VRScout

DECEMBER 17, 2021

How much would you pay to live next to your favorite celebrity in the metaverse? In case you’ve been living under a rock, NFTs are taking over the metaverse. At this point, it seems like everyone and their mother is investing in non-fungible tokens and cryptocurrency. This includes famed California rapper Snoop Dogg who—earlier this year—partnered with the blockchain-based 3D open-world game The Sandbox to launch his very own world inside the metaverse. ‘The Snoopverse

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DECEMBER 11, 2021

At Facebook Connect 2021, Meta has announced Application SpaceWarp, a new solution to boost the framerate of Oculus Quest 2 applications up to +70%. These days I have finally managed to try it, so I can tell you everything that I have learned about it: What is it How does it work How to implement it in your Unity application Pros and cons. Get ready because it will be a very interesting post if you are a developer!

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ARPost

DECEMBER 13, 2021

It’s hard to believe it, but it has been a year since Lens Fest 2020. This annual event is when Snap reaches out to the developer community. That includes Snapchat lens creators as well as those who create experiences for other apps and websites using Snap’s camera API, camera kit. Last year, the Lens Fest saw major updates to Snap’s creator software, Lens Studio, as well as a focus on creating lenses with social impact.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Social VR hangout app Bigscreen just got a bunch of improvements in a new update available now. The update brings a range of enhancements across all supported headsets, including boosting room size to 15 people. Bigscreen is a social VR hangout app that lets users bring their PC into VR to share gaming, streaming, work or, well… anything else you can do on your PC, with friends.

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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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VRScout

DECEMBER 11, 2021

“Most virtual meetings will move from 2D… to the metaverse” according to Gates. Earlier this week, Microsoft founder Bill Gates took to his official blog GatesNotes to lend his thoughts on a variety of hop button topics from climate change and misinformation to COVID-19 and remote coworking. In regards to the ladder subject, Gates believes that the global pandemic, combined with the rise in telecommunication technology, will drastically change the future of coworking. “Within t

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ARPost

DECEMBER 15, 2021

If you use VR for professional remote collaboration and/or you’re a regular reader of ARPost, you probably know about Spatial. The platform has an AR and a VR component available in desktop or immersive modes and is widely known for breaking ground on photorealistic avatars (for better or worse). Spatial is still around, but they’ve changed lanes a little.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Earlier this year Meta announced the acquisition of Within, the studio behind the VR fitness app Supernatural. While the price of the acquisition wasn’t disclosed, a report this week claims Meta hoped to pay $400 million for the studio but the deal may not have closed yet due to ongoing scrutiny by the US Federal Trade Commission. Meta announced the acquisition of Within at the end of October , saying that the studio would be run under the umbrella of Meta Reality Labs, the company’s XR

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VRScout

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The company’s acquisition could be a major step forward for the metaverse, NFTs, and the digital fashion industry. Nike today announced the purchase of RTFKT Studios, a leading metaverse fashion house best known for its lineup of high-end digital clothing. Since 2020, the company has employed a variety of cutting-edge technologies such as NFTs, crypto, blockchains, and AR technology to establish a one-of-a-kind brand that blends the physical and digital worlds.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 12, 2021

On late Saturday evening, it was announced that Anne Rice , the novelist of gothic horror books such as “ Interview with a Vampire ,” died at 80 years old. The news broke from her son Christopher, who revealed on social media that complications from a stroke led to her passing. Read more.

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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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Anand Tech

DECEMBER 17, 2021

TSMC this week announced a new fabrication process that is tailored specifically for high-performance computing (HPC) products. N4X promises to combine transistor density and design rules of TSMC's N5-family nodes with the ability to drive chips at extra high voltages for higher frequencies, which will be particularly useful for server CPUs and SoCs.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Developers looking for a unique Linux-based workstation may be interested to hear that SimulaVR , the startup behind its own open-source VR Linux distro, is creating a standalone VR headset that aims to offer just that. Dubbed ‘Simula One’, the standalone VR headset isn’t meant for gaming, rather it’s targeting programmers, software engineers, developers—essentially anyone who uses Linux for work-related stuff.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Everyones favorite astrophysicist is ‘the Voice of the Universe’ in this VR wellness experience for Quest. In 2014, The US National Library of Medicine published a report that outlined how the benefits of having a daily meditation routine can actually reduce anxiety symptoms, improve stress reactivity, and boost your coping mechanisms. Available now on Quest and Quest 2 headsets, Maloka is a calming VR experience that gamifies the meditation experience to help you create a personaliz

