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‘Cyberpunk 2077’ VR Mod Coming Next Month

VRScout

Step back into the role of V and explore Night City in immersive VR. Luke Ross, the creator behind popular VR mods for games like Grand Theft Auto 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 , is bringing his talents to the world of Cyberpunk 2077. First reported by PC Gamer , Ross is currently in development of a new mod that will introduce full VR support to CD Projekt Red’s ambitious open-world RPG.

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Marco Magnano on XR Safety Week, journalism, and the meta…

The Ghost Howls

December, 6th will be the start day of XR Safety Week , an event that aims at fostering a healthy debate on some social themes surrounding XR , and at promoting safety, privacy, inclusion, and accessibility for everyone in our ecosystem. These are themes that have always been important to me, and that in my own small way, I have always tried to talk about.

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XR Talks: The Metaverse Meets Main Street

AR Insider

Beyond digital domains like gaming, the metaverse will apply to the physical world to enable AR devices to evoke geo-anchored digital content. This was explored in a recent panel discussion that we examine in this week's XR Talks. The post XR Talks: The Metaverse Meets Main Street appeared first on AR Insider.

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‘The Last Clockwinder’ is a Studio Ghibli-inspired Automation Game Coming to Quest 2 & SteamVR in 2022

Road to VR

Fixing up an old tower without tools sounds tough, but much less so when you have an army of robotic clones at your disposal. That’s the idea at least behind The Last Clockwinder, a VR automation game from Pontoco which is slated to hit Quest 2 and SteamVR headsets sometime in Summer 2022. Studio Ghibli vibes radiate throughout the game’s announcement trailer, showing off a familiar harmony between nature and machine that fans of Hayao Miyazaki’s storytelling style have come

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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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Snap Advances the Metavearth

ARVR

One of AR’s biggest opportunities is to augment the physical world. The latest move comes from Snap, which rolled out its “layers” feature on Snap Map. First teased at its May partner summit , this involves dynamically-activated map content organized around specific themes. As background, Snap Map geo-tags users and their Snaps on a map interface. 250 million Snapchatters are out and about using Snap Map to find people and places.

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What are Top Web AR Tactics?

ARVR

There’s growing sentiment in the mobile AR world that apps aren’t the optimal vessel. Yet the technology lives on a device where apps rule. 90 percent of mobile users’ time is spent in apps versus the browser. Can AR break that cycle? And if so, could web AR be the answer? What is web AR? In short, it delivers AR experiences through the mobile browser.

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Fascists Are Already Weaponizing Twitter's New 'Private Media' Rule

GizModo VR

Twitter’s new rule against posting “private media,” such as photographs and videos, depicting other people without their consent is already being exploited by fascists and white supremacists who are taking the opportunity to target anti-extremism researchers and activists. Read more.

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How to Drop In on an Echo, Echo Show, or Echo Dot

Digital Trends

Amazon's Drop In feature allows users to communicate through Echo devices. Here's how to use the Drop In feature with your Echo smart speakers.

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9 Inventors Who Were Killed by Their Own Inventions

GizModo VR

When most of us think of “inventors,” we’re probably thinking about folks like the Wright Brothers, Alexander Graham Bell, or Thomas Edison—folks who changed the world by creating something new and lived to tell the tale. What gets talked about less frequently are the folks that aren’t so lucky: the people that tried… 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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Don’t let new hybrid workplaces keep the old systemic racism

TechCrunch VR

Donald R. Cravins Jr. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Donald R. Cravins Jr. is the executive vice president of the National Urban League. Systemic racism is nothing new in America, and the effects of unconscious racial bias have long created inequity in the workplace. So why — when presented with the task of developing new “normal” hybrid workplaces — are we allowing the same systemic problems that boxed generations of Black and brown people out of the workforce to exist?

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4 States Just Hit All-Time December Heat Records

GizModo VR

Winter is officially here, and it’s hot as hell. This week, large parts of the U.S. and Canada found themselves subject to yet another brutal heatwave, this time bringing record December temperatures that could easily be confused for a cool summer evening. Read more.

