Tue.Jun 16, 2020

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HTC announces XR Suite and teases the future of collaboration and workplace

The Ghost Howls

This night I woke up at 3am to participate in HTC Vive’s event on ENGAGE because I read that it was an “HTC VIVE LAUNCH EVENT” and I was super-confident in the launch of the Cosmos XR or at least of the Cosmos Play. Actually, I have been pretty disappointed because there has been no hardware launch , but my lack of sleep has been rewarded by the announcement of a new software platform by HTC and also by HTC publicly showcasing some prototypes I made in the last weeks.

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Star Wars’ Daisy Ridley Set To Star In Baobab Studios’ VR Animation ‘Baba Yaga’

VRScout

Seek the help of a powerful witch to save your mothers life in this “choose-your-own-adventure” animated short. This is turning into quite the week for Star Wars fans! Following yesterday’s announcement regarding a new VR space combat game set in a galaxy far, far away, Emmy award-winning interactive animation studio Baobab Studios ( Invasion!

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‘Star Wars: Squadrons’ to Support HOTAS, No Mention of VR Motion Controllers

Road to VR

Star Wars: Squadrons is EA’s upcoming dogfighting game from a galaxy far far away, and it’s going to include VR support when it launches on consoles and PC in the fall. If you were hoping for an immersive in-cockpit cluster of virtual controls to poke at, you may be a bit disappointed though. According to its Steam listing , the game is set to support Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and Valve Index, although it only lists support for traditional gamepad, or keyboard and mouse on PC.

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‘Blaston’ Gameplay Shows Off Gladiator-Like Duels And An Arsenal Of Futuristic Weaponry

VRScout

Resolution Games’ upcoming PvP dueling game arrives on Oculus Quest this fall. Today’s Upload VR Showcase: Summer Edition revealed a generous amount of exciting updates and announcements on some of the most-highly anticipated VR games and experiences. Among today’s many thrilling reveals was the release of a new trailer for Resolution Games’ ( Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs, Bait!

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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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Hulu is Shutting Down Its VR App on Most Headsets Tomorrow

Road to VR

Hulu’s dedicated VR app will no longer be supported on a number of headsets starting tomorrow, June 17th, the company says. According to its list of supported devices , the premium video streaming service will quietly be discontinuing its VR apps on PSVR, Oculus Go, and all Microsoft Windows Mixed Reality headsets. The only remaining supported VR headsets are Oculus Rift and, strangely enough, Samsung Gear VR.

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‘Population: One’ to Begin Invite-only Playtesting on Oculus Quest

Road to VR

BigBox VR announced that its upcoming VR battle royale shooter Population: One is heading back into invite-only playtesting soon, this time focusing on Oculus Quest. “We’re going to start with Quest playtests in the month of June and then we’ll add in PC crossplay shortly after,” an email invite reads. “We’ve never done Quest playtests before, so we want to focus on one platform before we add multiple headsets into the mix.” Playtesting appears to be pretty limited; the

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Create virtual commerce scenarios with Interhaptics

ARVR

Source Virtual commerce is a powerful tool for companies to promote their products and increase their sales. V-Commerce development is already showing promising results both in complex machinery sales and real estate visit with VR , and retail commerce with AR. In this blog post, we analyze how V-commerce scenario creators can leverage Haptics and hand interactions to increase the value for its customers.

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VR Arena Shooter ‘Solaris Offworld Combat’ Gets First Gameplay Footage & August Release Date

Road to VR

First Contact Entertainment, the studio behind the PSVR exclusive multiplayer shooter Firewall: Zero Hour (2018) , today revealed the first gameplay footage of its upcoming VR arena shooter, Solaris Offworld Combat. The game’s release date is set for August 27th on Oculus Quest and Rift, followed by a PSVR launch later this year. First Contact Entertainment cut its teeth in the VR multiplayer shooter space with Firewall: Zero Hour [ our review ], which is held as perhaps the best game i

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What I Learned Designing My First AR App

ARVR

Source This winter, I designed my first app in augmented reality ( AR ) to help my company, Lextech, understand Apple’s ARKit’s capabilities. In my experience as a UX designer at Northwestern’s Knight Lab , I was aware of emerging best practices in AR, but had never designed in it myself. Designing for AR has radically different requirements than typical mobile app design, and in my case, it was up to me to find the right tools and questions to shape the experience effectively.

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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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‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Update Adds New Weapon & Example Content for Workshop Modding

Road to VR

Half-Life: Alyx has been updated to version 1.4.1 which adds an example weapon to the game’s Workshop modding tools, allowing modders to experiment with bringing new weapons to the game. The update also includes improvements to the Workshop tools, including more example content for animation, audio, and shaders, along with new documentation. Valve released “beta” Workshop modding tools for Half-Life: Alyx back in May, and subsequent updates of the game have been largely focuse

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A Virtual Lab for Chemistry Students

EON Reality

The AVR Platform now provides a hands on virtual lab for chemistry students and a safe space for experiments in AR and VR. This virtual lab now makes equipment more accessible to students in schools that can only offer limited lab time with social distancing measures. Using the AVR Platform, students can now experience setting up their own experiments at home with their own smart phones or desktops.

