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Celebrate the new year in VRChat with Jean-Michel Jarre!

The Ghost Howls

Virtual events have had a blast this year, with some performances that have become very successful, like the concert in Fortnite by Travis Scott, The Burning Man Festival in Altspace VR, or the Tomorrowland concert. So what could be the best way of celebrating the end of this 2020 if not with a fantastic virtual reality concert happening at midnight of the 31st , available on all platforms, all for free, and with a legend of electronic music like Jean-Michel Jarre?

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Yahoo’s AR Punishments Are The Perfect Way To End The Playoffs

VRScout

Embarrass your leagues last-place-finisher with these hilarious 3D visuals. League punishments are a staple within the fantasy football community. Those unfortunate enough to find themselves at the bottom of the bracket come the end of the season often times find themselves facing a harrowing gauntlet of humiliating penalties (pun very much intended).

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Study by “Compare The Market” Finds Surging Interest in “Virtual Travel”

ARPost

The global COVID-19 pandemic has meant a lot less travel – particularly leisure travel. A recent study sheds light on one way that some people might be trying to adapt: virtual travel. About the Study. Australian financial service provider and consumer protection group Compare The Market used Google Trends and SEMRush to look at how internet users are searching terms like “virtual travel”, “virtual tourism”, “VR travel”, “virtual reality tours”, and “virtual reality travel.

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The 20 Best Rated & Most Rated Quest Games & Apps – December 2020

Road to VR

While Oculus doesn’t offer much publicly in the way of understanding how well individual apps are performing across its VR storefronts, it’s possible to glean some insight by looking at apps relative to each other. Here’s a snapshot of the top 20 Oculus Quest games and apps as of December 2020. Why We Publish This Data. While the SteamVR library already has a comprehensive tracking database thanks to SteamDB , Steam 250 , and more, no similar database exists to track applications on Oculus stor

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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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Can AR Drive Local Business Foot Traffic?

AR Insider

A R continues to show up on the list of emerging tech that helps local businesses boost revenue. Last week, we examined Uptown Networks’ AR-fueled restaurant gifting program. This follows a longer-running program from Niantic to help small businesses (SMBs) drive foot traffic. In fact, one of the emerging “wild cards” for local marketing is Pokémon Go.

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VR Birthday

ARVR

Just before I spawned into my regular Sunday morning Be Here Now event, I noticed two of my VR friends were hanging out so I joined them. Mr. Nicerly lives in Oslo. Leith, his avatar name is Wild Grape, is in the Shetland Islands and he had Covid. He’s a long hauler and it’s still affecting him big time. There’s a lot of navigation-by-friend in VR. It’s an endearing, almost small-town aspect of the way this immersive communications technology is entering the popular culture.

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Ticketmaster To Pay $10 million After Illegally Hacking Rival's Computer System

GizModo VR

Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation, have agreed to pay out $10 million dollars to a competitor after admitting to hiring a former employee to hack into the rival company’s computer network. Read more.

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Health VR?—?University of Mississippi Medical Center Uses VR to Innovate Concussion Care

ARVR

University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) selected Groove Jones to build a VR tool for a research project, led by Dr. Jennifer C… Continue reading on AR/VR Journey: Augmented & Virtual Reality Magazine ».

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New Research Shows How Covid-19 Can Trigger Brain Damage

GizModo VR

New research out today looks to bring us closer to understanding how covid-19 can cause brain damage. The study suggests that while the viral infection may not directly reach the brain in most cases, it can spark the sort of destructive inflammation that’s seen with other neurological conditions, like stroke. 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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VR Fitness Insider’s 2020 VR Fitness Awards

VR Fitness

The thought of a new year always brings anticipation and excitement, but this year it’s especially true as 2020 will go down in history as one of those seasons of life most people will be thrilled to have behind them. Despite the craziness, this was a fantastic time for VR games and we’d like to recognize the many developers and studios who helped us make it through this year with the 2020 VR Fitness Game Awards.

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Japanese Researchers Are Making Wooden Satellites Because We Have a Space Trash Problem

GizModo VR

Floating around the Earth is a bunch of satellites. Cool for GPS, monitoring weather patterns, and the internet—not so cool for space junk. This is why Sumitomo Forestry and Kyoto University are teaming up to create the world’s first wooden satellites by 2023. Read more.

