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Arcadia Is A Mixed Reality Competition For Athletes & Gamers

VRScout

The “world’s first stadium-size mixed reality arena” will begin searching for its first-ever ‘Arcadia Champion’ later this year. After three years of secret development, Arcadia, an ambitious stadium-size mixed reality competition, will soon host its Arcadia Trials in an effort to crown the first-ever Arcadia Champion. What is a “stadium-size mixed reality competition” you ask?

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Create Your Own Holograms at Home with the Volu iPhone App

Next Reality AR

With the release of Object Capture this fall, Apple is giving everyone with a Mac and a camera the means to create their own 3D objects. But what about volumetric video, which currently requires multi-camera rigs like those at Microsoft's Mixed Reality Capture studios? One developer is shooting its shot at giving iPhone users similar powers. Don't Miss: Snap Releases Lens Studio 4.0 with 3D Body Mesh & More, Upgrades Scan as Fashion Assistant On Wednesday, 3D capture startup Volograms releas

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VR Content Revenue Grew by 30% in 2020, Becoming Media’s Fastest-growing Market

Road to VR

Virtual reality gained impressive ground in 2020, a recent PwC study finds. Global VR content revenues reportedly increased by around 30% year-over-year, beating out film, traditional video games, and music. As reported by Protocol , VR’s global content revenue is estimated to be around $1.8 billion, or 31.7% more than in 2019—making it the fastest-growing media segment last year.

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Planar Studios Initiative: Creating Innovative Solutions for VP and XR

ARPost

Virtual production (VP) and extended reality (XR) are a part of the world of business, entertainment, education, and research. Through the use of immersive technologies, developers can create worlds, build visual data models, design buildings and automobiles, and take students inside the human body or at the top of Mount Everest. Now, a company based in Portland (OR), Planar , promises to expand the range of applicability of this exciting technology through a comprehensive range of display solut

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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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A SuperWorld That Cares

ARVR

SuperWorld is building a better world through AR Over 4th of July weekend, SuperWorld partnered with the Flint Water Festival to present the first ever social impact art exhibit of NFTs in Augmented Reality, entitled “ Digital See.” The festival, now in its sixth year, raised funds and awareness to provide safe water for communities affected by the water crisis?

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Augmented Reality User Manuals for Businesses

ARVR

What you have heard, even if only once in recent years, is the adoption by various fields of industry , the so-called Augmented Reality (AR) technology. This technology offers an interactive experience between the real world and the information integrated in it. These manuals are supported and enriched by AR technology with elements of computer visualization making the given information easily understandable.

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Google CEO Still Insists AI Revolution Bigger Than Invention of Fire

GizModo VR

The artificial intelligence revolution is poised to be more “profound” than the invention of electricity, the internet, and even fire, according to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who made the comments to BBC media editor Amol Rajan in a podcast interview that first went live on Sunday. Read more.

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Russia To Build RISC-V Processors for Laptops: 8-core, 2 GHz, 12nm, 2025

Anand Tech

Russian outlet Vedomosti.ru today is reporting that the conglomerate Rostec, a Russian state-backed corporation specializing in investment in technology, has penned a deal with server company Yadro and silicon design company Sintakor to develop RISC-V processors for computers, laptops, and servers. Initial reports are suggesting that Sintakor will develop a powerful enough RISC-V design to power government and education systems by 2025.

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Dogecoin Creator Says Crypto Is a Scam

GizModo VR

Dogecoin co-creator Jackson Palmer isn’t on social media much. After nuking his YouTube channel and turning his Twitter account private back in mid-2019 , the software engineer hadn’t made a peep on the platforms at all; not even when prices for his meme-y crypto reached record highs earlier this year. That blackout… 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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Party Time in Echo Arena with 2v2 VR Esports Event

VR Fitness

It’s party time in Echo VR ! VR Party League is hosting a 2v2 tournament in Ready At Dawn’s Echo Arena , a virtual sport game set in a zero-gravity arena. Players are encouraged to partner with a friend and test their skills against others in the community. Continue reading on VR Fitness Insider.

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Cellebrite Under Fire Again, After Cops Use Its Phone-Cracking Tech to Target a Journalist

GizModo VR

Ahead of its planned IPO in the U.S., Cellebrite faces fresh flames after its phone-cracking tools were yet again used to violate the privacy of journalists. Read more.

