Thu.Dec 02, 2021

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A Hands-On Review of Holoride

ARPost

Some of my favorite memories with my children involve traveling around the United States to visit national parks, historic sites, and science museums. We had an old 15-passenger van that I had purchased for $750 from a non-profit agency and with several rows of seats, each of my kids had plenty of space to spread their toys and art supplies while we traveled.

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Our First Look At NERF’s Competitive VR Game

VRScout

When you’re not parkouring across the map, you’ll be firing darts at your opponents using real NERF blasters. During today’s Winter VR Showcase hosted by Upload, developer Secret Location shared a first look at gameplay from the upcoming multiplayer VR shooter, NERF Ultimate Championship. In this competitive PvP experience, two teams of four go head-to-head in fast-paced battles using an assortment of dart-based weaponry modeled after real NERF blasters.

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‘Cities: VR’ is a Built-for-VR Version of ‘Cities: Skylines’, Coming to Quest 2 in Spring 2022

Road to VR

Popular city-builder Cities: Skylines (2015) doesn’t offer native VR support, however the franchise is getting its first official made-for-VR game soon called Cities: VR, which will let you go hands-on as you take the reigns of your city from a new perspective. Cities: VR is being developed and published by veteran VR studio Fast Travel Games , the Stockholm-based team behind Apex Construct, The Curious Tale of the Stolen Pets, and Wraith: The Oblivion – Afterlife.

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‘Moss: Book 2’ Coming Next Year, Gameplay Revealed

VRScout

New gameplay footage of the highly-anticipated sequel teases new enemies, environments, and weapons. UploadVR kicked off its Winter VR Showcase earlier today, revealing a variety of exciting announcements about some of your favorite VR games and apps. This includes news regarding the sequel to the classic VR platformer Moss. Released back in 2018 for PlayStation VR headsets, Moss has you teaming up with a pint-sized field mouse named Moss and embarking on an epic quest in which you’ll trav

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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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Reality Bytes: Netflix, Apple & NFTs

AR Insider

What are the biggest insights and observations in AR and adjacent sectors this week? Welcome to Reality Bytes, featuring lightning-round video commentary from AR Insider partner, M7 Innovations. The post Reality Bytes: Netflix, Apple & NFTs appeared first on AR Insider.

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Snap Advances the Metavearth

AR Insider

Given that the Greek root 'meta' means beyond, can digital content extend meaning beyond the physical representations of places and things? This is the 'metavearth' and Snap is making moves to advance it. The post Snap Advances the Metavearth appeared first on AR Insider.

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Rhythm Action Game ‘AGAINST’ Gets December Release Date and a Whole New Look

Road to VR

VR rhythm action game AGAINST from VR studio Joy Way is now set to launch December 16th. The game has seen a total makeover with a more bold look compared to a preview we saw earlier this year. Against is an interesting take on the VR rhythm game that steeps the usual arm swinging and body dodging of its contemporaries with gameplay grounded in an action-focused paradigm.

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Top 6 Augmented Reality Trends to Watch Out for in 2022

ARVR

Since its beginnings, augmented reality has left a lasting influence on people all over the world. This technology has piqued the interest of smartphone users and new and established businesses, prompting entrepreneurs and marketers to consider investing in AR app development. Technology has had a revolutionary influence on the corporate sector in recent years.

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Pioneering VR Dev of ‘Lunar Flight’ Reveals Second Ever VR Game, Coming ‘Very Soon’

Road to VR

Pioneering VR developer Sean Edwards, well known in VR’s early days as the mind behind Lunar Flight (2012) , has announced his second ever VR title. A substantial pivot from space landing sim to arcade FPS, Dead Second promises high octane action and sharp visuals on Quest and PC VR. Dead Second is a Time Crisis -esque VR cover shooter designed for quick and digestible action.

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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 Norwegian-Swedish Wolf Is Extinct

GizModo VR

The original population of wolves living in Norway and Sweden were wiped out 50 years ago, a report commissioned by the Norwegian parliament has concluded. Read more.

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‘Vertigo 2’ Gameplay Teaser Shows off New ‘Autonica’ Level, Aiming for 2022 Release

Road to VR

During Upload VR’s game showcase today, Zulubo Productions showed off new progress on Vertigo 2 , its long-awaited sequel to its PC VR adventure Vertigo (2016). In the new teaser we get a fresh slice of the infectious weirdness that is the world of Vertigo, this time tossing you head-first into a raging war in an underground civilization. Game developer Zach Tsiakalis-Brown couches the new teaser as a level in the game that you stumble upon along your adventure, called ‘Autonica

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Microsoft Makes Breakthrough in the Quest to Use DNA as Data Storage

GizModo VR

The world has a data problem. Each day, we created another 2.5 million gigabytes of data, and each year, the amount of data produced globally increases exponentially. This puts us on a collision course with a serious problem: the rate at which we produce data is outpacing our ability to store it. Read more.