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Microsoft backpedals on changing default browsers in Windows 11

Digital Trends

Up until now, it was difficult to change your default browser in Windows 11. Microsoft listened to the outcry of its users and is making it easier to do.

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Intellect and Romance Over Brute Force and Cynicism

GizModo VR

Some of you may remember the quote “intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism” from Craig Ferguson’s outstanding tribute to Doctor Who on the old (and far superior) The Late Late Show. But thinking back—on what is to be my last day running io9—I think it sums up how I’ve felt about working here for the last… 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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Vigil, Peacock’s submarine thriller, teases murder at sea in new trailer

Digital Trends

A murder on board a nuclear submarine carries grave implications in the first trailer for Peacock's Vigil. And the killer may do anything to hide their tracks.

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Now You Can Store Private Images in a Locked Google Photos Folder on Any Android Phone

GizModo VR

Over the summer, Google introduced the ability for Pixel users to effectively “lock away” photos in a vault to keep them hidden from prying eyes. The featured is called—what else?—Locked Folder, and anything stored there is protected by the device’s lock screen passcode. Locked photos won’t show up in the Photos grid,… Read more.

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After 9 years on Android and Windows, here’s why I’m all-in on Apple’s ecosystem

Digital Trends

Entering into the Apple ecosystem is like entering a place where everything just works. Let me explain.

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Two Disney Legends Are Tackling an Animated DC Movie

GizModo VR

It’s not every day that two of the most famous directors in animation history jump into the world of comic books , but that’s about to happen. Directors Ron Clements and John Musker, who made films you may have heard of like Aladdin , The Little Mermaid , and Moana , are looking to make an animated movie based on the DC… 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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Why the FTC (and everyone else) is trying to block Nvidia from buying ARM

Digital Trends

Nvidia's bid to purchase chip designer ARM has been at the center of controversy for over a year, and now the FTC has formally filed a lawsuit. Here's why.

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Two Men Allegedly Stole $20 Million in Music Royalties From YouTube

GizModo VR

Two men have been accused of a $20 million, years-long music royalties heist from a certain company identified as “Y.T.” Federal prosecutors do not explicitly name “YouTube.” We can glean from court documents, however, that “Y.T.” is a website that hosts uploads and uses the exact same monetization and content ID… Read more.

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How to reset a PS5

Digital Trends

No matter if you want to sell, trade in, or just troubleshoot your PlayStation 5, our guide will help you figure out how to reset your PS5 quickly and easily.

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The First Edit to Wikipedia Is Being Auctioned as an NFT

GizModo VR

Another day, another piece of internet history being turned into a wildly expensive NFT. This time, that historical remnant comes from Wikipedia; on Friday, Christie’s Auction House announced it would be auctioning off the first edit made to the platform more than 20 years ago. 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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This 75-inch TV is just $600 at Best Buy for Cyber Week 2021

Digital Trends

There's still some time for you to avail this year's Cyber Monday TV deals, which includes this $90 discount for the Hisense 75A6G 4K TV with a 75-inch screen.

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The Weirdest Things Star Wars' Boba Fett Got Up to After Escaping the Sarlacc

GizModo VR

Later this month, Boba Fett will make his play as a major new face in the Star Wars underworld in his very own Disney+ show, The Book of Boba Fett. But while this will be our “official” look at what Boba got up to after escaping digestion , it’s not the first time Star Wars has pondered what the infamous Bounty Hunter… Read more.

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How to connect your iPhone to a Samsung TV

Digital Trends

Looking to share content from your iPhone to your Samsung TV? Here's how to share videos, photos, music, and more to your TV with AirPlay 2 and other methods.

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Vote for One of These 25 Incredible Wildlife Photographs

GizModo VR

It’s that time of year to take a look at the natural world through the eyes of some of the most talented wildlife photographers on the planet—and you can vote for your favorite. This week, the Natural History Museum in London released 25 images that it has shortlisted for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s… 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?