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Is Virtual Reality the Future of Documentary Films?

ARPost

Is virtual reality a tool for social change? In the world of film, VR has become a powerful tool for tackling pressing social issues. It’s capable of presenting hard truths in ways that the average person can easily comprehend and connect with. However, its greatest power is its ability to inspire action. Why Virtual Reality? The fully immersive experience that VR provides makes it an excellent medium for storytelling.

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Commodore 64 Emulator Brings Retro Gaming To Oculus Quest

VRScout

The 80’s most popular home computer arrives on Quest headsets. Back in 1982, one of the coolest devices you could own was the Commodore 64. The C64, as it’s referred to by many enthusiasts, had a screaming MOS 6510/8500 1MHz processor with a paltry 64 KByte of memory. At the time, however, this was one of the most advanced pieces of consumer electronic hardware you could buy for under $600. .

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How to Use Oculus Air Link to Play PC VR Games Wirelessly on Quest 2

Road to VR

Oculus Air Link is an integrated way to play PC VR games (on Oculus PC or SteamVR) wirelessly on Quest 2. This guide will show you how to activate the Air Link feature on both your headset and your desktop software. Just like Oculus Link allows you to plug into a VR ready PC to play PC VR games, Oculus Air Link allows you to do so wirelessly. Oculus Air Link only supports Quest 2.

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Sea Level Rise Driven by a Crucial Ice Sheet Could Be 30% More Than Predicted

GizModo VR

Look out world—the ice sheet is coming. New research says that the total collapse of a crucial ice sheet in Antarctica could mean that sea levels would rise an additional 30% more than scientists currently predict. Read more.

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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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The VR Remote Collaboration Platforms Changing How We Work

ARPost

VR remote collaboration has long been one of the most promising use cases for the technology. Selecting a few highlights is naturally challenging, particularly since just about any VR application is arguably collaborative. However, these are the platforms and providers that have caught our attention in the last few months. A Note on Some Platforms We Left Off the List.

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Oculus Begins Rolling Out New Avatars, Eventually Headed to Facebook, Messenger, & Instagram

Road to VR

Facebook is rolling out its latest avatars, Oculus Avatars 2.0, which it hopes will finally unify virtual identify across Oculus applications and Facebook products. In addition to becoming the default avatars for Facebook Horizon and being optionally integrated into Oculus games, Facebook also teased that the new avatars will eventually find their way to the Facebook app, Messenger, Instagram, and more.

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100-Foot-Tall Booster From Chinese Rocket Will Likely Make an Uncontrolled Reentry

GizModo VR

Following yesterday’s launch, the core stage of China’s Long March 5B rocket inadvertently went into low Earth orbit. The booster—now spinning out of control—is poised to perform an uncontrolled reentry from orbit, potentially threatening inhabited areas. Read more.

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This tech was science fiction 20 years ago. Now it’s reality

Digital Trends

Twenty years is an eternity when you're talking about the pace of technological progress. All of these things were considered far-fetched 20 years ago.

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Build Your Own Retro VR Arcade In ‘Arcade Legend’

VRScout

Upgrade and customize your very own old-school gaming paradise. LAI Games is an Australian-based company with location-based entertainment venues all around the world. Chance are if you’ve stepped into an arcade to play an old-school ticket redemption game, chances are LAI Games was involved. In 2017, the company worked with Ubisoft to develop a VR attraction called Virtual Rabbids: The Big Ride , which received high praise from both developers as well as players and is now considered a game-cha

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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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HTC Teases Reveal of “game-changing VR headsets” at VIVECON

Road to VR

You can now register for HTC’s upcoming VIVECON event. The free, online event will be held May 11th & 12th, and the company is promising to reveal “game-changing VR headsets,” (yes that’s plural headset s ), alongside presentations from “industry experts, strategic partners, and special guests.” HTC has been teasing an upcoming VR headset over the last month , and has now confirmed it will be revealed during next month’s Vivecon event.

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I Was Wrong, The Mitchells vs. the Machines Looks Fantastic

GizModo VR

Last month, Netflix dropped a trailer for its CG animated film , The Mitchells vs. the Machines , produced by Phil Lord and Chris Miller of The Lego Movie and Into the Spider-Verse fame. I said , “It isn’t nearly as bewilderingly awesome as either of Lord and Miller’s previous two animated outings from what we can see,… Read more.

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The strange tale of how an Apple II computer still powers Russia’s Lenin Museum

Digital Trends

In an unusual twist of history, the Apple II computer ended up powering exhibitions at none other than the Lenin Museum in the USSR. Here’s how it happened.

