VRScout

JUNE 28, 2021

Virtex wants to revolutionize the way we view live esports by replicating the IRL stadium experience in VR. The esports industry has come a long way since its humble beginnings back in 1972 when a handful of students from Standford University took part in the first reported video game tournament featuring the 1962 space combat game Spacewar! However, what began as niche competition between college students has since developed into a multi-billion dollar industry.

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JUNE 28, 2021

VRChat , the popular social VR platform, announced its secured a Series D funding round of $80 million, which brings to the startup more than five times its overall lifetime investment. The round was led by Anthos Capital, alongside participating investors Makers Fund, GFR Fund and others. According to Crunchbase , this brings VRChat’s overall outside investment to $95.2 million.

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VRScout

JUNE 28, 2021

A new video offers a closer look at the 2021 Cadillac Escalade’s AR-powered GPS navigation system. With the recent developments in immersive technology over the past few years, AR navigation has been somewhat of a hot-button topic within the automobile industry. We’ve seen numerous manufacturers flirt with the idea of interactive windshields and AR-enhanced heads-up displays in the past, such as WayRay’s AR HUD for Porsche or Panasonic’s AI-powered AR HUD.

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ARPost

JUNE 28, 2021

Spatial was on our list of AR remote work platforms. There were internal discussions about also including the platform in our list of VR collaboration platforms. The solution can present avatars in a physical space, or avatars can share a virtual space. All things considered, it’s a pretty powerful platform but it’s known primarily for its unique approach to avatars.

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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

JUNE 28, 2021

NVIDIA’s CloudXR technology is designed to provide real-time XR cloud streaming, which aims to remove the need for local high-end PC rendering hardware. At Mobile World Congress 2021 today, the company announced that its CloudXR 3.0 release will include bidirectional audio support—a fundamental piece of the equation when it comes to collaboration and social interaction.

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JUNE 28, 2021

As 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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AR Insider

JUNE 28, 2021

O ne prevailing misperception in the tech world is that VR has stalled out. Some have even pronounced it dead. Such sentiments reflect the backlash to VR’s circa-2016 hype cycle. It didn’t fulfill world-changing proclamations trumpeted at the time… and deserves some grief. But practically speaking, VR is doing just fine and is growing at a healthy pace for an emerging technology that faces practicality headwinds.

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ARVR

JUNE 28, 2021

One of the most popular AR use cases is visualizing products on “faces & spaces.” That includes products like cosmetics and couches. The former is a big “try-before-you-buy” category while the latter is all about making sure big items fit in your home before buying. All of this has amplified as it has piggybacked on Covid-era eCommerce inflections.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 28, 2021

Power cables are melting. School districts are closing. Asphalt is too hot to touch. The heat wave roasting the Pacific Northwest is putting infrastructure at risk, and temperatures are expected to continue to rise on Monday. The failures show the staggering toll the climate crisis is already taking—and they’re a… Read more.

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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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Digital Trends

JUNE 28, 2021

According to a leak, AMD is about to release two new graphics cards. AMD Radeon RX 6600 and RX 6600XT both house a Navi 23 GPU and may hit the market soon.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 28, 2021

While much of the country worried about the dangerous and dramatic heat wave hitting the West, Detroit faced rising floodwaters. Nearly 7 inches (17.8 centimeters) of rain fell in some areas of metro Detroit on Friday night, wreaking havoc on infrastructure and flooding businesses and major highways. It’s a case study… Read more.

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Anand Tech

JUNE 28, 2021

As part of today’s International Supercomputing 2021 (ISC) announcements, Intel is showcasing that it will be launching a version of its upcoming Sapphire Rapids (SPR) Xeon Scalable processor with high-bandwidth memory (HBM). This version of SPR-HBM will come later in 2022, after the main launch of Sapphire Rapids, and Intel has stated that it will be part of its general availability offering to all, rather than a vendor-specific implementation.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 28, 2021

YouTube TV has announced its long-awaited 4K Plus streaming option is now available as an add-on to existing subscriptions. The new tier adds streaming 4K content where it’s available, plus offline downloads and unlimited simultaneous streams on your home network. Read more.

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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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Digital Trends

JUNE 28, 2021

Microsoft fixed a big frustration with the PC Health Check app so that it actually explains why your PC is not able to run the new Windows 11.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 28, 2021

The biggest moment of Loki episode three happened in an instant. The God of Mischief (Tom Hiddleston) was talking to his newly discovered Loki counterpart Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino) about their lives, and Loki confirmed he’s been romantically involved with both men and women. The moment made him the first canonically… Read more.

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Digital Trends

JUNE 28, 2021

The Windows 11 TPM requirement has caused a lot of confusion. In response, Microsoft is suspending the PC Health Check app and testing more components.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 28, 2021

Jaws is the original “ stay the hell out of the water ” summer flick, but you really can’t count the Piranha series out in terms of cautionary tales about never going swimming again. Piranhas may be much smaller than great whites, but they’re fast, they travel in packs, they have tremendous teeth, and they love … Read more.

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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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Anand Tech

JUNE 28, 2021

As part of today’s burst of ISC 2021 trade show announcements, NVIDIA this morning is announcing that they’re bringing the 80GB version of their A100 accelerator to the PCIe form factor. First announced in NVIDIA’s custom SXM form factor last fall, the 80GB version of the A100 was introduced to not only expand the total memory capacity of an A100 accelerator – doubling it from 40GB to 80GB – but it also offered a rare mid-generation spec bump as well, cranking up th

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GizModo VR

JUNE 28, 2021

Mark Zuckerberg needs to hand over the keys, a team of researchers argues. In a new paper published in the peer-reviewed journal PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America), a diverse group makes the case that the social media problem rises to the level of urgency that… Read more.

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Digital Trends

JUNE 28, 2021

The game does a decent job of introducing you to all the new systems it has to offer. Here are all the essential tips you need for Mario Golf: Super Rush. .

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GizModo VR

JUNE 28, 2021

Government regulators in the UK have started to crack down on Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency platform by volume, with some news outlets like the BBC going so far as to call it a “ ban.” But Binance says it’s not a ban and won’t affect anything the company does in the UK. How can that be the case? Binance… Read more.

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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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Digital Trends

JUNE 28, 2021

A microSD card is an easy way to add more storage directly to your phone or tablet. We've picked out five great cards that offer excellent bang for your buck.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 28, 2021

Law enforcement doesn’t have much trouble getting access to data from social media companies. In fact, over the first half of last year, authorities in the US made close to 118,000 requests for user information from tech companies—a number that’s more than twice the number of requests thrown at these companies since… Read more.

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Anand Tech

JUNE 28, 2021

It’s been a little over a year since we covered Marvell’s OCTEON TX2 infrastructure processors , and since then, the ecosystem has been evolving in an extremely fast manner – both within Marvell and outside. Today, we’re covering the new generation OCTEON 10 family of DPUs, a whole new family of SoCs, built upon TSMC’s 5nm process node and also for the featuring for the first time Arm’s new Neoverse N2 processors.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 28, 2021

Though a lot of movie theaters are once again back to full function, the safer option for entertainment remains streaming, and fans who choose to stay home and take advantage are constantly rewarded with tons of new content. At the start of each month , most streamers— Netflix , Hulu, Amazon, Disney+, and HBO Max —do a… Read more.

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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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