Fri.Nov 05, 2021

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The Oculus Quest Is Now The Meta Quest

VRScout

Just a week after Facebook (Meta) announced the name change, we’re already seeing ‘Meta Quest’ branding out in the wild. Last week during Facebook Connect 2021, Mark Zuckerburg took to the stream to reveal the official rebranding of Facebook to “Meta.” The name change is meant to reflect the companies growing shift in values as it works to expand its ambitious metaverse platform.

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Oculus Space Sense: how to activate it and hands-on it!

The Ghost Howls

At Facebook Connect , Facebook/Meta announced that Oculus Quest was getting a new runtime update, the v34, bringing with it very interesting features to the Quest 2. Among these features, there was Space Sense, an update of the Guardian system that should help you in detecting objects and people that are coming into your play area while you are into VR.

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Meet The Forge: A Metaverse XR Studio System by Prox & Reverie

ARPost

A new XR studio system is aiming to revolutionize the entertainment industry. Prox & Reverie recently launched The Forge, a purpose-built metaverse studio system. This revolutionary system enables creators to harness the power of immersive technologies and unlock the vast possibilities of virtual production. Prox and Reverie: One XR Studio to Rule Them All.

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New Quest Rendering Tech Promises Massive Gains in App Performance

Road to VR

At Connect 2021 last week, Meta revealed a new Quest rendering technology called Application Spacewarp which it says can increase the performance of Quest apps by a whopping 70%. While similar to the Asynchronous Spacewarp tech available to Oculus PC apps, Meta says Application Spacewarp will produce even better results. Given that Quest is powered by a mobile processor, developers building VR apps need to think carefully about performance optimization in order to hit the minimum bar of 72 FPS t

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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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XR Talks: The Evolution of AR Adoption

AR Insider

Where are we in AR's adoption lifecycle? Snap recently held a virtual event to outline its recent study with Deloitte. It's filled with consumer survey research and is the focus of this week's XR Talks. The post XR Talks: The Evolution of AR Adoption appeared first on AR Insider.

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Did Quest 2 Sell 1.4 Million Units in Q3?

ARVR

Facebook’s (ahem, Meta’s) much-vaunted Connect event on Thursday was a bit of a distraction from other things in its sphere. And we’re not talking about it’s ongoing privacy and data misuse firestorm. The company’s Q3 earnings came and went with relatively little fanfare. But now that the dust has settled from the Connect keynote?—?including metaverse musings and a corporate rebrand?

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Cult-favorite PC Game ‘Deep Rock Galactic’ Opens Door to VR Mods With New Update

Road to VR

Deep Rock Galactic is a cult-favorite PC co-op game where teams of up to four players dive into perilous caverns in search of precious minerals while battling hordes of alien bugs along the way. The excellently atmospheric game has been subject to requests for VR support ever since launching in Early Access back in 2018. A major update to the game, released this week, took the first step toward making that wish a reality by opening the door for VR modders to experiment with the game.

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Will Web AR Pull Ahead as a Go-to Channel?

ARVR

There’s growing sentiment in the mobile AR world that apps aren’t the optimal vessel. Yet the technology lives on a device where apps rule. 90 percent of mobile users’ time is spent in apps versus the browser. Can AR break that cycle? And if so, could web AR be the answer? What is web AR? In short, it delivers AR experiences through the mobile browser.

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Image Comics Is Refusing to Voluntarily Recognize Its Workers' New Union

GizModo VR

Earlier this week, the workers of Image Comics announced the formation of the Comic Book Workers United , a unionization effort pushing for a number of significant changes in the workplace related to equity, accessibility, and transparency within the company. Along with a list of goals and reasons for unionizing, CBWU… Read more.

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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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Finch review: Tom Hanks and his robot find the heart in the end of the world

Digital Trends

The end of the world is bleak and scary, but in the sci-fi drama Finch, Tom Hanks, his amazing robot, and a fuzzy dog offer a ray of light in the darkness.

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Teens and Unions Take Over Glasgow as Greta Thunberg Declares UN Climate Talks a 'Failure'

GizModo VR

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND — The leaves of Kelvingrove Park are a patchwork of yellow and green, caught between summer and fall, life and death. A stiff wind stirred the boughs above a throng of strikers who gathered there on Friday to send a message to negotiators in the conference rooms at United Nations climate talks a mile… Read more.

