VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

New information will be revealed in a TV spot that will air during the Super Bowl. Earlier today, Meta (formerly Facebook) posted a cryptic video on YouTube teasing Questy’s, an old-school arcade restaurant that will serve as the setting for an upcoming TV spot that will air on Sunday, February 13th during the Super Bowl. The 60-second commercial will center around a group of estranged friends who reconnect using the Quest 2 and Horizon Worlds , Meta’s very own VR social platform, ak

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Virti, HTC, and Taipei Medical University (TMU) are set to revolutionize Taiwan’s food safety training by developing immersive training content that leverages VR technology. Meet Virti. Virti is a UK-based immersive training startup founded in 2018 by Dr. Alex Young, a trauma and orthopedic surgeon at the NHS, who is also the company’s CEO. According to Young, he started Virti to allow students the opportunity “to learn and practice [their skills] in a low-stakes, virtual world.”.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

VR geo guessing app Somewhere is now available free on Quest headsets. VR geo guessing app Somewhere allows you to explore thousands of locations and compete against other players for the highest scores. Similar to the popular web-based puzzle game GeoGuessr , Somewhere drops you in a random location somewhere (get it?) around the world and tasks you with determining your specific location based on the image alone.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Snap's latest move is Catalog-Powered Lenses. These build on its signature AR lens format with a purpose-built format for shopping. What does this mean for the evolution of camera commerce? We examine. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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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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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Meta today announced that the Quest content store has surpassed $1 billion in purchased VR content since its launch in 2019, representing a huge inflection point for the headset. During today’s Meta earnings call, the company shied away from giving unit sales figures for its Quest 2 headset, but did confirm that the Quest store has surpassed $1 billion in purchased software since the platform launched in 2019.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

PlutoSphere is a new cloud streaming platform in beta that lets Quest users play PC VR games without requiring a gaming rig—a big investment if you’re looking to play SteamVR titles like Half-Life: Alyx. Developers Pluto VR have been teasing it for the past few months, however now Quest owners will be able to finally see if it’s up to snuff via SideQuest.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Part 1 — Market & Audience Overview Continue reading on AR/VR Journey: Augmented & Virtual Reality Magazine ».

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Channing Tatum was planning on playing Gambit for years. News of his involvement with the popular X-Men character began in 2014, and eventually it seemed all but certain the 21 Jump Street star would bring the Cajun to the big screen—until Disney bought Fox and the movie was cancelled. In a new interview, Tatum and… Read more.

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Digital Trends

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Drone pilots have been warned to keep their flying machines away from SoFi Stadium during Super Bowl 2022 or face a big fine and potential criminal prosecution.

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The whirring of helicopter blades on Mars could create small electric fields in the Martian air, NASA scientists found, which may make the surrounding air faintly glow with a charged electric field. Read more.

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Digital Trends

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The bathroom is the final frontier of smart home technology, and the reason is clear: No one wants something listening or speaking to them in the bathroom.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

We’ve known practically since it was announced that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds would bridge the gap between the original Discovery era—before that show jetted off to the 31st century—and the road to the original Star Trek. But new details about a few of the familiar faces joining the Enterprise give us more of an… Read more.

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Digital Trends

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

NASA confirmed in a report this week that at the end of its operations in 2031, the International Space Station will be sent crashing into the Pacific Ocean.

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Scientists in China say they’re well on their way to developing what would be an important achievement in medicine: a blood test that can detect the early stages of the most common form of lung cancer. In a new study this week, they’ve shown evidence that the test was over 90% accurate in identifying these tumors in… Read more.

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Digital Trends

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Watchmaker Jacob & Co. has made a unique, $1.5M timepiece inspired by Bugatti's $3M Chiron hypercar, and we spoke to the CEO about how it was made.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Internet from low Earth orbit just got a lot faster—and even more expensive. SpaceX revealed today a new pricey, high-performance tier to its nascent Starlink satellite internet service. Read more.

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Digital Trends

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This may be a big year for AMD. The company may be working on new budget graphics cards, RDNA 3 is on the horizon, and it continues to gain on Nvidia.

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Meta, the freshly rebranded parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, is reportedly seeking insights from right-wing think tanks and nonprofits as it goes about its grandiose plans to usher in a whole new era of digital reality. Read more.

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Digital Trends

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Will Arnett and a group of celebrity guests bring humor to homicide investigations in this improvisational comedy series that's surprisingly satisfying.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The end of The Walking Dead TV series is nigh , but the end of The Walking Dead franchise is nowhere in sight. Perhaps the most anticipated new development was the announcement of an anthology TV series set in the show’s particular zombie apocalypse. Or, at least, it will definitely be the most anticipated development,… Read more.

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Digital Trends

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The best internet for gaming will offer fast upload and download speeds, reducing latency and lag time. Here’s what to look for.

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The White House is renewing an initiative originally spearheaded by President Biden during his vice-presidency in the Obama administration years earlier: the cancer moonshot. On Wednesday, the Biden administration announced the relaunch of the moonshot program, with an ambitious goal of substantially reducing the… Read more.

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Digital Trends

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

SpaceX deployed a spy satellite for the NRO on Wednesday, with the livestream offering some awesome views of the Falcon 9 rocket's launch and landing.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Comics are a lot more open about exploring queer stories than they ever have been before. From independent queer-focused creations to even blockbuster pride celebrations from the likes of Marvel and DC, the medium has taken big steps toward bringing more LGBTQ creators and their stories into the spotlight. A new… Read more.

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Digital Trends

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

We put Xiaomi's Mi 11i HyperCharge through intensive testing to see how its 120-watt fast charging technology performs at different stress levels.

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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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