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Immersive Tech Brings The Tokyo Olympics To Life At Home

VRScout

From volumetric video to AI-powered motion capture , here’s how immersive tech is changing the most historic sporting event on the planet. Last Friday marked the start of the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo, Japan, kicking off nearly two weeks of jaw-dropping athletic competitions featuring some of the most physically talented human beings on the planet.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.07.26): Facebook aims at the Metaverse, Quest 2 goes MR, and more!

The Ghost Howls

I’m incredibly happy about having been hosted by Sebastian Ang (MRTV), one of my favorite VR content creators, in his weekly podcast on Youtube! We spoke about AR and VR for 2 hours and we were having so much fun that we could have gone on for other 2 hours without problems! If you want to watch the video of the recording, you can find it here: And now, let’s start speaking about the best AR/VR news of the week!

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What You Need to Know About Virtual Reality Chairs

ARPost

The addition of virtual reality chairs to the world of gaming is bringing novel experiences to players all around the globe. Along with premium visuals, sounds, and even scents, VR chairs are taking video games to a whole new level. But what exactly are VR chairs? And how do they work? How Virtual Reality Chairs Enhance Immersion. Early virtual reality games focused primarily on visuals.

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Data Dive: Facebook Reaches 600 Million AR Users

AR Insider

L ast month, Facebook’s held a toned-down version of it’s annual F8 developer conference known as F8 Refresh. It included a handful of notable and incremental AR updates, such as multipeer AR face filters. These bring a syncronous multiplayer twist to social AR. But buried in these updates was another notable data nugget that signals Facebook’s mobile AR growth trajectory.

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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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Rezzil Secures $2.75M Investment for Oculus Quest Sports Training App ‘Player 22’

Road to VR

Rezzil, a UK-based VR sports training and analytics startup, announced that its secured an investment round of over £2 million (~$2.75 million), which will be used to promote its new consumer-focused sports training platform, Player 22. Rezzil’s investors include soccer professionals Thierry Henry, Gary Neville, Vincent Kompany, Michail Antonio, Tyrone Mings, and Anthony Watson.

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AR: Coming to a Shopping Mall Near You

ARVR

One of AR’s core properties is to fuse the physical and digital (a.k.a. phygital ). Part of this involves physical places: AR devices have to understand a space before they augment it. This breathes new opportunity into the longstanding location intelligence sector. For example, Foursquare?—?the king of location intelligence?—?has an experimental project to power audio AR experiences.

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Amazon to Accept Bitcoin by End of 2021 and Develop Own Currency by 2022: Report

GizModo VR

Amazon has plans to accept the cryptocurrency bitcoin by the end of 2021, according to an anonymously sourced report in the London newspaper City A.M. And while this is just the word of one anonymous “insider” at the Seattle-based mega-retailer, bitcoin’s price skyrocketed overnight and it’s creating a lot of buzz in… Read more.

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Augmented Reality in Field Service Management

ARVR

The great technological development that has gripped the world at the same time is giving great progress to businesses operating in various fields by providing innovative solutions to issues that may hinder them in their operating processes. Recently on the scene has appeared Augmented Reality (AR), as a technology that overlays digital content and information onto the physical world.

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QR Menu Codes Are Everywhere—and Tracking You More Than You Think

GizModo VR

If you’ve returned to the restaurants and bars that have reopened in your neighborhood lately, you might have noticed a new addition to the post-quarantine decor: QR codes. Everywhere. And as they’ve become more ubiquitous on the dining scene, so has the quiet tracking and targeting that they do. 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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Intel's Process Roadmap to 2025: with 4nm, 3nm, 20A and 18A?!

Anand Tech

In today’s Intel Accelerated event, the company is driving a stake into the ground regarding where it wants to be by 2025. CEO Pat Gelsinger earlier this year stated that Intel would be returning to product leadership in 2025, but hasn’t yet explained how this is coming about – that is until today, where Intel has disclosed its roadmap for its next five generations of process node technology leading to 2025.

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Update Your iPhone, iPad, and Mac Right Now

GizModo VR

If you own an iPad, iPhone, or a Mac, you should definitely go update your device right now. Why? Because there are brand new patches out and you don’t want to get hacked. Read more.

