Tue.Aug 31, 2021

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Oculus Quest App ‘Magic Keys’ Teaches You Piano Using AR

VRScout

Learn how to tickle the ivories with this educational VR experience powered by the experimental Passthrough API. This past July Facebook released its experimental Passthrough API into the wild, allowing developers to harness the Oculus Quest’s built-in cameras to create engaging mixed reality experiences. Since then we’ve seen a variety of interactive AR games make their way to the standalone headset, from martial arts simulator Crazy Kung Fu to VR puzzler Gravity Labs.

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Case Study: Stream Taps the ‘B2B2C’ Opportunity

AR Insider

T. hough we spend ample time examining consumer-based AR endpoints, greater near-term impact is seen today in the enterprise. This takes many forms including camera commerce and collaboration. But the greatest area of enterprise AR impact today is in industrial settings. This includes AR visualization to support assembly and maintenance. The idea is that AR’s line-of-sight orientation can guide front-line workers.

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‘Beat Saber’ Skrillex Music Pack Is Full Of Absolute Bangers

VRScout

New DLC features eight instantly recognizable tracks from one of the biggest names in electronic dance music. Beat Saber today launched its official Skrillex Music Pack on Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift headsets. Featuring the music of Grammy award-winning DJ/producer, musician, singer, and songwriter Sonny Moore, aka Skrillex, this latest DLC introduces an additional eight tracks to the games’ already extensive catalog of music spanning a wide range of genres.

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‘Warhammer: Tempestfall’ Delayed to Improve Combat & Progression

Road to VR

Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Tempestfall is an upcoming VR action game from Carbon Studio. The game was original set for a Summer release date on PC VR and Quest, but the studio has announced a delayed release date, now set for sometime in Q4. Carbon Studio says it’s using the time to improve combat, progression, and rewards, and it will run a second closed beta for feedback before launch.

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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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Case Study: Streem Taps the ‘B2B2C’ Opportunity

AR Insider

T. hough we spend ample time examining consumer-based AR endpoints, greater near-term impact is seen today in the enterprise. This takes many forms including camera commerce and collaboration. But the greatest area of enterprise AR impact today is in industrial settings. This includes AR visualization to support assembly and maintenance. The idea is that AR’s line-of-sight orientation can guide front-line workers.

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Utility That Blacked Out New Orleans Was Too Busy Fighting Climate Regulations

GizModo VR

In recent years, a growing chorus of voices has been calling to hold oil and gas companies like Exxon accountable for lying about climate change while keeping the world hooked on fossil fuels. But utilities are also in need of some scrutiny. And Entergy, the utility that has left New Orleans and surrounding… Read more.

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Ambitious graveyard project ‘looks a bit like Ghostbusters’

Digital Trends

In a project dubbed "the Google Maps for graves," some 19,000 churchyards in England will have their headstones digitally mapped for a free online database.

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RIP LinkedIn Stories, 2020-2021

GizModo VR

You may be thinking to yourself, “Why the hell did LinkedIn, the purgatory of social media, rip off the Stories format?” LinkedIn has asked itself the same question less than a year after doing so and apparently concluded there is no good reason for it to have shamelessly followed every other app with the launch of … Read more.

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Intel Xeon Sapphire Rapids: How To Go Monolithic with Tiles

Anand Tech

One of the critical deficits Intel has to its competition in its server platform is core count – other companies are enabling more cores by one of two routes: smaller cores, or individual chiplets connected together. At its Architecture Day 2021, Intel has disclosed features about its next-gen Xeon Scalable platform, one of which is the move to a tiled architecture.

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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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White House May Be Clashing With CDC and FDA Experts Over Covid-19 Booster Shots

GizModo VR

There appears to be growing tension between the Biden administration and at least some people affiliated with public health agencies over recommending covid-19 booster shots for all next month. Two senior officials with the Food and Drug Administration are leaving, reportedly in part due to the White House’s decision… Read more.

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5 Ways in Which VR is Transforming Entertainment

AffinityVr

A new era of entertainment for the masses is dawning with the evolution of Virtual Reality. The recent barrage of technological breakthroughs has aligned with a significant shift in pricing, finally matching the average consumer’s recreational budget. With each new iteration of the technology, unprecedented experiences in film, gaming, art and even broadcasting have been [.].

