Sun.Jan 17, 2021

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Wave VR Concerts Put On Pause

VRScout

After five years of virtual performances, the company is pivoting away from music and art. When Wave launched in 2016, it served as this incredible VR platform that brought people together through virtual entertainment. It merged VR with music to create these over-the-top VR performances impossible to re-produce in the real-world. It even caught the attention of Grammy winning artists such as The Weekend and John Legend , who both performed in VR via the music-focused social platform.

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Parler's Back from the Dead With a Domain Registered to Epik, Home to Gab and Daily Stormer

GizModo VR

Parler came back online Sunday with a defiant message to the social network’s “lovers and haters.” Its new host appears to be Epik, a domain name registrar that has harbored other deplatformed cesspools like Gab, the Daily Stormer, and 8kun predecessor’s 8chan, thus cementing Parler, the self-proclaimed “world’s… Read more.

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Startups at CES showed how tech can help elderly people and their caregivers

TechCrunch VR

The COVID-19 pandemic shined a harsh spotlight on the challenges many elderly people face. Older adults are among the highest-risk groups for developing cases that need hospitalization and nursing homes were especially vulnerable to outbreaks. While dealing with COVID-19, the elderly have also faced many other problems, including the difficulty of accessing medical care for chronic conditions during lockdowns and isolation.

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These Monkeys Understand Economics and Intentionally Steal High-Ticket Items to Barter for Better Food, Study Finds

GizModo VR

Some of you all may be familiar with the crime ring of long-tailed macaque monkeys that reside around the Uluwatu Temple in Bali, Indonesia, who were thrust into infamy a few years ago for stealing from tourists and holding the ransom until they were paid in food. As if that visual weren’t mind-blowing enough, a new… 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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Grapple Tournament Championship Features Legendary Content Creators

VR Fitness

Grapple Tournament is an exciting VR arcade shooter featuring vertical movement through the use of grappling hooks and an assortment of weapons to eliminate the enemy. Today many of the world’s legendary VR content creators will battle for glory today in the Grapple Tournament Championship hosted by Between Realities VR Podcast. Continue reading on VR Fitness Insider.

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5 Best Virtual Reality Techs Making Your Life Easy

AffinityVr

VR is a highly interactive, computer-based multimedia environment in which the user becomes a participant in a computer-generated world. It is an artificial environment created with computer hardware and software and presented to the user in such a way that it appears and feels like a real environment. VR technology creates the illusion that on-screen [.].

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Meet the man on a controversial mission to preserve and digitize your brain

Digital Trends

Robert McIntyre is on a mission to preserve human brains so they can be uploaded in the future. Outlandish? Sure. But aren't most groundbreaking ideas?

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An Italian Plane Manufacturer Developed A Craft Just For Transporting COVID-19 Vaccines

GizModo VR

Tecnam, an Italian aeronautics company that produces aircraft parts for other manufacturers and also develops it own light aircraft, has engineered a small plane with the purpose of transporting the COVID-19 vaccine by air. Read more.

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This strange planet has three suns and orbits at a funky angle

Digital Trends

Researchers have discovered a planet with three suns and an unusual kink in its orbit.

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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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Ethan Hawke Is Going to Be Playing the Villain In Disney's Moon Knight Series

GizModo VR

Well, the list of distinguished actors attached to this project has just gone up by one. Read more.

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The best Samsung Galaxy S21 Plus screen protectors

Digital Trends

Here's our roundup of the best Samsung Galaxy S21 Plus screen protectors available right now, so that you can protect your new phone from scratches and cracks.

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Revamp Your Skincare Routine With up To 36% off Top Skincare Products and Tools

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The Ordinary AHA 30% + BHA 2% Peeling Solution | $6 | Ulta The Ordinary 100% Niacinamide Powder | $6 | Ulta The Ordinary Retinol 0.5% in Squalane | $7 | Ulta Latme Ice Roller | $11 | Amazon Deciniee Jade Roller and Gua Sha Tools Set | $13 | Amazon New York Biology Dead Sea Mud Mask | $16 | Amazon Read more.

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Nissan has a cool idea to make remote working truly remote

Digital Trends

Nissan's awesome "caravan office pod" is aimed at folks who'd like to work anywhere they darn well like and features a workspace that slides out of the vehicle.

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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 Ginormous Dust Storm in Colorado Could Be Seen From Space

GizModo VR

This week a dust storm so ridiculously huge that it was visible from space tore through Colorado. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s GOES-East satellite captured a two-hour timelapse of the storm , which you can see above. Read more.

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The best free streaming TV services right now

Digital Trends

In this day and age, you don't have to break the bank to stream. In fact, with many free services providing movies and TV shows, you don't need the bank at all.

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Grab a Vibrant Mario, Luigi, Wario, or Waluigi Beanie for $19 When You Stack These Discounts

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Mario, Luigi, Wario, Waluigi Beanie | $19 | Clip coupon & promo E4HATS10 Read more.

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Testing Mars exploration drones on Icelandic lava flows

Digital Trends

How do you test a machine that's designed to operate on another planet? Using the lava flow fields of Iceland to test out drones and rovers to explore Mars.

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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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Sunday's Best Deals: Compustar 2-Way Remote Start System, USB C Fast Chargers, Trunk Organizer & Cooler Combos, Office Rolling Chair, Skincare Tools & Products, Infrared Thermometer, and More

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Our galaxy is lonelier than we thought, New Horizons data shows

Digital Trends

It was previously thought that there were trillions of galaxies in our universe, but new research using NASA's Deep Horizons mission questions that figure.

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This is the remnant of a star that exploded 1,700 years ago

Digital Trends

When a supernova explodes, it creates a remnant which can persist for thousands of years. Hubble scientists have estimated the age of one such remnant.

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A non-connectivity approach can be practical for a smart home

Digital Trends

BenjiLock by Hampton intentionally left any kind of connectivity out of its front door lock, bike lock, and gym lock. But is that a great idea? We examine.

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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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The best apps for couples

Digital Trends

Relationship in need of some TLC? Up your couple game and stoke the romantic fires of love with these 10 apps designed to help you get closer as a couple.

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NASA test fires the world’s largest rocket core stage

Digital Trends

NASA put its Space Launch System through a hot fire test, firing the core stage's engines for over a minute and generating 1.6 million pounds of thrust.

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Watch Virgin Orbit fire a rocket from a plane in first successful space trip

Digital Trends

Virgin Orbit has released a dramatic video showing the start of Sunday's successful space mission that involved firing a rocket from a modified Boeing 747 jet.

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Apple Mac Mini M1 review: Miniature footprint, maximum performance

Digital Trends

The Mac Mini is the first desktop Mac with Apple’s M1 chip inside.

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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?