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XR Poised For Mass-Market Appeal At Cannes Marché Du Film

VRScout

The Marché du Film is the business counterpart of the Cannes Film Festival and one of the largest film markets in the world. In more recent years, it’s grown to include XR as a core part of its programming. . Like many festivals this year, the Cannes Marché du Film struggled to attract the usual number of attendees from all over the world to its onsite location.

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Google Maps Provided Users With a ‘Potentially Fatal’ Hiking Trail on This Mountain

GizModo VR

A few years ago, instead of leading my best friend and I through a lovely and picturesque Spanish mountain trail, Google Maps took us to an isolated field with some cows. While I learned then not trust the internet when it comes to nature, it appears that an increasing number of visitors to the Scottish mountain Ben… Read more.

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How to watch Russia launch a new module for the ISS this week

Digital Trends

The ISS will soon be receiving an upgrade, with the largest module ever launched to the station set to be sent into orbit this week. Here's how to watch.

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New Ultra City Smiths Trailer Has Hit the Internet!

GizModo VR

The new trailer for Ultra City Smiths has hit the internet! The half-hour series was created by Steve Conrad ( Patriot ), who also serves as showrunner. Seth Green’s Stoopid Buddy Stoodios ( Robot Chicken ) will act as one of the show’s many producers. Read 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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This cockroach-inspired rescue bot could save your life one day

Digital Trends

Despite being the size of a cockroach, UC Berkeley's clever new rescue robot could help save full sized humans buried in rubble. Here's a look at how it works.

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How to use Shortcuts in MacOS Monterey

Digital Trends

MacOS Monterey has added the Shortcuts app to the Mac, helping to save you time. Here’s how to use Apple’s handy automation app to make life a little easier.

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Janicza Bravo Will Produce and Direct Kindred Pilot Episode for FX

GizModo VR

Zola director Janicza Bravo will direct and serve as executive producer on the FX pilot for Kindred —an adaptation of the novel written by prolific science-fiction writer Octavia E. Butler. Read more.

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It lives! NASA restores Hubble with a switch to backup hardware

Digital Trends

The much-beloved Hubble Space Telescope looks like it will be able to resume operations soon, after a month of nail-biting issues with its hardware.

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Black Widow is a Good Film, but It Has Flaws That Need Addressing

GizModo VR

To get an in depth analysis of the film as a whole, read Germain Lussier’s review for Black Widow. Now on with it. 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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Some like it hot: Astronauts are growing chili peppers on the space station

Digital Trends

Astronauts on the International Space Station are adding a new item to their menu of space-grown food: Chili peppers.

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No Time To Die: Daniel Craig Speaks On His Final Outing as Bond

GizModo VR

Daniel Craig is absolutely, positively done with James Bond. Read more.

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Very Large Telescope captures a cosmic fireworks display

Digital Trends

A series of five stunning images of nearby galaxies could help to unravel the mystery of how stars form.

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Releases Recap: July 12 – 16

Oculus

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

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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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How Resident Evil Village used motion capture to create iconic monsters

Digital Trends

Resident Evil Village's Performance Director Masato Miyazaki breaks down the game's tricky motion-capture process.

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How NASA is testing the James Webb Space Telescope before its launch

Digital Trends

The James Webb telescope has suffered a series of delays but is creeping towards launch, with the completion of three milestones in its final round of testing.

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How to convert your window blinds into smart blinds

Digital Trends

Smart blinds can be prohibitively expensive, but DIY conversion kits can save money and provide all of the same benefits.

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How to enable FreeSync on PC

Digital Trends

AMD FreeSync can give you a tear-free gaming experience, but you need to know how to enable FreeSync to use it. In this guide, we show you how.

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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.