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The Meta Quest Adds Mobile Mixed Reality & Cloud Backup

VRScout

This latest update will introduce a variety of long-sought-after features. Facebook (Meta) today announced update v35 for the Meta Quest and Meta Quest 2, teasing several major updates to the Quest platform. Rolling out over the course of the next month, v35 will impact everything from Horizon Workooms to the Oculus smartphone app. There’s quite a lot to unpack, so let’s dive straight into today’s biggest announcements.

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How Close Are We to Seeing VR in the Classroom?

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Virtual reality and its cousin augmented reality , have taken the world by storm. VR is typically only thought of in a game sense, but it has made strides in accessibility and education. Students who have access to a virtual classroom could benefit from new, cutting-edge styles of learning. The Current Classroom VR Technology. Most kids are proficient in technology.

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5 Free VR Games On Oculus Quest 2 – November 2021

VRScout

Watch YouTube with friends, mix your favorite music, or go head-to-head in a variety of classic board games. Another month, another round of free games and apps for the Oculus (Meta) Quest 2. For November’s batch of free VR experiences, we have everything from a VR board game experience and collaborative design tool to an old-school DJ simulator.

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Nreal Launches $600 ‘Light’ AR Glasses in United States via Verizon

Road to VR

Nreal, the Chinese startup behind the Nreal Light AR glasses which made a splash back at CES 2019, has now expanded to the United States, making the smartphone-tethered device available through select Verizon stores starting today. Nreal Light is a pair of AR glasses that are physically connected to a smartphone via USB Type-C to drive its graphics and provide power, making it lighter than standalone AR headsets like HoloLens 2 since it’s offloaded the need for an internal battery, chipset

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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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What are Top Web AR Tactics?

AR Insider

Web AR has a specific set of attributes that drive its value as an immersive medium. So how can brand marketers work with those realities and lean into web AR's unique capabilities? We examine the ways. The post What are Top Web AR Tactics? appeared first on AR Insider.

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What Differentiates Web AR from Apps?

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There’s growing sentiment in the mobile AR world that apps aren’t the optimal vessel. Yet the technology lives on a device where apps rule. 90 percent of mobile users’ time is spent in apps versus the browser. Can AR break that cycle? And if so, could web AR be the answer? What is web AR? In short, it delivers AR experiences through the mobile browser.

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Study Suggests EEG Could be Used to Predict & Prevent VR Motion Sickness

Road to VR

A new study on VR motion sickness concludes that certain brain activity detectable by EEG strongly correlates with VR motion sickness. This finding suggests that it’s possible to quantitatively measure and potentially prevent VR motion sickness. While virtual reality opens the door to incredible possibilities, what we can actually do with VR today is at least somewhat limited by comfort considerations.

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Its Time to Change the Way we Game: There’s no More Reasons not to Switch to VR

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We’re out of excuses, VR is ultimately the future of gaming In the past, there has been so many arguments made about why VR isn’t the already the standard in gaming. It been said that “VR doesn’t have good graphics,” “VR is too expensive,” or “VR is too complicated to set up.” These arguments are now old and outdated, and with new virtual reality headsets like the Oculus quest 2, an easy to set up, affordable, and high performing VR headset, the arguments just don’t apply anymore.

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Tiny 'Living' Robots Figured Out How to Reproduce

GizModo VR

Researchers who developed what they say are the world’s first living robots now report they can reproduce in an unprecedented way, according to a peer-reviewed study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday. Read more.

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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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Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 8 Gen 1: Flagship SoC for 2022 Devices

Anand Tech

At this year’s Tech Summit from Hawaii, it’s time again for Qualcomm to unveil and detail the company’s most important launch of the year, and to showcase the newest Snapdragon flagship SoCs that will be powering our upcoming 2022 devices. Today, as the first of a few announcements at the event, Qualcomm is announcing the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, the direct follow-up to last year’s Snapdragon 888.

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Online Shopping Is Turning the High Seas Into a Super-Polluting Highway

GizModo VR

Mega retailers Amazon, Walmart, Target, and IKEA have made a mint during the pandemic as millions of consumers flocked to online shopping. Those companies have seen record profits as a result, but those profits will come at a steep environmental cost. Read more.

