VRScout

MAY 3, 2021

Yaw VR’s smart chair offers a 40-degree motion range for roll, 70-degree for pitch movements, and haptic vibrations. With 34 days left to go in the campaign, Yaw VR’s next-gen motion simulator/smart chair, the Yaw2, this week reached over $1M in funding on Kickstarter, absolutely demolishing its original goal of $100,000. Shipping out to early backers this September, the Yaw2 is able to tilt 70 degrees up and down and 40 degrees side-to-side, allowing for more realistic simulations e

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Digital Trends

MAY 2, 2021

This week, space agencies from around the world came together to figure out how to respond if a large asteroid were to strike Earth.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 1, 2021

Joy Way, the indie game studio behind the VR parkour game STRIDE, has just released a free demo of their upcoming game AGAINST (yes, they love capsed names). I just played it and of course, I’m here telling you my first impressions about it! The video version of this review! Here you can see also the tutorial of the game, and a bit of gameplay.

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AR Insider

MAY 5, 2021

F requent readers of this publication know that one of the most important and under-exposed AR sub-sectors is enabling technologies. Also known as “ picks & shovels ,” these are the tools that do the back-end heavy lifting, including developer platforms and 3D creation engines. Even less discussed are tools that enable AR delivery and infrastructure.

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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

MAY 2, 2021

Race other players across a series of VR obstacle courses in this physics-driven multiplayer experience. Available now on Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2 headsets as a free demo, MarathRUN combines physics-driven VR interactions with classic platforming gameplay mechanics to deliver a unique multiplayer obstacle course experience that can best be described as Boneworks meets Fall Guys.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2021

When some weeks ago I wrote in the newsletter I was being very busy, many people asked me what I was working on, and today finally I can unveil it to you: we of New Technology Walkers were working on an interesting project of a startup called DWorld , that aims at making you visit virtually the cities of the world! The alpha of the experience has been officially unveiled two years ago, so I can talk with you about this application that aims at mixing virtual tourism and e-commerce in a pretty in

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AR Insider

MAY 7, 2021

T here’s a growing realization that apps aren’t always the optimal vessel for AR. Yet with mobile AR, it’s born on a device where apps rule. 90 percent of mobile users’ time is spent in apps versus the web. Can AR break that cycle? And if so, could web AR be the answer? As background, Web AR resides within the mobile browser. Advantages include dynamism for AR’s serendipity and short sessions, versus the friction of app stores and downloads.

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VRScout

MAY 6, 2021

A team at BYU is developing 3D holographic animations without the need for a dedicated headset or smartphone. Researchers at BYU have created a free-floating 3D hologram that uses lasers and a tiny particle floating in the air to create digital images which can be viewed without the need of a dedicated AR headset. Here’s how it works. BYU’s Holography Group uses a laser beam to trap a small particle in the air.

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Road to VR

MAY 7, 2021

It appears Oculus is currently testing out Android app integration on Quest, which could bring to the standalone headset everything from Spotify to Among Us. The news was first reported by YouTuber ‘The Mysticle’, saying that he found a number of non-VR Android apps in the ‘Preview App’ section of the Oculus Store. The Preview App section of the store is where you can find games and experiences that are typically in a prerelease state, often reserved for private beta test

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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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The Ghost Howls

MAY 3, 2021

Welcome to the first roundup of the best AR/VR news for May! There has been no game-changing news from this week, but we had some interesting things to look at the same. Before I start telling you the news, let me tell you that if you want to join me in my upcoming events, I’ll have a nice fireside chat today (evening CEST time, morning PST time) at the amazing Univirtual event organized by Educators in VR; and on Wednesday at VR AR Chicago where I’ll be in a panel about virtual events.

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VR Game Critic

MAY 1, 2021

It’s a new month of VR game releases and while April had plenty on offer to keep us busy for a while, May continues to bring more games to the table. In the case of Demeo, it’s a virtual tabletop that invites us to explore its dungeon crawling adventure with up to four friends in co-op mode. And if you can’t get enough of magic, make sure to step into the mysterious realm of spellcaster The Wizards: Dark Times.

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VRScout

MAY 5, 2021

The class-based multiplayer shooter features a variety of game modes and characters, including a giant sentient mushroom. Impulse Gear, the developer behind the sci-fi action/adventure VR game Farpoint , today revealed its latest project, Larcenauts , an Overwatch -like multiplayer shooter that will have two teams of six going head-to-head in a variety of fast-paced game modes using an arsenal of futuristic weaponry and powerful abilities.

