Sat.Jul 04, 2020

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Emerging Post-Pandemic Innovations

Tech Trends VR

How Technology is helping us cope with the global coronavirus fallout. As COVID-19 sweeps through nations, quickly making established ways of working, studying, socializing, and conducting business impractical or even impossible, people turned to technological innovation for alternatives. Here we look at three key areas that have been brought to the forefront during the pandemic but are likely to stay with us for the long-term.

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Virtual Reality vs Augmented Reality vs Mixed Reality

ARVR

Virtual Reality: Virtual reality brings in an artificial built environment in front of the user and makes him feel as if it is real. Influenced by sound and vision, this has already reached the nooks and corners of the world. Virtual Reality simulates a real environment to feel and enjoy real-world benefits. VR has stepped into industries like healthcare, automobile, gaming, movies.

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Squid Are Nature's Fireworks

GizModo VR

Depending on where you live, you might have zero appetite for fireworks shows right now. It’s been a rough year, so why not unwind this Independence Day (or regular Saturday for non-Americans) with nature’s fireworks with the assorted creatures of the deep sea? Read more.

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The best text messaging apps for Android and iOS

Digital Trends

We have the best messaging apps that allow you to share photos and documents, send text messages, and more.

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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 Phineas and Ferb Movie Has a Release Date on Disney Plus

GizModo VR

Phineas and Ferb , the well-liked Disney cartoon with the extremely angular-headed protagonist, has been off the air for a solid five years now, which makes the impending release of a movie very welcome. Now that movie has a release date. Read more.

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LinkedIn and Reddit Are The Latest Apps Found to be Snooping On Your Clipboards

GizModo VR

iOS 14’s new privacy feature has been snitching on a lot of snooping apps in recent days, raising concerns from users and hopefully inspiring the companies behind the apps to do something about it. The latest apps caught snitching were LinkedIn and Reddit, although the companies want to assure users that they’re… Read more.

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Death threats against The Last of Us Part II voice actor reveals the worst of us

Digital Trends

Laura Bailey is being threatened over the actions of her character, Abby.

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New Zealand Authorizes Several Film and TV Productions to Start Up, Including Lord of the Rings and Cowboy Bebop

GizModo VR

New Zealand is handling covid-19 better than most, with ongoing cases in the country down to a handful. That makes it a promising place to resume production on all those TV shows and movies we love, and the country has recently authorized a handful of productions to resume or begin inside the country’s borders. Read more.

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Amateur astronomer discovers a brand new spot on Jupiter

Digital Trends

The new feature was imaged by NASA's Juno spacecraft.

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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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An American Pickle Is a Classic Immigrant Story, Except for the Pickle Thing

GizModo VR

We’ve all heard the story. A family comes from the old country. They work hard. They hope. They dream. One of them… gets preserved in pickle brine. Read more.

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Watch a flight over the stunning icy Korolev Crater on Mars

Digital Trends

The video is based on data from the Mars Express orbiter.

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Daily Steals Has a Refurbished Gaming Keyboard for Just $73

GizModo VR

Logitech G610 Backlit Mechanical Gaming Keyboard (Refurbished) | $73 | Daily Steals | Use code KJORION Read more.

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This planet is hotter than a star and has four seasons every 36 hours

Digital Trends

'The weirdness factor is high' with KELT-9 b.

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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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The Latest Into the Dark Episode Is About an Amnesiac Who Might Be the President

GizModo VR

Happy Fourth of July? Read more.

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5 laptop deals you can’t afford to miss this 4th of July

Digital Trends

Get the Apple MacBook Air, Asus Zenbook 14, Dell XPS 13, and HP 14-DK1003DX and Envy x360 laptops today starting from just $240 this 4th of July.

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Pre-Order Final Fantasy VII Remake: World Preview for $22 and Expand Your Art Book Collection

GizModo VR

Final Fantasy VII Remake: World Preview | $22 | Amazon Read more.

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How To Watch UFC 251 Online: Live Stream Usman vs. Burns

Digital Trends

UFC 251 is coming to the new Fight Island, featuring an all-star main card. Here's how to watch UFC 251 online.

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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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Releases Recap: June 29 – July 3

Oculus

This week, we released several titles and updates across the Oculus Platform. Here’s a rundown of the highlights.

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5 Microsoft Surface deals you can’t afford to miss this 4th of July

Digital Trends

Need a laptop for e-learning, productivity, or entertainment? Check out these five Microsoft Surface deals.

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This Is How America Celebrated July 4 During the Coronavirus Pandemic

GizModo VR

This Fourth of July is unlike any other in recent memory. In many places, absent are familiar scenes of fireworks and get togethers, replaced by warnings and worry about the novel coronavirus pandemic, which has infected at least 2.8 million Americans and killed more than 129,000. But in other places, the celebration… Read more.

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AMD Ryzen and Radeon road map: 2020-21 and beyond

Digital Trends

AMD continues to wage war -- and win -- against Intel and Nvidia.

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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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Alone Together: What I have learned organizing a big VR concert

The Ghost Howls

On June, 21th, in the occasion of the French Music Fest, there has been a virtual reality concert held by electronic music legend Jean-Michel Jarre. This event, dubbed “Alone Together” has been a true success : hundreds of thousands people have followed its live stream on Youtube and Facebook, while thousands of people have attended it in VR on VRChat.

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LinkedIn, Reddit discovered by iOS 14 copying clipboard’s contents

Digital Trends

This comes months after TikTok was found with the same issue.

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Trump Sees Zero Irony in Ordering the Creation of 'American Heroes' Garden During Photo Op on Stolen Land

GizModo VR

In the shadow of Mount Rushmore on Friday, President Donald Trump decided to celebrate the nation’s Independence Day by launching a diatribe against liberals, cancel culture, and the “angry mobs” of protestors toppling statues of colonizers and white supremacists. While that may just sound like another Friday at this… Read more.

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Every Mermaid set DIY recipe Pascal the otter rewards in Animal Crossing

Digital Trends

Animal Crossing's new otter friend is who you'll need to feed to complete the Mermaid set recipe collection.

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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?