Sat.Oct 23, 2021

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Hasbro Reveals ‘Transformers’ VR Game And NerfVR Updates

VRScout

The company has revealed additional details surrounding its lineup of original VR experiences. During day two of Hasbro Pulse Con, a two-day virtual event showcasing exclusive Hasbro products and events, the company announced its first-ever at-home VR game, Transformers: Beyond Reality for Playstation VR and SteamVR headsets. Hasbro didn’t divulge a lot of details during the brief five-minute announcement, but they did debut a trailer that showed the arcade-style first-person shooter in action,

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Young Justice's Future Is Up to Its Fans, Again

GizModo VR

Young Justice is a pretty good show most of the time, and after it got cancelled by Cartoon Network in 2013, fans eventually managed to secure a third season some years later for HBO Max. Between that and its recently premiered season four , you’d think the passion of the fanbase would’ve already secured a fifth season… Read more.

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How time of day affects learning ability, and how to use it to your advantage

Digital Trends

You can access information whenever you want, but according to science, your ability to absorb and retain that information fluctuates throughout the day.

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More Than 100 Cargo Ships Were Waiting to Unload in Southern California This Week, an All-Time High

GizModo VR

If you want to know what a global supply chain crisis looks like at its worst, all you have to do is check out what happened at southern California’s ports this week. 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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Oculus Quest 2 setup is super easy. Getting OpenSim on it, not so much

Hypergrid Business

Maria Korolov with the Oculus Quest 2 headset. I just ordered my Oculus Quest 2 headset this morning — and it already came this evening. Initial impression is that it’s the easiest-to-use headset I’ve tried so far. Very comfortable, very lightweight, and I didn’t even need to charge it up when I took it out of the box. Next step — figure out how to use it with OpenSim.

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5 easy ways to dramatically increase security in Google Chrome

Digital Trends

We have five easy ways that you can increase the security of your Google Chrome web browser without extra downloads or software.

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Charlie Cox Thinks It's Fine If He's Not Daredevil Again

GizModo VR

Charlie Cox became known to most audiences when he suited up as Daredevil for Netflix and did a pretty dang good job at it. Since the show was cancelled in 2018 , fans have been demanding it and most of the other Netflix Marvel shows (sorry, Iron Fist ) return, and some have even convinced themselves he’s showing up in… Read more.

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Mars helicopter is back in action and will attempt high rotor speed flight today

Digital Trends

Mars helicopter Ingenuity will attempt another test flight this weekend, spinning its rotors faster than before to compensate for changing weather on Mars.

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T-Mobile Delays Shutdown of Sprint’s 3G Network and Throws Shade at Partners

GizModo VR

T-Mobile is delaying its planned January shutdown of Sprint’s legacy 3G network, or CDMA network, because it claims some of its partners “haven’t followed through on their responsibility” to transition their customers to new networks. 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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NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is in cruise mode, but solar array issue persists

Digital Trends

NASA is investigating what is wrong with the solar array of its Lucy spacecraft, but says the craft is healthy and is traveling along the correct trajectory.

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Spider-Man: No Way Home Is the New Avengers: Endgame, According to Its Director

GizModo VR

Now that we’re a little under two months from Spider-Man: No Way Home finally releasing, it’s getting a gradual media buildup that’s promising this’ll be a big film. As if the return of Alfred Molina’s Doc Ock or its multiversal madness concept weren’t a big enough clue for you, director Jon Watts is already likening… Read more.

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NASA will send its uncrewed Artemis mission to the moon in February 2022

Digital Trends

NASA has confirmed that it will be heading back to the moon early next year, announcing that the uncrewed Artemis I mission will launch in February 2022.

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Parisi’s Metaverse Manifesto: Unpacking His Seven Rules for the Metaverse

Voices of VR

Tony Parisi published really great Metaverse manifesto on October 22nd titled The Seven Rules for the Metaverse, which attempts to rein in some of the.

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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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Hawaiian telescope snaps an image of a recently formed baby planet

Digital Trends

Recently, astronomers had the rare treat of observing an exoplanet directly -- and it's one of the youngest planets ever found.

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VR Soccer Games

VRGames

We engage in 3 VR Soccer Games. VR Sports activities Challenge, Defeat The Blitz, and 2MD VR Soccer Evolution. We see if I can perform quarterback in virtual fact (spoiler I … source.

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Hubble had a ringside seat to observe a star going supernova

Digital Trends

Recently the Hubble Space Telescope observed something very rare: A star in the process of going supernova.

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Strolling by place in NASA’s Digital Actuality Lab

VRGames

In the next episode of House Craft, Loren Grush learns how NASA trains its astronauts before sending them to place. Simulating the place natural environment … source.

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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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Govee Glide Wall Light Review: Simple on designs, big on light patterns

Digital Trends

Quickly add a bit of flair to any wall without having to spend a fortune with the Govee Glide Wall Light.

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Releases Recap: October 18 – 22

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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Here’s how Pixel 6 and Galaxy S21 users can live the MagSafe life like me

Digital Trends

Moment cases for Android phones like the Pixel 6 and S21 come with magnets to make them MagSafe compatible. More case makers should do this.

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All of Jackbox Party Pack 8’s new games, ranked by fun factor

Digital Trends

Which of the new Jackbox party games are worth playing, and which should you avoid? We played them all and here are our top picks.

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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?