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Virtual Reality Is Helping Healthcare Workers Cope With Stress

ARPost

Virtual reality usage has been on the rise throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. It has provided countless hours of entertainment to those sheltering at home. Now, it is also aiding healthcare workers on the frontlines. BehaVR is a VR company specializing in digital therapeutics for behavioral health. It worked alongside John Hopkins HealthCare Solutions to create and deliver a VR-based mindfulness and stress management program called CenteredVR.

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Every Announcement From The Oculus Gaming Showcase

VRScout

Oculus teases new games and several long-awaited updates during its first-ever VR gaming showcase. Oculus held its first-ever VR gaming showcase earlier today, revealing new games and several major updates coming to Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift headsets this year. Despite the relatively short 25-minute runtime, there was no shortage of exciting announcements made during today’s showcase, from a new 1080 -inspired VR snowboarding game to fresh details regarding Resident Evil 4 VR on Quest.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.04.19): Quest 2 adds Air Link and Resident Evil 4, Pico and HTC are ready to launch, and more!

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It’s a crazy busy period for me and I really need a good sleep. BTW, I’ve managed to found some time here and there to write this newsletter, because I’m happy to inform you of the community, especially my Patrons that always cheer for me (have you considered supporting me on Patreon as well?). I’m trying to do my best… I hope you’ll appreciate that Before leaving you to the news… I’m hosting a giveaway of Gang V keys… it is a cool VR battle royal game with strong GTA V vibes that has just be

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Epic Games Secures $1B Investment to Build Its Unreal Engine-powered Metaverse

Road to VR

Epic Games, the company known for its hit battle royale title Fortnite and the Unreal Engine game engine, has managed to attract a stunning $1 billion in its quest to establish a metaverse of linked games and services. The new funding round, which was announced early last week, includes an additional $200 million strategic investment from Sony Group Corporation.

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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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VR Training Program Teaches Underserved Population Soft Skills to Increase Their Employment Chances

ARPost

Navigating the employment world is a challenge for people with disabilities. However, an initiative by Viability, funded by the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission (MRC), promises to make things easier for the underserved, thanks to an innovative VR training program. Project (VR)2 will teach users soft skills in a safe and comfortable environment, eliminating the communication glitches that prevent them from getting a job.

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NASA Generates Oxygen on Mars, Setting Stage for Crewed Missions

GizModo VR

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has captured much of the world’s attention, but an amazing new experiment, in which the Perseverance rover produced a tiny amount of oxygen, is equally deserving of praise. Read more.

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‘The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners’ Aftershocks DLC Coming to Quest May 20th, Trailer Here

Road to VR

Skydance Interactive’s critically-acclaimed action-horror game, The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners (2020) , is getting a free update on May 20th. Called ‘Aftershocks’, the DLC drop will launch first on Oculus Quest. We’re sure to learn more in the days leading up to the launch of ‘Aftershocks’, but for now the studio has tossed out a trailer which shows some fresh action centering around a mysteriously supply cache from the Louisiana National Guard.

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Cerebras Unveils Wafer Scale Engine Two (WSE2): 2.6 Trillion Transistors, 100% Yield

Anand Tech

The last few years has seen a glut of processors enter the market with the sole purpose of accelerating artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads. Due to the different types of machine learning algorithms possible, these processors are often focused on a few key areas, but one thing limits them all – how big you can make the processor.

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Amazon Salon Lets You Sample Hair Colors Using AR

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Amazon’s first in-person haircare and styling center offers AR hair consultation as well as point-and-learn technology. Amazon today announced the opening of its first-ever Amazon Salon, a one-of-a-kind hair salon and styling center that employs the latest in augmented reality and point-and-learn technology to offer what the company promises is a next-generation hair care experience.

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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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Signal's CEO Just Hacked the Cops' Favorite Phone Cracking Tool and Became a Legend

GizModo VR

Israeli digital intelligence firm Cellebrite sells software designed to unlock phones and extract their data. As a result, its products are a favorite of law enforcement agencies across the U.S., and police frequently use them to gather evidence from seized devices. In the past, the company has received criticism for… Read more.

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‘Alien: Isolation’ is Free on Epic Games Store Starting Today

Road to VR

Alien: Isolation (2014) is still an awesome horror experience, even if the Xenomorph-filled game of ‘cat and mouse’ is showing its age when played on modern SteamVR-compatible headsets. Still, you can’t argue with free. As one of the first ‘AAA’ titles to gain VR support back in the olden days (we’re talking 2014 here), Alien: Isolation isn’t only a bit of VR history, but it’s still one of finest horror survival games out there.

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NASA’s Mars helicopter makes history with first flight on the red planet

Digital Trends

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter has made history by becoming the first aircraft to demonstrate controlled, powered flight on another planet.

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What’s The Deal With The HTC Vive Air?

