VRScout
DECEMBER 28, 2020
From stationary mode to room-scale, here’s what you need to know. With Christmas 2020 officially in the rear view mirror, a new wave of Oculus Quest 2 users now find themselves enjoying all the incredible games and apps available on Facebook’s magical standalone VR headset. We’ve talked a lot in the past about the best ways to maximize your Oculus Quest 2, from initial setup to your first five downloads.
The Ghost Howls
DECEMBER 28, 2020
Happy Holidays , my dear AR/VR community! Even if these should be holidays, my will to inform you is not in vacation, so here you are my roundup of the best AR/VR news for this week. It is the final newsletter of the year, so… see you in 2021, a new year that I hope will be filled with many interesting news about immersive realities! Top news of the week.
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Road to VR
DECEMBER 28, 2020
For those who have been playing or developing VR content for years, it might seem ‘obvious’ what kind of settings are expected to be included for player comfort. Yet for new players and developers alike, the confusing sea of VR comfort terms is far from straightforward. This has lead to situations where players buy a game but find it doesn’t include a comfort setting that’s important to them.
AR Insider
DECEMBER 28, 2020
S everal market factors have converged over the past year to create fertile ground for VR. It’s Covid-aligned in that it supports remote communication and escapism. VR also piggybacks on broader inflections in gaming. These demand signals coincide with the catalyst that is Quest 2. Speaking of Quest 2, its reviews are unanimously positive and the price is right.
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.
Road to VR
DECEMBER 28, 2020
Steam’s annual winter sale is already in full swing, bringing big savings to top VR games like Half-Life: Alyx (2020) , Star Wars: Squadrons (2020), Elite Dangerous (2014) and more. The sale is already in effect, and lasts until January 5th, 2020 at 10 AM PT ( local time here ). All of the games below are certified fresh, and include native SteamVR integration which includes support for Valve Index, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Windows VR headsets, and Oculus Quest provided you have a Link cabl
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ARVR
DECEMBER 28, 2020
The (uncomplete) Immersive Technology in Healthcare digest?—?Decembre 20, 2020 Hello, this is a short summary of my technological watch on this amazing domain of immersive technology in healthcare ! Rendez-vous every mid-month (in french and in english). If you want to get news in “real time”, follow us on LinkedIn , Facebook or Twitter and read your articles on [link] The Patients VR for Seniors: VR Initiatives for Senior Care Residents In this article, we will find many cases of VR uses in sen
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 28, 2020
Season three of Cobra Kai is the show’s most confident, nostalgic, and entertaining season yet. The hit Netflix show based in the world o f The Karate Kid once again builds on the relationships and characters we know and love from the previous seasons, as well as the movies, but this year it’s much more focused ,… Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 28, 2020
Still waiting for Nvidia to ship a GeForce RTX 3080? Nvidia's next-gen Ada Lovelace is said to be an even more powerful GPU.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 28, 2020
Over the weekend, a particularly awful pair of words started trending on social media: super gonorrhea. That’s because the World Health Organization recently warned that the pandemic is helping fuel the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, including the bacteria that cause gonorrhea. Unfortunately, the situation is… 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.
Anand Tech
DECEMBER 28, 2020
Today Xiaomi held the Chinese launch announcement of the new Mi 11 – the company’s new mainstream flagship phone for 2021. The new phone features a new super-high-end OLED screen that ticks off every checkmark feature that you’d expect from a 2021 design, including 1440p resolution and 120Hz refresh rates, features the new Snapdragon 888 SoC at its heart – as well as comes in a new thinner, lighter, and more stylish industrial design compared to its predecessors.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 28, 2020
This past autumn, people all across the U.S. southwest were finding an astounding number of dead birds littered along roads, on golf courses, and in their own driveways. Some estimated that hundreds of thousands of the creatures perished. Months later, new findings are shedding a little more light on why the spooky… Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 28, 2020
Vipre is offering discounts on its security software to protect you from viruses, phishing, and other intrusions.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 28, 2020
The Federal Aviation Administration announced a new set of drone regulations on Monday that will, among other things, mandate that every drone sold in the U.S. weighing more than.55 pounds come with a mechanism to broadcast its location to local authorities by 2022— a digital license plate, of sorts. Read more.
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.
Anand Tech
DECEMBER 28, 2020
We’re a few days away from completing the 2020 calendar year, and it’s been a quite a hectic year for everybody. In times of troubles, the smartphone industry had been under a two-prong attack from both an economic stand-point as well as the from a product maturity standpoint – trying hard to innovate with new features to convince users to upgrade their previous generation devices.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 28, 2020
There’s a brand new version of Windows on the way, and it’s set to change how we interact with our PCs—and even change our ideas about what a PC actually is. Here’s everything you need to know Windows 10X as it stands now, and the devices that will be compatible in 2021. Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 28, 2020
Want to get the most out of your new iPhone SE? We're taking a look at all the best tips and tricks to get the most out of your new 2020 model iPhone SE.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 28, 2020
At what passes for its best, technology would seem equipped to provide a slight relief from tedium/despair, or a semi-efficient if error-prone method of trying to keep in touch with your parents. What it seems wholly unequipped to provide is “happiness.” Think of the most smartphone-dependent people you know. Do they… Read more.
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.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 28, 2020
Did you know you can have countertops that look exactly like real stone -- granite, marble, or quartz -- for under $100? Here's a DIY guide for doing the reno.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 28, 2020
Viewers are turning to streaming entertainment more than ever thanks to the global pandemic, and the plethora of services can serve as a much-needed escape. At the start of each month , most streamers do a little shuffle, adding new movies and taking some away, and io9 is here to help with your decision making. Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 28, 2020
The quest to repair the Exotic Hawkmoon hand cannon isn't easy. This guide will show you exactly how to complete it so you can reunite with this classic gun.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 28, 2020
Humanity will survive this pandemic, but the past 10 months spent isolating, social distancing, and quarantining has been rough for us all. As bad as this year has been, it could have been a lot worse were it not for a handful of technologies that stepped up to help us all get through it. Read more.
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?
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 28, 2020
RingCentral launches Glip, a free videoconferencing service with no time limit.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 28, 2020
Blast off to adventure in the amazing year 2021! No doubt, we’re expecting a ton of cool and exciting space-related happenings next year, with these stories being among the most highly anticipated. Read more.
Digital Trends
DECEMBER 28, 2020
Thanks to Microsoft's Smart Delivery feature, you're able to move your Cyberpunk 2077 save from Xbox One to Xbox Series X|S. In this guide, we'll show you how.
GizModo VR
DECEMBER 28, 2020
A pilot in Southern California has captured video of what appears to be a person flying a jetpack, the first visual evidence of an unexplained flying object that seems similar to a reported jetpack sighting near the Los Angeles airport in August. But we still have a lot of questions about what we’re seeing in the… Read more.
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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