Wed.Nov 11, 2020

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Multi-Sensory XR Experience ‘(un)Balanced’ Receives 2020 Lumen XR Award

VRScout

Elyne Legarnisson walks away with the 2020 Lumen XR Award for her work in physical and digital interactions. Media artist Elyne Legarnisson has created a multi-sensory experience which merges XR technology with the power of physical motion that she calls (un)Balanced. The 10-minute art installation invites you to step into a virtual and physical world where your movements, sound, and touch alter your perception of your body and environment.

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5 Ways Virtual Reality Technology Will Improve Business Meetings

ARPost

As the business landscape expands and technology advances, there’s an increasing need to engage customers and distributed teams located across the globe at scale. Online conference call and video chatting tools can facilitate one-on-one conferences. However, it fails to offer a sense of being in a real meeting. Enter virtual reality. With it, you can transform the way you hold business meetings with staff and clients.

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How To Cast Oculus Quest & Quest 2 Directly To Your Web Browser

VRScout

Wirelessly stream your standalone headset to select browsers via this nifty update. It appears as though Facebook has begun rolling out a new feature that allows Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2 users to cast their gameplay wirelessly to any computer via select web browsers. First identified by Reddit user u/zanyzarly , this feature allows Quest users to cast their standalone headsets directly to Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge web browsers without the need of a cable or additional programs.

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Will Headworn AR Revenues Reach $13B by 2024?

AR Insider

New Study Projects Headworn AR Revenue to Reach $13.4 Billion by 2024. ARtillery Intelligence publishes its five-year outlook for head-worn AR revenues. 11/11/20 – SAN FRANCISCO – ARtillery Intelligence today released a new report that projects headworn AR revenue to grow from $822 million in 2019 to $13.4 billion in 2024. Entitled Headworn AR Global Revenue Forecast, 2019-2024 , the report examines glasses-based AR revenue totals and subsegments – including consumer and enterprise s

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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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‘Blood & Truth’ and ‘Firewall Zero Hour’ Patched with PS5 Enhancements

Road to VR

Although both Blood & Truth and Firewall Zero Hour are technically PS4 games, both PSVR titles have been updated to take greater advantage of the power of PS5. As we found in our review of PSVR on PS5 , pretty much any backwards compatible PS4 PSVR title will benefit from improved loading times when played on PS5, but otherwise most games look and play pretty much identically.

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Optimizing 3D models for Augmented Reality

ARVR

Preparing 3D models for Augmented Reality is a crucial step in the production of a successful AR project, since many aspects will depend on it, including the smoothness of execution on mobiles devices , the graphical quality and finally the user experience (e.g. a large 3D model, in same cases, may take a long time to download an a mobile internet connection).

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Report: Elon Musk Is Kind of a Dick

GizModo VR

It’s not exactly a secret that Elon Musk, billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, self-proclaimed Thai pedophilia expert , and designer of death race trucks , doesn’t give a flying f**k what other people think about his actions. Read more.

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Oculus VRCs aim for greater VR access for all – but Facebook concerns remain

Slashgear

Oculus Virtual Reality Checks (VRCs) is a set of technical recommendations “designed to help developers create more accessible VR software.” The company suggested today that this set of recommendations will allow developers to make their VR apps more compelling to more people. Areas of focus include audio, visuals, interactions, locomotion/movement, and “other aspects of accessible design.” Below you’ll see a … Continue reading.

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Even the Perfect Batman Cartoon Was B t Once in a While

GizModo VR

Batman: The Animated Series , and, hell, the entire DC Animated Universe of shows spearheaded by Bruce Timm and Paul Dini, are so beloved that in all my years doing Worst Episode Ever I never touched them. After all, I figured even the worst B: TAS episode would probably still be miles above most of the crap I usually… 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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Like a futuristic phone booth, PORTL lets you communicate via full-body hologram

Digital Trends

Holograms have been around for decades now, but more as a novelty than a crucial technology that everyone uses. PORTL thinks it can change that.

