Tue.Aug 18, 2020

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New Oculus Headsets Will Require A Facebook Account Beginning This October

VRScout

Existing users will need to merge their Oculus accounts in two years. Welp, we knew this day would come. Earlier this morning Facebook confirmed in an official Oculus blog post that, beginning October 2020, those using an Oculus VR headset for the first time will need to log in to their devices with an official Facebook account for full functionality.

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What Does the AR Advertising Landscape Look Like?

AR Insider

This post is adapted from ARtillery Intelligence’s report, AR Advertising Deep Dive, Part I: The Landscape. It includes some of its data and takeaways. More can be previewed here and subscribe for the full report. A R continues to evolve and take shape as an industry. Prominent sectors include industrial AR , social , gaming , and shopping. But existing alongside all of them is AR advertising.

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Facebook Signs Multiyear Deal with NBA, Making Oculus Its Official VR Marketing Partner

Road to VR

Facebook has signed a multiyear deal with the National Basketball Association (NBA) which makes Oculus an official marketing and VR headset partner of the NBA, Women’s NBA (WNBA) and NBA G League. Oculus is now considered ‘the presenting partner’ of the NBA Rail Cam Replay on ESPN, ABC and TNT, which will now be called ‘Oculus Front Row View’ The newly-dubbed Oculus Front Row View is a mobile table-mounted camera that captures the action as it moves up and down the court.

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How to Enable ARCore on Any Android Device

ARPost

Many owners of low-tier or older Android devices would like to learn how to enable ARCore in order to enjoy augmented reality experiences. As the technology becomes adopted by an increasing number of industries, AR experiences are everywhere. Apart from games and “try before you buy” apps, users may encounter AR triggering markers in stores and on outdoor ads.

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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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The 20 Best Rated & Most Rated Quest Games & Apps – August 2020

Road to VR

While Oculus doesn’t offer much publicly in the way of understanding how well individual apps are performing across its VR storefronts, it’s possible to glean some insight by looking at apps relative to each other. Here’s a snapshot of the top 20 Oculus Quest games and apps as of August 2020. Some quick qualifications before we get to the data dump: Paid and free apps are separated.

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Hot Chips 2020 Live Blog: Manticore 4096-core RISC-V (3:30pm PT)

Anand Tech

Hot Chips has gone virtual this year! Lots of talks on lots of products, including Tiger Lake, Xe, POWER10, Xbox Series X, TPUv3, and a special Raja Koduri Keynote. Stay tuned at AnandTech for our live blogs as we commentate on each talk.

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How to Clean Up Your Social Media Accounts Without Deleting Them

GizModo VR

There are many reasons to avoid wanting a social media digital paper trail of your entire life. Maybe there are posts there you think your new employer won’t like, or that your new partner’s parents won’t like, or even ones that you don’t believe in anymore. But wiping the slate clean and starting again is only one of… Read more.

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Supernatural Gets Member Profiles, Dedicated Meditations, And Music-Synced Haptic Feedback

VR Fitness

Fitness enthusiasts will be glad to know that Supernatural is getting several new features that will help take its daily workouts and fitness tracking to the next level. An update in August will see Within Unlimited’s subscription-based workout title gain four member profiles per membership, which will allow users at home to share the game with their family and retain individual workout histories.

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Tinted Solar Panels Can Help Farms Generate Clean Energy While Growing Food

GizModo VR

In a future world, leafy vegetables may not be grown in rows of crops under the sun. Instead, they may be grown indoors beneath tinted semi-transparent solar panels that will allow farmers to grow food and produce energy. That’s the future imagined in a recent study that shows how the use of this technology can… 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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Mandatory Socialization: Facebook Accounts To be Required for Oculus Headsets

Anand Tech

Signaling the end to any remaining degrees of separation between Facebook and its VR headset division, Oculus, today the social media company announced that it will be further integrating the two services. Coming this fall, the company will begin sunsetting stand-alone Oculus accounts as part of an effort to transition the entire Oculus ecosystem over to Facebook.

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First Male Murder Hornet in U.S. Caught in Washington State

GizModo VR

The murder-hornet-hunting heroes at the Washington State Department of Agriculture have successfully trapped a male specimen—the first of its kind found stateside. Read more.

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Lenovo Refreshes the Yoga Lineup With Ryzen and Next-Gen Intel Core Processors

Anand Tech

There are several iconic designs in the PC space that have spawned many competing clones, and Lenovo is the proud parent of one such design in the Lenovo Yoga. The 360° hinge and touch support proved to be one of the most useful convertible designs around, with an uncompromised laptop feel, but added versatility of tent, tablet, and stand modes.

