Mon.Aug 03, 2020

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Award-Winning Fashion Photographer Starts Virtual Modeling Agency

VRScout

With the modeling industry on hold, virtual models are stepping up to fill the runways. Shavonne Wong is an award-winning fashion photographer with 10 years of experience. She’s a returning guest photographer on Asia’s Next Top Model, has photographed actor/singer Billy Porter for Vogue, is an ambassador for (X-Photographer) for Fujifilm, and was recently included in Forbes 30 under 30 Asia list for 2020.

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Can Virtual Reality Be Used to Train Firefighters?

ARPost

Utah-based company eLearning Brothers has made a safer approach to training firefighters using virtual reality. Volunteers and veterans alike can hone their skills without putting their lives in danger. Trainees can also easily retain information using VR. Moreover, they will feel more confident in high-risk situations. Here, we’ll delve into the advantages of virtual reality in training firefighters.

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Interactive VR Comedy Has You Staging A Fake Moon Landing For The Taiwanese Government

VRScout

Great Hoax: The Moon Landing arrives on Viveport this September as part of the Venice Film Festival. This September marks the start of the 77th annual Venice Film Festival in Lido di Venezia, Italy. While a “more restrained” version of the main event is scheduled to proceed on-site, Venice VR Expanded, a portion of the festival dedicated entirely to VR-based projects, will this year be held online due to ongoing concerns over COVID-19.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.03): OpenXR is taking foot, new cool features found inside Oculus runtime, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The typical summer week has passed by, with some interesting XR news, but mostly no amazing event to talk about. Before starting talking about the news of the week, I want to thank everyone for the compliments I got for the interview with Robert Scoble. If you want to watch it, it’s a very interesting 2-hour-long video and you can find it here [link] together with a summary of the key points he said.

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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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Will Covid-Era Lockdowns Catapult AR Shopping?

AR Insider

Data Dive is AR Insider’s weekly dive into select spatial computing figures. Running Mondays, it includes data points and strategic takeaways. For an indexed library of data, reports, and multimedia, subscribe to ARtillery Pro. P roof points for AR’s efficacy as a shopping tool continue to roll out. We’ve been hearing this rallying cry for AR commerce for a few years, but it takes on new meaning during Covid-era retail lockdowns.

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Extended Reality- Immersive Experience

ARVR

Source XR on Mobile, without any hardware or app installation. Web AR is taking the internet by storm. Brands, organisations and marketers are all starting to look at Web-Based Augmented Reality technology and identify use-cases within their business. It has turned more heads in these times where social distancing is the new way of living. Credits: [link] Always technology has helped to evolve for a better and upgraded living, eliminating all the pain points experienced.

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Medieval Remixes of Star Wars Themes Are Music to Thine Ears

GizModo VR

When Darth Vader said “What is thy bidding, master?” apparently he was onto something. The phrase had a certain dated quality. Medieval even. And now, after hearing actual medieval remixes of popular Star Wars themes, those two things definitely go hand in hand. Read more.

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How can Augmented Reality Improve the Food Industry Post-Coronavirus?

ARVR

Covid-19 has brought up many questions about how to be social safely, but when it comes to restaurants, the question is often how to be as sanitary as possible. Coronavirus has, no doubt, made socializing much harder, but what will the food and restaurant industry look like in the coming months? So far, restaurants have moved towards having limited seating and outdoor options continuously available in hopes that they can keep the virus from spreading at a higher rate.

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A Young Girl Becomes One With the Sea in This New African Animated Series

GizModo VR

Thousands of miles away from Hollywood, a new heroine is being born. Her name is Isaura. She’s from Mozambique, can breathe underwater and talk to turtles, and wants to save the planet. 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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All cross-platform games (PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC)

Digital Trends

No matter which system you're using, these games allow you to compete with friends across different platforms.

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This Algorithm Might Make Facial Recognition Obsolete

GizModo VR

In 2020, it’s worth assuming that every status update and selfie you upload online can eventually make its way into the hands of an obscure data-mining third party , into the hands of national authorities , or both. Read more.

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Ampere Altra 1P Server Pictured: GIGABYTE’s 2U with 80 Arm N1 Cores, PCIe 4.0 and CCIX

Anand Tech

With the news of Apple moving to Arm SoCs replacing Intel in a few key products, and the success of the new Graviton2 SoC in Amazon’s Web Services, the news-o-sphere is awash with excitement about a new era of Arm-based computing. One of the companies looking to deploy Arm into the cloud is Ampere, with its new Altra and Altra Max compute processors.

