Sat.Jan 22, 2022 - Fri.Jan 28, 2022

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South Korea Is Building Its Own K-Pop Metaverse

VRScout

The metaverse will supposedly play a central role in the South Korean economy. It’s hard to ignore the growing rise of South Korean media and culture in Western countries. Ever since Psy graced our ears with his now-iconic song ‘Gangnam Style’ in 2012, the popularity of South Korean music, film, and television has skyrocketed in places like the United States.

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Snap Unveils New UI for Virtual Try-On and AR E-Commerce

ARPost

When we talk about AR and e-commerce, we’re usually talking about virtual try-on. A lot of shoppers are all about virtual try-on, but these experiences are often separated from one another by virtue of being created by different brands. Wouldn’t it be great if you could see products next to each other in AR just like you can at the store? See Also: How Augmented Reality in E-Commerce Is Transforming Customer Experience.

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VR’s Most Popular Game is Mixing Up Its Formula with New Blocks & Mechanics

Road to VR

Beat Saber is getting a good slice of new mechanics soon that aim to change up the game’s feel by introducing some long-awaited block styles that may just make you a more stylish player. A short video popped up yesterday that shows off some new block types that are said to come to the game soon. Outside of the game’s addition of 360 gameplay mode in 2019, and ‘angled window’ blocks released in the game’s Timbaland Music Pack back in 2020, the new blocks represent

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Pennsylvania Police Find Monkeys That Slipped Away After Car Crash on Way to Lab

GizModo VR

Pennsylvania State Police were scouring an area near Danville in the central part of the state on Friday and Saturday in a search for three high-profile subjects. The authorities were clear: The public was not to attempt to look for or get near the subjects on the run. This was not a case of dangerous criminals on the… 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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Walmart Is Working On Its Own Metaverse With NFTs & Crypto

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One of the biggest global big-box retailers wants a chunk of that $800 billion metaverse business. It appears that Walmart, one of the largest global big-box retailers, is joining the growing metaverse community with the launch of their own cryptocurrency. The company is also releasing a collection of NFTs that include virtual items such as electronics, home decorations, games, toys, sporting goods, and various other products you can typically find at a physical Walmart store.

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‘The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners’ Adventure to Continue in Standalone Game ‘Chapter 2: Retribution’

Road to VR

Skydance Interactive announced The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners (2020), the zombie-filled survival horror game for all major VR headsets, is slated to continue in the newly unveiled standalone game: ‘Chapter 2: Retribution’ Skydance isn’t calling Chapter 2 a sequel as such, however in a press statement the studio confirms it’s a standalone title that serves as a continuation of the storyline from the original game.

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If You Used Apps Like Venmo, Robinhood, and American Express, You Might Be Owed Money

GizModo VR

Earlier this month, users turned to Google to find out whether emails informing them of a “Plaid settlement” were legitimate or spam. They are real, and if you got one, there’s a chance you could be owed some money from the fintech company’s recent $58 million class action settlement. Read more.

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Upcoming TV Series Features A Cast Of AR Avatars

VRScout

The situational comedy will air on traditional networks and streaming services alongside a unique AR version. We’ve seen AR technology used in a variety of unique ways over the past several years, but nothing quite like Gay Aliens in Metaverse. Brought to us by Hollywood-based production company Archstone Entertainment in partnership with 3D/XR studio Altar Inc., the upcoming television series features a cast of crudely-drawn aliens created as part of the Gay Aliens Society NFT Project.

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Scalefast and YouGov Report on the NFT and Virtual Goods Market

ARPost

By now, we’ve probably all at least heard of NFTs and virtual goods. But, what is the actual market like right now? How should interested companies get involved? Where is the market likely heading and what could drive these changes? Scalefast sifted through survey data from YouGov to come up with some answers and shared an early version of the report, titled “Revealing the Metaverse”, with ARPost.

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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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‘Wanderer’ Review – A Time Traveling Delight That’s Just Shy of Greatness

Road to VR

Wanderer is a VR adventure game that puts you in the shoes of a hapless time traveler who finds himself trapped in an alternate history—one that starts (and possibly ends) in worldwide disaster. Wanderer excels with its smorgasbord of interesting puzzles that do very little hand-holding. Its fun and well-designed set pieces play as an immersive backdrop to an engrossing story, all of which hopefully distract you from its particularly clunky level of object interaction.

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Teen Hacker Explains How He Gained Remote Access to Teslas Around the World

GizModo VR

The 19-year-old German security researcher who somehow managed to gain remote access to dozens of Teslas spread out around the world has spilled the beans on how he did it. Read more.