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3 reasons why Microsoft Edge is better than Google Chrome

Digital Trends

Microsoft's Edge browser is based on the same engine as Google Chrome, but these three features make the browser the better option.

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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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How We Determined Predictive Policing Software Disproportionately Targeted Low-Income, Black, and Latino Neighborhoods

GizModo VR

The expansion of digital record-keeping by police departments across the U.S. in the 1990s ushered in the era of data-driven policing. Huge metropolises like New York City crunched reams of crime and arrest data to find and target “hot spots” for extra policing. Researchers at the time found that this reduced crime … Read more.

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Western Digital Spills Beans on HDD Plans: 30TB HDDs Planned, MAMR's Future Unclear

Anand Tech

Western Digital this week said that its energy-assisted magnetic recording (ePMR) and OptiNAND technologies coupled with increased number of platters per hard drive would enable it to build HDDs with an up to 30 TB capacity. To keep advancing capacities from there, the company will need to use heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR), it revealed. Meanwhile, noticeably absent was any mention of microwave-assisted magnetic recording (MAMR), the technology that was expected to precede HAMR.

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Scientists Made a Map of the Nasty Diseases Ticks Can Give You

GizModo VR

It may be winter in the U.S., but it’s always a good time to refresh your innate fear of the creepy crawlies that make us sick. In a new paper this week, John Hopkins researchers have detailed the creation of their Lyme and tickborne disease dashboard. The project provides an easy-to-navigate map tracking the spread… Read more.

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This Week In XR: Virtual Real Estate Commands Real Money In Metaverse

Charlie Fink

Hard to find your footing with frothy metaverse all over the floor.

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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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Salmon Plastic Sperm Mug? Salmon Plastic Sperm Mug

GizModo VR

One possible answer to the growing plastic problem could come from a weird place: salmon jizz. In a study published recently in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, a team of researchers from China detail how they’ve created what they call “DNA plastics,” a plastic material made from strands of DNA. Read more.

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Watch NASA’s video clips showing Thursday’s spacewalk

Digital Trends

NASA’s latest spacewalk ended successfully at the space station on Thursday, December 2. The agency has since shared some video clips of the mission.

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What Could Be Cooler Than Typing on a Keyboard Salvaged From a Nuclear Missile Silo?

GizModo VR

Knowing the history of their hardware is often as important to keyboard enthusiasts as the feel and sounds of the keys they’re pounding away on all day. But it’s hard to imagine a keyboard having a more interesting backstory than this bizarre layout that was salvaged from a Minuteman III nuclear missile silo. Read more.

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After a month, Google’s Pixel 6 Pro has usurped the iPhone 13 Pro as my go-to camera

Digital Trends

I've been using the Google Pixel 6 Pro for around a month alongside the iPhone 13 Pro, and the Pixel has proven to be a software and a camera winner.

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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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Halo Infinite Is Set to Explode Off Your Walls (and Record Player)

GizModo VR

So we heard this rumor that some of you out there like this thing called , *checks notes,* Halo ? The Chief is about to be back in action in Halo Infinite , and if you’re eagerly awaiting the next chapter—or playing a part of it already —the folks at Mondo are teaming up with Xbox to release some really striking posters… Read more.

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Seagate Exos X20 and IronWolf Pro 20TB Expand Retail 20TB HDD Options

Anand Tech

Seagate has updated their flagship capacity options for the retail HDD market with the availability announcement for two new hard drives today - the Exos X20 and IronWolf Pro 20TB. These two models join the recently-released Western Digital WD Gold 20TB and Ultrastar HC560 to round out the 20TB hard drives currently available for retail purchase. The Exos X20 comes with SATA as well as SAS 12Gbps interface options, and includes SED (self-encrypting drive) models while the IronWolf Pro is SATA-on

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United Flies First Plane With 100% ‘Sustainable Aviation Fuel’

GizModo VR

United Airlines made aviation history this week, completing a flight between Chicago and Washington DC, using a slightly less environmentally disastrous fuel source—or, as they would prefer you call it, “sustainable aviation fuel” or SAF in aviationspeak. Read more.

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Intel’s first Arc Alchemist discrete GPU may be on par with GTX 1650 Super

Digital Trends

A new leak reveals the specifications of an upcoming discrete Intel graphics card: The Intel Arc A380. It seems the card is comparable to the GTX 1650 Super.

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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?