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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.10): Valve Index gains market share, Hitman 3 is coming to PSVR and more!

The Ghost Howls

It’s a sunny Summer day here, and many people are in vacation. But XR never stops, so here below you’ll find the roundup of the most interesting news of the past week. Before leaving you to it, I want to remind you that in 5 days it will be my blog’s birthday! This year I’m unsure what to do… I’m thinking about a Reddit AMA, but if you have a better idea, please tell me!

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Psychedelic Choose-Your-Own VR Adventure ‘Terminus’ Available Now On Oculus Rift

VRScout

Explore five mind-bending realms that will have you questioning your reality. Commissioned by the National Gallery of Australia, TERMINUS —a five-part VR experience developed by New Zealand-based artists Jess Johnson and Simon Ward—is now available on Oculus Rift and Oculus Rift S, offering a truly bizarre psychedelic experience in which players explore five other-worldly realms filled with impossible architecture, unsettling digital creatures, and a whole bunch of WTF visuals.

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Will Covid-Era Lockdowns Accelerate AR Collaboration

AR Insider

Data Dive is AR Insider’s weekly dive into select spatial computing figures. Running Mondays, it includes data points and strategic takeaways. For an indexed library of data, reports, and multimedia, subscribe to ARtillery Pro. L ast week we asked the question, Will Covid-Era Lockdowns Catapult AR Commerce? The answer is yes. Building from that narrative, what about enterprise collaboration?

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How The Team Behind VRDays Europe Brought A Multi-Day XR Conference To Life

VRScout

Ahead of its sixth anniversary, we chat with the Dutch duo responsible for this celebrated international conference. It was almost a year ago that VRDays , the Amsterdam-based multi-day XR conference, celebrated its fifth anniversary—a hard feat to pull off in an ever-changing industry. . The conference, more like a convention, was hosted across the Dutch capital in numerous buildings and boasted of a variety of exhibitions, art installations, numerous sponsors, overlapping educational talks, an

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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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DARPA virtual dogfight will include battle between AI and human pilot

Slashgear

DARPA has revealed its plans for the final of three AlphaDogfight Trials, a competition that will — this time around — take place entirely online. Anyone will be able to register and stream the competition, giving them a chance to see the latest and greatest artificial intelligence algorithms compete against each other in fighter jets, as well as against a … Continue reading.

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Popular Pesticides Are Killing Birds, Too

GizModo VR

The most commonly used pesticides in the world have been a disaster for bees. But new research shows they’re also bad news for birds, which are dying at an alarming rate. The findings, published in Nature Sustainability on Monday, show they’re responsible for a decline in American birds. Read more.

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Virtual Athletics League to Host World’s Largest VR Fitness Summit

VR Fitness

Virtual Athletics League has partnered with some of the largest names in VR fitness and esports to host a VR Fitness Summit that will feature a prize pool of $25,000 across a variety of tournaments and contests that will take place from September 3 through 12 with qualifiers for some events starting this week. Continue reading on VR Fitness Insider.

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People Are Cutting Off Their Hair to Soak Up the Mauritius Oil Spill

GizModo VR

In an attempt to stave off ecological disaster, Mauritius residents are cutting off their own hair to soak up an oil spill that began off the coast of the island nation in late July. Read more.

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The best stand-up comedy on Netflix right now

Digital Trends

Feeling a little funny? We've compiled a list of the best stand-up on Netflix, from Chappelle to Seinfeld.

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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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Scientists Have Turned Bricks Into Batteries

GizModo VR

We build homes out of bricks for lots of reasons. They’re resilient to high pressure and frost. They can withstand fluctuating temperatures without shrinking, expanding, or warping. They’re great at absorbing heat. They’re durable and can be reused. And according to a new study in Nature Communications, they can also… Read more.

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Facebook’s new A.I. takes image recognition to a whole new level

Digital Trends

The social media giant has new ways to extract valuable data from images.

