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Royal Shakespeare Company Staging Interactive Virtual Performances Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

VRScout

Theater and motion capture technology collide in this upcoming live performance series. This year celebrated British theatre organization the Royal Shakespeare Company will be hosting a series of live theatrical productions brought to life using a combination of motion capture technology and interactive storytelling elements that allow viewers to take part in a one-of-a-kind remote production of William Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream from the comfort and safety of their

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Video Series Shares the Secrets to Great Mixed Reality Capture for VR

Road to VR

There’s no better way to show off a VR game than with a mixed reality captured which shows a real player inside of a virtual world; unfortunately setting it all up is no easy task. Luckily, YouTube channel TougeVR is sharing the secrets to great mixed reality streaming and capture in a video series called Mixed Reality Masterclass. Whether you’re a content creator looking to stream VR content or a game studio making a high quality trailer for your VR game, mixed reality is the ideal

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‘Pixel Ripped 1989’ Pink Cassette Edition Is Every Retro Gamer’s Dream

VRScout

The authentic 1980’s game box comes with a USB cassette tape filled with additional goodies. Developer ARVORE’s nostalgia-fueled 2018 action-adventure game Pixel Ripped 1989 will finally be receiving a long-awaited physical release with the upcoming launch of Pixel Ripped 1989 Pink Cassette Physical Edition. Available exclusively on PlayStation VR, this “extremely limited” Pink Cassette Edition will feature a physical copy of the game housed within a retro game box that s

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Where to Find Unlisted ‘App Lab’ Games & Apps for Oculus Quest

Road to VR

App Lab is a new, official path for developers to distribute their games and apps on Quest without being subject to Oculus’ curation process. But there’s one big catch: App Lab apps aren’t discoverable through the main Quest store, leaving it to developers to figure out how to get their apps in front of users. Luckily there’s already a few third-party resources which make it easy to browse App Lab apps.

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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 Gowalla Reinvent AR (and Itself)?

AR Insider

S ome may remember Gowalla as the late 2000’s social/local/mobile check-in app that competed with Foursquare in the “ location wars.” It was acquired by Facebook in 2011, then mostly faded away. But now it’s back for more SoLoMo action… this time with an AR focus. Specifically, it will launch later this year to offer geo-relevant AR experiences, such as location-specific lenses around businesses and points of interest.

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Video Game-Playing Pigs Stretch Our Concepts of Animal Intelligence

GizModo VR

The four pigs came to win. If they played the game well, they got delicious dog food (they used to get M&Ms, but the humans decided those were too sugary). Time and again, when prompted by researchers to complete a video game task—guiding a cursor with a joystick, a sort of rudimentary Pong —they did so with impressive… Read more.

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Data Dive: VR Starts 2021 Strong

ARVR

One of the biggest misperceptions in the tech world is that VR is in the gutter. Some have even pronounced its time of death. These sentiments represent the pendulum swing from VR’s overhyped status circa 2016. It didn’t fulfill world-changing proclamations trumpeted at the time. Overblown expectations aside, VR is doing just fine and is growing at a healthy pace for an emerging technology that faces practicality headwinds.

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Samsung Foundry: New $17 Billion Fab in the USA by Late 2023

Anand Tech

Samsung Foundry has filed documents with authorities in Arizona, New York, and Texas seeking to build a leading-edge semiconductor manufacturing facility in the USA. The potential fab near Austin, Texas, is expected to cost over $17 billion and to create 1,800 jobs. If everything goes as planned, it will go online by the fourth quarter of 2023. There is an intrigue about the new fab though: Samsung hasn't stated which process node it will be designed for.

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Up to Half of New Diabetes Cases in U.S. Are Linked to Obesity, Study Finds

GizModo VR

New research released Wednesday underscores the role of obesity in type 2 diabetes. It suggests that obesity plays a major factor in up to half of new diabetes cases that occur annually in the U.S. 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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The future of Facebook is Instagram

Digital Trends

As Facebook itself slowly declines, Facebook Inc. is seemingly shifting its focus to Instagram and using the platform to test new ideas and approaches.

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The Siberian Tundra Is Doing That Exploding Thing Again

GizModo VR

The Siberian tundra is still out here exploding. A new study from the Woodwell Climate Research Center has identified three new craters in the region’s increasingly volatile permafrost, and the climate crisis is to blame. Read more.

