Thu.Dec 03, 2020

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‘Medal Of Honor: Above & Beyond’ VR Multiplayer Looks Absolutely Massive

VRScout

12 maps, five game modes, zero places to hide. Oculus today unveiled a brand new trailer for Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond showcasing the upcoming WWII shooter’s impressive lineup of multiplayer offerings, including—but not limited to—several immersive game modes, a diverse range of unique PvP environments, an arsenal of finely-tuned weaponry, and a dozen other details that will leave you drooling at the mouth.

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AR Party: An Augmented Reality Game for Mario Party Fans

ARPost

If you are a Nintendo fan and miss the Mario Party team player game, you will probably love AR Party. This is an augmented reality game , currently a project on Kickstarter, which aims to recreate the fun and adventures in Mario Party. It is created by a digital agency Ditached , consisting of an AR/VR developer, and UX designer and a 3D artist who want to bring the retro charm of console games to players’ living rooms.

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Play Your Friends In This Mario Party Inspired AR Multiplayer Game

VRScout

AR PARTY brings the traditional board game into AR for up to 4 players. One of the best parts about playing a board game is the comradery that comes with it. Gathering together with friends and family, talking and laughing, all the while each of you quietly plotting different ways to take each other down in the hopes of being crowned the winner. Unlike conventional board games, many AR experiences lack the social elements that make games like Monopoly and Cards Against Humanity so much fun to pl

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How Much Do Consumers Spend on Mobile AR?

AR Insider

L ike many analyst firms, one of the ongoing practices of AR Insider’s research arm ARtillery Intelligence is market sizing. A few times per year, it goes into isolation and buries itself deep in financial modeling. The latest such exercise zeroes in on mobile AR revenues. This takes the insights and observations accumulated throughout the year and synthesizes them into hard numbers for spatial computing ( see methodology and inclusions/exclusions).

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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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How You Can Put Street Art Legend KAWS & Even That Mysterious Alien Utah Monolith in Your Own Home via AR

Next Reality AR

Sure, you could leave a random monolith in Utah and get some notoriety for your street art. Or, you can let others put your art anywhere they'd like with augmented reality so they can appreciate it where they are. That's what artists like Marina Abramovic, Anish Kapoor, Jeff Koons, KAWS, and others are doing with the Acute Art app. Don't Miss: Indie Artists Invade MoMA with Augmented Reality to Reimagine Jackson Pollock's Works The Acute Art app, which is available for iOS and Android, lets user

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Reality Bytes: Amazon Healthcare, Snapchat Spotlight & Shopify

AR Insider

W hat are the biggest insights and observations in AR and adjacent sectors this week? Welcome to Reality Bytes , featuring lightning-round commentary from AR Insider partner M7 Innovations. Founder Matt Maher lends his insights from the trenches of AR experience creation. We continue the narrative this week with Maher’s look at Amazon’s healthcare play, Snapchat Spotlight, and Shopify’s new wholesale marketplace.

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Death Q & A: Does the Soul Learn?

ARVR

We worked that question for a while today at our weekly Death Q&A. We host the event every week, my partner Ryan and I, giving people a time and place to talk about death. We’ve been doing it since March, based on our idea that mortality was assuming a higher profile than usual and maybe some people would appreciate a place to come and talk about it.

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Feds Claim the Patriot Act Allowed Them to Log Visitors to Websites

GizModo VR

Letters produced by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and obtained by the New York Times show that the U.S. government has interpreted Section 215 of the Patriot Act as giving it the power to monitor who visits certain websites and when, with minimal oversight. Read more.

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How virtual is helping to close the loss of engagement gap?

ARVR

Virtual solutions to close the gap! Business leaders are looking toward virtual interactions to close the loss of engagement gap that has occurred due to Covid-19 and contact restrictions. Now that more employees are working remotely from home and businesses are looking for actionable contactless engagements with their customers they are turning to innovation during these times.

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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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Every 2021 Warner Bros Film Will Stream on HBO Max for Free

GizModo VR

The ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic has radically changed the movie industry as we know it, and its ramifications are going to continue into the foreseeable future. Warner Bros., attempting to deal with that uncertain future, has just announced a shocking, unprecedented step. Read more.

