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The ‘Army Of The Dead’ VR Game Is A Horrifically Good Time

VRScout

Netflix’s new location-based VR experience has you battling zombies from inside a motorized taco truck. This past week, I had the chance to check out Army of the Dead: Viva Las Vengeance , a new location-based VR experience based on the Netflix original film of the same name. Produced by Netflix in partnership with CE, Fever, and Pure Imagination Studio, the 30-minute multisensory experience has you battling waves of the undead throughout the plague-infested streets of post-apocalyptic Las

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The XR Week Peek (2021.08.02): Facebook creates Metaverse group and prepares to launch its smartglasses, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The metaverse is the buzzword of the moment, so last week I made a stupid meme about it ( you can see it on Twitter ), and then yesterday I realized it had gone viral. If I had known people could like it, I would have not made it in 5 minutes with Microsoft Word, lol. It has been featured on Forbes , and shared on various social media, with some people sharing it with me again not knowing it was actually mine.

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‘Jetpack Vacation’ Brings Multiplayer Jetpack Racing To VR

VRScout

Soar through a tropical island paradise and challenge other players in a variety of jetpack sports. Available this October on SteamVR headsets, Jetpack Vacation puts you in control of handheld jetpacks as you fly throughout a colorful island environment and challenge other players in a handful of jetpack-based minigames, from soccer and racing to paintball target practice.

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XRA and Perkins Coie Release 2021 XR Industry Survey

ARPost

The XR industry is a young one, making surveys and reports crucial. Recently, those reports have been… complicated. For months, reports started with a line explaining that responses were compiled before the pandemic, so they may not accurately reflect the industry. Then, the line changed to explain that responses were compiled during the pandemic, so they may not accurately reflect the industry.

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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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How Many Quest 2s Sold in Q2?

AR Insider

V R’s momentum continues to build. Covid-inflicted supply-chain impediments caused shipments to decline an estimated 10 percent in 2020, but that could have been worse if not for Quest 2’s Q4 performance. We’ve also seen a strong overall start for VR in 2021. We continue to compile evidence to that effect. But going one level deeper, what market signals can serve as formula inputs to estimate Quest 2 sales specifically?

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Case Study: Elekta Medical Boosts Uptime with AR + IOT

ARVR

Though 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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Oculus Head of Developer Relations Leaves for Niantic as it Ramps up Lightship AR Platform

Road to VR

Niantic announced today that long-time Oculus employee Dan Morris, Head of Developer Relations, is joining as the company’s new Director of Developer Relations as Niantic ramps up its Lightship AR platform, which aims to bring to third-party developers the same ‘world scale’ tech that enables Pokémon Go. Dan Morris has been at Oculus since 2015, spending four years at the Head of Store, and another two years as the Head of Developer Relations, according to his LinkedIn profile

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Snap Q2 Earnings: The AR Angle

ARVR

Snap continues to solidify its leading position in consumer AR. After announcing several milestones at its partner summit , including new AR glasses , its Q2 earnings last week signaled continued momentum. In fact, AR was a bright spot in a record-breaking quarter. Among other lens-based updates, more than 200 million Snapchat users engaged with AR daily in Q2.

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‘Carrier Command 2 VR’ Release Date Set for August 10th

Road to VR

Carrier Command 2, which was confirmed just a few weeks ago to be getting full VR support, is now set to launch on August 10th. Carrier Command 2 is a PC-based reboot of the now 33 year-old Carrier Command which crosses elements of vehicle simulation with real-time strategy. Instead of just interacting through a simple UI, Carrier Command 2 is played in first-person with the player taking position on the bridge of the carrier itself and given access to the ship’s many functions laid out sp

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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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Pixel 6 Preview: Here's What Google's First Smartphone Chip Can Do

GizModo VR

Apple’s iPhone and Samsung’s Galaxy lineup took about five years to really hit their stride. Now with five smartphones of its own in the books, Google is gearing up for some major changes that could propel the Pixel lineup to mainstream success. Ahead of the Pixel 6's official launch later this fall—yes, it’s … Read more.

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Intel’s upcoming Thunderbolt 5 could make future USB-C ports twice as powerful

Digital Trends

An Intel executive tweeted out a few harmless photos of a recent trip to an Intel lab, but one of them contained information about Thunderbolt 5.

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Amazon’s Lord of the Rings Release Date Comes With a Breathtaking First Look

GizModo VR

Frodo’s journey to Mordor was a long and dire one and so too will the journey be to the next Lord of the Rings story. Filming on the first season of Amazon’s upcoming, ultra-expensive , new television adaptation finished in New Zealand Monday and, to celebrate, the company announced that the show will debut on… Read more.

