperated?) photo booth for her dog. Read more.

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VR Fitness

OCTOBER 16, 2020

During our last VR Game Roundup, there were several interesting games highlighted including the unique virtual reality shooter Blaston, Falcon Age’s PCVR ports, and a VR kart racer called Dash Dash World. This week’s VR Game Roundup doesn’t feature a ton of entirely new titles, but there are some interesting ones hitting new platforms and some potentially overlooked gems.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Watching The Boys , one could easily come away from the show with the impression that series creator Eric Kripke has a bone to pick with the superhero adaptations that have fundamentally altered the shape of modern day Hollywood. In reality, though, Kripke’s beef is less about stories about caped heroes, and more about… Read more.

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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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Boost VC

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Meet the 14 companies at Boost VC’s Demo Day! Who are we? Boost! Boost VC is the $500k Accelerator for Sci-Fi founders. Applications for our next $500k accelerator are open! www.boost.vc/apply What is Demo Day? On Tuesday, October 13th we hosted digital Demo Day to showcase 14 recent investments to hundreds of early stage investors. Investors can view company profiles, chat with founders and connect directly with teams they are interested in meeting.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Agility Robotics has announced a $20 million funding round for a robot that looks like a Greek myth crossed with a cyberpunk fever dream. The robot, called Digit, is designed to work alongside meat humans in environments where people congregate but that might be difficult for robots to manage. Read more.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Since the late ’90s, mental health professionals have been using virtual reality to treat post-traumatic stress disorders. But in the past few years, there has been a growing pool of research showing that it is a promising solution for treating depression, too. Now that the technology is more accessible and affordable, it might even help overloaded healthcare programs around the world.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The writing has been on the wall for a while now, but it finally appears that Japan is ready to proceed with dumping over 1 million tons of contaminated water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea. The water will be treated to remove some—but not all—of the contaminants. Understandably, the local… Read more.

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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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Road to VR

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Sony recently unveiled Spatial Reality Display, a 15.6-inch 4K panel that includes both eye-tracking and embedded lenticular lens array so users can view 3D content with the naked eye. In contrast to the $3,000 Looking Glass Holographic Monitor , which is decidedly much chunkier due to its optical array and light field rendering tech, Sony’s Spatial Reality Display is attacking the problem of 3D viewing from a different angle.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Hackers are currently selling a trove of 3 million credit card numbers and customer records apparently stolen from Dickey’s Barbecue Pit, one of the biggest barbecue chains in the United States. Read more.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 16, 2020

These days, finding the perfect Bluetooth speaker can feel a bit like looking for a needle in a very large haystack—particularly in the budget category. Any big box store will have dozens of options to choose from, and attempting to find one in a sea of products on Amazon is nothing short of daunting. Plus, there are… Read more.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 16, 2020

If you need to figure out where the heck to vote or drop off your ballot, Google will now point you in the right direction in Maps and Search. Read more.

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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?

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