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End of the World Simulator in VR

ARVR

million people living in Hawaii on January 13, 2018. The three-part story experience takes about 38 minutes, the same amount of time it took for Hawaii citizens to find out that the alert was a false alarm. In terms of navigation, you won’t have to do any, and you don’t have any controls Check out the trailer here.

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“A Whale of a Time: A Virtual Adventure Exploring the Deep Blue Sea!”

VRGames

Punahou School in Hawaii is taking traditional Polynesian voyaging methods and introducing a new approach to sea navigation: Kilo Hōkū, an educational virtual reality (VR) experience.

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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 845 to Improve AR/VR Rendering & Reduce Power Consumption “by 30%”

Road to VR

Qualcomm introduced it’s new Snapdragon 845 mobile processor at the company’s tech summit in Hawaii this week, which Qualcomm says improves mobile AR/VR headset (branded to as ‘XR’, or ‘eXtended reality’) performance up to 30 percent in comparison to its predecessor, Snapdragon 835. image courtesy Qualcomm.

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Robinhood rolls out Crypto Wallets for more than 2 million people

Mashable VR

There's a notable exception, though: Crypto Wallets isn't available in Hawaii, Nevada, and New York "due to local regulations," said Robinhood, so people there will have to wait a little longer to get access. SEE ALSO: The 8 best investing app alternatives to Robinhood. Lightning Network transfers are coming "in the near future.".

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Hands-on: VR Goes Skydiving at iFLY – The Ultimate Haptic Simulation

Road to VR

They can choose between several different skydiving locations—like Dubai, Hawaii, or Switzerland—where iFly has recorded real skydives specifically for use in the iFly VR experience. After training and getting a feel for stable non-VR flying, customers don a purpose-built helmet which incorporates a Gear VR headset. Photo by Road to VR.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.11.21): Qualcomm launches AR2 chip, HTC headset gets leaked, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The biggest news of the week took place in the Hawaii islands, where Qualcomm had its Snapdragon Summit event. The device should have a similar design to the Vive Flow but also use the Vive Focus 3 controllers (hence the nickname “Flowcus”). Let’s see what have been the most interesting things happening in immersive reality….

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NVIDIA Posts First DirectX 12 Ultimate Driver Set, Enables GPU Hardware Scheduling

Anand Tech

AMD: Hawaii. In fact, it looks like control over this has been removed from NVIDIA’s drivers entirely. As noted in the support document, controlling which GPU is used is now handled through Windows itself, which means laptop users will need to get used to going into the Windows Settings panel to make any changes.

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