VRScout

AUGUST 19, 2021

The open beta for Facebook’s remote collaboration platform is available now on Oculus Quest 2 headsets. Facebook today unveiled Horizon Workrooms , a robust VR coworking platform bursting at the seams with game-changing features that could set the groundwork for a new generation of remote collaboration. The company’s mixed reality office can accommodate everyone from smaller independent teams to larger groups using a suite of impressive abilities.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 19, 2021

We all know that it is very difficult to be published on the Official Quest Store and we indie developers have to resort to publishing on the alternate App Lab store. This is a very good channel (we also used it for our game HitMotion: Reloaded ), but it has the big problem that doesn’t allow the discoverability of content. You publish there, and no one knows: it is like publishing a Youtube unlisted video.

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VRScout

AUGUST 19, 2021

Take the party to your local precinct and cause havoc using over 40 new items. Developer The Munky today released a free update for DRUNKN BAR FIGHT that introduces numerous tweaks and improvements, including a new map and support for multiplayer co-op. Available now on major VR headsets, DRUNKN BAR FIGHT is a VR bar fighting “simulator” that tasks you with starting fights and destroying virtual property at bars, weddings, and various other public gatherings.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 19, 2021

L ike many analyst firms, market sizing is one of the ongoing practices of AR Insider’s research arm ARtillery Intelligence. A few times per year, it goes into isolation and buries itself deep in financial modeling. The latest such exercise zeroes in on mobile AR revenues. This takes the insights and observations accumulated throughout the year and synthesizes them into hard numbers for spatial computing ( see methodology and inclusions/exclusions).

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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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ARPost

AUGUST 19, 2021

A few years ago, we shared some tips to overcome VR motion sickness. Back then, HMD performance was lower than at the present. Thus, many of these instances of motion sickness were caused by poor depth of field, high latency, and other technology-related issues. Unfortunately, many people still experience these negative symptoms, even at present. They are using modern VR devices, with the best features and specifications.

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ARVR

AUGUST 19, 2021

Via envato elements People are going crazy with Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality. They are using it for creating virtual tours of places, designing and collaborating on 3d models, games, entertainment, shopping, marketing, learning, visualizing, everything. Every time I open any social media channel, I always find a new use case of AR and VR. Imagine putting all your thoughts into one space and building your virtual world, sounds cool right?

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Road to VR

AUGUST 19, 2021

As far as live-action VR video is concerned, volumetric video is the gold standard for immersion. And for static scene capture, the same holds true for photogrammetry. But both methods have limitations that detract from realism, especially when it comes to ‘view-dependent’ effects like specular highlights and lensing through translucent objects.

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ARVR

AUGUST 19, 2021

In this new normal people prefer work from home as well as wear from home and that’s where Augmented Reality comes into the picture. By using Augmented Reality they can actually try a particular product and can directly purchase them from the platform if it supports e-commerce integration. [link] Here’s How augmented reality can help e-commerce : 1.Interactive 3D 360 Designs: By Using Augmented Reality, you can create a 3D 360 View of Product Designs such as Jewellery, Glasses, Necklace, Rings,

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Road to VR

AUGUST 19, 2021

UK-based VR studio XR Games, known for its recently released Zombieland VR game, announced this week that it has raised an additional £1.5 million (~$2 million) investment to expand its studio with 20 new jobs and a focus on original IP. XR Games has made a business out of building VR games as movie tie-ins. The studio’s most recent projects are Zombieland VR (2021) and Angry Birds Movie 2 VR (2019).

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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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Charlie Fink

AUGUST 19, 2021

Horizon Workrooms, a free cross platform XR (VR, PC) collaboration app enables distributed teams or groups to share a private virtual room for meetings, training and education.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 19, 2021

Rep. Lauren Boebert has trotted out standard right-wing pablum when it comes to climate from bizarre Green New Deal rants to lies about hamburgers to trying to block the U.S. from reentering the Paris Agreement as one of her first official acts in Congress. She also introduced legislation to ban moratoriums on oil and… Read more.

