VRScout

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Google has instructed users to download their personal libraries before June 30, 2021. VR content creators woke up today with a shocking email from Google stating that the company would be shutting down their 3D model sharing platform Google Poly. For VR creators like Rosie Summers , Poly has been instrumental in her amazing Tilt Brush work. The email says that Google will be shutting down Poly on June 30th, 2021 and will be ending the ability to upload 3D models to the platform beginning April

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Pimax, the company known for its wide field of view (FOV) VR headsets, have now launched the Pimax “5K” SUPER, a PC VR headset first shown in its prototype stage at CES 2020 earlier this year. The new Pimax “5K” Super is being billed as a hardware refresh of the Pimax “5K” Plus , which launched in 2018 with 2,560 × 1,440 pixels per-eye LCD display capable of up to 144Hz refresh rate, and a 200-degree FOV.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 1, 2020

This year has brought the world one catastrophe after another. Still, there are silver linings amidst all the challenges. One of them is the acceleration in the thrust towards the digital age. All sectors in all industries have had to boost their digital transformation efforts. This enables them to adapt to the changes and to continue delivering quality services to all consumers.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 4, 2020

In case you needed yet another reason to shop anywhere but Amazon this holiday season, here’s a good one: The company dropped a whitepaper earlier this week boasting about the stockpile of personal data it collects from every person browsing through its platform. 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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VRScout

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Step into the cockpit this December. This past July Microsoft confirmed that Microsoft Flight Sim 2020 , the latest iteration of the companies legendary flight sim experience, would be receiving official VR support shortly after launch. Interestingly enough, support would extend exclusively to the brand new HP Reverb G2 Windows Mixed Reality headset.

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Anand Tech

DECEMBER 2, 2020

This year although we’re not reporting from Hawaii, Qualcomm’s Tech Summit is still happening in digital form, representing the company’s most important launch event of the year as it showcases the new flagship products that will power next year’s smartphones. Qualcomm yesterday announced the new Snapdragon 888 SoC and platform, and today we’re going in-depth into the specifications and features of the new silicon design.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Letters produced by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and obtained by the New York Times show that the U.S. government has interpreted Section 215 of the Patriot Act as giving it the power to monitor who visits certain websites and when, with minimal oversight. Read more.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Complete a Bachelors Degree, earn your scuba cert, and begin training your aquatic companions. Ever dream of a career working with live animals but have mixed feeling regarding animal captivity? Dolphin Trainer VR , a new aquatic-based VR experience from developer Forestlight Games, aims to solve that conundrum, allowing you to step into the shoes of a professional dolphin trainer and put on jaw-dropping shows before setting your porpoise pals free into the wild.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Universal Studios Japan today announced the opening date of its long-delayed ‘Super Nintendo World’ in its Osaka-based theme park, which is set to feature a Mario Kart -themed ride including AR headsets. The grand opening of Super Nintendo World is officially set for February 4th, 2021, marking the 20th anniversary of USJ’s Osaka theme park.

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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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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

After an epic round trip of hundreds of millions of miles, the Hayabusa2 spacecraft is just days away from dropping off a precious sample of asteroid material.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic has radically changed the movie industry as we know it, and its ramifications are going to continue into the foreseeable future. Warner Bros., attempting to deal with that uncertain future, has just announced a shocking, unprecedented step. Read more.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Don Mario’s famous red cap and take on other visitors in this on-rails interactive attractions. This February marks the launch of Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios in Osaka, Japan, a highly-anticipated video game-inspired theme park featuring all-things Nintendo. The $578 million attraction, while small, offers visitors unique interactive experiences powered by their Nintendo Switch console, including the ability to collect virtual coins scattered throughout the area.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Varjo today announced its latest high-end headsets, the XR-3 and VR-3, with a range of improvements including an expanded field of view, inside-out tracking, and a redesigned headstrap. While still expensive and definitely aimed at large enterprises, the new headsets also get a significant price reduction compared to prior models. As far as XR headsets go, Varjo’s are quite unique.

