Mon.Jul 05, 2021

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What the F8 Announcement of Multipeer AR Face Filters Means for Our Collective Self-Image

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Facebook’s 2021 F8 Refresh conference came with a slew of announcements centering on the future of AR and VR for the company’s suite of products. Outside F8, Facebook appears to be keeping its word regarding the focus they heaped upon VR; as Casey Newton reported for Platformer , a recent flurry of VR acquisitions by Facebook indicates that they have every intention of expanding – and no doubt eventually dominating – this market.

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‘Synth Riders’ & ‘OhShape’ to Release Caravan Palace Collaborative Music Pack on July 9th

Road to VR

The studios behind VR rhythm games Synth Riders (2018) and OhShape (2019) today announced they’re releasing another collaborative music pack which will bring to both games the jazzy beat of French electronic band Caravan Palace. The joint music pack is slated to arrive on July 9th. Developers Kluge Interactive and Odders Lab are again bringing a collaborative paid DLC release to their respective VR games, which is set to include five songs from Caravan Palace.

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Is Customer Service AR’s Next Killer App?

AR Insider

O f all of the developing AR use cases, customer support is on the under-exposed side of the spectrum. Though not as sexy as AR shopping and gaming , it’s a fitting and monetizable AR format. And as we’ve examined , the future of AR could be all about non-sexy utilities. Specifically, AR’s use in customer services involves guiding consumers visually through a given support issue.

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Oculus Plans to Enable DLC & In-App Purchases for App Lab Developers Later This Year

Road to VR

Oculus App Lab is a way for developers to publish their apps on Quest without being subject to curation, but it comes with a few caveats like not being visible in the main Quest store. Since its launch, App Lab games also haven’t been able to offer DLC or in-app purchases, but the company says it’s working to add that capability later this year.

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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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Spatial Beats: TikTok, Rec Room & VRChat

AR Insider

W elcome back to Spatial Beats. This week, we look at several major metaverse-related announcements. VRChat just pulled down $80M to create a digital economy that will reward its builders. Social VR companies like VR Chat and Rec Room will attract and retain an audience based in large part on a very unique kind of user generated content: avatars and places.

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Airbnb's Pandemic Party-Blocking Spree Rages On

GizModo VR

Airbnb is still firmly insisting that you stop partying in its rentals, punctuating that request with swift action as it continues to cancel what it deems to be “suspicious” bookings across the U.S. Read more.

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Mobile AR Users Approach 800 Million

ARVR

Like many analyst firms, market sizing is one of the ongoing practices of AR Insider’s research arm ARtillery Intelligence. A few times per year, it goes into isolation and buries itself deep in financial modeling. The latest such exercise zeroes in on mobile AR revenues. This takes the insights and observations accumulated throughout the year and synthesizes them into hard numbers for spatial computing ( see methodology and inclusions/exclusions).

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What Was the Earliest Music?

GizModo VR

People talk about the break between rock ‘n roll and punk, or punk and post-punk, but they almost never talk about micro-fluctuations in musical taste circa ten thousand years ago. Music history tends to start, for the non-musicologist, with the big-deal classical composers, progressing onwards through swing, big… Read more.

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Head-tracking spatial audio in tvOS 15 is awesome

Digital Trends

Apple delivers an immersive movie experience through a set of wireless headphones, putting the Apple TV 4K ahead of Roku, Amazon Fire TV, and Google Chromecast.

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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 Spider-Man Went Back in Time For Plant Genocide

GizModo VR

What makes a Worst Episode Ever? A total absence of fun ? Anything resembling a coherent plot ? An inability or perhaps unwillingness to honor its source material ? Low-quality production ? Should it be so bad it’s good, or should it hurt you with its badness ? The answer, I think, can be any of these—which is why choosing… Read more.

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Mars Ingenuity helicopter completes its most challenging flight yet

Digital Trends

NASA's Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, smashed three flight records during its ninth outing on the red planet at the weekend.

