Thu.May 13, 2021

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VR Shooter ‘Zero Caliber: Reloaded’ Now Available On Quest

VRScout

The standalone port of XReal’s 2018 cooperative military shooter is now available on standalone headsets. Available now on Oculus Quest headsets, Zero Caliber: Reloaded is the official standalone port of developer XReal’s PCVR military shooter, Zero Caliber , which released on SteamVR and Oculus Rift headsets back in 2018. Set sometime in the near future, Zero Caliber: Reloaded has you stepping into the boots of an OSA soldier tasked with battling a private military organization figh

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Intel Researchers Give ‘GTA V’ Photorealistic Graphics, Similar Techniques Could Do the Same for VR

Road to VR

Researchers from Intel’s Intelligent Systems Lab have revealed a new method for enhancing computer-generated imagery with photorealistic graphics. Demonstrated with GTA V , the approach uses deep-learning to analyze frames generated by the game and then generate new frames from a dataset of real images. While the technique in its research state is too slow for real gameplay today, it could represent a fundamentally new direction for real-time computer graphics of the future.

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Yaw2 Ushers in the Next Generation of Virtual Reality Gaming

ARPost

Yaw VR is taking virtual reality gaming to a whole new level with its next-generation motion simulator—Yaw2. It’s the company’s most compact and affordable VR motion simulator. Also, it has the highest motion range by far. Merely a week from launching its Kickstarter campaign, Yaw VR surpassed its initial funding goal of $100,000. It’s raised more than $1 million in crowdfunding with a few more weeks to spare.

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12 New Quest 2 Games We Can’t Wait to Play

Road to VR

Thanks to the success of Oculus Quest 2, the amount of stuff you can play on the Oculus Quest Store is rapidly expanding. Here we take a look at some of the upcoming titles we can’t wait to play when they land in the next few months. Note : These are just a few native Quest titles we’re looking forward to. There’s also a mind-boggling amount of VR games to play outside of the Oculus Quest Store too.

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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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5 Ways AR Enhances Spectator Sports

AR Insider

AR Will Enhance Sports Experiences this Summer. by Bas Gezelle. T his summer is full of major sporting events such as the Olympics and the European Football Championship. This coincides with the growing traction and adoption around augmented reality. How will these two worlds come together? How will AR enable fans to support and experience their favorite teams and players in more interactive ways?

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Reality Bytes: TikTok, YouTube & Roku

AR Insider

W hat are the biggest insights and observations in AR and adjacent sectors this week? Welcome to Reality Bytes , featuring lightning-round commentary from AR Insider partner M7 Innovations. Founder Matt Maher lends his insights from the trenches of AR experience creation. We continue the narrative this week with Maher’s look at YouTube’s TikTok clone, competition with Roku, and TikTok’s new universal sign-in.

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Emerging Technologies Achievable Through The Cloud: 4 Practical Examples

ARVR

Cloud computing is the foundation beneath some of the fastest growing industries in the world, So it’s not difficult to get lost in all the buzzwords that are thrown around cloud computing and digress from actual technological advances and benefits that are achievable with smart and efficient use of the cloud. So what’s behind the hype? Some extremely powerful technologies and workflows.

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Get Ready for In-Car Ads

GizModo VR

Because being bombarded with roadside signage while taking a leisurely Sunday drive isn’t enough, Ford has patented a new system that uses a vehicle’s cameras to detect billboards and then pull them up on a car’s infotainment display as inescapable in-vehicle advertisements. Read more.

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Google Pixel 6 leak shows a radically different design and a third camera

Digital Trends

The Google Pixel 6 may mark an all-new design for the Pixel series. Leaker Jon Prosser has published renders of what he claims are the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro.

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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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Hundreds of Fossilized Footprints From Ancient, Bear-Sized Mammals Found in Wyoming

GizModo VR

For years, paleontologists and paleobotanists have spent time on Wyoming’s Hanna Formation, a 58-million-year-old zone of rock in the southern part of the state that contains a wealth of fossils of marine fauna like ammonites and various forms of ancient plant life. In 2019, though, Anton Wroblewski stumbled across… Read more.

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After another canceled year in the desert, Burning Man plans for a virtual event

TechCrunch VR

Last month, the organization behind Burning Man announced that the festival/experience would not be returning to the desert of Nevada this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and would instead be attempting a virtual event, once again aiming to bring attendees access to a handful of web-based experiences. Today, the Burning Man org released tickets for its online events taking place between August 22 and September 7.