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You Need to Update Chrome Right Now

GizModo VR

Google rolled out Chrome version 86.0.4240.198 on Wednesday in response to two zero-day vulnerabilities discovered in the wild—the fourth and fifth security flaws discovered in the browser in the last three weeks alone. Read more.

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Google Photos is killing unlimited free photo storage

Digital Trends

Google has announced that you'll have to start paying to use over 15GB of storage in Google Photos, ending its original stance of offering unlimited storage.

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This 'Telewriter' Transmitted Handwriting Across Long Distances in the 1930s

GizModo VR

Need to send a message to a friend 50 miles away? Today, you’ve got plenty of options—whether it’s SMS, email, tweet, Facebook message, Zoom video chat, or the old-fashioned telephone. But back in the 1930s, the choices were much more limited. You could use the phone or write a letter or send a telegram. And that was… 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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LED vs. LCD TVs explained: What’s the difference?

Digital Trends

When shopping for a new TV, two terms come up a lot: LED and LCD. But what's the difference? We shed some light on these and other major types of TV displays.

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Here's All the Big Tech-Linked Advisors on Biden's Transition Team

GizModo VR

On Tuesday, President-elect Joe Biden announced his administration’s transition team, including the list of agency review team members that will help his White House “hit the ground running on Day One.” It also, by all indications, includes a deeper bench of big tech figures than any transition team prior. Read more.

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IBM and AMD to Advance Confidential Computing

Anand Tech

Earlier this year, we wrote a news segment about AMD and Google’s announcement about bringing confidential virtual machines to the cloud using features enabled through 2 nd Gen AMD EPYC processors. At the time, AMD and Google marketed the announcement as the first commercially available cloud confidential VMs, powered through AMD’s Secure Encryption Virtualization feature.

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The Xbox Series X May or May Not Be Catching on Fire, and Microsoft Is Investigating

GizModo VR

The Xbox Series X is so hot right now, and I don’t mean figuratively. I mean literally. Some people are claiming that their new Xboxes are catching on fire, but there’s a lot of skepticism over whether these claims are true. As our sister site Kotaku reports, this could be an elaborate hoax. 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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The best Apple Watch bands and straps for 2020

Digital Trends

These are the best Apple Watch bands and straps to stylize your timepiece. We've got a veritable feast of wristwear for your perusal and for every budget.

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San Francisco Just Banned Natural Gas In New Buildings

GizModo VR

San Francisco is banning the use of natural gas in any new buildings, requiring them to rely on the electric grid instead. That makes it the second-largest city yet to ban new natural gas hookups. Hell yeah. Read more.

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Sony Xperia 5 II review: A true compact flagship, with classic Sony problems

Digital Trends

The Sony Xperia 5 II is just the right size, has a sleek unusual design, and a very high specification, making it a rarity in the smartphone world today.

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Deepwater Sightings of Rare Bigfin Squid Reveal Some Serious Weirdness

GizModo VR

An extensive survey of deep waters off the coast of Australia has resulted in a trove of bigfin squid sightings. And by trove, we mean the detection of five individuals—these deep-sea creatures are exceptionally rare, so any new observations are quite valuable to scientists. 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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Clever new asteroid-mining method uses mineral-munching microbes, not machinery

Digital Trends

Microbes in space could help us to gather valuable elements from asteroids. Here's how far scientists have gotten in making it a reality.

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Take a Look Inside the Washington State Murder Hornet Nest

GizModo VR

The full contents of the first “murder hornet” nest discovered in the U.S. have been revealed, and they’re unsurprisingly terrifying. On Tuesday, Washington state officials announced they found over 500 Asian giant hornets in the nest, including dozens of not-yet-fertile queens that were primed to mate, wait out the… Read more.

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PS5 vs. PS5 Digital Edition

Digital Trends

Deciding between buying a PS5 and PS5 Digital Edition? Here's everything you need to know before making the leap into the next generation of gaming consoles.

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PSA: Boiling Chicken in Yellowstone’s Hot Springs Is a Crime

GizModo VR

Three men have been banned from Yellowstone National Park for boiling chicken in the park’s hot springs. That’s because it’s against the law to approach the springs, but really boiling is not a good way to prepare chicken at all and should be considered a crime on its own. 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?