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Facebook reportedly has a Clubhouse clone in its sights

Digital Trends

Audio-based social app Clubhouse has been causing a stir lately, so it's little surprise that Facebook is reportedly looking to develop something similar.

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Toyota Will Introduce Its First All-Electric Vehicles in the US This Year

GizModo VR

After years of resisting all-electric vehicles, Toyota announced on Wednesday plans to debut its first mass-market all-electric vehicles in the United States later this year. 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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Qualcomm Announces X65 & X62 5G Modems on 4nm

Anand Tech

Qualcomm yesterday has announced a slew of new 5G communication platforms, representing their next-generation modems, and RF front-end solutions that will be powering the next flagship devices later in 2021 as well as 2022. This includes two new 5G modems in the form of the new Snapdragon X65 and X62, a new RFFE portfolio with new envelope trackers, new antenna tuners, and new power amplifiers, alongside a 4 th generation mmWave antenna module that supports more frequency bands and a larger freq

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After Years of Rising, Emissions of an Ozone-Depleting Chemical Are Falling Again

GizModo VR

A new study has found that after a mysterious increase in the 2010s, an ozone-depleting chemical is once again in decline. It’s a rare bit of good news, showing that previous research tracking the increase has likely had an impact. Read more.

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Labster gets millions from a16z to bring virtual science lab software to the world

TechCrunch VR

Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm with $16.5 billion in assets under management , has poured millions into an edtech startup that sells virtual STEM lab simulations to institutions. Copenhagen-based Labster , which sells virtual science laboratory simulations to schools, announced today that it has raised $60 million in a Series C round led by the prominent Silicon Valley firm, including participation from existing investors GGV Capital, Owl Ventures and Balderton Capital.

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Mark Bittman Explains Why the Next 100 Years of Food Will Have to Be Radically Different

GizModo VR

Mark Bittman is most famous for the 30,000 recipes he’s developed in decades of being a food journalist and authoring 30 books focused on cooking and eating. But this month’s Animal, Vegetable, Junk : A History of Food from Sustainable to Suicidal is not another recipe book, it’s a deeply researched call to arms to… 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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What is MHL, exactly, and how does it work with your TV?

Digital Trends

Having trouble mirroring your phone to your 4K TV? Check out our rundown of MHL for everything you need to know about the wired protocol and its myriad uses.

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Adobe Adds Collaborative Tool to Photoshop and Illustrator

GizModo VR

Quarantined meme-makers and beleaguered graphic designers can quietly rejoice in the fact that Adobe’s making it easier to work together in some of its flagship products. Read more.

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Virtual Athletics League to Host Winter Games with $15,000 prize pool

VR Fitness

Virtual Athletics League announces the Winter Games , a month-long Olympic-style event of VR esports tournaments, giveaways, and a total prize pool valued at over $15,000. From February 19 through March 20 the Winter Games will feature some of the largest studios and most critically acclaimed games in the realm of virtual reality. Continue reading on VR Fitness Insider.

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CDC Releases New Advice and Data on Double-Masking

GizModo VR

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released new guidance about the best ways to use masks to help prevent transmission of covid-19. One key recommendation highlights the added benefits of using a more snugly fitting mask or pairing a cloth mask with a surgical mask. Experimental data collected by… 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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Hundreds of travelers now have Mars stamps in their passports. Here’s why

Digital Trends

What better way to celebrate a successful Mars mission (so far, at least) than by giving people a Mars stamp in their passport?

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Twitter Blocks Hundreds of Accounts Tied to Protests by Farmers in India

GizModo VR

Twitter has blocked the accounts of at least 500 people and groups involved in the current protests by farmers in India at the request of the Indian government, according to a new report from Bloomberg News. Some of the accounts have even been permanently deleted. Read more.

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Not at home? Alexa can greet visitors for you on your Ring doorbell

Digital Trends

Ring's new Smart Greetings feature allows Alexa to answer the doorbell if you aren't at home.

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This Researcher Hacked Into 35 Major Tech Companies, Including Microsoft, Tesla, and Netflix

GizModo VR

Alex Birsan, a Romanian threat researcher, recently made over $130,000 by virtuously breaking into IT systems at dozens of major tech companies. 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?