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Creating Real Family Memories Under Lockdown With The Alcove VR App

VRScout

Travel the globe, share family photos, and play games with loved ones of all ages in this unique social VR experience. Connecting with family isn’t always easy, especially in today’s climate. The global outbreak of COVID-19 has led to the government-mandated lockdowns around the world, separating countless families, friends, and loved ones in the process.

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‘Onward’ is Coming to Oculus Quest July 30th with PC VR Cross-play, Trailer Here

Road to VR

Downpour Interactive and Coatsink today announced that Onward , the VR tactical shooter, is coming to Oculus Quest on July 30th. Downpour Interactive founder Dante Buckley first announced the studio was making a Quest port of Onward back at last year’s ESL VR League Season three championship, stating that the game would would feature cross-play with both Oculus Rift and SteamVR headsets.

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What’s Driving Pinterest’s AR Play?

AR Insider

This post is adapted from ARtillery Intelligence’s report, Lessons From AR Revenue Leaders, Part III: The Field. It includes some of its data and takeaways. More can be previewed here and subscribe for the full report. A fter Parts I ( Snapchat ) and II ( Niantic ) of this report series, we turn attention in Part III to the broader set of innovators emerging in today’s market.

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Google Acquires North, the Startup Behind ‘Focals’ Smartglasses

Road to VR

Google today confirmed in a blog post that it’s acquired North, the Canada-based smartglasses maker behind Focals. The acquisition price wasn’t disclosed, however early reports suggested it was around $180 million. Founded in 2012, North (ex-Thalmic Labs) first set out to create Myo, a gesture-based armband. Pivoting from Myo and rebranding to North in 2018, the company then released Focals, which focused on creating a stylish, unobtrusive pair of prescription-compatible smartglasses

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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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How Spatial Audio Can Change Everything For The Blind

Charlie Fink

At their WWDC last week, Apple announced that Spatial Audio will be coming to the iPods via a firmware update to the Apple AirPods Pro, allowing for surround sound and Dolby Atmos to be played back through their wireless earbuds.

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Australian Authorities Want an AI To Settle Your Divorce

GizModo VR

For better or worse, there’s a good chance your current love life owes something to automation. Even if you’re just hooking up with the occasional Tinder fling (which if you are, no judgment), you’re still turning to Tinder’s black-box algorithms to pick out that fling for you before turning to more black-box… Read more.

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400 TB Storage Drives In Our Future: Fujifilm

Anand Tech

One of the two leading manufacturers of tape cartridge storage, FujiFilm, claims that they have a technology roadmap through to 2031 which builds on the current magnetic tape paradigm to enable 400 TB per tape.

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Fauci: At This Rate, We're Headed to 100,000 New Daily Coronavirus Cases

GizModo VR

Dr. Anthony Fauci has assured us that things are going to get a lot worse for everyone if certain states don’t start taking the pandemic seriously. “I would not be surprised if we go up to 100,000 [cases] a day if this does not turn around,” he testified to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and… Read more.

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Best Android Phones: May 2020

Anand Tech

We’ve nearly completed the spring release cycle of devices, and this means that most vendors have now released their flagship devices for 2020, introducing brand new phones with the newest technologies to the market. The new device generation significantly mix up the competitive landscape, and it looks like 2020’s flagship phones are all about high refresh-rate screens as well as new complex camera setups.

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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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Is Plant 'Intelligence' Just a Human Fantasy?

GizModo VR

Although plants make up over 80% of the biomass on Earth, for centuries they have been thought of as inanimate and passive things. Researchers even coined the term “ plant blindness ” to refer to a cognitive bias that literally makes our brains zone out plants in our view and underestimate their importance. Read more.

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The Samsung 870 QVO (1TB & 4TB) SSD Review: QLC Refreshed

Anand Tech

Samsung's second-generation QLC NAND is here, but it's still held back by a SATA interface. The new Samsung 870 QVO is probably big enough to be your only SSD, but may not be fast enough to satisfy.

