VRScout

JANUARY 13, 2022

Grab your bow and jump into the virtual arena. This week, developer Normal VR ( Half+Half ) unveiled its latest VR game, NOCK. Coming “soon” to the Quest platform, the multiplayer VR experience looks a lot like the popular vehicular soccer game Rocket League , only instead of driving rocket-powered cars, players instead use a bow and arrow to knock (oh my god I just got it) the ball into their opponents net.

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ARPost

JANUARY 13, 2022

By immersing users in a digitally-rendered environment, virtual reality can revolutionize how people work, learn, and interact. The advent of virtual reality technology has brought major changes to the way we interact with each other. It creates new avenues for remote collaboration, promotes the accessibility of education and healthcare, and introduces novel ways for strangers to interact with one another.

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VRScout

JANUARY 13, 2022

Speculation is already rampant. This week developer Beat Games teased a new block type on its way to the ultra-popular VR rhythm game Beat Saber. In a tweet posted yesterday to their official Twitter account, the company shared a picture featuring a classic Beat Saber block sliced into several even layers. The post was accompanied by the message, “What’s this?

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AR Insider

JANUARY 13, 2022

The AR world continues to wait in anticipation for Apple's market entrance. Given its classic halo effect, this could raise all boats. But what do clues indicate about the what and when? We examine the evidence so far. The post appeared first on AR Insider.

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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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ARVR

JANUARY 13, 2022

One of our 2022 predictions ?—?spotlighted in an article last week?—?is that the Meta Quest 2 will reach its target of 10 million lifetime units sold in 2022. This goal was previously stated by Mark Zuckerberg (more on that in a bit). It now appears that it could hit that milestone even sooner. Specifically, this 10-million mark will likely come in 2022 as expected, but could be very early in the year.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 13, 2022

Deep-sea biologists were stunned to find the largest known fish breeding ground, a discovery made last year near Antarctica. Details of the incredible find were published today, with researchers describing a sprawling colony of millions of icefish on seafloor of the Southern Ocean. Read more.

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Digital Trends

JANUARY 13, 2022

Want to start an exercise program and stick with it? Then join a challenge. We discuss what to look for in a challenge and share our favorites for 2022.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 13, 2022

For years, developers of free, open-source software have been telling anyone who will listen that their projects needs better financial assistance and more oversight. Now, after a number of disastrous incidents involving open-source code, the federal government and Silicon Valley may finally be listening. Read more.

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Digital Trends

JANUARY 13, 2022

Nick Walton, the creator of A.I. Dungeon, is launching a new gaming platform that gives subscribers access to games and A.I. 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

JANUARY 13, 2022

The fate of time-traveling doctor Dr. Sam Beckett may finally be revealed. NBC has ordered a pilot for a new version of Quantum Leap that’ll take place 30 years after the original TV show ended. It’ll follow a new team who has been put together to bring back the Quantum Leap project and hopefully figure out what… Read more.

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Digital Trends

JANUARY 13, 2022

Law enforcement officials across multiple cities have warned about fraudulent QR codes plastered at parking stations. Here are a few tips to avoid such scams.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 13, 2022

There’s something strange in the neighborhood… and it’s the plot of Ghostbusters: Afterlife ! In celebration of Ivan and Jason Reitman’s critically divisive , audience-adored sequel to the original Ghostbusters movie coming to digital on demand last week, we’ve decided to give it the (admittedly belated) Spoiler FAQ … Read more.

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Digital Trends

JANUARY 13, 2022

Micron has announced the 2400 SSD, the world’s 2TB 22x30mm SSD, which could potentially signal the arrival of a budget HDD killer.

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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

JANUARY 13, 2022

It’s no secret that Google’s been vying for a space in your living room for years. Google TV has undergone quite a few branding changes since it first launched in 2010, but it’s still managed to become one of the top streaming platforms. And it’s not stopping: Google has its sights set beyond just casting your… Read more.

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Digital Trends

JANUARY 13, 2022

LG is bringing its semi-autonomous CLOi ServeBot to the U.S. The robot can carry loads of up 66 pounds and operate for 11 hours while assisting human workers.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 13, 2022

When a company like Google controls more than 90% of the search engine market, it’s always seemed near-impossible for any competitor to woo away the company’s users. More recently though, that tide’s started to change—Google’s constant flubs in protecting users’ privacy have left folks looking for alternatives that… Read more.

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Charlie Fink

JANUARY 13, 2022

Philip Rosedale is returning to the metaverse he launched in 2002.

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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

JANUARY 13, 2022

Real Steel is one of the greatest sci-fi sports movies of all time. Granted, the subgenre of sci-fi sports movies is pretty slim—especially ones where the entire movie focuses on that theme —but Real Steel is near the top of the list. And now, after years of the film’s fan base clamoring for more, it might actually be… Read more.

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Digital Trends

JANUARY 13, 2022

If you're still hanging on to your Note 8, then you'll want to take steps to protect it. These are some of the best Samsung Galaxy Note 20 cases available now.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 13, 2022

A proposed law in New York would cut down on law enforcement’s ability to use controversial surveillance tactics—including warrants that can clandestinely target you because of your search engine history or nab your location data without you knowing. Read more.

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Digital Trends

JANUARY 13, 2022

Samsung has just announced the successful creation of the world's first MRAM-based in-memory computing chip, made with A.I. computing in mind.

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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

JANUARY 13, 2022

A new study that found compounds in cannabis could stop the coronavirus from infecting cells has understandably captured the internet’s attention this week. But while the findings are worth following up on, people shouldn’t get too excited yet, as the researchers are very clear that simply smoking or otherwise… Read more.

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Digital Trends

JANUARY 13, 2022

Current space station inhabitant Matthias Maurer has revealed the free mobile app that astronauts use for capturing amazing Earth images from 250 miles up.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 13, 2022

There’s a reason that nobody reads the little terms of service tabs tucked away at the bottom of any website: They’re too long, too full of jargon, and too impenetrable for anyone without a law degree to bother trying to understand. Read more.

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Digital Trends

JANUARY 13, 2022

Firefox Focus, a privacy-focused browser, has launched Total Cookie Protection for Android users to prevent unwanted ad targeting and tracking.

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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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