VRScout

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Facebook changes the name of its upcoming social VR platform to better represent its diverse selection of virtual worlds. Last year Facebook launched its invite-only Horizon beta program , offering a select group of Oculus Quest users the chance to create their own virtual worlds using an extensive arsenal of best-in-class world-building tools. Since then, Facebook Horizon has grown immensely in both size and scale.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 7, 2021

If the pandemic brought one good thing, it’s that home fitness is here to stay. As case numbers rose, working from home quickly turned into working out from home. Suddenly, lifting weights in the basement didn’t sound like so much fun. So the fitness and tech industries created a virtually endless library of workout videos, fitness courses, and health resources.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 7, 2021

AR and VR have several benefits that continue to emerge. The latest signs point to their ability to support outdoor activity. That's everything from Pokémon Go to virtual tours. Guest author April Miller breaks it down. The post Can AR Shape the Future of Outdoor Recreation? appeared first on AR Insider.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Facebook Connect is certainly the marquee VR event this month, but it looks like other companies are hoping to steal a bit of the spotlight. First HTC teased an upcoming product to be revealed next week , and now high-end headset marker Varjo says it plans to unveil its “most highly anticipated product release yet” on October 21st, just days before Facebook Connect on the 26th.

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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

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Immersive shopping is proving to have experiential impact for consumers, and revenue impact for brands. Related to?—?but separate from?—? AR advertising , this is when AR is used as a tool to visualize and contextualize products to engender more informed consumer purchases. This is a subset of AR that we call camera commerce. It comes in a few flavors, including visualizing products on “spaces and faces.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 7, 2021

This week, the World Health Organization released diagnostic criteria for long covid, a perplexing condition that has affected survivors of covid-19. Among other things, the WHO notes that patients can experience symptoms months after their initial infection and that these symptoms can be severe enough to impact their… Read more.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Song in the Smoke is a prehistoric-flavored survival game that puts a clever, but not incredibly deep crafting system at its core. Far from damning, this introduces the sort of gameplay friction that will always leave you with just enough useable resources to move forward, but never enough to be comfortable as you explore the game’s one-way trip through an interesting and complex set of bespoke levels.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Pharmaceutical firm Moderna plans to build a vaccine factory in Africa that will cost as much as $500 million, according to a press release from the company early Thursday. Moderna will soon start the process of site selection on the continent and it’s already been narrowed down to about five unnamed countries,… Read more.

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Anand Tech

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Following last year’s 80-core Altra, Ampere is now delivering the new Altra Max server processor with up to 128 cores, double that of the competition, and with a focus on Cloud and hyperscale deployments, we’ve had a look on the new chip.

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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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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 7, 2021

It’s been rumored for a while, but today Lego officially revealed the largest model it’s ever released: a replica of the famed and ill-fated Titanic that measures over four-and-a-half feet long when fully assembled. It’s a stunning replica—both inside and out—because it breaks into multiple sections to reveal its… Read more.

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Charlie Fink

OCTOBER 7, 2021

User-generated content (UGC) is critical to the success of social VR.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 7, 2021

If you just bought a brand new iPhone 13 , you might want to check out your options in Settings. If you restored your new phone from a backup of your old one, you may want to fine-tune it to better suit your needs. If you’re setting up the iPhone 13 as a brand new phone, well, you’ll have plenty to dive into. The iOS… Read more.

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Charlie Fink

OCTOBER 7, 2021

No glasses are needed to see realistic holograms blended perfectly into the physical world.

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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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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Lucasfilm publishing and Del Rey might not officially be at New York Comic Con as it kicks off today, but they’re bringing their usual slice of upcoming novel news anyway—and whether you’re a fan of the sequels or the prequels, of Jedi or Sith, or maybe a lovably incompetent stooge or two, there’s something to enjoy. Read more.

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TechCrunch VR

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Avatar startups have come and gone over the past few years, but the future that many of the entrepreneurs behind them originally imagined has proven more or less accurate. Apple is increasingly interested in avatar representations through Memoji, Mark Zuckerberg wants Facebook to be a metaverse company and platforms like Roblox, where users enter a virtual world and buy accessories for their character, have never been more popular.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 7, 2021

I’ve been on a quest to find the perfect E Ink device that combines all the best features and applications of electronic ink while still being small enough that I’ll actually want to carry it around all day. For my needs, that device is the new Onyx Boox Nova Air, which packs enough flexibility to make it more than… Read more.

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Charlie Fink

OCTOBER 7, 2021

In VR they are beloved inventors, but IRL Facebook is having a 'big tobacco' moment.

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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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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 7, 2021

It feels like few companies actually listen to their users, but Arcade1Up once again proves its ears are open to fan requests with two new scaled arcade machines that retro coin-op enthusiasts have been begging for: a stand-up version of Ridge Racer with a steering wheel and pedals, and a beautiful recreation of the… Read more.

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Digital Trends

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Kathryn Hahn signs a new deal with Marvel Studios that will allow her to reprise her role as Agatha Harkness in upcoming films and even a WandaVision spinoff.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Since President Joe Biden took office in January, tensions between the White House and the environmental justice movement have ratcheted up. In recent weeks, though, they’ve come to a head over an email campaign. Ten high-level administration officials had their inboxes flooded with 5,600 messages over two days in… Read more.

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Digital Trends

OCTOBER 7, 2021

An update for the Atari VCS is adding Google Workplace, giving users quick access to Google's full suite of productivity apps.

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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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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Who needs the anticipation of a launch event when you have retailers and leakers publishing details beforehand? Basically we know everything there is to know about Google’s upcoming Pixel 6 flagship, thanks to a German retailer revealing pricing and availability and a fresh leak detailing all the features and… Read more.

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Digital Trends

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Tesla chief Elon Musk has announced that the automaker will relocate its headquarters to Austin, Texas, where it's currently building a new production facility.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Lunar material brought to Earth last December—the first new Moon rocks scientists have gotten their hands on since the 1970s—have been found to be about a billion years younger than previously dated samples. That means that there was liquid magma on the Moon a billion years more recently than previously known,… Read more.

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Digital Trends

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Nvidia's RTX LHR 30-series cards were made to minimize crypto mining, but miners found yet another workaround by mining two coins at once.

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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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