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How to use Action Mapping as a Framework for VR learning design?—?Motive.io

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How to use Action Mapping as a Framework for VR learning design?—?Motive.io Virtual reality needs learning design There are a lot of questions surrounding virtual reality for training. The promise of the technology to bring training to life and make a lasting impact on success is exciting. Sometimes the leap from the idea of VR to the actual implementation of VR can be daunting.

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Instagram Promises It's Not Snooping on iOS Users' Cameras, Says It’s a Bug

GizModo VR

Apple’s iOS 14 beta has proven surprisingly handy at sussing out what apps are snooping on your phone’s data. It ratted out LinkedIn, Reddit , and TikTok for secretly copying clipboard content earlier this month, and now Instagram’s in hot water after several users reported that their camera’s “in use” indicator stays… Read more.

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90-Day VR Fitness Challenge Winners Announced

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In April, YUR and VR Fitness Insider teamed up to promote health and wellness through the 90-Day VR Fitness Challenge, an event designed to encourage a focus on healthy lifestyle choices, establish a VR gaming workout routine, and engage with the community as they began their personal fitness journeys. Continue reading on VR Fitness Insider.

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Dune Authors Announce a New Trilogy That Bumps Right Up to the Events of the Movie

GizModo VR

The Dune universe continues to expand. With Denis Villeneuve’s film adaptation on the horizon, the saga’s caretakers have revealed more details about their upcoming graphic novels—along with a new book trilogy that should help get fans up to speed on Paul Atreides’ life before he ventured to Arrakis and changed the… 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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What is Google Pay, and how do you use it?

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Google Pay allows you to pay for products and services with your smartphone, among many other handy features.

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How to unlock a phone on every carrier in 2020

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Now that your contract is up, here's how to unlock your smartphone and allow it to move onto another carrier.

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25 Years After Returning, Yellowstone’s Wolves Are the Most Studied but Misunderstood Good Boys

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Twenty-five years ago, wildlife managers in Yellowstone National Park undertook one of the most consequential actions in modern American conservation when they unleashed 14 wolves into the park. Read more.

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These are the delivery robots that will soon invade your city’s sidewalks

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Before we see self-driving cars on our streets, we'll have delivery bots on our sidewalks.

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David Goyer Is Still Reflecting on Man of Steel's Biggest Controversies 7 Years Later

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DC’s Man of Steel is in a strange place right now. After kicking off DC’s current universe of movies, Henry Cavill’s Clark Kent has gone from unifying star to peculiar Justice League catalyst , then practically nowhere to be seen in Warner’s slate of upcoming DC movies. But while his cinematic future remains in flux ,… 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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Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 code reveals support for hand gestures, fall detection

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The new wearable is expected to be unveiled on August 5.

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Constantine Was Rated R Mostly Because It Was Moody

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Constantine , the 2005 Keanu Reeves - starring adaptation of the Vertigo Comic, had a rough go of it at first. Though it’s a cult favorite now, it didn’t do especially well at release, partially due to the fact that it transgressed a boundary that most comic book films still refuse to cross: it was rated R, limiting its… Read more.

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Should you or shouldn’t you force quit iOS apps?

Digital Trends

If you are force quitting apps on your iOS device, then stop. It does not help battery life or performance.

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Zack Snyder's Non-SDCC Justice League Event Was. Super Weird

GizModo VR

It turns out that San Diego Comic-Con isn’t the only digital event happening this weekend. There’s also “Justice Con,” the fan-run convention dedicated to Zack Snyder’s Justice League , which was recently announced to be coming to HBO Max. This side event had some serious energy and gave fans a new look at Snyder’s … 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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NASA’s Juno spacecraft maps the northern pole of moon Ganymede for first time

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The craft came within 62,000 miles of Jupiter's moon.

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FDA Authorizes First Coronavirus Test for Asymptomatic People Without Known or Suspected Infection

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The Food and Drug Administration on Friday reissued an emergency use authorization for a test to screen people without symptoms of covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. This authorization, the first for this kind of test aims to allow asymptomatic individuals who do not have symptoms and have no… Read more.

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Horror manga artist Junji Ito confirms talks with Hideo Kojima on new project

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The mangaka was supposed to contribute to the canceled Silent Hills.

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Lovecraft Country's Racist Horrors Are Rooted in Reality

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In HBO’s upcoming adaptation of Matt Ruff’s novel Lovecraft Country , a family of Black heroes find themselves having to face both the everyday racist realities of 1950s America and a whole host of demonic entities that seem to pop up wherever they go. During this year’s San Diego Comic-Con at Home, Lovecraft Country ’s… Read more.

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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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This 65-inch Hisense 4K TV is on sale for only $400 at Best Buy

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A picture-perfect, 65-inch Hisense H65G 4K TV is on sale for $400, or $100 off its original price of $500.

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Hanna, First Hurricane of the Atlantic Season, to Strike Coronavirus-Ravaged Texas

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Unfortunately, the weather doesn’t care about coronavirus and doesn’t discriminate between states that have been decimated by the pandemic and those that have fared better. Hurricane Hanna, the first of the Atlantic season , is headed to Texas—which has reported more than 369,000 cases of covid-19 and an average of… Read more.

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This could be the best Microsoft Office deal we’ve ever seen

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Get the very best in office software while you keep your privacy, and your email spam-free for $100 at Dell.

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Zack Snyder's Justice League Just Got a Tiny New Super Tease

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San Diego Comic-Con might be, well, at home this year, but Zack Snyder’s skipped the virtual line—and even the official event—altogether to join with a group of fans in celebration of the director finally being able to work on and complete his own version of Justice League. And he celebrated in style, by bringing a… 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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Google offers to replace Nest thermostats that have internet connection issues

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The problem affects the devices' remote management capabilities.

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SDCC's 'Scary Good TV' Panel Offers Fascinating Insight Into the Minds Behind Today's Best Horror

GizModo VR

Every year, some of San Diego Comic-Con’s panels have broader appeal, while others are a bit more specific. The Shudder-presented “Scary Good TV with Horror’s Top Showrunners” falls into that latter category, but horror fans (especially fans of Channel Zero , Locke & Key , and all things Chucky ) won’t want to miss it. Read more.

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iOS 14 camera indicator turns on when browsing Instagram; bug fix on the way

Digital Trends

A spokesperson said that no content is being recorded.

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt With All the DLC Is Only $25 ($40 if You're on Switch)

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (PS4) | $25 | Amazon The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Xbox One) | $25 | Amazon The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Switch) | $40 | Amazon 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?