December, 2020

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Zylia’s 3D Audio Technology Could Be The Start Of Virtual Concert Halls

VRScout

A collaboration with the Pozna? Philharmonic Orchestra signals a new era in live-recorded audio for virtual reality creators. The immersive audio experts over at Zylia are all about pushing the boundaries of 3D audio recording, whether it be for academic research, art, games, music, sports, VR, and everything in between. Now the company is upping the ante even further with 6 Degrees of Freedom Navigable Audio capable of generating 3D sound for “virtual concert halls,” an immersive auditory exper

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CrowsNest’s Anna is the future of hospitality

The Ghost Howls

Some days ago I had a chat with my friend Eloi Gerard , the CEO of CrowsNest XR , about Anna, the virtual concierge assistant he is launching. I found it a very interesting project, so let me tell to you about it! CrowsNest XR is a startup in Shanghai and when Covid hit China the previous Winter, Eloi decided to fly to Thailand to avoid the imminent lockdown and do some business development abroad.

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2021 Predictions: AR Glasses Evolutionary, Not Revolutionary

AR Insider

A s we approach a new year, it’s time for our annual ritual of synthesizing the lessons from the past twelve months and formulating the outlook for the next twelve. Notably, when kicking off this thought exercise, we realized that several of the topics look similar to last year. Though there are lots of developments and new insights, the topical containers that house those insights are beginning to coalesce into standard buckets.

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The 20 Best Rated & Most Rated Quest Games & Apps – December 2020

Road to VR

While Oculus doesn’t offer much publicly in the way of understanding how well individual apps are performing across its VR storefronts, it’s possible to glean some insight by looking at apps relative to each other. Here’s a snapshot of the top 20 Oculus Quest games and apps as of December 2020. Why We Publish This Data. While the SteamVR library already has a comprehensive tracking database thanks to SteamDB , Steam 250 , and more, no similar database exists to track applications on Oculus stor

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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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Oculus Quest 2 Facebook account demand sparks an antitrust investigation

Slashgear

The fact that the Oculus Quest 2 requires a Facebook account to use has been a point of contention for a lot of VR fans out there, and now it seems that governments are beginning to take notice. Today, Germany’s Bundeskartellamt (Federal Cartel Office), which is responsible for investigating and enforcing matters of competition law, announced that it has “initiated … Continue reading.

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Virtual Concerts Need A “Banksy Style” Hijacking Says Electronic Music Pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre

VRScout

A deep dive into VR concerts, what’s happening in the industry, and hopes for the future. As 2020 draws to a close, I continue to search for the next killer app combining music and technology in the context of virtual concerts. Millions of dollars are being spent on one-off productions like in-game concerts hosted in Epic Games’ Fortnite , Tomorrowland’s 2D streaming festival , and clunky live performances in Minecraft just to name a few.

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Hands-on with Cleanbox to sanitize VR headsets

The Ghost Howls

These weeks I have been pretty busy with the delivery of a project, and the delivery has culminated with a demo of the VR solution we have developed. Since the COVID is strong now in Italy, we thought that it could have been a good idea to use Cleanbox to sanitize the headsets that we used during the demo. Do you want to know my impressions from using Cleanbox for a day?

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How artificial intelligence will be used in 2021

TechCrunch VR

Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang doesn’t need a crystal ball to see where artificial intelligence will be used in the future. He just looks at his customer list. The four-year-old startup, which recently hit a valuation of more than $3.5 billion , got its start supplying autonomous vehicle companies with the labeled data needed to train machine learning models to develop and eventually commercialize robotaxis, self-driving trucks and automated bots used in warehouses and on-demand delivery.

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‘Microsoft Flight Simulator’ VR Support Coming to SteamVR Headsets Next Week

Road to VR

Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) VR support was scheduled to arrive sometime this month, but the wait is nearly over. ASOBO announced that PC VR headset support is coming to the game next week. ASOBO UX designer François Dacquin announced in a video (linked below) that the long-awaited VR update for Microsoft Flight Simulator is scheduled to arrive on December 22nd, 2020 as a free update.

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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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The Ampere Altra Review: 2x 80 Cores Arm Server Performance Monster

Anand Tech

Earlier in the year we have a good look at the first ever Arm Neoverse-N1 CPU in the form s of the Graviton2 from Amazon. Whilst that chip was great – it wasn’t really a true competitor in the market as it was availably only to Amazon’s cloud business. Today’s release of the new Ampere Computing Altra processors is bound to change that.

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The Ubiquiti Amplifi Alien Is a Positively Luxurious Wi-Fi 6 Router

GizModo VR

The Ubiquiti AmpliFi Alien is an expensive black Wi-Fi 6 Internet tube that promises super-fast wifi and a unique, pleasant user experience that is as intuitive as these things can probably be. The touch screen on the main unit is perhaps as close as it ever gets to intimidating, with a Matrix- green vertical readout… Read more.