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I'm Still Not Over the Bob-omb Thing

GizModo VR

It’s been weeks since I finished Paper Mario: The Origami King. I’ve since moved on to another replay of Fallout 4 , this time delving into the moral dilemma that is playing as a raider in the Nuka-World storyline. But nothing that Fallout 4 (or most other games) makes me experience can compare to the emotional… Read more.

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The best thrillers on Netflix

Digital Trends

Watch these when you're in the mood for suspense and intrigue, but don't want to be scared out of your wits.

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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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Georgia School in Viral Photo Closes Indefinitely Following Covid-19 Outbreak

GizModo VR

Administrators at a Georgia High School got a taste of the Streisand Effect last week when they suspended two students for shared images of students navigating packed hallways between classes while a pandemic rages across the state. The photo went viral and one student used the free time to do TV news hits. Now, the… Read more.

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How to download a Windows 10 ISO file legally and install Windows 10 from it

Digital Trends

Downloading and installing a Windows 10 ISO file allows you to install the latest Microsoft operating system.

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Why Do We Celebrate Spider-Man Day on (Probably) the Wrong Day?

GizModo VR

Every August 1, social media lights up in celebration of one of comics’ greatest heroes : the amazing, spectacular, ultimate, and every so often sensational Spider-Man. It does so because August 1 is “Spider-Man Day,” a celebration of the character’s debut in August 1962's Amazing Fantasy #15. But why do we celebrate… Read more.

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NVIDIA Teases GeForce “Ultimate Countdown” For August 31st: Ampere Inbound?

Anand Tech

NVIDIA this morning has posted a short teaser to its GeForce brand Twitter feed, announcing what they are calling the “ultimate countdown” The pinned Tweet contains a short, abstract video, along with the ultimate countdown hashtag. #UltimateCountdown pic.twitter.com/f23HcbHUk6. — NVIDIA GeForce (@NVIDIAGeForce) August 10, 2020. Meanwhile and more relevant, the company also updated the banner used in their Twitter profile to reflect their latest marketing campaign, with the add

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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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All the Big Summer (Streaming) Blockbusters of 2020

GizModo VR

Black Widow. Wonder Woman 1984. Fast and Furious 9. No Time to Die. These were meant to be some of the big summer blockbusters of 2020. And yet, none of them have been released yet. We all know why—the novel coronavirus —but in the place of those films, something strange happened. New movies. did come out. Here’s… Read more.

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How to change your Windows 10 login screen background and desktop wallpaper

Digital Trends

The generic background that comes loaded on your computer is as boring and impersonal as it gets, isn't it?

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Prototype Reveals Your eReader Might One Day Fold Just Like a Real Book

GizModo VR

In addition to low power consumption and excellent legibility in bright sunlight, E Ink’s electronic paper displays are just as flexible as OLED screens. So while folding phones and tablets are grabbing headlines, folding eBook readers could soon be a thing too, as this prototype from E Ink reveals. Read more.

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Robots Everywhere: Robots and the animal kingdom

Digital Trends

On this episode we take a look at machines that are inspired by the animal kingdom, and mimic the look, feel, and function of animals.

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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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Herbicide, Lead, and Other Poisons Found in Bodies of Stranded Dolphins and Whales

GizModo VR

New research shows the startling degree to which stranded dolphins and whales found along the southeastern U.S. coast are contaminated with pollutants. Read more.

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The Apocalypse Games VR Esports Competition Begins Aug 12

VR Fitness

The time has come to take back the world from the onslaught of terrifying creatures trying to rip into your flesh. If you want to survive, you must take action now. The Apocalypse Games , a virtual competition set in the horror game The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners , launches on August 12. Continue reading on VR Fitness Insider.

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Someone Turned Pricey MasterClass Courses Into Free WikiHows

GizModo VR

MasterClass is one of those services that everyone is aware of thanks to its ubiquitous advertising. But due to its steep subscription price, few have experienced it for themselves. Now the craftsmen behind some of the finest bespoke web content around are giving everyone a chance to experience the nitty-gritty tips … Read more.

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The best head-up displays (HUDs) for 2020

Digital Trends

Although it's normally associated with new cars, the head-up display (HUD) was invented for Air Force pilots.

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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?