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T-Mobile, Which Said Sprint Merger Would Create Jobs, Already Laying Off Sprint Employees

GizModo VR

T-Mobile insisted that its dreaded $26.5 billion merger with rival Sprint was all about job creation, saying the two companies would have 11,000 more employees by 2024 than they were expected to as separate entities. But now that the deal’s closed, hundreds of former Sprint employees working under the merged brand … Read more.

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21st Century Learning with AR and VR

EON Reality

LEGO has been exploring and creating its own adventures and products in Virtual Reality over the last few years. Using the AVR Platform, we have now created a 21st century learning experience by allowing students to construct their own racing cars in AR and VR. This brings to life multiple learning concepts from robotics, smart devices to remote controls.

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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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The Federalist Bends the Knee to Big Tech, Deletes Its Awful Comments Section

GizModo VR

Google has booted fringe libertarian/conspiracist page Zerohedge from its AdSense platform over user comments and warned crackpot haven the Federalist that it could face the same fate, NBC News reported on Tuesday. The Federalist, which has postured itself as a haven for ideological outcasts of all stripes to post… Read more.

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Aerospace Multi-Level Training in AR and VR

EON Reality

How are aerospace companies using AR and VR to lead the charge in multi-level training in safety, handling and engineering? With the AVR Platform, the aerospace industry now has a solution that combines high-end visualisation and real time simulation of operations for hands on, immersive training. The AVR Platform is now ready to provide employees and trainees with a library of self-created learning content that allows them to accelerate the learning and training process.

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Adobe Flash Is Actually Going to Die This Time, For Real

GizModo VR

Three years ago , long after the rise (and fall) of Flash, Adobe announced that its once-ubiquitous multimedia platform was finally going away. But Adobe never provided a specific date for when Flash would reach its end-of-life. Now we know: Adobe Flash is going to officially die on December 31, 2020. Read more.

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AMD To Launch New Ryzen 3000 XT CPUs: Zen 2 with More MHz

Anand Tech

One of the more frequent rumors in recent weeks has been that AMD would have some new Ryzen 3000 processors to launch. Today AMD is announcing three new processors into the Ryzen 3000 family, each with the XT name, offering higher frequencies and further filling out the their CPU product stack. Each of these processors will be available on shelves in primary regions on July 7 th.

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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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This Is How Firefighters Are Preparing to Battle Wildfires During a Pandemic

GizModo VR

The Five Mile Swamp Fire had been burning for nearly three days in the muddy swamps of Florida’s Santa Rosa County when firefighter Mike Facente arrived. Thick smoke hung over the area, acrid and pungent in the springtime air. High winds and low humidity aided the fire in growing to 2,000 acres by the time Facente… Read more.

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These are the best cheap iPad deals for June 2020

Digital Trends

In the wide world of tablets, Apple is the king. We curated an up-to-date list of all of the best iPad deals.

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Researchers Have Created a Tool That Can Perfectly Depixelate Faces

GizModo VR

There are now more reasons than ever to hide faces and protect the privacy of people and bystanders in photos and videos being shared to social media. But some approaches are more effective than others, as researchers from Duke University have demonstrated with a new tool that can perfectly reveal faces that have been… Read more.

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Kioxia Launches PM6: First 24G SAS SSD, up to 30.72 TB

Anand Tech

Kioxia (formerly Toshiba Memory) has launched their sixth generation enterprise SAS SSD, the PM6 series. This is the first SSD available to support the latest 24G SAS interface, doubling performance over the existing 12Gb/s SAS standard. Using 96-layer 3D TLC NAND flash memory, the PM6 offers capacities up to 30.72 TB and performance up to 4300 MB/s.

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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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You Can Finally Buy Boston Dynamics' Spot, But You Can't Use It For Evil

GizModo VR

Last September, after debuting several years prior , Boston Dynamics’ impressively agile robotic dog Spot was made available to a select number of companies as an experiment to see how the robot would perform outside of the company’s R&D labs. A year later, Spot is now officially available for sale, although not… Read more.

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Google Nest Mini vs. Amazon Echo Dot: Which is better?

Digital Trends

We put the two most popular smart home speakers together and tested them on appearance, audio, and abilities.

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Sorry, Captain Picard, Your Taste in Tea Sucks

GizModo VR

Every June 16 we gather to celebrate Captain Picard , for it is—based on a loose extrapolation of the stardate of Star Trek: The Next Generation ’s season seven episode “The Pegasus”—Captain Picard Day. A day to recall his triumphs, his heroism, his morals, and his earnest sincerity. Not this year. This year I come to… Read more.

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The AMD B550 Motherboard Overview: ASUS, GIGABYTE, MSI, ASRock, and Others

Anand Tech

AMD’s budget motherboard range is often at times more successful than the bigger, full fat versions. Users have in the past got almost all of the same chipset features on these motherboards than they did on the X-series range. That changes with the new B500 series as consumers no longer have PCIe 4.0 on the chipset, instead reverting back to PCIe 3.0.

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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?