Tue.Dec 08, 2020

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2021 Predictions: AR Glasses Evolutionary, Not Revolutionary

AR Insider

A s we approach a new year, it’s time for our annual ritual of synthesizing the lessons from the past twelve months and formulating the outlook for the next twelve. Notably, when kicking off this thought exercise, we realized that several of the topics look similar to last year. Though there are lots of developments and new insights, the topical containers that house those insights are beginning to coalesce into standard buckets.

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64GB vs. 256GB – Which Oculus Quest 2 Should You Buy?

VRScout

Is all that memory really necessary? Well the holidays are just around the corner and what better present to give your family, friends, or even yourself than the Oculus Quest 2 standalone VR headset? Facebook’s followup to the Quest offers improved performance, better visuals, and a lighter, more comfortable design, all for a lower price than the original.

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How VR Is Reshaping the Online Gaming Industry

ARPost

Over the past decade, online gaming has exploded in popularity. Today, virtual reality promises to take online gaming to new heights as it delivers an immersive interactive experience to gamers around the world. VR companies are developing hardware: helmets, sensor gloves, hand controllers, and more. Game developers are increasingly writing software that uses the hardware to give players a more immersive in-game experience.

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NEWVIEW Awards Announces Its 25 Finalists, Available Free In VR

VRScout

The grand prize winner will walk away with $20,000 USD. Over the course of four months (August 3rd to November 9th), applicants from nine different countries submitted a total of 145 works (59 in AR and 86 in VR) to the 2020 NEWVIEW Awards. This week event organizers The 2020 NEWVIEW Awards has listed their 25 finalists for immersive technology innovation; seven in AR and the remaining 18 in VR.

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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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Vertigo Games Announces Publishing Agreement for VR Air Guitar Music Game

Cats and VR

Vertigo Games, the multi-platform VR publisher and developer best known for the platinum selling VR shooter Arizona Sunshine, announced today they have entered into a publishing partnership with Anotherway, a newly formed VR studio led by developers with roots at Microsoft Hololens and Activision, for the upcoming VR Air Guitar music game Unplugged.

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How Augmented Reality is Changing the Marketing World

ARVR

Today’s markets are strongly driven by the purchasing preferences of individual consumers. As consumers’ attention span declines and their familiarity with multifarious marketing strategies grows, it is getting harder and harder to provoke consumers’ interest in a particular product and to highlight such product’s differentiating factors compared to the alternatives available for purchase.

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Back to the Future's Biggest Questions Are Answered in Doc Brown's DeLorean Owner's Manual

GizModo VR

When did Doc Brown meet Marty McFly? What did the inventor do when he first arrived in 1885? How did he find out about the future of the McFly family? Questions like these have fascinated Back to the Future fans for years and soon they’ll have official answers. Leave it to Doc to hide some of his biggest secrets in… Read more.

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Touch of Holiday Cheer Comes to VR Esports with Echo Arena Snowflake Cup

VR Fitness

The coolest tournament in VR esports, the Echo Arena Snowflake Cup, will take place in a one-day event on December 16 for the Oceania region and a two-day event on December 19 and 20 for North American and European regions. The 4v4 community cup will have a unique team structure designed to encourage positive interaction that leaves no one out in the cold.

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Facebook Is About To Be Sued For Allegedly Violating Antitrust Law

GizModo VR

More than 40 attorneys general and the U.S. government are gearing up to throw the book at the Book. Facebook. with an antitrust lawsuit that’s set to be filed on Wednesday. Read more.

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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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How to choose the right washer and dryer

Digital Trends

Doing laundry doesn't have to be such a chore. Learn everything to know before buying a washer and dryer, from features to types, brands, capacities, and more.

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Artemis Astronauts Will Be Doing Some Serious Science on the Moon

GizModo VR

NASA has released its science priorities for the first crewed Artemis lunar landing, scheduled for 2024. Prior to planting their boots on the lunar regolith, however, the next man and woman to visit the Moon will have to go back to school, as mission planners prepare their tools for the upcoming mission. Read more.

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Mushkin Announces 8TB M.2 SSD: ALPHA Series

Anand Tech

Anyone in the market for high capacity 8 TB M.2 drives has so far only had one choice on the market. Today Mushkin is coming in as the second vendor to offer an 8TB M.2 NVMe option , with its new ALPHA series of drives. These drives use the same Phison E12S controller and high capacity NAND as those also available on the market, but Mushkin rates its drives slightly differently to the competition.

