Wed.Jul 29, 2020

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Mojo Vision: AR contact lenses are coming far sooner than you think

The Ghost Howls

One of the most mind-blowing interviews I had in recent months has been the one with Mojo Vision, the company producing AR contact lenses that got famous during CES 2020. I thought it was an ultra-experimental company needing 20 years to release a product, and instead, they are far ahead from where we all imagined they were. AR contact lenses will come far sooner than we thought.

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RUMOR: New ‘Resident Evil Village’ Leaks Reveal VR Support, Additional Game Details

VRScout

Leaks from a recent Ambassador playtest tell us more about the enemies, weapons, and bosses of Resident Evil Village. This past April, Japanese video game news publication Gematsu published a report stating that, according to “one source familiar with ongoings at Capcom,” the upcoming follow-up to 2017’s Resident Evil 7 will feature a return to the first-person perspective as players once again step into the shoes of RE7 protagonist, Ethan Winters.

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Rethinking Reality With ThinkReality’s Nathan Pettyjohn and Lenovo’s Bill Adams

ARPost

Lenovo is behind some of the most exciting things happening right now in conventional computing. So, their involvement in spatial computing is more than a little exciting. The company’s commercial AR/VR Lead, Nathan Pettyjohn, who is also the president of the VR/AR Association , reached out to share the good word. ThinkReality. “ [ ThinkReality] is our brand within Lenovo for our commercial AR and VR solutions,” Pettyjohn said in a recent video interview.

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FORM’s AR Swim Goggles Now Work In Open Waters

VRScout

Pair your Garmin or Apple smartwatches for additional GPS functionality. FORM’s AR-enhanced swim goggles received a free firmware update today introducing support for Garmin and Apple smartwatches, allowing wearers to track a wide range of metrics, such as their GPS location and heart rate, while swimming outdoors in open water. FORM’s smart goggles feature an AI system capable of tracking the wearers performance and displaying key information on the lenses of the goggles via a hands

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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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‘The Mage’s Tale’ Studio Announces Team-based Shooter ‘Frostpoint VR’

Road to VR

InXile Entertainment, the studio behind The Mage’s Tale (2018) and The Bard’s Tale series, today announced Frostpoint VR: Proving Grounds , a team-based shooter for PC VR which takes place in a mysterious frozen wasteland. Frostpoint VR is set in a dilapidated military training base in Antarctica where “strange biomechanical creatures now roam,” the studio says.

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‘Moss’ Developer Polyarc Raises $9 Million to Expand into AR Development

Road to VR

Polyarc, the game studio behind the hit VR title Moss (2018) , announced today that is has raised $9 million to grow the studio’s expertise in augmented reality development in addition to virtual reality. As an indie studio, Moss is so far Polyarc’s first and only VR title, but things must be going well for the studio as it has announced a $9 million Series B investment, which is atypical for indie game studios.

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New details on upcoming Star Wars experience for Oculus Quest

Cats and VR

ILMxLAB , released a behind-the-scenes video today on their upcoming Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge VR experience. In Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge , you play a droid repair technician who crash lands on Batuu after a pirate attack. In typical Star Wars fashion, you’ll quickly get swept up into a grand adventure on the outskirts of Black Spire Outpost.

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Set to Launch in August, ‘Time Hacker’ Will Let You Wreak Havoc by Freezing Time

Road to VR

Indie VR studio Joy Way has announced an August release date for their upcoming title Time Hacker and published a new trailer which shows the game’s time-freezing gameplay. Joy Way , the same studio behind the upcoming VR parkour action game Stride , plans to launch Time Hacker by the end of August. A new trailer shows the game’s core gameplay which allows you to freeze time and manipulate the world in dastardly ways before letting it all play out.

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The Future Of Banking Has Arrived

Forrester VR

Forrester’s view on the future of banking is here – examining the changes that we expect to play out over the next decade of retail banking. The drivers of the future are evolutions of the past – some playing out now, others that will be far more prominent by 2025 and table stakes by 2030. […].

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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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Polyarc, creators of smash-hit VR game Moss, just secured $9m in Series B funding!

Cats and VR

Today Polyarc announced the close of its $9 million Series B fund raise led by Hiro Capital, followed by Vulcan Capital, an existing investor, and Galaxy Interactive via its Galaxy EOS VC Fund, a partnership with EOSIO blockchain software publisher Block.one. Leveraging experience from creating Moss—one of the top-rated virtual reality (VR) games of all time—and the team’s passion to deliver immersive games using today’s VR technology, Polyarc will now add augmented reality (AR) to the studio’s

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AR 101?—?Augmented Reality

ARVR

Source AR 101?—?Augmented Reality In this series, a brief introduction to the basic notions that involve the concept of Augmented Reality will be presented. Some basic knowledge that we all should know to start! Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash What is AR? How AR works? What are the components of AR? Augmented Reality by fernanda rodríguez. Next, a complete list of our articles covers the AR history and evolution, and some of the leading features and concepts that component an AR system.

