The Ghost Howls

JULY 28, 2021

Today I want to publish a very easy and short tutorial to let you grab the opportunity of getting a free silicone cover for your Oculus Quest 2. Are you in for that? Of course, there is also a video version of this tutorial, if you are not a fan of reading… Why can you get a free silicone cover for your Quest? For sure you remember that Facebook had a little issue with the materials of the facemasks of its Oculus Quest 2.

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VRScout

JULY 28, 2021

The popular location-based VR provider has revealed a new free-roam VR platform alongside a new 4D multiplayer experience. With over 400 VR systems located across 35 countries and a total of seven million players worldwide, Hologate is easily one of the largest location-based VR entertainment networks in the world. Now the company is raising its already impressive standards even higher with the announcement of Hologate X, a free-roam VR platform that uses Hologate Xperience Reality (HXR), a hype

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ARPost

JULY 28, 2021

The U.S. Air Force has started using virtual reality technology in its Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Training (SAPR). The USAF has partnered with award-winning developer Moth+Flame to create a more immersive SAPR training platform. This was first introduced to airmen at the Joint Base in Charleston, South Carolina. The SAPR training program is a three-part multifaceted curriculum.

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VRScout

JULY 28, 2021

The legendary fantasy-adventure franchise has been reimagined for Oculus Quest headsets. Back in the early days of gaming, before big-budget shooters and complex RPGs, there were point-and-click games, digital adventures in which players interacted with the in-game world using a point-and-click interface. 1987’s Shadowgate was one such title, taking Apple Macintosh players on a dark fantasy adventure through a magical castle riddled with horrific creatures, complex puzzles, and deadly trap

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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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Next Reality AR

JULY 28, 2021

Old school media stalwart The New York Times mobile-ar.reality.news/news/new-york-times-adds-ar-its-coverage-time-for-winter-olympics-0182577/ launched its augmented reality news content in 2018 with a feature on the athletes of the Winter Olympics. However, after a solid year of AR reporting, the Times all but abandoned its AR news coverage via its mobile app, instead opting to publish AR content via the Spark AR platform from Facebook.

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Road to VR

JULY 28, 2021

Oculus is making hard shift away from its proprietary developer APIs in favor of OpenXR, an industry-backed project that aims to standardize the development of VR and AR applications. As of the latest SDK update, the company says OpenXR will become “the preferred API for all new applications going forward.” Oculus announced this month that it plans to begin deprecating the existing Oculus Mobile and Oculus PC SDK in favor of OpenXR.

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ARVR

JULY 28, 2021

Augmented reality is a technology that lets you interact with 3D models, objects, places, animals, humans, everything in real life. It lets you create and visualize things from the real world in your device which can be used in different sectors like Manufacturing, Retail, Construction, Entertainment, Education, and many more for different purposes. 1) AR in Education The best use of AR is in education where students can learn and interact with the topics, they don’t have to imagine what it feel

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Road to VR

JULY 28, 2021

Facebook Reality Labs, the company’s AR/VR research and development team, announced the creation of a special product group focused on developing its future vision for “the Metaverse.” Apparently Facebook is betting big on the idea too, as it hopes in the near future to be viewed more as “a metaverse company” than a social network.

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ARVR

JULY 28, 2021

5 Key Points to Consider Before Creating a Successful Augmented Reality App Here are the most basic vital points to consider before creating any Augmented Reality app. 1. Do you really need AR? Why should you go for Augmented Reality, and why not other mediums cannot solve that purpose? Video instruction can solve the purpose of giving a simple product assembly instruction.

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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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VR Game Critic

JULY 28, 2021

Sports and virtual reality are a great match. Many of us have experienced the benefit of a good workout in VR, or the incredible feeling of sitting in a race car or rushing down the mountainside with your snowboard. But there is also a lighter side to sports and VR, games that provide a relaxing pastime or simply some fun entertainment for friends and family.

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GizModo VR

JULY 28, 2021

The West’s megadrought has produced no shortage of terrible stories. Drought conditions have enveloped 90% of the region, leading to record low water levels at Lake Mead and Lake Powell , the two largest reservoirs in the U.S., as well as countless other smaller water systems throughout the region. Read more.

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Digital Trends

JULY 28, 2021

High Dynamic Range (HDR) video is the biggest improvement to TV image quality in years. But which of the three major HDR formats is the best? We break it down.

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GizModo VR

JULY 28, 2021

Shocking new video shows that though the record heat subsided in the Pacific Northwest earlier this month, the impacts are still rippling throughout ecosystems. 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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VR Fitness

JULY 28, 2021

Each person who commits to improved wellness begins a unique journey with different health considerations, preferences, and goals. Supernatural continues to excel in the realm of VR fitness and their latest update focuses on individual needs by providing an even more incredible experience that enables members to apply filters, browse new workout carousels, and quickly find the perfect session among Supernatural’s 500+ workout library.

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GizModo VR

JULY 28, 2021

DNA analysis confirms that an eel-like creature pulled from a Florida canal two years ago is a caecilian, otherwise known as the “ penis snake.” The same canal has since yielded several other specimens, leading to concerns that the non-native amphibian has taken root in the United States. Read more.

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Digital Trends

JULY 28, 2021

What is Google One, and which subscription is right for you? We'll take you through the basics and explain some of the perks you can get by signing up, too.

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GizModo VR

JULY 28, 2021

Public research labs in France are temporarily halting their work into prions, after at least two employees are believed to have contracted a rare but universally fatal prion brain disease. One woman has since died, almost certainly after having been exposed during a lab accident in 2010, while the second is… 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

JULY 28, 2021

Almost 20 years after arriving at the ISS, the Pirs docking module earlier this week departed the orbiting outpost before burning up in Earth’s atmosphere.

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GizModo VR

JULY 28, 2021

Just a day after Intel announced big plans to help the company regain its authority in chip production, Taiwan has now given the greenlight to TSMC to begin construction on the company’s most sophisticated chip plant yet. Read more.

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Anand Tech

JULY 28, 2021

Today we are taking a look at the most powerful SFX-L PSU on the planet, the SilverStone SX1000. As its name suggests, the SX1000 can provide up to 1 kW of power, an unprecedented figure for an SFX form factor power supply. But does such a powerful PSU have a place in the market for compact computers?

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GizModo VR

JULY 28, 2021

Of all the portable music players Apple has released over the past 20 years, the original iPod shuffle remains my favorite. It wasn’t my first iPod, and 16 years after its debut I’ve owned countless iterations of the iPhone, but I loved the shuffle for its basic design and functionality, not in spite of them. 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

JULY 28, 2021

Kids' headphones are notoriously juvenile or cheap-looking, but not the Happy Plugs Play. The $80 volume-limiting wireless cans look just like adult headphones.

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GizModo VR

JULY 28, 2021

At the start of the pandemic, Big Tech led the way in embracing remote work. Now, it’s also serving as a bellwether of how companies are planning to safely return to the office. But it doesn’t look like everyone is on the same page. While Google and Facebook announced today they will require all staffers to be… Read more.

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Digital Trends

JULY 28, 2021

Dell is offering some excellent back-to-school deals for students right now on laptops like the New Inspiron 15, desktops, and all-in-one computers.

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GizModo VR

JULY 28, 2021

A former eBay security manager has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after helping to orchestrate a batshit insane plot to terrorize a Massachusetts couple who occasionally criticized the company in their newsletter. 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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