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Rebekah Jones, Fired Florida Data Scientist, Raises $100K After Cops Stormed Her Home

GizModo VR

It’s a tale as old as time: Woman becomes data curator for the Florida government during a global pandemic, Florida government fires woman for accurately reporting the data it’s trying to suppress, woman continues to tweet accurate but forbidden statistics about deadly virus to a massive online following, Florida law… Read more.

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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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Intel Rocket Lake: Everything we know about the next-gen CPUs

Digital Trends

Rocket Lake will be the successor to Intel's Comet Lake CPUs, and they're arriving soon. Here's everything we know about them and what improvements to expect.

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Christchurch Terrorist Abused Steroids and Donated Money to Far-Right YouTubers

GizModo VR

Brenton Tarrant, the anti-Muslim terrorist who killed 51 people during two attacks in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2019 , abused steroids and donated money to far-right websites and YouTube personalities like Stefan Molyneux, according to a new report released by the New Zealand government. The 810-page report also… Read more.

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Create mind-control apps with new NextMind DevKit

Hypergrid Business

(Image courtesy NextMind.). You can now create apps controlled by a user’s thoughts. Yup, you can operate computers, lights, TVs, music, games with your mind — as long as you’ve got a little lighter-sized device strapped to your head. Neurotechnology startup NextMind is now shipping its 399 Euro development kit for a real-time brain-sensing wearable, the company announced in a press release.

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Cybersecurity Firm FireEye Says It Was Hacked By a Nation-State That Rhymes With Frussia

GizModo VR

Leading cybersecurity firm FireEye said on Tuesday that it had fallen victim to the type of security breach it typically helps other companies and government agencies defend themselves against, and that the culprit was a highly sophisticated nation-state with “top-tier offensive capabilities” that rhymes with Frussia. Read more.

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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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Bundling the Best of AR with Ease of Use, with BundlAR’s John Martin

XR for Business Podcast

The world received a gift three years ago, in the form of AR technology from the likes of Google and Apple - ARKit and ARCore. But most businesses had no one on-staff at-hand to take advantage of this gift without some extensive upskilling to do. John Martin shares how BundlAR makes AR easy for everyone, and what is needed for wider adoption. Alan: Hey, everyone, I'm Alan Smithson, and today we're speaking with John Martin, the CEO and co-founder of BUNDLR, an augmented reality platform company

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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Still Flies High, 20 Years Later

GizModo VR

Many people believe American audiences won’t go to theaters to see a foreign film. Twenty years ago today though, a movie broke that barrier in a most memorable way. Read more.

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Bundling the Best of AR with Ease of Use, with BundlAR’s John Martin

XR for Business Podcast

The world received a gift three years ago, in the form of AR technology from the likes of Google and Apple - ARKit and ARCore. But most businesses had no one on-staff at-hand to take advantage of this gift without some extensive upskilling to do. John Martin shares how BundlAR makes AR easy for everyone, and what is needed for wider adoption. Alan: Hey, everyone, I'm Alan Smithson, and today we're speaking with John Martin, the CEO and co-founder of BUNDLR, an augmented reality platform company

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The Mystery of Illinois' Short-Lived Cookie Monster Mural

GizModo VR

Forget the monoliths —there’s a new monument perplexing America. An artist was commissioned by a local business owner to create a mural of Sesame Street’s Cookie Monster on the side of his building. There was only one problem: This patron of the arts didn’t actually own the building, and he’s all but disappeared. Read more.

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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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SpaceX’s Starlink wins major cash boost to bring internet to rural areas

Digital Trends

SpaceX’s Starlink initiative aimed at beaming broadband from space will receive $885M in federal funding to help it serve rural communities in the U.S.

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10 Essential Tips and Tricks to Make the Most of WhatsApp

GizModo VR

WhatsApp has long been one of the most popular messaging apps in the business, but a lot has changed since Facebook bought the company back in 2014. If you’re using WhatsApp to manage the bulk of your daily conversations, these 10 tips will help you get more out of the app—change its appearance, cut through the noise,… Read more.

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Roborock robot vacuums deals at Amazon: Save up to $240

Digital Trends

Black Friday may be over, but you can still save as much as $240 on a Roborock robot vacuum cleaner at Amazon.

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Apple Fitness+ Is Officially Launching on December 14

GizModo VR

When first announced back in mid-September, Apple promised its subscription Fitness+ service would launch before the end of the year. Just a few weeks before 2020 (finally!) draws to a close, Apple has revealed that Fitness+ will officially be available starting on December 14. Read more.

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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?