VRScout

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Face off against seven other racers in this F-Zero-esque racer with real-world driving mechanics. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: VR is in desperate need of more quality racing games. While it’s true AAA racing simulators such as iRacing , Grand Turismo Sport , and Project Cars 2 offer fans of automobile racing an easy way to sit behind the wheel of their favorite real-world vehicles, very few developers have been willing to take a chance on something new.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Following a big spike in usage in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic, social VR app VRChat has reached a new record of 24,000 concurrent users. Its creators say the surge was driven in part by the launch of Quest 2 and virtual Halloween festivities. VRChat is a social VR app which lets VR and non-VR users connect to chat and explore worlds and experiences created by the game’s community.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Kill time in VR with this interactive 3D overlay. How many times have you found yourself patiently waiting for friends in the lobby of your favorite VR game? Or looking to kill time during a lengthy load screen? It’s for these types of moments, and many others, that Bar Shift Games created Portable Farms , a simple—but intriguing 3D idle farming game that allows players to tend virtual crops and upgrade a digital farm while playing their favorite games.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Lenovo is one of the biggest names in computing today and Varjo is a leader in enterprise XR. While the partnership between the two isn’t new, a recently announced expansion of the partnership certainly is. The result is Varjo XR and VR headsets available through Lenovo. Varjo in Enterprise. Varjo headsets are quite possibly the best in the world. With unparalleled resolution and some of them having the ability to switch back-and-forth between MR and VR views, the headsets offer unparalleled uti

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

After a year in Steam Early Access, Thief Simulator VR is officially slated to launch tomorrow, November 5th. Developed by GameBoom VR and published by PlayGames, a prolific publisher of simulator genre titles, Thief Simulator VR is set to launch its 1.0 version on Steam tomorrow. As you’d imagine, Thief Simulator VR puts you in the shoes of a burglar stealing who creeps around in a free roam sandbox of suburban houses.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Conventional thinking in anthropology has it that prehistoric hunting was an activity reserved for males, while females did the gathering. Turns out this assumption is wrong, according to a provocative new study. Read more.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Smartwatches offer notifications, fitness tracking, and more. Choosing one is the hard part, so to help, here is our list of the best smartwatches you can buy.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The results of many elections— chiefly the presidential one —are still up in the air. But Tuesday night saw a sure, devastating blow to working people: California passed Proposition 22 , meaning drivers with app-based companies like Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash will be considered independent contractors and not employees.… Read more.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

How much RAM do you need? It depends on what you use your PC for. Let's go over different situations and the right amount of RAM for your computer in each.

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

With ballots for the U.S. 2020 presidential election still being counted in several states, it’s possible that we won’t know that outcome for quite some time. But one clear victor emerged in another fight: the drug legalization movement. In multiple cities and states, in both red and blue areas, people voted to… Read more.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

QLED and OLED TV each has its advantages but also its faults. Can the use of quantum dots finally give OLED TV the edge it needs to beat QLED? Enter QD-OLED.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Acid rain. International terrorism. Freeway killers. Now, more than ever, it is important to remember the true impacts of technology. It is important to realize that you, dear reader, have the power to 3D print your own tongue brush. Read more.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

NASA recently tested the propeller designs of its experimental, all-electric X-57 Maxwell plane ahead of its first test flight.

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

I really, really liked Apple’s 12.9-inch iPad Pro , which launched earlier this year, but it felt entirely Too Much for a person like me. I am someone who needs to get some light work done on the go, but who also wants to use a smaller tablet to read books and watch TV in bed. The larger Pro’s size, price tag, cameras,… Read more.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Is your internet connection running slowly? One of your neighbors might be stealing your Wi-Fi. Here's how to tell and what you should do if you find a problem.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Even small increases in exposure to air pollution makes people more vulnerable to covid-19, according to a new study published in Science Advances. Read more.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

What is FTP? FTP stands for "File Transfer Protocol," used to transfer files online. Here's how it still may be useful and how some organizations still use it.

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

If you’re also one of those people desperate for some kind of good news today to counteract the hours of absolute horseshit you sat through last night, here’s a small win: you can officially get your old Google icons back. This nifty Chrome extension , developed by product designer Claudio Postinghel, was built to… Read more.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

5G may not be widely available just yet, but it's getting there. Here's where you can find 5G in the U.S.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

You know him, you love him, but you might not always recognize him, since he’s often hidden under layers of prosthetics. However, no amount of special effects can fully conceal veteran actor Doug Jones’ charisma, helped along by his expressive hands and his graceful body language. He’s truly one of a kind. Read more.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The standard Windows mouse cursor only goes so far. If you want your cursor's appearance to be more playful, here's how to change your mouse cursor in Windows.

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

For people who want to get into drones but don’t want to deal with the hassle of registering their tiny flying cameras, DJI’s Mavic Mini was an almost ideal solution. Today, DJI is announcing its follow-up, the Mavic Mini 2, which boasts support for 4K video and way better range without any increase in size. Read more.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Deep-learning A.I. powers all sorts of technologies. It may be helping to power climate change as well.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Who could imagine a simple rocket firing could mean so much? But in the season two premiere of The Mandalorian , director Jon Favreau gave knowing fans a huge smile by arming Cobb Vanth with a rocket jetpack that was deployed in a very specific way. We wrote about this in our episode recap , but wanted to explain a… Read more.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Satellite megaconstellations like Starlink could bring broadband internet to underserved parts of the globe -- but they also have some big drawbacks.

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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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