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Sabby Life is Changing the Way We View Art With VR Art

ARPost

The advent of the VR art game Tilt Brush enabled users to paint in 3D space using virtual reality. It employs a range of dynamic brushes that allow users to incorporate interesting effects into their works. Its intuitive interface lets users of all skill levels, from beginners to experts, have access to an innovative way to engage with art and spaces.

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HTC Announces Vive Flow, a Compact VR Headset Focused on Casual Entertainment & Wellbeing

Road to VR

HTC today announced Vive Flow, its latest standalone VR headset. While the company just recently released the enterprise-focused Vive Focus 3, the Vive Flow aims for the consumer market with a compact size and feature-set that HTC has designed around casual entertainment and wellbeing apps. Vive Flow Specs, Price, and Features. Priced at $500 and planned for release in November, HTC is positioning Vive Flow as a VR headset to help people relax, learn, and connect with friends.

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Reality Bytes: Apple, Disney & Canon

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What are the biggest insights and observations in AR and adjacent sectors this week? Welcome to Reality Bytes, featuring lightning-round video commentary from AR Insider partner, M7 Innovations. The post Reality Bytes: Apple, Disney & Canon appeared first on AR Insider.

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Magic Leap Won’t Make a Consumer Headset but May License Tech to Someone That Will

Road to VR

Magic Leap just gave us the first glimpse of its Magic Leap 2 AR headset earlier this week. Despite a consumer-focused start, the company has firmly pivoted into the enterprise segment. Comments from the CEO suggest there will be no consumer headset from Magic Leap in the near-term, but the company says its open to licensing its tech for the consumer space.

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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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Can Snap Mainstream AR Marketing?

AR Insider

To expand the addressable market of AR advertisers, Snap recently launched the AR Lab with ad agency giant WPP. The program will set advertisers on the right foot with onboarding tools, educational materials and development resources. We examine. The post Can Snap Mainstream AR Marketing? appeared first on AR Insider.

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7 reasons why you should move from Spark AR & Lens studio to WebAR

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Even though it may seem like creating and distributing AR content through social media is the best option, there are many limitations. Photo by Prateek Katyal on Unsplash Brands want to create AR filters to enhance their digital campaigns because it potentially increases the number of followers and creates brand awareness. However, they usually choose to create AR content with apps developed by the giants of social media (Facebook, Instagram, or Snapchat).

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Scientists See Leprosy in Wild Chimpanzees for the First Time

GizModo VR

An ancient disease in humans seems to have jumped the species barrier to one of our closest primate cousins. On Wednesday, researchers detailed finding cases of leprosy among two separate groups of chimpanzees in West Africa—the first ever documented among wild chimps. The origin of these outbreaks is unknown, but… Read more.

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Hackers just stole personal data from millions of Acer customers

Digital Trends

Acer has suffered from a second disastrous data breach in 2021. A group of hackers breached Acer's servers and stole over 60 gigabytes of user data.

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Waymo's Self-Driving Cars Are Mysteriously Flocking to a Dead-End Street in San Francisco

GizModo VR

City traffic can get pretty congested, but hardly anyone would expect an endless stream of self-driving cars flocking to one quiet residential street. Except, that’s what’s happening to one dead-end street in San Francisco, according to a local KPIX report. Read more.

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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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These are the features making me love the iPhone 13 Pro’s camera

Digital Trends

The best smartphone cameras are fun, capable, and versatile, and the iPhone 13 Pro ticks all the boxes. These are the features that really stand out.

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Robot Murder Dog New Thing to Worry About as You Fall Asleep

GizModo VR

Dogs have long been a hunting companion for humans, so it makes complete sense that almost as soon as robotic quadrupeds were perfected, we’d be slapping big ol’ guns on ‘em. Boston Dynamics might not want anyone using Spot for evil , but there are plenty of other bot makers happy to make robo-dogs ready for war. Read more.

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NASA wants you to appreciate the moon on Saturday night

Digital Trends

NASA has some exciting goodies lined up for International Observe the Moon Night this Saturday. Here's what to expect.

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Shell CEO Roasted at TED Climate Conference He Was Foolishly Invited to Speak At

GizModo VR

On Thursday, a strange scene unfolded at the International Conference Centre in Edinburgh. Shell CEO Ben van Beurden took the stage with a prominent climate scientist and Christiana Figueres, the woman who negotiated the Paris Agreement, at a TED Countdown conference. Van Beurden was there to ostensibly talk up the… Read more.

