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Does The Oculus Quest 2 Work Outside?

VRScout

The answer is yes and no. So you just got your hands on Facebook’s incredible standalone VR headset, the Oculus Quest 2, and are excited to jump into a massive catalogue of AAA games and experiences. There’s just one problem, you don’t have enough physical space to play! For those who may be out of the loop, the Oculus Quest 2 offers 6DoF (degrees of freedom) functionality, allowing you to navigate virtual worlds by physically moving throughout your real-world environment.

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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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Christmas Shopping in Virtual Reality

ARPost

Shopping for Christmas presents this year will be different because of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, that might not entirely be a bad thing. Instead of braving heavy traffic and long lines, shoppers can buy gifts from the comfort of their home in virtual reality. VR can make Christmas shopping less stressful and a whole lot safer, especially amid the global health crisis.

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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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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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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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How Perceive Is Preparing the Future for AR Glasses With Edge Computing

ARPost

As soon as we have 5G coverage, we’ll have ubiquitous AR glasses, right? Some people would have you believe that. It’s easy to want to believe that. However, there’s more that needs to happen before light-weight, compact, and efficient glasses can become a reality. Perceive doesn’t make AR glasses. They don’t make depth sensors, or controllers, or lenses either.

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‘Jurassic World Aftermath’ Launches on Quest 2 Tomorrow, ‘Part 2’ DLC Teased

Road to VR

Announced back in September at the reveal of Quest 2, Jurassic World Aftermath is suddenly set to be released on the headset tomorrow, according to the game’s just-released launch trailer. Developed by veteran VR studio Coatsink as a Quest exclusive, Jurassic World Aftermath is shaping up to look a bit like a made-for-VR version of Alien Isolation.

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Chance The Rapper Set To Perform Virtual Holiday Concert On Facebook’s ‘Venues’

VRScout

The Grammy-winning artist’s Chi-Town Christmas spectacular will fill you with holiday cheer. Grammy winning rapper , producer, actor, activist , philanthropist , and all-around-stellar dude, Chancellor Bennett—AKA Chance the Rapper —is teaming up with Supersphere for a special holiday-themed VR performance called “Chi-Town Christmas”.

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MeetinVR tries to make VR meetings feel more real with better avatars

Hypergrid Business

(Image courtesy MeetinVR.). The global pandemic’s forced people apart, but technology is stepping up to bring us all back together, even if we’re not in the same room. MeetinVR and Wolf3d , two major players in VR, have teamed up to make meetings as human as possible. MeetinVR’s been working since 2016 to make VR business meetings that are better than in real life and now they’ve added Wolf3d’s personal avatars to the platform to up the social aspect and make the hu

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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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Your Credit Score Should Be Based on Your Web History, IMF Says

GizModo VR

With more services than ever collecting your data, it’s easy to start asking why anyone should care about most of it. This is why. Because people start having ideas like this. Read more.

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‘Rec Room’ Raises $20 Million Series C Investment, Crosses 2 Million Annual VR Users

Road to VR

Following its expansion onto new VR and non-VR platforms alike, social virtual world Rec Room is seeing serious growth. Today the company behind the project announced it has raised a $20 million Series C investment to support its growing population. What started as a small social PC VR app in 2016 has since expanded to support not just every major VR platform, but now Xbox, PlayStation, and iOS too.

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Sundance 2021 Will Host Its New Frontier Program In VR

VRScout

All 14 submissions will be available remotely via a custom-built virtual platform. In response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this years’ Sundance Film Festival will be conduced remotely via a custom-built spatialized online platform, allowing visitors to interact with each other as well as the exhibits via their computer or VR headset. Here, attendees can chat with one another as they explore various digital environments, queue up for a screening in the waiting room, or interact with t

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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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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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Space Force Personnel Will Be Called 'Guardians' Because Sure, Whatever

GizModo VR

Outbound Vice President/gynophobe-in-chief Mike Pence announced at a press conference on Friday that enlisted personnel in the Space Force will be referred to as “Guardians.” Read more.

