VRScout

APRIL 15, 2021

Unlock additional content from popular titles with this optional subscription-based service. Facebook today announced the launch of premium app subscriptions on the Oculus Quest platform. Beginning today, Quest and Quest 2 users can access exclusive new content from popular titles such as FitXR, Rec Room, Tribe XR, TRIPP, vSpatial, and VZfit with more on the way. “One interesting VR trend is how quickly it’s growing beyond just games.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 15, 2021

It’s time for an exclusive preview here on The Ghost Howls : I’ve been able to explore Lab Surprise, a new bundle of indie games coming on App Lab this afternoon and I’ve found it so cool that I couldn’t resist talking about it with you even before the launch. What is Lab Surprise? Do you remember “Waiting For App Lab”, the first bundle of games for App Lab?

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VRScout

APRIL 15, 2021

Additional details regarding the official VR port will arrive April 21st during the Oculus Gaming Showcase. In a surprise announcement made earlier today during the Resident Evil Showcase , it was revealed that Capcom, Facebook, and Armature Studios are developing an official VR port of the 2005 action/horror game Resident Evil 4 , aka the best Resident Evil game ever.

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ARPost

APRIL 15, 2021

First technologies emerge, and then they converge. Blockchain and extended reality technologies have been knocking on one another’s doors for a while now and doors are starting to open. Two examples happened to take place just recently, both using Snap Lens Studio to create wearable NFTs. First, What’s an NFT? “NFT” is short for “non-fungible token.

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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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VRScout

APRIL 15, 2021

Reunite with Bub and Bob for an all-new VR adventure. Taito Corporation, the developer behind the legendary 1986 arcade game Puzzle Bobble (aka Bust-A-Move ) today revealed the official release date for its upcoming VR adaptation Puzzle Bobble VR: Vacation Odyssey. Announced last September at Facebook Connect 2020 , Puzzle Bobble VR reimagines the classic action-puzzle game for the VR format.

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AR Insider

APRIL 15, 2021

T hough 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. So how big is this opportunity and what are best practices for enterprises to implement AR and realize strong ROI?

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Road to VR

APRIL 15, 2021

Oculus today announced it is supporting subscriptions via the Quest platform. It’s not only set to streamline a number of fitness and productivity apps which already offer subscriptions hosted outside of the ecosystem, but also make the subscription process easier for users from the get-go. Oculus says App subscription offerings will differ by title; some will be wholly subscription services, while others may optionally lock certain content and features behind subscriptions.

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Cats and VR

APRIL 15, 2021

ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos , the sci-fi, anime-style adventure with a twisting narrative and difficult choices developed by the industry veterans at MyDearest Inc., is now available on PlayStation VR, fresh off of winning the 2020 Famitsu/Dengeki Award in the Adventure Category , and becoming one of the top-rated apps on the Oculus Store. Meteoras, colossal aliens which destroyed Earth’s surface 200 years after TOKYO CHRONOS , drove humans into the underground Augmented Tokyo.

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Road to VR

APRIL 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 April 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 storefr

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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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ARVR

APRIL 15, 2021

With hundreds of 3D file formats available it’s hard to know which 3D file format you should use or how it compares to others. We take the guesswork out of 3D file formats for you below by highlighting the top 3D file formats for 3D web and AR and their best use cases. [link] 3D file format explained What is a 3D file? Simply put, a 3D file format stores information about 3D models.

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Road to VR

APRIL 15, 2021

Vicarious Surgical , a robotics-based medical company, today announced that it’s merging with D8 Holdings, a special purpose acquisition company. Vicarious Surgical is slated to go public on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) where it is expected to garner up to $460 million, with an estimated $1.1 billion valuation. Founded in Massachusetts in 2014, Vicarious Surgical has been developing what it calls “human-like surgical robots” connected to VR headsets, which is said to tran

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ARVR

APRIL 15, 2021

One striking realization about spatial computing is that we’re almost seven years into the sector’s current stage. This traces back to Facebook’s Oculus acquisition in early 2014 that kicked off the current wave of excitement….including lots of ups and downs in the intervening years. That excitement culminated in 2016 after the Oculus acquisition had time to set off a chain reaction of startup activity, tech-giant investment, and VC inflows for the “next computing platform.

