VRScout

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Vertigo Games adds a new song and support for mixed reality powered by the Quest’s Passthrough technology. Last month, Vertigo Games ( Arizona Sunshine, After the Fall, Traffic James ) released its latest game on the Oculus (Meta) Quest, Unplugged , allowing you to rock out in VR using your very own air guitar. The Quest version of the game ditches the Touch controllers in favor of hand-tracking technology, allowing you to physically take hold of your virtual ax and shred your way through

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The Fifth Annual VR Awards hosted by the Academy of International Extended Reality (AIXR) took place last Thursday night. Held remotely, the ceremony took place in AltspaceVR this year, after having taken place in VRChat last year. The VR Awards in AltspaceVR. The VR Awards were opened by Kyle Render of the XR comedy show Failed to Render. “Being involved in this community is unlike anything I’ve ever done before.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Meta today announced that Resident Evil 4 VR is the fastest selling game on Quest to date. The game quickly became one of the most rated titles on Quest just a few weeks after launch. Resident Evil 4 VR is the most recognizable game to be ported to VR in quite some time, and Meta made a big deal about it with loads of marketing around its launch. That effort seems to have paid off as the game is the fastest selling Quest title to date.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Among the ways that web AR is differentiating itself, it carries dynamic activation, updates and analytics. We break down these key web AR benefits in the latest report excerpt. The post What Differentiates Web AR from Apps? appeared first on AR Insider.

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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

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Resolution Games, a leading developer of XR content, has acquired Zero Index, the studio which helped bring Odd Raven Studios’ VR co-op game Carly and the Reaperman (2018) to the Quest platform earlier this year. Zero Index is a game studio and consulting firm focused on B2B services within both the game and IT industry. Founded by Tomas Ahlström and Alexander Milton in 2020, the team has worked to expand the game industry in the region of Östergötland in eastern Sweden.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Unplugged brought its Rock Band -style gameplay to Quest back in October thanks to the standalone headset’s optical finger-tracking, letting you essentially play ‘air guitar’ instead of using a plastic peripheral. Now developer Anotherway announced the game is heading to PC VR headsets next month, and that it will only work with Valve Index controllers.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Scott Snyder and Tony S. Daniel’s Nocterra is coming to Netflix. The third Trolls movie is getting a limited theater run before it goes on-demand next year. Plus, what’s coming in Dexter: New Blood. Spoilers, away! Read more.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Starlink operator SpaceX has said that recent silicon shortages have impacted its production rate and affected its ability to fulfill “many” orders.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Wirecutter employees are asking us to resist the temptation of their own excellent deals this Black Friday weekend and boycott the site. The Wirecutter union announced today that every member of its unit has agreed to walk out from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday in protest of the New York Times management’s alleged … 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

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Blue Origin has announced its next suborbital space flight for December and it includes two special guests among the crew of six.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

There is a realm the laws of physics forbid us from accessing, below the resolving power of our most powerful microscopes and beyond the reach of our most sensitive telescopes. There’s no telling what might exist there—perhaps entire universes. Read more.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The MYXfitness MYX II Plus fitness bike is a worthy competitor to other models on the market, and it's also a pretty good deal.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Microsoft’s legendary talking office supply has returned from the dead. While the jovial paperclip won’t improve your spelling or help you write a letter, Clippy is being resurrected as part of Microsoft’s new batch of emoji for Windows 11. 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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Cathy Hackl

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

We are in the nascent stages of the Metaverse. As we enter this future, we must provide frameworks, guidance, and a construct for ideation, development, failure, iteration, and innovation. It’s still early and we all have a chance to build with intention and create value.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The company that reduced peak Arnold Schwarzenegger to a ghastly golem and brought us the friendly but dimwitted Times Square diarrhea probe is offering $200,000 for your face. Forever. Plus, your voice for free. Ominously, according to the site, a robot version of the winning face should “start its activities” in… Read more.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Following the launch of its Alder Lake processors for desktops, Intel has announced that it has began shipping Alder Lake-P mobile CPUs to laptop manufacturers.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Some bees have developed a taste for carrion, in a delightfully twisted evolutionary turn. These vulture bees, as they’re known, feature unique gut microbes that help them digest meat. 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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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Marvel's Hawkeye series brings Jeremy Renner and Hailee Steinfeld together for a smart, funny buddy-archer adventure that brings the fun back to the MCU.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The very real RentAHitman.com website asks visitors a simple question: “Got a problem that needs resolving?” Although the majority of people would recognize the website for what it is, a joke, there are remarkably still some that take it seriously and submit a request for murder. Wendy Wein, a 52-year-old Michigan… Read more.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Samsung's One UI 4 software is available now, and we compared it against Android 12 on the Pixel 6 Pro to see if it can compete with Google's latest OS.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

At the same time that Cowboy Bebop ’s trio of heroes is keeping busy hunting down valuable bounties, they’re also living in the shadow of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate, an organization from Spike Spiegel ’s past that begins catching up with him in the present day as Netflix’s new series begins. Before Jet and Faye , it… 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

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The battle for the upscaling crown just doesn't stop. Here are all of the differences between Nvidia DLSS, Image Scaling, and AMD Super Resolution.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

A processing anomaly has caused an unexpected vibration to course through the entire Webb telescope just weeks before launch. An investigation is now underway to determine if the incident somehow damaged the observatory. Read more.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Google could be adding several new features to the recently revamped At a Glance widget, which is exclusively available for the Pixel 6 series.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

No doubt buoyed by word that Wheel of Time is a hit out of the gate, Amazon Studios is once again reaching into its alarmingly deep pockets to fund another genre show: an adaptation of popular BioWare and Electronic Arts video game Mass Effect. 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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