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Whale Sharks Have Eyeballs Covered in Tiny Teeth

GizModo VR

Marine biologists from Japan say whale sharks have eyeballs coated in tiny teeth, in a discovery unique to this hulking but gentle aquatic species. Read more.

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UFC 2020: Schedule, Results, Fighters, Fight Cards, and More

Digital Trends

Although upcoming events have been postponed due to lockdowns, we’ve put together a rundown of what to expect for the UFC in 2020 and a list of which fighters to keep your eyes on, plus a quick guide on how you can watch UFC with ESPN+.

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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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10 Tips and Tricks to Make You a Discord Master

GizModo VR

Discord is based around digital chat in all its various forms, and while it’s maybe best known among gamers, it can power group chats for a whole host of purposes—like a cooler, less formal Slack. Whether you’ve been on Discord for years or only just opened up the app for the first time, these tips can help you get… Read more.

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How to know if you’re actually getting Dolby Atmos sound

Digital Trends

Getting it isn't as easy as you might think. Our Dolby Atmos guide explains all of the parts and the pitfalls.

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A Massive Star Has Disappeared Without a Trace

GizModo VR

An unusually bright star in a nearby galaxy has gone missing, in a mystery of cosmic proportions. Read more.

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Qualcomm Announces New Snapdragon Wear 4100 & 4100+: 12nm A53 Smartwatches

Anand Tech

Today Qualcomm is making a big step forward in its smartwatch SoC offerings by introducing the brand-new Snapdragon Wear 4100 and Wear 4100+ platforms. The new chips succeed the aging two 2018 originating Wear 3100 platforms and significantly upgrading the hardware specifications, bringing to the table all new IPs for CPU, GPU and DSPs, all manufactured on a newer lower power process node.

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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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The Nerd's Watch: The Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Streaming in July

GizModo VR

Streaming is more important than ever. As huge numbers of people stay home during the global pandemic, many have turned to the plethora of services for a much-needed escape. At the start of each month , most streaming services do a little shuffle, adding new movies and taking some off, and we’re here to help with your… Read more.

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Is your check engine light on? Here are 10 possible reasons why

Digital Trends

The orange check engine light is a car's way of telling you something is wrong, so it should never be ignored.

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What You Get with a World-Class Phone That Can't Access Google

GizModo VR

It’s a weird situation when the second largest smartphone maker in the world is treated as persona non grata , but that’s precisely what Huawei is facing when it comes to selling gadgets in the U.S. And based on the current political climate, there’s very little chance that will change between now and November.… Read more.

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Black Box VR and EoS Fitness Partner for Dynamic Resistance VR Workouts

VR Fitness

Black Box VR is teaming up with high-value low price gym leader EoS Fitness to offer virtual reality enhanced workouts nationwide. It will blend VR with dynamic resistance training that will give gym-goers a high-intensity workout. It will launch in the southwest United States this summer in both Arizona and California before coming to additional locations in the next two years.

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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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Amazon Prime Adds Watch Party for Co-Viewing With Up to 100 Friends

GizModo VR

Amazon’s streaming service is introducing a co-viewing option to stream movies and TV shows with up to 100 other Prime Video account holders, a nifty feature that’s already officially available on platforms like Hulu and HBO. Read more.

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How to use Zoom

Digital Trends

If you're working remotely or need to collaborate with colleagues, Zoom is a great videoconferencing option.

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Facebook Is Pivoting Away From ‘Engaging’ Content In the News Feed

GizModo VR

It seems like Facebook is really trying (for real this time, guys!) to get a handle on its fake news problem. Today the company announced a major change to the way it prioritizes news articles in your feed. Instead of prioritizing news content that has the most engagement , the social media giant will now show users… Read more.

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What is Android Auto?

Digital Trends

Many motorists prefer Android Auto's smartphone-like interface over their car's native infotainment system.

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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?