VRScout

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Re-flourish a barren wasteland by learning the long-forgotten art of cultivation in this laid-back interactive experience. Trebuchet , the developer behind Prison Boss VR and Jousting Time , this week announced its latest game, Winds & Leaves , an upcoming VR gardening sim for PlayStation VR that will have you exploring a barren landscape filled with mysterious landmarks as you harness the ancient art of growing vegetation in an effort to bring life to this once beautiful world.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Situational awareness is crucial for personnel delivering an emergency response. Augmented reality can help hone this skill. AR supports emergency response management through simulations, real-time assistance, and mapping danger zones. Let’s look at how AR functions in each of these areas. See Also: ThirdEye Enterprise AR Updates in Device Management, Remote Assistance.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Although Quest 2 is a standalone headset, it can also be plugged into a PC to play PC VR games through Oculus PC and Steam. The headset’s holiday success has clearly bled through into the PC VR landscape, as the latest data shows that Quest 2 is now the second most used headset on Steam, with the total number of monthly-connected headsets on the platform reaching a new all-time high of 2.6 million.

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Next Reality AR

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Despite the unfortunate social media-driven association of Corona beer with the virus behind a global pandemic, beverage maker Constellation Brands has pushed its marketing forward like a lime through the mouth of a beer bottle. The brand's latest effort leverages an AR experience to entice drinkers with the Corona Hard Seltzer line of "spike sparkling water.

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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

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Oculus today introduced a program called App Lab, a new effort which will allow developers to distribute their VR apps on Quest without being subject to a quality review ‘curation’ process. Though apps still need to meet Oculus’ technical guidelines, and won’t appear in the Quest store like formally approved apps, they can be independently distributed and even sold without a cumbersome sideloading process.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Facebook announced that the v25 software update for its Quest platform is set to include Facebook Messenger, which will be available to anyone who is logged into their Facebook account on either Quest or Quest 2. This will allow users to chat with Facebook friends who own any device with Messenger. The company says in a blogpost that without taking off the headset you’ll be able to write messages by typing with a virtual keyboard, select from pre-written texts, or use Quest’s voice-t

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Some may brush it off, saying that it’s just semantics. But words, like technologies, have the power to shape views and change the world. In this article, I’d like to discuss the deeper meaning of AR and offer a different perspective that can impact how it is used and developed. The current worldview Left Image: Point-mask detection Right Image: Man using the Rainbow Filter- [link] When the smartphone was first introduced, it was a new concept that today feels natural but was extremely revolutio

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Vertigo Games, the studio behind Arizona Sunshine (2017) and upcoming VR shooter After the Fall , today announced that it has acquired SpringboardVR, creators of the eponymous location-based VR content distribution platform. The acquisition amount was undisclosed, however the move is slated to see several members of the SpringboardVR team transfer to Vertigo Games, something the company says in a press statement will “ensure seamless service and operations for arcade operators and game s

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Photographed by Victor Grigas , Wikipedia Online privacy is a trending topic nowadays. We witness a growing public awareness, in which nearly 80% of US internet users are concerned about the data collected by companies. On the corporates’ end, market leader Apple has recently made significant privacy-focused changes like limiting apps’ tracking capabilities on iOS 14 and launching App Store privacy labels.

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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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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Trebuchet, the Montreal-based studio behind Prison Boss VR (2017), announced it’s getting ready to release a new exclusive on PSVR soon, this time serving up a non-linear world-building game called Winds & Leaves. Winds & Leaves is set in a desert planet which tasks you with taking it from barren to blooming. Trebuchet says you’ll be able to roam through various biomes and bring back life to the world “one seed at a time.” At least from the announcement trailer,

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

There’s really no good reason to wait to tackle the climate crisis, but especially when it comes to money. A new report offers yet more proof that the longer we wait, the higher that cost will be. Read more.

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Digital Trends

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Looking for the right laptop dock for your setup? Our guide to the best laptop docking stations will have just what you need -- including 4K video support.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

First conceived in the combustion of a hydrogen bomb on the South Pacific island of Elugelab in 1952, the heavy element einsteinium is one of the shier members of the Periodic Table; it doesn’t naturally occur and is so unstable that it’s difficult to get enough of the stuff, for long enough, to actually study it. 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

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Quality headsets are rare, despite the fact that there are dozens of Bluetooth headsets available. We've rounded up the best headsets available for all cases.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

One of the most iconic buildings in the world is running on clean electricity. On Wednesday, the company that owns the Empire State Building announced it had inked a deal to meet the electricity needs of not just that building but its entire portfolio with wind power. Read more.

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Anand Tech

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Building on their recent announcement of PCIe 5.0 retimers , Microchip has announced their first PCIe 5.0 switches, as part of their Switchtec PFX product line. On paper these look like a very straightforward update to their existing Switchtec PFX switches for PCIe 4.0, carrying over all the important features but doubling the speed. The final version of the PCI Express 5.0 specification was released in May 2019, but significant adoption is not expected to begin until Intel's Sapphire Rapids

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

A startup in Iran recently suffered a large data breach in which millions of its user records were exposed to the internet and then subsequently destroyed by a cyberattack involving a bot. The disruption appears to be part of an ongoing trend in which bad actors surf the web looking for insecure databases, then pounce… 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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Digital Trends

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

There are a variety of smart speakers and displays on the market these days, and Google has its own line of devices to choose from. Here's a breakdown of each.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Now the Chinese are involved. That’s one of the newest allegations to emerge in the SolarWinds scandal , the supply chain “cyber Pearl Harbor” that seems to have enveloped the entire U.S. government, as well as the private sector. Read more.

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Digital Trends

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

It's reasonable to see the Galaxy S21's plastic back as a downgrade for a high-end phone, but when you consider the alternatives, it makes tons of sense.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Robinhood–the company that’s currently being grilled by the likes of Elon Musk , Elizabeth Warren and others over its role in the so-called “ Gamestonks ” controversy–has decided to plow ahead with its first ever Super Bowl ad campaign, CNBC reports. 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

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Presidents’ Day 2021 is right around the corner, and that can only mean one thing: Presidents Day sales. OK, maybe not only one thing. It’s still a time for friends and family to come together and honor our founding father. But we can’t dismiss the fact that — like any long weekend — it has […].

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The Texas Department of Public Safety is blaming “a test malfunction” after it sent out an Amber Alert on Jan. 29 urging the public to be on the lookout not for a missing child but Chucky, the killer doll from the Child’s Play series. Read more.

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Digital Trends

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Found in both early morning and late evening, this 'magic hour' presents the best lighting for photography.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

It’s that time, Expanse fans, when the finale we’ve been dying to see arrives—and then leaves us dying to know what happens next once it’s over. Season four ended with Marco Inaros (Keon Alexander) preparing to attack Earth, but season five’s “Nemesis Games” ended with something even more terrifying. 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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