VRScout

Newly leaked images tease a fitness-focused VR headset from HTC, but is this sneaker-like hardware even real? It appears as though congratulations are in order. It was discovered earlier today that HTC has won an award IF Design Award for a never-before-seen VR headset, the HTC Vive Air. Designed specifically with VR fitness in mind, this unique-looking device features a breathable fabric design and a detachable faceplate, which enables you to easily clean the headset frame after an extra-sweat

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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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Abandoned Oil Pipelines Are a Disaster Waiting to Happen in the Gulf of Mexico

GizModo VR

Seems like no one is keeping an eye on what polluters are doing in the Gulf of Mexico. For decades, the federal government has allowed the oil and gas industry to abandon almost all ocean pipeline infrastructure it no longer uses without further cleanup—and barely monitors the safety of active pipelines still in use… Read more.

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‘Wraith: The Oblivion – Afterlife’ Launch Trailer Revealed, Coming to Quest & Rift April 22

Road to VR

Wraith: The Oblivion – Afterlife is launching tomorrow, bringing a tale of intrigue and its patently creepy ‘World of Darkness’ atmosphere to Rift and Quest headsets. Now developers Fast Travel Games have released the game’s official launch trailer. In Wraith , you step into the role of Ed Miller, a photographer who has mysteriously been turned into a ghost (Wraith).

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This flying electric ferry could revolutionize coastal travel

Digital Trends

A Boston-based startup is aiming to revolutionize coastal travel with an all-electric passenger aircraft that flies just above the water.

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Facebook Says No Quest Pro In 2021, Quest 3 Long Way Off

VRScout

“Quest 2 is going to be in the market for a while – for a long while,” says Facebook VP Andrew Bosworth. It appears as though Facebook is just getting started with its Oculus Quest 2 headset. During an online discussion between Facebook Vice President Andrew Bosworth and Oculus Consulting Technical Officer John Carmack, the two execs offered several updates regarding the Oculus Quest platform.

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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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Is There VR for Senses Other Than Sight?

GizModo VR

In an ideal world, virtual reality would be just like regular reality, except without regular reality’s annoying restrictions on human flight, teleportation, endless/consequence-free consumption, etc. As it is VR, it is inescapably VR—you can lose yourself, but only to a point. This has to do partly with the… Read more.

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‘After the Fall’ Will Launch on Quest Alongside Rift & PSVR, New Gameplay Trailer Revealed

Road to VR

Zombie shooter After the Fall has been confirmed for Oculus Quest, in addition to previously confirmed platforms Oculus PC and PSVR. Developer Vertigo Games today revealed a new gameplay trailer offering the clearest picture yet of the game’s post-apocalyptic co-op zombie action. Today developer Vertigo Games confirmed during the Oculus Gaming Showcase that After the Fall will be released on Quest alongside Oculus PC and PSVR, including full cross-platform co-op for up to four players.

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World’s Fair 2.0: The mission to resurrect the greatest tech expo of all time

Digital Trends

The World's Fair was a technology expo that sparked the world's imagination in a way that no other has. It's time to resurrect it.

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‘The Climb 2’ Freestyle Update Announced, Details Here

VRScout

The free update will be available in two parts beginning with six new levels. The Climb 2 officially launched on the Oculus Quest and Quest 2 last month, offering new locales, more difficult climbs, and other stellar improvements. During today’s first-ever Oculus Gaming Showcase, it was announced that Crytek’s new and improved VR climbing experience is receiving a brand new expansion pack designed to keep even the most skilled climbers on their toes.

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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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Climate Change Has Knocked Earth Off Its Axis

GizModo VR

Of all the things attributable to climate change, the rotational poles moving differently is definitely one of the weirder ones. But a new study shows that’s exactly what’s happening. It builds on previous findings to show that disappearing ice is playing a major role, and shows that groundwater depletion is… Read more.

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Update: Fitness-focused ‘HTC Vive Air’ Is Just a Concept

Road to VR

An apparently never-before-seen HTC headset won an IF Design Award today, which arrived with multiple photos of what was listed as a consumer headset targeting release in 2021. The fitness-focused headset is just a concept, the company says, but we’re probably going to see many of its design elements in an upcoming HTC headset. Update (10:00 AM ET) : HTC has provided UploadVR with confirmation that Vive Air is indeed a concept, and not an in-development product despite being listed there

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Trippy NASA video shows two black holes interacting

Digital Trends

NASA has created a visualization of what happens when two black holes pass one another, showing how the gravity of each warps the accretion disk of the other.

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‘1080° Snowboarding’ Creator Developing Game For Quest

VRScout

Shred the virtual gnar in this arcade snowboarding experience from Giles Goddard and developer Chuhai Labs. Yesterday’s Oculus Gaming Showcase featured several exciting reveals as well as long-awaited updates on highly-anticipated titles such as Lone Echo II , Star Wars: Tales From The Galaxy’s Edge , and I Expect You To Die 2. Amid all the excitement, Oculus revealed a never-before-seen title for the Oculus Quest, Carve Snowboarding.

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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