VRScout

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Select employees will begin testing research glasses in the wild this September. Facebook provided several updates on its mysterious smart glasses as part of today’s Facebook Connect developer conference. Referred to as Project Aria, this bleeding-edge research device uses machine perception and AI research to safely gather data in an effort to answer key questions, both technological and ethical, regarding the use of AR technology in a public setting.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

We are witnessing the evolution of AR/VR in the supply chain. What started out as a hi-tech trend for a select few, has grown into a best practice for large enterprises and smaller companies in the global supply chain. Warehouses, production facilities, shipping companies, and retail stores are relying on immersive technologies to work faster, safer, and more efficiently.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Hello everyone! Today’s post is a bit technical, but it will help some VR devs out there to have fewer headaches. It is a short guide to implement some sort of compatibility between the SteamVR Unity plugin and the Unity XR Interaction Toolkit , that under the new XR Plugin Management in Unity are not working very well together. The problem. SteamVR is a great solution to develop cross-platform applications, and so is Unity (Image by Valve).

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Quest 2 is on the horizon, and with its October 13th release date inching ever closer, you might want to know what new games we’re looking forward to playing on the company’s next standalone headset. Many of the games below were first announced at Facebook Connect last week , however there’s a few on the list that we’ve been waiting to hear about for a while now.

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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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Slashgear

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Oculus announced today that they’ll discontinue the Oculus Rift line of VR headsets entirely. The only current Rift device available from Oculus is the Oculus Rift S, but that’ll soon be over as Oculus focuses all its efforts on single headset: Oculus Quest 2. This does NOT mean that there’ll be no PC-based VR. The Oculus Quest 2 can connect … Continue reading.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

It’s trial by opera in this interactive murder-mystery. There’s been a murder! One of the city’s wealthiest women has been found dead, but things don’t quite add up. The circumstances of her death are shrouded in mystery. Three lives of three suspects are on the line and it’s your job to unravel the riddle through a trial by opera. Miranda: A Steampunk VR Experience is a first-of-its-kind collaboration between LUMA , Tri-Cities Opera , Enhance VR , and Opera Omaha that blends the worlds of

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The most wonderful time of the year is truly here. On Wednesday, Katmai National Park and Preserve’s annual Fat Bear Week will officially kick off—a tribute to the months of gorging that bears must undertake to stock up on body fat before the coming winter famine and hibernation. This year, people will vote on 12 of… Read more.

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VR Fitness

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

We’ve known for some time know that activities carried out when utilizing virtual reality tools, games, or applications can have benefits in the real-world. As we most notably talk about here at VRFI, virtual reality games can simply help you stay in shape, but other uses of the platform have in the past been found in various forms of therapy.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Thirdverse and inXile Entertainment today announced that Frostpoint VR: Proving Grounds , the upcoming team-based multiplayer shooter, is going into open beta starting next week. You could also get it for free when it launches. The game’s open beta runs from September 28th until October 19th, available for download through Steam and the Oculus Store for PC VR headsets.

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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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Slashgear

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Virtual reality has always carried the stigma of being more of an entertainment-centric technology. With Facebook at the helm of one of the two biggest VR platforms today, that identity seems to get even more cemented, just with a dash of social networking on top. At Facebook Connect, what was previously and lovingly called Oculus Connect, the social media giant … Continue reading.

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Anand Tech

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Arm is known for its Cortex range of processors in mobile devices, however the mainstream Cortex-A series of CPUs which are used as the primary processing units of devices aren’t the only CPUs which the company offers. Alongside the microcontroller-grade Cortex-M CPU portfolio, Arm also offers the Cortex-R range of “real-time” processors which are used in high-performance real-time applications.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Personalize your own mixed reality office using Passthrough technology. Facebook continues to roll out the hits at today’s Facebook Connect developer conference. Alongside a wave of game and hardware announcements, the company revealed Infinite Office, a collection of work-focused features perfect for creating your own virtual workspace. Using the Oculus Quest 2 headset, you’ll soon have the ability to customize your own digital office with numerous virtual monitors capable of stream

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

A gross fact of life is that we’re all ingesting plastic. Turtles eat plastic. Birds eat plastic. And one study found that humans eat a credit card worth of plastic each week. Now, scientists have engineered enzymes to eat plastic, too—but that may actually be a good thing. Read more.

