VRScout

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Mario Kart meets F-Zero in this physics-driven racing experience. This week developer XOCUS gave us our first look at actual gameplay from Z-Race , an upcoming VR racing game in which players go head-to-head using futuristic anti-gravity racing ships. The official gameplay trailer, available now on the companies YouTube channel , showcases a variety of ships and race tracks (aka “hypertunnels”) players will have access to upon the game’s launch in early access next week.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The headline is unfair. Nreal has just dropped a huge announcement and there is so much to be excited about. This article will cover the nuts and the cherry, but the US expansion this spring might be the sundae. Nreal’s Long Road to the US. Let’s play catch up with Nreal over the past two years quickly, just in case. The China-based company announced the Nreal Light smart glasses in May of 2019.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Qualcomm, maker of chips and technologies for mobile devices, today announced a reference design for a tethered AR headset which is tethered to a phone or PC but also contains its own chips to handle some onboard processing. The company calls the split-processing approach an AR ‘smart viewer’ headset. Qualcomm, which makes the chips in many popular smartphones, has also been aggressively pursuing the growing XR market.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

O ne striking realization about spatial computing is that we’re almost seven years into the sector’s current stage. This traces back to Facebook’s Oculus acquisition in early 2014 that kicked off the current wave of excitement… including lots of ups and downs in the intervening years. That excitement culminated in 2016 after the Oculus acquisition had time to set off a chain reaction of startup activity, tech-giant investment, and VC inflows for the “next computing platform.

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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

If you’re developing a VR game, you may be able to strike a deal with one of the most senior VR studios out there. nDreams, a developer and publisher of VR games, announced the creation of a $2 million fund which it will use to co-fund and publish externally developed VR titles. The studio says it’s looking for VR games that “embrace the immersive, high-agency potential of the medium,” which essentially means only true ‘VR natives’ need apply. nDreams says tha

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Slashgear

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Sony’s PlayStation chief has promised greater supplies of the PS5 as the year progresses, though gamers hoping to skip restock hell and reseller price gouging may still find themselves disappointed by the end of 2021. Shortages of the PlayStation 5 have proved to be a bigger deal than the console itself, as despite 4.5 million sales of the console in … Continue reading.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Aumented Reality for Architecture?—?Use Cases in 2021 Since the advent of Augmented Reality , one of the categories to most embrace this new technology has been that of architects and designers. The reason is quite simple, these professionals were already accustomed to design 3D projects and to deal with 3D models , so they have always had a lot of material to be fed to Augmented Reality software.

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Slashgear

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Sony has spilled the first details of PlayStation 5 Virtual Reality, confirming that a new PlayStation VR system is in the works, though don’t expect to be putting the headset on this year. The next-generation VR system is still in development, Sony says, and as such won’t be launching in 2021. However there’s still more than enough to get VR … Continue reading.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The ocean may have less time than we thought before massive, irreversible shifts take place. A new study finds that a crucial ocean system may reach its “tipping point” sooner than predicted if the rate of climate change continues at a breakneck pace. 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

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been tweeting some interesting details on expected improvements to Starlink, the company's space-based internet service.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

New research suggests a hacking tool previously developed by the National Security Agency was stolen years ago by a prolific Chinese cyber group and was subsequently used against a variety of U.S. targets. Read more.

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Anand Tech

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Today Lenovo is announcing a slew of updates across a large portion of their ThinkPad lineup, and updating their business-focused products for 2021. Some of the big changes for this year are impressive and welcome, with Lenovo committing to bringing feature-parity between their AMD and Intel offerings, as well as refreshing some of their laptops with 5G, Wi-Fi 6E, and continuing the trend of bringing back 16:10 aspect ratio displays for a better productivity experience.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The costs of the Texas blackouts is still mounting, but it’s becoming increasingly clear that Texans could be saddled with energy bills they’ll be paying for decades absent government intervention. 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

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Cloud mining offers a relatively cheap entry point for Bitcoin mining, but if you have the right hardware and cheap power, you can mine yourself. Which is best?

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Dave Filoni has created a vast swath of the Star Wars universe through his Clone Wars and Rebels cartoons, The Mandalorian , and whatever else he has in the works next. He’s been such a driving force in the franchise that it can be hard to remember he didn’t actually make the first modern Star Wars cartoon. That honor… Read more.

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Digital Trends

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Through biometrics and artificial intelligence, tech is reshaping sports and the athlete of tomorrow. The goal: Solving the puzzle of human performance.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

It seems like every tech company is working to launch some kind of augmented reality app or headset. Now Qualcomm is releasing a reference design for smart glasses to hopefully speed up development of future AR gadgets. 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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Charlie Fink

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

As opposed to smart glasses, the smart viewer offloads some of its processing to a tethered device like a phone or computer.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Archaeologists have discovered a 17,300-year-old painting of a kangaroo at a rock shelter in Western Australia, making it the oldest known painted figure ever to be found on the continent. Read more.

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Digital Trends

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

This year will be a huge one for the MacBook Pro, which could see the return of better port selection and a brand-new chassis design.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In a 5,000 word article detailing the complex tale of the “Snyder Cut” of Justice League , one sentence sent fans into a mild frenzy: “He has reshot the ending with a hero cameo that will blow hard-core fans’ minds.” 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

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Congratulations on the new PC! Now let's get to work. We’ve amassed a codex of everything you need to know, and need to do, to get your new PC up to speed.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Where I live in Baltimore, utility bills can be a crushing burden. That’s especially true for the city’s low-income residents, most of whom are Black. A 2020 study found that a quarter of low-income households here spent more than 21.7% of their 2017 income on energy, which is more than seven times higher than the… Read more.

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Digital Trends

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Two years later, and the iPhone XS, XS Max, and XR are still highly recommended iPhones. But which one is best? We compare the three smartphones to find out.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In a research note, prominent Apple prognosticator Ming-Chi Kuo says that both HDMI port and SD card slot will be returning to the MacBook Pro in the second half of 2021. Halle-f **g-lujah. 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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