VRScout

JULY 21, 2021

Create a digital identity and explore a massive catalog of 260 VR games and apps. Wolf3D, the team behind Ready Player Me , today announced a new platform that allows you to bring a custom 3D avatar with you across a growing catalog of VR apps, from social VR experiences like VRChat and Somnium Space to immersive tools such as Animaze and LIV. For those unfamiliar with Ready Player Me , this free service allows you to create a custom 3D avatar based on your likeness.

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AR Insider

JULY 21, 2021

O ne of AR’s core properties is to fuse the physical and digital (a.k.a. phygital ). Part of this involves physical places: AR devices have to understand a space before they augment it. This breathes new opportunity into the longstanding location intelligence sector. For example, Foursquare — the king of location intelligence — has an experimental project to power audio AR experiences.

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VRScout

JULY 21, 2021

The v31 software update introduces additional party features, improvements to Messenger, and new security options. Another month, another exciting Oculus Quest update. Facebook today announced the rollout of yet another software update for Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2 headsets. Whereas v30 focused on multitasking and accessibility, software update v31 features several key improvements to the Messenger app, party invite system, as well as security.

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Road to VR

JULY 21, 2021

Sketchfab , the platform that lets you view, share, and download 3D models via traditional monitors and AR/VR headsets, today announced its been acquired by Unreal Engine creators Epic Games. Founded in 2012, Sketchfab plays host to over 4 million 3D assets, all of which are accessible through its web-based platform across PC, mobile, and immersive 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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Slashgear

JULY 21, 2021

Facebook’s acquisition of modern VR pioneer Oculus has always been a mind-boggling one. Naturally, the social media giant wants to leave its imprint on anything that can be remotely tied to being social, including in virtual worlds. That said, it is taking some time for Oculus to add those social features to its Quest platform, but it’s finally taking a … Continue reading.

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Digital Trends

JULY 21, 2021

A leaked benchmark for the upcoming Intel i9-12900K shows up to a 28% improvement over AMD's flagship 5950X.

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GizModo VR

JULY 21, 2021

On Tuesday, Jeff Bezos visited the edge of space. Upon returning, he said a bunch of inane things, from wanting to send all polluting industry off-planet to thanking “every Amazon employee and every Amazon customer because you guys paid for all of this.” Read more.

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Digital Trends

JULY 21, 2021

Amazon Alexa Live 2021 is a virtual conference taking place on July 21 at 9:00am. Attendees can expect to learn how to use and integrate Alexa in all-new ways.

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GizModo VR

JULY 21, 2021

It might seem like an antithesis to the way you should be using a Chromebook, but the decidedly ginormous Acer Chromebook 317 is best used while sitting at a desk. And really, that’s the point behind the world’s first 17-inch Chromebook. 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

JULY 21, 2021

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is getting ready to collect its first rock sample that's also set to become the first-ever Martian material delivered to Earth.

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GizModo VR

JULY 21, 2021

New research details two fatal encounters in which wild chimpanzees attacked and killed gorillas. It’s a rare example of one great ape species attacking another—and scientists are worried that climate change might have something to do with it. Read more.

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Digital Trends

JULY 21, 2021

Apple is preparing refreshed AirPods and an all-5G slate of iPhones in 2022 with reports indicating a new 5G iPhone SE and a brand-new iPhone Max.

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GizModo VR

JULY 21, 2021

A disturbing element of modern cybercrime is just how easy it is to procure powerful and invasive tools—the kind that can wreak total havoc on an unsuspecting victim’s computer. 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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Digital Trends

JULY 21, 2021

Police in Spain have arrested a British man in connection with a major Twitter hack last year that targeted high-profile accounts as part of a Bitcoin scam.

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GizModo VR

JULY 21, 2021

I was sick in bed when Jeff Bezos took his 10-minute trip in a dick-shaped rocket to suborbital space on Tuesday morning, so I tuned out all the fawning cable news coverage proclaiming that this was somehow good for humanity. ( It’s not ). Instead, I watched something else. Read more.

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AffinityVr

JULY 21, 2021

The world’s favourite entertainment and computer technology giant, Apple, has broken new ground on mass releasing cutting-edge technology. On May 17th, they announced the launch of spatial and lossless audio for all subscribers of Apple Music for their existing library of songs. This mass launch was powered by the spatial audio format Dolby Atmos, the [.].

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GizModo VR

JULY 21, 2021

Pavel Durov, CEO and co-founder of chat platform Telegram, is the latest person to be swept up in the ongoing scandal involving the NSO Group. 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

JULY 21, 2021

Alexa's kind words and thoughtful suggestions are helpful in the beginning, but these days, I wish she were a bit quieter when I give her commands.

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GizModo VR

JULY 21, 2021

This week we got one of the most nightmarish tech privacy stories to rear its ugly head on the internet: an investigation into a trove of location data siphoned from a mobile device belonging to one of the Catholic Church’s top officials , Jeffrey Burrill. Like many stories about whatever’s lurking in the average… Read more.

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Digital Trends

JULY 21, 2021

Microsoft has listed the new Edge Browser in the newly revamped Microsoft Store in Windows 11, showing it is getting serious with its apps.

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GizModo VR

JULY 21, 2021

Very little is known about the plot of upcoming sequel Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. It’s once again written and directed by Ryan Coogler, is filming now , and huge aspects of it had to be reworked after the tragic passing of star Chadwick Boseman. Beyond that, most of the actors from the original are expected to… 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

JULY 21, 2021

You don't have to spend a fortune on a monitor after investing in a new desktop computer or gaming PC, as Dell is offering price cuts for these two options.

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GizModo VR

JULY 21, 2021

Disney+ and Marvel’s Loki was initially a series meant to explore the god of mischief’s inner workings and how we truly come to shape our identities in relation to one another. But the show’s finale threw everyone for a loop by introducing the MCU’s next big bad and directly setting up much of what’s set to play out … Read more.

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EON Reality

JULY 21, 2021

Teleporting to the Oldest Church Bells in London Medieval Church by using Spatial Meetings. Explore the London Medieval Church. The post London Medieval Church appeared first on EON Reality.

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GizModo VR

JULY 21, 2021

There are a lot of reasons why Google’s Wear OS smartwatch platform has stagnated over the years, but a major factor was that the majority of its smartwatches were running on outdated processors from Qualcomm. But now that Google and Samsung have partnered to build a new platform —and Samsung’s new watches are rumored… 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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