VRScout

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The company puts a focus on community building with a new suite of developer tools. Last week was quite a busy one for Facebook, or should I say Meta. The social media company is doubling down on its vision of the metaverse with new tools, games, and experiences, and a reinvigorated focus on social, fitness, and work. . Though Facebook’s final vision of the metaverse may be a little ways off, the company is taking big steps to ensure that they are prepared to provide an improved developer ecosys

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

How many Quest 2's sold in Q3. We dive into Facebook's (ahem, Meta's) Q3 earnings for clues for the device's unit sales. As the VR market's propellant, this is a key signal for industry health. The post Did Quest 2 Sell 1.4 Million Units in Q3? appeared first on AR Insider.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Oprah’s legendary holiday shopping guide includes Facebook’s (Meta) latest standalone VR headset. American talk show host and living legend, Oprah Winfrey, has returned with her highly-anticipated holiday gift guide, Oprah’s Favorite Things, offering shoppers a highly-curated list of her favorite products from 2021. Needless to say, it’s quite an honor to be included on the list, which is why it was such a treat to see Facebook’s (now Meta) Oculus Quest 2 VR headset

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Welcome back to Spatial Beats, AR Insider's weekly series that features observations and insights of author and futurist Charlie Fink. This week, we look at Meta's big moves and other news from the spatial spectrum. . The post Spatial Beats: Big Moves from Meta appeared first on AR Insider.

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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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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

A sperate, standalone version of the PC VR combat sandbox Blade & Sorcery is going to bring its physics-based carnage to Quest 2 on November 4th. Blade & Sorcery is widely regarded as the premier combat sandbox for SteamVR headsets, letting players take on hordes of realistic combat dummies with a variety of medieval weaponry, such as swords, daggers, axes, maces, and more.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Traveling to new countries and locations can be an eye-opening and even life-changing experience, but few of us get to do it as often as we’d like. However, most of us have probably tried virtual tours at one time or another. Such tours are highly prized by both everyday people and companies, but certainly carry the most practical and financial use to businesses and institutions.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

A new study shows that pretty much all of the world’s computer code is vulnerable to a sneaky kind of exploit, the likes of which could (in the worst-case scenario) result in large-scale supply chain attacks. Read more.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Though we spend ample time examining consumer-based AR applications and strategies, greater near-term impact is seen today in the enterprise. As is the case with many emerging technologies, enterprise AR spending has erstwhile outweighed its consumer equivalent. To first define Enterprise AR, it takes many forms including data visualization in corporate settings, and line-of-sight instructions to support assembly and maintenance in industrial settings.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The anonymous hucksters behind a Squid Game cryptocurrency have officially pulled the rug on the project, making off with an estimated $2.1 million. Remember on Friday morning when Gizmodo told you it was an obvious scam ? It was only obvious because investors could purchase the crypto but couldn’t sell it. But plenty… 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

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Microsoft initially stated that Windows 11 will have hefty hardware requirements, but a Twitter user proved that Windows 11 can run on a 15-year old PC.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Global leaders ( well, most of them anyway ) are convening in Glasgow for a major United Nations conference. Some will travel by private or chartered plane, including countless titans of business who will show up in Glasgow to talk up their nebulous climate goals as proof that their companies are good corporate citizens. Read more.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Wine tasting or drinking can be dry. Siduri Wines believes it should be more fun and exciting, so every bottle comes with a unique tech experience via AR.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

By switching from red lasers to blue lasers with a finer beam, the storage capacity of DVDs went from 4.7GB to 25GB to allow Blu-ray discs to hold movies encoded in HD resolutions and beyond. Last week, researchers from the University of Southampton in the UK revealed the next big breakthrough in disc storage… 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

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Later this week Apple will start offering a better loaner phone, which is handed out when your iPhone needs to be sent away for repair.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

A new Nature survey shows a majority of the world’s leading climate scientists expect “catastrophic” impacts in their lifetimes driven by rising greenhouse gas emissions. Brilliant researchers, they’re just like you and me—but with more data, which actually makes the new survey even more unnerving. Read more.

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EON Reality

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Autopsy interactive procedure. This knowledge metaverse experience took less than 300 seconds to create from scratch with EON Merged-XR in a code-free environment with no preexisting professional development experience from the creator. This is a pragmatic approach for millions of students to build the Knowledge Metaverse for learning, training & performing TODAY just using a mobile device.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Beats is in a strange position. The company’s marketing is top-tier, and it’s been well established that its bass-forward headphones are the pick of choice for celebrities, athletes, musicians, and more (at least when they’re being photographed, which is often). Everyone knows what a pair of Beats looks like. But the… 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

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Tesla has started to open up its Supercharger network to non-Tesla electric vehicles, though the pilot scheme is currently limited to just one country.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

It’s long been said by countless people in and around the comic book industry that they should unionize. Finally, in 2021, workers from Image Comics have decided to do just that. Read more.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Apple wants to add a Pixel-like car crash detection feature to the iPhone and Apple Watch next year, according to a new report.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

If you have an older MacBook—i.e., anything not running on Apple silicon—and are thinking about updating to macOS Monterey: hold your horses. Updating right now could leave you without a computer for a while. 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

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Recording your screen on a Mac is easy and quick to do. In this guide, we’ll show you two simple ways to do it that you can use with a few quick clicks.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Once an alien on Tatooine, always an alien on Tatooine, it seems. The upcoming Disney+ Mandalorian spinoff, The Book of Boba Fett, got its first trailer today which includes a bevy of Star Wars extraterrestrials. These aliens were either seen in A New Hope ’s cantina scene or working for Jabba in Return of the Jedi —but… Read more.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The moon comes crashing down in director Roland Emmerich's latest sci-fi disaster film, Moonfall. And only a desperate journey into the moon itself may save us.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Halloween 2021 has come and gone, but a nerdy website’s community of very clever and talented costumers is forever. At least, that’s what we’re saying to ourselves since our little round-up of the coolest costumes from this year’s festivities that io9 readers shared is being posted today, rather than, you know, on … 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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