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How To Log Into Multiple Accounts & Share Apps On Oculus Quest

VRScout

Multi-user support for the Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2 has officially begun rolling out; here’s how to make the most of it. Last month we learned that Oculus would be introducing multi-user support to the Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2, allowing owners to share their headsets with up to three other accounts while preserving personal game data such as in-game progression, achievements, performance stats, and various other personal information.

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You Can Take a Free Coursera Course on XR from the University of Michigan

ARPost

The University of Michigan has an ambitious XR program that is both incorporating extended reality into education within the University and trying to create the next generation of creators through education and outreach. One of the fruits of this outreach is a free online course by Assistant Professor Michael Nebeling. ARPost spoke with Nebeling, as well as with The University of Michigan’s XR Initiative Director Jeremy Nelson about the course, and about XR in education.

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More Than 60 Quest Apps Have Generated Over $1 Million in Revenue

Road to VR

It seems the launch of Oculus Quest 2 has been a boon for both Facebook and Quest developers alike, as the company’s latest standalone VR headset has brought the number of apps earning over the $1 million milestone to over 60 games now. Facebook announced back in September that over 35 apps on the Oculus Store for Quest had generated over $1 million, accounting for more than $150 million in app sales.

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XR Talks: Lessons From Building AR & VR Games

AR Insider

T he art of developing AR and VR experiences is a moving target. The underlying technology continues to evolve as do users’ interests and expectations. Companies across the spatial computing spectrum are meanwhile trying to feel out use cases and interactions that resonate. This moving target is the case for all kinds of immersive experiences but it’s most evident in gaming, given the category’s early popularity (especially 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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The 20 Best Rated & Most Popular Quest Games & Apps – February 2021

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 February 2021, now including the ‘most popular’ apps based on the number of reviews received in the last month.

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Norway to Decriminalize Personal Purchase, Possession, and Use Of All Drugs In Small Quantities

GizModo VR

The government of Norway is moving to decriminalize possession of small amounts of all recreational drugs as well as their use, including everything from weed and coke to heroin, per Bloomberg. Read more.

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Combining Offline and Online: Usability Principles in AR Projects

ARVR

Designing a product that is efficient and easy to use?—?achieving its usability?—?is real science. Recent trends show that AR technology significantly improves the usability of offline products. Still, there is a challenge of how to make augmented reality itself convenient and easy to use. Here are the principles we have developed after more than 60 AR projects.

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Ransomware Gang Says Its Selling Data from Cyberattack That California DMV Warned About

GizModo VR

A ransomware gang called “Cuba” claims to be selling off data on the dark web belonging to Automatic Funds Transfer Services (AFTS), a Seattle-based financial services and data management firm that suffered a bad ransomware attack in early February. Read more.

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Toshiba Unveils World's First FC-MAMR HDD: 18 TB, Helium Filled

Anand Tech

Toshiba this week announced the industry's first hard drive featuring flux-control microwave-assisted magnetic recording (FC-MAMR) technology. The new MG09-series HDDs are designed primarily for nearline and enterprise applications, they offer an 18 TB capacity along with an ultra-low idle power consumption. The Toshiba MG09-series 3.5-inch 18 TB HDD are based on the company's 3 rd generation nine-platter helium sealed platform that features 18 heads with a microwave-emitting component w

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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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That Time a Canadian Town Derailed a Diesel Train and Drove It Down the Street to Provide Emergency Power

GizModo VR

Even in a suburb of Montreal that’s well versed in dealing with winter storms, inclement weather can still overwhelm basic services like power, an issue with which millions of people in Texas are still currently struggling. After an especially bad ice storm in 1998, the mayor of Boucherville, Quebec, had a clever idea… Read more.

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Connected-car pioneer LoJack will shut down on March 15

Digital Trends

LoJack's American division will end its sales operations in June, but will continue supporting stolen vehicle services indefinitely.

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Apple Gearing Up for March Event Featuring New iPads and AirTags

GizModo VR

After the iPad Air got refreshed last fall, people have been waiting for the iPad Pro to get a similar revamp, which according to new leaks could happen—along with the release of Apple’s AirTags—sometime soon in mid-March. Read more.

