Mon.Jan 04, 2021

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Rumor: Apple Will Debut AR Headset & Tracker In 2021

VRScout

Veteran analyst Ming-Chi Kuo returns with fresh predictions for the new year. According to TF International Securities analyst and respected Apple researcher Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple is set to debut a wide range of new projects this year, including the long-rumored “Apple Glass” AR headset and AirTag tracking device. In a research note from Kuo recently obtained by MacRumors , the analyst claims that said products will debut alongside a variety of other Apple devices, such as new AirPods

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The XR Week Peek (2021.01.04): New Year’s Eve parties go virtual, Tundra to offer a Vive Tracker competitor, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Welcome 2021! This is the first newsletter of the new year, and I hope it will just be the beginning of a wonderful year in AR and VR for all of you! Top news of the week. (Image by VRrOOm). 2021 has been greeted by many virtual celebrations. Because of the pandemic, many people have been forced to celebrate New Year’s Eve at home skipping the usual rituals of the home party with friends or the big celebrations in a public plaza.

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How Augmented Reality Supports Social Distancing

ARPost

Even though the global health crisis brought the world to a standstill, the augmented reality scene has been thriving. AR applications have been making quarantine a lot less stressful for people. At the same time, it is making social distancing easier to practice. Augmented Reality and Social Distancing Preventing the Spread of COVID-19 . The COVID-19 virus has claimed over a million deaths worldwide.

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‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Is Steam’s VR Game Of The Year

VRScout

Valve’s AAA VR adventure is Valve’s number one pick for best VR game of 2020. Valve has unveiled the official winners of its 2020 Steam Awards, an annual ceremony highlighting the absolute best games released on the companies Steam platform according to the players. Introduced back in 2018, the “VR Game of the Year” award has previously gone to standout immersive experiences including Skyrim VR and Beat Saber.

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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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Room-scale Puzzle ‘Eye of the Temple’ Aiming for Spring 2021 Release on PC VR Headsets

Road to VR

Eye of the Temple is an upcoming room-scale puzzle game that basically turns you into Indiana Jones—torch, hat, and bullwhip included. Now developer Rune Skovbo Johansen says the full game is aiming to release on SteamVR headsets sometime this spring. Until recently, Rune Skovbo Johansen worked at Unity as a senior software engineer, working on Eye of the Temple as an indie developer in his spare time.

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Google Workers Form Union Open to All Employees of Alphabet

GizModo VR

Workers at Google announced on Monday that they’ve formed a union open to all employees of Alphabet, according to a press release published online. Dubbed the Alphabet Workers Union, the initiative was launched with the help of the Communications Workers of America. Members of the new union will also belong to CWA… Read more.

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AR- Remote Support, keeping people connected during COVID-19

ARVR

Pic source: [link] It is quite clear that now the Covid-19 pandemic, in addition to a health and humanitarian crisis, has brought as well a quite challenging era for businesses operating in various fields. Companies are facing serious consequences that this pandemic has caused, in most cases even bankruptcy. Every day, company executives face the challenge of finding a balance for the operation of the businesses they own and planning scenarios for potential risks that could lead to many more iss

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Iron Age Settlement With Large Roundhouses and Roman Trinkets Found in the UK

GizModo VR

Over the course of 2020, a patchwork of circles were dug out from below the topsoil of Tye Green, Cressing in England. The circles—each a ring of polygonal depressions—were the footprints of large structures, all that remained of a settlement that began in the late Iron Age and lasted through the Roman conquest of… Read more.

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The history of the Madden Curse

Digital Trends

For more than 20 years, the Madden Curse has struck a large percentage of cover athletes in the form of stat declines and injuries. We follow up on all of them.

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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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Windows 10 Update Will Get Rid of Flash Once and for All

GizModo VR

Adobe Flash, the multimedia software platform that powered so many pre-YouTube animated videos like Homestar Runner , is officially ancient technology. As of December 31, 2020, Adobe stopped supporting the software, and now Microsoft is telling every Windows 10 user it’s time to ditch it if they haven’t already. Read more.

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This vending machine gives out COVID tests, not candy bars

Digital Trends

From a distance it looks like a regular candy bar dispenser, but get up close and you’ll quickly see that this is a vending machine with a difference.

