VRScout

OCTOBER 8, 2021

You’ve heard of Minecraft in VR, yes, but what about VR in Minecraft ? With 140 million active players worldwide, Minecraft is easily one of the most popular video games of all time. Mojang’s survival crafting game has players navigating a seemingly endless block-like world where they can explore, build, fight, play, and relax. A couple of years ago, an independent team released a mod called Vivecraft that allows you to play the full game in VR.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The term metaverse continues to be a runaway train in gaming, media and XR worlds. Though it has legitimate principles and promise it’s been obscured through overuse in editorials and marketing materials. We attempt to cut through the clutter for concrete ideas in this week's XR Talks. The post XR Talks: Metaverse 101 appeared first on AR Insider.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Horizon , Facebook’s social VR space built around user-generated content, was announced more than two years ago, but the company still isn’t quite ready to send it out the door. Instead, Facebook this week announced it is rebranding the project as Horizon Worlds , while also announcing a $10 million fund to support creators building content within.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 8, 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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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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Road to VR

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Tinker Pilot has been in the works for a few years now, aiming to deliver a PC VR simulator experience that lets players build their own sci-fi cockpit and outfit it with 1:1 digital counterparts of things like HOTAS flight sticks, pedals, joysticks and more. Now you can get a taste of the highly configurable flight sim in its new paid alpha. Project creator Lluís Garcia Lamora is currently funding Tinker Pilot through Patreon.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Swordsman (2020) , the physics-based combat sim for PSVR and PC VR headsets, is bringing its bloody sandbox battles to Oculus Quest at some point next year. Developers Sinn Studio announced in a recent tweet that Swordsman is slated to arrive on Oculus App Lab in early 2022. The team says they’re were in discussions with Facebook about an official Quest Store release, however they’ve since been advised to release via App Lab “to gauge the Quest interest in Swordsman.” &#

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 8, 2021

For anyone with an AMD CPU thinking about upgrading to Windows 11, you may want to hold off just a bit longer until AMD can patch a couple of bugs that can cause performance drops of as much as 15%. Read more.

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Digital Trends

OCTOBER 8, 2021

TeTra recently performed a successful test flight of its electric VTOL aircraft aimed at personal users. The vehicle could go on sale as early as next year.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 8, 2021

NSO Group, the notorious Israeli spyware vendor, will no longer allow its clients to hack citizens of the United Kingdom, sources close to the company told The Guardian this week. The changes have been “hard-coded” into NSO’s infamous malware, Pegasus, and will make future targeting of UK-based phone numbers… 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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Anand Tech

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Quite a few of the motherboards we have reviewed over the last month have been aimed at enthusiasts with a penchant for extreme overclocking. Today's review focuses on the EVGA X570 Dark that is more than the usual desktop AM4 motherboard. It's EVGA's first entry into the market for AMD's Ryzen processors, focusing on performance and overclocking more than most other X570/X570S boards currently available.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 8, 2021

It has not been an easy time for Android users who prefer to read and consume instead of doing anything else. But if you’re a Google Chrome user, there’s a feature you should know about that can help you track your favorite sites within the browser without bothering with a third-party service like Feedly. Read more.

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Digital Trends

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Apple is well-known for its tight security, yet its own ecosystem might be weakening its famed device defenses by making things a little too convenient.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Though it proved difficult to spot, scientists managed to find an itsy-bitsy tardigrade trapped inside a chunk of Dominican amber. The unprecedented discovery of an ancient tardigrade is shedding new light onto this remarkably durable group of microscopic animals. 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

OCTOBER 8, 2021

It’s a great time of year to buy a new 4K TV or invest in an upgrade for your home theater; we’re seeing deals on giant screen 4K TVs from all the biggest retailers.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 8, 2021

If you’ve got a few old Apple Watch chargers lying around and are thinking of getting in line for the new Series 7 —which is available for order starting today—you better mark them with a tag or something before you bring your new watch home. Read more.

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Digital Trends

OCTOBER 8, 2021

While PCIe 5.0 has not yet been released, the next generation is already in the works -- and it is likely to offer speeds of up to 128GB/s.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 8, 2021

While Apple declared the outcome of its legal battle with Epic Games a “resounding victory,” it was not a complete one. The federal judge in the case ordered Apple to allow developers to link to third-party payment portals in the App Store by Dec. 9, a deadline the company seems to want to push back for a long time. 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

OCTOBER 8, 2021

To celebrate the release of James Bond 25, No Time to Die, we've rounded up the 20 most wonderfully ridiculous Bond gadgets of all time from the franchise.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 8, 2021

In what appears to be another major outage for Facebook, thousands of its users are reporting problems on Friday afternoon. This would be the second time in a week that the world’s biggest social network hasn’t been able to keep its s**t together. Read more.

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Digital Trends

OCTOBER 8, 2021

If you're planning to buy an Apple tablet, you might want to look at Amazon's early Black Friday deal for the 2020 iPad Air, which you can purchase at $110 off.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 8, 2021

If you were hoping that the next iPhone SE would get a revamp, some good and bad news. A report from Macotakara , a Japanese Apple blog, claims that the next-gen iPhone SE will get a significant spec bump and 5G. It also says that you shouldn’t expect any sort of redesign—and that’s a bit of a bummer. 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

OCTOBER 8, 2021

An enormous screen, nightclub lighting, and perks like massaging seats make Mercedes' flagship EQS electric sedan more luxurious than Tesla's Model S.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 8, 2021

When Critical Role isn’t busy dominating the world of actual-play streaming , or putting out what feels like five million books—be they original fiction , behind-the-scenes collections, or straight up additions to the tabletop world they love — its characters are on their way to being transformed into new animated icons … Read more.

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Digital Trends

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Looking to get your hands -- or weapons -- dirty with a top-notch fighting game on the Xbox Series X? Here are the best titles to try for all kinds of players.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The Food and Drug Administration is warning people to stay away from a popular brand of hand sanitizer, following tests that confirmed the presence of carcinogens in some of its products. The products are sold under the ??”artnaturals” label and have been readily available online through Amazon and retailers such as… 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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