Tue.Nov 03, 2020

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5 Industries Which Could Benefit From Augmented Reality Post COVID

ARPost

Augmented reality has been making waves in a number of industries including healthcare, events, and sports. It’s been pivotal in aiding remote experts during COVID-19, for example, allowing them to view the physical world in video and annotate objects during video calls. But it’s post COVID when AR is expected to really take off. Pre-COVID AR saw record growth in 2019 and Global Market Insights estimated that the AR market would jump past $50 billion by 2024.

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The World’s Leading VR Soccer Training App Is Now Free On SteamVR

VRScout

Challenge footballers across the globe with Rezzil Player 21. VR has absolutely transformed the classroom and when it comes to sports training, it’s like hitting the turbo boost. This is because you’re learning by physically going through the motions and developing mental muscle memory that you can bring to the playing field. This training allows players to train effectively without the risk of injury.

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Nreal currently focusing on Asia, shipping to the West is coming next year

The Ghost Howls

I have said it multiple times: Nreal is one of the most intriguing AR startups out there. With its lightweight, fashionable and affordable glasses, it has set a new trend for AR, that now many companies are trying to follow. It is the AR glass to buy for many consumer and enterprise applications , but the big problem is that it has become hard to buy.

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Five Tips & Tricks For Dominating VR Battle Royale ‘Population: One’

VRScout

This all-in-one player guide will have you gliding circles around your enemies. BigBox VR’s vertigo-inducing VR battle royale experience Population: One is now available on SteamVR and Oculus headsets and so far players are loving the games’ fast-paced gunplay and climbable environments. Despite having been out in the wild for over a week, however, I still see many players making the same mistakes when it comes to climbing, fighting, and gliding.

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The Future of eLearning in 2022: A Sensitive Eye for Authentic Translation and Localization

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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Cas & Chary Present: Awesome Things to Do in VR Other Than Gaming

Road to VR

When it comes to consumer VR headsets, gaming is clearly on of the most common use-cases. However, there are so many other things that are compelling and fun to do in VR. In this video and article, I share things you can do in VR other than gaming that I enjoy. Cas & Chary Present. Cas and Chary VR is a YouTube channel hosted by Netherland-based duo Casandra Vuong and Chary Keijzer who have been documenting their VR journeys since 2016.

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Viveport is Giving Developers 100% of Their App’s Revenue Through the End of 2020

Road to VR

Viveport , HTC’s storefront for SteamVR-compatible headsets, is again celebrating the holidays by giving developers 100 percent of revenue for the rest of the year. The company says in a blog post that it’s aimed at both new and existing app developers on the platform, with the revenue share program starting from November 1st and going through the end of 2020.

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Prison Boss VR is coming to Oculus Quest/Quest 2 on December 3rd!

Cats and VR

TREBUCHET is delighted to announce the imminent arrival of its VR masterpiece Prison Boss VR on Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2! The game will be released on the Oculus marketplace on the 3rd of December and will be priced $19,99. Prison Boss VR is an hilarious crafting and trading game using room-scale to turn your VR space into a jail cell! Craft cigarettes, alcohol and cookies for other inmates while avoiding being caught by the warden!

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Oculus Delays Shipment of Quest 2 Elite Straps Amid Complaints of Premature Breakage

Road to VR

Some customers who ordered and are still waiting for an Elite Strap and Elite Battery Strap for Quest 2 have received an email from Oculus that maintains their shipments will be delayed, as the company is currently investigating user complaints likely surrounding premature breakage first spotted in late October. Reports of Elite Strap failures first materialized on Reddit late last month, with multiple users in the following days detailing the same issue: even when treated gently, a percentage o

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Stay Home and Go Out!

ARVR

Frame from Livestreamed Event Video, by Caelen The music didn’t die from Covid, but live entertainment did. Cambodians know what it is like for the music to die, all the music and all the musicians. Back in the 1970s, the Khmer Rouge knew that artists were their natural enemy, their biggest threat in the long run. So they killed them. Every one they could find.

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How to Train Employees 65% Faster With Virtual Reality

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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Today Is the Day

GizModo VR

The day we’ve all been waiting for is finally here. It’s the day I marked on my calendar months ago, the one that prompted me to buy my favorite snacks and a six-pack and to text my boneless friends that I love them. Maybe you commemorated the day early and will spend today in nervous observation. Maybe you’ll take… Read more.

