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MARCH 5, 2023
Fans of Echo VR brought the metaverse to Mark Zuckerberg this week. A group called Fight For Echo put an ad above Meta to protest the forthcoming closure of its free-to-play VR esport Echo VR. The ad reads: “Zuck, don’t kill VR esports” Over the past month fans of the zero-g esport pooled money on gofundme to run the ad near Mark Zuckerberg’s social network.
Bernard Marr
MARCH 5, 2023
The viral chatbot interface is based on GPT-3, said to be one of the largest and most complex language models ever created – trained on 175 billion “parameters” (data points). However, it’s something of an open secret that its creator – the AI research organization OpenAI – is well into development of its successor, GPT-4. Rumor has it that GPT-4 will be far more powerful and capable than GPT-3.
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MARCH 5, 2023
Former Half-Life writer Marc Laidlaw revealed why Valve cancelled the Borealis VR game in a new interview. This isn’t the first time we’ve heard about Valve’s pre- Half-Life: Alyx plans in VR. Geoff Keighley’s Half-Life: Alyx – Final Hours detailed how Laidlaw looked into a new Half-Life VR game in 2015, codenamed Borealis. Named after the Aperture Science Research ship, Laidlaw’s outline would have seen players exploring the vessel as it travelled through time, showing events
VRGames
MARCH 5, 2023
This week saw the release of some exciting updates and new titles on the Meta Quest Platform. From RPG classics to contemporary shooter games, there is something for everyone! One of the most anticipated releases was a critically acclaimed series of point-and-click adventure games, bringing players into a unique world full of secrets and puzzles.
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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MARCH 5, 2023
Walmart now carries Onn brand Quest 2 accessories. VR is starting to have its true mainstream moment with nearly 20 million Quest headsets sold. Meta’s standalone VR headset is so popular, it seems, that Walmart’s in-house brand Onn now offers accessories for Quest 2 just like other major technology products. Walmart now offers the three accessories for Quest 2 with the Onn branding.
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