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3D-printed eartips could mean way more comfortable and better-sounding earbuds

Digital Trends

Most earbuds come with three sizes of eartips, but that doesn't guarantee a good fit. Soon, earbuds could come with 3D-printed eartips customized to your ears.

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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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Meet the First Endangered Animal to Be Cloned in North America

GizModo VR

Elizabeth Ann is the first clone of a black-footed ferret, but more importantly, she’s the first endangered species to be cloned in the United States. Her birth represents an important milestone in the ongoing effort to increase the genetic diversity of this threatened species. Read more.

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Young Entrepreneur Helps Bond VR Community

VR Fitness

During the senior year of high school, students typically focus on college applications, eagerly count down the days until graduation, and spend time hanging out with friends before they enter their next phase of life. While Josh Fontak is a typical high school senior in many ways, the 17-year-old also runs a business he founded last spring to provide clothing with VR representation for the growing number of consumers investing in virtual reality.

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Uber Drivers Entitled to Paid Vacation and Minimum Wage According to UK Supreme Court

GizModo VR

Uber drivers in the UK should be classified as workers and entitled to both paid vacation time and the minimum wage, according to a ruling Friday by Britain’s Supreme Court. But Uber’s London office is already disputing the scope and relevance of the ruling for its British drivers, insisting that its own rules have… Read more.

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Audio Trip Receives New Cardio-Focused Update

VR Fitness

Nearly every virtual reality game can be beneficial for your health in some manner as long as you’re regularly moving about your body while playing. However, some games go above and beyond to ensure that you’re really getting an experience that truly makes you sweat. Audio Trip has been one of those titles for nearly two years, and now, a new update to the game is going to allow users to get even more exercise.

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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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The 60-Year Evolution of Psycho's Norman Bates

GizModo VR

When most people think of Psycho , they think of Alfred Hitchcock ’s direction, Bernard Herrman’s shrieking score, and Anthony Perkins’ vulnerable yet terrifying performance as Norman Bates. They probably don’t immediately think “horror franchise,” but Psycho did turn into one over the years. Read more.

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How to stay anonymous online

Digital Trends

With regular privacy scandals, you're not the only one who wants to protect their identity online. Here's how to stay safe online no matter your tech skill.

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Gizmodo Dot Com Should Pay For Me To Buy An Aquarium

GizModo VR

If you’re anything like me, the last year of social distancing and lockdowns has not been good for your social life, hobbies, or generally doing interesting things at all. Going to movies, restaurants, bars, concerts, or events are for the most part non-starters; parties and other social gatherings involving more… Read more.

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This Week’s VR Game Roundup: Space Dancing, King Pong, and More

VR Fitness

During last week’s VR Game Roundup, we saw a new virtual reality shooter called Malicious Payload, a ninja-themed title tasking you with becoming a true shinobi, and Grapple Tournament hitting early access on the Oculus Store. While last week was on the slower side, this week is more akin to molasses as it is truly slim pickings. Continue reading on VR Fitness Insider.

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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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Nature Processes Millions of Tons of Our Poop Each Year Surprisingly Well

GizModo VR

Humans have forced the Earth’s ecosystems to deal with a lot of crap, from deforestation and biodiversity loss to the climate crisis. Then, there’s our, um, literal crap, which a new study shows that the planet is surprisingly well-equipped to manage. Read more.

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Watch Mars landing highlights, including first images from rover

Digital Trends

Watch NASA's highlights reel of the final nail-biting moments at Mission Control as the team waited for news that its Perseverance rover had landed on Mars.

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Vitamin D Supplements Don't Seem to Help People Sick With Covid-19

GizModo VR

The results of a new clinical trial suggest that vitamin D supplements don’t help people hospitalized with moderate to severe covid-19. Elsewhere, a controversial and preliminary paper that had suggested vitamin D did offer a benefit has now been pulled by the Lancet due to “concerns” over the research design. Read more.

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Google has an ingenious plan to kill cookies — but there’s one big drawback

Digital Trends

Cookies are a privacy nightmare for all of us, but Google's plan to eradicate them could cause just as many problems as it solves.

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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?