VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Developers can now share their apps with Oculus players without Store approval. Oculus today announced the rollout of update v25 for Oculus Quest/Quest 2 headsets, introducing a slew of long-sought-after features that make the companies line of all-in-one standalone VR headsets even more attractive. This includes the App Lab, a brand new service catering specifically to apps deemed too unpolished for official store approval.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

AR glasses could deliver an even more realistic and interactive experience with the aid of holography. This is the main theme of a recently published whitepaper “Holography: The Future of Augmented Reality Wearables” by a company specializing in computer-generated holography. VividQ , a Cambridge-based tech software company, aims to perfect AR wearables through the implementation of advanced 3D holography.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

IBM places its bets on AI-powered audio interactivity as the future of XR. As VR and AR continue to become more mainstream, the expectations of users are also on the rise. The last big breakthrough we saw in ease-of-use interactivity was the launch of hand tracking and gesture recognition on enterprise and consumer VAR devices. IBM predicts that AI will unlock the next generation of interactivity for XR experiences, describing in the 2021 Unity Technology Trends Report that the maturity of AI wi

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Beat Saber has officially reached 4 million units sold, Oculus today announced , along with 40 million songs of paid DLC, pushing the app’s estimated revenue to $180 million. By now, Beat Saber can be considered nothing less than VR’s first killer app by scale. As far as we know, it’s the best selling VR game to date, now with 4 million units sold across all platforms (Quest, PC VR, and PSVR).

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

A R continues to evolve and take shape as an industry. Prominent sectors include industrial AR , social , gaming , and shopping. But existing alongside them is AR advertising. This includes paid/sponsored AR lenses that let consumers visualize products on “spaces & faces.”. Advertising is one of the most lucrative AR subsectors, estimated to reach $1.41 billion last year and $8.02 billion by 2024.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Recent years have brought record-breaking wildfires, hurricanes, and other natural disasters supercharged by climate change. But even to our jaded modern eyes, the weather that befell Bristol in Western England at the turn of 17th century is pretty shocking. Read more.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Completing your weekly chores can be an absolute drag, but doing repetitive tasks like vacuuming the house might not always be so boring when VR and AR come into the mix. Reddit user ‘ VoxelGuy ‘ showcases a novel idea with a VR prototype vacuuming minigame built around a 1:1 virtual representation of his living room, which he initially created for a few other cool ‘virtual-augmented’ reality experiments.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

If you can 3D-print a gun. if you can 3D-print a home. then brother, you might as well pull up a chair and 3D-print yourself some meat while you’re at it, because these masses aren’t going to feed themselves. Read more.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The high-flying shooter STRIDE (2020) from developer Joy Way is finally making its way to PSVR, with release set for sometime in early 2021. The Mirror’s Edge -style game is slated to include all of the recent most additions from the PC VR version, including ‘Arena’, ‘Time Run’, and ‘Endless’ modes. There’s no official release date yet for the PSVR version, however Joy Way says to “stay tuned.” Stay tuned for the release date!

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

If you love something to the point of unhealthy obsession, it feels like there’s only one place you can really go. The internet. Read more.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

I spend at least an hour a day in my VR headset. I am able to do work that clients pay me for while wearing my headset and sitting with a… Continue reading on AR/VR Journey: Augmented & Virtual Reality Magazine ».

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Comcast is increasing the speed of its Internet Essentials package from 25/3 Mbps to 50/5 Mbps starting March 1, 2020 at no additional cost. The change is part of what the ISP says is a long-term commitment to digital equity, and that offering low-income households speeds above the FCC-defined minimum will help to… Read more.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Apple-related hardware rumors have become a favorite pastime in the AR world. But after a few years of rapid-fire AR-glasses rumors, the latest chatter shifts to VR. As you’ve likely heard, Bloomberg reported last week that Apple has plans for a VR headset to release next year. Codenamed N301, the device is to be a high-end headset (think: more Valve Index, less Oculus Quest).

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

If the Apple car is real—and it sounds like it will be—then we have years of rumors ahead of us. According to a new report from a longtime Apple analyst, it sounds like Apple has picked Hyundai’s E-GMP platform as the base for its upcoming electric car. Read more.

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TechCrunch VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Facebook spent more time than usual talking about their success with VR in their quarterly earnings call, taking time to note developer success and their own wins peddling their latest Quest 2 VR headset. One of the VR platform’s remaining quirks is a general lack of third-party support for apps that go beyond gaming. The headset is a powerful piece of hardware with few VR ports of mobile apps available, even available streaming apps from Hulu and Netflix have seen scant updates due to the

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Prisoners of the Ghostland , the English language debut of Japanese director Sion Sono , works in two ways. First, it works as an elevator pitch. The film’s simple, captivating concept quickly grabs your attention. It also works as a fever dream. An impressive collection of cool visuals and sequences that don’t really… Read more.

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VR Fitness

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The Oculus Quest 2 has been out for a while now, and third party companies have had time to develop a range of aftermarket accessories and solutions, all designed to improve comfort, enhance sweat-proof protection, and increase useability. Top of that company list is VRCover. They have provided excellent aftermarket replacement interface and cover options for every major virtual reality headset, since the launch of the original Oculus Rift CV1 and HTC Vive back in 2016.

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

After a drawn-out battle, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs has finally settled with Google, which will now pay out or set aside $3.8 million to remedy allegations it discriminated against over 5,000 woman and Asian engineers. Over $2.5 million of that will go directly to… Read more.

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Digital Trends

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

For the ultimate combination of image quality and performance, look no further than these full-frame cameras.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

If you’re also the type of person that’s wary about clicking on dubious links in your search results, then here’s a bit of good news: Google’s revamping its native search engine to give us more information about the results we see before we take those risky clicks. Read more.

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Digital Trends

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The world of Virtual Reality has a lot of unique experiences to offer. Here are the best VR apps for 2021.

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

When Boston Dynamics first revealed a prototype of its Spot robot to the world back in 2016, it featured a gripper on the end of an articulated arm that was curiously missing when the company officially made Spot available for sale last year. Seven months later, the Spot Arm is finally ready to help with laundry,… Read more.

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Digital Trends

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Printing your favorite smartphone pictures on the go is easier than ever with a portable photo printer. From tiny Zink printers to devices that "print" on film, here are some of the best portable photo printers.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Every year sees a number of new ransomware gangs emerge and take a swing at becoming the most prolific operators in the digital underworld. Well, 2021 officially has its first new high-profile ransomware operation and they are definitely a s. Read more.

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Digital Trends

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The humble SIM card is finally on its way out in favor of the eSIM. But what is an eSIM? Here's the lowdown.

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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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