VRScout

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Warpfrog’s ultra-popular melee combat game makes its way to Facebook’s (Meta) latest standalone VR headset. Blade & Sorcery , one of the most popular VR games currently available on PC VR headsets, has officially arrived on Oculus Quest 2 headsets in the form of Blade & Sorcery: Nomad. In this standalone version of Warpfrog’s 2018 PC VR experience, players battle a variety of AI enemies in close-quarters combat using an arsenal of brutal weaponry, including—but no

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The second edition of Ignite, Microsoft’s annual software event, took place this week (November 2-4) virtually once again – hosted in Teams, naturally. Of course, Microsoft is a big company and according to the keynote over 90 major updates, products, and services were announced over the course of the conference and most of them weren’t XR related.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

What are the biggest insights and observations in AR and adjacent sectors this week? Welcome to Reality Bytes, featuring lightning-round video commentary from AR Insider partner, M7 Innovations. The post Reality Bytes: Meta, Apple & Snap appeared first on AR Insider.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Virtual reality is a groundbreaking technology that immerses people in any surrounding they want and allows them to gain experience that is impossible to receive in the real world. If it’s new to you, then you can learn more about how VR works. Also notable is the fact that the technology is widely used in enterprise, through business software that improves various indicators by optimizing workflow and providing cost-effective job training.

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Though native apps dominate mobile usage, they may not be the best vessel for AR. The friction of app downloads may not be conducive to AR’s already adoption-challenged early stages. Could web AR come to the rescue? The post AR Briefs, Episode 53: Web AR Ratchets Up appeared first on AR Insider.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The coronavirus behind covid-19 appears to have found another species in which it can easily reproduce and spread. Preliminary research out this week seems to confirm that the virus is now freely circulating among wild deer. Though it’s unclear how important this discovery may be, it’s possible that it could affect… Read more.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

NASA says it's dealing with "dynamic and complex decisions that change day by day" as it tries to fix dates for two upcoming SpaceX missions.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

One of the most surreal parts of going through the mountain of documents captured from within Facebook’s walls by whistleblower Frances Haugen is seeing the words employees use when discussing some of the company’s most sensitive products and systems. Many of these names (CORGI! Yoda!) sound deceptively cute, while… Read more.

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Charlie Fink

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

A multitude of metaverses for every taste and platform.

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

It’s tiny, incomplete, and undeniably awesome. Named “Leti,” this is the first known skull belonging to a Homo naledi child—a fossil that’s shedding new light onto this mysterious group of extinct humans. Read more.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

NASA is developing a small rover with autonomous smarts that will allow it to explore the lunar surface as part of a team of identical vehicles.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has officially lost its lawsuit against NASA over the agency’s decision to award SpaceX a $2.9 billion lunar lander contract. The ruling will likely reduce further delays that threatened to prevent NASA from achieving its goal of returning astronauts to the Moon by 2024 (a deadline that the… Read more.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The Walmart Deals for Days Black Friday Event has begun and it includes big discounts on Chromebooks, Samsung Galaxy Buds+, robot vacuums, and more.

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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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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Crypto exchange Binance has announced that it is investigating SQUID, the Squid Game -themed cryptocurrency, and will turn over whatever information it uncovers to the appropriate law enforcement agency. Read more.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The idea of the time loop has been explored again and again (pun intended) in both movies and on TV, and these are among the best interpretations.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Right-wing rag Newsmax has sidelined its White House correspondent Emerald Robinson over tweets claiming the Covid-19 vaccines contained a ??bioluminescent marker called “luciferase” that somehow or another acted as a tracker. This isn’t true. Read more.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

MSI announced the upcoming launch of two gaming monitors. One is a curved mini LED display with fantastic colors, and the other is a 55-inch beast for consoles.

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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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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

AT&T and Verizon agreed to slightly delay plans to flip the switch on their new 5G spectrum on Thursday in order to massage the Federal Aviation Administration’s concerns about how the deployment might affect cockpit safety systems. Read more.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The Battlefield 2042 open beta gave players an early look at everything new in the game. What's new in Battlefield 2042? What do we like? What don't we like?

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

DJI’s Mavic drones have become the leading choice for aerial photography enthusiasts, and with the Mavic 3, DJI is upgrading nearly every aspect of its newest high-end drone. Read more.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The new DJI Mavic 3 drone once again raises the standard for both consumer and professional drones with improvements across the board.

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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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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Carsharing services give residents of big cities the benefits of occasional car use without the downsides of paying for parking and maintenance. But no one wants to climb into a vehicle that smells like a pack of Marlboros, so Bosch has created a new AI-powered sensor that allows carshare fleet operators to know when… Read more.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Twitter has added a new search shortcut on Twitter for iOS, enabling support for searching user profiles.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

What’s the line between making a retro action figure and one that just looks like crap ? I don’t know, but Bandai certainly seemed to have crossed it with this new line of “ Stranger Things Feature Figures.” These toys of the Netflix series’ five main kids—Mike, Will, Lucas, Dustin, and Eleven—are supposed to look… Read more.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Both Intel and Apple have demonstrated how effective hybrid CPU architectures can be. AMD wants its own slice of the hybrid pie -- if leaks are to be believed.

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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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