VRScout

JUNE 22, 2021

The Ready Player One -inspired corporate metaverse will serve as a platform for businesses to sell products and services. VR Education, the team behind the virtual education and training platform ENGAGE , today announced a new addition to its growing ecosystem of virtual communication solutions, ENGAGE Oasis. Launching the first half of next year, this corporate metaverse will serve as a virtual meeting ground for businesses, professionals, and college students looking to sell their products or

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ARPost

JUNE 22, 2021

The Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN) has recently held its seventh annual conference. For the second year, the conference took place in their virtual campus on the VR remote work platform Virbela. But, unlike last year (the first year that ARPost covered the event ), this year’s conference was a month-long “festival” held from May 17 to June 10.

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VRScout

JUNE 22, 2021

Back to normal? It almost felt like it. . While the pandemic still rages on across the globe, the XR industry can count a clear win thanks to the dedicated team behind this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. . As the first half-virtual, half-onsite art show of its size in the United States, the successful attempt brought a sense of normalcy back to in-person events.

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Road to VR

JUNE 22, 2021

Myst (2020) developer Cyan Worlds announced today that its VR remake of the game is finally due to launch on PC later this Summer. The VR remake of Myst launched initially on Oculus Quest late last year. At the time it was clear that the game would eventually come to PC as Cyan Worlds had already published a Steam store page for the game. Granted, it wasn’t known exactly when the game would actually launch on Steam.

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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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AR Insider

JUNE 22, 2021

A. R traction over the past few years has occurred mostly through the smartphone camera. As our research arm ARtillery Intelligence quantified in its mobile AR revenue forecast , this early AR modality has reached scale by piggy-backing on a ubiquitous device we all carry. But that scale has a tradeoff. Mobile AR’s quantitative benefits come with qualitative detriments.

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Slashgear

JUNE 22, 2021

Facebook has a sort of reverse Midas’ touch where everything it touches gets stained by its own stigmas. Every product it buys or gets close to eventually gets involved in its privacy issues or, at the very least, its advertising businesses. It was the latter surprised, shocked, and even disgusted Oculus users last week when the social networking giant announced … Continue reading.

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ARVR

JUNE 22, 2021

A hero shooter like Overwatch has been missing in VR so far. That’s why I took a look at Larcenauts today Today, I ventured into the arenas of Larcenauts and spent a few hours beating up online opponents (and bots, unfortunately) with most of the heroes. You can read more about how I liked the game and why it has some serious weaknesses in addition to its strengths in the rest of the review.

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Charlie Fink

JUNE 22, 2021

VR EDUCATION HOLDINGS PLC (VRE.L) creators and operators of the popular social platform for education, training, and conferences, announced it’s raised $10M USD from Octopus Investment Limited UK and is building a metaverse, The Engage Oasis, which it hopes will become “the Linkedin of VR,” accor.

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ARVR

JUNE 22, 2021

This article was extracted from the Recommended Practices for Haptics in Enterprise VR published by the Haptics Industry Forum. What should be considered while planning to include haptics in a VR training solution? ? Application maturity. A successful virtual training application requires the user company to be familiar with virtual reality technology and to have successfully delivered proof of concepts validating the ROI. ?

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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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GizModo VR

JUNE 22, 2021

Newly published satellite imagery shows the ground temperature in at least one location in Siberia topped 118 degrees Fahrenheit (48 degrees Celsius) going into the year’s longest day. It’s hot Siberia Earth summer, and it certainly won’t be the last. Read more.

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Anand Tech

JUNE 22, 2021

As part of SiFive’s announcements today, along with enabling SiFive IP on Intel’s Foundry Service offerings, Intel will be creating its own RISC-V development platform using its 7nm process technology. This platform, called Horse Creek, will feature several of SiFive’s new Performance P550 cores also being announced today, and will be paired with Intel’s DDR and PCIe IP technology.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 22, 2021

If you’ve been running into an error message that says “Google keeps stopping,” you’re not alone as numerous reports have popped up saying the Google app on Android is suffering from instability. And while it seems Google is aware of the issue, there are some things you can do to address the problem in the meantime. Read more.

