Sat.Nov 21, 2020

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Inside ‘Battle Sister’: Warhammer 40K’s First Original VR Game

VRScout

We sat down with developer Pixel Toys to get the details on this gruesome VR shooter. The Warhammer universe is heading to the Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2, bringing with it all the over-the-top violence you know and love. Warhammer 40,000: Battle Sister will have you battling alongside your fellow warrior sisters as you engage in a long and bloody campaign against the forces of chaos across a variety of blood-soaked battlefields.

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Virtuality Experience Is the Immersive Remote Conference to Attend in December

ARPost

The next remote conference on XR is coming to a computer or headset near you. This time, it’s Virtuality , taking place everywhere on December 2nd, 3rd, and 4th. Virtuality Goes Virtual. The Virtuality Experience is the VR offering that replaces the physical conference that has historically taken place in France and Argentina. Attendees will be able to access the Manzalab Teemew -enabled environment through PC, Mac, or Quest to network in the virtual halls, attend talks in virtual auditoriums, a

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Attackers Dupe GoDaddy Staff Into Helping Them Take Down Cryptocurrency Services

GizModo VR

Roughly one year after a data breach at GoDaddy compromised 28,000 customer accounts , the world’s largest internet domain registrar is once again at the center of a security scandal. Hackers brought down several cryptocurrency services using GoDaddy domains in recent weeks, and apparently the company’s own staff… Read more.

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The best news apps for Android and iOS

Digital Trends

A good news app is the best way to make sure you're able to handle the influx of daily news, so here is a selection of the best news apps for iOS and Android.

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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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More States Are Offering Contact-Tracing Apps—Now if Only They Could Get People to Use Them

GizModo VR

Google and Apple rolled out their covid-19 contact-tracing APIs months ago for state officials to use in developing their own covid-19-tracking apps, but adoption has proceeded at a snail’s pace. Just 15 states and Washington, D.C. are currently employing the tech giants’ “exposure notification” tech while a handful… Read more.

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The Last of Us Television Adaptation Is a Go at HBO

GizModo VR

From the mind behind Chernobyl and some of the folks at game developer Naughty Dog, The Last of Us , the hit PlayStation series about a fungus-based zombie apocalypse, is officially making its way to television. Read more.

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How to watch NASA and SpaceX launch the Sentinel-6 satellite today

Digital Trends

We'll soon learn more about ocean levels and how they are affected by climate change than ever before, thanks to the launch of the Sentinel-6 satellite today.

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California Says Tesla Workers Are Now ‘Essential,’ and Can Ignore Stay-at-Home Order

GizModo VR

Workers that make Teslas during the coronavirus pandemic are now apparently considered “essential” in the state of California, which has reported an average of 10,981 new covid-19 infections per day in the last week. This means that Tesla’s workers will not be affected by the state’s new limited stay-at-home order ,… Read more.

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These are the 10 most liked videos on YouTube

Digital Trends

Ever wondered what the most popular videos on YouTube are? Check out our list to see which of your favorites made the top 10. The rankings may surprise you.

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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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Channing Tatum Is Set to Star in a Monster Movie Produced by His Former 21 Jump Street Directors, Lord and Miller

GizModo VR

Cue “The Boys are Back in Town.” Channing Tatum is reuniting with his very funny former directors on 21 Jump Street , Phil Lord and Chris Miller, for another film. A monster movie. Read more.

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Meet Xor, the luxury phone startup shunning the industry’s high-tech arms race

Digital Trends

Luxury phone startup Xor doesn't want to get involved with the endless annual phone upgrade cycle, and is instead making a phone that's something to cherish.

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Level Up Your Viewing Habits With VR Esports This Weekend

VR Fitness

Kick back and watch the best of zero-gravity esports action this weekend during the Echo Arena Quest 2 Rookie Cup and the Dunks & Half-Court Invitational. While they’re very different types of events, both indicate significant growth of the VR esports ecosystem overall so viewers can take their pick or tune in on both days for the best competitions in zero-gravity.

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The best scary podcasts to keep you up all night

Digital Trends

As the dark nights roll in, cozy up with our collection of the spookiest, scariest podcasts around -- and some less terrifying picks for younger listeners, too.

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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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This Video Takes a Tour of the Hidden Tunnels Underneath the Original Disney Animation Buildings

GizModo VR

What do Paris, Disney , and sprawling nuclear fallout shelters have in common? Catacombs! Read more.

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The best $500 PC gaming build

Digital Trends

Getting into PC gaming doesn't need to be expensive. For the same price as Xbox Series X and PS5, you can play PC with our best $500 PC gaming build.

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Saturday's Best Deals: TCL 50" 4K Smart TV, BarkBox Monthly Subscription Box, Succulents & Plants, SodaStream Kit, Fenty Poutsicle Lipsticks, and Dyson V10 Absolute

GizModo VR

A 50-inch TCL 4K smart LED tv and a SodaStream sparkling water making kit lead Saturday’s best deals. Read more.

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I didn’t think the HomePod mini could replace my soundbar — but it did

Digital Trends

Sometimes you need better audio than your TV can muster. The HomePod mini provides exactly that, while also serving as an able replacement for soundbars.

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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: November 16 – 20

Oculus

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

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The best computer speakers for 2020

Digital Trends

Ditch your monitor speakers. Our guide to the best computer speakers has options for gaming, watching movies, browsing the web, and more, whatever your budget.

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GIGABYTE’s New AMD BRIX Series: Now With AMD Ryzen 4000U Renoir!

Anand Tech

One of the key questions when AMD launched its latest Ryzen Mobile processor family, Renoir, was when the chip would be available in the Mini-PC space. At the time, AMD made motions saying that the key market they were focusing on was for laptops, but they wouldn’t preclude partners that were interested in building miniature systems. We’re starting to see a few of them trickle through into the market now, and GIGABYTE is also going down this route with its BRIX series.

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Here’s how you can watch or live stream UFC fights online without cable

Digital Trends

If you want to stream UFC, you’re in luck: The world’s biggest MMA promotion has joined with ESPN to bring the action online. Here's how you can watch it.

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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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It Doesn’t Matter If Trump Never Concedes, Twitter Is Giving @POTUS to Biden

GizModo VR

Outgoing President Donald Trump is set to receive a rude awakening on Jan. 20, 2021 on his favorite social media platform: Twitter. That day, Trump will no longer see a picture of himself on the popular @POTUS account—the official presidential Twitter account, although Trump prefers to use his own personal, … Read more.

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Hear the sounds of NASA’s Perseverance rover traveling through space

Digital Trends

If you want to check in on NASA's Perseverance rover, you can hear audio picked up by its onboard microphone as it cruises through space at 26,000 mph.

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How to set parental controls on Xbox Series X

Digital Trends

In the internet age, safety is paramount. Luckily for parents, the Series X offers a slew of useful tools for protecting your child, if you know where to look.

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Best Black Friday Fitness Deals 2020: Bowflex, NordicTrack, Nautilus

Digital Trends

If you're shopping for fitness equipment to get in shape at home, some of the Best Black Friday fitness deals are already available.

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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?