VRScout

JANUARY 24, 2022

One of the biggest global big-box retailers wants a chunk of that $800 billion metaverse business. It appears that Walmart, one of the largest global big-box retailers, is joining the growing metaverse community with the launch of their own cryptocurrency. The company is also releasing a collection of NFTs that include virtual items such as electronics, home decorations, games, toys, sporting goods, and various other products you can typically find at a physical Walmart store.

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ARPost

JANUARY 24, 2022

According to experts, the VR headsets market will grow exponentially until 2028. And we can already see the signs of a booming market – a lot of newcomers are getting into the VR hardware business, while established players continue to innovate and push the boundaries to performance. In this article, we will look at the best VR headsets in 2022 from every point of view – from top performance to affordability.

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VRScout

JANUARY 24, 2022

Each boot is equipped with motorized wheels that gently reposition the wearer away from danger. What if you could walk an infinite distance in VR from the comfort of your own home? And I mean physically walk. Where would you go? What would you do? For years the idea of exploring an infinite space from a living room was that of science fiction; a colorful idea of what the future could hold.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 24, 2022

Among macro-economic challenges in the Covid era are employment-based phenomena like the great resignation. Could AR come to the rescue by lessening the skills gap, boosting retention, and upskilling new hires faster? We examine the evidence. This 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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Road to VR

JANUARY 24, 2022

Skydance Interactive announced The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners (2020), the zombie-filled survival horror game for all major VR headsets, is slated to continue in the newly unveiled standalone game: ‘Chapter 2: Retribution’ Skydance isn’t calling Chapter 2 a sequel as such, however in a press statement the studio confirms it’s a standalone title that serves as a continuation of the storyline from the original game.

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VRScout

JANUARY 24, 2022

Return to the role of The Tourist and battle new enemies across the French Quarter. Skydance Interactive has officially unveiled The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners – Chapter 2: Retribution , an official follow-up to its award-winning survival horror VR game based on Robert Kirkman’s popular comic book series. Released on major VR platforms in 2020, Saints & Sinners has you exploring the zombie-infested streets of post-apocalyptic New Orleans in search of a highly sought-after

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ARVR

JANUARY 24, 2022

The metaverse is as exciting as it is ill-defined. The term is so overused that it’s lost all meaning. Meanwhile, we see two metaverse tracks. One involves virtual synchronous worlds, while the other adds digital dimension to the physical world. Both will take years to materialize. Meanwhile, the M-word continues to be a runaway train in XR sectors and beyond.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 24, 2022

(Image courtesy Ekto VR.). It’s too expensive and it’s not available yet, but there’s a startup company that says we’ll be able to walk in VR. Ekto VR , a VR hardware startup, has invented a pair of boots that allow realistic walking in virtual environments with no risk of running into a wall or other obstacles. The exact price hasn’t been announced yet, but with a potential starting cost of $15,000 dollars or more, the Ekto VR boots are currently aimed for enterpri

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ARVR

JANUARY 24, 2022

As we enter a new year, it’s time for our annual ritual of synthesizing the lessons from the past twelve months and formulating the outlook for the next twelve. This has been an action-packed year for AR & VR as the world slowly emerges from the grips of a pandemic. Moreover, 2021 was marked by the emergence of metaverse mania. Though it has legitimate principles and promise, the term has been ambiguated through overuse.

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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 24, 2022

The Webb Space Telescope is expected to arrive at the second Lagrange point on Monday afternoon. The telescope has been traveling for nearly a month to reach this spot, where it will make its observations of the cosmos. Read more.

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Anand Tech

JANUARY 24, 2022

The topic of overclocking has been an interesting one to track over the years. Over a decade ago, when dealing with 2-4 core processors, an effective overclock gave a substantial performance uplift, often allowing a $200 processor to perform like the one that cost $999. However, core counts have increased over the last couple of years, but also companies like Intel are getting better at understanding their silicon, and are able to ship it out of the box almost at the silicon limit anyway.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 24, 2022

“I had a religious conversion. I saw my messiah,” Guillermo del Toro says early in Thomas Hamilton’s new documentary Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster. The moment that so moved the Oscar-winning filmmaker? The first time he saw Karloff’s iconic monster face the camera in 1931's Frankenstein. Read more.

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Digital Trends

JANUARY 24, 2022

In this episode of Home Genius, our hosts tour an art-packed party pad that's designed to handle common household chores autonomously.

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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 24, 2022

With the production of next-gen batteries growing near, Teslas will soon round another corner in its race to put range anxiety in the rearview mirror. Panasonic will reportedly begin mass-producing new lithium-ion batteries as early as 2023 that could increase EV range by up to 20%, according to a Nikkei report. Read more.

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Digital Trends

JANUARY 24, 2022

If your PC has slowed down, high CPU usage may be the cause. In this guide, we will show you how to check your CPU usage and how to fix it when it's too high.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 24, 2022

Whenever Doctor Who is ready to cast a new Doctor , the internet is always aflurry with wild suggestions and outlandish “leaks” that, more often than not, never play out as true. But as Doctor Who fandom looks toward the return of showrunner Russell T Davies —and the 14th Doctor arriving in time for next year’s 60th… Read more.

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Digital Trends

JANUARY 24, 2022

Once the dust settles from Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, here are the titles we'd most like to see on Game Pass.

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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 24, 2022

In an apparent bid to stop a Russian arms build-up near the Ukrainian border, a “pro-democracy” hacktivist group claims to have hacked the Belarusian railway system—allegedly one of the conduits for tanks and weaponry into the region. The incident comes as Russian and NATO-allied forces continue to spar over the… Read more.

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Digital Trends

JANUARY 24, 2022

AT&T's new Hypergig broadband plans brings fiber speeds up to 5Gbps to homes and businesses with pricing transparency.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 24, 2022

What happens when a trip into space to save humanity needs saving itself? Dean Devlin is going to let us know. The Syfy Network has just picked up a new show called The Ark from the producer of mega sci-fi hits such as Independence Day , Stargate , and Universal Soldier. Read more.

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Digital Trends

JANUARY 24, 2022

According to a leak, Intel is seemingly planning at least five variants for its Arc Alchemist graphics card lineup for laptops.

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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 24, 2022

Just two years after covid-19 forced the International Olympic Committee to postpone the 2020 Olympics, another health hazard—this one indisputably humanmade—threatens to endanger athletes at the 2022 Beijing Winter Games. Less than two weeks out from the events, recently released data shows dangerously high pollution… Read more.

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Digital Trends

JANUARY 24, 2022

Samsung and LG may be losing the battle to manufacture the 2023 iPhone's OLED screen to a little-known Chinese company.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 24, 2022

Star Trek has had a particularly weird history with action figures. Never the most toyetic of franchises when it came to things that weren’t models of spaceships , prop replicas, or imaginary Vulcan headgear , nevertheless companies have tried to turn Trek into an action figure brand—and now one company in particular is… Read more.

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Digital Trends

JANUARY 24, 2022

Prepaid phones are not inherently cheap or low-budget -- these days, nearly any smartphone can be used on a prepaid plan. Here are some of our favorites.

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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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