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Anand Tech

JUNE 22, 2021

Alongside today’s release of their new Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.6.1 driver – the first to bring support for FidelityFX Super Resolution tech – AMD is also using this opportunity to clean house on supported graphics products. As announced in a new blog post and effective immediately, AMD is moving all of its 1 st , 2 nd , and 3 rd generation Graphics Core Next (GCN) based GPUs and APUs to legacy status.

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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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Digital Trends

JUNE 22, 2021

We’re more than halfway through the first day of Prime Day 2021, and there has been no shortage of fantastic Prime Day deals to choose from. Here, we’ve rounded up all the best offers you can shop today. But remember: Amazon Prime Day deals are exclusively for Amazon Prime members. If you aren’t one, sign […].

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GizModo VR

JUNE 22, 2021

Buckle up, backseat investors and climate fiends. An oil and gas company with a sketchy history has become the target of a short squeeze, led primarily by Reddit investors who have been driving hedge funds wild this year. Read more.

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Anand Tech

JUNE 22, 2021

Today’s announcement from SiFive comes in two parts; this part is significant as it recognizes that Intel will be enabling SiFive’s IP portfolio on its 7nm manufacturing process for upcoming foundry customers. We are expecting Intel to offer a wide variety of its own IP, such as some of the x86 cores, memory controllers, PCIe controllers, and accelerators, however the depth of its third party IP support has not been fully established at this point.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 22, 2021

Mark Zuckerberg’s ongoing quest to turn every Facebook property into ad-riddled real estate hit a snag this week when the only virtual reality game that publicly offered to onboard Oculus’s VR ads (rightfully) backed down. Read more.

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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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Anand Tech

JUNE 22, 2021

Looking to capitalize on the ongoing chip crunch, GlobalFoundries this morning is announcing that the company is building a new chip fab in Singapore, with the groundbreaking taking place immediately. The unnamed fab will be joining the company’s existing cluster of fabs in Singapore, and once fully ramped up in late 2023, will be capable of processing 450K 300mm wafers per year.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 22, 2021

China has all but banned bitcoin—and bitcoin holders, whoever they are, have customarily panic dumped the cryptocurrency. As CNBC International’s Ryan Browne has pointed out , bitcoin nearly wiped out all of its gains this year this morning, which would turn into a loss if it reaches $29,388.30. Early this morning, it… Read more.

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VR Fitness

JUNE 22, 2021

VR Hockey League Season 4 kicked off tonight for the first of almost nightly matchups for the next eight weeks between eight teams divided into A league and B league. VR Hockey League (VRHL) began its inaugural season in April 2020 and features the premier multiplayer VR hockey simulator Pick-Up League Hockey. Continue reading on VR Fitness Insider.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 22, 2021

At this year’s Sundance Film Festival , there were few stories quite as strange as co-directing/writing duo Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney’s Strawberry Mansion. The movie is about a world in which people’s dreams are taxed by the government, which often populates them with ads meant to fill their subconsciousnesses… Read more.

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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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AffinityVr

JUNE 22, 2021

DENVER, CO, June 22, 2021–Today Soundscape VR (SVR) is announcing the launch of Magic Mirror, a new way to experience traditional 2D audiovisual content in virtual reality. Magic Mirror provides a platform for content creators that brings the entire universe of 2D content into virtual reality, from music videos, concert footage, visualizers, to live streams [.].

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GizModo VR

JUNE 22, 2021

It’s time to free the multiverse. HBO’s His Dark Materials has entered production on its third and final season , which sees Lyra (Dafne Keen) and Will ( Amir Wilson ) going to the ends of the earth to find each other, their friends, and eventually salvation. Read more.

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VR Fitness

JUNE 22, 2021

VR Champions League launches their inaugural season with 5-months of VR esports featuring Ready At Dawn’s Echo Arena. Registration is open now and competition begins July 5 with teams seeking a professional environment based on traditional sports protocols. Robert Miranda, a 20-year-old college student better known as Polestar in game and founder of the VR Champions League (VRCL), began playing Echo Arena during the heart of the pandemic in 2020.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 22, 2021

An object of unusual size will make its closest approach to the Sun in 2031, during which time it will swing past the orbit of Saturn and possibly turn into an exceptionally large comet. Astronomers are already looking forward to the potential “fireworks” display. Read more.

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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?

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