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A disembodied robot mouth and 14 other stories that made us laugh in 2020

Digital Trends

Forget the challenges of the last 12 months and instead have some fun reading our pick of the quirkiest tech stories from the past year.

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All the Creative and Inspiring People We Lost in 2020

GizModo VR

Losing folks you don’t personally know, but who have influenced your life in a major way thanks to their creative contributions , can be pretty upsetting. While 2020 was terrible for a whole host of reasons , io9 wants to take another look back at the losses in our community to pay tribute to all the wonderful moments… 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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AnandTech Year In Review 2020: Solid State Drives

Anand Tech

Solid state storage might not have been the most exciting tech sector to follow in 2020, but it certainly had its fair share of new technologies arriving, consumer-friendly price drops, and a major corporate acquisition deal. 3D NAND flash memory has reached 176 layers, PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs are gaining gaining ground, and QLC NAND has enabled the first 8TB M.2 SSDs.

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The 'Revolutionary' Fight Over California's Hidden Oil and Gas Wells

GizModo VR

At the corner of West Pico Blvd. and South Genesee Ave. in west Los Angeles sits a tan, six-story building. It’s nothing much to look at: It’s set back from the street by a manicured lawn, lined by a row of trees on each side. An American flag flies out front. Read more.

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Amazon discounts the Echo Show 5 to only $45 for the end of the year

Digital Trends

If you're on the lookout for Amazon Echo deals, Amazon's $45 discount for the Echo Show 5 halves the smart display's price to $45.

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The New Fire TV Finally Offers a Decent Streaming Experience

GizModo VR

Fire TV has been due for an update for a minute—a very long minute. With its latest experience overhaul, Fire TV is finally delivering a user interface that stands up to those of rival streaming devices. 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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Grab a Google Nest Mini for only $25 at Walmart today

Digital Trends

The second-generation Google Nest Mini, powered by Google Assistant, is available on Walmart with a $24 discount to lower the smart speaker's price to just $25.

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Alaska Airlines to Ban 'Emotional Support' Animals Starting January 11

GizModo VR

Alaska Airlines announced on Tuesday that it will no longer allow passengers to bring emotional support animals on its aircraft for any reservations made after January 11. The airline is the first to ban emotional support animals following new guidance from the U.S. Department of Transportation about what kind of… Read more.

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Save $60 on Beats Solo3 headphones with this Amazon deal today

Digital Trends

The Beats Solo3, which features solid build quality and powered by Apple's W1 chip, is on sale from Amazon with an over $60 discount to lower the price to $136.

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New Tech Developments We're Actually Excited About in 2021

GizModo VR

2021 will be the year of being thankful that the world hasn’t completely ended. I don’t want to hear any “we were promised flying cars”-style whining. The new year will be all about rethinking how far we’ve come, where we’re already going, and how much we’ve been getting wrong along the way. 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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11 VR Games We’re Looking Forward to in 2021

Road to VR

Despite the world grinding to a halt due to the COVID-19 pandemic, indie game studios and ‘AAA’ studios alike continued their work from afar and set new bars for VR gaming. Although some of the games we were looking forward to in 2020 were delayed, the good news is there’s a steady stream of content coming down the pipeline next year.

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Judge Tosses Apple Lawsuit Against iPhone Emulator in Big Victory for Security Research

GizModo VR

Security researchers looking to get under the hood of technology in order to improve it received a pleasant victory on Tuesday when a federal judge in Florida decided to throw out Apple’s copyright violation claims against the maker of virtual iPhone software. Read more.

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The Most Disappointing Gadgets of 2020

GizModo VR

Believe it or not, we actually like a lot of gadgets. This is why it’s always a bummer when one arrives on the scene with the panache of a deflating balloon. There were a few of those products in our list of disappointing gadgets this year. Yet while sometimes gadgets disappoint everyone, there are other times they… Read more.

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The AirPods Max Are Annoyingly Incredible

GizModo VR

I’ve been using a pair of Bose QuietComfort 35 II headphones for years. They’ve accompanied me on long flights to Europe and Japan, canceled out noise on a plethora of trade show floors, and helped me block out my neighbor’s weed wacker to get work done at home. But there are a slew of new premium Bluetooth headphones… 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?