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First App Lab Bundle Offers Major Discounts On Quest Games

VRScout

The less you know, the more you save with these blind box bundles. Since its introduction on Oculus Quest headsets earlier this year, the Oculus App Lab has served as an excellent resource for Quest developers, allowing them to share their games and apps with the community prior to Oculus Store approval. According to several developers, however, the experimental test channel lacks any significant marketing capabilities, making it difficult for up-and-coming developers to advertise their content.

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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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Facebook Acquires ‘Onward’ Developer Downpour Interactive in Fourth VR Studio Acquisition

Road to VR

Facebook today announced its fourth VR studio acquisition. This time it’s Downpour Interactive, the studio behind the popular VR shooter Onward which has been continuously developed since its Early Access launch on PC back in 2016. More recently the game launched on Oculus Quest where it has become one of the headset’s most popular titles.

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Alaska State Senator Now Has 20-Hour Commute After Refusing to Mask Up on Planes

GizModo VR

An Alaska state senator filmed arguing with Alaska Airlines staff and police at Juneau International Airport over her refusal to wear a mask before boarding a flight is finding out the hard way that actions have consequences. Read more.

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TSMC Update: 2nm in Development, 3nm and 4nm on Track for 2022

Anand Tech

For TSMC, being the world's largest foundry with nearly 500 customers has its peculiarities. On the one hand, the company can serve almost any client with almost any requirements. On the other hand, it has to stay ahead of everyone else both in terms of capacity and in terms of technology. As far as capacity is concerned, TSMC is unchallenged and is not going to be for years to come.

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‘Medal Of Honor: Above And Beyond’ Makes History At 2021 Oscars

VRScout

Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond’s heart-breaking doc wins the Oscar for Best Documentary (Short Subject). Developer Respawn Entertainment made history during last night’s 2021 Academy Awards after a short film included as part of its VR WWII shooter Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond took home the award for Best Documentary (Short Subject).

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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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Facebook is Offering a Free Quest 2 to Tens of Thousands of Employees

Road to VR

Reportedly according to an internal Q&A, all Facebook employees are eligible for a refund from the company if they purchase a Quest 2 headset. The effort comes as the Facebook continues to justify deep investments in AR and VR with the belief that they are the next major computing platform. Back in 2019, just ahead of the release of the original Oculus Quest, Facebook announced it would give the headset for free to all developers attending the conference.

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What the U.S.’s ‘Fair Share’ of Emissions Reductions Looks Like

GizModo VR

The U.S. is the largest historical contributor to planet-warming pollution, responsible for around a quarter of all carbon dioxide ever put in the atmosphere. In the pursuit of just international climate policy, remediating those emissions requires much more than climate pledge President Joe Biden just announced. Read more.

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Inside Supernatural’s Epic Deal to Bring More Music to Their Members

VR Fitness

When it comes to Virtual Reality fitness experiences, exercise mechanics are crucial to getting your body moving, but just as important and maybe the most is the music you exercise to. Supernatural has been doing a fantastic job of sourcing music and mapping daily workouts. They have an extensive music library, but things are about to get bigger and better. .

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‘Finding Pandora X’ Is Live VR Theater At Its Absolute Finest

VRScout

Go behind the scenes of this multi-person interactive theater experience powered by VRChat. Last month the annual South by Southwest Film Festival conducted its first first-ever virtual celebration , allowing festival-goers the chance to experience this years’ incredible projects from the comfort of their homes. Developed by social XR developer VRrOOm using the popular VR Social platform VRChat , SXSW Online XR did its best to replicate the look and feel of the legendary in-person festivit

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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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HTC Partners with iFixit to Offer Parts & DIY Repair Guides for Older Vive Headsets

Road to VR

HTC has made the pro-consumer move of partnering with popular DIY repair website iFixit to offer replacement parts, repair guides, and more for out-of-warranty headsets. The move contrasts with one of the company’s major competitors, Oculus, which has opted to quickly discontinue older headsets with little recourse for out-of-warranty DIY repairs.

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The Oscars' Egregious Chadwick Boseman NFT Art Is Being Redesigned

GizModo VR

Out of all the awkward and weird things that made this year’s Oscars rather cringeworthy at times , nothing stood out quite like the Academy’s decision to commission artist Andre Oshea to create NFT art of Chadwick Boseman. Read more.

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Insane new anti-drone system zaps UAVs out of the sky with targeted microwaves

Digital Trends

Whereas most anti-drone systems in use today rely on radio frequency interference, this new system uses beamformed microwaves to overwhelm approaching UAVs.

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SideQuest Launches Free Mobile App, PC No Longer Required

VRScout

Access a massive catalog of VR beta and early access games and apps straight from your Android device. Described by its creators as a “VR discovery platform,” SideQuest has quickly established itself as one of the most popular tools among both developers and payers since its launch back in 2019. At the time of this writing, the platform serves as home to hundreds of VR games and apps still in development for the Oculus Quest.

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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