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How To Use Live Overlay On The Oculus Quest 2

VRScout

Learn how to take your VR gameplay videos to the next level on the Oculus Quest using this neat little feature. Available now on Oculus Quest headsets as part of update v29, Live Overlay allows you to layer yourself over VR gameplay using your smartphone camera, no editing or green screen equipment required. All you need is a compatible iPhone and a flat surface in which to place it.

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Dragonlance's Creators Are Creating a New RPG World With D&D's Rules

GizModo VR

Ravenloft and Dragonlance , two of D&D ’s most iconic classic settings, wouldn’t exist without the work of husband-and-wife team Tracy and Laura Hickman. Now, the Hickmans are setting their sights on a new world for a tabletop roleplaying setting—and while it’s not explicitly part of D&D , it’s leveraging the latest… Read more.

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Mars? Old news. The next 10 years will be the decade of Venus

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In recent decades, space agencies have mostly been focused on visiting Mars -- but now their sights are shifting to Earth's other planetary neighbor: Venus.

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15 X-Files Guest Stars Who Helped Make the Show a Classic

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Sure, we love Mulder and Scully —as well as Skinner and even that pesky Cigarette Smoking Man. And while a good portion of The X-Files ’ magic came from the interactions between its regular cast members, the sci-fi series’ prolific use of guest stars helped elevate its storytelling, particularly in its wonderful … 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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Enable these 3 easy Windows settings to drastically improve your PC’s security

Digital Trends

From ransomware and malware to viruses, a lot of things can go bad when you own a PC. Here are three settings you can change to improve security in Windows.

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Astronauts on the ISS are using augmented reality apps to help with repairs

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Astronauts on the ISS are testing out a new Augmented Reality (AR) system which can help in the inspection and maintenance of station equipment.

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Instagram Is Reportedly Working on an Update That Will Allow You to See Your ‘Favorites’ First

GizModo VR

In general, I can be on the fence about Instagram. The pressure to be “perfect” for the ‘gram can make me roll my eyes or bore me (though yes, I have succumbed to this pressure before, I’m only human). One thing Instagram knows is that I like is cats, which frequently leads me to ask myself: Why aren’t there more cats… Read more.

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There’s a weird asteroid shaped like a bone whipping around our sun

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Astronomers have got their closest look yet at an unusually shaped asteroid orbiting the sun in the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars.

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In Ron's Gone Wrong, the Social Network Has Been Roboticized

GizModo VR

Those kids today. Always on their phones ! It seems like they’ve stopped talking to each other except through Instagram and TikTok and the Whozit and Whatevers. But what if. instead of phones, their social lives were conducted through adorable robots called B-Bots? 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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Launch of SpaceX Inspiration4 mission pushed back by a day

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The crew of SpaceX's first all-civilian mission, Inspiration4, will wait a little longer to go into space as the mission launch has been delayed by a day.

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Releases Recap: September 6 – 10

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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Stars sparkle and shine in Hubble image of a distant globular cluster

Digital Trends

This week's Hubble image shows the globular cluster NGC 6717, located over 20,000 light-years away in the constellation of Sagittarius.

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Another Court Rules That Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Can Indeed Ban School Mask Mandates

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At this point, Florida’s ban on mask mandates in public schools can be compared to Katy Perry’s famous song, “Hot N Cold.” Sometimes it’s a yes, sometimes it’s a no. 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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What Perseverance is learning from the two samples of Mars rock it has taken

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The Perseverance rover has collected two samples of martian rock, and NASA scientists have revealed what these samples can tell us about the history of Mars.

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Why the rumored Apple Watch Series 7 redesign has me worried

Digital Trends

The Apple Watch Series 7 is rumored to get a complete redesign, and renders have got me a little worried about what that will mean for the wonderful wearable.

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Microsoft Fall 2021 Surface Event: Everything we expect

Digital Trends

Be it a Surface Duo 2, a Surface Laptop Pro, or a new Surface Pro model, here's everything rumored to debut at Microsoft's fall Surface event.

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Why the rumored Apple Watch Series 7 redesign has me worried

Digital Trends

The Apple Watch Series 7 is rumored to get a complete redesign, and renders have got me a little worried about what that will mean for the wonderful wearable.

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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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The best mini PCs for 2021

Digital Trends

Mini PCs are a compact computer solution that's easy to carry around while still supplying the performance busy users need. Here are our favorite models to try.

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If you still hate mobile games in 2021, you’re not playing enough of them

Digital Trends

The ongoing stigma around mobile gaming has only become sillier as the platform matures.

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