VRScout

AUGUST 24, 2020

Black Rock City meets the multiverse in this one-of-a-kind virtual celebration. This past April, festival organizers made the painful decision to cancel Burning Man 2020 citing ongoing concerns over COVID-19. Normally held every year in the Black Rock Desert of northwestern Nevada, the legendary event has established itself as one of—if not the most unique annual festival in the world, celebrating everything from music and art to radical inclusion, gifting, and self-reliance.

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AUGUST 24, 2020

This week in XR has been incredibly calm and nothing important has happened, apart from little things like the riot of the entire XR community against Facebook Jokes apart, I’m working to organize my blog’s 4th birthday party on VRChat… you asked for it, and you will have it! Top news of the week. (Image by Tweakanalogy). Oculus devices will require a Facebook login.

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VRScout

AUGUST 24, 2020

Satisfy your traveling bug with this bizarre VR traveling experience. Several airlines have begun using VR technology to immerse “travelers” in exotic locations such as the Colosseum and Pantheon in Rome, New York Times Square in NYC, Market Square in Helsinki, and Fiordland National Park in New Zealand, all without leaving their respective countries.

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ARPost

AUGUST 24, 2020

Artist D.S. Bradford has activated his new augmented reality initiative, Go Love Universally, on the International Space Station and Mars. It’s the first fine art activation to reach 62,368,540 miles from Earth. “The art I create tends to occupy a space within the surreal, seeing worlds that may or may not exist, except only in the mind,” Bradford said when asked about his art.

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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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AR Insider

AUGUST 24, 2020

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. V irtual events are a prominent component of the new normal… at least for knowledge workers. As we examined in a two-part series in the pandemic’s early days, those who lean into virtual events could discover favorable unit economics and post-Covid virtual-hyb

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 24, 2020

For the most part, fictional characters rarely recognize when they’re trapped in a dystopia. Watching their neighbors get carted off for harboring subversive thoughts, they almost never say, “I wish we weren’t living in this dystopia.” To them, that dystopia is just life. Which suggests that—were we, at this moment,… Read more.

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Anand Tech

AUGUST 24, 2020

At TSMC’s annual Technology Symposium, the Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturer detailed characteristics of its future 3nm process node as well as laying out a roadmap for 5nm successors in the form of N5P and N4 process nodes. Starting off with TSMC’s upcoming N5 process node which represents its 2 nd generation deep-ultraviolet (DUV) and extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) process node after the rarely used N7+ node (Used by the Kirin 990 SoC for example).

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 24, 2020

The same day that many schools are back in session, Zoom, the teleconferencing software that’s become the go-to for many educators’ remote-teaching needs for the foreseeable future, seems to have crashed for large swaths of the US. Read more.

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VR Fitness

AUGUST 24, 2020

Hopefully, you’ve noticed recently that we’ve been widely reporting that many of our favorite VR fitness games have tournaments running as part of the upcoming VR Fitness Summit, hosted by the Virtual Athletics League. The summit itself runs from September 3 through 12 but there are various tournaments active right now, that you can participate in with prizes to be won.

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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

AUGUST 24, 2020

To help stop the spread of the coronavirus sweeping the globe, health experts have urged people around the world to wash their hands frequently. But recent research shows that many people have been unable to follow those guidelines because they lack access to clean running water. In fact, one 2019 study suggests that… Read more.

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Digital Trends

AUGUST 24, 2020

Storing files on a drive that you can share between MacOS and Windows is possible, but the result isn't ideal.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 24, 2020

Why do we love The X-Files so much? Well, Scully and Mulder, of course—and while the show was famous for its alien conspiracy mythology, we confess to preferring its signature monster-of-the-week episodes. A fascinating new book digs into some of the show’s squishiest cases , and io9 has a sneak peek plus an interview… Read more.

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Digital Trends

AUGUST 24, 2020

The pulse oximeters on the list provide enough accuracy to handle either medical issues or sports-related needs.

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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

AUGUST 24, 2020

Documents displayed during Monday’s House Oversight Committee hearing with Postmaster General Louis DeJoy show just how far behind the Postal Service has fallen since DeJoy took over in June. Read more.

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Digital Trends

AUGUST 24, 2020

On this Digital Trends Live, we discuss the top tech stories, including Microsoft siding with Epic and more.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 24, 2020

The oldest fossilized vertebrate footprints ever discovered in the Grand Canyon were found embedded in a recently fallen boulder located in plain sight. Read more.

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Digital Trends

AUGUST 24, 2020

Dating apps are capitalizing on features like in-app video chat, real-time virtual events, and gamification.

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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

AUGUST 24, 2020

Over the last year or so, I’ve been on a journey to make my beauty routine plastic-free. I’ve been trying a number of alternatives—from my shampoo to my make-up —to eliminate as much plastic as possible from my life. However, a new skincare line is having me reconsider all my efforts: Fenty Skin. Read more.

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Digital Trends

AUGUST 24, 2020

These dispatches from the bleeding edge of neuroscience will blow your mind.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 24, 2020

Elon Musk is set to make an announcement about Neuralink, a company designing brain-computer interface technology, on Friday, August 28. It sounds like science fiction, but research in this area has progressed rapidly in recent years, though we’re still far from being able to send emails with our minds. Unlike Musk’s… Read more.

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Digital Trends

AUGUST 24, 2020

Bixby is a powerful tool, but not the most intuitive one. Here's how to use Samsung's artificial intelligence.

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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

AUGUST 24, 2020

The future of the Elongated Man has been up in the air ever since actor Hartley Sawyer was fired from CW’s The Flash over past racist and misogynist tweets. Showrunner Eric Wallace revealed that the character will be recast in season seven for a brief but necessary appearance. However, the door is open for some… Read more.

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Digital Trends

AUGUST 24, 2020

The handheld console's lineup has amazing exclusives and indie games.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 24, 2020

Comets don’t always survive their sojourns into the inner solar system, but a new close-up image suggests the NEOWISE comet—the brightest in decades—has kept it together. Read more.

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Digital Trends

AUGUST 24, 2020

Some games are so rare, they're worth tens of thousands of dollars. Let's take a look at the rarest games.

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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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