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TechCrunch VR

AUGUST 19, 2021

Facebook’s journey toward making virtual reality a thing has been long and circuitous, but despite mixed success in finding a wide audience for VR, they have managed to build some very nice hardware along the way. What’s fairly ironic is that while Facebook has managed to succeed in finessing the hardware and operating system of its Oculus devices — things it had never done before — over the years it has struggled most with actually making a good app for VR.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 19, 2021

A staggering 94.2% of adults in England have antibodies for covid-19, according to a new report from the UK’s Office of National Statistics. Roughly 80.7% of England’s population has been fully vaccinated, suggesting the rest of the 94.2% acquired antibodies through natural infection with the coronavirus. 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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Anand Tech

AUGUST 19, 2021

This week Intel held its annual Architecture Day event for select press and partners. As with previous iterations, the company disclosed details about its next generation architectures set to come to the market over the next twelve months. Intel has promised the release of its next-generation consumer and mobile processor family, Alder Lake, to come by the end of the year and today the company is sharing a good number of details about the holistic design of the chips as well as some good detail

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 19, 2021

Last week, the Greenland ice sheet underwent a major melting event—its second in two weeks. This time around, the melting was quickened by a wholly unexpected and unwelcome visitor: rain. Read more.

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Digital Trends

AUGUST 19, 2021

Tesla boss Elon Musk has revealed the company is building a highly advanced humanoid robot to “eliminate dangerous, repetitive, boring tasks.”.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 19, 2021

Even when policymakers set the easiest rules for fossil fuel producers to follow, it seems like many companies choose to flaunt them anyway. A new analysis from Earthworks suggests that oil and gas producers in the Permian Basin in Texas, one of the largest oilfields in the world, are routinely emitting carbon dioxide… 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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Anand Tech

AUGUST 19, 2021

For Intel’s 2021 Architecture Day presentations, the yin to the CPU company’s traditional yang is GPUs. Intel has spent the last few years preparing to enter the market for discrete GPUs, with aims of competing in everything from consumer video cards up to HPC-class accelerators. And now, as the company already begins preparing for 2022, those efforts are finally coming to a head.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 19, 2021

This week Intel held its annual Architecture Day and even for an event that often previews major upcoming changes to the company’s silicon, this year Intel is hailing its new advancements as some of the “biggest shifts in a generation” across its CPUs, GPUs, and more. Read more.

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Digital Trends

AUGUST 19, 2021

Microsoft just released Windows 11 ISO files, making it easier to download and install the new operating system on compatible PCs.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 19, 2021

On August 19th, 1921, Eugene Wesley Roddenberry was born in El Paso, Texas. He grew up to become a member of the Air Force during World War II, a member of the LAPD afterward, and a burgeoning TV screenwriter. And, oh yeah, he created one of the most beloved and enduring science fiction franchises of all time. The man… 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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Anand Tech

AUGUST 19, 2021

Alongside a sneak peek at their forthcoming Xe-HPG architecture , the other big reveal today from Intel’s consumer graphics group comes from the software side of the business. Along with preparing Intel’s software stack for the 2022 launch of the first Arc products, the group has also been hard at work at their own take on modern, neural net-driven image upscaling techniques.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 19, 2021

Now that it’s officially swallowed the lion’s share of online retail sales, Amazon is reportedly eyeing ways to corner our offline shopping, too. The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that the e-commerce giant is drumming up plans to open “several” department-style stores in a handful of cities across the US.… Read more.

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Digital Trends

AUGUST 19, 2021

Microsoft confirmed that all hybrid CPUs will benefit from Windows 11, not just Intel's upcoming Alder Lake processors with their Thread Director feature.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 19, 2021

Well, that didn’t take long. Online researchers say they have found flaws in Apple’s new child abuse detection tool that could allow bad actors to target iOS users. However, Apple has denied these claims, arguing that it has intentionally built-in safeguards against such exploitation. 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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