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VR Game Release Highlights November 2020

VR Game Critic

After a rather exciting month for VR, including the release of the Oculus Quest 2 alongside a host of titles, and popular games like Star Wars: Squadrons and POPULATION: ONE, November seems rather slow in terms of new VR games. While we might see a few more surprises over the coming weeks, it could be the perfect time to catch up with previous purchases and to hunt down a few missing achievements or trophies.

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Let's Unmask the Epic New Friday the 13th Blu-ray Box Set

GizModo VR

When or if we’ll ever see another Friday the 13th film, we don’t know. What we do know is Jason Voorhees (and his mom) have been hacking and slashing for 12 movies over the past 40 years , and a brand new box set brings them all together in a very impressive package. Read more.

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How to jailbreak your iPhone or iPod Touch

Digital Trends

Jailbreaking an iPhone gives you access to a whole bunch of extra apps and features that stock iOS devices don't get. Here's how to jailbreak your iPhone.

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Are You Still Watching? How to Create Engaging Presentations for Virtual Learning

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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Take a Long, Romantic Walk With This Sweaty Robotic Hand

GizModo VR

Real-life robots are still relatively primitive compared to those featured in science fiction, but that hasn’t stopped us from building bots that can take care of most of our physical needs. (Yes, including that.) In Japan, there’s even now a robot that can simulate going on a walk and holding hands with your… Read more.

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This basic human skill is the next major milestone for A.I.

Digital Trends

CausalWorld is a virtual world that lets robots learn about cause and effect. Here's why that has big implications for the future of A.I.

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Here's How California's Prop 24 Could Better—or Break—Our Privacy for Good

GizModo VR

In case this election wasn’t stressful enough, a confusing, controversial ballot measure in California is creating a rift among civil liberties advocates over whether the legislation is truly good for people’s privacy—or a half-step in the wrong direction. Read more.

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We could soon be coughing into our phones to see if we have COVID

Digital Trends

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed an algorithm that can tell if you have COVID simply by analyzing the sound of your cough.

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

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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16 of the Most Inspiring Cityscapes in Science Fiction

GizModo VR

Science fiction has long existed to warn us about the dangers that await us , but sometimes it’s also there to remind us of how good things could be —and how beautiful they can look. Read more.

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How to set up Xbox Game Streaming and play games on your phone

Digital Trends

Want to play your Xbox One games on a phone no matter where you are? You can do so with Xbox Remote Play and a mobile device. Here's how to get started.

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One Kind of Immunity to the Coronavirus Lasts at Least Six Months, Study Finds

GizModo VR

New research this week offers some hope for at least one aspect of our immunity to the coronavirus that causes covid-19. The study, conducted by researchers in the UK, found evidence that certain T cells created to combat the coronavirus during infection continue to show a “robust” response at least six months later.… Read more.

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Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2 vs. Watch Active: Spec comparison

Digital Trends

What's changed in Samsung's Galaxy Watch Active 2 compared to the original? We have all the answers. We dig into the differences between these two fitness-focused smartwatches and pick out a winner.

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Who C.A.R.E.S.!? How Learning Got Its Bad Rap & What We Can Do About It

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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Shell's Bad Tweets Reek of Desperation

GizModo VR

“Social license to operate” is one of the life-bloods of brands. Reportedly coined by Canadian mining CEO James Cooney in 1997 after a disaster, the concept is basically how much the public is willing to embrace (or at least put up with) how an industry operates. Read more.

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A.I. fail as robot TV camera follows bald head instead of soccer ball

Digital Trends

An effort by a soccer team to livestream a game using an A.I.-powered camera descended into farce when it kept mistaking an official's bald head for the ball.

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Screw It, We Asked a Neural Network to Predict the Election

GizModo VR

Flip on the TV today and you’re liable to encounter someone running their mouth about the presidential election. Partisan people howling about why their candidate is better. Supposedly non-partisan people trying to earn their paychecks by interpreting statistics. People, people, people. Who cares! Read more.

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Best Black Friday Roomba Deals 2020: What to expect

Digital Trends

Roomba sets the standard for robot vacuums, and Black Friday is perfect time to grab one at a deep discount.

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How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular

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?