VRScout

APRIL 28, 2021

Upgrade and customize your very own old-school gaming paradise. LAI Games is an Australian-based company with location-based entertainment venues all around the world. Chance are if you’ve stepped into an arcade to play an old-school ticket redemption game, chances are LAI Games was involved. In 2017, the company worked with Ubisoft to develop a VR attraction called Virtual Rabbids: The Big Ride , which received high praise from both developers as well as players and is now considered a game-cha

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ARPost

APRIL 28, 2021

Is virtual reality a tool for social change? In the world of film, VR has become a powerful tool for tackling pressing social issues. It’s capable of presenting hard truths in ways that the average person can easily comprehend and connect with. However, its greatest power is its ability to inspire action. Why Virtual Reality? The fully immersive experience that VR provides makes it an excellent medium for storytelling.

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VRScout

APRIL 28, 2021

The less you know, the more you save with these blind box bundles. Since its introduction on Oculus Quest headsets earlier this year, the Oculus App Lab has served as an excellent resource for Quest developers, allowing them to share their games and apps with the community prior to Oculus Store approval. According to several developers, however, the experimental test channel lacks any significant marketing capabilities, making it difficult for up-and-coming developers to advertise their content.

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AR Insider

APRIL 28, 2021

W hen it comes to emerging technologies, some companies are in a unique position to accelerate adoption. That can often happen by tapping into large established networks or user bases to expose and distribute the technology in question. It’s a classic incubation play. In AR, Apple is a good example of this approach, given its work to seed user demand and developer interest through ARkit and other mobile means.

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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

APRIL 28, 2021

HTC announced it’s partnering with Bandai Namco Pictures, the animation studio and production company, to ostensibly bring a number of its properties to Viveport, HTC’s VR app store and subscription service. It’s not clear in what capacity Bandai Namco’s anime will arrive on Viveport, however the company says its going to roll out “new immersive animations and virtual social interactions” targeted at both hardcore gamers and causal users in the next few months

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ARVR

APRIL 28, 2021

What is “texture baking” and why is it important? Texture baking is the process of transferring texture data from one 3D model to another 3D model. Generally speaking, people are doing this when they are trying to take a high-poly model and convert it to a low-poly model. There are a few reasons why they may want to do this. The first is that a lower poly model has less data and therefore is a smaller file-size than a high-poly model.

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VR Fitness

APRIL 28, 2021

When it comes to Virtual Reality fitness experiences, exercise mechanics are crucial to getting your body moving, but just as important and maybe the most is the music you exercise to. Supernatural has been doing a fantastic job of sourcing music and mapping daily workouts. They have an extensive music library, but things are about to get bigger and better. .

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ARVR

APRIL 28, 2021

This is the second part of an article that tackles the challenge of onboarding newcomers to VR collaboration remotely. In the first section ( that you can find here ) I discussed in detail some general principles to help you during the REMOTE onboarding process up to the moment all participants join the virtual space (set up and shipping of the HMDs, unboxing, hardware introduction, and wearing the headset).

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GizModo VR

APRIL 28, 2021

You’re fully vaccinated and you’ve got a little paper card to prove it. So what to do with this precious evidence of immunity? Tempting as it might be to laminate the card for posterity and protection, you probably shouldn’t—it may need an update soon. 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

APRIL 28, 2021

The pandemic has made it much more difficult for Girl Scouts to sell their famous cookies in person -- so Google brought in some drones to help.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 28, 2021

A fictitious asteroid is headed our way, and a group of real experts is currently doing their best to deal with the grim situation. The week-long tabletop exercise, now in its third day, aims to find out whether our current technologies, systems, and institutions could handle the crisis if an actual asteroid were to… Read more.

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Anand Tech

APRIL 28, 2021

The latest flagship desktop processor from Intel, the Core i9-11900K, has been out for over a month, and we've been busy putting numerous Z590 motherboards on tests to see how some of the motherboard options stack up against each other. Up for analysis today is GIGABYTE's Z590 Aorus Master, which is one of its premium models and has plenty of high-quality features and controllers onboard.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 28, 2021

Yeah. So, Jeff Goldblum — the Jeff Goldblum , star of Jurassic Park, Independence Day , and so much more—is going to play Elven sorcerer Balmer in a Dungeons & Dragons podcast. This is a true statement of something that is going to happen in our reality, and I absolutely can’t wrap my head around it. 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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Digital Trends

APRIL 28, 2021

Android 12 is still a few months from being released to the public, but there's a lot we already know about the new operating system.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 28, 2021

Somehow, it’s May—and that means not only are we one step closer to summer, we’ve also got several dozen new sci-fi and fantasy books to tempt you with. This month, we’ve got apocalyptic survivors , royals desperate to realize their destinies, supernatural private eyes, ambitious mutants, and so much more. Read more.

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Digital Trends

APRIL 28, 2021

Samsung has announced two laptops: The Galaxy Book Pro and Galaxy Book Pro 360. They're similar, but there are some important distinctions to know about too.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 28, 2021

A bootstrap Amazon unionization effort is underway in Staten Island, and lo and behold, Amazon is firing up the union-busting campaign early. We’ve heard allegations that it threatened Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse workers with shutting down the warehouse amid their attempt to unionize. Now it’s just dumping a crock of… 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

APRIL 28, 2021

Microsoft is getting the May 2021 Update, the next major version of Windows 10, ready for release, pushing it out to Release Preview Windows Insiders.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 28, 2021

Chromebooks continue to find success as affordable, simple, cloud-based laptops. Chrome OS isn’t as complex as Windows or macOS, but sometimes less is more (especially when you’re saving money). If you have a Chromebook of your own, these are some of the most useful features you need to make yourself aware of. Read more.

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Digital Trends

APRIL 28, 2021

Microsoft wants to change the default font across all of its Microsoft 365 apps and is asking for the public's help in picking one of five new designs.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 28, 2021

A man in the Australian state of South Australia was arrested Wednesday after allegedly placing his own QR codes on two official covid-19 check-in signs, according to police in South Australia. The man was granted bail with one very specific condition: He can’t carry “loose QR codes” anywhere. 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

APRIL 28, 2021

The Scout is a tiny, smart A.I.-powered security drone with four wheels and a camera that automatically patrols your home and yard.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 28, 2021

Unhealthy particulate matter comes from, among other things, factories, cars, construction, and fossil fuel power plants. A new study analyzing 14 major sources of air pollution shows that in the U.S., they disproportionately affect people of color. Read more.

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Digital Trends

APRIL 28, 2021

Seems like a lot of folks were holding out for the new iPhone 12, with Apple reporting handset sales of a whopping $48 billion for the latest quarter.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 28, 2021

I’d convinced myself long ago that when I became a parent, I’d do everything in my power to avoid overly surveilling my child. But then I decided to go back to work full-time a bit sooner than I’d initially planned, so to help ease my anxieties about sending my toddler out into the world, I did what any loving and… 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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