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NEPA Hosting ‘Echo Arena’ Charity Cup For Special Olympics

VRScout

The in-person LAN event will take place next year at Busch Stadium’s Redbird Club in St. Louis. Founded by former US Air Force Commander Tony Cartwright, The National Esport Professional Association (NEPA) is working tirelessly towards the development of a professional VR sports network. The organization works alongside a number of franchise owners and professional Echo Arena players in an effort to establish Ready at Dawn’s competitive VR game as a legitimate sport.

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Blippar Releases Free Beta of WebAR SDK

ARPost

A recurring tension in the XR space has to do with the increasing demand for immersive experience outpacing the inflow of people with the technical prowess to author those experiences. Of course, as awareness and adoption of XR increases, so too does the number of creators contributing to the space – though there is still a significant skills gap.

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‘Panzer Dragoon VR’ Status Unclear After False Death Claim

VRScout

The highly-anticipated VR remake of Sega’s high-flying rail-shooter could be in jeopardy. This past March, developer Wildman unveiled Panzer Dragoon Voyage Record , an upcoming VR remake of the original three Panzer Dragoon games. In this “VR dramatic shooter,” players can take the reigns of their very own dragon and navigate a series of airborne challenges while blasting enemies using their motion controllers.

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Lynx R-1 Mixed Reality Standalone Comes to Kickstarter Today, Starting at Around $600

Road to VR

French startup Lynx today launched the long-awaited Kickstarter campaign for Lynx R-1, a standalone headset capable of both VR and passthrough AR. It’s looking to grab some eyeballs too with more of a consumer-focused price, starting at $615 (€530). Lynx R-1 features the same Qualcomm XR2 chipset as Oculus Quest 2 and HTC Vive Focus 3, and like those two it’s also based on a heavily modified version of Android.

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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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Will Visual Search Drive AR Shopping?

AR Insider

One promising form of AR shopping is visual search. This is when users hold up their phones and point their cameras at a given real-world object. The idea is to identify, contextualize or even buy the same or similar items. We examine the evidence. The post Will Visual Search Drive AR Shopping? appeared first on AR Insider.

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Do Allergies Raise Risk of Mental Illness? New Study Finds No Causal Link

GizModo VR

A new study might provide some comfort to those who suffer from allergies. The research found little evidence that having allergies directly raises the risk of developing mental health problems, or vice-versa, something that previous research had suggested might be the case. Though it’s still possible that treating… Read more.

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Data Dive: VR Finishes Q3 Strong

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One ongoing misperception in the tech world is that VR has stalled out. Some have even pronounced it dead. Such sentiments reflect the backlash to VR’s circa-2016 hype cycle. It didn’t fulfill world-changing proclamations trumpeted at the time, so it’s earned some mistrust. But practically speaking, VR is doing just fine and is growing at a healthy pace for an emerging technology that faces practicality headwinds.

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A Small War Over Bike Lanes May Be an Uber and Lyft Conspiracy

GizModo VR

If you live in New York City, you are a pedestrian or you are a driver, and you’re enmeshed in a war over streets that hits everyone’s wallets and time. Now, an extraordinary alliance has emerged: a militant local bike lane group, backed by Uber and Lyft, is battling car owners over hundreds of free parking spots.… Read more.

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Facebook’s massive outage saw millions sign up to rival apps

Digital Trends

Facebook's calamitous global outage, which also affected Messenger and WhatsApp, apparently prompted tens of millions of users to seek out rival apps.

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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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In Peacemaker's First Clip, Everybody Hates Amanda Waller

GizModo VR

In HBO Max’s upcoming Peacemaker follow up to James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad , a deranged sociopath who sees himself as a savior is tasked by the American government to become the sort of superhero people are meant to look up to. But if people knew what kind of person John Cena’s Peacemaker actually was, they’d want… Read more.