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Samsung Finally Announced the Galaxy Unpacked Event We All Knew About: Here's What's Coming

GizModo VR

After weeks of rumors, Samsung has finally announced its next Galaxy Unpacked Event scheduled for January 14, and it couldn’t have come at a better time because recently a number of new leaks have spilled the beans on what we’re expecting to see at Samsung’s next big product showcase. Read more.

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What to expect in mobile at CES 2021: Galaxy S21, more foldables, new wearables

Digital Trends

CES 2021 is rapidly approaching. Here's what you can expect to see in the world of smartphones, tablets, and wearables at the show.

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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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Could We Populate Another Planet With Genetically Modified Organisms?

GizModo VR

Earlier this year, a research team made waves by suggesting that we should disseminate Earth’s microbes on Mars in a preemptive effort to foster a climate hospitable to human life. To the “anti-contamination” school of celestial thought, this was heresy; to the most others, this was an obscure theoretical squabble… Read more.

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Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 480 - First 5G Low-end SoC

Anand Tech

Today Qualcomm is making a big step towards enabling wide-spread adoption of 5G through the announcements of the new Snapdragon 480 low-end 5G SoC. The company had already alluded a few months ago that it would be releasing a Snapdragon 400-series design with 5G compatibility, bringing the new connectivity standard to the lowest-cost devices of the market, targeting the very high volume $250 price range.

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SpaceX Will Try to ‘Catch’ Its Starship Boosters Instead of Landing Them

GizModo VR

Not content to keep things simple or easy, SpaceX plans to catch its upcoming Super Heavy booster rockets at the launch tower, allowing for subsequent relaunches a mere one hour later. Read more.

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The best iPad Pro games

Digital Trends

With its 12.9-inch screen, the new iPad Pro is great for gaming. We've rounded up some of the best iPad Pro games around, from strategy games to shooters.

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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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How to Create Custom Emojis and Where You Can Actually Use Them

GizModo VR

Was there ever a time that we were able to communicate without emojis? It’s difficult to remember, but these little icons are now an essential part of our digital communications, and if the thousands of currently available options aren’t enough for you, then you can create your own—and we’re going to show you how to… Read more.

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Intel Core i9-10850K Review: The Real Intel Flagship

Anand Tech

When a company like Intel creates a CPU design, the process of manufacturing brings about variation on the quality of the product. Some cores will only reach a certain frequency, while others have surprisingly good voltage characteristics. Two goals of processor design are minimizing this variance, but also shifting the peak higher, all while controlling how much of the silicon is actually useable.

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Two Upcoming NASA Missions Will Study Earth-Threatening Space Weather

GizModo VR

Two new missions to explore the Sun and Earth’s auroras could vastly improve our understanding of the complex interactions responsible for potentially dangerous space weather. Read more.

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Graphcore Series E Funding: $710m Total, $440m Cash-in-Hand

Anand Tech

For those that aren’t following the AI industry, one of the key metrics to observe for a number of these AI semiconductor startups is the amount of funding they are able to generate. While funding is no explicit guarantee of success, it does indicate perhaps how much faith the venture capitalists (as well as OEMs and other silicon vendors) have in the technology.

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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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Los Angeles Is the Most Climate-Vulnerable County in the U.S.

GizModo VR

Thanks to global warming, climate disasters are set to impact pretty much every corner of the world, but of course, some places are getting hit first and worst. A new federal report shows which parts of the U.S. are most in danger. Read more.

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Best iPhone 11 deals for January 2021: iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro

Digital Trends

Now's the time to shop for iPhone 11 deals and iPhone 11 Pro deals -- and we've got them all right here.

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Stick Good

GizModo VR

Having to feed a machine an unending supply of quarters to enjoy your favorite video game was just one of many reasons arcades died off. But if there was one reason to actually miss arcade machines it was those fantastic buttons and joysticks that never felt as satisfying to play with once they were miniaturized to… Read more.

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How to watch DVDs and Blu-rays for free in Windows 10

Digital Trends

Here's how to play discs for free on Windows 10, with the applications, hardware, and conversion tricks you need to to make sure you can play those videos.

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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?