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The XR Week Peek (2021.06.14): Facebook buys BigBox VR and plans to sell 18-20M Quests in 2022, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

I’m very tired because yesterday I was ironing out bugs on HitMotion: Reloaded together with the game designer Max until 3.40 in the morning, but in the end, the first alpha demo is over and it will launch as promised on June, 16th! That day be sure to download it from SideQuest and please also make some noise on social media to support us indie VR developers!

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‘After The Fall’ Looks Like The VR Zombie Game We’ve All Been Waiting For

VRScout

A new trailer takes us deeper into this cross-platform multiplayer VR game from developer Vertigo Games. This weekend we received a new behind-the-scenes trailer for Vertigo Games’ ( Traffic Jams, Arizona Sunshine, A Fisherman’s Tale ) latest title, After the Fall , a cooperative multiplayer VR zombie shooter set in post-apocalyptic Los Angeles.

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Spatial Beats: Apple, Sony & Fresh AR Funding

AR Insider

W elcome back to Spatial Beats. This week we look at WWDC takeaways, PSVR showcase, Tribecca’s immersive slate, and some fresh funding for spatial players. Let’s dive in… The Tribeca Film Festival’s always impressive immersive offering is back in hybrid form. The six VR pieces in their Storyscapes competition are presented in the physical world at the festival’s Varick St. location, but the majority of the Immersive offerings are in the PC VR platform Museum of Other Realities,

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HTC Vive Pro 2 Review

VRScout

HTC’s latest high-end PC VR headset features an incredible display, fantastic tracking, and a hefty price tag. The HTC Vive Pro 2 is officially out in the wild, and wow is this one powerful VR headset. Despite featuring a near-identical design to its predecessor, the HTC Vive Pro, the Vive Pro 2 is loaded with new improvements aimed at delivering a next-gen PC VR experience that’s as beautiful as it is expensive.

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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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‘Sniper Elite VR’ Gets New Gameplay Trailer & Details Ahead of July 8th Release

Road to VR

Sniper Elite VR is ramping up for release on all major VR headsets on July 8th, and we’re steadily getting a closer look at the game from developer Rebellion. In the last week the studio has dropped a new gameplay trailer and a breakdown offering fresh details about the game. Rather than a port, Sniper Elite VR is a brand new made-for-VR title based on Rebellion’s long-running Sniper Elite franchise.

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The Future of AR Fitness: New Hardware and Old Use Cases

ARPost

Sponsored content. Sponsored by PhotonLens. Many individuals and analysts alike have pointed to VR fitness applications as a hero of the pandemic. It’s true that these applications have given people fun, new ways to stay active while staying indoors. However, AR fitness with its smaller form factor and greater environmental awareness has greater potential.

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Data Dive: 170 Million People Use Snap Scan

AR Insider

B uried deep in Snap’s recent Partner Summit was a notable nugget. The company’s visual search tool, Snap Scan, now has 170 million users. Given that Snap’s monthly active users total about 500 million, this is a meaningful share of its user base engaged in visual search. Visual search, for those unfamiliar, involves pointing your phone at an object to activate informational overlays that contextualize it.

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Major ‘Waltz of the Wizard: Natural Magic’ Expansion Will Launch on July 6th

Road to VR

Waltz of the Wizard is set to see a major free expansion called ‘Natural Magic’ which will add a new “simulated magic” system to expand player capabilities alongside a dungeon for players to plunder and battle new enemies. Waltz of the Wizard is a long-running VR title that’s been in continuous development by developer Aldin for years now.

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The AR Space Race, Part VII: Microsoft

ARVR

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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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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Meet Star Trek: Prodigy's Young Alien Heroes

GizModo VR

We’ve already seen the stars of Star Trek ’s new animated kids’ show Prodigy , and a look at the venerable captain who’ll guide them on their new journey. But the time has come for us to actually meet the characters of Trek ’s next adventure , and the voices behind them. Read more.

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Augmented Reality Transforming E-commerce

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Nowadays a technology that is undergoing very fast development and application in most industries is Augmented Reality (AR). This technology expands our physical world by adding layers of digital information to it. Although people’s scepticism about the reliability of the benefits that this technology brings, at the same time, its adoption by many businesses is moving at a giant pace.