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M2 Max and M3 Max leak reveals how Apple may scale performance with future chips

Digital Trends

Apple's M1 Max and M1 Pro chips are performing excellently, but the company isn't done. Apple may produce even better chips with 40 cores in future generations.

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Tom Hanks Says He's Not Paying Jeff Bezos $28 Million for a Few Minutes In Space

GizModo VR

Academy Award winner Tom Hanks has taken millions of viewers on fictional journeys to space through his performances in Apollo 13, and Cloud Atlas, but when offered a chance to experience the real thing on a Blue Origin rocket, the 65-year-old actor said he’d pass. Read more.

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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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AMD’s CPU market share hits 15-year high, cuts into Intel’s lead

Digital Trends

AMD continues making big gains on Intel. The latest reports show that AMD now controls the largest share of the market it has had in the last 15 years.

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It's Time to Drain Lake Powell

GizModo VR

The date is Feb. 9, 1997 , and the man responsible for one of the most egregious environmental follies in human history is sitting at a restaurant in Boyce, Virginia, with the leader of the movement seeking to undo his mistake. Of the hundreds of dams Floyd Dominy green lit during his decade running the Bureau of… Read more.

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VIA To Offload Parts of x86 Subsidiary Centaur to Intel For $125 Million

Anand Tech

As part of their third quarter earnings release, VIA Technologies has announced this morning that the company is entering into an unusual agreement with Intel to offload parts of VIA’s x86 R&D subsidiary, Centaur Technology. Under the terms of the murky deal, Intel will be paying Centaur $125 million to pick up part of the engineering staff – or, as the announcement from VIA more peculiarly puts it “recruit some of Centaur's employees to join Intel,” Despite the h

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Science Publisher Retracts 44 Papers for Being Utter Nonsense

GizModo VR

The publisher Springer Nature was forced to retract over 40 papers from its Arabian Journal of Geosciences after realizing they were nothing more than garbled jargon. This is just the latest in a series of shoddy research papers getting past the publisher. Read more.

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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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Previewing a Special Quest 2 Experience Featuring Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge at Downtown Disney® District at the Disneyland® Resort in Anaheim, California

Oculus

Meta Quest and ILMxLAB, Lucasfilm’s award-winning immersive entertainment studio, are offering a special Quest 2 preview of Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge coming.

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Alphabet's Isomorphic Labs Says It Will Use AI to Discover New Drugs

GizModo VR

Alphabet has spun off a new company called Isomorphic Labs which seeks to use artificial intelligence to discover new pharmaceutical drugs. The commercial venture will reportedly build off of advancements made by Alphabet’s DeepMind, which used a model called AlphaFold2 to predict the shape of proteins in the human… Read more.

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Avatar Instructor Conducts Jet Engine Disassembly Training

EON Reality

Avatar Instructor Conducts Jet Engine Disassembly Training and Assessment in Merged-XR. Explore the Jet Engine. The post Avatar Instructor Conducts Jet Engine Disassembly Training appeared first on EON Reality.

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RIP Bob Baker, One of the Minds Behind Doctor Who's K-9

GizModo VR

Bob Baker, the co-writer of several classic Doctor Who serials with his writing partner Dave Martin, as well as a co-writer for the beloved world of Aardman’s Wallace & Gromit , has died. Read more.

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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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University of Glasgow Historical Teleporting

EON Reality

University of Glasgow Historical Teleporting with Lord Kelvin, Adam Smith and Lord Watts. Via Veritas Vita in Latin means the Way, the Truth and the Life” – the motto of University of Glasgow. The post University of Glasgow Historical Teleporting appeared first on EON Reality.

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The CW Announces a Slew of Superhero Premiere Dates

GizModo VR

Here’s the good news: The Flash ’s five-part “ Armageddon ” crossover will begin on November 16, less than two scant weeks from now. That same night, Riverdale will also premiere its supernatural five-episode visit by Sabrina Spellman (Kiernan Shipka). But after those end, you’ll have to wait until 2022 for more of the… Read more.

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Prague Castle XR Ornamental Historical Experience

EON Reality

Prague Castle XR Ornamental Historical Experience. 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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The Top 10 Disney Animated Songs, Ranked

GizModo VR

Sometimes you wake up and say, “I’d love to do an article that’ll get me destroyed on the internet.” Well, today is one of those days, and what better topic than Disney— a company and fandom that’s totally cool , normal, and not at all completely terrifying ? Read more.

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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?