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Does Our Sun Have a Long-Lost Twin?

GizModo VR

The strange configuration of material in the outer reaches of our solar system has led a team of scientists to speculate that the Sun had a companion during its early days. Intriguingly, this scenario could explain the presence of the hypothesized Planet Nine, should it actually exist. 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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AMD Releases the A520 Chipset: For Ryzen on a Budget

Anand Tech

AMD has officially lifted the lid on its latest entry-level chipset designed for its Zen 2-based Ryzen 3000 and 4000 processors, the A520 chipset. Following AMD's mid-tier B550 chipset launch a few months back, A520 brings up the bottom of AMD's now fully-modernized chipset stack, dialing down on things like PCIe speeds to allow its board partners to build more budget-friendly Ryzen 3000/4000 motherboards.

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Please Keep Mark Zuckerberg Away From My Bones

GizModo VR

Most of us might think of Facebook as the social network of choice for suburban moms and conspiracy theorists , but the company hasn’t been shy about branching out to become much more than an app on our phones, even if that’s the last thing we want. Here’s an example: earlier today, Facebook put out a company blog post … Read more.

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The best accessories for the Samsung Galaxy Note 20 and Note 20 Ultra

Digital Trends

We've selected some of the best Note 20 and Note 20 Ultra accessories, from earbuds to chargers and stands.

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Facebook Just Told Oculus Users to Go Get F *d

GizModo VR

It’s official. Starting this October, a Facebook account will be mandatory for all future Oculus headsets. While there’ll be a grace period for anyone with a separate Oculus account, Facebook will end support for those on January 1, 2023. 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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#934: Accessibility in Virtual Worlds: Lessons from Second Life with Donna Davis

Voices of VR

In 2015, Donna Davis and Tom Boellstorff received a three-year National Science Foundation grant on The Role of People with Disability in the Innovation of.

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Smartphones Knowing When You're Drunk Is the Next Frontier of Data Spying

GizModo VR

In case your smartphone tracking your travels, web browsing, dating history, job changes, diet changes, shopping habits, and general content consumption wasn’t enough for you, there’s good news. Soon, the little snitch in all of our pockets might be able to tell us when we’re plastered just by measuring a few of our… Read more.

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Hot Chips 2020 Live Blog: Keynote Day 2, Dan Belov of Deepmind (1:30pm PT)

Anand Tech

Hot Chips has gone virtual this year! Lots of talks on lots of products, including Tiger Lake, Xe, POWER10, Xbox Series X, TPUv3, and a special Raja Koduri Keynote. Stay tuned at AnandTech for our live blogs as we commentate on each talk.

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Google Maps Just Got a Colorful New Update

GizModo VR

Google Maps is getting a colorful new update in the coming weeks, adding terrain and street-level granularity to its UI that, after 15 years, was in desperate need of a makeover. 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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Hot Chips 2020 Live Blog: Silicon Photonics for AI (6:00pm PT)

Anand Tech

Hot Chips has gone virtual this year! Lots of talks on lots of products, including Tiger Lake, Xe, POWER10, Xbox Series X, TPUv3, and a special Raja Koduri Keynote. Stay tuned at AnandTech for our live blogs as we commentate on each talk.

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Internet Explorer Has Started Its Ascent to the Big Digital Pasture in the Sky

GizModo VR

My dad had a cute nickname for Internet Explorer: “Internet Exploder,” an expression of disdain for the browser that he refused to use, even though it was the preferred option for vast majority of people in late ‘90s and early 2000s. He liked the MSN Explorer browser, but I never understood why. Maybe it was the… Read more.

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OhShape and Synth Riders Offer Prize Pool and New Content for VR Fitness Summit

VR Fitness

During the VR Fitness Summit, Odders Lab and Kluge Interactive will offer new content, tournaments for each game, and a collaborative $500 prize pool for participants who play any song on both OhShape and Synth Riders while registered for both tournaments. The VR Fitness Summit isn’t the first time Odders Lab and Kluge Interactive have collaborated.

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Covid-19 Just Passed Another Horrible Milestone in the U.S.

GizModo VR

The covid-19 pandemic has just breezed through another ignoble milestone in the U.S. The viral disease has taken more American lives this year than almost all other leading causes—it ranks behind only heart disease and cancer. 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?