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Road to VR

MAY 5, 2021

Impulse Gear , the studio behind PSVR co-op shooter Farpoint (2017), announced a new multiplayer VR team shooter called Larcenauts. It’s slated to launch on Quest, Rift and SteamVR headsets this summer. In the 6v6 team shooter, you can choose from eight characters featuring what the studio calls in an Oculus blogpost “a wide set of skills and weapons.” Impulse Gear says game modes include a territories-based capture mode, capture the flag, and classic team deathmatch.

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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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GizModo VR

MAY 6, 2021

Unhealthy air pollution generally brings to mind coal-fired plants spewing black soot from a smokestack. But that image may quickly be becoming outdated. A study published on Wednesday in Environmental Research Letters found that using natural gas and biomass in sources like buildings and industrial boilers actually… Read more.

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Anand Tech

MAY 6, 2021

Every decade is the decade that tests the limits of Moore’s Law, and this decade is no different. With the arrival of Extreme Ultra Violet (EUV) technology, the intricacies of multipatterning techniques developed on previous technology nodes can now be applied with the finer resolution that EUV provides. That, along with other more technical improvements, can lead to a decrease in transistor size, enabling the future of semiconductors.

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VRScout

MAY 5, 2021

SimX secures a $2.5M contract with the Air Force and Space Force. The VR company SimX has announced a new partnership with the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Space Force —yes, the U.S. Space Force—to develop VR training programs for special operations forces that will focus primarily on enhancing current medical training systems for both divisions.

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Road to VR

MAY 2, 2021

After confirming the upcoming reveal of “game-changing VR headsets” at the VIVECON event next week, HTC continues to ramp up the teasing with new glimpses of an unannounced VR headset. Spotted by Road to VR commenter Andrew Jakobs in promotional emails from HTC, three new glimpses of an upcoming Vive headset can be seen below: The new glimpses don’t tell us much, but there’s a few things we can infer.

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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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GizModo VR

MAY 6, 2021

In Greek mythology, the hydra is a creature with many heads. In Norse mythology, Odin rides Sleipnir—a horse with many legs. And in the warm, coastal waters of Australia lives Ramisyllis multicaudata , the worm with many butts. Read more.

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Digital Trends

MAY 3, 2021

Smartphones have an astonishingly large carbon footprint, and most of it stems from the fact that they don't have swappable batteries anymore.

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VRScout

MAY 1, 2021

Hang out with Sergeant Keroro, Gintama, and other popular anime characters in VR. HTC VIVE is revving up its engines for a big year. In addition to launching a new facial tracking peripheral and improved sensors, the company this week announced a partnership with iFixit to offer easier repair options for their VR headsets. Then of course there’s the upcoming Vivecon 2021 event as well as those cryptic tweets alluding to a new HTC Vive headset(s).

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Road to VR

MAY 3, 2021

Despite being marketed primarily as a standalone headset, Quest 2 is continuing its meteoric rise among VR headsets used on PC through Steam. Last month the headset picked up another 3.54% of the share of headsets on the platform, rocketing past other headsets in the process, and pushing the share of all Facebook headsets on the platform to nearly 60%.

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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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GizModo VR

MAY 4, 2021

At the end of April, the Twitter account for Eversource, the biggest utility in New England, posted an upbeat video on the utility’s clean energy goals full of rich stock footage of windmills and solar panels and set to a rousing gospel-style song. Read more.

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Digital Trends

MAY 7, 2021

HDMI 2.1 is finally here, but there are still plenty of questions to be answered. We cover the latest version and all of its new features.

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VRScout

MAY 4, 2021

Use a giant hamster ball to navigate vertigo-inducing obstacles in this physics-driven platformer. Available now on Oculus Quest headsets via the App Lab, Roll or Die is an indie VR game from developer BrainSlugs83 that offers a fresh take on the VR platforming genre. Image Credit: BrainSlugs83. Similar to the hit Gamecube series Monkey Ball , Roll or Die has players carefully rolling their way throughout a series of individual courses, each featuring its own unique obstacles to overcome.

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Road to VR

MAY 3, 2021

Holoride , the Audi co-founded startup aiming to inject immersive VR and AR into everyday car travel, announced it’s raised a €10 million (~$12 million) Series A investment round. The company first unveiled its tech back at CES 2019 , showing off its platform which integrates a car’s movement with a VR content. The idea is backseat passengers can use a VR headset whilst playing videos and games that are synced-up with the vehicle’s movement, something that aims to not only be fun, bu

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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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