Sun.Jun 13, 2021

article thumbnail

Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin is a new action game from Team Ninja

Digital Trends

As shown during the Square Enix Presents E3 2021 event, Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin is an action game coming to current and last-gen platforms.

Gaming 130
article thumbnail

Is Censor the Future of Giallo Horror?

GizModo VR

Censor is a 2021 Giallo film written and directed by Prano-Bailey Bond, and co-written with Anthony Fletcher. The story follows Enid Baines (Niamh Algar), a woman who works at the British film censor board. She is part of a team that decides which movies make it into theaters and which films will never see the light… Read more.

Filming 116
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Should Big Tech pay you for your data? It’s possible, but also problematic

Digital Trends

There are a handful of companies on the web that aim to give you control of your data, and even pay you for it. But doing so could potentially cause issues.

Data 120
article thumbnail

Microsoft Makes the Xbox Series X Mini Fridge Meme a Reality, Will Sell It This Holiday Season

GizModo VR

Once a meme that delighted the internet, the Xbox Series X-shaped mini fridge is becoming a reality. At the end of its E3 2021 showcase on Sunday, Microsoft announced that it would be selling “the world’s most powerful mini fridge” this upcoming holiday season. Read more.

Microsoft 111
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Space station photo attempts to convey satellite’s high speed

Digital Trends

Space station astronaut Thomas Pesquet has posted a photo that tries to convey the satellite's high speed as it orbits Earth.

116
116

More Trending

article thumbnail

Europe to launch renewable wooden satellite made of plywood

Digital Trends

A Scandinavian company plans to launch the world's first wooden satellite to bring attention to the use of renewable materials in space.

Europe 107
article thumbnail

A Mysterious Bidder Just Paid $28 Million to Fly to Space With Jeff Bezos on July 20

GizModo VR

Someone with deep pockets just shelled out $28 million to fly to space with Jeff Bezos, the richest man on Earth, on Blue Origin’s first crewed flight of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle. Unfortunately, we don’t yet know who the mystery bidder is, although Blue Origin promises we’ll find out in a few weeks. Read more.

Tourism 111
article thumbnail

Avengers: War For Wakanda gets a new trailer, but no release date

Digital Trends

The latest trailer for Marvel's Avengers' War For Wakanda expansion was light on the details, leaving out a release date for the long-awaited update.

Gaming 95
article thumbnail

Invincible Showrunner Discusses The Challenges of Shooting Season Finale

GizModo VR

The finale of Invincible showcased the true destruction that can happen when a city is turned into a battlefield by two overpowered people. Robert Kirkman and the team behind Amazons’ animated series Invincible went balls to the wall with death and chaos, showing how people caught in the middle of personal vendettas… Read more.

Amazon 98
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

How to watch a livestream of NASA spacewalk on Wednesday

Digital Trends

NASA and its European counterpart, ESA, are preparing for a spacewalk that will take place on Wednesday, June 16. Here's how you can watch it live online.

How To 93
article thumbnail

Jessica Henwick Fulfills Her Dreams Starring in Fourth Matrix Film

GizModo VR

Jessica Henwick has already tackled many iconic sci-fi and fantasy roles, with her most notable being Nymeria Sand in Game of Thrones and Colleen Wing Netflix show Iron Fist. Next up on her resume is an undisclosed role in Lana Wachowski’s fourth Matrix movie. Read more.

Filming 98
article thumbnail

Microsoft’s Xbox Series X Mini-Fridge is coming this holiday season

Digital Trends

Microsoft says it's following through on a promise to launch an Xbox Series X-inspired mini-fridge, with the product set to go on sale this holiday season.

article thumbnail

Loki: Is TVA Judge Revonna Renslayer Friend or Foe?

GizModo VR

Gugu Mbatha-Raw is now an official member of the Marvel gang as she stars in Disney+ newest show, Loki as Revonna Renslayer. Read more.

Filming 108
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

This beautiful galaxy captured by Hubble defies classification

Digital Trends

This week's image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows no less than three galaxies, including one which can't easily be categorized.

98
article thumbnail

Amazon Unveils Fleet of Cutesy-Named Robots to Make Its Warehouses Less of a Hazardous Hellscape

GizModo VR

Amazon warehouse employees may soon get a couple of new co-workers: Ernie and Bert. Read more.

Amazon 94
article thumbnail

Hades, Yakuza: Like a Dragon, and more coming to Xbox Game Pass

Digital Trends

Xbox Game Pass is getting a ton of new games, including Yakuza: Like a Dragon, which is available today.

Gaming 110
article thumbnail

Our Favorite VR Game Announcements From E3 2021

VRScout

The Upload VR Showcase returns with new information on 18 killer VR games. Yesterday, Upload hosted its third annual E3 VR Showcase as part of IGN’s Summer of Gaming event, revealing a generous amount of new information for 18 VR games on Oculus Quest, PlayStation VR, and SteamVR headsets. This includes everything from new gameplay trailers for highly-anticipated titles such as Larcenauts and Green Hell VR to long-awaited updates for popular experiences like Demeo and Blaston.

Gaming 470
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Babylon’s Fall is a multiplayer, live service hack n’ slash game

Digital Trends

More Babylon's Fall gameplay was revealed at Square Enix's E3, along with multiplayer gameplay and its live-service model.

Gaming 97
article thumbnail

Redfall, a new co-op shooter packed with vampires, set for summer 2022 release

Digital Trends

Redfall will pit players against swarms of vampires, arming them with special vampire-slaying weaponry and magical powers.

Gaming 93
article thumbnail

Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy puts a superhero spin on Mass Effect

Digital Trends

Square Enix unveiled marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy at E3 and it borrows several ideas from Mass Effect.

Gaming 98
article thumbnail

Life Is Strange: True Colors allows players to manipulate emotions and auras

Digital Trends

A new Life Is Strange: True Colors trailer shows off the ways players can manipulate characters' emotions.

Gaming 97
article thumbnail

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?

article thumbnail

Contraband confirmed as the next game from developer of Just Cause series

Digital Trends

Avalanche Studios, the team behind the Just Cause series, is working on Contraband, a new co-op open-world game.

Gaming 95
article thumbnail

Wearable fans may look obnoxious, but they have practical uses for scorching summers

Digital Trends

They certainly look strange, especially in public, but you may find other ways to use a wearable fan.

article thumbnail

Halo Infinite is launching for holidays along with free-to-play multiplayer

Digital Trends

Halo Infinite's new E3 trailer offers a new look at the story and Master Chief's new companion A.I.

article thumbnail

Starfield will launch in 2022 as an Xbox exclusive

Digital Trends

Today's trailer for Starfield revealed very few details, save for a release date and the fact that players will fill the boots of a spacefaring explorer.

Gaming 74
article thumbnail

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?