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Road to VR

APRIL 15, 2021

Puzzling Places is already on Quest via App Lab, Facebook’s unmoderated outlet for Quest games and experiences, however now developers Realities.io announced the 3D puzzle game has been officially accepted to the Oculus Store. The developers of the photogrammetry-based 3D jigsaw puzzle game announced the news yesterday in a Tweet, stating that the game is targeting a Fall 2021 launch window.

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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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VR Fitness

APRIL 15, 2021

FitXR is planning to shake the VR fitness industry up as they announce the launch of their new premium monthly membership subscription. This marks a big departure from the team’s current model that comprises a one-time purchased base game with optional additional DLC purchases if the user desires. For a quick overview of the new format and exciting content that will be coming to FitXR check out my FitXR Announcement overview.

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Digital Trends

APRIL 15, 2021

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has revealed when Starlink's broadband service will likely exit beta, and also when the service could be available for moving vehicles.

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Slashgear

APRIL 15, 2021

Capcom has plenty of original IPs but Resident Evil is perhaps its most notable in terms of disturbing imagery and stories. It’s a franchise that has gone beyond just games and even has its own live-action film series. In fact, it has one more coming, a reboot that will be joined by a Netflix CGI series. Those, however, weren’t the … Continue reading.

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VR Fitness

APRIL 15, 2021

It seems strange to be announcing VZFit’s launch onto the Oculus Quest store, given that thousands of Quest users have been enjoying VZFit’s clever integration of indoor stationary bikes with virtual reality for well over a year. However, whilst VZfit’s two apps, Play and Explorer have always been exclusive to the Quest platform, they were hidden away from innocent eyes, behind the counter as it were, like cigarettes, or a smutty magazine.

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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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Anand Tech

APRIL 15, 2021

With the launch of Intel’s Third Generation Xeon Scalable platform based on 10nm Ice Lake processors, Intel has upgraded a part of the company that makes the BIG money. For the last few years Intel has been pivoting from a CPU-centric company to a Data-centric company, leveraging the fact that more and more of its product lines are built towards the datacenter mindset.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 15, 2021

Google Earth is already a powerful tool for observing our planet, but today it’s getting a major upgrade with the introduction of a new 3D time-lapse feature. Read more.

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Anand Tech

APRIL 15, 2021

SEMI, an organization representing chipmakers and producers of semiconductor production tools, published this week that sales of wafer processing equipment has surged to an all-time record of $71.19 billion for 2020. In the lead-up to the current chip crunch, equipment sales to South Korea and China noticeably spiked, with fabs in the former buying 61% more gear than in 2019, while China has risen to become the largest fab tool customer of all of the nations.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 15, 2021

If you’re one of the fast-food aficionados left reeling from stories of the current nationwide ketchup shortage , then get a squirt of this. People are now putting their unopened packets up for sale across eBay and Facebook Marketplace right now, for prices ranging from $1 per pack to over $1,000 for just a few. 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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Anand Tech

APRIL 15, 2021

This week TSMC has disclosed its full quarterly financial results for Q1 2021. In those results the company often explains where the revenue demand is for its technologies, and the financial split the demand brings. This number is not correlated to wafer production (although TSMC provides an overall number too), given that smaller process nodes have a per-wafer premium, but it does indicate where the demand is in the market right now.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 15, 2021

In Microsoft’s ongoing endeavor to convert people to its rebooted Edge web browser , it’s launching a new Kids Mode that makes it easy for parents to control how their children surf the web. Read more.

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VR Fitness

APRIL 15, 2021

When it comes to VR fitness, few development companies have a more longstanding presence in the industry than FitXR. Since launching BoxVR onto Steam way back in 2017 they have led the way when it comes to utilizing virtual reality technology as a workout tool. Following news of multi-million dollar investment into the company, a rebrand last year led to BoxVR being replaced on the Oculus Quest platform with FitXR, the game now bearing the company name.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 15, 2021

Entrepreneur Kosta Eleftheriou has made it his life’s mission to expose scammy iOS apps, and his latest discovery is a doozie. He found a game called Jungle Run—basically a 2D coin running game —that turns into a cryptocurrency-funded casino in Turkey. 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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