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In recent months, you may have come across a phrase growing in popularity: Web3. You might be wondering what it is, what it will mean for the future, and how exactly the third-generation internet differs from the first two. Let’s cut to the chase: For Web3 evangelists, it’s a revolution; for skeptics, it’s an… 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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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Samsung and IBM revealed new breakthroughs in their collaboration to produce a new semiconductor design. The future chips may be ultra-efficient and fast.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Demeo (2021) , the co-op VR dungeoning board game, is getting a lot of love in 2022 from Resolution Games. Alongside the release of its latest adventure, The Roots of Evil , the developers today revealed a roadmap that promises to bring a bunch of new content to the game over the course of next year, including a flatscreen edition for PC, a new PvP mode, a social hub environment, and two new adventures.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Use your bare hands to battle waves of “robot-like extraterrestrial creatures” in this western-themed VR game. Originally announced back in November 2020, Finger Gun is a wave-based first-person shooter coming soon to Meta Quest headsets. Yes, I know what you’re thinking: “Ugh, another wave-based shooter?” But here’s what’s interesting about Finger Gun.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 12, 2021

As the “Great Resignation” and anti-work movement continue to pick up steam, companies are struggling with record employee turnover. Customer service industries have been among the hardest hit, with many workers saying no thank you to the idea of handling Karens day in and day out during a pandemic. In a bid to curb… Read more.

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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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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Fancy getting a $45,000 bill for work you didn’t do? That’s what Jonny Platt found when his AWS account got hacked by an unscrupulous cryptocurrency miner.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 13, 2021

HTC is doing a week-long holiday sale starting today that is bringing deep discounts to many of its PC VR headsets, as well as accessories such as the Vive Wireless Adapter and Deluxe Audio Strap. The promo is in effect starting today, and goes until December 19th (or until supplies sell out). We’ve listed prices in US dollars below, however you’ll find similar savings across both EU and UK regional sites.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 15, 2021

You have full control of the United States’ arsenal of nuclear weaponry. What do you do? Back in 1979, a human error in the United States’ early detection system nearly lead to a full-scale nuclear war between the US and the Soviet Union. A training tape mistakenly left in the early detection system monitors warned of an impending nuclear attack designed to cripple nuclear command centers, U.S. nuclear-armed bombers, and land-based missiles, sending NORAD (North American Aerospace De

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Apollo mission planners were really smart. Recognizing that future scientists will have better tools and richer scientific insights, they refrained from opening a portion of the lunar samples returned from the historic Apollo missions. One of these sample containers, after sitting untouched for 50 years, is now set to… Read more.

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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

DECEMBER 14, 2021

A NASA probe has “touched” the sun, making it the first human-made object to do so in a feat described by the agency as “one giant leap for solar science.”.

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DECEMBER 13, 2021

Puzzling Places (2021), the VR puzzle game that takes highly-detailed and realistic room scans and breaks them into jigsaw puzzles, is finally set to launch on PSVR tomorrow, December 14th. Created by Realities.io , Puzzling Places brings a myriad of objects and places to life with the use of a photogrammetry, a technique that takes high-resolution photos and constructs them into a 3D model.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Go behind the scenes of Meta’s bizarre new holiday. Meta held its first-ever Quest Day earlier this week. Over the course of the day, the company took to Instagram Live to hand out a variety of hilarious Quest-themed freebies. Supplies were limited, which meant most of us would end up going home empty-handed. Those who were quick on the trigger, however, walked away with everything from an official pet distraction mat and Quest cookie cutter kit to Quest grippy socks and a Lil’ Quest

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 17, 2021

5G conspiracy theorists obsessed with the idea that the next-generation wireless technology will bombard them with deadly radiation have settled on a brilliant plan: wearing necklaces that. also bombard them with radiation. 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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