VRScout

DECEMBER 7, 2020

You’ll need an RTX2080 and 160GB to get the most out of this WII epic. We’re just a few days away from the release of Oculus Studios and Respawn Entertainment’s ambitious WWII VR shooter, Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond , on Oculus and SteamVR headsets. Featuring a massive 50-mission campaign and fast-paced competitive multiplayer, Above and Beyond will have you traveling throughout war-torn Europe as you engage in large-scale VR battles across land, sea, and air.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 7, 2020

If you’re planning to pick up Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond when it launches this Friday, take note of both the required space and recommended specs. If you aren’t rolling in extra hard drive space, the upcoming launch of Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond might necessitate some overdue Spring cleaning. While the final installation size of Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond already sits at a huge 170GB, developer Respawn Entertainment advises you’ll need 340GB of free spac

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VRScout

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Drag-and-drop digital assets in real-time using LITHO’s AR controller. LITHO , the company behind an innovative wearable AR controller that resembles a ring made for two fingers , has launched a new movie effects app that lets you drop awesome AR visuals into your movie projects, offering a faster, cheaper, and more intuitive alternative to desktop software such as Adobe After Effects or Cinema 4D.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 7, 2020

T hough VR is driven primarily by gaming, it will diversify into several other use cases in the coming years. This is a common path for emerging tech, which often finds its way to utilitarian endpoints. Consider the web’s killer apps: boring things like publishing and communications. VR’s immersive qualities will help it maintain its course in entertainment, but it will also broaden.

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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

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Ever wanted to step into Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017) and experience the game’s iconic world in VR? Well, this fan-built creation offers up a good slice of the action by transporting VR players into a lovingly recreated version of the game’s Great Plateau area. The world is now available in VRChat , created by user ‘ColonelMcKernel’ There’s little to go on description-wise; its creator only says the publicly accessible world is m

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond , the next big Oculus Studios title, launches in just a few days. We’ve spent several hours with the campaign and multiplayer components of the game ahead of launch and are here to share our initial impressions. As both an Oculus Studios title and a game developed by Respawn Entertainment—known for Titanfall , Apex Legends , and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order —anticipation for the game is understandably high for what has been pitched as a significant VR production

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ARVR

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Virtual reality is widely used today in the gaming, medical, and entertainment industries, but there are a lot of scientific applications of VR as well. One of such interesting applications is the area of space exploration and astronaut training. Since VR is very immersive and provides life-like experiences, it can be an invaluable tool for helping astronauts prepare for what they may encounter when they set out for a real-life mission.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Social VR platform VRChat has rolled out a premium subscription service which brings a few new extras to users looking to support the free app. Called VRChat Plus , the membership includes some neat side benefits. In its Early Supporter phase though, the service seems more of a way to financially support the platform than anything. VRChat is available on multiple platforms, however Plus is currently only available through Steam for now, with additional platforms planned for the future.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 7, 2020

A disease infamous for sickening soldiers during World War I is popping up again among one of the most vulnerable populations: people struggling with homelessness. In a new case report out this week, doctors detail how a 48-year-old man in Manitoba, Canada developed a life-threatening heart infection from a bacterial… 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.

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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Ghost’s quadruped bots are the scary older brother of every other dog robot you’ve ever seen. And with good reason. They’re shipping off to join the military.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Two years later, we’re still adding unfortunate superlatives to the 2018 California wildfire season. The latest is a new study that reveals the hidden toll of what—until this year—was the state’s most destructive fire season. Read more.

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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Future Macs will come with 32-core processors and 128-core graphics chips, marking an enormous power surge compared to the Intel processors it recently ditched.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Archaeology is the closest thing we have to a time machine. Instead of using flux capacitors, however, archaeologists rely on technology like ground-penetrating radar, scanning electron microscopes, DNA sequencing, and of course, the good-old-fashioned shovel. Equipped with the right tools and techniques, the work of… Read more.

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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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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The PS4 Slim is a slimmer, sleeker version of the PS4, but is it the better console? In this PS4 versus PS4 Slim comparison, we explore all the differences.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 7, 2020

We need water to cook and wash our bodies and clothes, and especially to drink—without it, we can’t live. Despite this, Wall Street traders are going to start betting on it as a commodity. Read more.

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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 7, 2020

LibreOffice and OpenOffice are both free, open-source office suites, but which one is the best? In this guide, we'll compare both sets of productivity apps.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Although an apparent expert in hand-to-hand combat , most of us would rather see Din Djarin whip out his Amban phase-pulse blaster and completely disintegrate anyone impeding his mission (or latest side quest). Hasbro’s first detailed replica of the blaster won’t vaporize anyone, but it will annoy them, since it’s also… Read more.

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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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Anand Tech

DECEMBER 7, 2020

SK hynix has announced their latest generation of 3D NAND, now featuring 176 layers of charge trap flash memory cells. SK hynix is the second NAND manufacturer to reach this layer count, following Micron's announcement that their 176L NAND was starting to ship in Crucial-branded products. This is SK hynix's third generation to feature their Periphery under Cell (PUC) design to reduce die size by placing peripheral logic under the memory cell array, similar to Intel and Micron's CMOS

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 7, 2020

California Governor Gavin Newsom announced on Monday that the Golden State would become the 18th to launch an official Covid-19 contact tracing app powered by technology pioneered by Apple and Google. Read more.

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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 7, 2020

You don't need to drop $1,000 on Valve's Index VR headset to play Half-Life: Alyx. Here are the five cheapest VR headsets that you can use to play.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Divers searching for discarded fishing nets in the Baltic Sea have discovered a rare Enigma encryption machine used by the Nazis in World War II. Read more.

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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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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Walmart is offering some much-needed festive cheer in the form of a spectacular light show performed by nearly 1,000 Intel drones launched into the night sky.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 7, 2020

It’s a sad day for folks who look forward to holding a well-designed product guide for Swedish furniture in their meat hands. On Monday, IKEA announced that it will cease publication of its beloved catalog after 70 years of annual editions. Read more.

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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Smart wallets not only ensure a convenient place to store your money, but also protect against theft or loss. Here are some of the best smart wallets out there.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The HomePod Mini is $50 more than the Echo Dot , $75 more than the Nest Mini , and the exact same price as the larger Nest Audio. Its voice assistant, Siri, is not nearly as smart as its rivals. Its audio quality is only so remarkable. It is shaped like a Magic 8 Ball, which is certainly a choice. And I love the HomePod… Read more.

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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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