Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Wi-Fi dead zones in home or at work can be a real pain. But if you have an old router, you could always convert it into a Wi-Fi repeater yourself. Here's how.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

How immersive technology is keeping users sane during the coronavirus pandemic. There’s no question about it. The current COVID-19 pandemic has us going through a roller coaster of feelings right now. Not only have we been cut off from normal social gatherings such as family gatherings, concerts and after work hangouts, but it’s preventing us from traveling, putting a damper on many holiday travel plans. .

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

As the business landscape expands and technology advances, there’s an increasing need to engage customers and distributed teams located across the globe at scale. Online conference call and video chatting tools can facilitate one-on-one conferences. However, it fails to offer a sense of being in a real meeting. Enter virtual reality. With it, you can transform the way you hold business meetings with staff and clients.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Greetings from the new lockdown. I hope you’re well and you’re safe, and that VR is helping you in having a healthier life. I don’t feel alone because I have so many virtual friends and colleagues with which I speak every day, and VR helps me to travel wherever I want. Thank you all for making me feel your warmth, you are an amazing community! Top news of the week.

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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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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Frontier Developments’ VR-compatible space sim Elite Dangerous (2014) is going free on the Epic Games Store next week. Starting on Thursday, November 19th and going until the 26th, you’ll be able to download and keep Elite Dangerous for free. You can add it to your wishlist by clicking the heart symbol on the game’s store page. This also includes one of the game’s biggest DLC packs, Horizons , which in 2015 brought to the space-faring simulator the ability to land and

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Can choirs and orchestras still perform together during lockdown? Since they cannot be together in the same physical space, technology has the solution: a virtual reality musical experience bringing together musicians self-isolating at home. This is not a theoretical concept, but a reality which you can experience on November 12 by joining the Brickyard Broadcast virtual reality event.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

In the four years since it implemented an agreement to promote equitable treatment of its users, Airbnb claims that 1.4 million individuals have been barred from the platform because they declined to refuse bigotry. In an email to Gizmodo, a spokesperson confirmed that this is the number people who were asked to… Read more.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

bHaptics, the South Korea-based startup making haptic accessories for VR, today opened pre-orders for two new versions of its TactSuit haptic vests. Starting today, you can put your money down on two new models , the TactSuit X40 ($500) and TactSuit X16 ($300). TactSuit X40 includes 40 Eccentric Rotating Mass (ERM) vibration motors dispersed across the front and back of the vest, boasting 18+ hours of playtime from its 9,800 mAh lithium-ion battery.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

VR and AR are technologies that have the capacity to truly revolutionize education. Their immersive nature elevates the students’ learning experience, allowing them to absorb course material in ways that haven’t been done before. Marques Coleman notes that aside from the traditional way of learning within the four walls of a classroom, these technologies allow the students to go on virtual museum tours, embark on pretend field trips through space, perform experiments in virtual labor

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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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ARPost

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Animation has gone a long way from mere entertainment. Besides the film and gaming industries, it is widely used today in the fields of advertising , education, and construction. Even the quality of animation has greatly improved through modern technology. However, even with advanced software, creating animations still requires complex skills and consumes a lot of time.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Realizing that 2020 has given people lots and lots (and lots) of free time at home, today Lego announced the largest set the toymaker has ever released: the 9,036-piece Roman Colosseum letting anyone visit one of Italy’s most historic landmarks without risking their health by traveling. Read more.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Curious about what made Half-Life: Alyx (2020) one of the most richly detailed and immersive VR games to date? Now Valve has released a developer commentary mode in the game that gives you a first-hand peek at every aspect of its development as you play. Starting today, you’ll be able to switch on a ‘Developer Commentary’ option in Half-Life: Alyx, which includes 147 different ‘points of interest’ containing over three hours of commentary.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Officers are given a chance to experience confrontations from the civilians perspective. Police officers operating out of the Strasburg Police Department in Strasburg, Virginia have begun receiving supplemental VR training centered specifically around crisis de-escalation. Put simply, this specialized immersive training provides officers with the skills and knowledge necessary to recognize and effectively defuse potentially dangerous encounters.

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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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ARPost

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

While AR experiences and services based on the mobile phone are everywhere, augmented and mixed reality head-up displays are few and far between. This is particularly true when it comes to consumer MR glasses. Right now, the consumer AR and MR headset market is largely one of speculation. With companies like Norm promising a lot but not yet shipping and Nreal having glasses available but not yet in the States, US AR fans are hungry for updates.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

It’s not exactly a secret that Elon Musk, billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, self-proclaimed Thai pedophilia expert , and designer of death race trucks , doesn’t give a flying f**k what other people think about his actions. Read more.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Arcadia , a Moscow-based VR arcade, is releasing the first episode of its new psychological horror series later this month on SteamVR headsets. Called HINGE , the VR-native horror game takes place in a nightmarish building filled with ghoulish creatures and constantly changing rooms. A few months ago we saw the games impressive-looking announce trailer , however now the studio has released a new gameplay trailer that delves a bit deeper into the game’s mechanics, object interaction, and th

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Wirelessly stream your standalone headset to select browsers via this nifty update. It appears as though Facebook has begun rolling out a new feature that allows Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2 users to cast their gameplay wirelessly to any computer via select web browsers. First identified by Reddit user u/zanyzarly , this feature allows Quest users to cast their standalone headsets directly to Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge web browsers without the need of a cable or additional programs.

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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Today, Apple has unveiled their brand-new MacBook line-up. This isn’t an ordinary release – if anything, the step that Apple is making today is something that hasn’t happened in 15 years: The start of a CPU architecture transition across their whole consumer Mac line-up. Thanks to the company’s vertical integration across hardware and software, this is a monumental change that nobody but Apple can so swiftly usher in.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Another day, another Spotify acquisition. This time, it’s podcast advertising platform Megaphone, which the music streaming giant announced it was buying earlier today, in an attempt to beef up its advertising chops as it expands its roster of podcast programming. Read more.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond , the next big Oculus Studios game, began production years before even the original Quest launched; as such the game has been built from the ground up for PC VR platforms. However, Oculus Studios and Respawn Entertainment say they plan to investigate the possibility of a Quest 2 port of Medal of Honor once the PC version is complete.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

A childhood fantasy brought to life on SteamVR and Oculus headsets. Earlier today, developer Miru Studio VR launched an official Kickstarter for its upcoming Western themed VR shooter Finger Gun VR. Unlike conventional VR shooters which rely upon motion controllers to fire weapons and interact with the in-game world, Finger Gun VR claims to be the first VR first-person shooter powered entirely by hand tracking.

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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

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

This week, researchers announced the discovery of an incredibly rare, two-million-year-old skull in South Africa. Here's how 3D scanning tech helped.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

This year, covid-19 lockdowns prompted a precipitous crash in fuel demand which tanked the the fossil fuel market. Oil companies have said it’s quite possibly never going to recover. But it’s a different story for renewable energy industry, which is thriving. Read more.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

A previous confirmation by the non-profit privacy and security organization XRSI surrounding a successful Quest 2 ‘jailbreak’—a means of freeing the device from Facebook account requirements and other software-based restrictions—has been put in doubt with a recent anonymous source discrediting the method as “fake” XRSI has responded to the claim, saying they’re still in the vetting process.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Facebook drops a massive update for Quest & Quest 2 just in time for the holidays. Facebook today announced several highly-anticipated updates for the Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2 designed to improve the core Oculus Quest experience. This includes a system-level fitness tracker, native support for 90Hz gaming (Quest 2 only), improvements to Oculus Link, as well as new updates to the Oculus app just to name a few.

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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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