VRScout

JUNE 24, 2020

En garde! Researchers at the University of Bath in Somerset, United Kingdom, have partnered with Cambridge-based game studio Ninja Theory ( Hellblade VR, DmC: Devil May Cry, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West ) to deliver more realistic, data-driven sword fighting in VR. While pre-recorded attacks and defensive positions may work fine in the standard 2D gaming format, the same cannot always be said for VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 24, 2020

Today I woke up to read this letter from Oculus, sent to me because I’m a developer: Hello, Today, we announced our plans to sunset Oculus Go as we focus on driving forward the future of VR with 6DOF platforms like Oculus Quest. As the technology has advanced rapidly since we launched Go, you’ve helped us prove out the value of positional tracking with the incredible experiences you’ve built for 6DOF VR, and we’re ready to double down on that.

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VRScout

JUNE 24, 2020

Explore Tony’s garage and modify your suit in hit upcoming PSVR exclusive. Marvel’s upcoming superhero simulator Iron Man VR is shaping up to be one of the most exciting releases of 2020. This July players will have the chance to step into the shoes of one of Marvel’s most iconic heroes as take on a series of vertigo-inducing missions that will have them jetting back and forth across the globe.

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ARPost

JUNE 24, 2020

The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) has recently won a National Institute of Health (NIH) grant for an innovative therapy involving virtual reality. This therapy will help stroke patients regain their eyesight and full field of vision. Moreover, patients will be able to have the therapy at home, as the new technology is more affordable and easier to use than standard eye trackers.

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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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Road to VR

JUNE 24, 2020

It seems now that many of Magic Leap’s recently laid-off employees are helping Apple with its own AR headset ambitions. Magic Leap was in hot water earlier this year, as reports surfaced that the well-funded startup was searching for a buyer. Although the AR company managed to avert disaster by securing another $350 million in May, around 600 full-time employees have reportedly been let go in its downsizing—presumably a direct result of the company’s failure to ignite a consumer AR

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Road to VR

JUNE 24, 2020

Librestream , an enterprise-focused AR company, today announced it’s raised a $24 million Series D financing round. The Winnipeg, Canada-based company says the funds will be used to expand its ‘Augmented Worker’ services into Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. The Series D was led by Canadian Business Growth Fund (CBGF), and joined by Export Development Canada (EDC), Pender Technology Inflection Fund, Emerald Technology Ventures, and BDC Capital.

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ARVR

JUNE 24, 2020

Source Have you ever wondered how virtual and augmented reality is being utilized in career development? The growth in popularity of industries such as augmented reality and virtual reality is more than real. Virtual reality technology is all about the artificial world, while augmented reality technology includes virtual entities covered in the real world.

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EON Reality

JUNE 24, 2020

Any teacher or student can now become an expert at creating AR and VR lessons on the AVR Platform by watching these 5 videos from EON Reality. The AVR Platform was designed to make creating AR and VR lessons easy and stress-free for just about anyone with no coding knowledge. But as tech experts, we know that pedagogy continues to be the key element of a successful online learning experience.

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ARVR

JUNE 24, 2020

Fluidity. Turbidity. Evolution. Stagnancy. Immobility. Death. Which do you associate with art? Good Art is the vanguard of cultural (r)evolution, moving around and over conservative bulwarks in a way that is fluid, rapid, dizzying. As time marches on, culture shifts?—?it bends?—?through time like a river of collective taste, fashion, aesthetics, cutting down and through the bedrock of staid everyday living.

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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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EON Reality

JUNE 24, 2020

Learn about the anatomy of the sound card in AR and VR, and trace the strange and long history behind the computer sound card. The early sound cards have evolved greatly to the audio cards that we all know currently. While it might be hard to imagine a computer without sophisticated sound, there was a time when sound cards were a luxury of the chosen few.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 24, 2020

Twitter confirmed on Tuesday night that it had permanently banned the account of Distributed Denial of Secrets , a journalist organization that earlier this week made accessible to the public one of the largest repositories of leaked U.S. law enforcement documents to date. Read more.

