Sat.Jun 12, 2021

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Competitive VR NERF Game Coming To Oculus Quest In 2022

VRScout

Go head-to-head with other players armed with NERF dart guns in a futuristic colosseum surrounded by cheering fans. The NERF company changed the way we played when they introduced the “world’s first indoor ball” back in 1969, selling millions within the first year. What followed was a series of hit toy releases, from the NERFoop in 1972 to the Power Drencher (the original name for the SUPER SOAKER) in 1989.

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‘I Expect You to Die 2’ Coming to All Major VR Headsets This Summer, Featuring Wil Wheaton

Road to VR

Schell Games today announced that I Expect You To Die 2: The Spy and the Liar, the upcoming sequel to the breakout VR spy adventure game, will launch at some point this summer on SteamVR headsets, Oculus Quest, Rift, and PSVR. The studio also revealed that Wil Wheaton ( Star Trek: The Next Generation) is also set to lend his voice talent to the game.

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Apple Channels Its Inner Little Mermaid to Try to Sell You the New iPad Pro

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Although it’s been proven that Apple absolutely does not need any help selling its devices, the company was apparently feeling creative and in the mood for song when it created a parody ad based on The Little Mermaid for its new M1 iPad Pro. For unknown reasons, Apple hasn’t publicly premiered the ad, but it looks… Read more.

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Exclusive Preview – ‘A Township Tale’ is Bringing Deep Crafting to Quest

Road to VR

A Township Tale is an intriguing MMO-like VR game that’s been in early access on PC since 2018 and is heading to Oculus Quest next month. We got an exclusive tour around the Quest version of the game by developer Alta. Beyond perhaps any VR game I’ve seen to date, A Township Tale has built itself up around an intuitive and interactive crafting system.

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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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Facebook Unveils AI Model That Copies Text Style From Images Using a Single Word

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The past few years have taught us that our faces , voices , and lips can be copied and replicated with artificial intelligence. Now, an AI model created by Facebook researchers can imitate, edit, and replace handwritten and scene text using just a single word in an image. Read more.

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Netflix Drops a New Arcane Clip During Geeked Week

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During the Netflix Geeked Week reveal event, the streamer dropped a clip and some first look photos for its animated adaptation of Riot Games’ Arcane , which is based in the League of Legend universe and premieres on Netflix this fall. Christian Linke of Riot Games is showrunner and series co-creator with Alex Yee. Read more.

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Wholesome Direct showcases over 75 cozy indie games, cute animals

Digital Trends

This year’s Wholesome Direct livestream featured cute, cozy, and calm games from a variety of indie developers and publishers. While several titles and updates, like Ooblets, were anticipated, the livestream also revealed a considerable amount of brand-new titles, many of which have demos available to play right now. Wholesome Direct 2021 comes on the heels […].

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Like Google Chrome, Chrome OS Will Transition to a Four-Week Update Release Cycle

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Google is speeding up the update release schedule for Chrome OS to a four-week cycle in the third quarter of this year, the company announced Friday. Read more.

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E3 2021 day one recap: Ubisoft sets the stage for a sci-fi-heavy show

Digital Trends

Here's our ongoing recap of E3 2021, which breaks down the biggest news and trends of the expo.

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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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John Cho Lends His Voice To Animated Netflix Film Wish Dragon

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I know we’re all fawning over John Cho as Spike Spiegel in the live action series Cowboy Bebop , his newest role is voicing a curly-haired, hot-pink fire-breathing Dragon named Long in the new animated film Wish Dragon which premieres June 11. The film follows the friendship of Din (Jimmy Wong) and Long, and explores… Read more.

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Elvis, Tiger King, and Sin City: Behind the visual effects of Army of the Dead

Digital Trends

Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead took the zombie genre to Las Vegas, and used plenty of visual effects magic to fill Sin City with the living dead.

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Kevin Bacon Joins Toxic Avenger Film Cast As Main Villian

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Actor Kevin Bacon has joined Legendary’s reboot of Troma Entertainment’s 1984 film, The Toxic Avenger as the film’s antagonist. Read more.

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New Elden Ring plot synopsis sets the stage for a deeper Souls story

Digital Trends

Elden Ring looks a lot like previous Souls games, but a new plot synopsis signals a big change to how it handles narrative.

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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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Upload VR Showcase Recap: Everything Announced for the Oculus Quest and Rift Platforms

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Earlier today, UploadVR aired the latest iteration of its annual showcase, and it was packed with over a dozen different VR game trailers and news.

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Everything we saw at Ubisoft Forward: Avatar, Mario + Rabbids, and more

Digital Trends

Ubisoft kicked off E3 with a stream that highlighted games like Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope, Rainbow Six Extraction, and more.

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Live Out Your Rockstar Fantasy with ‘Unplugged,’ Coming to the Oculus Quest Platform Fall 2021

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For the love of rock. Coming to the Oculus Quest Platform in Fall 2021, Unplugged is a VR music game that lets you play air.

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Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is Ubisoft’s big E3 shocker

Digital Trends

Ubisoft shocked E3 audiences by showing off Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.

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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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Releases Recap: June 7 – 11

Oculus

This week, we released a bunch of titles and updates across the Oculus Platform. Here’s a rundown of the highlights.

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Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope takes the tactics game to space

Digital Trends

Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope was leaked by Nintendo ahead of Ubisoft's E3 event. The game will feature Mario, Rabbid Peach, and Luigi, among others.

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See Season 2 Trailer Is Live and David Bautista Joins the Series

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Apple TV+ released a teaser trailer for the second season of the original streaming series See. August 27 marks the worldwide debut of the second season’s first episode, and new episodes will premiere weekly (not bingeable, sorry). A third season is already greenlit, and shooting is already underway in Canada. Read more.

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Rainbow Six Extraction is a co-op alien shooter coming this fall

Digital Trends

Rainbow Six Extraction will launch for current and last-gen consoles. In addition, its gameplay was shown off at the E3 2021 Ubisoft Forward event.

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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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Apple and Microsoft Say They Had No Idea Trump-Era DOJ Requested Data on Political Rivals

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Apple didn’t know the Department of Justice was requesting metadata of Democratic lawmakers when it complied with a subpoena during a Trump-era leak investigation, CNBC reports. Apple wasn’t the only tech giant tapped in these probes: Microsoft received a similar subpoena for a congressional staffer’s personal email… Read more.

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Rocksmith+ debuts as a subscription service, PC closed beta starts today

Digital Trends

Rocksmith+ subscribers can look forward to a suite of different features geared toward teaching them how to play an acoustic, electric, or bass guitar.

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Back 4 Blood will launch on Xbox Game Pass, according to stream description

Digital Trends

According to a video description ahead of its E3 showcase, Back 4 Blood will launch on Xbox Game Pass on day one.

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Check out this awesome 360-degree panorama of the Van Zyl Overlook on Mars

Digital Trends

You can feel what it would be like to stand on Mars with this 360° panorama of the martian surface, captured by the NASA Perseverance rover.

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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?