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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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VR Fitness

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Oculus announced that they are working on a VR fitness tracker for the Oculus Quest coming out later this year. The new fitness tracker will help track your movement while you are playing your favorite VR games. Here is what Mark Zuckerberg had to say about it during his keynote at Facebook Connect. Continue reading on VR Fitness Insider.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

Thought playing the unofficial Fall Guys remake in VR was fun? Now you can sample some of the traitorous mayhem in the hit social game Among Us (2018) in VR too—and it’s strangely more fun than the original in a few ways. If you’ve never played Among Us, here’s the jist: it’s an online social party game that puts you and up to 10 players on a space station.

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Digital Trends

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Each year, Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated in the United States, beginning on September 15 and ending on October 15. Established in 1968, the celebration seeks to recognize the contributions and achievements of the Latin American community in this country.

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Anand Tech

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The big notebook launch for Intel this year is Tiger Lake, its upcoming 10nm platform designed to pair a new graphics architecture with a nice high frequency for the performance that customers in this space require. Over the past few weeks, we’ve covered the microarchitecture as presented by Intel at its latest Intel Architecture Day 2020, as well as the formal launch of the new platform in early September.

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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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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

You’ll need to move quickly if you want to score one of the 3,000 free copies. Thirdverse Inc. and inXile Entertainment’s Frostpoint VR: Proving Grounds is an upcoming 10v10 multiplayer VR shooter set across an abandoned military base located in the frozen desert of Antarctica. In addition to the PvP combat, players will also need to be on the lookout for a horrifying biomechanical threat looming behind the shadows.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

For this November’s presidential election, NASA astronaut Kate Rubins plans to cast her ballot from the International Space Station, 200 miles above Earth, effectively obliterating every excuse in the book for why us earthbound voters can’t make it out to the polls. Read more.

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VR Fitness

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Pistol Whip is without a doubt one of my personal favorite go-to games for a good workout. Not only is it fun and engaging it makes you feel like John Wick, or in my case John Thick. I wanted to get the most out of my workouts using VR so I came up with a few ways to enhance the overall experience, without taking away from the fun. Continue reading on VR Fitness Insider.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Myst (1993) , the iconic point-and-click puzzle adventure from Cyan Worlds , is coming to the Quest platform later this year, and on SteamVR headsets “soon.” Update (September 17th, 2020) : It appears Myst will also be coming to SteamVR headsets in addition to launch on Quest later this year, as Cyan has just thrown up a Steam page and GOG page indicating that VR will be an option in addition to the PC flatscreen mode.

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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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Microsoft has agreed to acquire video game giant Bethesda, securing the rights to huge franchises like Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Dishonored, and Doom.

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Anand Tech

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The embedded and edge markets for Intel have always been hidden away within its IoT business, however at the Investor Meeting last year it was highlighted as one of Intel’s key growth areas. The requirements for businesses to enable automation and control, as well as apply machine learning or computer vision, have increased as new optimized algorithms and use cases enter the market, and this is the question that the new 10nm Atom Embedded CPUs are set to answer.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

With new technology comes new trends, and in this case, AR ASMR-infused slipware. . What happens when you cross a TikTok superstar ceramist with an emerging technology visionary who has a penchant for volumetric capture? “Holograms” of influencer—er, inspirer — Dax Newman , directed by the ever-industrious Asad J. Malik , founder of creative tech studio, 1RIC , and recently, Jadu.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Chromium steel, commonly referred to as stainless steel, is thought to be a recent manufacturing innovation, but new evidence suggests ancient Persians stumbled upon an early version of this alloy some 1,000 years ago, in what is a surprise to archaeologists. Read more.

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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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