Sat.Sep 12, 2020

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Venice VR Curators Offer A Behind-The-Scenes Look At This Year’s Incredible Projects

VRScout

Venice VR Expanded at the 77th LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA is coming to a close today, having accomplished extraordinary feats in creative innovation. With satellite pop-ups around the world, in Venice, and online across multiple platforms, the event brings artists, industry, and a global audience together to celebrate in a way that will redefine Venice VR and the broader community in the years to come.

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Interhaptics Celebrates Success of BETA

ARVR

The AR / VR development community has embraced Interhaptics. Its open beta program has delivered powerful tools to help create the next?—?generation of immersive content. August 8, 2020 Immersive applications and mobile developers are faced with the challenge to develop for haptics and immersive interactions across many devices and user interfaces. The results are often poor or verticalized implementations driving up the development costs and decreasing the value for the final user and portabili

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Each Episode of Lovecraft Country Now Comes With a Syllabus

GizModo VR

Lovecraft Country has as lot of powerful, distinct intersections with Black history, looking at the Black experience in the United States during the time in which it’s set through the lens of horror. It sure would be nice if someone put together a list of resources and reading materials to help you, or, say, your… Read more.

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All the amazing rocket launches that happened this summer

Digital Trends

Summer 2020 was one of the busiest ever for rocket launches. To celebrate this unprecedented spell of lively launchpad activity, let’s revisit the best ones.

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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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Australia Burned Under a Haze of Misinformation Earlier This Year. The U.S. Is Next.

GizModo VR

In January, I watched Australia burn from a distance, gripped with anxiety and sadness. Only a few months after I moved to Norway, the most terrifying firestorms the country has ever encountered tore through the land. Read more.

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Major QAnon Site Shutters After Operator Gets Outed

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One of the internet’s largest hub of Qanon conspiracy theorists, QMap, abruptly went dark this week after a fact-checking group uncovered the identity of the developer behind it, Bloomberg reported Friday. Read more.

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Rocket startup Astra makes its first launch but fails to reach orbit

Digital Trends

The Astra rocket, code named Rocket 3.1, launched successfully but failed to reach orbit due to a problem during the first stage burn.

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25 Years Ago We Got Genre's Most Unapologetic Heroine

GizModo VR

Inevitably a cool lady appears on screen with a sweet outfit, a wry smile, and this sense that she is not to be f *d with wrapped around her like a cloak. While women aren’t on the top of the call sheet as often as men in genre film and television, there are a lot more women there now than before, and despite them… Read more.

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How to check your PC’s frame rate when playing video games

Digital Trends

Wondering how to check your PC's frame rate when playing video games? You probably already have a tool from AMD, Nvidia, or Windows already installed.

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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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What to Expect from Apple's September Event (Hint: Maybe No iPhones)

GizModo VR

Since the very beginning of time, which has lost all meaning at this point, almost every September has delivered a new iPhone. It’s possible that Apple’s event next week will also deliver a new iPhone, but for the first time in many moons, we may not see a phone. Read more.

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How visual effects made Mulan’s battles bigger and its hero fly higher

Digital Trends

Disney's Mulan has epic battles, spectacular choreography, and beautiful sets, and they all benefited from the work of its talented visual effects team.

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California Passes Law to Help Inmate Firefighters Pursue Professional Careers in the Field

GizModo VR

Amid the flames ravaging the state, California on Friday finally took a step to recognize the important contributions made by incarcerated firefighters over the years. A new law removes barriers that block inmates from pursuing professional firefighting careers after completing their sentences, giving them a second… Read more.

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Nvidia reportedly close to sealing more than $40 billion deal to buy ARM

Digital Trends

Nvidia is reportedly finalizing the purchase of chip designer ARM from SoftBank for more than $40 billion, with the deal potentially closing early next week.

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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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Three Electrostatic Motors Almost Make This Pricey Watch Worth It

GizModo VR

The 1960s were an interstitial time when it came to technology. Not quite computerized, the world hovered between the mechanical and the digital, computers clacking out commands onto old teletypes while Nixie tubes - essentially glowing wires in a vacuum - ran the countdowns for rickety spacecraft that had more in… Read more.

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Xbox Series S appeared in the background of Phil Spencer interviews months ago

Digital Trends

The Xbox Series X has been hiding in plain sight in the bookshelves of Xbox head Phil Spencer for months, long before Microsoft officially revealed the console.

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The Most Apocalyptic Photos From the West Coast Fires This Week

GizModo VR

The West Coast is burning, and it’s still not under control. There are now three states—California, Washington state and Oregon—battling raging wildfires, which have left a trail of destruction in their wake and, in some cases, have literally changed the color of the sky. Read more.

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Best Prime Day smartphone deals 2020: What to expect

Digital Trends

Prime Day Deals are really extraordinary, featuring some of the hottest tech out there, including smartphones.

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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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Legends of Tomorrow's Season 6 Has Found Its Guide to the Wide World of Aliens

GizModo VR

The Legends have fought time-displaced historical leaders, magical creatures, and the greatest villains of all time—maybe it’s time for them to face something a little more out of this world. Now season six of Legends of Tomorrow will see the worst time travelers in history facing off against an extraterrestrial foe.… Read more.

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Upgrade your home gym with these fitness essentials

Digital Trends

Best Buy is offering discounts on fitness equipment to bring the benefits of working out to you at your home.

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The Next PS5 Showcase Event Is On September 16

GizModo VR

Today, Sony announced that they have one last Playstation 5 showcase event before the console launches this holiday. This next event will be about 40 minutes long and will air on September 16 at 4 PM ET. Read more.

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How to crop a video on an iPhone

Digital Trends

This article explains how to crop a video on iPhone. It's an easy process, regardless of whether you're using Apple's Photos, iMovie, or a third-party app.

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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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Saturday's Best Deals: TaoTronics Heater And Fan, 16-Piece Wanbasion Knife Set, JACHS NY Men's Tech Shirts, Luxury Hotel Pillows, 2K Webcam, Waterproof Facial Massagers, and More

GizModo VR

A TaoTronics ceramic heater and oscillating fan , a set of Wanbasion knives , a cheap 2K webcam , a Cornbread Hemp CBD sitewide sale , men’s short and long sleeve JACHS NY tech shirts , luxury hypoallergenic pillows, and a waterproof facial cleansing brush electric massager lead Saturday’s best deals. Read more.

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iRobot Roomba 675 robot vacuum down to $270 at Amazon

Digital Trends

A robot vacuum is helpful in any home. Who wants to spend time cleaning when a robot can do it for you?

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Doom Patrol Has Been Renewed For a Third Season on HBO Max

GizModo VR

Praise the patron saint of fuckup superheroes, Doom Patrol isn’t over just yet. Read more.

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Sony sets next PlayStation 5 showcase on September 16: Here’s how to watch

Digital Trends

The next PlayStation 5 showcase is set for September 16 on Twitch and YouTube. The event will focus on games for the console, but it may also reveal its price.

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How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular

Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute

The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?