VRScout

MAY 4, 2021

Use a giant hamster ball to navigate vertigo-inducing obstacles in this physics-driven platformer. Available now on Oculus Quest headsets via the App Lab, Roll or Die is an indie VR game from developer BrainSlugs83 that offers a fresh take on the VR platforming genre. Image Credit: BrainSlugs83. Similar to the hit Gamecube series Monkey Ball , Roll or Die has players carefully rolling their way throughout a series of individual courses, each featuring its own unique obstacles to overcome.

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Road to VR

MAY 4, 2021

In its initial Kickstarter campaign back in 2018, the original Yaw motion simulator chair was one of the first out of the gate to promise a compact, 3DOF motion simulator chair for VR and traditional monitors. Now Yaw VR is back on Kickstarter with its next hardware platform, dubbed Yaw2, and it’s already hit it out of the park with over $1 million in crowdfunding.

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AR Insider

MAY 4, 2021

A. common AR industry sentiment is that the smartphone will pave the way for smart glasses. Before AR glasses achieve consumer-friendly specs and price points, AR’s delivery system is the device we all have in our pockets. There, it can stimulate demand for AR experiences. This thinking holds up, but a less-discussed product class could have a greater impact in priming consumers for AR glasses: wearables.

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Road to VR

MAY 4, 2021

A report from Protocol , citing undisclosed “company documents” from HTC, claims that the company will reveal two new headsets during the VIVECON event next week: Vive Focus 3 and Vive Pro 2. Following HTC’s teases about the upcoming reveal of “game-changing VR headsets,” Protocol claims the company plans to reveal the Vive Focus 3 Business Edition and Vive Pro 2 headsets.

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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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ARVR

MAY 4, 2021

When it comes to emerging technologies, some companies are in a unique position to accelerate adoption. That can often happen by tapping into large established networks or user bases to expose and distribute the technology in question. It’s a classic incubation play. In AR , Apple is a good example of this approach, given its work to seed user demand and developer interest through ARkit and other mobile means.

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VR Fitness

MAY 4, 2021

Although the VR fitness community has been perhaps a bit niche in recent years, it looks like those in charge over at Oculus and its parent company Facebook are trying to grow the space even more. How are they doing this, you might ask? Well, it looks as though Oculus is very much trying to lean more heavily into the fitness aspects that VR headsets can offer, especially with its new Quest 2 device.

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GizModo VR

MAY 4, 2021

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration wants us to know it’s not the 1980s anymore. On Tuesday, it announced new 30-year averages for temperature and precipitation. Unsurprisingly, the “new normal” is hotter. Read more.

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Charlie Fink

MAY 4, 2021

Project LFX is a home platform for steerable projected interfaces.

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GizModo VR

MAY 4, 2021

A series of Instagram ads run by the privacy-positive platform Signal got the messaging app booted from the former’s ad platform, according to a blog post Signal published on Tuesday. The ads were meant to show users the bevy of data that Instagram and its parent company Facebook collects on users, by. targeting… Read more.

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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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Digital Trends

MAY 4, 2021

Styluses used to be no more than sticks that you could use to interact with a touchscreen, but in the past couple decades, they've evolved considerably.

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GizModo VR

MAY 4, 2021

Over the past year, we’ve seen schools shift to digital services at an unprecedented rate as a way to educate kids safely during the covid-19 pandemic. We’ve also seen these digital tools slurp up these kid’s data at a similarly unprecedented rate, suffer massive breaches , and generally handle student’s personal… Read more.

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Digital Trends

MAY 4, 2021

If you want a smartwatch, here's your chance at savings as Amazon is offering the Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 at $150 off and the Apple Watch Series 6 at $49 off.

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GizModo VR

MAY 4, 2021

The military UFO plot has, somehow, thickened yet again: The Inspector General of the Department of Defense is its elf investigating the Pentagon’s program to investigate reports of unidentified aerial phenomena. Read more.

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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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Anand Tech

MAY 4, 2021

One of the key commentaries about the current semiconductor shortages is around where exactly the bottlenecks are. The traditional interpretation of a semiconductor shortage implies that not enough silicon can be made, but over the last few months a number of companies have pointed to post-silicon production, such as testing and packaging, causing some of the issues.

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GizModo VR

MAY 4, 2021

Back in ‘94, Nintendo released the Super Game Boy, a cartridge adapter that made Game Boy games playable on a TV through the SNES. Hyperkin’s new Retron Sq does the exact same thing, but as a standalone console that offers modern HDMI connectivity. Its simplicity makes it easy for anyone to use, but it also holds the… Read more.

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Digital Trends

MAY 4, 2021

A large Chinese rocket that launched to space last week is now tumbling out of control, with some experts suggesting debris will hit Earth in the coming days.

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GizModo VR

MAY 4, 2021

A public service announcement for anyone who, like me, is using a years-old Dell computer as their primary machine: Dell has released a security patch for a security vulnerability affecting close to 400 different computer models manufactured between 2009 and right now. That’s, uh, a lot of laptops. Read more.

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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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Digital Trends

MAY 4, 2021

NASA's mighty SLS moon rocket will never take a more leisurely trip than this — a barge ride along scenic waters from a test facility to the launch site.

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GizModo VR

MAY 4, 2021

As part of DC’s new Infinite Frontier relaunch—meant to build on the foundation laid by its Death Metal and Future State titles—the comic publisher’s set to put out a new miniseries. It kicked off with the massive Infinite Frontier #0 featuring a bevy of creative talent ahead of writer Joshua Williamson and artist… Read more.

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Digital Trends

MAY 4, 2021

It's always a good time to invest in a 4K TV, especially with Best Buy's $200 discount for the 55-inch Sony X80J 4K TV that brings its price down to just $750.

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GizModo VR

MAY 4, 2021

If you can bring yourself to wear a diamond that doesn’t represent a shaved-down bit of the planet’s finite supply, but is chemically identical to the original product and denies warlords funding—then Pandora is your shop. The world’s largest jeweler (in sheer volume of product), known for charm bracelets, has… Read more.

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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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Digital Trends

MAY 4, 2021

Soundbars promise great sound without the headache of wires, but they can't always compete with dedicated systems. With WiSA, you get the best of both worlds.

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GizModo VR

MAY 4, 2021

Earlier this year, Spotify was granted a patent for speech-recognition tech that could potentially recommend music based on your “emotional state, gender, age, or accent.” Now, a coalition of more than 180 artists and human rights organizations has written Spotify a letter asking the company to publicly commit to… Read more.

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Digital Trends

MAY 4, 2021

As the Epic Games-versus-Apple trial unfolds, we dive into its main gaming-related talking points. Here's everything you need to know about the trial.

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GizModo VR

MAY 4, 2021

In the early 1990s, a British anthropologist named Robin Dunbar argued that humans can’t handle more than 150 stable relationships based on the size of the human brain’s neocortex and observations of other primate groups socializing. Now, a team of researchers in Sweden say that number is bunk. Read more.

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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?

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