VRScout

MAY 1, 2021

Hang out with Sergeant Keroro, Gintama, and other popular anime characters in VR. HTC VIVE is revving up its engines for a big year. In addition to launching a new facial tracking peripheral and improved sensors, the company this week announced a partnership with iFixit to offer easier repair options for their VR headsets. Then of course there’s the upcoming Vivecon 2021 event as well as those cryptic tweets alluding to a new HTC Vive headset(s).

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VR Game Critic

MAY 1, 2021

It’s a new month of VR game releases and while April had plenty on offer to keep us busy for a while, May continues to bring more games to the table. In the case of Demeo, it’s a virtual tabletop that invites us to explore its dungeon crawling adventure with up to four friends in co-op mode. And if you can’t get enough of magic, make sure to step into the mysterious realm of spellcaster The Wizards: Dark Times.

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GizModo VR

MAY 1, 2021

A coalition of broadband associations representing providers such as AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile sued New York on Friday over a law passed earlier this month that requires them to offer affordable internet for low-income families at rates of $15 and $20 per month beginning in mid-June. Read more.

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Digital Trends

MAY 1, 2021

SpaceX has scrubbed the high altitude test of its Starship prototype, which had been scheduled for Friday. The test will likely be pushed back to next week.

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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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GizModo VR

MAY 1, 2021

What do you get when you cross a polar bear and a grizzly bear? A fluffy reminder of how climate change is transforming our planet at an alarming rate. Read more.

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GizModo VR

MAY 1, 2021

A new chapter unfolded this week in Amazon’s years-long legal battle over selling exploding hoverboards. A California appeals court has ruled that the e-commerce giant is responsible for the safety of third-party products sold on its platform, according to the Los Angeles Times. Read more.

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Digital Trends

MAY 1, 2021

After several delays, the four astronauts comprising the Crew-1 mission are scheduled to return to Earth tomorrow in a rare after-dark splashdown.

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GizModo VR

MAY 1, 2021

It’s Jes Macallan’s time in the spotlight! As Legends of Tomorrow enters its sixth season, Sara Lance is on a spaceship far, far away as an alien captive. With the team without a leader, Ava Sharpe is stepping up. Much like her character, Macallan, is taking charge behind the camera with her first directorial… Read more.

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Digital Trends

MAY 1, 2021

Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles finally have an answer to how long a day on Venus is, after 15 years of painstaking observations.

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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

MAY 1, 2021

What happens when two Hollywood power couples come together to create art? You get a book to screen adaption of Edward Gorey’s book illustrated book, The Doubtful Guest. Read more.

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Oculus

MAY 1, 2021

Star Wars Day is around the corner, but the celebration starts now. We’re offering up the best bundle this side of the galaxy, including every.

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GizModo VR

MAY 1, 2021

The CW is constantly expanding, and now they are welcoming a new show into the fold. DC’s Comics Naomi is coming to the CW, and a new official has been released. The show stars Kaci Walfall ( Power, Army Wives ) as the title character and will write and act as executive producer for the show, with Amanda Marsalis,… Read more.

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Digital Trends

MAY 1, 2021

After a small stumble, the Mars helicopter Ingenuity has completed its fourth flight. Now it has a new mission, called its operations demonstration phase.

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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

MAY 1, 2021

NASA has suspended SpaceX’s work on its $2.9 billion lunar lander to return astronauts to the moon due to protests filed Blue Origin and Dynetics, the companies that the space agency didn’t choose to build its lunar lander. Read more.

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Digital Trends

MAY 1, 2021

With the changes Apple has been making to MacOS, finding the iTunes Store to buy music works differently now. Here's where the iTunes Store is now located.

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MAY 1, 2021

Joy Way, the indie game studio behind the VR parkour game STRIDE, has just released a free demo of their upcoming game AGAINST (yes, they love capsed names). I just played it and of course, I’m here telling you my first impressions about it! The video version of this review! Here you can see also the tutorial of the game, and a bit of gameplay.

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Digital Trends

MAY 1, 2021

The second Noelle hangout quest in the Genshin Impact 1.5 matches the last with six endings. Here are the answers you'll need to unlock each and every one.

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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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Oculus

MAY 1, 2021

This week, we released several titles and updates across the Oculus Platform. Here’s a rundown of the highlights.

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Digital Trends

MAY 1, 2021

Why have two different units when you can have one that sweeps and mops at once?

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