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10 Virtual Reality Trends to Look Out for in 2021 and Beyond

ARPost

Virtual reality has been used successfully for business applications for a while now. However, we are still witnessing innovations each year that will reflect positively on various industries – and that’s bringing VR to brand new milestones. 2021 is no different since the need for digital solutions is bigger than ever. We are already witnessing the formation of VR trends that will define 2021 and the future of virtual reality as a whole.

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HP Reverb G2 Omnicept Edition Launches Next Month

VRScout

HP’s professional-grade VR headset will be available for purchase this May starting at $1,249. HP today announced that the HP Reverb G2 Omnicept Edition will be available for purchase next month starting at $1,249 , just over $600 more than the standard HP Reverb G2. Originally revealed back in September 2020, HP’s professional-grade VR headset offers a variety of enhancements over the basic G2, including an eye-tracking & pupillometry sensor from Tobii, heart rate sensor, and fa

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The AR Location Wars, Part III: Facebook

AR Insider

A s you likely know, one of AR’s foundational principles is to fuse the digital and physical. The real world is a key part of that formula… and real-world relevance is often defined by location. That same relevance and scarcity are what drive real estate value….location, location, location. Synthesizing these factors, one of AR’s battlegrounds will be in augmenting the world in location-relevant ways.

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This Humble Bundle VR Deal Is One Of The Biggest Ever

VRScout

Pick up some of the best VR games on Steam for just $14.99. [UPDATE 4.7.21] – We’ve been informed that the bundle does not include Arizona Sunshine as originally listed. Therefore we have removed it from the list. Running now until April 21st , Humble Bundle’s ‘Spring Into VR’ bundle is your chance to own some of the best-reviewed SteamVR games currently available on PCVR headsets for a one-time fee of just $15.

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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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New Video Shows Off CREAL’s Latest Foveated Light-field VR Headset

Road to VR

CREAL, a company building light-field display technology for AR and VR headsets, has revealed a new through-the-lens video showing off the performance of its latest VR headset prototype. The new video clearly demonstrates the ability to focus at arbitrary distances, as well as the high resolution of the foveated region. The company also the rendering tech that powers the headset is “approaching the equivalent of [contemporary] VR headsets.” Earlier this year Creal offered the first g

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Pico Unveils Neo 3 Standalone, Launching on May 10th in China

Road to VR

Pico Interactive announced that Neo 3, the Beijing-based company’s next standalone VR headset, is slated to be launched on May 10th in China. The company released the news via its official Weibo account early yesterday, stating that the headset will be launched at a special event taking place on May 10th at the Beijing National Aquatics Center, also known as ‘Water Cube’ As reported by Chinese VR publication Yivian , the headset appears to have four optical sensors and a new

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Don't Watch Netflix's Seaspiracy

GizModo VR

Yesterday, the sun was shining bright, and birds were chirping outside my window, and the buds were really starting to coming out on the trees. It was a stupidly perfect day really, and I had to go ruin it all by watching Seaspiracy. Read more.

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Old Folks and VR

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Freedom and Security Continue reading on AR/VR Journey: Augmented & Virtual Reality Magazine ».

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Dallas Police Used Face Recognition Software Without Authorization, Installed on Personal Phones

GizModo VR

Dallas police officers used unauthorized facial recognition software to conduct between 500 and 1,000 searches in attempts to identify people based on photographs. A Dallas Police spokesperson says the searches were never authorized by the department, and that in some cases, officers had installed facial recognition… 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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Smugglers transported 300 GPUs in a Mission Impossible-style speed boat chase

Digital Trends

Hong Kong Customs met a group of smugglers outside the airport, taking up to 300 Nvidia GPUs alongside smartphones, exotic foods, and system RAM.

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Eagles Are Filled With Rat Poison

GizModo VR

Eagles are majestic, beautiful, and full of toxins that we’ve pumped into the environment. A new study finds that 82% of dead eagles examined between 2014 and 2018 had detectable levels of rat poison in their systems. Read more.