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Microsoft brings Windows to the cloud with Windows 365 Cloud PC

Digital Trends

Microsoft is bringing Windows to the cloud with Windows 365, a new service that uses the power of the Microsoft Cloud to bring Windows to more enterprise users.

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Space Jam: A New Legacy Is a Huge Airball

GizModo VR

The team behind Space Jam: A New Legacy has pulled off the impossible. They’ve taken two of the most dynamic and entertaining things on the entire planet and made them boring. One of those is LeBron James , an iconic, generational basketball champion, and the other is the Looney Tunes , a timeless, hilarious, adaptable,… 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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How to unlock Yareli in Warframe

Digital Trends

From gathering components and completing the Waverider quest to building the Bash Lab, here's everything you need to know about crafting Yareli in Warframe.

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This Leg-Based Wearable Might Track Calorie Burn Better Than Smartwatches

GizModo VR

Estimating calorie counts is an imperfect science , especially when it comes to tracking how many you’ve burned during a given activity. Wrist-based fitness trackers and smartwatches’ estimates for calorie burn can be off by as much as 40-80%. However, engineers from Stanford claim they’ve created an inexpensive,… Read more.

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TCL NXTWear G review: The almost unwearable wearable display

Digital Trends

I was really looking forward to using the TCL NXTWear G wearable display, but my face was not prepared for what happened when I did.

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The Colony Looks Like What Would Happen if Children of Men Happened in Waterworld

GizModo VR

An astronaut whose people have long since abandoned Earth returns to a home she’s never known, determined to find a solution to their fertility issues. What she finds is that the devastated planet they left behind might be humanity’s only hope—but ensuring their survival will come at a cost. 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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WhatsApp is fixing one of its most annoying features

Digital Trends

WhatsApp is bringing out multi-device support, allowing users to set the app up on up to four non-phone devices without compromising security and privacy.

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The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu Has Become a Serialized Podcast

GizModo VR

In Cixin’s Liu’s The Three-Body Problem , the first in his Remembrance of Earth’s Past series of novels, the truth about the existence of sentient life beyond Earth looms large in the minds of a number of different characters who all have varying takes on what to do about the aliens. Read more.

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Netflix could add games to its platform within the next year

Digital Trends

Netflix has hired a key figure in the gaming industry and could start offering games to subscribers within the next year and at no extra cost.

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Netflix Is Expanding Into Video Games

GizModo VR

Eyeing an even bigger slice of the media pie, Netflix is planning an imminent expansion into the video game space, and has reportedly tapped a former Electronic Arts and Facebook executive to helm the initiative. 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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EVGA Teases an AMD X570 Dark Edition: For Ryzen 5000 Enthusiasts

Anand Tech

Legendary overclocker Vince "KINGPIN" Lucido , part of EVGA's in-house design team, posted to his Facebook page an image that has caused a bit of a stir. The post is captioned 'The red pill', with an image of the appears to be the rear of an EVGA Dark series motherboard using AMD's famous Zen logo. This points to a potential AMD Ryzen version of its board, and this would be the first AMD-based EVGA motherboard since back in days of AMD's Athlon 64 processors.

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Titans' Season 3 Trailer Wants You to Know True Fear

GizModo VR

At the end of Titans ’ second season , the team ended up splitting ways after losing one of their own, and it wasn’t clear if and how the heroes might come back into one another’s orbit. But when word first broke that the show’s third season would tackle Batman: A Death in the Family by introducing the Red Hood , it… Read more.

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Everything you need to know about iCloud+

Digital Trends

Apple's iCloud subscribers are about to get a huge bargain -- a huge expansion of their premium iCloud services at no extra cost. We give you the lowdown.

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Fleets* Is Dead (*Fleets Was Twitter's Answer to Instagram Stories Which Was Instagram's Answer to Snapchat Which Was Silicon Valley's Answer to Dick Pics)

GizModo VR

Twitter announced on Wednesday that it is killing its Fleets feature, which I honestly forgot existed. The news will matter to the minuscule gaggle of insufferable Twitter superusers who posted Fleets and literally no one else. 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?