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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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Social Events Highlight Pop One 1-year Anniversary

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Each gaming community has a unique story that includes development, evolution, and overall attitude of individuals and the group as a whole. Shared experiences among players in many of these communities can have tremendous impact on their lives as well as the lives of others. Fortunately some groups such as Population: One E4E are encouraging positive, inclusive environments that focus on social and emotional as well as physical wellbeing of players.

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Google Sent More Than 50,000 Warnings to Users Targeted by Government-Backed Hackers This Year

GizModo VR

If the internet is a digital Wild West, it’s time to lock your doors and close your windows. While the amount of cyber attackers and activity alone is alarming, in this episode, the featured villain is a hacker group backed by the Iranian government. Read more.

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Early Staples Black Friday Deals 2021: Save on AirPods, laptops and more today

Digital Trends

Staples rolled out early Black Friday deals for a wide range of products, including a 27-inch Acer monitor, the AirPods Pro, and the Asus VivoBook 15 laptop.

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Spider-Man's Tom Holland Calls No Way Home the Trilogy's 'Conclusion'

GizModo VR

Don’t panic. When Marvel Studios’ latest Spider-Man movie, No Way Home , hits theaters on December 17, it sounds like it might be our last trip home. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly , star Tom Holland sure made it sound like things for his incarnation of Spidey might be wrapping up. in some form or another. Read more.

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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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Core might be the Vegas of the metaverse

TechCrunch VR

A self-described “endless arcade,” Core feels like a 90s cyberpunk fever dream come to life. Half playable game library, half no-code game creator, all neon lights, the new platform is a surprisingly well-realized vision of this metaverse thing everyone sure seems to be talking about lately. Billing itself as your “portal to the multiverse,” Core is primed to test the age-old proposition If you build it, they will come.

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1,000 Netflix Employees Are Reportedly Planning Walkout to Protest New Chappelle Special

GizModo VR

Following Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos’ continued defense of the anti-trans sentiments in comedian Dave Chappelle’s new special, The Closer , at least 1,000 incensed employees are now reportedly planning to participate in a virtual work stoppage on Oct. 20. Read more.

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Hawkeye gets a new trailer and a two episode premiere

Digital Trends

All Clint Barton wants to do is get home for the holidays and spend time with his family. Unfortunately, Kate Bishop and the mafia have other ideas.

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New Subway Map Just Dropped

GizModo VR

New York may get a reboot of the iconic 1970s subway map, if it likes. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is currently testing an update in nine stations, including Times Square and Grand Central; the MTA’s chief customer officer Sarah Meyer tells the Wall Street Journal that it’ll replace the current one… Read more.

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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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Intel Alder Lake destroys AMD in new gaming performance leaks

Digital Trends

Intel Core i9-12900K is likely to be the star of the new Alder Lake lineup. The processor has just been benchmarked, and it might just be a true gaming beast.

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Black Panther's Letitia Wright Denies Spreading Anti-Vaccine Claims on Set

GizModo VR

Earlier this month , as part of a wider report on Hollywood’s reckoning with vaccine mandates and safe filming practices in the covid-19 pandemic, the Hollywood Reporter wrote that a source told them Marvel’s Black Panther star Letitia Wright continued to spread anti-vaccine disinformation on the set of its sequel, … Read more.

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HTC reveals the $499 Vive Flow, a tiny VR headset with some big tradeoffs

TechCrunch VR

Today, HTC has revealed their latest consumer-focused headset, the $499 Vive Flow. It’s designed for portability with a compact design and 189 gram weight, though there are some big caveats which I’ll get to later. I had the chance to demo the headset in-person in San Francisco and my first impression of the device was around just how compact and well-designed the hardware appeared.

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North Korea Praises 'Squid Game' as a Critique of Capitalism in Complete Self-Own

GizModo VR

It feels like everyone on the internet is watching Netflix’s runaway hit Squid Game , and that includes a North Korean propaganda site, which praises the series for “exposing the reality of South Korean society, where weak meat and corruption has been on the rise and scoundrels are commonplace.” Read more.

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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?