VRScout

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Could live-flight AR exercises be the future of air combat training? According to the United States Air Force President’s Budget FY21 , the FY 2021 Air Force Operation & Maintenance (O&M) budget includes a staggering $770M increase from its 2020 funding. After all, supporting an entire division of the United States military isn’t cheap, especially one that revolves around the control and upkeep of almost 1,500 cutting-edge warplanes.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Recently released on the Quest store, Cubism is a spatial puzzle game with a slick minimal presentation. Designed by a solo indie developer Thomas Van Bouwel as a side project, the game impressively holds the highest user rating among all Quest apps with more than 100 reviews, according to our latest ranking. We reached to Van Bouwel to learn more about his approach to the project and lessons learned along the way.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

How Technology Solutions Are Changing Education, Shopping And The Workplace. by Matt Maher. V ladimir Ilyich Lenin famously (or perhaps infamously) is credited with saying, “There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen.” New York University professor Scott Galloway recently resurfaced this quote in the context of Covid-19 and its indelible impact on businesses and the way we work.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Work enablement software company Taqtile has recently announced a 2.2 update to their Manifest AR platform for remote assistance, training, workflow management, and more. To get to know the company and better understand this update, ARPost spoke with Taqtile Chief Revenue Officer, Kelly Malone. The last time that ARPost spoke with Taqtile was in August and they had just graduated from the 5G Open Innovation Lab.

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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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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Warcraft loves itself a plague. Some of the most iconic moments in its history as a piece of online culture are defined by them: the infamous bug that created the Corrupted Blood plague , the nostalgia-driven Wrath of the Lich King pre-patch event that saw players fight to avoid joining the undead scourge. That latter… Read more.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Not unlike Twitter’s new Fleets , the company’s time is rapidly expiring. The platform, which is now dedicated to dunking on the earnest, yelling about conspiracies, and sharing bad memes, is on its way to the big social media cemetery in the sky to join MySpace, Plurk , and (hopefully soon) Facebook. Read more.

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Anand Tech

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Today an agreement between MediaTek subsidiary Richtek and Intel has been made for Ricktek to acquire Intel’s power management solutions and controller product line known as Enpirion. The agreement will enable the sale of the division, subject to regulatory approval, for $85 million, and is expected to close in Q4. Intel’s Enpirion business has been part of the company under the Programmable Solutions Group, formerly known as Altera, which was acquired by Intel in December 2015 for $

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Every six years, an alien comes to Earth looking for a fight. This has happened for generations. As a result, every six years, a team of expert martial artists must face him, using techniques this alien himself passed down centuries ago. If they don’t, everyone on Earth will die. Is Nicolas Cage up to the task? Read more.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Bitcoin, the world's most popular form of cryptocurrency, is surging in price. Prices on the digital currency hit above $18,000 before dropping again.

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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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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

In an update to its Terms of Service on Wednesday, YouTube announced that it will now run advertisements before videos created by users who are not already members of its Partner Program, but will not share the new revenue it receives with those users. Read more.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Webcam covers offer physical protection for your cam even if you're hacked. Here are the best cover models for a variety of devices and why they work so well.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

In spite of coronavirus cases continuing to climb around the world, Facebook’s legions of contracted content moderators are still required to work out of offices “to maintain Facebook’s profits during the pandemic.” This is according to an open letter published on the company’s internal Workplace communication… Read more.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

To ease you gently into the world of virtual reality, these are the best VR headsets for the iPhone out there.

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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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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

In 2004, astronomers spotted a unique celestial feature that, when observed in ultraviolet, bore the appearance of a glowing eye staring directly back at Earth. Unbeknownst to them, it would take 16 years to figure out what caused the Blue Ring Nebula to form. Read more.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

WMV files may have great quality, but they're not as versatile as MP4. Here's how to convert WMV files to MP4.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Just 1% of the global population was responsible for half of the world’s commercial flight emissions in 2018, a new study found. Those elite “frequent fliers” travelled about 35,000 miles (56,000 kilometers) that year. Read more.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The RTX 2060, GTX 1660 Ti, 1660 Super, and 1660 are great 1080p gaming cards, but which offers the best value?

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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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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

When I talk about the discs I watched videos on as a kid people assume I mean laser discs, or maybe I’ve confused my decades and mean DVDs, or even video CDs. There’s an assumption that I’ve just misremembered things, but that’s because the capacitance electronic disc, or videodisc (or in my house just “disc”), was a… Read more.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Google Drive and Dropbox are both excellent storage services, but there are some big differences between them.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Growing up in New England, I used to spend winter weekends skating on ponds and the occasional drainage ditch in the middle of a six-lane road (it was the suburbs, OK?). Millions of other people around the world have similar memories of skating, ice fishing, and other wintery outdoor activities. Read more.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Even after going through setup, there are some key settings to change on your Xbox Series X or Series S before loading up any games.

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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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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

When it comes to delivering a big-screen experience in a package that still fits in a purse or pocket, rollable phones might be an even better solution than foldable handsets like the Samsung’s Galaxy ZFold2. However, with its new Oppo X 2021 concept, it looks like Oppo has figured out a way to turn a mind-bending… Read more.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Star Wars: Squadrons is getting two free content drops, which includes a new map and two ships, as well as custom matches.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

In a year that feels like Captain Trips has started creeping on the real world , the timing of CBS All Access’ new adaptation of Stephen King’s plague-apocalypse epic feels eerily appropriate. But Josh Boone and Ben Cavell’s take on The Stand has some big cloven hooves to fill: the hit 1994 miniseries. Read more.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Don't want to lose your data, but don't trust the cloud? Backing up your Mac is easy, no matter how you do it.

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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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