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Feature Film ‘We Met In Virtual Reality’ Shot Entirely In ‘VRChat’

VRScout

The experimental documentary showcases how social VR technology can affect our emotional and social relationships. We Met in Virtual Reality is a 90-minute feature documentary that tells the story of five different members of the VRChat community through their own voices as they navigated romance, friendships, and self-discovery in the virtual as well as the real world.

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Facebook’s 2021 XR Investments to Total $10 Billion, Even More in 2022 & Beyond

Road to VR

In the company’s Q3 2021 earnings call Facebook today said it expects its XR investments this year to top $10 billion, and advised investors that it plans to spend even more than that in subsequent years. Facebook’s top brass believe so deeply that XR and the metaverse will be a transformative computing platform that they are dropping tens of billions of dollars in investments aimed to give them a head start in the space.

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‘Jentrix’ On Oculus Quest Combines ‘Jenga’ And ‘Tetris’

VRScout

Mix and match a never-ending wave of colorful fruit in this nerve-wracking VR puzzle game. Available now on Oculus Quest headsets via the Oculus App Lab , Jentrix is a unique VR puzzle-solving game that tasks you with mixing and matching colorful fruit (and sometimes wildlife) throughout a whimsical jungle paradise. Similar to the classic board game Jenga , the fruit is stacked in pairs of three, forming an unstable fruit tower.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.10.25): Quest 2 Pro leaked, Facebook to change its name, and more!

The Ghost Howls

This great October in VR has not finished yet, and we have still to hear the big news from Facebook in a few days. In the meantime, I got pretty sick after my journey to Switzerland to try CREAL headsets, and it’s taking a while to recover… I can’t wait to become a cyborg so that I don’t have to have to deal with the weaknesses of my meaty body… plus I guess I would be pretty cool if I also got the body of Schwarzenegger in Terminator… and its augmented reality vision, of course.

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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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Spatial Beats: Oculus, Accenture & Varjo

AR Insider

Welcome back to Spatial Beats, AR Insider's weekly series that features observations and insights of author and futurist Charlie Fink. This week, we look at Oculus Quest's 2nd birthday, Varjo's new hardware, and Accenture's big VR buy. The post Spatial Beats: Oculus, Accenture & Varjo appeared first on AR Insider.

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Where is AR Transforming the Workplace?

AR Insider

How do enterprises feel about AR? Librestream decided to ask them, resulting in ground truth sentiment from enterprise execs. We break down the results in this week's Data Dive. The post Where is AR Transforming the Workplace? appeared first on AR Insider.

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Apple's M1 Pro, M1 Max SoCs Investigated: New Performance and Efficiency Heights

Anand Tech

Last week, Apple had unveiled their new generation MacBook Pro laptop series, a new range of flagship devices that bring with them significant updates to the company’s professional and power-user oriented user-base. The new devices particularly differentiate themselves in that they’re now powered by two new additional entries in Apple’s own silicon line-up, the M1 Pro and the M1 Max.

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Australia Buys Foreign Telecom in Expensive Push to Keep China Out of Pacific Island Nations

GizModo VR

The Australian government is helping Australian telecom company Telstra purchase Digicel Pacific, the largest telecommunications company in the Pacific, in a $2.1 billion deal ($1.6 billion U.S.) made public Monday. And while Australian taxpayers are largely footing the bill, this deal is about more than money. It’s… Read more.

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Blue Origin wants to build a space station for ‘exotic hospitality’

Digital Trends

Not content with 10-minute tourism rides to the edge of space, Jeff Bezos now wants to take a giant leap all of his own and build an orbital space station.

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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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Good Job, Everyone! Facebook Turned a $9 Billion Profit in Q3

GizModo VR

Facebook might be facing arguably the worst news cycle of its entire existence right now, but that didn’t stop it from raking in staggering profits. Again. Read more.

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This 12K QLED VR headset may take virtual reality to the next level

Digital Trends

Pimax is taking VR to the next level with the upcoming 12K QLED VR headset that will feature full-body tracking, eye tracking, high refresh rates, and more.

