VRScout
OCTOBER 12, 2020
The best VR headset on the market just got even better. The Oculus Quest 2 is the most exciting piece of VR hardware to hit the market since Facebook’s original standalone VR headset, offering incredible visuals, increased processing power, and a smaller, lighter design—all for a lower price than the first-generation model. Sounds too good to be true, right?
The Ghost Howls
OCTOBER 12, 2020
We are all waiting for the Quest 2 to arrive in our inboxes and we are all pretty excited about it! No big news this week, but expect thousands of boxes and reviews coming out from tomorrow on. As a European, I won’t get the Quest on 13th (damn) but only on 15th, so expect a review about it for this Friday/Saturday… I know it’s too late and everyone will have already published bazillion posts about it, but make me happy and read it anyway.
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VRScout
OCTOBER 12, 2020
Battle an interstellar enemy to free galaxies from a geometric prison. An evil interstellar entity called the Architects of Entropy have been traveling from galaxy to galaxy and stealing the beauty and diversity of biological life from every planet they pass, transforming them into cold geometric prisons; and our galaxy is next. S tar Shaman is a new VR experience from French developer Ikimasho in which you play an interstellar Star Shaman with wonderful spell-casting powers capable of freeing p
Road to VR
OCTOBER 12, 2020
Oculus Quest 2 is coming tomorrow, October 13th, and the team over at Rec Room is pushing out some content to Quest 2 that was previously exclusive to PC and PS4. The Quest 2 version of Rec Room , the free social VR game, is slated to include another of its previous released co-op ‘Quests’ for owners of the new standalone headset. Released on PC and PSVR in early 2018, the ‘Isle of Lost Skulls’ will be available on Quest 2 at launch, letting up to three players join force
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.
AR Insider
OCTOBER 12, 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. P roof points for AR’s efficacy as a shopping tool continue to roll out. We’ve heard this rallying cry for AR commerce for a few years, but it takes on new meaning during COVID-era retail lockdowns.
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ARPost
OCTOBER 12, 2020
For the last couple of years, Rendever has sought to improve the lives of those in elder-care communities through VR experiences. With the help of Rendever, hundreds of thousands of residents of elder-care facilities have spatially engaged with loved ones, relived personal memories, and explored new places. The company recently announced an addition to the platform that will help management and families understand care facilities.
Road to VR
OCTOBER 12, 2020
On the eve of the Oculus Quest 2 launch your favorite retailer might be backordered or out of stock of the headset, but have you looked elsewhere? Here’s a complete list of official Quest 2 retailers and the MSRP price in each country. Check out our full review of Quest 2 to see why it’s the best standalone VR headset yet, as well as other coverage worth checking out as you consider ordering the headset: Oculus Quest 2 Review – The Best Standalone Headset Gets Better in (Almost) Ever
ARVR
OCTOBER 12, 2020
Gamification in Tourism?—?Benefits & Use Cases The tourism industry has been one of the hardest-hit sectors by the COVID-19 crisis. Not only are people restricted in the places they can visit, but they are also not motivated to get back out there and start exploring. Therefore, to avoid shutting down completely, many museums and other sites have developed travel and tourism games to peak people’s interests and motivate them to start coming back.
GizModo VR
OCTOBER 12, 2020
The Boys’s second season ended with a bang—or should we say a barrage of fists. Now, actor Karen Fukuhara is looking back on her time beating up a fictional Nazi and how giving Kimiko a voice in season two addressed a problem she said she hadn’t noticed before. Read more.
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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.
Digital Trends
OCTOBER 12, 2020
Approaching 40 years since the CD made its debut, the strange thing about CDs is how they have largely faded from our nostalgic consciousness.
GizModo VR
OCTOBER 12, 2020
You can get the classic video game Doom to run on a lot of things: pianos, printers, old Nokia phones, and even electronic pregnancy tests. But one YouTuber decided to flip the script on the ole, “Does it run Doom ?” test to ask the heroic question: How many potatoes do you need to generate enough electricity for a… Read more.
VR Fitness
OCTOBER 12, 2020
FitXR released recently for the Oculus Quest, as a free, (and mandatory) replacement for the popular boxercise workout title BoxVR. BoxVR has long been one of the major VR fitness titles, with its structured classes offering carefully choreographed and full-body workouts, comprised of punching, lunging, and squatting. Compared to BoxVR, FitXR tries to convey more of a live group workout feel than its predecessor, as well mixing up the gameplay, and making it more physically challenging than befo
GizModo VR
OCTOBER 12, 2020
Ending hunger is one of the top priorities of the United Nations this decade. Yet the world appears to be backsliding , with an uptick of 60 million people experiencing hunger in the last five years to an estimated 690 million worldwide. Read more.
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.
Digital Trends
OCTOBER 12, 2020
To help you decide between the original Xbox One and the Xbox One S, here's a spec comparison that covers everything you should know about the two consoles.
GizModo VR
OCTOBER 12, 2020
Humans aren’t the only creatures at risk from dying of covid-19, it seems. In recent weeks, the state of Utah has been dealing with mass die-offs at mink farms that health officials believe are linked to the viral pandemic—outbreaks that likely began from contact with infected human handlers. So far, nearly 10,000… Read more.
VR Fitness
OCTOBER 12, 2020
Look, if you have ever talked to me about VR games within the past few years, there’s a decent chance I’ve tried to evangelize to you about Rez Infinite. The hyper-stylish rhythm game which first released as a launch title back in 2016 for PlayStation VR has since begun making its way to other platforms. Continue reading on VR Fitness Insider.
GizModo VR
OCTOBER 12, 2020
Microsoft has obtained a court order to seize servers the company says are part of the Trickbot botnet ahead of the 2020 elections, the Washington Post reported on Monday. Read more.
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.
Digital Trends
OCTOBER 12, 2020
You can call anyone via the internet while maintaining your privacy and without sharing your real number.
GizModo VR
OCTOBER 12, 2020
More than 20 years after intoning, “The water’s getting warm, so you might as well swim,” Smash Mouth’s “All Star” continues to be prophetic. Case in point: A new study finds that the Atlantic Ocean just had its hottest decade in at least 2,900 years. Someone award Smash Mouth a PhD and calculate the h-index of their… Read more.
Digital Trends
OCTOBER 12, 2020
Trouble right-clicking, sharing, or copying? Free up websites by briefly disabling the right-click blockers! We'll take you through the most effective - and fastest - methods.
GizModo VR
OCTOBER 12, 2020
What’s worse: a future in which the robots turn against us or a future filled with robot stand-up comedians? Regular stand-up comedians are bad enough; I don’t need a robot asking me to go to their standup show all the time. Luckily, today, robotic murder technology is far more advanced than robotic laughter… Read more.
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?
Digital Trends
OCTOBER 12, 2020
WhatsApp Messenger is a hugely popular international mobile chat and calling app, but it can also be used within your web browser. We show you how to do it.
GizModo VR
OCTOBER 12, 2020
You might best know Trung Le Nguyen as Trungles , their social media pseudonym for posting gorgeous, magical art —but now the artist is making their graphic novel debut with the likewise spellbinding The Magic Fish —and io9 has a sneak peek inside. Read more.
Digital Trends
OCTOBER 12, 2020
Don't let YouTube hold you back from multitasking. Check out our guide to playing YouTube in the background!
GizModo VR
OCTOBER 12, 2020
A new study estimates that between March and July, there were 225,000 more deaths in the U.S. than expected, based on the previous five years of data. Of those, a little over half were officially attributed to the covid-19 pandemic. It’s the latest research to suggest that we’ve been seriously undercounting deaths… Read more.
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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