VRScout

AUGUST 20, 2021

VR training lets surgeons in low-resource countries go through the motions before performing on patients. The VR medical company PrecisionOS along with support from Epic Games MegaGrant and Oculus , have launched a VR training module designed specifically for the global nonprofit humanitarian organization SIGN Fracture Care. Doctors in the organization who specialize in orthopedic surgery in low-resource countries will have access to critical training that will vastly improve outcomes for patien

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AUGUST 20, 2021

The annual Burning Man event has been canceled for the second year in a row due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. However, this year, Burners can enjoy a virtual reality experience from the comfort of their own home. The virtual festivities will begin on August 22, while the Burn Week Global Live Streams will run from August 29 through September 7. Virtual Burn: A Virtual Reality Experience.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 20, 2021

V R traction over the past few years has been slower than many had anticipated. But it’s still finding small wins and is growing at a fairly healthy pace. This leads to several questions such as who uses VR ? What are their motivations ? And what experiences resonate most ? So we set out for answers. Working closely with Thrive Analytics , ARtillery Intelligence authored questions to be fielded through its established survey engine to more than 46,000 U.S. adults.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 20, 2021

The latest version of Unreal Engine 4, version 4.27, brings “production-ready” support for OpenXR. The change comes just in time for Oculus developers, as the company recently announced it’s fully moving open to the OpenXR standard for VR development going forward. You may recall news back in May that the early access version of Unreal Engine 5 includes improved support for OpenXR.

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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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ARVR

AUGUST 20, 2021

Goldman Sachs, the investment banking company, envisages an $80 billion growth for the virtual reality industry by 2025. With some big, global brands like Google, Facebook, and Samsung stepping their foot in the virtual reality space, and large investments pouring in, it is evident that virtual reality is here to stay. The impact and relevance of VR go beyond the scope of entertainment and gaming, and it is getting its fair share in the mainstream industries.

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Anand Tech

AUGUST 20, 2021

In our coverage of the semiconductor space, we typically think of two main vectors of hardware – the CPU and the GPU. Beyond that, we look at FPGAs, microcontrollers, and this decade is bringing the advent of the dedicated AI processor. What ties all of these products together is actually the FPGA - a field programmable gate array that allows a skilled technician to essentially build a custom circuit out of configurable gates.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 20, 2021

Welcome to Burning Questions, a series where Earther answers the most common asks we get on how to address climate change. Many people want to do something, anything to help address the climate crisis. We answer your questions about how to help change your life—and the systems that will save us. Read more.

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Digital Trends

AUGUST 20, 2021

A new report claims that Apple plans on hosting multiple product launch events in September to announce its fall lineup of iPhones, iPads, and MacBooks.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 20, 2021

A prolific hacker gang claims to be selling data on 70 million AT&T customers, the likes of which would appear to include names, phone numbers, social security numbers, DOBs, home addresses, and more. 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

AUGUST 20, 2021

After several years of confusing name changes, AT&T is simplifying all of its video services under one company and one brand: DirecTV Stream.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 20, 2021

After making a bold leap into 3D CG animation with Lupin III The First last year, Monkey Punch’s iconic gentleman thief is going back to more traditional TV routes this year, with Lupin III Part 6 set to celebrate the character’s 50th anniversary. Bad news for poor Lupin though: he’s celebrating it while being hunted… Read more.

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Digital Trends

AUGUST 20, 2021

All you need is a few handy plugs, Wi-Fi, and a mobile phone to make devices smart. This amazing deal on a smart Wi-Fi plug is the perfect opportunity to start.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 20, 2021

New research this week highlights one of the frightening effects climate change is already having on our health: creating bursts of weather extreme enough to kill us. The study estimates that deaths linked to extreme heat and cold have climbed over the past few decades and are likely to only increase in the years to… 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

AUGUST 20, 2021

Spending time listening to my CD collection recently has shown me vinyl records don't have the monopoly on musical nostalgia, despite what you may have heard.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 20, 2021

Snorkelers swimming in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef have stumbled upon a coral of epic proportions. Composed of living organisms, the gigantic mass is the widest coral ever found in the region and one of the oldest. Read more.

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Digital Trends

AUGUST 20, 2021

Call of Duty: Vanguard is on the way and will have a few different editions that each offer their own bonuses. Here's how you can pre-order before launch.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 20, 2021

Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and second richest person in the world, unveiled his idea for a robot on Thursday that he says might become a prototype by 2022. And while Musk has delivered plenty of hilarious vaporware presentations in the past, from the Loop to the Cybertruck , this one might take the cake. 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

AUGUST 20, 2021

Smartphone case makers have further perfected and updated their cases for the new Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3. Here are some of our favorites.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 20, 2021

When covid-19 cases started surging through China last year, we saw the country’s already authoritarian surveillance systems get kicked into overdrive. Officials rolled out everything from face-detecting drones and mandated movement-tracking apps to literally harvesting citizen’s blood in order to stem the flow of the… Read more.

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Digital Trends

AUGUST 20, 2021

Galaxy Watches are great wearables. That's why we jumped at the chance to tell you that the Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 is on sale right now at Best Buy.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 20, 2021

People who have already seen Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings have been giving it rave reviews , and every time we see more of the movie it becomes more apparent why. Case in point: this new clip from the Marvel hero’s bus battle scene. 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

AUGUST 20, 2021

The 40mm, GPS version of the Apple Watch Series 6 is currently available on Amazon for an affordable $325, which is the lowest price ever for the smartwatch.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 20, 2021

Americans continue to have a challenging relationship with science, modern medicine, and at times reality, but a review of annual surveys from 1985 to 2019 does yield some good news: Over half of surveyed participants believed in the science of evolution. That’s a win, I guess. Read more.

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Digital Trends

AUGUST 20, 2021

Amazon is offering a $499 discount to the 16-inch MacBook Pro with 1TB of storage, so here's your chance to buy the powerful laptop for much less than usual.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 20, 2021

Today in dystopian hellscape news: covid-19 cases in Orlando have apparently gotten so overwhelming that it’s begun impacting the city’s water supply. Yes, really. 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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