Tue.Jul 06, 2021

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Sam & Max: This Time It’s Virtual review: a fun and variated game

The Ghost Howls

On July 8th, Sam & Max: This Time It’s Virtual, one of the most awaited VR games of 2021, will be released on Oculus Quest (you can wishlist it here ). It is the re-proposition of the famous duo Sam & Max , that was very popular in the 90s, but this time in a completely different format, that is a VR game. Is this game good? Will it please its fans?

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Dogecoin Millionaire Launches Tamagotchi-Style AR Game

VRScout

Earn exclusive NFTs and Dogecoin by taking care of an AR-powered ‘Dogeagotchi’ in this location-based mobile game. In an effort to establish what he calls a “Doge-fueled Party metaverse,” Vancouver-based Dogecoin millionaire Gary Lachance is giving away one million of his own Dogecoin, currently worth $300,000 CAD, but there’s a catch.

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Snap Brings AR Lenses to Viber

ARPost

Snap Bitmojis and the power of their camera and creator kits are finding a new home thanks to a new partnership with Rakuten Viber. We’ll take a look at the announcement including how the partnership benefits both companies and, of course, how it benefits you. The Team. The company behind Snapchat and Spectacles has put a lot of work into AR lenses and the creator community behind them.

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‘Waltz Of The Wizard’ Update Takes VR Sorcery To A New Level

VRScout

Use your gestures and voice to harness powerful magic in the latest free update to the long-established magic-casting experience. The popular VR magic-casting game Waltz of the Wizard today received its biggest update-to-date, Natural Magic , which introduces new locations to explore, ancient magic to harness, and powerful enemies to defeat. Originally released back in 2016 on PC VR headsets before arriving on Oculus Quest in 2019, Waltz of the Wizard has you casting a variety of unique spells u

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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 to View Art from Your Chromecast in Augmented Reality

Next Reality AR

The Chromecast TV streaming lineup from Google is one of the more popular products in the category, primarily due to its low price tag and broad app support. With more than 430,000 reviews on the App Store, Chromecast has even found fans of those in the Apple ecosystem. The latest edition in the lineup, Chromecast with Google TV, elevates the platform from a casting dongle to a full-fledged smart TV device and Apple TV alternative.

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‘Blair Witch VR’ Releases on Oculus Rift Today, Coming to PSVR This Summer

Road to VR

Bloober Team and Lionsgate today announced that it’s launching a special Oculus Rift edition of its Blair Witch VR port, which released exclusively on Quest last year. The Rift version is coming to the Oculus Store today with a few new features that make better use of the PC’s increased compute power. Called Blair Witch: Oculus Rift Edition , the phycological horror game comes to Rift with a few enhancements.

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Building an AR app with Flutter and Appwrite

ARVR

Photo by Sigmund on Unsplash Augmented Reality is all set to create a more immersive world that will encompass most of our daily life. In this article, I share my experience building an AR project, how I decided on the idea, overcame certain challenges. There might be some important takeaways, hence be sure to read till the end. Disclaimer : This article does not promote or demote any pacakge, tool, or technology, I am jotting down my experince and what worked for me so you can get some takeaw

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Hands-on with ‘Waltz of the Wizard: Natural Magic’ – Flexible & Clever Sorcery in a Massive Dungeon

Road to VR

Owners of Waltz of the Wizard: Extended Edition, the spell-casting VR experience for SteamVR and Quest, are getting a major free expansion today called ‘Natural Magic’ It brings to the the game a new magic-based combat system and a massive dungeon where you can finetune how to use your singular, albeit surprisingly flexible spell. Waltz of the Wizard has been in continuous development by Iceland-based studio Aldin Dynamics since it was launched on Steam back in 2016.

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Augmented Reality (AR) explained in 5 minutes

ARVR

What is AR exactly? You have probably heard of it, but could you explain it in your own words? In 5 minutes you’ll be able to. Augmented Reality is having digital information (3D model, text, video, etc) overlaid in your vision of the real world. You can see it through your tablet or phone’s camera. Source: Giphy So simply said, AR is something that adds things to your reality.

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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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Examining OnePlus' Performance Behaviour: Optimization or Misrepresentation?

Anand Tech

We've discovered weird behaviour on the OnePlus 9 Pro flagship: Popular apps are performance limited, while benchmarks are unaffected. Is this battery optimisation, or misrepresentation of the user experience?

