VRScout

MARCH 19, 2021

The new avatar system will debut first on Facebook Horizon for Oculus Quest headsets. Yesterday, Mark Rabkin, VP of Oculus, sat down with CNET’s Scott Stein to chat about the companies advancements in VR avatar technology, during which a brand new VR avatar system for Oculus Quest/Quest 2 headsets was revealed. Arriving first on Facebook’s upcoming social VR platform Facebook Horizon , these new avatars feature a range of emotive capabilities, promising more natural and engaging VR i

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ARPost

MARCH 19, 2021

The rise of virtual reality has led to a wide array of surprisingly useful technologies that extend beyond the world of gaming. One of the lesser-known applications of VR has to do with your sleep health. Believe it or not, it can help you sleep better at night. Can Virtual Reality Improve Sleep? Sleep is important, but it is very elusive. Many studies have shown that one of the culprits for your lack of sleep is your smartphone.

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2021

Asymmetric co-op VR games—where each user plays a wholly different gameplay role—are a rare breed. Fortunately, the well regarded Carly and the Reaperman is set for a Quest release date on April 15th, making it available on every major VR headset. Originally released back in 2018 for PC VR headsets, and eventually PSVR, Carly and the Reaperman is an asymmetric cooperative VR game where one player acts as an overseer which can manipulate the environment with their hands in order to help the oth

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AR Insider

MARCH 19, 2021

A mong tech giants investing in their own versions of an AR future, Facebook arguably has the highest stakes. We’ve estimated that its annual XR R&D spend — not including its $2 billion Oculus acquisition — approaches $10 billion. It’s playing a long game and is firmly committed. That includes both AR and VR, the latter being more tangible today, given Oculus’ in-market status.

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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

MARCH 19, 2021

As a part of PlayStation’s Play at Home program, the company is giving away a selection of nine free games, five of which are some of the best VR games on the platform. From March 25th until April 23rd, you’ll be able to download these PSVR games for free: Astro Bot Rescue Mission. Moss. Rez Infinite . Paper Beast. Thumper. Headlining the bunch is Astro Bot Rescue Mission, which won our 2018 PSVR Game of the Year Award for its notably ingenious design that plays to PlayStation VR’s

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2021

Despite being among the early supporters of the OpenXR consortium—the industry group building the open standard for XR devices—Sony so far seems to have avoided making a specific commitment to implement OpenXR on PSVR or its next-gen headset. OpenXR is an open standard developed under the Khronos Group. It’s goal is to make XR applications ‘portable’, allowing them to be built in a way that can run across many different headsets without developers needing to build different ver

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ARVR

MARCH 19, 2021

How do we distinguish between real and virtual world , how can we be sure we are not living in a simulation what if we make the real and virtual world indistinguishable. I am not talking about the VR glasses that we currently have, I am talking about feeling the sense of touch , sense of smell , sense of falling freely as you jump from the helicopter in a Virtual World , bored of the real world , live as a survivor in a zombie Apocalypse, go back to Jurassic age , discover a planet with alie

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GizModo VR

MARCH 19, 2021

There’s so much about our planet that scientists are still learning about. Case in point: American Museum of Natural History researchers recently documented biofluorescent fish in the Arctic for the first time ever. Their find was published on the museum’s online research library on Thursday. The report shows how… Read more.

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ARVR

MARCH 19, 2021

Sales practices are constantly evolving. There are always new ways to serve the buyer’s increasing expectations and demands. The key to a good sales enablement strategy is knowing how to use the same people, products, and services, and aiding them to customize their selling approach to a targeted audience. Therefore, if an organisation wants to stay ahead of the competition, it must stay agile and constantly develop its sales enablement tools.

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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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GizModo VR

MARCH 19, 2021

Some 46,000 years ago in what is now the Polish highlands, a Neanderthal man got some food stuck between his teeth. So he did what any self-respecting hominin would do—he reached for a toothpick, according to new research. Read more.

