VRScout

OCTOBER 10, 2020

The ongoing race for affordable mixed reality just got a little faster—Zappar is making sure of it. This week the English creative studio pioneering its own mixed reality platform for mobile and web apps, Zappar , announced its plans for the brand new, aptly named, $40 USD , ZapBox. This all-in-one 6DoF halo of a headset designed for mobile XR viewing has an associated Kickstarter campaign which launched a few days ago and has already met 30% of its $65,000 goal by Friday afternoon. .

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Pakistan officials have announced a ban on TikTok after receiving complaints of unlawful content on the popular short-form video-sharing app. It’s the latest country to block the app after India instituted a similar ban and the U.S. attempted to do the same because of a squabble over who owns TikTok’s American… Read more.

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Oculus

OCTOBER 10, 2020

This week, we released several titles and updates across the Oculus Platform. Here’s a rundown of the highlights.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 10, 2020

From afar, the cruise ships in these photos almost look like toys, perhaps LEGO models being taken apart for new creations. But these are not toys; they’re real cruise ships. They’re being broken down for scrap metal as yet another casualty of the novel coronavirus pandemic, which has docked ships across the globe. Read more.

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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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OCTOBER 10, 2020

Around 40 days ago, I reported to you the news of Google presenting at SIGGRAPH 2020 a new algorithm for recording, encoding, and decoding 6DOF VR videos , that is movies inside which you can physically move. Today I managed to try its demo , so let me tell you how is it cool being able to move inside a video! 6DOF Videos. “360 videos are not VR” This is a statement I’ve heard a bazillion times.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 10, 2020

As far as desktop processors are concerned, AMD has been killing it for the last few years. If you missed the big announcement on Thursday, the company’s launching its next-gen CPUs, Ryzen 5000, on November 5. If all the benchmark numbers they presented in its presentation are true, we could be looking at a major… Read more.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Very little about 2020 has felt right but having Walking Dead Comic-Con panel right now was just about perfect. The season ten finale aired less than a week ago and six new episodes will be coming next year before the 11th and final season starts. So just as fans got a few answers, a whole slew of new questions about… Read more.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Paul W.S. Anderson is good at one thing: making self-indulgent video game movies with pretty big cult followings. Monster Hunter seems to be following suit. During a new panel at New York Comic-Con 2020, Anderson showed up to talk about his films and share what we all want to see: some monster fightin’. Read more.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Hurricane Delta tore through southern Louisiana late Friday evening, leaving hundreds of thousands without power in a state still reeling from the last powerful windstorm that hit the region just six weeks ago. 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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OCTOBER 10, 2020

The global coronavirus pandemic has put a new emphasis on buying online, and Apple has taken notice. Days before the company is expected to announce its new iPhone 12 lineup, as well as many other cool things , it will apparently begin to use its network of nearly 300 Apple Stores to ship products directly to customers. Read more.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 10, 2020

NASA announced that it was delaying the launch of its SpaceX Crew-1 mission to the International Space Station until early to mid-November because of issues with the spaceflight company’s Falcon 9 rocket. The launch was originally scheduled for Oct. 31 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Read more.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Primal Rage was a strange, but cool looking arcade from the 90s that used stop-motion animation to create its dino fighters. And this short behind the scenes video produced by Time Warner back in the day shows how much work went into making Primal Rage. Read more.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 10, 2020

I mean, what else did you expect them to do, relaxation tapes ? 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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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 10, 2020

A sale on select Oster appliances and a Vava 12-in-1 USB-C docking station lead Saturday’s best deals. Read more.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 10, 2020

To be honest, the most surprising thing about this is that it hasn’t happened already. Read more.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Oster Buffet Server Warming Tray | $32 | Amazon Gold Box Read more.

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