VRScout

JULY 23, 2020

Procedurally-generated VR dungeon crawling at its absolute finest. In Death: Unchained is now available on the Oculus Quest, bringing with it all the rogue-lite action you know and love from the original along with a few demonic twists. A combination of procedurally-generated maps and randomly-generated enemy positions offers a one-of-a-kind experience that will have you exploring the afterlife for hours as you go toe-to-toe with the damned, collect sacred loot, and earn special power-ups.

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ARPost

JULY 23, 2020

National Geographic has debuted its second augmented reality experience on Instagram. It takes you on an immersive journey up Mt. Everest, along with the National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Everest Expedition. Moreover, it puts users in full climbing gear. The interactive experience enables people to indulge their wanderlust at home as countries worldwide continue to fight the coronavirus pandemic.

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Road to VR

JULY 23, 2020

Well that didn’t take long. Dreams , the game-within-a-game-maker, has had its newly updated VR feature for hardly more than 24 hours, but someone has already made a fully functional Beat Saber clone. Dreams launched earlier this year as the latest creation from developer Media Molecule, whose prior Little Big Planet games thrived thanks to a community of creators that built new levels and completely new content with the in-game tools.

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AR Insider

JULY 23, 2020

ARtillery Briefs is a video series that outlines the top trends we’re tracking, including takeaways from recent reports and market forecasts. See the most recent episode below, including narrative takeaways and embedded video. R ecent reports from AR Insider’s research arm ARtillery Intelligence have covered topics like winning product models and lessons from sector leaders.

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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

JULY 23, 2020

Vertigo (2016) proved to be an ambitious room-scale VR title that pioneered the medium alongside the best of them back in 2016. Now ostensibly overhauled completely, Vertigo Remastered (2020) refreshes the VR shooter’s threadbare low-poly aesthetic with a richer, more immersive art style that, among other apparent tune-ups, puts a fresh coat of paint onto this plucky indie title.

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Road to VR

JULY 23, 2020

We love seeing unique takes on VR games and Steady certainly fits the bill. Launched last week, the game challenges you to move a ring along a path without touching the path or the increasingly difficult obstacles surrounding it. For a game about a hoop and a line, Steady is oozing with slick style. It’s a deceptively simple game from indie VR studio Situated which reminds us of the board game ‘Operation’, or, even more so, those wire loop games you might have seen at a carni

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ARVR

JULY 23, 2020

The Apple glasses I would wear What would it take to make me replace my iPhone with AR glasses? Incoming call on Apple glasses. UI credit: Strahil Hadzhiev Apple glasses are coming. Their first version would most likely be only an extension of your iPhone (like Apple Watch’s 1st generation) but after a few iterations the AR glasses would probably grow into a standalone product that wouldn’t necessarily need the company of your iPhone.

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GizModo VR

JULY 23, 2020

Nowhere is safe from light pollution, not even space. On Wednesday, astrophotographer Daniel López shared a photo he captured of Comet NEOWISE the day before at Teide National Park on the Canary Islands. However, SpaceX’s Starlink satellites ruined the image, painting streaks across the otherwise largely pristine sky. Read more.

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Anand Tech

JULY 23, 2020

While today second quarter earnings report from Intel represented a high-water mark for the company amid booming sales and revenues, unfortunately not everything disclosed today was good news from the company. As part of Intel’s quarterly earnings presentation, the company announced that their under-development 7nm manufacturing process has suffered a six month delay due to a defect in the process.

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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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GizModo VR

JULY 23, 2020

Colin Farrell hypes up his role in The Batman. A tiny new glimpse of The Eternals could tease a familiar celestial face. Get a look at Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s newest team up for Amazon’s Truth Seekers. Plus, meet a new Jane personality on Doom Patrol , and Taron Egerton joins the. Tetris movie? To me, my spoilers! Read more.

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Digital Trends

JULY 23, 2020

The best wireless mice can make a big difference in your day-to-day computing, offering speed and comfort.

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GizModo VR

JULY 23, 2020

The New Mutants’ San Diego Comic-Con panel just revealed an exclusive look at the film’s opening sequence. If you missed it, no sweat, we’ve got it right here. Read more.

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Digital Trends

JULY 23, 2020

A two-month free trial for Amazon Kindle Unlimited is now available, and signing up couldn't be easier!

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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

JULY 23, 2020

It wouldn’t be a virtual event without a few technical difficulties. Though I can’t imagine the media giants showcasing at San Diego Comic-Con’s online event were worried about copyright violations affecting their panels. Considering, you know, they’re the ones that own the copyright. Read more.

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Anand Tech

JULY 23, 2020

Amongst the many flagship devices released in this first half of the year, one often overlooked device was Xiaomi’s Mi 10 series. The company’s leading Snapdragon 865 phones were released quite early on, but were largely overshadowed by other competitor devices, with the phone not having official US carrier support or releases also playing a big role.

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GizModo VR

JULY 23, 2020

People pace the bus stop at Queensboro Plaza on a Saturday before New York City’s covid-19 shelter-in-place order. They are waiting for the Q100 bus, which serves as the only modes of public transportation with a direct route to Rikers Island, the location of New York City’s largest jail complex. Metal containment… Read more.

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Oculus

JULY 23, 2020

Fresh off raising roughly $2M on its latest crowdfunding campaign, Immersed is making waves when it comes to productivity in VR—and the timing couldn’t be.

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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

JULY 23, 2020

Always in motion, the future is, especially in the era of covid-19. And as a result Disney just made some major release date shuffles. Mulan , which was most recently scheduled for release in August, has been un dated, and all future Avatar and Star Wars movies have been delayed one year. Read more.

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Anand Tech

JULY 23, 2020

Among several different updates tucked into Intel’s Q2’2020 earnings report, the company included a brief update on some of their future products. While the bulk of the company’s focus is currently on their next-generation Tiger Lake CPUs, which are launching this quarter, the company is also looking at what comes after Tiger Lake, as well as the future of their highly profitable server business.

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GizModo VR

JULY 23, 2020

If you’ve been following along with Intel’s troubles moving away from its 14nm process to 10nm over the years, you probably won’t be surprised to learn that the company is now having trouble getting its 7nm process off the ground. On its Q2 earnings call today, Intel revealed that it’s pushing back its previously… Read more.

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Digital Trends

JULY 23, 2020

The Instant Pot is a powerful, versatile kitchen appliance. Here's all you need to know before buying one.

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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

JULY 23, 2020

Twitter never fails to disappoint. Despite its best(?) efforts, the platform remains the same bot-riddled , neo-Nazi-friendly cesspool that’s full of the same harassment and hate we’ve come to expect. With that said, it might not be too surprising that the high-profile Twitter hacking incident from earlier this… Read more.

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Digital Trends

JULY 23, 2020

The ocean's answer to the International Space Station.

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GizModo VR

JULY 23, 2020

Some inactive ingredients commonly found in medicines may not be so inactive after all, according to a new study published today. Researchers found evidence in the lab that several ingredients, including certain dyes and preservatives, are capable of affecting proteins, receptors, and other parts of our biology,… Read more.

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Digital Trends

JULY 23, 2020

It's hard to believe, but Android has been around for over a decade now, and the changes are worth noting.

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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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