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All-Female VR Film ‘Baba Yaga’ Adds Glenn Close, Jennifer Hudson, Kate Winslet

VRScout

Baobab’s upcoming immersive short features a stacked cast of Oscar-winning talent. This past June award-winning immersive animation studio Baobab Studios revealed its next project, Baba Yaga , a dark and mysterious fairy-tale adventure centered around themes of “love, fortitude, and magic.” In this VR animated short, audiences join 10-year-old protagonist Magda—voiced by Daisy Ridley ( Star Wars, Murder on the Orient Express )—on a mission to locate the mysterious B

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AR Evolution is All About Interactivity and Adaptability

AR Insider

“Vantage” is AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. It enlists spatial computing executives and innovators for first-hand strategic insights. Find out more or contact us to participate here. Authors’ opinions are their own. . A New Take on the Future of Augmented Reality. by Saul Garlick. A s an emerging technology advocate, I believe that smart tech — particularly augmented reality — can be a powerful tool to bring people together.

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VR Mountain Bike Simulator Has You Riding Cliffside Across Death-Defying Trails

VRScout

A specially-designed cycling rig lets users “feel the terrain” as they ride. Ride Out , a specialty bike shop located in the Netherlands, has introduced a new VR mountain biking experience based on the death-defying antics of professional Scottish trials cyclist Danny MacAskill. Developed by immersive content studio REWIND and Cut Media, Danny MacAskill’s VR Ride Out has participants peddling their way through two vertigo-inducing locations—Collies Ledge in the Isle of Skye, Sc

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The ARPost Guide to 5G Internet and XR

ARPost

The extended reality community is just bristling at the news of 5G internet. However, considering the fact that most people who use XR don’t exactly have degrees in the field, it can be easy to feel left behind. What is 5G internet? Why is it so important to extended reality? Does it cause health problems? We’ll answer all of these questions and more in the ARPost Guide to 5G in XR.

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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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MetaVRse is the XR engine for enterprise

The Ghost Howls

Today I feature a great interview with one of the most important people in the AR space: Alan Smithson. I virtually know Alan since some years, and I have always admired his ability to combine his entrepreneurial skills with his passion for immersive realities so that to be successful by doing the things that he loves the most. Alan has lately announced the release of the MetaVRse engine, a new XR engine all devoted to the enterprise sector about which important magazines like Forbes have talked

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9 Takeaways From My First Week with VR

ARVR

Everything I’ve learnt since I put on my Oculus Quest for the first time. Continue reading on AR/VR Journey: Augmented & Virtual Reality Magazine ».

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Nimbus Data’s New ExaDrive NL: 64 TB of Enterprise Grade QLC in 3.5-inch

Anand Tech

Today Nimbus Data, one of the first companies to venture into enterprise flash storage in 2003, is announcing its latest generation ExaDrive product. Following on from the success of the 100 TB ExaDrive DC, the company is releasing a new ExaDrive NL series, from 16 TB to 64 TB. This new series uses enterprise grade QLC, compared to TLC in the DC variant, to provide a more cost effective solution with endurance designed to eclipses any other QLC drive on the market.

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What I Learnt on My First Day in VR

ARVR

Connection, immersion and a heartfelt pang I didn’t expect. Continue reading on AR/VR Journey: Augmented & Virtual Reality Magazine ».

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Where are my GAA-FETs? TSMC to Stay with FinFET for 3nm

Anand Tech

As we passed that 22nm to 16nm barrier, almost all the major semiconductor fabrication companies on the leading edge transitioned from planar transistors to FinFET transistors. The benefits of FinFET were numerous, including better drive currents and lower leakage, better scalability, faster switching times, and an overall better transistor of choice for semiconductor logic.

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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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Is Phone VR Dead? New Trends, Over Old Ones

AffinityVr

Phone virtual reality (VR) had been creating a buzz from the past 4 to 5 years. Ever since those VR headsets were introduced, everybody was going gaga over them and wanted to try them out instantly. Technology consulting firms were using VR technology to add value to their marketing strategy to attract their customers. People were buying [.]. The post Is Phone VR Dead?

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NVIDIA Confirms 12-pin GPU Power Connector

Anand Tech

Today as part of a video showcasing NVIDIA’s mechanical and industrial design of its GPUs, and how it gets a large GPU to dissipate heat, the company went into some detail about how it needed to improve the design of all mechanical and electrical aspects of the board to aid cooling. This means implementing leaf springs for a back plate solution, as well as vapor chamber technology and using the right sorts of fans and fan management software.

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Beat Saber Linkin Park Music Pack – VR Game Review – Sweat It Out

VR Fitness

Post-launch music packs are vital for any rhythm game, and Beat Saber is no exception. Despite being the most notable, and likely the most popular, rhythm game in the VR space, Beat Saber has been in need of some new tracks for awhile now. Fortunately, the game just recently got its biggest wave of DLC to date, and as a result, it has made me dive back headfirst into the game’s block-smacking gameplay in a serious way over the past few days.

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ASUS Announces ZenFone 7 Series: The Triple-Flip Camera - Hands-On

Anand Tech

Today ASUS is announcing its follow-up to its innovative flip-camera design that was first introduced last year with the ZenFone 6. This year’s ZenFone 7 series, consisting of the regular ZenFone 7 and the ZenFone 7 Pro are sticking to the quite well received and innovative flip-camera design, improving upon its specification by adding in an extra camera module.

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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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Buying a New Console? You’ll Need the Right Accessories to Take Your Games to the Next Level

GizModo VR

Top Product: Fastsnail Switch Joy-Con Grips Read more.

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