Thu.Jun 24, 2021

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Facebook Patent Teases AR Fedora, Visor, And Cowboy Hat

VRScout

The company says that a larger surface area would allow them to implement additional features, such as face and eye tracking. Earlier this week, the United States Patent & Trademark Office published a new patent filed by Facebook back in 2019 that showcases a “unique” type of AR headgear. First spotted by Founders Legal , the patent, entitled “Artificial Reality Hat,” details several different types of AR-enhanced hats with “artificial reality components,”

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LIV Mobile App Lets You Record Quest Mixed Reality Video with Just Your iPhone, Now in Beta

Road to VR

LIV develops software for mixed reality video capture, and over the years it’s become the de facto method for streamers showing themselves immersed in VR from a third-person perspective. For best results though, using LIV invariably means you’ll need some extra equipment, which isn’t ideal for everyone. Now LIV has released its newly unveiled mobile iOS app which lets you record your Quest experience without the need of a green screen, webcam, or PC—only an iPhone or iPad.

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Shopify Dives Deeper Into Camera Commerce

AR Insider

O ne of the most popular AR use cases is visualizing products on “faces & spaces.” That includes products like cosmetics and couches. The former is a big “try-before-you-buy” category while the latter is all about making sure big items fit in your home before buying. All of this has amplified as it has piggybacked on Covid-era eCommerce inflections.

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VR Education Platform ‘ENGAGE’ Raises $10.7M to Build ‘Oasis’ Metaverse for Business

Road to VR

VR Education Holdings, the company behind the social VR platform ENGAGE , announced it’s raised €9 million (~$10.7 million) which will help it expand beyond the realm of immersive education & training and into a new product called ENGAGE Oasis. It’s billing the upcoming social VR platform as an enterprise offering comparable to a “fully featured corporate metaverse.” As reported by Forbes and Silicon Republic , the Waterford, Ireland-based company has secured its lat

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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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Augmented Reality: The Future of Education is Now

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Traditional methods of education that we are used to are rapidly changing as the technological innovations are ushering in the age of… Continue reading on AR/VR Journey: Augmented & Virtual Reality Magazine ».

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Canada to Make Online Hate Speech a Crime Punishable by $16,000 Fine

GizModo VR

Canada’s ruling Liberal government announced on Wednesday that it plans to make online hate speech a crime punishable by as much as $20,000 (roughly $16,250 US) for the first offense and $50,000 ($40,600 US) for the second. The proposal would punish social media users who broke the law but exempt social media… Read more.

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‘Walkabout Mini Golf’ Finally Set to Launch on Steam July 15th with Cross-play, New Course Included

Road to VR

After launching on Quest back in September of 2020 and “coming soon” to Steam ever since, the well rated VR mini golf game Walkabout Mini Golf finally has a July 15th release date on Steam, supporting all PC VR headsets and cross-play with the Quest and Oculus PC versions. The game was recently updated with its seventh course which will be included in all versions of the game.

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TCL's New Smart Glasses Are Portable Movie Screens

GizModo VR

It feels like every consumer electronics company is attempting to make a pair of smart glasses right now. For the most part, those efforts are focused on augmented reality. But TCL’s NXTWEAR G Wearable Display Glasses aren’t about giving context to the world around you. They’re meant to help you stay immersed in your… Read more.

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JUMP Opens Pre-sales for Tickets to Its Virtual Skydiving Attraction

Road to VR

JUMP, the destination-based entertainment company, exited stealth late last year and teased a unique attraction that would combine real-world wing suits, wind effects, body harnesses and VR headsets for a fully immersive skydiving experience. The company is now taking pre-orders for tickets to its debut locations, which for now are in Utah and New Jersey. .

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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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How to Work in Virtual Reality, and Why You'd Even Want To

GizModo VR

Think of the Oculus Quest 2 and you naturally think gaming: flying through virtual reality worlds, shooting down virtual reality enemies, and so on. But Oculus has been updating its software recently and new features suggest it’s keen to help you get some work done, too—even if we’re still in the early stages of that… Read more.

