Sat.Mar 20, 2021 - Fri.Mar 26, 2021

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How Virtual Reality Data Visualization Sets a New Standard for Big Data

ARPost

We live in an age of enormous data creation. The amount of global data generated per year has increased by more than 30x over the past 10 years, and it is projected to more than quadruple over the next five. The problem for humans is no longer access to data — it’s how to possibly process the immense amount of data that is now at our fingertips.

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Architects Can Now Access A Powerful VR Tool On Oculus Quest

VRScout

Turn boring 2D floor plans into fully immersive 3D walkthroughs with the first Quest app designed specifically for architects. When it comes to planning and design, a proper 2D floorplan can provide you with a bounty of critical information. Translating those measurements into a 3D format, however, can often be a difficult and time-consuming process.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.03.22): Sony reveals PSVR2 controllers, FRL shows the wristband of the future, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Happy Spring everyone! The Winter is over, and the trees are blossoming again! I hope that wherever you are, even if in lockdown (like me), you can enjoy the sun, the birds, and the love that this season carries with it Before leaving you to the news of the week, I want to remind you that on Thursday, at 17:00 CET we’ll have an amazing Awe Nite meeting about psychology in XR, with some of the best Italian minds on the matter!

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The AR Location Wars, Part II: Apple

AR Insider

A s you likely know, one of AR’s foundational principles is to fuse the digital and physical. The real world is a key part of that formula… and real-world relevance is often defined by location. That same relevance and scarcity are what drive real estate value….location, location, location. Synthesizing these factors, one of AR’s battlegrounds will be in augmenting the world in location-relevant ways.

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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 Role of Virtual Reality in the Fight Against Racial Inequity

ARPost

Virtual reality has been moving mountains across a myriad of verticals. In the past few years, we’ve also been seeing VR as a force for social good. REM5 , a Minnesota-based company, is doing just that with a virtual exhibition space called “1 City. 2 Realities.” which is part of their REM5 For Good initiative. It illustrates and educates people on the realities of racial inequity and inequality across the nation.

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‘Star Wars Pinball VR’ Preview – Possibly VR’s Best Pinball Game to Date

Road to VR

Zen Studios, one of the most prolific virtual pinball creators, has teamed up with Disney and Lucasfilm Games to release a Star Wars- themed VR game filled to the brim with pinball machines. Much like the studio’s previous VR pinball game, Pinball FX2 VR(2016) , Star Wars Pinball VR feels like it’s essentially the closest thing to owning your own fleet of pinball machines, albeit with more bells and whistles that simply can’t exist outside of the digital world.

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Boldly Following Every Other Tech Company, Slack Is Cloning Clubhouse Now

GizModo VR

Slack—following in the grand old tradition of companies like Facebook , TikTok , and Twitter —is planning on cloning buzzy app Clubhouse’s voice chatroom functionality. Read more.

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Ultimate Experience of VR, Esports, and Social Gaming Are Coming Together in VAIL

VR Fitness

Jonathan Ovadia and the team at AEXLAB possess the tools for success as enthusiasm, curiosity, and determination fuel their commitment to provide gamers with an unparalleled experience in immersive reality. While the tech industry at large is known for people who “think outside the box,” game developers in particular often display personality traits seen among successful people and the AEXLAB team is setting new industry standards for user interaction related to VR.

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How To Make Your Own Vtuber

VRScout

Get your virtual YouTube career started today with the following apps. What the hell is a Vtuber exactly? Well, put simply, a Vtuber can best be described as an online personality who disguises their appearance using a custom digital avatar. The trend has been around for some time but has only recently gained steam in the United States, thanks in large part to popular figures such as PewDiePie, Pokimane, and a variety of other influential personalities.

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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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AWE 2021 Returns With In-person Conference Planned for November

Road to VR

With nearly all major XR events cancelled in 2020 due to the pandemic, it’s been a somewhat odd year for the industry. With vaccines starting to roll out in the US, AWE has set a hopeful November date as one of the first XR conferences to return to an in-person event—but offering a money-back guarantee in case things don’t pan out. AWE is a long running XR-focused conference held annually in Santa Clara, CA.

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These Mutant Rabbits Walk on Two Legs, and Geneticists Now Know Why

GizModo VR

An entire lineage of French rabbits has been doing handstands for nearly a century. The acrobatic bunnies are not so much performing a stunt as they are a product of stunted genetics, according to a paper published this week in PLOS Genetics. Read more.