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Don’t Let Your iPhone Even Get Near This Cursed Wifi Network

GizModo VR

A security researcher and his iPhone’s wifi have gotten strangely familiar with Murphy’s law in the past few weeks. Based on his experience, we now know about yet another cursed wifi network that we must avoid. But this time, your iPhone doesn’t even have to connect to the network to mess up. Read more.

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Apple could launch a less-expensive iPhone 14 Max in 2022

Digital Trends

Apple is working on a cheaper big iPhone to replace the iPhone Mini, a report from Ming-Chi Kuo says. It will probably launch as the iPhone Max in 2022.

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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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Montana and Idaho Have Legalized Killing Wolves on a Massive Scale

GizModo VR

Gray wolves ( Canis lupus ) have been persecuted in the U.S. since the arrival of Europeans. By the 20th century, they had been driven to near-extinction. Narrowly pulled back from the brink by endangered species protections and reintroductions in Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho in the 1990s, they are one of… Read more.

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How to watch Virgin Galactic’s first fully crewed space flight

Digital Trends

Virgin Galactic is making final preparation for its first fully-crewed flight to space, and you can watch the entire event as it happens.

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Terrifying Magnetic Mouth Clamp is Actually a Cheaper and Safer Alternative to Weight Loss Surgery

GizModo VR

Researchers in the United Kindom and New Zealand have developed a unique alternative to bariatric surgery—invasive medical procedures performed for weight loss purposes—with an oral magnetic locking device that limits how far the wearer can open their mouths and, in turn, the type of foods they can eat. Read more.

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A new robot is heading to the International Space Station

Digital Trends

A new autonomous robot with “an elbow, shoulders, and even wrists" is heading to the International Space Station this month.

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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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Richard Donner, the Legend That Brought Superman to Cinematic Life, Has Died

GizModo VR

Superman director Richard Donner , the beloved filmmaker whose hits behind the camera also include The Goonies , Lethal Weapon , and his work as a producer on X-Men and and X-Men Origins: Wolverine , has passed away at the age of 91. Read more.

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Unique ways in which VR is changing the world

AffinityVr

The last industrial revolution was brought on by the advent of the internet. Even as we acclimatize to irrevocable changes in our way of life, the next revolution is already knocking on our doors. Virtual Reality (VR) technology promises to be as paradigm-shifting a phenomenon as the internet has been. With multiple industries adopting VR [.]. The post Unique ways in which VR is changing the world appeared first on Virtual Reality Augmented Reality Technology Latest News.

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How to Turn Your Car Into a Tiny Camper

GizModo VR

I lived in a van for five years, which is quite a long time. In fact, I lived in that thing for longer than I’ve lived in any other place since leaving my childhood home. Strangely, I found moving out of a van to be more stressful than moving into one. I was afraid I was going to miss the freedom that comes with… Read more.

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Watch these astronauts score firsts on China’s new space station

Digital Trends

China is continuing to set up its new space station orbiting Earth 230 miles up, with two astronauts scoring several firsts during a recent spacewalk.

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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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Fear Street Part 2: 1978's First Trailer Is Already Dragging Us Back to Hell

GizModo VR

Fear Street ’s first movie, set in 1994 , might have only just set its slasher sights on Netflix. But the anthology is back for more this Friday, teasing that, as with any good horror killer franchise, it’s never over when our heroes think it is. Read more.

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Meet the developer who’s still making physical Game Boy games

Digital Trends

Dana Puch runs a one-man studio called Greenboy Games, which only produces physical Game Boy releases.

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51,000-Year-Old Bone Carving Suggests Neanderthals Were True Artists

GizModo VR

Patterns deliberately etched onto a bone belonging to a giant deer is further evidence that Neanderthals possessed the capacity for symbolic thought. Read more.

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Staples 4th of July Sale 2021: The best deals to shop today

Digital Trends

If you get a moment away from friends and family today, you might want to check out these awesome 4th of July deals from Staples.

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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?