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Samsung Losing Ground In VR/AR Due To ‘Obsession’ With Foldable Tech

VRScout

Company’s like Apple and Meta are leaving Samsung in the virtual dust. According to a new report by The Korea Herald , Samsung is steadily losing its position within the VR/AR space due to its unhealthy “obsession” with foldable smartphone technology. In 2019 Samsung unveiled its first commercially-available foldable smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy Fold.

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Solving VR’s ‘infinite walking’ problem with moon boots

Digital Trends

For decades, engineers have been dreaming up creative ways to solve the infinite walking problem in virtual reality. Ekto thinks it has a new one.

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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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Intel Alder Lake-H Core i9-12900HK Review: MSI's Raider GE76 Goes Hybrid

Anand Tech

At CES this year, Intel officially announced its expanded Alder Lake lineup including the performance-laptop focused H-Series processors, which traditionally fit in the 45-Watt range. Today we finally get to take a look at the 12th generation H-Series processors, the first mobile incarnation of Alder Lake, and see how Intel's fastest mobile platform stacks up to not only Intel’s previous 11th generation Tiger Lake platform, but also AMD’s Ryzen 5000 series.

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Jurassic World: Dominion Disrupts the Winter Olympics in New TV Promo

GizModo VR

We’re still expected to receive the third Jurassic World film this summer, though it may not seem like it since actual footage for the movie has been fairly scarce since it faced a pandemic-induced delay. The most that the general public has seen of it has been its prologue back in November (or June, if you saw F9 in… Read more.

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This VR/AR Art Exhibit Is Environmentally-Friendly

VRScout

Vegas’ latest attraction is an extended reality experience built from upcycled materials. As history has shown us, it’s tough getting people to care about the environment. What should be a universal issue has slowly devolved into a hot-button topic for many. That said, there are still good people out here working to raise awareness around the increasingly troublesome situation we find ourselves in.

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NASA’s TESS has discovered 5,000 exoplanet candidates

Digital Trends

NASA's planet-hunting satellite, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, has passed an impressive milestone, having identified 5,000 potential exoplanets.

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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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Interview with Intel’s Dan Ragland, Head of Overclocking: Tuning Alder Lake For Performance

Anand Tech

The topic of overclocking has been an interesting one to track over the years. Over a decade ago, when dealing with 2-4 core processors, an effective overclock gave a substantial performance uplift, often allowing a $200 processor to perform like the one that cost $999. However, core counts have increased over the last couple of years, but also companies like Intel are getting better at understanding their silicon, and are able to ship it out of the box almost at the silicon limit anyway.

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Nearly All NFTs Created With OpenSea’s Free Minting Tool Are Fake, Plagiarized, or Spam

GizModo VR

A free non-fungible token minting tool from OpenSea, one of the largest NFT marketplaces online, is being overwhelmingly misused to commit fraud and create spam, the company said on Thursday. Read more.

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These Futuristic ‘Moon Boots’ Let You Walk Forever In VR

VRScout

Each boot is equipped with motorized wheels that gently reposition the wearer away from danger. What if you could walk an infinite distance in VR from the comfort of your own home? And I mean physically walk. Where would you go? What would you do? For years the idea of exploring an infinite space from a living room was that of science fiction; a colorful idea of what the future could hold.

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Airbnb offering a year in Italy rent-free, and YOU can apply

Digital Trends

Airbnb is offering the unique chance to live in a recently restored heritage home in Sicily, Italy -- and the rent will cost you nothing.

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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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Refract raises $8.5M SGD funding, announces new game development division 

TechCrunch VR

Refract , a Singapore-based extended reality (XR) startup, announced today it has closed approximately $8.5million SGD (approximately $6million) Series A led by Sea Limited along with international family offices and individual investors. The latest funding will be used to intensify R&D for AXIS , a wearable and game-oriented full-body motion capture solution.

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Webb Space Telescope Completes Its Million-Mile Journey Today

GizModo VR

The Webb Space Telescope is expected to arrive at the second Lagrange point on Monday afternoon. The telescope has been traveling for nearly a month to reach this spot, where it will make its observations of the cosmos. Read more.

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The PlayStation VR2 Might Feature A Game-Changing Display

VRScout

Sony’s next VR device is shaping up to be a game-changer. According to a report by Ross Young, CEO of Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC), the PlayStation 2 will feature a display density of 800 PPI (pixels per inch) per eye. That’s twice the pixel density of the Meta Quest 2 and roughly four times that of the original PlayStation VR.

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How Dune’s visual effects made an unfilmable epic possible

Digital Trends

Dune reunited director Denis Villeneuve with visual effects supervisor Paul Lambert to turn a supposedly unfilmable saga into an epic box-office adventure.

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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