VRScout

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Instructors can deliver hands-on training to multiple students at once via multi-user classrooms. When it comes to training for a specific profession, nothing beats good old-fashioned hands-on experience. This is especially true for those in the medical field, where performing actual medical tasks under the watchful eyes of a physician with years of experience is a crucial part of the training process.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Yesterday at the Venice VR Expanded festival , I finally managed to try “The MetaMovie”, an experience of improvisational theater in VR. I already talked about this project many months ago, when I interviewed its creator Jason Moore and was intrigued by this project, and now I’ve finally been able to experience it. I have to warn you that this article is a bit personal for me.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Last week, the British Film Institute announced that this year’s London Film Festival will be offered virtually, including a dedicated showcase for immersive media. BFI also announced the schedule for the showcase, featuring the musical experience “All Kinds of Limbo.”. The “Expanded Strand”. “Out of necessity sometimes comes innovation and we’re hugely excited to present our LFF Expanded plan for 2020,” XR Programmer Ulrich Schrauth said in a press release shared with ARPost. “ Shifting the ful

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Far Cry VR: Dive Into Insanity is a new VR arcade experience supporting up to eight players. The game will launch at Zero Latency VR arcade locations in 2021. Ubisoft announced today that it’s developing Far Cry VR: Dive Into Insanity as a new out-of-home VR arcade experience in collaboration with Zero Latency , one of the leading VR arcade companies with more than 45 locations in 22 countries.

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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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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

Visitors can design custom sea creatures and feed their digital creations. Next-generation art collective teamLab is on a mission to blend the worlds of technology, art, science, design, and nature. The company is responsible for a wide range of jaw-dropping interactive digital installations, many of which featuring a heavy focus on projection mapping technology.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Virtual reality is one of the driving forces that transforms healthcare all over the world. Now, with NurtureVR, a VR program developed for expectant mothers, technology has conquered another territory. Prenatal and postnatal care and support for new mothers’ well-being and adjustment becomes an immersive and fully personalized experience. What Exactly Is NurtureVR?

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Ubisoft today revealed its latest VR title, AGOS: A Game of Space. The made-for-VR space sim is set to launch next month on PC VR headsets. In AGOS: A Game of Space Ubisoft says that players will embark on “an interstellar journey to reach a new habitable planet. Players will become the AI operating the last ship to leave a condemned Earth, guiding a group of survivors across eight unique stellar systems to find a new home.” The AGOS announcement trailer shows players customizing m

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

A sleek new logo for a post-Oculus company. With Facebook Connect —previously Oculus Connect 7—just around the corner, hardcore fans are scouring every inch of the web in search of any and every update regarding the highly-anticipated developer conference. While not a jaw-dropping leak per se, earlier this morning one mysterious individual treated us to an early look at some fresh Facebook branding, further revealing the company’s ongoing push away from the Oculus name.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Though Disney’s live-action Mulan remake is only just now hitting VOD in certain markets—ahead of a cinematic release in territories where movie theaters have been allowed to reopen—the movie’s already come under a significant amount of fire, first for its star’s pro-police comments regarding the protests in Hong Kong 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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Anand Tech

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

AMD today has announced that they will be making a pair of consumer product presentations in November. The chipmaker, who has been fairly quiet since the spring, will be holding events for both their consumer Ryzen CPU and Radeon GPU product segments. Dubbing the events “A New Journey Begins”, the company will be announcing the first products based on their eagerly anticipated Zen 3 CPU architecture and RDNA 2 GPU architecture.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

NVIDIA’s Deep Learning Supersampling (DLSS) technology uses AI to increase the resolution of rendered frames by taking a smaller frame and intelligently enlarging it. The technique has been lauded for its ability to render games with high resolution with much greater efficiency than natively rendering at the same resolution. Now the latest version, DLSS 2.1, includes VR support and could bring a huge boost to fidelity in VR content.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

Get your space fix with these five VR spaceship games. One of the most highly anticipated Star Wars VR games is almost here, united alliance of fanatic Star Wars fans around the world are chomping at the bit to jump into our VR headsets to test our pilot skills. Star Wars: Squadrons will have you manning the controls various starfighters from the Rebel Alliances fleet, such as the heavily-armed X-Wing fighter with its distinctive S-foils.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The horrific western wildfire season is getting even worse. More than 85 wildfires are blazing across the West, but one of the most pressing is in southern Oregon where nearly the entire the 82,000-person town of Medford was evacuated. Read more.

