Sat.Jan 09, 2021

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How To Play SteamVR Games On The Oculus Quest 2

VRScout

Expand your offerings with a massive catalogue of PC VR games & apps. The Oculus Quest has developed quite an impressive library of standalone games and apps. From original titles such as Phantom: Covert Ops to PC VR ports like The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners , there’s pretty much something for everyone on the Oculus Quest. Then again, why settle for just the Oculus Quest Store when you can have the entirety of the SteamVR library?

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Google Kicks Parler Off Its App Store, And Apple May Soon Follow Suit

GizModo VR

Parler was suspended from Google’s Play Store on Friday over its lack of content moderation, ironically the very reason the social media platform has quickly become an online gutter collecting deplatformed conservatives and far-right extremists. And a ban from Apple’s App Store may not be far behind. Read more.

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5 reasons why virtual CES will be dramatically better than real-life CES

Digital Trends

While I'm definitely sad that I'll miss out on in-person tech demos, there's a laundry list of reasons why CES 2021 going all-virtual is a good thing.

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Early WandaVision Impressions Suggest the Marvel Series Is as Good as It Is Weird

GizModo VR

Critics have seen the first three episodes of WandaVision , the upcoming Marvel Studios Disney+ series starring Scarlet Witch and the Vision as they take on their greatest challenge yet: the sitcom. Which means we’ve got impressions. 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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Elon Musk advises people to ditch Facebook and use Signal

Digital Trends

Tech CEO Elon Musk has urged his almost 42 million Twitter followers to use secure messaging app Signal instead of Facebook.

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NASA extends Juno and InSight missions, will continue exploring Jupiter and Mars

Digital Trends

NASA has announced it is extending the missions of two of its spacecraft: the Juno spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter and the InSight lander located on Mars.

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Twitter Doesn't Like Piracy, Even When It's in the Public Service

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Across Twitter on Friday, open-source advocates and academics alike poured one out following the suspension of Sci-Hub, a site that lets researchers bypass the costly paywalls for more than 70 million papers from across the globe. Read more.

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Intel CES 2021 news conference: How to watch and what to expect

Digital Trends

Want to know what Intel will be announcing and showing off at CES 2021? We'll show you how to watch Intel's keynote on January 11.

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Marvel's Moon Knight Series Has 2 New Directors

GizModo VR

Oscar Isaac is attached to star in Disney’ s upcoming Moon Knight series. Now, the project has added two additional directors to its lineup. A TV show usually needs more than one, you know. 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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Lawmaker calls for preservation of riot evidence as apps removed, users banned

Digital Trends

Several technology companies decided to remove apps or ban users to prevent the spread of violence, but will they preserve evidence to be used in prosecutions?

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This Gorgeous Soul Art Tribute Was Made in Virtual Reality

GizModo VR

This tribute to Disney and Pixar’s Soul is impressive, and even moreso when you find out how it was made. Read more.

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The best part of CES is missing this year, but there’s a silver lining

Digital Trends

My favorite part of CES -- the crazy, chaotic mosh pit of startups known as Eureka Park -- has been canceled. What does that mean for the show?

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This Video Goes Behind-the-Scenes on Star Trek: Discovery's Climactic Season 3 Finale

GizModo VR

That was a big one , wasn’t it? 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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How to watch the upgraded SpaceX Dragon capsule depart space station

Digital Trends

After just over a month docked at the ISS, SpaceX’s upgraded Cargo Dragon spacecraft is about to undock and return to Earth loaded with experiments.

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Saturday's Best Deals: 65-Inch Roku 4K TV, Water Flosser, Ergonomic Massage Gaming Chair, Knit Cap Sets, Fast iPhone 12 Charger, and More

GizModo VR

A water flosser and a 65-inch Westinghouse Roku 4K tv lead Saturday’s best deals. Read more.

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Scientists discover method for making rocket fuel on Mars

Digital Trends

Scientists at the University of California, Irvine have come up with a way to make methane-based rocket fuel from resources available on Mars.

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#970: Retrospective of 2020 Immersive Storytelling Residency at UNCSA’s METL

Voices of VR

Note: This is a sponsored content post from the University University of North Carolina School of the Arts I was a mentor for the UNCSA’s.

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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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Annie Jean-Baptiste of Google talks inclusion in tech at CES 2021

Digital Trends

Annie Jean-Baptiste is changing the way we think about technology. Her work on gender, inclusion, and racial bias in products is leading the tech industry.

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Drown Out a Chaotic News Cycle for a Minute With Your Favorite Shows on This $400 Westinghouse 65-Inch Roku TV

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Westinghouse 65" LED 4K Roku TV | $400 | Best Buy Read more.

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The best Rocket League players

Digital Trends

Rocket League has had hundreds of tournaments with top players earning a nice chunk of change. Here are some of the best players to ever take to the field.

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Get That Dentist-Clean-Feeling at Home With a $28 Homgeek Flosser [Exclusive]

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Homgeek Water Flosser | $28 | Amazon | Clip coupon + Promo KINJA0010 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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How to block channels on YouTube

Digital Trends

Whether you're looking to restrict comments on your video or you're done feeding the trolls, blocking a YouTube channel is quick and easy to accomplish.

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Triton Project is an affordable DIY AR headset

The Ghost Howls

Today I have the pleasure of publishing an interview I had with Graham Atlee , a very smart guy that has developed the Triton Project, a DIY affordable AR headset with wide FOV and natural hands interactions! I think it’s a very interesting project and all the people in the communities should know about it, so keep reading and discover it with me!

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The best $500 PC build for video editing

Digital Trends

Video editing is incredibly intensive, which means that you need a decent PC to do it with. Here's how to build a good one for under $500.

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Mozilla Calls for Sites to Go Beyond Just Deplatforming Bigots

GizModo VR

Online platforms are hastily cutting ties with President Donald Trump and his ilk after years of milquetoast responses to the hateful and violent rhetoric fomenting under their watch, and all it took was a deadly insurgency at the nation’s capital. However, Mozilla says deplatforming doesn’t go far enough and has… 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?