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Discover The Virtual Burning Man 2021

The Ghost Howls

The Burning Man is one of the most important festivals that runs every year in the United States. Last year it was held in a completely digital version, and its event inside Altspace VR was a blast , with all people in the VR communities talking enthusiastically about it. This year, in exactly one month from now, there will be the 2021 edition of the Virtual Burning Man and I’ve got the amazing opportunity to talk with the organizers about it.

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VR Hero Shooter ‘Larcenauts’ Update Is All About Immersion

VRScout

The first major update to Impulse Gears’ team-based PvP shooter introduces new interactions like manual reloading and immersive sprinting. Last month, developer Impulse Gear released Larcenauts on Oculus Quest, Oculus Rift, and SteamVR headsets. Today, the company announced the arrival of the games first major update, Immersion Overload, which expands the core gameplay with new immersive interactions.

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5th International VR Awards Finalists Announced

ARPost

The Academy of International Extended Reality has held the VR Awards for the last four years and the fifth annual event is scheduled to take place in VR on November 18. Yesterday, June 21, the organization announced the finalists. Let’s take a look. VR Healthcare of the Year. The VR Healthcare of the Year award is awarded to “projects that are changing the landscape of healthcare industries for good.

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Here Are The Nominees For The 2021 VR Awards

VRScout

This years’ VR Awards returns as a red carpet black-tie event alongside a “World Hop Experience” on VR headsets. The Academy of International Extended Reality (AIXR) has announced the finalists for the fifth International VR Awards , an international ceremony honoring incredible milestones made within the VR industry in categories such as hardware, gaming, film, social VR, marketing, and more.

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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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XR Talks: What Will 5G Do For AR?

AR Insider

B efore “Metaverse” was recently elevated as the latest overused XR buzzword, 5G was the reigning champ. To be clear, both of these technologies — and other industry jargon — represent real opportunities and accelerants… they’re just a bit overused (and misused) at times. 5G, for example, is often generalized as a technology that will unlock spatial experiences due to faster speeds and low latency.

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Breaking Down Facebook’s XR Road Map, Part II

AR Insider

What is Facebook Spending on XR. Following Part I’s examination of Facebook’s XR road map, the author dives into estimated spending levels. by Avi Bar-Zeev. F acebook says they have 10,000 employees working on XR, or about 1/6 of the company’s 58,604 employees. I’ll do some simple math based on public information. I’ll include my notes in brackets if you want to try other variations or tell me where I’m wrong.

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Haptic VR Glove Company HaptX Raises $12 Million in New Funding

Road to VR

HaptX, the company building VR gloves with advanced haptics, this week announced that is has raised $12 million in a Series A-1 investment which will be used to open a new headquarters based in Redmond, WA, and expand its team. HaptX is building perhaps the most advanced haptic VR glove to date, offering one of the most convincing experiences of touching the virtual world.

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Reality Bytes: Peleton, Facebook & Twitch

AR Insider

W hat are the biggest insights and observations in AR and adjacent sectors this week? Welcome to Reality Bytes , featuring lightning-round commentary from AR Insider partner M7 Innovations. Founder Matt Maher lends his insights from the trenches of AR experience creation. We continue the narrative this week with Maher’s look at Peleton’s augmented rides, Facebook creators and new Twitch platform integrations.

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‘Larcenauts’ Immersion Update Adds Two-handed Aiming, Manual Reloading & More

Road to VR

Impulse Gear announced that Larcenauts (2021) , its 6v6 hero shooter for PC VR and Oculus Quest, is getting a few key updates today which focus on increasing immersion in the game. The cross-play hero shooter first launched June 17th with a few things hardcore fans of the fps genre weren’t really expecting. The game’s gun-shooting experience felt like it had been heavily simplified: when larger guns are stabilized with two hands, only your dominant hand contributes to actually moving

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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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A SuperWorld Of Creativity

ARVR

Pablo Picasso once noted that “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” SuperWorld subscribes to this notion whole-heartedly, which is one of the reasons we’ve been building relationships with some of the most talented and innovative artists involved in digital and cryptoart, design, architecture, music, fashion and more. Creativity takes many forms (including bread hands).

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‘I Expect You to Die 2’ Coming to All Major VR Headsets August 24th, New Trailer Here

Road to VR

Schell Games today announced that its long-awaited follow-up to I Expect You to Die (2016) is set to launch on all major VR headsets August 24th. The spy-themed puzzler is already looking like a worthy sequel, offering fun and interesting ways to die, plenty of easter eggs, and a story that would be the envy of any would-be writer of a James Bond film.