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TCL’s 8K 6-Series mini-LED TVs are shockingly affordable

Digital Trends

TCL's first 8K mini-LED TVs are here in both 65- and 75-inch sizes and they're way more affordable than similarly-sized 8K models from both LG and Samsung.

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Everything You'll Lose From Windows 10 When You Upgrade to Windows 11

GizModo VR

Windows 11 is on the way, and it’s going to bring with it a new look, new colors , and new features when it becomes available later in the year. But not everything that’s currently in Windows 10 is going to survive the upgrade. 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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Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 3 is adding an S Pen, replacing this year’s Galaxy Note

Digital Trends

Samsung's August 11 event just got interesting. The company confirmed its next foldables will have an optional S Pen, replacing the Galaxy Note line this year.

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Leaked Surface Duo 2 Pics Show a Less Elegant Design but Hint at an Improved Camera

GizModo VR

Last year’s Surface Duo was a bold attempt by Microsoft to spearhead a new type of mobile device, but like a lot of first-gen products, it didn’t quite hit the mark. But now a second model appears to be on the way and new leaked pics depict a device that trades out some sleekness for a more capable design. Read more.

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Jeff Bezos offers NASA $2 billion in plea for moon mission role

Digital Trends

Jeff Bezos has offered serious financial assistance to NASA in a bid to get his spaceflight company, Blue Origin, involved in the upcoming lunar missions.

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Bezos Says He’ll Spend $2 Billion on a Lunar Lander in Exchange for a NASA Contract

GizModo VR

Jeff Bezos—the world’s richest “astronaut” and sour grape—has written an open letter to NASA administrator Bill Nelson, saying Blue Origin will cover billions in NASA costs in exchange for a contract to build a lunar lander that will deliver astronauts to the Moon in 2024. 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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Samsung’s new QLED Odyssey gaming monitor claims to be first to reach 2,000 nits

Digital Trends

Samsung's huge Odyssey G9 gaming monitor just got a big upgrade this year. The 2021 Odyssey Neo G9 relies on QLED technology to achieve 2,000 nits brightness.

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SDCC 2021: Gen: Lock's Season 2 Tease Hints at the Mecha Mayhem to Come

GizModo VR

San Diego Comic-Con @ Home 2021 played host to Gen:Lock last night, where host Karama Horne spoke to Michael B. Jordan and Dakota Fanning, and showrunner/head writer Dan Dominguez, to discuss what’s next for the Rooster Teeth animated series and future projects. Read more.

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House of the Dragon: Everything we know about the Game of Thrones spinoff

Digital Trends

Game of Thrones became one of the most popular fantasy shows of all time, and HBO is looking to build upon that success with prequel series House of the Dragon.

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California’s Dixie Fire Has Now Burned an Area the Size of New York City

GizModo VR

The Dixie Fire is raging out of control in Northern California’s Plumas and Butte counties. After merging with a smaller blaze known as the Fly Fire over the weekend, its flames continued to spread, devastating nearly 200,000 acres as of Monday morning. It’s now the largest fire in California and is among the more… 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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HMD Global Nokia XR20 hands-on: Tough, built to last, yet still pretty

Digital Trends

HMD Global's Nokia XR20 is a rugged phone with a pretty face, and a whole lot of tech and features that will make it last for years. We've tried it out.

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Report: Cops Have Been Pressuring ShotSpotter to Alter Evidence

GizModo VR

A new report from Motherboard suggests that, in multiple instances, police departments have exerted pressure on AI-driven gunfire detector firm ShotSpotter—pushing the company to alter evidence against specific suspects, often to bolster the legal cases against them. Read more.

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LG’s new earbuds have a cool feature that improves call quality

Digital Trends

LG's 2021 Tone Free true wireless earbuds get a new shape and several new features including the ability to use one earbud as a dedicated hand-held microphone.

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Scott Snyder's New Amazon Deal Is Putting Creators First

GizModo VR

With entertainment companies digging deep into their pre-existing genre catalogs and also buying up new chunks of IP , many of the original creators of the source material that’s adapted into big-budget films and series have seen their ideas take off without them. Working together with Amazon’s ComiXology , writer Scott… 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?