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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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Digital Trends

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Google has launched Android 11, and a few phones have already received the update. More are part of an Android 11 beta. Here are all the phones with Android 11.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Mojang today announced that Minecraft is headed to PSVR users this month in a free update to the game on PS4. The studio says in a PS blog post that PSVR support was actually a planned feature since cross-platform gameplay and the Bedrock version arrived on PlayStation 4 in December 2019. “It is 100% the same Minecraft game that you can play every day, every week, every month, every year…on PlayStation 4.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

CXC’s haptic rig simulates “the violence, the vibration, the physical effort” of a real race. Professional racing sim manufacturer CXC Simulations has been providing advanced simulation equipment for motoring clubs, racing schools, specialized, retail environments, and racing hobbyists for years now. Normally, these professional-grade setups have users viewing the action via a standard 2D monitor combined from the seat of a powerful haptic rig.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

If Mark Zuckerberg’s concerned citizen act has convinced you that Facebook’s trying really, really hard, or that the company is too big to possibly moderate hate on its platform, read this resignation letter from software engineer Ashok Chandwaney. After five and a half years at the company, they’ve unequivocally… 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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Anand Tech

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Accessing the internet is one of the most basic tasks for any computer, but webpages in 2020 are incredibly complex so how the browser interprets the code and renders it as a viewable webpage is no simple task. Modern browsers have both a rendering or layout engine, as well as a scripting engine, and both factor into how well the browser can handle any particular task.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Although Fall Guys (2020) is only available on PS4 and PC, it wasn’t long until a dedicated fan came along to recreate a few of the knockout-style game’s levels in VR. Making things in VR is easier than ever now, especially with the entrance of user-focused creation suites such as Dreams on PSVR and social VR game Rec Room, which is available on all major VR headsets.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Early investors can use an AR-enhanced app to customize their limited edition cafe racer. California-based custom motorcycle specialists RYCA Motors is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a new custom motorcycle kit available for a limited time to early investors. According to RYCA, CS-1X is the “world’s first” motorcycle built with the assistance of augmented reality technology.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

A Florida teenager allegedly used an embarrassingly simple program to launch a series of DDoS attacks that helped shut down one of the nation’s largest school districts for its first three days of virtual classes, the Miami Herald reported this week. Read more.

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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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Digital Trends

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Even with super powerful telescopes, many interstellar objects are difficult to get a clear picture of. That's where NASA illustrators come in.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Cubism is a casual VR puzzle that plays a bit like a 3D version of Tetris. The game is due to launch on September 17th on Quest, Rift, and Steam. A future update will add hand-tracking on Quest. Cubism from Belgium-based developer Thomas Van Bouwel is a cheery brain-teaser that tasks players with solving 3D puzzles by fitting Tetris-like shapes into a larger pre-defined shape.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Mojang’s free VR update arrives later this month on PlayStation 4. This week is all about the PlayStation VR with Sony expected to drop an avalanche of VR-related news now until Friday, September 11th as part of the ongoing PlayStation VR spotlight. The company kicked-off its PSVR-focused event with a bang yesterday, revealing official PlayStation VR support for Minecraft on PlayStation 4. “Us Mojang folks have been bursting to say something about this for ages!

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Apocalypse has arrived on the western landscape. The Bay Area is shrouded in a layer of smoke so thick, it broke everything from camera sensors to weather models. Read more.

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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

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