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Archaeologists Find Ancient Roman Road in the Venetian Lagoon

GizModo VR

Researchers have spotted the remains of a Roman-era road at the bottom of the Venice’s famous Venetian Lagoon. The discovery gives clues to what the city looked like in antiquity, well before the legendary date of its founding in 421 CE. Read more.

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PlasticArm: Get Your Next CPU, Made Without Silicon

Anand Tech

Known for its core design IP that ends up in everything from IoT to smartphones to servers, Arm is now presenting that it has enabled one of its key microcontrollers in a new form factor: rather than using silicon as a base, the company has enabled a processor core in plastic. The technology has been in the works for almost a decade, but Arm has been waiting on the fabrication methods to create a fully working core.

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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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Body Preserved in a Bog Since the Iron Age Still Contains Undigested Last Meal

GizModo VR

A re-analysis of the stomach contents belonging to a naturally mummified Iron Age man is providing new insights into his surprisingly nutritious final meal and compromised state of health. Read more.

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Here’s a vital astronaut skill you may not have considered

Digital Trends

With a stay on the ISS lasting six months, astronauts have to be ready for all sorts of happenings on the orbiting outpost -- including dental emergencies.

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Jordan Peele's Next Movie Has a Perfect Horror Title

GizModo VR

Though Jordan Peele ’s upcoming project with Universal’s been shrouded in mystery, the director’s track record of making imaginative, ambitious horror movies has given many people more than enough reason to get excited. From the looks of the movie’s new poster and the subtext of its title, that excitement might end up… Read more.

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Steve Jobs’ 1973 job application is now in an unusual auction

Digital Trends

A job application filled out by the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in 1973 is being auctioned as both a physical item and a non-fungible token.

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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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Playstation Network, Steam, Banks, and More Knocked Offline by Massive Internet Outage

GizModo VR

A massive internet outage appears to have incapacitated services connected to droves of businesses, banks, government offices, and more, knocking a variety of popular websites and services offline. Read more.

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New version of Microsoft Edge could save you from using bad passwords online

Digital Trends

Microsoft Edge version 92 is bringing a new Password Health Dashboard that can help you determine the strength of your password or if it is leaked online.

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Larcenauts: Immersion Overload Update Adds Key Immersive Features

VR Fitness

Impulse Gear, an independent game developer and publisher located in San Francisco, continues to prioritize game features based on community feedback and requests for Larcenauts , a team-based multiplayer first-person hero shooter that was released last month. Today’s Immersion Overload Update focuses on gameplay options that allow for an even more engaging, VR-specific experience such as two-handed pivot-aiming, manual reload, and immersive sprinting.

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OnePlus' AirPods Pro Clone Might Be a Solid ANC Alternative

GizModo VR

OnePlus has been making wireless earbuds for the last few years, but now it feels like the company might be finally ready to compete with the big brands with the announcement of the new OnePlus Buds Pro. 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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Supermicro Ultra SYS-120U-TNR Review: Testing Dual 10nm Ice Lake Xeon in 1U

Anand Tech

With the launch of Intel’s Ice Lake Xeon Scalable platform comes a new socket and a range of features that vendors like Supermicro have to design for. The server and enterprise market is so vast that every design can come in a range of configurations and settings, however one of the key elements is managing compute density with memory and accelerator support.

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An Autonomous Drone Just Beat a Professional Racing Pilot for the First Time

GizModo VR

Unlike auto racing, in drone racing the pilots aren’t subjected to debilitating G-forces, which means the races can take place at impossibly fast speeds. So fast, in fact, that autonomous drones have always lagged behind those piloted by humans who benefit from split-second reflexes. But that’s no longer the case. Read more.

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Cadence Cerebrus to Enable Chip Design with ML: PPA Optimization in Hours, not Months

Anand Tech

The design of most leading edge processors and ASICs rely on steps of optimization, with the three key optimization points being Performance, Power, and Area (and sometimes Cost). Once the architecture of a chip is planned, it comes down to designing the silicon of that chip for a given process node technology, however there are many different ways to lay the design out.

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Brain-Computer Implants Will Let Corporations Mine Your Thoughts for Cash, Researchers Warn

GizModo VR

Someday, in the dim fart-filled chamber you will call home, you’re strapped into a helmet suckling mush through a straw and consuming content while social media and marketing companies hoover up your thought data. 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?