Mon.Jul 19, 2021

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Oculus Quest 128GB Headset Supposedly In The Works

VRScout

A new listing indicates that Facebook could be replacing its 64GB device in favor of a base model with more storage. This past December, we talked about the pros and cons of the 64GB and 256GB Oculus Quest headsets and which one to buy depending on your wants and needs as a user. Long story short, while the 256GB model offers plenty of breathing room for VR fanatics who prefer to have their extensive libraries of games and apps readily available, the 64GB model features more than enough storage

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The XR Week Peek: Facebook abandons BCIs, VR grows fast, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

It’s a nice summer day here in Italy, and I hope things for all of you are going well. I feel a bit weird because I’ve discovered yesterday that I’m the subject of nightmares for Celine Tricart , a well-renowned VR creator. I mean, I’m a ghost, so probably I should be fine with the idea of being scary, but it still feels a bit strange to me…. Top news of the week.

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‘Fruit Ninja VR 2’ Available For Early Playtesting

VRScout

Go hands-on with the highly-anticipated follow-up to Halfbrick Studios’ VR hack-and-slash game before its launch later this year. Earlier this month, it was revealed that the classic mobile game turned hit VR experience, Fruit Ninja VR , would be receiving a proper follow-up later this year, offering a new-and-improved arcade experience that will have you exploring the colorful Fruit Ninja Temple as you continue to hone your incredible—or shameful—fruit-slashing skills.

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PhotoCatch: 3D Scanning App That Converts Photos to AR Objects

ARPost

Are you looking for the right way to visualize an object in a specific environment? Until now, you had to imagine how it fits by looking at separate photos. Now, with a new 3D scanning app you can turn the photos of the item into an AR-ready object and integrate it into the respective environment, thanks to the PhotoCatch app which uses the recently-launched Apple Object Capture photogrammetry technology.

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The Future of eLearning in 2022: A Sensitive Eye for Authentic Translation and Localization

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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USA Today Showcases New Summer Olympics Sports with Augmented Reality

Next Reality AR

After a postponement of the Summer Olympics for a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Tokyo is set to host the games this summer, despite a surge in cases in the city. Nonetheless, the games seem set to go on, and USA Today has published two AR experiences highlighting two new sports, skateboarding and sports climbing, making their Olympics debut. Don't Miss: USA Today Teams Up with 8th Wall to Launch AR Basketball Game for March Madness The AR experiences feature American professional skateboard

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Spatial Beats: Facebook, Rec Room & Looking Glass

AR Insider

W elcome back to Spatial Beats. This week, we look at Looking Glass’ latest hardware, New avatars at Rec Room and lots of new funding. Let’s dive in… Genvid Raises $113M to Build Out Massive Interactive Live Games , Taps Ex-Netflix Content Exec Cindy Holland as Adviser. The new new game studio pulled in an astonishing $113M Series C to produce what the company calls “massive interactive live events,” or MILEs.

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Google Studio Owlchemy Labs Affirms Work on New VR Game, Details Expected This Year

Road to VR

Google-owned Owlchemy Labs, the studio behind VR classics like Job Simulator and Vacation Simulator , has confirmed that it’s working on a new VR project after running quiet for much of the year. Owlchemy Labs has been around since the early days of the modern VR era, with the studio’s first major title, Job Simulator , bundled as a launch title for the HTC Vive in 2016.

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Use Cases & Best Practices for Haptics at Scale in VR Training

ARVR

On Thursday, May 27th, key players from the haptics, hand tracking, and VR training industries gathered to discuss the scaling of haptics in VR training applications. It addressed how a company can leverage haptic technology across all their virtual training scenarios thanks to Interhaptics and Innoactive technologies. Source: www.senseglove.com Interhaptics allows the creation of great virtual reality haptics scenarios in a few clicks with the integration of exoskeleton and haptics gloves into

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Red Tide Has Killed at Least 791 Tons of Fish in Florida

GizModo VR

Florida is fighting through an early and serious algae scourge. More than 790 tons of dead fish have washed up on beaches in Florida over the past few weeks as a red tide grips the Tampa area. Read more.

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How to Train Employees 65% Faster With Virtual Reality

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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Narrativity in Mobile Computing with Augmented Reality

ARVR

Where does mobile AR fit in the ludological mode of computer game narrative? Continue reading on AR/VR Journey: Augmented & Virtual Reality Magazine ».

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The Telecoms Industry Spends $230K a Day To Make Sure Your Broadband Sucks

GizModo VR

If broadband in the United States sucks , you can thank the telecoms industry, which is apparently so obsessed with maintaining our current crappy internet infrastructure that it spent a combined total of $234 million lobbying against faster, cheaper competitors during the 116th Congress. Read more.