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A Pair of Canadian Ice Caps Has Disappeared Completely

GizModo VR

A set of polar ice caps has literally disappeared. We don’t need any more evidence that the Earth is warming to the point of mass instability, but this latest discovery is unsettling, to say the least. 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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ASUS PN50 Mini-PC, with Ryzen Mobile 4000 APUs, Coming September

Anand Tech

AMD launched its Ryzen Mobile 4000 ‘Renoir’ processors in January, and one of our questions was around the appetite for AMD to push mini-PC designs. Processors that have both high performance and low power are ideal for small form factors, and there has always been a dedicated community to this hardware segment. As we’ve seen in previous launches, sometimes these sorts of machines come before laptops, or very quickly after.

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Poltergeist Still Delivers Surprises, Delights, and Frights After Almost 40 Years

GizModo VR

Poltergeist is fantastic because it somehow both includes, and subverts, seemingly every convention the horror genre has. The family doesn’t leave the haunted house , they stay. They instantly accept what’s happening. The ghosts are revealed early in the story. People actually capture them on videotape. What you think … Read more.

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Google Announces Pixel 4a - A $349 Value

Anand Tech

Today Google is announcing its 2020 successor to its budget/mid-range line of phones in the form of the new Pixel 4a. Awaited since several months now, but seemingly delayed into August, the new Pixel 4a brings to the table a few key upgrades whilst offering a Google software experience at a $349 price point. Last year’s Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL were seemingly well received devices, with Google’s strategy being mostly focused on offering a “Google Experience” software sta

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How Do People Actually 'Die From Old Age'?

GizModo VR

Thousands are currently engaged in solving the problem of death. Maybe they’ll succeed, and out of sheer boredom I’ll reread this sentence when I’m 900 years old, reflecting fondly on the first wasted century of my life. In the meantime, billions are going to die—some from disease, some in freak accidents, and a… 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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Here’s every Xbox One X Enhanced game that supports 4K resolution

Digital Trends

Microsoft boasts that its Xbox One X will be the most powerful console ever released, with increased frame rates, quicker load times, and 4K resolution. These are the games that can take advantage.

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Science Twitter Got Catfished by a Fake Professor Who 'Died From Covid'

GizModo VR

A bizarre saga of events played out on social media over the weekend, embroiling much of the close-knit world of scientists, academics, and researchers on Twitter. It started with accusations that Arizona State University’s actions had exposed one of their faculty members, an Indigenous woman and anthropologist, to an… Read more.

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Owatch AR Car Racing Game Built Relations with Hyundai, Helix, Castrol Group

Steki Amusement

About the car game, because half is real(the track table), and half is virtual, not real racing, so we name is AR(augmented reality) Car Racing, which we also can call it, Crazy Car Racing Game Simulator, 4D Karting Car Game, which is a new and good concept for racing game. Owatch AR Racing Car. The speed rate is 1:16 , that mean the speed of remote car on the track table is 10 miles, but you can see in the screen it’s 160 miles, very fast and that’s the most exciting thing of this car gam

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In a First, Paleontologists Identify Cancer in a Dinosaur Fossil

GizModo VR

A re-analysis of a shin bone belonging to a horned dinosaur from the Cretaceous period has revealed signs of a malignant tumor, in what’s considered a first for dinosaur paleontology. 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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Google Teases Pixel 4a (5G) and Pixel 5 Later This Year

Anand Tech

Alongside the launch of the Pixel 4a today, Google has made a mention that it’ll be launching the Pixel 4a (5G) later this year at a price point of $499. We don’t have any further details on this variant of the Pixel 4a, however if the only feature upgrade on the phone is a 5G compatible SoC and cellular connectivity, it would mean quite a steep price increase.

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The Best Photoshop Alternatives That Are Totally Free

GizModo VR

Photoshop has become so dominant that you can use its name as a verb, but if you want to get your hands on it you need to shell out at least $10 a month. Don’t worry! There are plenty of completely free alternatives to Photoshop; here are a few of the best. Read more.

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Xeon Platinum 9200 at Scale: Penguin Computing’s new 7616 Cores-Per-Rack Solution

Anand Tech

Some aspects of computing rely on density, and need to pack as many compute processing elements in the smallest space possible. Intel’s Xeon Platinum 9200 range was created to solve these problems, however uptake seems to be limited due to the high power consumption, suited only for those with deep pockets and the ability to deploy. Penguin Computing has introduced a new Xeon Platinum 9200 platform, called TundraAP, to enable better power efficiency and higher compute density.

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Up to a Third of Bangladesh Is Underwater

GizModo VR

This monsoon season has been devastating East and South Asia since early June, and the rains are showing no signs of stopping—throughout the region, they are expected to continue into mid-August. Bangladesh has been especially hard it: The floods have left between 24% and 37% of the country underwater, the New York… 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?