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VR Game Release Highlights December 2021

VR Game Critic

December, the perfect time to enjoy all the Black Friday gaming deals that we snapped up, and to grab a few new deals in the upcoming winter sales! And with several new VR titles around the corner, there’s more than enough to keep us busy during the Holidays and into 2022. This month marks the release of After the Fall on all major VR platforms.

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Elon Musk Frantically Warns Employees of Potential SpaceX Bankruptcy

GizModo VR

SpaceX employees received a nightmare email over the holiday weekend from CEO Elon Musk, warning them of a brewing crisis with its Raptor engine production that, if unsolved, could result in the company’s bankruptcy. The email, obtained by SpaceExplored , CNBC , and The Verge , urged employees to work over the weekend in… 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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4 innovative uses of AR in Spatial Design

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With the ability to add another layer to reality, AR is making the process of visualisation easier. One industry that has been deeply affected by the technology’s capability is architecture and design. Even with the plethora of advancements in design tools, a proper rendition of how the building shall look in its environment wasn’t possible [.]. The post 4 innovative uses of AR in Spatial Design appeared first on Virtual Reality Augmented Reality Technology Latest News.

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Yes, the Beatles Wanted to Make Lord of the Rings Movies

GizModo VR

For years, there have been rumors and stories that legendary rock group the Beatles toyed with the idea of making movies based on J.R.R Tolkien’s fantasy classic The Lord of the Rings. It’s one of those projects maybe you heard about , maybe you didn’t, but either way you simply can’t imagine it. Read more.

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Qualcomm Snapdragon Tech Summit: Day 1 Keynote Live Blog

Anand Tech

Qualcomm is starting its yearly Snapdragon Tech Summit. We're here to watch CEO Cristiano Amon with the latest updates to the smartphone side of the business.

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Microsoft's Ugly Holiday Sweater Is a Hideous Ode to Minesweeper, and I Need It

GizModo VR

I’m glad I didn’t buy anything on Black Friday this year—not because it means I can finally afford Apple’s mythical microfiber cloth , but because Microsoft just dropped a new ugly holiday sweater and I’m on the brink of spending $75 on 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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Holoride debuts Ride crypto, the currency of its in-car metaverse

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Holoride, the Audi-backed startup that’s creating an in-vehicle virtual reality entertainment system designed for passengers, has begun publicly selling its Ride cryptocurrency token. The launch of the crypto is the latest move by Holoride to build up its extended reality (XR) ecosystem of games and experiences created by a community of developers.

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Microsoft Keeps Making Its Edge Browser Worse for Some Reason

GizModo VR

Microsoft can’t help but undermine itself, it seems. After launching the new Edge browser last year to widespread praise, Microsoft has seemingly done everything possible to ruin it, including imposing unwelcome features and intrusive restrictions. Read more.

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NASA shares new photos of ISS shot from SpaceX Crew Dragon

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NASA has released new photos of the ISS taken from a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft as it performed a flyaround of the facility.

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Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Motto Goes to Court

GizModo VR

For the better part of two decades, Google has required nearly all of its employees to sign agreements with the instructions “don’t be evil,” without ever really bothering to elaborate on what evil actually means. Now, three former software engineers are suing the company to see just how seriously it takes this… 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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Iconic Renault 4 celebrates 60 years with ‘flying car’ design

Digital Trends

Renault has created a flying version of one of its most iconic cars as part of celebrations to mark the vehicle's 60th anniversary.

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Finish Out 2021 With 14 New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books for December

GizModo VR

December is traditionally the month with the least amount of new sci-fi and fantasy book releases, so you’ll notice our regular list is a bit shorter than usual. But there are still plenty of intriguing releases on the way, so read on for tales of magic and mages , murder and mutations , and more. Read more.

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The best home theater projectors

Digital Trends

Home theater projectors can deliver an awesome big-screen experience, offering some of the most impressive visuals out there. Here, we've rounded up the best.

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People Are Giving Money to the Wrong Climate Charities

GizModo VR

The majority of money given to environmental charities goes to just a handful of organizations, according to a new report. And, the analysis finds, the nonprofits and issues they champion raking in the biggest donor dollars aren’t necessarily focused on some of the most crucial ways to lower carbon emissions. 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?