VRScout

JUNE 29, 2021

Channel your inner child and craft incredible structures in this nostalgia-inducing multiplayer VR experience. Some of my fondest childhood memories are the afternoons I spent crafting ridiculous block structures using my trusty LEGOs. So you can imagine my excitement when I heard about Bricks VR , an upcoming sandbox building experience for Oculus Quest and SteamVR headsets that allows you to craft incredible block-like structures in VR and explore your creations alongside friends.

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ARPost

JUNE 29, 2021

Virtual reality offers 360-degree fully immersive experiences that can take the horror genre to a whole new level. It breaks conventions using a combination of images, sound, haptics, and other stimuli. In VR horror films, you are no longer passively watching a story unfold from outside of the frame. You are directly involved in it. See Also: Shaun MacGillivray Chats About IMAX and VR Movies.

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VRScout

JUNE 29, 2021

The first expansion introduces new locations to explore, enemies to fight, and abilities to harness. This week developer Resolution Games ( Blaston, Angry Birds VR ) returned with the first major update for its VR dungeon-crawling game, Demeo. Available now on Oculus Quest, Oculus Rift, and SteamVR headsets for $29.99, Demeo is a turn-based VR dungeon crawler in which players team up to battle a never-ending onslaught of horrific monstrosities as they explore nightmarish labyrinths in search of

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AR Insider

JUNE 29, 2021

T hough we spend ample time examining consumer-based AR endpoints, greater near-term impact is seen today in the enterprise. This takes many forms including camera commerce and collaboration. But the greatest area of enterprise AR impact today is in industrial settings. This includes AR visualization to support assembly and maintenance. The idea is that AR’s line-of-sight orientation can guide front-line workers.

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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

JUNE 29, 2021

Rec Room , the popular social VR platform, has been making some big moves here recently, including securing a $100 million investment and taking its first steps towards opening a functioning digital economy. Now the cross-platform app is getting ready to hit one of the world’s largest userbases with a launch on Android devices coming this fall.

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Road to VR

JUNE 29, 2021

Synth Riders (2018), the VR rhythm game for PC VR and Oculus Quest, is finally making its way to PSVR next month, launching with a list of 55 tracks on July 27th. Developers Kluge Interactive are also publishing an additional 20+ tracks through paid DLC Music Packs, which includes Muse, The Offspring, Parov Stelar, and more. First launched on PC VR headsets back in 2018, Synth Riders is billed as a “freestyle dancing VR rhythm game” that gets you moving by launching orbs that you

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GizModo VR

JUNE 29, 2021

The heat wave currently roasting the Pacific Northwest has made its way up to Alaska, where a 2.7 magnitude ice quake — the result of seismic activity triggered by melting glaciers — was just recorded 25 miles east of Juneau. Read more.

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Digital Trends

JUNE 29, 2021

A vehicle capable of flying in the sky and driving on the road completed a momentous journey this week when it flew between two cities before driving downtown.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 29, 2021

Kiwi Farms—an online forum best known for harboring stalkers , white supremacists , and overall being one of the worst cesspits the internet has to offer—was knocked offline temporarily on Tuesday in what the site’s operators called a paid-for Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. The alleged attack comes after… 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

JUNE 29, 2021

In the news cycle today, Intel is announcing an update to its planned deployment of its next generation Xeon Scalable platform known as Sapphire Rapids. Sapphire Rapids is the main platform behind the upcoming Aurora supercomputer, and set to feature support for leading edge technologies such as DDR5, PCIe 5.0, CXL, and Advanced Matrix Extensions. The announcement today is Intel reaffirming its commitment to bringing Sapphire Rapids to market for wide availability in the first half of 2022, mean

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GizModo VR

JUNE 29, 2021

A large shark, possibly a great white or a tiger, fatally attacked a young man. The man’s wounds were extensive, including the loss of a leg, a hand, and both feet. Thanks to those at the time who recovered his body and the way in which they buried him, his bones survived 3,000 years to tell us a horrific story of the… Read more.

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Digital Trends

JUNE 29, 2021

Cybersecurity isn’t what it used to be. Breaches and leaks, once rare and relatively low-impact, have become commonplace, rendering our personal data more vulnerable than ever. Everything from your Social Security number to your health information now lives online, and though it may prove difficult to avoid such attacks, staying up to date on the […].

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GizModo VR

JUNE 29, 2021

Air temperatures during record-setting heat wave in the Pacific Northwest were bad enough. But the ground was on a whole other level. 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

JUNE 29, 2021

Working from home is great, but it also places increased demands on your home Wi-Fi network. Here's how to set your home network up for optimal performance.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 29, 2021

About a week ago, many owners of the external hard drive product My Book Live woke up to discover that all of their data had been wiped from the device. It was quickly assumed that the products were the victim of a malicious hacking campaign. Read more.

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Digital Trends

JUNE 29, 2021

Watch seven Spot robots perform a beautifully choreographed dance in celebration of Hyundai’s recent acquisition of the Massachusetts-based tech firm.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 29, 2021

It’s a moment that happened so fast you probably missed it—and even if you didn’t, maybe you didn’t believe it. In Marvel Studios ’ latest trailer for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings , the main character attends a cage match with two creatures duking it out. They’re only on screen for three seconds, but it… 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

JUNE 29, 2021

Watch this awesome time-lapse showing two astronauts busily working during a recent spacewalk outside the International Space Station.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 29, 2021

Twelve pygmy hogs ( Porcu salvania ) were released back into northeast India last week as part of a conservation program made to resurrect the species from near-extinction in the 1960s. The pigs remain extremely rare in the wild, with an estimated 250 persevering out there. Read more.

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Digital Trends

JUNE 29, 2021

The iMac Pro is dead and gone -- or is it? Apple could bring it back as the high-end sibling to the 24-inch iMac. If it does, here’s everything we could see.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 29, 2021

Instagram is finally testing the ability for those of us without millions of followers to link people to outside content from Stories. The linking feature will be slightly different from the swipe-up methodology you currently see on your favorite influencer’s stories. Instead, it’s a sticker, so your pals can tap to… 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

JUNE 29, 2021

Sennheiser's $130 CX True Wireless are shy on features, but if they have the company's signature audio quality, they could be a great buy for audiophiles.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 29, 2021

Amazon workers have faced no shortage of health hazards in the company’s warehouses. While we’ve focused on injuries, inadequate restroom access, covid-19 safeguards, and psychological torment, extreme heat could become the next imminent threat in the face of climate change. Read more.

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Digital Trends

JUNE 29, 2021

Nothing, the new technology company founded by Carl Pei, will launch the Ear (1) true wireless earbuds on July 27. They will be the company's first product.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 29, 2021

As long as science fiction’s been around, and probably longer, the fear of technology has fueled the stories that keep us up at night. One of the scariest scenarios? That a smart home , ostensibly designed to make life easier, would suddenly transform into a nightmarish high-tech prison—or at least a place you would… 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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