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Britain Wants to Use Its New Cyber Command to 'Hunt' Ransomware Gangs

GizModo VR

The United Kingdom wants to use a recently formed cyber command to “hunt” and hack ransomware gangs, a high-level government official recently revealed. Read more.

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Tesla receives massive Model 3 order from car-rental giant Hertz

Digital Trends

Tesla’s market value increased beyond $1 trillion on Monday after Hertz announced a plan to purchase 100,000 vehicles from the automaker.

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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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La Palma’s Volcanic Ash Spreads Across Atlantic

GizModo VR

The European Space Agency released fascinating imagery last week showing how the ash plume from the La Palma volcano eruption is charging westward across the Atlantic Ocean. The ash is passing through the atmosphere right at the tail end of peak hurricane season. Read more.

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Managing PTSD With Virtual Fact Treatment: A Way to Mend Trauma

VRGames

Skip Rizzo is a clinical psychologist who employs digital reality to help deal with people. SUBSCRIBE to ABC Information: [link] View Additional … resource.

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Archaeologists Map Nearly 500 Mesoamerican Sites and See Distinct Design Patterns

GizModo VR

Archaeologists created 3D maps of more than 30,000 square miles of precolonial settlements in what is today Mexico, revealing never-before-seen details of how sites were designed and their apparent connections to the ancient Mesoamerican calendar. Read more.

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Walmart has a $99 Chromebook for Black Friday — but hurry!

Digital Trends

Walmart is offering a $99 Lenovo Chromebook for Black Friday, but other retailers that offered the same sold out fast! Hurry if you want one!

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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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Doctors Say Mild Covid-19 Likely Triggered Psychiatric Illness in Two Teen Patients

GizModo VR

Researchers in California suspect that covid-19 triggered sudden mental illness in at least two of their teenage patients. Though they caution that a causative link remains uncertain, they say they’ve found evidence of antibodies attacking the brain of their patients post-infection, which could help explain the… Read more.

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Apple’s iOS 15.1 and iPadOS 15.1 bring SharePlay, camera improvements, and more

Digital Trends

Apple is rolling out iOS 15.1 and iPadOS 15.1 with SharePlay, ProRes video for iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max, other camera improvements, and more.

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Permafrost Thaw Could Unleash Long-Buried Pathogens and Radioactive Waste

GizModo VR

Across the northern reaches of our planet, things are so cold that nearly 9 million square miles (23 million square kilometers) of earth remain frozen solid year-round. But that’s changing as the climate warms, and as that permafrost thaws , it releases trapped greenhouse gases from the soil. Scientists warn that… Read more.

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The best movies about technology gone wrong

Digital Trends

We can't live without high-tech toys but boy do they know a lot about us. In these flicks, tech gets evil fast and starts taking lives or even entire planets.

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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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Marvel Considered Guardians of the Galaxy Shorts Prior to Original Movie

GizModo VR

Thanks to their appearances in the Marvel Cinematic Universe , the Guardians of the Galaxy are now household names. Today, everyone loves Star-Lord, Drax, Gamora, Rocket Raccoon, and, of course, Groot. Before the first film, though , Marvel Studios had an idea to introduce those then-largely unknown characters to fans… Read more.

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Watch NASA’s trailer for SpaceX’s Crew-3 launch on Saturday

Digital Trends

NASA has released a trailer highlighting SpaceX's Crew-3 launch to the International Space Station on Sunday, October 31.

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NFTs Are Sinking Their Non-Fungible Claws in Even Deeper

GizModo VR

Depending on who you ask, NFT’s might be a weird cosmic joke or an ecological disaster waiting to happen—but neither is stopping major platforms from hopping on the non-fungible bandwagon themselves. The latest social media giant on that list seems to be Reddit, according to a fresh job posting first spotted by Insider Read more.

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Intel Alder Lake could be over 60% faster than AMD, and could topple Apple too

Digital Trends

Intel Alder Lake processors are right around the corner. The upcoming high-end laptop CPU, Intel Core i9-12900HK, was benchmarked against Apple's M1 Max chip.

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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?