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For Its Next Trick, Motorola Is Working On Smartphones That Can Charge Wirelessly Over the Air

GizModo VR

They haven’t all been home runs, but Motorola is known for taking chances. The company has repeatedly shown it’s not afraid to bet on new technology, from the recently phased-out Moto Mods back to the first wafer-thin Razr feature phones. Now, Motorola is trying its hand at remote wireless charging for smartphones by … Read more.

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The Inland Performance Plus 2TB SSD Review: Phison's E18 NVMe Controller Tested

Anand Tech

Phison's E18 is their second-generation PCIe 4.0 SSD controller, and it keeps them in the running for the fastest consumer SSDs. Micro Center's Inland Performance Plus is the cheapest way to get this much performance, if you live close to one of their retail stores.

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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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DJI's Air 2S is the Unexpected Drone Upgrade I Didn't Need, but Love

GizModo VR

When I heard DJI was coming out with an upgrade to its Air lineup of drones, the first thought I had was: “Why?” DJI just released the Mavic Air 2 a year ago, and it’s a fantastic mid-tier drone that suits both semi-professional videographers and casual drone flyers who want to graduate from smaller drones, like the… Read more.

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Pre-orders for the modular Framework Laptop start at $999 — screwdriver included

Digital Trends

The first fully customizable notebook is now up for limited pre-order. The Framework Laptop lets you upgrade and replace most parts, even the motherboard.

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Japanese Billionaire Making a Stop on the ISS Before His Big Trip to the Moon on Elon's Rocket

GizModo VR

A Japanese fashion magnate, who has booked an all-civilian SpaceX flight ‘round the moon for 2023, has now announced that he’s also making an earlier trip this December to the International Space Station. On Thursday, billionaire Yusaku Maezawa tweeted : “Going to the ISS before the Moon ??.” Sounds perhaps slightly… Read more.

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Slim new G Steel is the ideal introduction to the G-Shock’s unbreakable watches

Digital Trends

Consider G-Shock's G Steel watches too big and heavy? The new slim and light GST-B400 will change all that, so we tried it and its Bluetooth connection out.

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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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If We Live in a Sea of Dark Matter, This Tiny Mirror Might Be Able to Detect It

GizModo VR

Despite the vast and expensive effort to figure out the identity of the invisible stuff that seems to make up much of the universe, no proposed dark matter candidate has been detected by any scientific experiment. Now, a team of researchers has suggested a design for a new dark matter experiment, one that relies on a… Read more.

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The best flip phones you’ll want to check out right now

Digital Trends

Flip phones have always been the go-to for easy talk and text as opposed to games, apps, and web surfing. We've rounded up the very best that you can buy today.

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Them! Has Become Relevant Again. the Way It Does Every 17 Years or So

GizModo VR

Though Gordon Douglas’ 1954 monster movie Them! tells a far more quiet, intimate story than its modern descendants , one of the first ways it clues you in to the danger its human heroes are in is a haunting, piercing noise that calls out from the wilderness. Read more.

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Spatial Collaboration Platform Adds WebXR And Translation Features

Charlie Fink

Spatial vaults ahead of competitors with new web XR feature.

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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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Two Common Food Dyes Could Be Linked to Inflammatory Bowel Disease Symptoms

GizModo VR

Certain food dyes may play a role in triggering symptoms of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), new research, done in mice, suggests. The study found that yellow and red food dye could trigger chronic gut inflammation in mice, but only if their immune systems were already dysfunctional. The findings will need to be… Read more.

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AMD’s RX 6900 XT graphics card just hit an insanely fast world record

Digital Trends

AMD's absurdly powerful RX 6900 XT is, once again, showing up at the top of overclocking charts with a blistering clock speed of 3.3GHz.

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The Solar System Comes Alive for a Young Student in This First Look at James Rollins' The Starless Crown

GizModo VR

Author James Rollins is best-known for his SIGMA Force thrillers, but he’s also an accomplished fantasy author. His new series, Moonfall, begins early next year with The Starless Crown , an epic adventure in which one of the villains is the actual moon itself. io9 has the cover reveal and an excerpt to share today. Read more.

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Windows 10X is probably dead, and Microsoft is better off without it

Digital Trends

In killing off Windows 10X, Microsoft might have just saved itself from a lot of trouble by not having to worry about app support and putting Windows 10 first.

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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?