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Laptop buying guide: What to look for in 2020, and what to avoid

Digital Trends

If you're unsure about what you need in a laptop, this laptop buying guide can help. In our breakdown, we'll explain specs, pricing, model types, and more.

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Around 1:26 Rudy Giuliani Farts

GizModo VR

If it pleases the court, I submit evidence that on December 2nd, while giving testimony at a Michigan House Oversight Committee hearing, Rudolph William Louis Giuliani farted multiple times. Read more.

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Investigating Performance of Multi-Threading on Zen 3 and AMD Ryzen 5000

Anand Tech

One of the stories around AMD’s initial generations of Zen processors was the effect of Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) on performance. By running with this mode enabled, as is default in most situations, users saw significant performance rises in situations that could take advantage. The reasons for this performance increase rely on two competing factors: first, why is the core designed to be so underutilized by one thread, or second, the construction of an efficient SMT strategy in or

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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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Voyager Probes Spot Previously Unknown Phenomenon in Deep Space

GizModo VR

NASA’s Voyager spacecraft may be billions of miles away and over 40 years old, but they’re still making significant discoveries, as new research reveals. Read more.

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How to run a free background check

Digital Trends

Need to find out what potential employers can find about you online? Here are several methods that allow you to run a free background check on anyone online.

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These Scammy 5G Router Cages Have Michael Faraday Rolling in His Grave

GizModo VR

While products that promise to protect you from radiation are far from new, now so-called Faraday router cages that claim to block harmful electromagnetic field radiation (and also 5G signal) are proliferating on Amazon. Read more.

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Samsung Galaxy S20 Plus vs. S20 Ultra: What’s the difference?

Digital Trends

Can't decide between the Samsung Galaxy S20 Plus and the S20 Ultra? From cameras to performance and battery life, we look at what sets these two handsets apart.

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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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Bigot Livestreamers Tore Down the California Monolith in Christ's Name

GizModo VR

A young racist foursome, apparently threatened by our lord and savior Zotar, tore down the California monolith and replaced it with a wooden cross last night. As Motherboard first reported , CultureWarCriminal broadcast the triumph on the gamer streaming platform DLive. They tore it down just hours after its discovery… Read more.

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12 key settings to change on your PS5

Digital Trends

One of the exciting things about getting a new console is messing around with its new settings. Here, we'll show you the key settings to change on your PS5.

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Drone Video Shows Dramatic Moment of Arecibo Observatory Collapse

GizModo VR

Video of the recent collapse at the Arecibo Observatory, taken from two different perspectives, show the dramatic moment when a main cable failed, causing the 900-ton instrument platform to fall onto the large radio dish below. Read more.

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How to watch the Geminids meteor shower this month

Digital Trends

December is an exciting month for stargazers -- check out the spectacular Geminids meteor shower that's set to peak overnight on December 13.

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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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Now's the Perfect Time to Shut Down Most Dirty Power Plants

GizModo VR

The transition to 100% clean electricity will take a lot of things—organizing, political will, courage. But fundamentally, if we can get all of that together, it will practically require two components. One is deploying a shitload of renewable energy, and the other is shutting down all of the existing fossil… Read more.

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VR Cover Facial Interface & Foam Replacement for Oculus Quest 2 Review

VR Fitness

VR Cover is back with a brand new Facial Interface & Foam Replacement kit for the Oculus Quest 2. Here's what it brings to the table. Continue reading on VR Fitness Insider.

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I Can't Decide If This Apple Watch Camera Band Is Genius or If My Brain Is Broken

GizModo VR

Everything about the $300 Wristcam for Apple Watch sounds ridiculous on its face. There’s the price, which is more than the entry-level Apple Watch SE. There’s the fact that it requires a separate inductive charger, though it can charge at the same time as your Apple Watch. There’s the product itself, which is a… Read more.

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The best Google Pixel cases and covers

Digital Trends

The aluminum-and-glass design of Google's Pixel looks classy, but it’s slippery and easy to damage. We've rounded up the best Google Pixel cases to protect it.

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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?