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‘Synth Riders’ to Feature Tracks from Rock Band ‘Muse’ in January Music Pack

Road to VR

Synth Riders (2019) , the VR rhythm game for PC VR and Quest, is getting a new music pack soon that will feature British rock band Muse. Starting today, the game also includes a new update that brings some more competitive features to its multiplayer mode. The game’s DLC featuring Muse will arrive in the ‘ Synthwave Essentials 2′ music pack, scheduled to arrive on all platforms January 14th, 2021.

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FXG Announces The Next Big Step For VR Cameras

VRScout

Two 3D lenses with 6,000×6,000 resolution each deliver a more immersive experience. After being quarantined for a month as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, FXG CEO Nikk Mitchell and other residents in his community were finally allowed to step out of their homes (but limited to staying in his local area). Mitchell wanted to document those first steps, so he took a 360-degree camera to record himself as he wandered the near-empty streets of Hangzhou, China.

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Quantum dots and nanorods: Welcome to TV’s weird and wild future

Digital Trends

Unlimited resolution, eye-searing brightness, and colors that dazzle? Even though today's TVs are pretty amazing, they're just the tip of the TV tech iceberg.

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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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The World's First Death Attributed to Air Pollution Could Spark the Change We Need

GizModo VR

In a groundbreaking decision on Wednesday, a UK court ruled that polluted air was a contributing factor to the 9-year-old Ella Kissi-Debrah’s untimely, tragic passing in 2013. She is the first person in the world to have a death certificate that lists air pollution as a cause of death. The declaration could… Read more.

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Zynga Veterans Unveil New VR Studio ‘ForeVR’, Announces $1.5M Seed Funding

Road to VR

A new VR studio founded by a pair of Zynga veterans has emerged from stealth with some not-so-inconsequential funding. Called ForeVR, the studio recently revealed it’s also raised $1.5 million to build VR games for all ages. The news was first reported by Venture Beat. ForeVR has successfully completed its first seed round, which includes Galaxy Interactive Fund, Twitch CEO Emmett Shear, Twitch co-founder Justin Kan, and Zynga founders Mark Pincus and Justin Waldron.

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Google Adds 50 New AR Animals To Google App & Chrome

VRScout

Hippos and cows and giraffes, oh my! Google has expanded its lineup of 3D animals available via Google Search with 50 new creatures. In a video released on Twitter, the company showcases just a handful of the augmented reality animals now accessible via the Google app and compatible Chrome browsers. This includes a giraffe, hippo, milk cow, cat, zebra pig, and a Chow Chow.

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IBM is building the biggest quantum computer — and a giant fridge to put it in

Digital Trends

IBM has plans to build the world's biggest quantum computer, but in order to do that, it first has to build an enormous, subzero freezer to put it in.

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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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Twitch Bans the Words 'Simp' and 'Virgin' (Actual Simps And Virgins Still Welcome)

GizModo VR

As part of an ongoing process of retooling its policies around harassment and hateful conduct, Twitch announced on Wednesday that the words “simp,” “incel,” and “virgin” will no longer be allowed on the platform as long as they are used by streamers and commenters as insults. If they are used in a friendly way, the… Read more.

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‘Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond’ Gets First Patch Addressing Some Common Gripes

Road to VR

Just days after the launch of Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond , Respawn has pushed an update to the game to address some common gripes. Two more patches are said to already be in the works. Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond hasn’t fared too well out of the gate, judging by critic and user reviews , but developer Respawn entertainment has quickly moved to release a patch (v1.19) fixing some surface-level issues.

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Snapchat’s AR Dance Series Lets You Create Your Own Music Videos

VRScout

Dance influencers Michael Le and Dytto show you the latest moves in this 10-part Snap Original. Snapchat expanded its lineup of original content this morning with the launch of Move it! , a new Snap Original series featuring popular dance influencers Michael Le and Dytto. Available now via the Snapchat app, this 10-part series teaches viewers the latest viral dance moves with the help of some eye-catching AR visuals.

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Are you using any of these browser extensions? Uninstall them now

Digital Trends

Security firm Avast has identified 28 malicious Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge extensions that have received three million downloads globally.

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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