VRScout

JUNE 18, 2020

Keep a look out for virtual billboards advertising your favorite products. Thanks in large part to the growing demand for social and mobile gaming, in-game advertising is on a monumental rise. The ability to seamlessly integrate real-world promotional content into an interactive game experience—whether it be an in-game billboard, commercial, or cutscene—offers advertisers the chance to showcase specific products and services in a less intrusive manner that doesn’t break the pla

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Road to VR

JUNE 18, 2020

Pioneering French musician Jean-Michel Jarre is performing live on a virtual stage in social VR platform VRChat this weekend. Jarre, who helped define the electronic music genre starting in the mid-70s, will premiere his so-called ‘Alone Together’ concert on June 21st at 9:15 PM CET ( local time here ). The live performance is slated to last 40 minutes and take place in a virtual environment built by VRrOOm , hosted in VRChat.

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VRScout

JUNE 18, 2020

Team up with friends and take on waves of colorful ghosts across a ghoulish haunted mansion. VR arcades and location-based entertainment venues have been hit hard by COVID-19 and the ensuing global lockdown. Vertigo Arcades ( Arizona Sunshine LB VR, The Corsaire’s Curse) , a spin-off of Vertigo Games ( Arizona Sunshine, Until the Fall ) dedicated to location-based entertainment, responded to the ensuing chaos by offering extended payment terms, license extensions, and other forms of suppor

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Road to VR

JUNE 18, 2020

In the face of the ongoing lockdown, vTime today announced its created a private version of its social AR/VR platform, vTime XR , which is designed to help social care continue in the UK for families and vulnerable children. The project was licensed to London-based social care group The Cornerstone Partnership , which has partnerships spanning multiple UK counties.

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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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ARPost

JUNE 18, 2020

OhShape and Synth Riders are both popular VR games based on music and rhythm. During coronavirus lockdowns , both have released expanded packages to encourage gamers to stay happy and healthy by working out inside in fun and natural ways. A few days ago, developers of the games announced a duo package for the Oculus Quest that lets VR gamers get both games as well as a new song and other additional features at a 30% discount.

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Road to VR

JUNE 18, 2020

Just a week after the surprise reveal of Star Wars: Squadrons (and confirmation of full VR support), we’re already getting our first glimpse of gameplay. What’s more, it won’t be long before you can hop in your ship of choice; the Star Wars: Squadrons release date is set for October 2nd. Star Wars: Squadrons developer Motive says that the game is built around the “spiritual core of the best Star Wars flight games of the past.” Today the studio revealed the first gam

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GizModo VR

JUNE 18, 2020

Big Oil has spent decades perfecting the art of lying and pursuing a strategy to divide the public so it can continue its polluting ways. It’s been a successful model that has run into a brick wall that is the new climate movement. Read more.

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Road to VR

JUNE 18, 2020

Bebylon Battle Royale was first announced by studio Kite & Lightning back in 2015. Coming off of several impressive early VR experiences, the pivot toward a full fledged game was an exciting new path for the studio. But with spurious updates on the game’s development over the last four years—and some radical changes in scope—it isn’t entirely clear what the studio will deliver, even if the game does launch this year.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 18, 2020

Hurricane season has begun with a roar. The West is threatened by wildfires. Arizona is blanketed in a heat wave. Rains overwhelmed unmaintained dams in Michigan. At the same time, we are living through a combined health, political, economic, racial, and climate crisis. Read more.

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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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EON Reality

JUNE 18, 2020

Learn more about retail science in AR and VR and the psychology of purchasing behaviour that goes behind a store layout, where there is literally much more than meets the eye. Have you ever walked into the supermarket to buy a loaf of bread only to emerge with two heavy bags at the end of it all? We might think we’re in control of our consumption habits, but retailers know better.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 18, 2020

The Apple Watch has always been able to shrug off some amount of water, but since the Series 2 it’s been able to survive being completely submerged, accidentally or not. The only caveat is that water can get trapped in the smartwatch’s speaker, a problem Apple has solved with a clever water-eject feature that is… Read more.

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EON Reality

JUNE 18, 2020

How will higher education look like in Africa after COVID-19? Can immersive technologies play a larger role in learning as schools transition to a blended learning approach? As we consider these issues, the World Economic Forum reports a startling disparity between access and education in Africa as countries around the world continue to battle the fall out.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 18, 2020

The U.S. military is the world’s largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels. Yet the carbon footprint of warfare hasn’t been a central focus of the U.S. climate movement. Even the game-changing Green New Deal resolution that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey introduced last year—the most… Read 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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Digital Trends

JUNE 18, 2020

These great new options range from drama and horror to mind-bending, animated, and nostalgia-fueled shows.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 18, 2020

The extremophile bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans was first discovered in 1956 at Oregon State University, where it was busy ruining a gamma ray experiment designed to sterilize a tin of ground meat. The “sterilized” meat spoiled, thanks to D. radiodurans and its preternatural durability in the face of radiation: The… Read more.

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Digital Trends

JUNE 18, 2020

From point-and-shoot to mirrorless, here are our favorite cameras for aspiring and experienced shutterbugs.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 18, 2020

Science fiction has a rich history in countless cultures, from the Epic of Gilgamesh to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. And Netflix has been getting in on the action for a while now. Here are our five picks for international sci-fi shows you should definitely check out on the streaming platform. 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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Digital Trends

JUNE 18, 2020

Google recently released the Pixel 4, and now's as good a time as any to find some deals. You’ve got a few options to choose from if you’re in the market for a Google Pixel smartphone, and we’ve smoked out the best deals right here.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 18, 2020

Ice in the polar regions has been under assault from rising ocean and water temperatures. While human-driven climate change is driving widespread weirdness, natural patterns can also lead to chaos. Read more.

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Digital Trends

JUNE 18, 2020

Whether you need a new laptop for school or work, we put together a list of the best laptop deals right now.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 18, 2020

The ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic forced San Diego Comic-Con to go entirely digital this year. But voting for the annual Eisner Awards was meant to go rather smoothly as people could participate through an online portal put together with SDCC’s organizers. Just as the deadline for voting was seemingly extended ,… 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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EON Reality

JUNE 18, 2020

Using the AVR Platform, students can now learn about the artifacts of Ancient Greece in AR and VR and its importance as a cultural and historical signifier against the backdrop of human civilization. Have you ever wondered how the ancient Greeks made pottery and why they had so many different types? Pottery is one of the most important pieces of evidence for archaeologists to understand the ways people lived in the past.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 18, 2020

First came the memes about the PlayStation 5's swooped design, and now people are wondering just how big Sony’s next-generation console is going to be. From everything we’ve seen so far, the PS5 certainly looks like it will be a behemoth—it may even put your old DVD player and the original Xbox to shame. Sony hasn’t… Read more.

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Digital Trends

JUNE 18, 2020

These are the best cheap gaming laptop deals you can score, including picks that ring in at less than $500.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 18, 2020

Britain swore an oath of sovereignty against Apple and Google earlier this year, resolving to devise a workable contact-tracing app that didn’t have to cave to Apple and Google’s user privacy demands. After numerous warnings from experts that the app simply wouldn’t work, the rollout has been delayed from May to… 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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