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GlobalFoundries To Spend Billions: Doubling Fab 8, Creating New Fab in NY

Anand Tech

Today at a private GlobalFoundies event, CEO Tom Caulfield accompanied by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, announced that the company is set on expansion. At the heart of this new initiative is a doubling of Fab 8, GF’s leading manufacturing facility, at the cost of around $1B. Accompanying this is the disclosure that GF is going to build another manufacturing facility close to Fab 8, in Malta NY, as part of a Private-Public partnership.

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UK Issues First-Ever Extreme Heat Warning

GizModo VR

In 2021, nowhere on Earth is safe from searing temperatures—not the Pacific Northwest , nor Siberia , nor, it seems, the UK. The country’s Met Office issued its first-ever extreme heat alert Monday to warn residents of temperatures coming this week that could exceed 91.4 degrees Fahrenheit (33 degrees Celsius) in some… Read more.

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Are You Still Watching? How to Create Engaging Presentations for Virtual Learning

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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This awesome Xbox gaming feature is coming to both Windows 11 and Windows 10

Digital Trends

DirectStorage was originally announced as an exclusive feature for Windows 11. A recent blog post says that it's coming to Windows 10 machines, too.

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Feral Hogs Pollute the Climate as Much as 1 Million Cars Each Year

GizModo VR

Nearly two years ago, we all had a hearty laugh about 30 to 50 feral hogs. Turns out that all those pigs aren’t just a horribly invasive species , but they could be wreaking real havoc when it comes to climate change. According to a new study published Monday in Global Change Biology, wild pigs around the world are… Read more.

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Nvidia is ‘laying the foundation’ for ARM-based gaming PCs in the future

Digital Trends

Nvidia showed off a demo at GDC of Wolfenstein: Youngblood running with RTX features. For the first time ever, though, they were running on an ARM-based system.

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Peloton Is Getting Into Gaming

GizModo VR

Peloton’s been busy these past few months, releasing new features at a steady clip. The latest? A fitness video game beta called Lanebreak that marks the company’s first foray into gaming. Read more.

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

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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Uber’s grocery delivery service expands to more than 400 cities and towns

Digital Trends

Uber has announced it's more than doubled the reach of its grocery delivery service, which now reaches more than 400 cities and towns across the U.S.

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Updates From The Batman and The Flash Are, Somehow, Still Both About Batman

GizModo VR

Another new director steps in for Disney+’s Willow television show. The John Wick spinoff series, The Continental , adds a director and reveals its own structure. Plus, another new look at the Chucky TV series , and what’s to come on Charmed and Legends of Tomorrow. To me, my spoilers! Read more.

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Microsoft Edge to stop auto-playing videos by default

Digital Trends

One of the pains of the internet is videos that autoplay on your webpage and Microsoft Edge version 92 will finally fix it by limiting it by default.

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The Bootleg Fire Grows to the Size of Los Angeles as Government Warns of 'National Wildfire Crisis'

GizModo VR

The West’s nightmare summer continues to grow worse. The Bootleg Fire in southern Oregon is the largest in the U.S. and has now overrun more than 300,000 acres. Yet as the fire rages out of control, more dire news is on the horizon: The Forest Service’s budget and firefighting resources are expected to be tapped out… Read more.

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Who C.A.R.E.S.!? How Learning Got Its Bad Rap & What We Can Do About It

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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Klipsch’s first Dolby Atmos soundbar brings 1,200 watts of power

Digital Trends

Klipsch may be a relative latecomer to the Dolby Atmos soundbar club, but it appears to be making up for lost time with two very potent new models.

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Just Cancel the Damn Olympics Already

GizModo VR

Add “extreme heat” to the growing list of plagues facing this year’s Summer Olympics, an event I’m starting to suspect I would very much not enjoy participating in, even if they asked nicely. Read more.

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Fitbit Sense and Fitbit Charge both get massive discounts at Best Buy

Digital Trends

The Fitbit Charge 4 gives you unprecedented fitness monitoring with GPS, while the Fitbit Sense adds monitoring tech like ECG to your health overview.

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Space Tourism Is a Waste

GizModo VR

Jeff Bezos, the richest man on Earth, will head into suborbital space on Tuesday. He’ll be the second billionaire to take such a journey this month, getting narrowly beat out by Richard Branson, who recently took an hour-long rocket trip to the edge of space. Next year, Elon Musk—who has traded the world’s-richest… Read more.

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How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular

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?