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Psychedelic VR meditation startup Tripp raises $11 million Series A

TechCrunch VR

As an increasing number of startups sell investors on mobile apps that help consumers prioritize well-being and mindfulness, other startups are looking for a more immersive take that allow users to fully disconnect from the world around them. Tripp has been building immersive relaxation exercises that seek to blend some of the experiences users may find in guided meditation apps with more free-form experiences that allow users to unplug from their day and explore their thoughts inside a virtual

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The future of mobility: 5 transportation technologies to watch out for

Digital Trends

From autonomous vehicles to flying taxis, the future of mobility and transportation is set to change dramatically in the next few decades. Here's a preview.

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Optimum's Reason for Slashing Upload Speeds Doesn't Make Any Sense

GizModo VR

Starting July 12, Altice will reduce upload speeds on all its Optimum Online cable internet plans. While there’s no indication thus far that will impact prices, some plans will see upload speeds cut by as much as 86%. At a time when people are still working and learning remotely, you’d think Altice would have a good… Read more.

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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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I have an RTX 2080 and Core i9-10900K, and I can’t run Windows 11

Digital Trends

Windows 11 doesn't require a beefy computer, but it does require TPM 2.0. This setting has caused a lot of confusion for PC builders who don't have a TPM chip.

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The Biggest Hacks of 2021 (So Far)

GizModo VR

Over the past several months, it’s become hard to ignore the fact that the digital lives we’ve all built for ourselves appear to be completely and utterly vulnerable to cybercriminals and spies. Read more.

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For $125K, you can hitch a ride to the edge of space on a giant balloon

Digital Trends

Florida-based Space Perspective has started selling tickets for an amazing balloon flight that will take passengers high above Earth.

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How to Try Out Windows 11 Before Everyone Else

GizModo VR

Microsoft just took the wraps off Windows 11 , its long-awaited visual overhaul of the PC operating system used by more than a billion people. But now that we know what Windows 11 looks like, how can you start using it? Read more.

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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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TCL’s wearable display puts a 140-inch screen right in front of your eyes

Digital Trends

The TCL NXTWear G may look like a pair of sunglasses, but it's actually a wearable display for your phone or PC that puts a huge screen in front of your eyes.

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Paleontologists Find Evidence of Dinosaurs Nesting Near the North Pole

GizModo VR

On a riverbank in the far north of Alaska, a team of paleontologists have been scraping away at the muck. They’ve uncovered evidence of dinosaur breeding at the top of what is now North America, a sign that in the late Cretaceous period, dinosaurs were living full-time in cool climates. Read more.

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SpaceX reveals date for Starlink global internet coverage

Digital Trends

SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell has been talking about when the company's Starlink internet service should be able to offer global coverage.

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Soon You May Get to Watch Major Supreme Court Cases Broadcast Live on TV

GizModo VR

For the first time in more than a decade, a legislative effort to capture Supreme Court hearings and other federal court proceedings on camera has cleared the Senate committee. Read more.

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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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What is Alexa Rank? Everything you need to know

Digital Trends

A website's Alexa ranking is a valuable score that can help you determine what parts of your site are working and what needs improvement. Here are the details.

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Surprising Human Remains From Israeli Quarry Complicate Our Evolutionary Picture

GizModo VR

Another wrench has been thrown into our understanding of human origins, thanks to recently discovered remains of an archaic hominin in the Levant. The person or people who left these bones behind over 120,000 years ago may have coexisted with Homo sapiens , according to new research. Read more.

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Microsoft Windows 11 event: Everything announced so far

Digital Trends

The big Windows 11 event is here, and we're collecting all the most important announcements from the event so far.

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Amazing Spider-Man's New Era Brings Back Ben Reilly as Spider-Man

GizModo VR

Ben Reilly already had a very wild legacy at Marvel Comics, but his return a few years ago in Clone Conspiracy —and his spinoff series as the Scarlet Spider once more —only added to a backstory that, even by comic book superheroes’ most egregious standards, was a bit bonkers. Ben’s pushing all that aside though in a new… Read more.

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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?