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The GIGABYTE MZ72-HB0 (Rev 3.0) Motherboard Review: Dual Socket 3rd Gen EPYC

Anand Tech

Back in March, we reviewed AMD's latest Zen 3 based EPYC 7003 processors, including the 64-core EPYC 7763 and 7713. We've updated the data back in June with a retail motherboard, and it scores much higher, showing how EPYC Milan can be refined more than it was at launch. Putting two 64-core processors into a system requires a more than capable motherboard, and today on the test bench is the GIGABYTE MZ720-HB0 (Revision 3.0), which has plenty of features to boast about.

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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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Pfizer Raises Price of Covid-19 Vaccine by 25% in Europe: Report

GizModo VR

Pfizer is raising the price of its covid-19 vaccine in Europe by over 25% under a newly negotiated contract with the European Union, according to a report from the Financial Times. Competitor Moderna is also hiking the price of its vaccine in Europe by roughly 10%. Read more.

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Give your head a shake: Klipsch’s new earbuds use head gestures as controls

Digital Trends

Klipsch's T5 II ANC true wireless earbuds are its first to feature active noise cancellation, but they're also loaded with extras like head gestures.

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Klipsch's New Wireless Earbuds Let You Control Your Phone With Head Gestures

GizModo VR

First announced earlier this year at CES 2021, Klipsch is finally ready to roll out its new T5 II True Wireless ANC earbuds, which bring active noise cancellation to one of the best-sounding pairs of wireless earbuds currently available. But that’s not the only upgrade: The new T5 II will also incorporate Bragi’s AI… Read more.

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Zoom agrees to pay whopping settlement fee over ‘zoombombing’ and privacy

Digital Trends

Videoconferencing company Zoom has agreed to pay $85 million to settle a lawsuit regarding its privacy and security practices.

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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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Home Depot Wants to Sell You Tools That Require Bluetooth Activation

GizModo VR

In a bid to crack down on organized retail crime, Home Depot is piloting a program where power tools must be activated via Bluetooth at checkout—or they won’t work. It’s a clever solution to deter theft, but it also highlights how technology can sometimes change gadget ownership in unintended ways. Read more.

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Amazon’s Lord of the Rings series: Everything we know so far

Digital Trends

The Lord of the Rings prequel series developed by Amazon has a multiseason commitment and a $1 billion budget. Here's everything we know about the show so far.

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Will We Ever Be Able to Edit or Delete Memories?

GizModo VR

Impossible even to broach this subject without reference to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, in which an unkempt Jim Carrey enlists a legitimate if shoddily run medical firm to erase the memory of his ex-girlfriend. If that film had a message, it was almost certainly not “erasing memories is good,” but that is… Read more.

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Google Teases Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro with new "Tensor" SoC

Anand Tech

Today Google has teased its new upcoming Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro phones; in what is likely an attempt to get leaks and the upcoming narrative of the product under control, as opposed to the previous years of quite severe product spoilers several months ahead of the actual official product launches, the company is themselves revealing large important bits about the upcoming new flagship phones.

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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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Logitech's Colorful Headphones Are a Cheap Way to Match Your Keyboard

GizModo VR

I admit it: I’m a sucker for colorful computer stuff. As customizing mechanical keyboards becomes more popular, it seems natural to buy other peripherals that match. That’s why I was curious to test out the Logitech G335 wired gaming headset. These headphones are the budget alternative to the Logitech G733 Lightspeed… Read more.

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ASUS Unveils ROG Crosshair VIII Extreme Motherboard: Flagship X570

Anand Tech

With prices on AMD's Ryzen 5950X 16-core Zen 3 based processor slowly coming back into the realms of MSRP, ASUS is taking advantage of recent events by announcing its latest flagship X570 motherboard, the ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Extreme. Overtaking the current ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero as the premier motherboard in the ROG series, the Extreme includes a 20-phase power delivery, dual Thunderbolt 4-capable USB Type-C ports, 10 Gb Ethernet, and support for up to five PCIe 4.0 M.2 drives

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The Unofficial Simpsons Cookbook Is Here for All Your 'Mmm.Donuts' Cravings

GizModo VR

Over 30-plus seasons, The Simpsons has managed to showcase all manner of food—not just beer and donuts , though those are probably the most frequently spotlighted. Today, io9 has a very fun peek at The Unofficial Simpsons Cookbook , written by Laurel Randolph, the mega- Simpsons fan and prolific cookbook author behind… Read more.

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Best cheap Bose 700 deals and sales for August 2021

Digital Trends

The Bose 700 Noise-Cancelling Headphones sit at the top of the list of high-quality noise-cancelling headphones.

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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?