VRScout
JULY 15, 2021
Valve’s handheld $399 gaming device boasts impressive specs, but is it enough to play your favorite VR games? Earlier today, Valve revealed the Steam Deck, a new handheld gaming device capable of running AAA PC games on the go. The Nintendo Switch-like system features a 7-inch 1280×800 touchscreen display and is controlled via a standard gamepad with support for gyroscopic controls.
ARPost
JULY 15, 2021
A familiar truth in XR is that sometimes the biggest news is news that you can’t put your hands on. In recent weeks, some big news has been coming down the pipes but it isn’t the kind of news that you can put on your face or download onto your phone. Between the Metaverse ETF, the Glimpse Group IPO (initial public offering), and other big trends, XR might be finally coming of age.
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VRScout
JULY 15, 2021
Fight, craft, trade, explore, cook, mine, chop, and loot your way through an epic fantasy adventure in this multiplayer VR role. The popular PC VR RPG experience A Township Tale has finally arrived on Oculus Quest headsets, and the game is already creating some serious buzz among players. In this robust VR role-playing experience, you and seven other players must work together to explore a lost world filled with exciting adventures, unknown dangers, and ancient mysteries.
The Ghost Howls
JULY 15, 2021
VR headsets are personal gadgets that we wear, and it is cool if we can make them even more personal with some customizations. This is the idea that MightySkins had, and now the company sells skins for Oculus Quest 2 for everyone to buy on its website. Discover with me how they are in this detailed review! I have also made a video review of the MightySkins skins on my Youtube channel if you prefer!
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.
Road to VR
JULY 15, 2021
A report from The Information back in May maintained that video streaming giant Netflix was getting ready to push beyond TV and film, and was actively approaching candidates to oversee its expansion into gaming. As first reported by Bloomberg , that position is falling to Mike Verdu, former head of AR/VR content at Facebook Reality Labs and one-time chief of mobile games at EA.
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Road to VR
JULY 15, 2021
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 July 2021. Why We Publish This Data. While the SteamVR library already has a comprehensive tracking database thanks to SteamDB , Steam 250 , and more, no similar database exists to track applications on Oculus storefro
AR Insider
JULY 15, 2021
Facebook’s XR Road Map. by Avi Bar-Zeev. V R enthusiasts got upset at Facebook’s recent announcement that their headsets will begin to test ads. One VR developer who had originally signed up to include ads in their game reversed their decision due to the controversy. VR enthusiasts were also shocked last year when Facebook announced their consumer headsets will require real-name Facebook accounts, or risk a ban.
Road to VR
JULY 15, 2021
DigiLens, creators of waveguide optics, today announced a “deeper” partnership with Mitsubishi Chemical to bring a plastic version of its waveguide technology to the market. The companies claim the plastic variant achieves “nearly the same” performance as its glass counterpart, while being lighter, cheaper, and safer, with the ultimate goal of enabling a “consumer price point” for AR glasses.
ARVR
JULY 15, 2021
New technology continues to shape our present, pushing the boundaries of possibilities and accelerating development. The global pandemic has indeed served as a catalyst to accelerate further VR (Virtual Reality) expansion into many industries worldwide. Healthcare, like no other, faced the challenges brought by the current state of the world. The need to find technological solutions that are both remote, safe and immersive has grown exponentially, which has brought healthcare more towards VR.
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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.
GizModo VR
JULY 15, 2021
Satellite images show that smoke has traveled thousands of miles from fires burning in the Pacific Northwest and California to reach the skies of Greenland. It’s expected to keep moving east, and impacts from the West’s raging wildfire season may soon be felt across the pond. Read more.
Charlie Fink
JULY 15, 2021
Amidst so much good news for the XR industry, a new book about Facebook reminds us of unintended consequences.
GizModo VR
JULY 15, 2021
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison would like the world to know that he didn’t s**t his pants at McDonald’s after attending a rugby match in 1997. Why would Morrison bring up such a thing? It’s better than talking about the covid-19 situation in Australia right now. Read more.
Digital Trends
JULY 15, 2021
Launching today is the Elgato Facecam, a Full HD 1080p webcam built from the ground up with tons of features designed just for content creators. .
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.
GizModo VR
JULY 15, 2021
Bull sharks are coastal creatures, but at least two of the animals were able to make it as far inland as St. Louis by swimming up the Mississippi River, according to a team of researchers who looked at the shark’s fossil record and reported sightings over the years. Read more.
Digital Trends
JULY 15, 2021
SpaceX has made some huge strides when it comes to launching an recovering reusable rockets, but Relativity Space wants to take the idea a step further.
GizModo VR
JULY 15, 2021
When I tell a person that one of my hobbies is playing with and collecting Tamagotchi, their first response is usually something incredulous like, “Those are still around?” It drives me bonkers, because it feels like an immediate nullification of the hundreds of dollars I’ve spent collecting these virtual pets from… Read more.
Digital Trends
JULY 15, 2021
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is about to take a ride in a rocket built by his suborbital spaceflight company, Blue Origin. Here's how to watch.
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.
GizModo VR
JULY 15, 2021
Facebook is mostly abandoning its plan to hook users’ brains directly into Facebook, at least for now. For the foreseeable future, you’ll have to settle for hooking your wrist directly into an Oculus Rift. Read more.
Digital Trends
JULY 15, 2021
You shouldn't miss this chance to buy the Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones 700 for just $299, as Dell is offering an $80 discount for the wireless headphones.
GizModo VR
JULY 15, 2021
Good news for those of you who are eagerly waiting to see what’s new for Android smartwatches. According to a new SamMobile report , Samsung’s next-gen Wear OS devices will be powered by a beefy new chip called the Exynos W920—and at least on paper, the gains are promising. Read more.
Digital Trends
JULY 15, 2021
While the Steam Deck comes preinstalled with the Linux-based Steam OS, it appears as though the platform can run Windows instead.
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?
GizModo VR
JULY 15, 2021
Earlier this spring, rumors started swirling that Valve was working on its own take on the Switch for PC gamers , and today, Valve has returned to turn those rumors into reality with its official announcement for the Steam Deck. Read more.
Digital Trends
JULY 15, 2021
After a few weeks of rumors, Microsoft has officially announced Windows 10 21H2 as the next version of Windows 10, and the second update for the OS this year.
GizModo VR
JULY 15, 2021
In its never-ending quest to convince users that it has privacy top of mind, Google is rolling out a quick auto-delete control to scrub the last 15 minutes of your mobile search history. The feature is arriving on iOS devices first, with the option coming to Android devices later this year. Read more.
Digital Trends
JULY 15, 2021
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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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