VRScout

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

CXC’s haptic rig simulates “the violence, the vibration, the physical effort” of a real race. Professional racing sim manufacturer CXC Simulations has been providing advanced simulation equipment for motoring clubs, racing schools, specialized, retail environments, and racing hobbyists for years now. Normally, these professional-grade setups have users viewing the action via a standard 2D monitor combined from the seat of a powerful haptic rig.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

NVIDIA’s Deep Learning Supersampling (DLSS) technology uses AI to increase the resolution of rendered frames by taking a smaller frame and intelligently enlarging it. The technique has been lauded for its ability to render games with high resolution with much greater efficiency than natively rendering at the same resolution. Now the latest version, DLSS 2.1, includes VR support and could bring a huge boost to fidelity in VR content.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

This fall promises to be very interesting for AR and VR, and in this first week of September we had many interesting XR news that are going to heat up the competition in the space! But before talking about it, let me invite you once more to visit the Venice VR Expanded virtual worlds that we did in VRChat for the Venice Film Festival. I promise you won’t be disappointed.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Mojang today announced that Minecraft is headed to PSVR users this month in a free update to the game on PS4. The studio says in a PS blog post that PSVR support was actually a planned feature since cross-platform gameplay and the Bedrock version arrived on PlayStation 4 in December 2019. “It is 100% the same Minecraft game that you can play every day, every week, every month, every year…on PlayStation 4.

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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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

VR headset manufacturer Pico has long been dedicated to enterprise in North America. They’ve been backing that stance in recent months with a lineup of new industry partners that now includes Snobal. ARPost and Pico check in with each other with some frequency but, despite Snobal having been in business for the last six years, we had not yet become acquainted with them.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

With less than one year at the company’s helm, HTC announced that Yves Maitre is stepping down as the company’s President and CEO. Maitre took over as CEO just shy one year ago in late September 2019. According to Engadget , the French former executive is stepping down due to “personal reasons.” Cher Wang, who took over as CEO in March 2015 and then later stepped down to make way for Maitre, is said to return to the position of CEO from her previous position as Chairwoma

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

The ability to run id Software’s classic first-person-shooter has practically become a rite of passage for any gadget worth its salt. And while I’d like to say we can welcome electronic pregnancy tests into the hall of unlikely Doom consoles (right alongside ATMs , Nokia phones , and pianos ) I’m afraid that, in the end,… Read more.

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Digital Trends

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Scanning and storing your documents is now easier than ever using an iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and even a Mac.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Everyone loves a holiday , whether its celebratory activities involve opening gifts, popping off fireworks, or just getting together with family to fight about politics. However, they’re not always a good time. Holidays can be horrifying , but which one is the scariest? That’s what we’re here to find out. 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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Digital Trends

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

TikTok is trying to prevent the spread of a graphic video that shows a man dying by suicide, but its efforts are being hampered by users re-uploading the clip.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Subconsciously, on some level, we’re all waiting for it: the leak that wrecks society and confirms what we all know already, namely that the mass transfer of our inmost secrets/shames to Facebook, Google, et. al. was never not going to end in flames. Who among us will emerge looking halfway human, let alone “good,”… Read more.

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Digital Trends

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Your smartphone might be attractive, but it’s not exactly rugged. Protect your investment with these options.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

In recent days, China has quietly launched a secret reusable spacecraft, left it in orbit for two days and safely landed it back on Earth. And although the spacecraft is top secret—we’re not even privy to its design—there are some things that China apparently wants the world to know about it. 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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Virgin Galactic will be conducting a crewed test of it SpaceShipTwo next month, inching closer to its plan of taking tourists to the very edge of space.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Much as each of Lovecraft Country ’s episodes have further expanded upon its strange world of eldritch magic and white supremacist occultists seeking to control it, the show’s never lost sight of the fact that it’s telling a complicated story about multiple generations of interconnected Black families working though… Read more.

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Digital Trends

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Apple's newest store seems to float on water and comes with a stunning interior.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Late Monday evening, we got our first purported look at the Xbox Series S, the long-rumored budget version of Microsoft’s upcoming next-gen Xbox Series X console, and if that $299 price is the real deal, it could just be Microsoft’s ace in the hole. 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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Looking for useful keyboard shortcuts? In this guide, we'll go over four that can make you more efficient.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Star Wars races, by and large, aren’t really all that alien. The ones that are tend to be there more for background flavor , because the races we do spend time with are either humans, or just human-ish enough that what little we learn about their cultures already feels familiar. But the Chiss, the people of Thrawn… Read more.

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Digital Trends

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

The Hubble Space Telescope team has released another stunning space image captured by the instrument -- this one of a globular cluster called NGC 1805.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

A video that shows a man shooting himself with a gun began circulating on TikTok this weekend, and the company has been racing to keep it from spreading further. But some users say the disturbing clip is still popping up in their feeds, sparking concerns about the efficacy of TikTok’s moderation systems. 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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Digital Trends

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Smartwatches are loaded with features that can help with everything from fitness-tracking to your smart home.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

For over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. Then they f *d it all up. Hard. No matter which era of the Star Wars movies you’re looking at, the Jedi could badly need some new blood. Why not make it extremely new blood? There’s still a bevy of alien… Read more.

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Digital Trends

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Keen to buy a new MacBook this Labor Day? Here's everything you need to know about the best MacBook Air and MacBook Pro deals.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

The International Olympic Committee wants the world to get something clear: It is not postponing the Olympic Games again. In fact, as uneasy as that sounds at the moment given that more than 27 million coronavirus cases have been reported worldwide, the IOC has said that the games will be held “without or without… 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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