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VR Art App ‘Brushwork’ Available Free, No Download Required

VRScout

Sunset Division’s browser-based immersive painting experience lets you craft beautiful works of art in VR, no additional downloads necessary. We’ve seen a number of immersive art apps make their way to VR headsets over the past few years. Titles like Kingspray Graffiti VR and SculptVR allow you to try your hand at more unique forms of modern art, while more recent experiences, such as Painting VR on Oculus Quest, offer hyper-realistic simulations of more widely-accepted genres.

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Neutron Stars Have Mountains That Are Less Than a Millimeter Tall

GizModo VR

A team of astrophysicists recently used new models of neutron stars to map the mountains—tiny raised areas—on the stars’ otherwise perfectly spherical structures. They found that the greatest deviations were still extraordinarily small due to the intense gravitational pull, clocking in at less than a millimeter tall. Read more.

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This tiny satellite will use a solar sail to investigate an asteroid

Digital Trends

Following the success of Bill Nye's solar sail craft, LightSail 2, NASA plans to launch its own solar sail craft to investigate near-Earth asteroids.

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You Can No Longer Say ‘I Do’ on Zoom in New York

GizModo VR

A virtual avenue for marriage that sprung up during the pandemic in the state of New York is no more. As of late last month, Zoom weddings are no longer legal. That means if you want to get married, you have to do so in person in the presence of someone authorized to perform the ceremony. 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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Teenage ‘lava world’ is the youngest exoplanet of its type discovered so far

Digital Trends

NASA's exoplanet-hunter TESS recently discovered four "teenage" exoplanets, including one dramatic lava world that orbits ultra-close to its star.

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Robot pile-up causes grocery delivery chaos for online shoppers

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A catastrophic collision between three robots at a cutting-edge facility in the U.K. suggests the road toward the robot takeover may be rocky.

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Mark Hamill Discusses His Role in Masters of the Universe: Revelations

GizModo VR

Hamill has also made a name for himself in the voice-over community, most notably lending his voice to the Joker in Batman: The Animated Series. Per his recent appearance on The Tonight Show, Starring Jimmy Fallon , the Star Wars actor chatted about voicing Skeletor in Kevin Smith’s animated series Masters of the … Read more.

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Everything we know about Assassin’s Creed: Infinity

Digital Trends

Assassin's Creed Infinity is Ubisoft's next big project, and the live-service game is looking to be the biggest AC game to date. Here's everything we know.

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Space Jam: A New Legacy Takes Box Office's Top Spot This Weekend

GizModo VR

The first Space Jam starring Michael Jordan was released in 1996 and opened with $27.5 million. By the time the film ended its run, the overall domestic total was $90 million in box office sales. 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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How to watch the ISS relocate a Crew Dragon to make room for a Starliner

Digital Trends

It's a busy time at the International Space Station, with preparations beginning this week for the orbital test flight of the Boeing Starliner.

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The Walking Dead Universe Book Cover Revealed by AMC Networks

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AMC Networks, Skybound Entertainment, and Image Comics revealed the new cover to the book The Art of AMC’s The Walking Dead Universe from illustrator Brian Rood. Read more.

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China’s Zhurong rover visits its parachute and backshell on Mars

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China's Zhurong rover is exploring the surface of Mars and recently stopped by the site of its parachute and backshell.

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Shang-Chi Actress Michelle Yeoh Provides New Details on Her Character

GizModo VR

The reigning queen of martial arts cinema, Michelle Yeoh, has offered up some info on her role in Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. 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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Baldur’s Gate 3’s character creation limits stifle its RPG potential

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While Baldur's Gate 3 has done a good job making a video game feel like Dungeons and Dragons, it still doesn't address a big problem.

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HaptX raises $12M in growth funding, opens new Seattle-area HQ

HaptX

Company expands manufacturing of HaptX Gloves DK2 to meet strong customer demand. REDMOND, WA, – HaptX, the leading provider of realistic haptic technology, today announced a Series A-1 financing round of $12 million along with new headquarters in the Seattle area. HaptX also announced a second manufacturing run of HaptX Gloves DK2, the world’s most advanced haptic feedback gloves, after selling out the first run in less than six months.

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Selfie comes with a lightning bolt and hospitalization

Digital Trends

It’s the kind of selfie that you really wouldn’t want to take, but it has to be said that the resulting photo is rather extraordinary.

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Top 50 Asian Virtual Reality-Augmented Reality Leaders,Evangelists, Investors & Influencers

XROM

Written By: Eddie Avil. Over the years i have seen a few lists of Top 50 XR Influencers, but the curators of those list always overlooked China/India/Asia's XR Industry. Just for Context the worlds current population is 7 Billion, India & China's Collective population is 2.7 Billion & mind you i haven't added the overall population of #asia.Ignore us at your own risk #facebook #microsoft & the curators of those lists.

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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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Hubble is once again working to ‘further our understanding of the universe’

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After switching to backup hardware, the Hubble Space Telescope is back up and running following a computer error last month.

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Twinky Flex review: The neon wall light that bends all the rules

Digital Trends

This isn't your ordinary wall light, the hypnotic glow of the Twinkly Flex makes is an attention grabber.

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Everything we know about the Steam Deck

Digital Trends

Valve's new handheld game system, the Steam Deck, is built from the ground up to work with Steam's platform and cross-play with your PC. Here's what to know.

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The HP Spectre x360 14 is my new favorite laptop. Here’s why

Digital Trends

The HP Spectre x360 14 is my favorite laptop thanks to its perfect size, excellent keyboard, and awesome display.

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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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Blue Origin video highlights path to Tuesday’s first crewed flight

Digital Trends

As Blue Origin prepares to send its founder Jeff Bezos and three others to the edge of space on Tuesday, the company reveals how it got this far.

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