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Honolulu Police Department Used $150,000 in CARES Funds on Robot Dog

GizModo VR

The Honolulu Police Department spent $150,045 in CARES Act funding to buy Spot the robot dog from Boston Dynamics, the world’s sickest dogbot famed for backflips, games of fetch , and also hanging out with law enforcement. As the Honolulu City Beat reported last week , some feel that the expense was a bit excessive. Read more.

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BoomBox Launches in Full Release; Community Party Tonight

VR Fitness

BoomBox , the VR rhythm game that features Pupa the cat, has launched in full release and will celebrate with a party for musicians, mappers, partners, and community members. BoomBox comes to us from Cyberspline Games, an indie game development company based in Vancouver and many of the team members are actually alumni of the Vancouver Film School, a post-secondary entertainment arts school that trains students in immersive, production-oriented programs.

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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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E3 2021's Most Nerdtastic Video Game Announcements (So Far)

GizModo VR

The covid-19 vaccine might be coaxing more people to get out of the house, but video games are doing their darndest to make them stay put. This year’s E3 has unveiled looks at several exciting releases—one or more of which may feature a “butt stallion.” Read more.

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VR Central To Host Onward Brawler Tournament

VR Fitness

VR Central, a community built by gamers for gamers, is taking registrations for The Onward Brawler Tournament that will take place on Saturday, June 19 starting at 3 pm EDT. Prizes include gun stock packages from Mamut, VR gaming mats from Proximat, and cash. One of the most popular VR first-person mil-sims on the market, Onward is a tactical multiplayer shooter that boasts real combat mechanics, a variety of maps, and has been developed from the ground up for virtual reality.

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The Book of Boba Fett Wants to Dive Back Into Star Wars' Past

GizModo VR

Mindy Kaling’s Velma animated series is taking some surprising turns. Gugu Mbatha-Raw teases her Loki role. Plus, what’s next on Charmed and Batwoman , and there are some suitably mysterious set pictures from Obi-Wan Kenobi. Spoilers get! Read more.

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Can A.I. beat human engineers at designing microchips? Google thinks so

Digital Trends

Google found that artificial intelligence is capable of designing microchips. A.I.-designed chips were better and made quicker than those made by human experts.

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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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Space Force Rocket Launch Should Be Visible From Eastern U.S. on Tuesday Morning

GizModo VR

A Northrop Grumman Minotaur 1 rocket is scheduled to launch from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility at 7:00 a.m. ET on Tuesday, June 15. Conditions permitting, the launch will be visible from New York City and other locations along America’s northeast. Read more.

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VR Fitness App Helps Eric Vargas-Weisser Maintain Resolution to Improve Health

VR Fitness

Millions of people make resolutions each year and within a few weeks they’ve returned to old habits and less healthy lifestyle choices. The trick to success for a long-term wellness journey is finding an enjoyable activity and developing a routine with attainable goals. Many people are discovering that this is possible with a VR headset. Continue reading on VR Fitness Insider.

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Gigantic 'Blinking' Star Presents a Cosmic Mystery

GizModo VR

For a period of several months, a huge star located more than 25,000 light-years from Earth got increasingly dimmer before eventually returning to its usual brightness. An obstruction of some kind likely caused this strange effect, but astronomers aren’t exactly sure what it is. Read more.

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The sound of science: Why audio is the next frontier in Mars exploration

Digital Trends

For most of human history, space exploration has been carried out with visual technologies like telescopes. Now, astronomers are turning to microphones.

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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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Disney’s U.S. Parks Abandon Mask Mandates for the Pinky Swear System

GizModo VR

Starting Tuesday, June 15, if you’re fully vaccinated and going to either Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, or Disneyland in Anaheim, California , you will no longer be required to wear a mask to help prevent the spread of covid-19. Will you be asked to prove you’re vaccinated? No. No, you will not. Read more.

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Ahead of the rumored Windows 11, Microsoft hints at the end of Windows 10

Digital Trends

With the June 24 what’s next for Windows and Windows 11 event a week away, an updated Microsoft support page is hinting at the end of Windows 10 support.

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Windows Users, It’s Time to Prepare for the End of 10

GizModo VR

We still don’t know what’s next for Windows, though we will almost certainly find out at Microsoft’s event on June 24. Both Nvidia and Microsoft are urging users to upgrade to the latest, lest they get left behind in unsupported software land. Read more.

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Watch time-lapse of NASA assembling its mega moon rocket

Digital Trends

NASA has shared a time-lapse showing a major engineering operation in which the main part of its next-gen moon rocket met its side boosters for the first time.

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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?