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Anand Tech

MARCH 19, 2021

A couple of days after Intel officially announced its 11 th Generation Core Rocket Lake, the press received an email about a new feature coming to the platform that wasn’t in our original briefing. The goal of this feature is to provide more performance to users that have good processors, and Intel is calling it Adaptive Boost Technology.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 19, 2021

The United States may have just groggily awoken from a week of missed alarms after rolling the clocks forward for spring, but the galaxy far, far away is already looking to the festive times of winter. What better way to celebrate the holidays than with tales of folklore from across the stars? Read more.

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Digital Trends

MARCH 19, 2021

Whether you want a quality Bluetooth speaker or something bigger for your home stereo or theater system, we've got all the best cheap Bose speaker deals here.

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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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GizModo VR

MARCH 19, 2021

A long-dormant volcano erupted on Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula on Friday, shooting a fountain of lava that lit the night sky roughly 19 miles (30 kilometers) southwest of the nation’s capital, the Icelandic Meteorological Office reported Friday. The eruption, estimated to be the peninsula’s first in almost 800 years,… Read more.

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Digital Trends

MARCH 19, 2021

With just a few household items, you can clean your TV screen in no time. We'll tell you how to whip up the perfect cleaning solution in this quick guide.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 19, 2021

Scientists are celebrating the long-sought discovery of the odderon, a strange phenomenon that appears only rarely when protons collide at high energies, such as inside particle accelerators. Though the odderon was first predicted to exist in the early 1970s, it wasn’t until recently that physicists finally gathered… Read more.

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Digital Trends

MARCH 19, 2021

The new Laser TV model from Hisense generates a huge 120-inch picture and sits just 13 inches from the wall. It comes with its own screen and built-in speakers.

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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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GizModo VR

MARCH 19, 2021

For years, news of Barnes & Noble’s Nook line of e-readers and Android tablet being discontinued have surfaced again and again, but somehow the little-brand-that-could defies its own death with new hardware that brings it back from the brink of extinction. Today that comes in the form of a new 10-inch Nook tablet … Read more.

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Anand Tech

MARCH 19, 2021

Advanced system-on-chip designs are extremely complex in terms of transistor count and are hard to build using the latest fabrication processes. In a bid to make production of next-generation chips economically feasible, chip fabs need to ensure high yields early in their lifecycle by quickly finding and correcting defects. But finding and fixing defects is not easy today, as traditional optical inspection tools don't offer sufficiently detailed image resolution, while high-resolution e-beam

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GizModo VR

MARCH 19, 2021

Earlier this week, stories emerged that some China-based advertising groups were coming up with their own clever workarounds for the new anti-tracking tech that Apple’s including with upcoming versions of iOS 14. Now it looks like Apple’s fighting back. Read more.

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Digital Trends

MARCH 19, 2021

From turning down brightness to changing your screen saver, our battery saving tips ensure your iPhone stays functional for as long as you need it.

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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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GizModo VR

MARCH 19, 2021

Four years ago, astronomers detected ‘Oumuamua—the first interstellar object known to pass through our solar system. The object featured an array of strange and inexplicable characteristics, some of which are consistent with an icy shard ripped from a Pluto-like object, according to new research. Read more.

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Digital Trends

MARCH 19, 2021

Data privacy concerns keeping you awake? We look at what data apps are really collecting, what they're doing with it, and which apps keep your data private.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 19, 2021

It’s not every day that a new player enters the smartwatch game, so I was intrigued when OnePlus’s then-CEO Carl Pei hinted last summer that a wearable might be on the way. The rumors have been ramping up the past few weeks, and now we know what the watch will look like. After months of curiosity, I am.underwhelmed. Read more.

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Digital Trends

MARCH 19, 2021

The RTX 2070 and GTX 1080 are both long in the tooth but still great gaming cards. With global GPU shortages, if you're considering one of them, which is best?

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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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