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‘Warhammer 40K: Battle Sister’ Review: A Must-Play For Die-Hard Fans

VRScout

In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only VR. This week marked the launch of Warhammer 40,000’s first original VR game, Warhammer 40K: Battle Sister on the Oculus Quest/Quest 2. What began as a tabletop wargame has over the past several decades expanded into a massive fictional universe composed of numerous graphic novels, comic books, and video games.

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Celebrate the new year in VRChat with Jean-Michel Jarre!

The Ghost Howls

Virtual events have had a blast this year, with some performances that have become very successful, like the concert in Fortnite by Travis Scott, The Burning Man Festival in Altspace VR, or the Tomorrowland concert. So what could be the best way of celebrating the end of this 2020 if not with a fantastic virtual reality concert happening at midnight of the 31st , available on all platforms, all for free, and with a legend of electronic music like Jean-Michel Jarre?

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

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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VR Fitness Insider’s 2020 VR Fitness Awards

VR Fitness

The thought of a new year always brings anticipation and excitement, but this year it’s especially true as 2020 will go down in history as one of those seasons of life most people will be thrilled to have behind them. Despite the craziness, this was a fantastic time for VR games and we’d like to recognize the many developers and studios who helped us make it through this year with the 2020 VR Fitness Game Awards.

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VR Comfort Settings Checklist & Glossary for Developers and Players Alike

Road to VR

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.

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No cows required: This startup’s lab-grown milk is identical to the real thing

Digital Trends

The dairy industry causes monumental damage to the environment. To change that, this clever Israeli startup has developed a way to make real milk without cows.

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Ticketmaster To Pay $10 million After Illegally Hacking Rival's Computer System

GizModo VR

Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation, have agreed to pay out $10 million dollars to a competitor after admitting to hiring a former employee to hack into the rival company’s computer network. Read more.

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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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VAR LIVE Combines Wind, Smell, And Haptics For Next-Level Location-Based VR

VRScout

VAR’s somatosensory system brings an extensive catalog of multiplayer LBVR experiences to life. We’ve come a long way since the early days of location-based VR entertainment. From multi-level VR arcades to temporary location-based pop-ups, free roam VR technology offers what could arguably be considered the most immersive VR experiences currently available at the moment.

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How to gift a game on the Oculus Store

The Ghost Howls

Christmas is coming, and it is the time of the year where people make gifts for each other. One of the best gifts that you can make to a virtual reality gamer is a VR game , and finally, after years that we have awaited for this feature , it is possible to gift a game to a friend of yours in the Oculus Store. But how to do it? How can you give a game as a gift for a Quest 2 user?

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VR for Good: ‘We Live Here’ Puts a Face on Homelessness

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At a time when society can feel divisive, VR helps us make space to practice empathy and reflect on the world around us. The Oculus.

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Germany Opens Legal Action Against Facebook Account Requirement for Oculus Headsets

Road to VR

Today, Germany’s Federal Cartel Office (Bundeskartellamt) announced it was initiating formal abuse proceedings against Facebook for its controversial policy of requiring new Oculus device owners to use a Facebook account. Germany’s Federal Cartel Office, the competent authority when it comes to regulating national competition, today announced that it’s opened an inquest to examine “the linkage between Oculus virtual reality products and the social network and Facebook pla

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Who C.A.R.E.S.!? How Learning Got Its Bad Rap & What We Can Do About It

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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Watch Boston Dynamics’ robots strut their stuff in year-end dance show

Digital Trends

Strutting their stuff to The Contours’ Do You Love Me, Boston Dynamics' robots thrill with impressively agile moves that would put most human dancers to shame.

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You Think Covid-19 Is Bad?

GizModo VR

Experts with the World Health Organization issued a somber warning on Monday: The next pandemic to strike humanity could be even more devastating than covid-19 has been, especially if we don’t learn our lessons this time around. Read more.

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Innova’s Virtual Patients Offer Cost-Effective VR Medical Training

VRScout

Cost-effective VR healthcare education in a post-coronavirus world. As medical professionals around the globe continue to focus their undivided attention on the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, well-trained healthcare professionals are in higher demand than ever before. Unfortunately, what was already a difficult academic process has been made even more challenging due to limited resources, increased safety measures, and a multitude of other corona-induced roadblocks.

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VR Paradise review: a VR strip-club sandbox [NSFW-ish]

The Ghost Howls

There are moments when as a blogger I have to sacrifice myself for the good of the community, moments when I think that there is hard work to do and it is my duty to do it. So when Totem Entertainment, the developers of VR Paradise, the virtual strip club simulator , asked me to review their product, I understood it was one of these moments: it was my duty to do it for the good of all of you.

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The Key to Getting the Best Out of Video-Based Practice & Coaching

Speaker: Micah Eppler, Account Executive for Rehearsal of eLearning Brothers

Did you know that companies such as Paychex, 3M, and Honeywell are getting better results by incorporating video-based practice and coaching within their L&D strategy? From sales pitches to soft skills, learners are becoming top performers by applying and validating knowledge transfer using the unique benefits of video. Whether used as a stand-alone application or integrated with a learning platform, video-based practice and coaching platforms give learners the ultimate opportunity to repeatedly