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Digital Trends

JUNE 24, 2020

Whether you want a compact laptop to enjoy some entertainment on the go, or you need a no-nonsense machine for school or work, we've smoked out the best cheap Chromebook deals -- from full-sized laptops to 2-in-1 convertibles -- that won't cost you an arm and a leg.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 24, 2020

Tuesday’s primaries have reshaped the Green New Deal landscape. Much of the focus has been on the top tier Congressional races featuring big names like AOC cruising to victory and major upsets like newcomer Jamaal Bowman blowing the hawkish House Foreign Affairs Committee chair Eliot Engel out of the water in New… Read more.

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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

JUNE 24, 2020

A quality monitor can greatly enhance your desktop PC experience, but good ones can get pricey fast. Here, we’ve scooped up all of the best monitor deals available now in one handy place.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 24, 2020

Facebook has finally said it would now prohibit the sale of all historical artifacts due to rampant black market trade in looted antiquitieson the site, per the New York Times —a problem the social media company has known about for years. Read more.

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VR Fitness

JUNE 24, 2020

Michael Gschwandtner’s free fitness app VRWorkout recently released on Oculus Quest via the unofficial SideQuest VR storefront and now it’s coming to to additional platforms. A Steam release is set for July 6 and the game will then support Valve Index, HTC Vive, and Oculus Rift. While it’s in Early Access, it won’t be priced differently once it is finished and you can wishlist it today.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 24, 2020

Amazon is “actively pursuing” deals to turn its Prime Video streaming service into something more like Prime TV, an industry source told Protocol on Tuesday. This is backed up by several job listings focused on the project. Read more.

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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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Anand Tech

JUNE 24, 2020

Western Digital originally launched their Red lineup of hard disk drives for network-attached storage devices back in 2012. The product stack later expanded to service professional NAS units with the Red Pro. These drives have traditionally offered very predictable performance characteristics, thanks to the use of conventional magnetic recording (CMR).

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GizModo VR

JUNE 24, 2020

Val Kilmer has made all kinds of movies throughout his long career, and many of his most high-profile performances (think Top Gun , The Doors , Tombstone , Kiss Kiss Bang Bang , and his groovy debut in Top Secret! ) can be found in drama and action films. But when the Juilliard-trained actor—who’s had some health problems … Read more.

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Digital Trends

JUNE 24, 2020

High-paying tech jobs abound at companies where people love to work. Now is a great time to start looking. .

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GizModo VR

JUNE 24, 2020

The Internet Archive set out in the 1990s with an improbable mission to become the “Library of Alexandria Two”; by 2020, they’ve arguably surpassed that goal, plus delivered their collection straight to the masses. It’s the only repository where a NASA recap of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster logically coexists… Read more.

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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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Anand Tech

JUNE 24, 2020

NVIDIA sends word this morning that the company has posted their first DirectX 12 Ultimate-compliant driver. Published as version 451.48 – the first driver out of NVIDIA’s new Release 450 driver branch – the new driver is the first release from the company to explicitly support the latest iteration of DirectX 12, enabling support for features such as DXR 1.1 ray tracing and tier 2 variable rate shading.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 24, 2020

An unusually powerful volcanic eruption in 43 BCE has been linked to political upheaval on the other side of the globe, including the fall of the Roman Republic and the Ptolemaic Kingdom. Read more.

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Digital Trends

JUNE 24, 2020

Looking to get your hands on a sleek all-in-one Mac computer? We've got the best cheap iMac deals right here.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 24, 2020

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced on Wednesday that he’s suing ExxonMobil, Koch Industries, and the American Petroleum Institute because the three firms deceived customers about the climate crisis. This is the first lawsuit of its kind to name API and Koch Industries, and it takes a novel approach by… Read more.

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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?

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