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Whoa, the William Gibson Alien 3 Novel Is Based on a Different Screenplay

GizModo VR

Alien 3 has some issues. Even the movie’s most ardent fans have to admit this, given that it went through countless story, script, director, and editing changes, leaving what many feel is the most muddled of the four classic Alien films. Legendary Neuromancer author William Gibson was one of the (many) writers to give… Read more.

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5 Ways in Which VR is Transforming Entertainment

AffinityVr

A new era of entertainment for the masses is dawning with the evolution of Virtual Reality. The recent barrage of technological breakthroughs has aligned with a significant shift in pricing, finally matching the average consumer’s recreational budget. With each new iteration of the technology, unprecedented experiences in film, gaming, art and even broadcasting have been [.].

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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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Harmful 'Forever' Chemicals Linger in the Air of Homes, Offices, and Schools, Study Finds

GizModo VR

A new study has found that contaminants known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) can be readily measured in the air of indoor spaces like classrooms, offices, and homes. The findings indicate that inhalation may be yet another way these chemicals, thought to be harmful to our health, can end up in our… Read more.

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GoPro Hero 10 Black leak reveals images and specs

Digital Trends

The GoPro Hero 10 Black has leaked in detail, with photos and specs revealed showing an improved sensor and video recording capabilities.

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Sounds Like the Marvel Comics Universe Is Going to Have a Rough Winter

GizModo VR

The Marvel Comics Universe is about to be changed forever. Actually, it seems like it’s about to be changed forever on multiple occasions between December of this year and February 2022, as the publisher has announced eight new “tentpole” series , at least half of which sound like mega-events. Curious? Here’s the… Read more.

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What’s a headphone amp, and why would you need one?

Digital Trends

In an age when headphones reign supreme, you might be thinking it’s a good idea to get a dedicated headphone amp, and you may well be right. Here's why.

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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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The Galaxy Z Fold 3 Is Way More Durable Than Its Predecessors

GizModo VR

When Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Z Fold 3, it made a point of emphasizing its improved durability. It’s far, far too early to know how the Z Fold 3 will hold up over time, but in a series of breakability tests, it seems Samsung’s durability claims aren’t just fluffy marketing. Read more.

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AMD is working on a graphics card that would beat Nvidia’s RTX 3090

Digital Trends

Rumors say that AMD is working on a new graphics card, the Radeon RX 6900 XTX. It could be powerful enough to beat Nvidia's flagship RTX 3090.

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Star Wars’ Hyperspace Explained

GizModo VR

Lucasfilm’s version of faster-than-light travel—hyperspace—is as fundamental to the worldbuilding of Star Wars as the Force. It’s the backbone of making its galaxy an interconnected universe of potential , a concept that has become more and more integral to some of the franchise’s biggest storytelling pushes. But how… Read more.

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The best EA games of all time

Digital Trends

EA might have a few series they're most known for, but they make games for just about every market. Here's what we consider to be the best EA games of all time.

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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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What We Do in the Shadows Is Getting a Weekly Aftershow With Harvey Guillén as Host

GizModo VR

The world probably doesn’t need any more aftershows, no matter how good the show itself is—and FX’s brilliant supernatural comedy What We Do in the Shadows is one of the very best around. However, we could all do with more Harvey Guillén in our lives, so we’ll be happily tuning in for After the Shadows , hosted by the … Read more.

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Western Digital Reimagines HDD - Flash Integration with OptiNAND

Anand Tech

The last few years have seen plenty of new innovations come up in the hard-disk drive market. For quite some time, the HDD technology roadmap was shared industry-wide - vendors introduced new technologies at different points in time, but they were all similar in nature. As a recent example, HGST (now, Western Digital) was the first to market with helium-filled HDDs, but both Seagate and Toshiba followed up with similar drives within a few years.

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The New Malignant Trailer Focuses on Its Superstar Filmmaker

GizModo VR

It’s not every day a trailer features an interview with the director, but it’s not every day the film’s director is the biggest selling point of a movie. James Wan is at the helm of the upcoming horror film Malignant , and he’s the guy who first brought us Saw, Insidious, and The Conjuring. Each of those started as … Read more.

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Lenovo Thinkstation P620 review: The ultimate Threadripper workstation

Digital Trends

Threadripper Pro, a tool-free design, and eight channels of memory: What's not to love about the Lenovo P620?

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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?