VRScout

JUNE 23, 2021

Virtual Taekwondo combines full-body motion-tracking and video games to offer the next generation of competitive virtual sports. The 2020 Summer games are finally happening after being delayed for over a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which means the long-awaited return of Olympic-level taekwondo. In honor of International Olympic Day, a celebration of Olympic values in which athletes participate in a variety of sports activities, exhibitions, and seminars, Singapore-based tech company Refra

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Road to VR

JUNE 23, 2021

Though Oculus has added plenty of new features to Quest since its launch, in the latest update its removing one: the ‘Go Live’ feature was the only direct method for livestreaming the headset’s view to the web (via Facebook), but it’s gone as of the v30 update. Users can still cast from Quest to a smartphone or PC for local spectating.

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VRScout

JUNE 23, 2021

Corporate videos are so 2020. Giantstep is looking to take brand awareness to the next level with its interactive environments. South Korea-based creative technology company Giantstep is no stranger to developing jaw-dropping visual productions. The company has worked with a number of clients on a wide variety of incredible brand experiences, from a motion-capture-powered music video for the K-Pop group AESPA to a high-tech pop-up store for Louis Vuitton complete with an interactive runway.

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Road to VR

JUNE 23, 2021

Moth+Flame, a creator of VR training software, today announced it’s garnered $2.5 million in seed funding to expand the scale of its workplace VR training technology. The New York-based company’s latest funding round was led by Bee Partners with additional investment from First In, Meeting Street Capital, Service Provider Capital, Spacecadet, and Dan Farah, producer of Steven Spielberg’s film adaptation of Ready Player One.

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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

JUNE 23, 2021

A s you likely know, one of AR’s foundational principles is to fuse the digital and physical. The real world is a key part of that formula… and real-world relevance is often defined by location. That same relevance and scarcity are what drive real estate value….location, location, location. Synthesizing these factors, one of AR’s battlegrounds will be in augmenting the world in location-relevant ways.

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ARVR

JUNE 23, 2021

Overview of Unity MARS and Flutter experimentation with demo, tips and gotchas to look out for when combining these two recent… Continue reading on AR/VR Journey: Augmented & Virtual Reality Magazine ».

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GizModo VR

JUNE 23, 2021

One of the biggest hurdles for augmented reality devices is design: No one wants to wear an obvious gadget on their face. Realizing the issues Google Glass had with gaining consumer traction, it seems Facebook may embrace a unique design for a future wearable. Folks, it’s a baseball hat. Read more.

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Anand Tech

JUNE 23, 2021

In light of the rate of innovation, chip design teams have spent tens of thousands of hours honing their skills over the decades. But getting the best human-designed processor in this fashion can take six months or more, because the number of arrangements possible is equivalent to the number of atoms in the known universe… multiplied by the number of atoms in the known universe.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 23, 2021

Many birds have a sixth sense. No, not seeing dead people: They detect Earth’s magnetic field, an ability that allows them to return to the same sites, year after year, during seasonal migration. Now, scientists have come closer to identifying the mechanism that our feathery friends use to feel Earth’s magnetic… 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

JUNE 23, 2021

The Tokyo Research Institute in California has designed a prototype robot that can skillfully perform various chores within the home.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 23, 2021

Microsoft is warning that a cybercrime group named BazarCall is using call centers to trick users into installing powerful malware, ZDNet reported on Wednesday. Read more.

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Digital Trends

JUNE 23, 2021

It's onwards and upwards for NASA's Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, after the aircraft recently completed its eighth flight on the planet.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 23, 2021

The $300 Wristcam is a futuristic Apple Watch accessory that asks the question: What if you put a camera on your smartwatch? When we first heard about it , it seemed like the band was teetering on the edge between genius and ridiculousness. The same can be said of Wristcam’s latest feature: live video messaging. 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

JUNE 23, 2021

Prime Day might be officially over, but one of the best TV deals is still alive: A 65-inch TCL 5-Series 4K QLED Roku TV for under $700 from Walmart.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 23, 2021

As we look towards a Waterworld-esque future where our access to H20 is increasingly rare , it’s even more important to figure out how to squeeze every last drop we can , including out of thin air. In a study published Wednesday in Science Advances, a team of researchers from ETH Zurich demonstrated a new way to create… Read more.

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Digital Trends

JUNE 23, 2021

Scarlet Nexus is a unique Japanese action roleplaying game full of tons of surprises for fans of the genre.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 23, 2021

It doesn’t matter how many times you tell people not to say his name five times , dammit someone’s going to do it anyway. The latest trailer for Nia DaCosta’s much-anticipated Candyman takes a peek inside the mind of an artist determined to find inspiration—and answers to his own story—at any cost. 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

JUNE 23, 2021

After a long graphics card shortage, rumors say that the market situation is slowly improving. We tested the availability of the GeForce RTX 30-Series cards.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 23, 2021

Now that Google has opened up its business-focused Workspace suite to everyone, there are some new Google Drive features. But as with every move, sometimes things get busted along the way. Read more.

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Digital Trends

JUNE 23, 2021

The Swann 4K Thermal Sensing Security Camera uses thermal sensing to reduce the number of false alarms, provides 200 feet of night vision, and much more.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 23, 2021

The West hasn’t totally cooled off, but the region has gotten a slight reprieve from the heat that has dried up reservoirs , curtailed hydropower , and otherwise wrought havoc on the megadrought-afflicted region. Unfortunately, all good(ish) things must come to an end. 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

JUNE 23, 2021

Microsoft is set to talk about the next generation of Windows and Windows 11 at its June 24 event. You can watch all of the action right here live.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 23, 2021

An intrepid team of biologists embarked on an extensive genetic survey of Chinese cats to determine the true identity of the Chinese mountain cat, an enigmatic feline that inhabits a swath of the Tibetan Plateau. It turns out that the creature is its own wildcat subspecies— Felis silvestris bieti —and, despite its… Read more.

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Digital Trends

JUNE 23, 2021

New RDNA 2-based AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT graphics cards from Gigabyte have been seen at EEC. We now know more about the specs of these new gaming GPUs.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 23, 2021

Amazon Studios’ The Boys continues to grow its cast of heroes, villains, and everyone in between. Actors Sean Patrick Flanery, Nick Wechsler, and Gaston Villanueva are three of the newest Supes to join the squad. But who are they going to play? 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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