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Intel’s New IDM 2.0 Strategy: $20b for Two Fabs, Meteor Lake 7nm Tiles, New Foundry Services, IBM Collaboration, Return of IDF

Anand Tech

The new CEO of Intel, Pat Gelsinger, has today outlined his vision for Intel over the coming years. During an online presentation entitled ‘Intel Unleashed: Engineering The Future’, Pat Gelsinger outlined five key topics upon which Intel will work towards and what it means for the company at large. At the center of this is a reaffirmed commitment for Intel to retain its own fabs, but also double down on its ability to drive the latest technologies at scale by building new manufacturi

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Play ‘Pac-Man’ In Augmented Reality With Pizza Hut’s “Newstalgia” Boxes

VRScout

The limited-edition pizza boxes headline the companies retro-driven “Newstalgia” ad campaign. Everyone’s favorite pellet-eating video game protagonist Pac-Man is set to return in a brand new augmented reality (AR) game launching as part of Pizza Hut’s “Newstalgia” ad campaign. According to Pizza Hut’s chief marketing officer, George Felix, the idea behind the campaign is to “re-establish a strong brand identity rooted in decades of bold innovations

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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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Sandbox VR Announces Las Vegas Location, 15 Locations to Open by 2022

Road to VR

Sandbox VR, the out-of-home virtual reality destination, went through a rough patch this past year as the company both filed and subsequently emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy following debt restructure. With the United States doing fairly well in terms of COVID-19 vaccinations now, the company appears confident in getting back to business as usual soon, as it plans to open a new location at the Grand Canal Shoppes inside The Venetian Resort, Las Vegas, in addition to operating 15 locations wo

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The U.S. Is One Step Closer to Establishing a Research Program to Block the Sun

GizModo VR

There are some signs the world may be finally gearing up to tackle the root cause of the climate crisis by reducing carbon emissions. But on Wednesday, a group of scientists detailed how to develop an insurance plan if the world fails to do so. Read more.

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Nanotech cannabis is here, and it makes edibles look downright prehistoric

Digital Trends

Chemistry and nanotechnology have collided to create a groundbreaking new category for cannabis: Sublingual strips that bypass your digestive system.

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TapID Uses Bone Conduction To Deliver A Better Typing Experience In VR

VRScout

Could this wearable device solve the headache that is typing in VR? You can do some pretty amazing things in VR. Unfortunately, typing is not one of them. Currently, entering your password and username or typing out a message in VR means awkwardly selecting keys using your motion controllers. Developers have explored potential solutions in the past, such as Google Daydream’s ultra-fun Drum Keys or Logitech’s VR compatible keyboards.

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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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‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Sees Best Sale Yet in Celebration of First Anniversary

Road to VR

Now through March 31st you can pick up Half-Life: Alyx on sale at a 40% discount in celebration of the game’s one year anniversary. Half-Life: Alyx is clearly one of the best VR games released thus far, and if you’ve somehow avoided playing it up to this point, here’s one more reason to give it a look: the game is currently on sale for its best price yet: a 40% discount, bringing it to $35.

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Kuwait Records Hottest March Temperature Ever Amid Dust Storms and Locusts

GizModo VR

It’s freaking hot in Kuwait right now. On Thursday, the country recorded a temperature of 112.3 degrees Fahrenheit (44.6 degrees Celsius). That’s the hottest temperature the country—and the entire Arabian Peninsula—has ever seen in the month of March. Read more.

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Myzone’s new fitness wearable uses 2 heart rate sensors for ultimate accuracy

Digital Trends

The Myzone MZ-Switch is a fitness wearable which can be worn on your wrist, arm, or chest, and uses either a PPG or an ECG heart rate sensor for accuracy.

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VR Burglary Sim ‘The Break-In’ Lets You Steal Things With Your Friends

VRScout

Infiltrate dangerous locations, evade armed security, and escape with high-value items. Available on Steam Early Access later this year, The Break-In is an online co-op game that will have you teaming up with friends to loot expensive valuables from a variety of secure locations while evading guards, the police, and neighborhood residents. Your objective is simple.

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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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Social VR App ‘Rec Room’ Raises $100M Financing, Now at $1.25B Valuation

Road to VR

Rec Room , the social VR platform, announced it has secured a $100 million financing round, bringing the company’s valuation to $1.25 billion. This makes it one of the most valuable VR companies outside of platform holders Facebook, Valve, and HTC. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal , Rec Room reveals its largest round to date was led by Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures, and includes Madrona Venture Group, all of which are existing investors.

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Australia Engulfed in Once-in-a-Century Floods a Year After Monster Bushfires

GizModo VR

Australia can’t catch a break. Parts of the country are facing floods this week that officials said are a 1-in-100 year event. They come barely a year after the same areas were gripped by devastating wildfires. Read more.

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Mission to clear space junk using magnets set for launch

Digital Trends

A Japanese-made technology aimed at using magnets to clear low-Earth orbit of hazardous space debris is about to be put through its paces.

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‘Unbinary’ Is A Hand-Painted VR Puzzle Adventure About A Sarcastic A.I.

VRScout

Ludact’s physics-driven, comic book-inspired journey arrives March 26th on SteamVR headsets. Arriving later this week on Steam Early Access, Unbinary is a futuristic VR adventure that will have you navigating a variety of physical and mental challenges in an effort to prepare a super-powered artificial intelligence for its role as leader of humankind.

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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