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Watch this breathtaking drone video of a volcanic eruption

Digital Trends

Aerial filmmaker Stefan Forster has created an extraordinary piece of work that captures the breathtaking beauty of a volcanic eruption.

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An Android App That Promised Free Netflix Shockingly Just Highly Annoying Malware

GizModo VR

So-called pirating apps have been around for years—and they have only gained popularity since covid-19 put us all indefinitely on the couch, phone in hand, awaiting a reason (that never comes) to stop streaming. 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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An interview with Zach King, the internet’s favorite illusionist

Digital Trends

Zach King has been the internet's favorite illusionist for over a decade, but despite his continued success, he says he's just getting started.

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The Nevers' Amy Manson Shares Which Serial Killer Inspired Her Complicated Character

GizModo VR

HBO’s sci-fi fantasy series The Nevers arrives this Sunday to reveal a Victorian London where a mysterious event bestows strange powers on people—mostly women. The show has a lot of characters, but one who definitely stands out from the crowd is the viciously wild Maladie, played by Amy Manson. Read more.

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Best cheap Android tablet deals for April 2021

Digital Trends

If you want a tablet, but iPads aren't your cup of tea, we've got all best Android tablet deals right here.

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Experimental 3D Printer Offers a Clever Way to Eliminate Waste

GizModo VR

One of the unique challenges of 3D printing is that models that feature structures hanging in mid-air, like the spout of a teapot, also need temporary structures to support the soft extruded plastic until it hardens. This can result in a lot of wasted material, because those supports are just discarded afterwards. 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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Sonos and Ikea might be teaming up to offer speakers that look like art

Digital Trends

According to FCC documents and a report by The Verge, Sonos and Ikea are readying their next collaboration: A Symfonisk wireless speaker disguised as art.

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Google I/O 2021 Kicks Off Virtually on May 18

GizModo VR

Following Apple’s WWDC announcement and Microsoft’s Build reveal, Google has announced a date for its own developers conference, Google I/O 2021, which will kick off virtually on May 18. Read more.

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Did Intel admit defeat against Apple M1 processor in latest ad?

Digital Trends

Intel claimed that the MacBook Pro is powered by the world's best processor in a marketing attempt to promote its own 11th Gen CPU rather than Apple's M1 chip.

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These Mole-Like Critters Lived Under the Feet of Dinosaurs

GizModo VR

Before an asteroid completely changed the course of Earth’s evolutionary trajectory, the world was filled with scaled and feathered dinosaurs, web-winged pterosaurs, and, as a new study describes, precursors to modern mammals that eked out existence in burrows they dug into the Cretaceous soil. 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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Samsung bets big on the Galaxy A in the U.S. with 5 phones, starting at $110

Digital Trends

Samsung is betting big on the midrange A series in the U.S. The company has launched a hefty five new devices, ranging from the A02s to the higher-end A52 5G.

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Apple Tightens Its Rules Around Its New Anti-Tracking Tech

GizModo VR

Apple’s offering a bit more clarity surrounding the anti-tracking tech that’s going to debut this spring. On Wednesday, a company spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch that Apple’s so-called App Tracking Transparency (ATT) protocol will crack down on all identifiers an app might use to track you—not just identifiers… Read more.

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Your iPhone is about to get a whole lot better at protecting you from app tracking

Digital Trends

Apple's iOS 14.5 will make your iPhone a whole lot better at protecting you from app tracking. That's through the new App Tracking Transparency tool.

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Researchers Say Their 'Brain Glue' Could Someday Help People With Severe Brain Injuries

GizModo VR

Scientists say they’re one step closer to showing that their experimental hydrogel technology—more plainly known as “brain glue”—can help people with traumatic brain injuries. In a recent study, they found that their brain glue helped prevent long-term damage and tissue loss in the injured brains of rats, while also… 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?