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Explore The ‘Museum Of Other Realities’ Free In VR For A Limited Time

VRScout

Enjoy four VR installations available free as part of the Immersive Arcade showcase. The Museum of Other Realities —a VR multiplayer art platform for PC VR headsets—will be opening its doors to the public 100% free-of-charge as part of a limited-time partnership with Kaleidoscope and Digital Catapult aimed at bringing British VR experiences and immersive films to the next-generation art gallery.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.03.16): HTC launches Tracker 3.0, Facebook has 10,000 people working on XR, and more!

The Ghost Howls

I’m writing this roundup of news with a huge headache and a real will to sleep, so forgive me if there are some errors. It’s because tomorrow the SXSW 2021 starts and together with VRrOOm we have created the virtual spaces for it on VRChat! We feel honored, amazed, but also… a bit tired (like Forrest Gump would say). But I promise you that visually it will be amazing, and there you will also be able to find some nice easter eggs!

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‘The Museum of Other Realities’ Free to Visit for The Next 2 Weeks

Road to VR

The Museum of Other Realities (MOR), the immersive multiplayer art museum for virtual reality, is temporarily open to the public for free in celebration of select British XR artists, who are presenting their works via a special showcase called The Immersive Arcade. The Immersive Arcade: The Showcase is being hosted on MOR, which is free to download on Steam from now until March 26th.

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Pizza Hut Delivery Now Comes with Slice of '80s Gaming via Pac-Man in AR

Next Reality AR

What is old is new again. In this case, a classic arcade game gets the augmented reality treatment. In a new promotion playing off its ad campaign featuring actor Craig Robinson (The Office, Hot Tub Time Machine), Pizza Hut has turned its pizza boxes into a virtual Pac-Man game via web-based AR technology. Don't Miss: How to Play Classic Nintendo, Sega, PlayStation & Atari Games on Your iPhone Now, customers who order a large Tastemaker from the pizza chain between March 15 and 26 (or while

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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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3D Puzzler ‘Cubism’ to Get Hand-tracking Support on Quest This Wednesday

Road to VR

The 3D puzzler Cubism will be updated this Wednesday, March 17th, to support controller-less hand-tracking. A prior update released in December has paved the way for user-generated puzzles and puzzle sharing. Cubism is a minimalistic 3D puzzler which has become one of the best rated games on Quest. The game’s relaxing pace and simple interactions made it seem like a perfect fit for Quest hand-tracking right out of the gate, but developer Thomas Van Bouwel said he wanted to polish hand-tr

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The 20 Best Rated & Most Popular Quest Games & Apps – March 2021

Road to VR

While Oculus doesn’t offer much publicly in the way of understanding how well individual apps are performing across its VR storefronts, it’s possible to glean some insight by looking at apps relative to each other. Here’s a snapshot of the top 20 Oculus Quest games and apps as of March 2021. Why We Publish This Data. While the SteamVR library already has a comprehensive tracking database thanks to SteamDB , Steam 250 , and more, no similar database exists to track applications on Oculus storefr

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Where Does ‘Camera Commerce’ Work Best?

AR Insider

A R continues to prove itself as a shopping tool. It can help consumers visualize products on “faces and spaces,” to make better-informed decisions. This is amplified during a pandemic when it can bring back some of the product essence and dimension that’s lost in retail lockdowns. AR meanwhile resonates on the sell side: brands and retailers. On one level, it appeals to their creative sensibilities — erstwhile stuck in 2D media — to demonstrate products in their full 3D glory.

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XR Talks: Snap Reinforces AR Commitment

ARVR

Building from this week’s analysis of “camera marketing” and its revenue lead among AR subsectors, Snapchat in turn leads the way in that world. AR is not only aligned with the company’s “camera company” mission, but it has shown a direct correlation to revenue growth. The latter can be a strong motivator. As we’ve examined , there’s a feedback loop at Snapchat that attributes AR investments to user engagement, revenue, and ultimately its escalating Wall Street performance.

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The NFT Art Heists May Have Begun

GizModo VR

Nifty Gateway—an NFT marketplace that was bought out by the Winklevoss twins back in 2019— announced on Monday morning some of its users were swept up in a small-scale hack that saw their accounts and credit cards compromised. 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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Data Dive: 7 of the Top-10 Mobile Apps Feature AR

ARVR

It’s clear that mobile AR is where the scale is today, given 3 billion global smartphones. As for the portion that’s AR-compatible, the common industry rally cry is that there are 1 billion+ AR-enabled smartphones. That figure applies to ARkit and ARCore-compatible smartphones. But if you pan back to all platforms, such as Snapchat’s Lens Studio and Facebook’s Spark AR, the AR-ready universe is larger (figures below).