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In 2030, You Won't Own Any Gadgets

GizModo VR

Owning things used to be simple. You went to the store. You paid money for something, whether it be a TV, clothes, books, toys, or electronics. You took your item home, and once you paid it off, that thing belonged to you. It was yours. You could do whatever you wanted with it. That’s not how it is today, and by 2030,… Read more.

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Everything we know about Pokémon Legends: Arceus

Digital Trends

Pokémon Legends: Arceus takes trainers back to Sinnoh to help create the region’s first Pokédex. A new, open-world Pokémon adventure is on its way in early 2022.

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China's Tencent Says It'll Use Face Recognition to Keep Minors From Gaming at Night

GizModo VR

Shenzhen, China-based gaming giant Tencent has announced it will use a face recognition system to prevent minors in its home country from playing video games late into the night. 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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How to turn a PC or tablet into an Echo Show

Digital Trends

Alexa's new Show Mode is rolling out to PCs this year: Here's how to turn your PC or tablet into an Echo Show with access to all voice commands and video feeds.

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Fitbit's Fashionable New Fitness Tracker Is a Solid Alternative to a Smartwatch

GizModo VR

The humble fitness tracker has long since been eclipsed by the smartwatch. It’s easy to understand why, of course but it’s left anyone looking for something simpler—and cheaper—with dinky wristbands to choose from that aren’t much to look at. The Fitbit Luxe seems like the perfect solution, with an elegant… Read more.

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Here are all the motherboards that officially support TPM for Windows 11

Digital Trends

Windows 11 requires TPM 2.0, and you can likely enable it on your motherboard. Here are the supported models from the top motherboard makers.

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Facebook's Subsea Cables Are The Last Thing Africa Needs

GizModo VR

On Monday, Facebook announced it was partnering with Africa’s largest fiber company, Liquid Intelligent Technologies, to build an “extensive” fiber network that’s over 2,000 kilometers (or 1,243 miles) long. Per Liquid, this network is one of the most “extensive,” and “difficult” builds that the company’s undertaken,… 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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Fitbit Versa 3 vs. Apple Watch SE: Can Fitbit outrun Apple?

Digital Trends

The Fitbit Versa 3 and Apple Watch SE are two of the best smartwatches available right now. But which one is best? We find out in this head-to-head comparison.

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Terminator 2's Famous Kitchen Scene Was More Complicated Than You Thought

GizModo VR

Terminator 2: Judgment Day shot its way into theaters in July of 1991 and cinema was never the same. The James Cameron film certainly had plenty to garner its R-rating but one scene in particular certainly drove home the, well, point. Read more.

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The Nintendo Switch OLED’s new dock can be purchased separately

Digital Trends

Nintendo says that its newly redesigned Switch OLED dock will be sold separate from the console through its website.

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Disneyland Paris Replaces FastPass With a Pay-Per-Ride Service

GizModo VR

Oh, so you want to go on the Ratatouille ride with your partner and two kids, but you don’t want to wait? That’ll be $40 please. Disneyland Paris has announced that the free FastPass service, a way for folks to skip the line by reserving a slot ahead of time, will instead be replaced by a pay-per-ride service and a … 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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SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft to get the best bathroom ever

Digital Trends

SpaceX will use a newly designed Crew Dragon capsule for its first-ever all-civilian space mission in September. And it’ll include one very special bathroom.

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NYPD's 'Shrek Bus' Is Fake, Not a Bus, and Should Be Avoided at All Costs

GizModo VR

Here’s a surprise gift from your dear friends at the NYPD: a “GAME TRUCK,” containing video game consoles, as spotted by WNYC/Gothamist reporter Gwynne Hogan. Take a look at this bad boy, expanding police presence throughout the city. Fun cop summer! Read more.

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Rocket Lab shows off Rosie, its rocket-building robot

Digital Trends

Rocket Lab's Rosie robot helps the launch company produce its workhorse Electron rocket at a far quicker rate than before.

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The Industry That Loved Richard Donner Celebrates Him

GizModo VR

The filmmaker behind Superman , The Goonies , and other modern classics left behind a huge legacy following his passing. Now, several of the people who’ve continued bringing Richard Donner’s stories to life are paying tribute. 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?