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What a Superhero Show Looks Like During Covid-19

GizModo VR

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier isn’t coming out next month. The CW’s DC shows won’t be back until next year. As the coronavirus pandemic continues onwards, studios have had to reckon with what shooting a superhero show in the age of social distancing even looks like. But we actually already have an example. Read more.

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Actual News

ARVR

Many people are very good at describing what is happening around them They’ve been watching trained reporters do it their whole lives. So… Continue reading on AR/VR Journey: Augmented & Virtual Reality Magazine ».

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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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How the Coronavirus Pandemic Is Breaking Artificial Intelligence and How to Fix It

GizModo VR

As covid-19 disrupted the world in March, online retail giant Amazon struggled to respond to the sudden shift caused by the pandemic. Household items like bottled water and toilet paper, which never ran out of stock, suddenly became in short supply. One- and two-day deliveries were delayed for several days. Though… Read more.

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Best SSDs: July 2020

Anand Tech

A solid state drive is often the most important component for making a PC feel fast and responsive; any PC still using a mechanical hard drive as its primary storage is long overdue for an upgrade. The SSD market is broader than ever, with a wide range prices, performance and form factors. Pre-COVID market forecasts pointed to a NAND flash memory shortage to develop throughout 2020.

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I Guess a Joystick For Your Tongue Is Better Than Licking a Keyboard

GizModo VR

As the world inevitably moves towards devices like smart glasses and screens that follow us everywhere, we’re going to need hands free ways to interact with our apps. Dorothee Clasen wonders if our tongues could potentially replace our fingers using a joystick worn inside the mouth. Read more.

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The best free antivirus software for 2020

Digital Trends

Malware isn't fun to find on any of your devices. These are our picks for the best free antivirus solutions.

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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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Scientists Discover Source of Stonehenge's Largest Boulders

GizModo VR

The origin of the largest stones used to build Stonehenge has been a matter of considerable debate for centuries, but a new chemical analysis of these boulders may have finally settled the issue once and for all. Read more.

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LA’s consumer goods rental service, Joymode, sells to the NYC retail investment firm, XRC Labs

TechCrunch VR

After raising $15 million in financing from one of technology’s most successful global investment firms, the Los Angeles-based consumer goods rental company Joymode is selling itself to an early-stage retail investment firm out of New York, XRC Labs. Joymode’s founder Joe Fernandez will continue on as an advisor to Joymode as the company moves to pivot its business to focus on retail partnerships.

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Facebook Says China Is Its Biggest Enemy, but It’s Also a Highly Valued Customer

GizModo VR

Anyone who’s covered the wacky world of tech policy for any time at all probably has some ideas about how today’s major antitrust hearing will go down. Some think Jeff Bezos’s overall net worth will become part of the debate. Tim Cook will be grilled over Apple’s firm chokehold over the mobile app ecosystem. And no… Read more.

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The best external hard drives for 2020

Digital Trends

You'll find numerous external hard drive options on the market, but there are a handful that really deliver.

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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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A Record Number of Environmentalists Were Murdered in 2019

GizModo VR

These are dangerous times to be an environmental defender. In 2019, a record number of environmental advocates were murdered. Read more.

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The Future Of Banking Has Arrived

Forrester VR

Forrester's latest research finds future of banking will be invisible, connected, insights-driven, and purposeful. Analysts Jacob Morgan and Alyson Clarke break it all down.

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Study Links Serious Gum Disease to Dementia Decades Later

GizModo VR

New research is the latest to suggest that the condition of our mouth and teeth is intimately connected to our brain health. The study found an association between people having severe gum disease or missing teeth in their early 60’s and an increased risk of them developing cognitive problems and dementia up to two… Read more.

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Grand Prize Winner Richard Bernsee Talks about VR Fitness

VR Fitness

A lifelong, self-proclaimed “computer geek,” Richard Bernsee recognized in his late teens that he needed to make working out a priority if he wanted to be fit. Exercise is also a nice compliment to his mostly sedentary occupation as senior IT analyst for the University of Illinois at Chicago. “Fitness is important to me as I have been unhealthy for a lot of my life,” states 29-year-old Bernsee, who was recently announced as the Grand Prize winner of the 90-Day VR Fitness Challenge.

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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?