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Encrypted Messaging App Signal Goes Down in China

GizModo VR

Signal, the popular encrypted messaging app, stopped working in China on Tuesday, according to multiple reports. The app is still available in the Apple App Store in China, according to Reuters , but it’s not clear how much longer that might last. Read more.

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The best SNES games of all time

Digital Trends

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System just might be the greatest game console ever made, but which are the best titles for the system? Here are our picks for the best SNES games.

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California Passes New Regulation Banning "Dark Patterns" Under Landmark Privacy Law

GizModo VR

New regulations were approved under California’s Consumer Privacy Act on Monday that will prohibit the use of so-called dark patterns — tricks deployed by websites or apps that seek to frustrate or bamboozle users into doing things they wouldn’t normally do. 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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Zoom Escaper gives you the perfect excuse to flee tiresome calls

Digital Trends

Fed up with Zoom meetings? Then this ingenious Zoom Escaper soundboard looks like the perfect tool to help you sabotage your calls and enable an easy exit.

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Could Time Travel Ever Work?

GizModo VR

Scientists, or at least their wild-haired fictional counterparts, promised us time travel and still have not delivered. Forget walking with dinosaurs or killing baby Hitler; I’d be happy just to warn my month-ago self not to make all the mistakes he’s about to. It’d also be nice to zoom past the next few months (year?… Read more.

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SpaceX targets this summer for first Starship orbital flight

Digital Trends

SpaceX reportedly has a plan to send its Starship and Super Heavy rocket system on its first orbital flight by July 1, 2021.

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Cricut Now Wants Users to Pay Extra for Unlimited Use of the Cutting Machines They Already Own

GizModo VR

Over the weekend, people who own Cricut’s crafting machines —which are printer-like devices that can precisely slice up documents—learned of an upcoming update that will limit how often they can use the machines they’ve paid for. The company, whose cheapest machine is $180, will now start charging users a monthly… 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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AMD 3rd Gen EPYC Milan Review: A Peak vs Per Core Performance Balance

Anand Tech

The arrival of AMD’s 3 rd Generation EPYC processor family, using the new Zen 3 core, has been hotly anticipated. The promise of a new processor core microarchitecture, updates to the connectivity and new security options while still retaining platform compatibility are a good measure of an enterprise platform update, but the One True Metric is platform performance.

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India Looks to Criminalize Trading, Mining, and Holding Cryptocurrencies: Report

GizModo VR

A proposed law in India would make it a crime to mine, trade, or even hold cryptocurrencies like bitcoin in the country, according to a new report from Reuters citing a senior government official. It’s estimated roughly 8 million people in India hold some form of cryptocurrency. Read more.

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The best iPhone XS Max screen protectors

Digital Trends

The iPhone XS Max has a beautiful 6.5-inch display. However, it won't fare well against concrete. Protect it with the best iPhone XS Max screen protectors.

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Everything to Remember Before The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

GizModo VR

Just two weeks after the end of WandaVision , the next story in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is ready to be told. (Which is nice considering we waited well over a year between the last two installments.) That story is called The Falcon and the Winter Soldier , and the six-episode Disney+ series will center on two of… 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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The most famous canceled video games

Digital Trends

The devastating part about game development is that some projects get canceled. In this post, we go through the most famous examples of canceled video games.

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Current Pixel Owners Will Get to Keep Unlimited Storage in Google Photos After June

GizModo VR

A lot of people are going to have to make a hard decision later this summer when Google removes support for unlimited storage from Google Photo s , but current Pixel owners aren’t one of them. Read more.

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Best cheap Dell laptop deals and sales for March 2021

Digital Trends

We’ve sorted through the big online retailers to bring you the best Dell laptop deals and sales available right now.

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Zack Snyder's Grand Embellishments Make Justice League a Better, Stranger Thing

GizModo VR

For years, fans of director Zack Snyder have wondered , often to the point of questionable fervor , what could’ve happened in an alternate world where he got to finish 2017's Justice League. Four years and tens of millions of dollars later , Warner Bros. has opened a Pandora’s box to place us in that reality—and it turns… 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?