VRScout

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Rec Room brings the internet’s latest obssession to life in VR. Developer InnerSloth’s multiplayer party game Among Us has been absolutely dominating the internet as of late, offering players a unique social deception experience that’s quickly testing the limits of friendships around the globe. It’s a fairly simple premise: Teams of 4-10 players must complete a series of objectives as they attempt to prepare their spaceship for departure.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Microsoft today announced that it’s entered into an agreement to acquire ZeniMax Media, the parent company of game studio Bethesda Softworks. According to TechCrunch , the price was set at $7.5 billion. The acquisition is slated to include all of ZeniMax’s properties including Bethesda Game Studios, id Software, ZeniMax Online Studios, Arkane, MachineGames, Tango Gameworks, Alpha Dog, and Roundhouse Studios.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The free patch update will be available to all PS5 Minecraft owners. Earlier this month developer Mojang Studios announced that it’s legendary survival crafting game Minecraft would be heading to PlayStation VR sometime near the end of September as part of Sony’s PlayStation VR spotlight. Tomorrow the company will make good on its promise, launching a free update available to all Minecraft owners that will allow them to access the full Minecraft experience in VR via their PSVR headse

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Charity organizations can and do make money through things like mail-in campaigns. However, they often prefer to do – and have more success doing – fundraisers that add a little more value. Sports events like golf and tennis tournaments have been a favorite. But, in the absence of such events, can VR sports be the solution? Ready Player Golf makes us think so.

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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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Data Dive is AR Insider’s weekly dive into select spatial computing figures. Running Mondays, it includes data points and strategic takeaways. For an indexed library of data, reports, and multimedia, subscribe to ARtillery Pro. T o commemorate Oculus Quest 2’s unveiling last week, we return to our periodic thought exercise to estimate the device’s unit sales.

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Slashgear

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

This afternoon the developers at Cyan revealed a new version of the classic PC game MYST. This game is a “brand new version of Myst, completely re-imagined for modern game systems and – for the first time for any game in the Myst series – including optional VR support!” If you’re a fan of the original MYST series, please feel … Continue reading.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

VisionAR is a Safety Augmented Reality smartglass developed by Univet , an Italian multinational specialized in manufacturing safety, laser and medical protective eyewear products. EyeTechLab is the Univet’s Division of the new products, including the adoption of the most disruptive technologies into the eyewear protection products , including companies like Sony for the adoption of their waveguides display technology in safety Augmented Reality devices.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The story of Thra on Netflix is over. io9 has exclusively confirmed the streaming service has chosen not to renew The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance , meaning the series has come to an end after only one season. Read more.

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Digital Trends

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Microsoft has agreed to acquire video game giant Bethesda, securing the rights to huge franchises like Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Dishonored, and Doom.

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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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Conservationists in Indonesia are celebrating the birth of two Javan rhinos—a species listed as critically endangered and one of the rarest large mammals on Earth. Read more.

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Digital Trends

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

After a fresh round of funding, Dendra Systems is ready to unleash its drone reforestation squad on the world. But is it too little, too late?

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

A few weeks ago, I found myself in need of a repair for a borked camera lens on my iPhone 11. I do everything in my power to essentially encase my Apple products in bubble wrap, but a nearly imperceptible fracture in one lens had greatly impacted the functionality of my phone’s camera. I hadn’t anticipated that… Read more.

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VR Fitness

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Following months of rumors, speculation, and various reports, Oculus finally announced this week that it will officially be releasing a second model of its highly-popular Quest VR unit. The appropriately-named Oculus Quest 2 is set to release next month and by all accounts, it looks like it could be drastically shaking up the entire virtual reality space once again.

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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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The degree to which HBO’s Lovecraft Country has already branched off from the novel its based on might give you the sense that at this point, with half the season over, the story might slow down on the worldbuilding to begin fully weaving its core character’s arcs together in the buildup to its finale. But the first… Read more.

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Introduction Continue reading on AR/VR Journey: Augmented & Virtual Reality Magazine ».

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

A newborn baby will get an early taste of what it’s like to navigate the fine print in airline agreements. A woman gave birth on an EgyptAir flight from Cairo to London last week, and the company says her child will receive free flights for life. Read more.

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Digital Trends

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Gamesharing on Xbox One will let you share most of your digital game library with a friend. However, you'll have to give away some secure info to make it work.

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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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Notorious stinging trees from Australia cause agonizing pain that can linger for weeks and even months. New research suggests this nettle relative is actually venomous, producing a toxin not unlike the venom of spiders. Read more.

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Digital Trends

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The Nokia 8.3 really should wear the famous PureView name, as the camera is excellent, but what about the rest of the phone? We find out in our reivew.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Mark Zuckerberg f **g loves Facebook. He thinks it’s great. Were someone to tell him it sucked—using phrases like “surveillance capitalism,” “passive radicalization,” “kind of a boring place”—he would probably disagree with them, maybe even strongly. For that reason, and many others, it seems unlikely that Zuck… Read more.

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Digital Trends

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The Samsung Galaxy S21 is truly on the way, and while it probably won't launch until February, we're hearing rumors about it. Here's everything we know.

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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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In the small town of Grosse Tête, Louisiana, a Bengal-Siberian hybrid tiger named Tony lived 17 wearisome years confined to a chain-linked, concrete-slabbed cage. His bloodline hailed from halfway across the planet, where tigers prowled as apex predators in the depths of Rajasthan’s subtropical jungles and Siberia’s… Read more.

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VR Fitness

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Nantes Esport will host the NES Games this weekend for Echo Arena players in the EU region. The games began when the community wanted something fun for the EU Echo Arena players to do on the weekend and have evolved into an event with a caster, coaches, and more organized structure. Continue reading on VR Fitness Insider.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Fisheye lenses make for some cool photos, but their most distinctive feature is that the glass is curved. The need for multiple bits of curved glass makes fisheye lenses both bulky and expensive. However, engineers at MIT and the University of Massachusetts at Lowell have figured out a way to make a fisheye lens … Read more.

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Digital Trends

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The newest image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a galaxy that's more than it appears: NGC 5585 is thought to be chock full of dark matter.

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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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