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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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TechCrunch VR

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Google is almost running out of AR/VR projects to kill off. The company announced today in an email to Poly users that they will be shutting 3D-object creation and library platform “forever” next year. The service will shut down on June 30, 2021 and users won’t be able to upload 3D models to the site on April 30, 2021. Poly was introduced as a 3D creation tool optimized for virtual reality.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Conservationists, government officials, and local community members are banding together to pull off a rescue of eight giraffes stranded on a shrinking island in Kenya. In order to save these animals, they created a giraffe-safe barge to get them across to safe land. They made the first successful rescue of a giraffe… Read more.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Cheaper, sleeker, deeper mixed reality. Earlier this morning, VR hardware manufacturer Varjo revealed the latest additions to its lineup of human-eye resolution mixed reality headsets, the Varjo XR-3 and Varjo VR-3. Designed for use by a wide rand of industry professionals, from pilots and engineers to surgeons and researchers, these professional-grade headsets feature a variety of enterprise-focused tools.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Switzerland-based CREAL is developing a light-field display which it hopes to bring to VR headsets and eventually AR glasses. In November the company raised CHF 6.5 million (~$7.2 million) in a Series A+ investment round to bring on new hires and continue miniaturizing the company’s light-field tech. Creal says it closed its Series A+ investment round in mid-November , raising CHF 6.5 million (~$7.2 million) led by Swisscom Ventures with participation by existing investors Investiere, DAA

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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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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Amazon locks its Kindle e-books to its Kindle devices, but there's a way to convert these files to read them as PDFs. This guide shows you how using free tools.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 1, 2020

We got another one. On Monday evening, Bank of America said that it will no longer finance fossil fuel exploration in the Arctic, joining Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Chase, Wells Fargo, and CitiBank, which all announced similar policies this year. That means no major U.S. bank will fund oil and gas production in… Read more.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 3, 2020

12 maps, five game modes, zero places to hide. Oculus today unveiled a brand new trailer for Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond showcasing the upcoming WWII shooter’s impressive lineup of multiplayer offerings, including—but not limited to—several immersive game modes, a diverse range of unique PvP environments, an arsenal of finely-tuned weaponry, and a dozen other details that will leave you drooling at the mouth.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Launched one year ago to the month, Pistol Whip is a VR rhythm shooter which has made its mark as one of the best and most rated games on Oculus Quest. Now the title is about to get its most ambitious update yet; the Pistol Whip ‘2089’ update packages a slick synthwave soundtrack as a sort of mini-campaign that brings subtle but meaningful tweaks to gameplay and new challenges.

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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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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Samsung has announced new colors for two of its phones, including a Mystic Red color for the Galaxy Note 20 5G and Mystic White for the Galaxy Z Flip 5G.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Never underestimate the power of one cell. That’s how many cells foraminifera—little sea creatures with striking shells—have. But boy can they do a lot with it. They’re the world’s tiniest geochemists, tinkering with the ocean. Read more.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 3, 2020

AR PARTY brings the traditional board game into AR for up to 4 players. One of the best parts about playing a board game is the comradery that comes with it. Gathering together with friends and family, talking and laughing, all the while each of you quietly plotting different ways to take each other down in the hopes of being crowned the winner. Unlike conventional board games, many AR experiences lack the social elements that make games like Monopoly and Cards Against Humanity so much fun to pl

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 4, 2020

After briefly dipping its toes into VR back in 2017 with the release of the sleek futuristic shooter Arkitka.1 , the studio behind the lauded Metro: Exodus and broader Metro franchise, 4A Games, is seeking new hires with VR experience. Some three years after the release of Akrtika.1 —an Oculus Studios exclusive— 4A Games may be planning its next VR project. “VR Experience a Plus” Recent job postings indicate the studio is looking for Gameplay Programmers and Senior Gameplay Program

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Speaker: Micah Eppler, Account Executive for Rehearsal of eLearning Brothers

Did you know that companies such as Paychex, 3M, and Honeywell are getting better results by incorporating video-based practice and coaching within their L&D strategy? From sales pitches to soft skills, learners are becoming top performers by applying and validating knowledge transfer using the unique benefits of video. Whether used as a stand-alone application or integrated with a learning platform, video-based practice and coaching platforms give learners the ultimate opportunity to repeatedly

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