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NEPA to Host Echo Arena LAN Event to Support Special Olympics

VR Fitness

National Esport Professional Association announces a charity cup to raise awareness and funds for the Special Olympics. Featuring Ready At Dawn’s Echo Arena , the LAN sporting event will be held at Busch Stadium’s Redbird Club in St. Louis on March 18-20, 2022 and will continue to blaze a trail for professional competitive VR esports and raise awareness of VR platform’s inclusivity for athletes.

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'The Buck Stops With Mark': Facebook Whistleblower Says Zuckerberg Responsible for System Harming Kids

GizModo VR

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen stepped out of the shadows Sunday after months of working secretly with lawyers, journalists and lawmakers to build a case against the company she’d once thought to change from within—but now views as fundamentally threatening to the whole of humanity. Haugen was once against… Read more.

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House of the Dragon trailer teases Game of Thrones’ fiery past

Digital Trends

HBO Max's Game of Thrones prequel series, House of the Dragon, sets the stage for action and intrigue over 200 years before the events of the original series.

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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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Earth Is Getting Dimmer

GizModo VR

Earth is losing some of its glow, a study published in Geophysical Research Letters last week shows. It appears climate change and a natural climate shift have essentially scuffed up our planet. We really can’t have nice things, can we folks? Read more.

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Why Squid Game is the most brilliantly subversive series since Black Mirror

Digital Trends

Netflix hit show Squid Game easily draws comparisons to The Hunger Games and Battle Royale, but there's another show it shares similarities with: Black Mirror.

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George Clooney Wasn't Asked to Reprise Batman for The Flash, and He's Not Surprised

GizModo VR

They got Affleck , they got Keaton , so you have to wonder about Clooney. Next year, DC is expanding its very own multiverse in The Flash , Andy Muschietti’s story about Barry Allen (Ezra Miller), which will feature not only the debut of Supergirl (Sasha Calle) , but a pair of Batmen played by some familiar faces: Michael… Read more.

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Apple iPad (2021) vs. iPad Mini (2021): To Mini or not?

Digital Trends

The iPad (2021) is the best standard Apple tablet to date, but is it as a good as the iPad Mini (2021)? We reveal the answer in this head-to-head comparison.

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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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France Is Threatening the UK's Power Supply

GizModo VR

The UK is already facing major gas shortages , and now French officials threatening to sever an agreement to supply electricity to the country. The reason? The officials are ticked off by the UK’s refusal to grant French fishermen licenses to fish in British waters, creating the latest drama in the messy Brexit split. Read more.

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Kingdom Hearts’ Sora is Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’s last DLC character

Digital Trends

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's roster is finally complete with the addition of Sora, who's coming to the game on October 18.

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'I Call It Fire Brain': What It's Like to Photograph Wildfires at the Frontline of the Climate Crisis

GizModo VR

The West has been primed to burn at a moment when more people than ever have moved to some of the most dangerous forests on Earth. The result has been an endless stream of horror stories and images: houses on fires, dead animals, ecosystems upended , people crying when they realize they lost everything , drone shots of … Read more.

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The Suicide Squad’s John Cena returns in the first Peacemaker teaser

Digital Trends

John Cena's Peacemaker is spinning out of The Suicide Squad in a new HBO Max series, but his co-workers aren't letting this clueless antihero get a pass.

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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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If You’ve Bought a Refurbished Device From Apple, They Might Owe You Some Money

GizModo VR

After being accused of violating California’s Unfair Competition Law, late last week Apple agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit to the tune of $95 million. Read more.

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Intel CEO says AMD’s lead is ‘over’ with the arrival of Alder Lake. But is it?

Digital Trends

Intel's CEO is confident that Alder Lake will return Intel to the CPU throne. But with a few bad CPU launches, there are still plenty of reasons to doubt Intel.

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The Pixel 6 Is Officially Coming Oct. 19

GizModo VR

After months of waiting for an official date, Google has finally announced that its Pixel Fall Launch is happening on Oct. 19 at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET. Read more.

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Watch this 360 video tour of the space station’s ‘beating heart’

Digital Trends

International Space Station astronaut Thomas Pesquet has dropped his latest video offering a closer look at the key modules that make up the orbiting outpost.

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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?