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Top Five Music-Making Apps Available Now On VR Headsets

VRScout

Get started on your VR music career with these five incredible apps. Immersive technology is changing the way we look at music the music industry. Whether you’re looking to spin and mix existing music, produce your own original sounds, or enhance your IRL setup, the following apps represent the very best in modern VR music-making: TRIBE XR. Kicking things off we have Tribe XR by Tribe XR Inc.

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A Meta-Theory of Physics Could Explain Life, the Universe, Computation, and More

GizModo VR

You may think of physics as a way to explain the behaviors of things like black holes, colliding particles, falling apples, and quantum computers. But a small group physicists today is working on a theory that doesn’t just study individual phenomena; it’s an entirely new way to describe the universe itself. This… Read more.

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How to share Kindle books with family and friends

Digital Trends

Wondering how to share books on a Kindle? Here's what you need to know to lend books to a friend or loved one.

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Lovecraft Country Would Like to Point Out that You Can't Eat at Just Anybody's House

GizModo VR

Lovecraft Country understands that the best horror always allows for its heroes to make at least a few poor decisions in service of the plot. 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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Facebook actively lobbied for a TikTok ban in Washington, report claims

Digital Trends

Mark Zuckerberg expressed his concerns over the app during White House dinners.

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Microsoft backs Epic in dispute with Apple, says Unreal Engine is critical tech

Digital Trends

A court filing says the banning the engine will 'harm game creators and gamers'.

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Lousiana Braces for Unprecedented Back-to-Back Hurricane Strikes

GizModo VR

Two hurricanes are forecasted to slam the Gulf Coast this week, and Lousiana could see back-to-back landfalls in an unprecedented succession. Marco strengthened from a tropical storm to a Category 1 hurricane over the weekend , and the latest National Hurricane Center forecast has it hitting the southeastern coast of… Read more.

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These hilarious ads from the 1980s and ’90s show how far mobile tech has come

Digital Trends

There was a time when huge phones looked cool, as these classic commercials show.

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The X-Files Theme Has Lyrics Now, and You Can Hear the Cast and Crew Sing Them

GizModo VR

Did it need lyrics? No. Am I going to pass up the opportunity to see Gillian Anderson do literally anything ? Also no. 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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Follow NASA’s Perseverance rover in real time as it heads toward Mars

Digital Trends

Check out NASA's desktop app for some fascinating information on Mars 2020.

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The ThunderCats Are Loose in This Impressive CGI Recreation of the Show's Classic Theme

GizModo VR

Generally speaking, I’m a skeptic of the “recreated in CGI” genre of fan work. But this one really is something special. Read more.

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Wandering planets could outnumber the stars in our galaxy

Digital Trends

NASA's Roman Space Telescope will learn more about rogue planets.

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Matt Reeves Says The Batman Will Find the Caped Crusader at a Pivotal Moment in His Heroic Evolution

GizModo VR

This isn’t an origin story. If anything, it’s Batman: Year Two. (No, not the one where he almost shoots Joe Chill.) 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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Fall Guys heads to mobile in China; datamine hints at Nintendo Switch version

Digital Trends

Chinese company Bilibili secured the rights for a mobile version of the game.

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The First Trailer for The Flash's Seventh Season Is a Roller Coaster

GizModo VR

The Flash ’s sixth season ended a little early. So the seventh is going to have a lot to untangle. Read more.

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Robert Pattinson brings a dark, messy vision of Bruce Wayne to The Batman

Digital Trends

The first trailer has been released, and it's a doozy.

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Grab This $26 Microphone Arm Stand And Upgrade Your Streaming and Podcasting Life

GizModo VR

TONOR Adjustable Suspension Boom Scissor Mic Stand | $26 | Amazon | Use code LHHKH2IX 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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Best hurricane trackers for two severe storms now approaching Gulf Coast

Digital Trends

Two major storms are coming. Here are the best apps and websites to keep track.

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You Deserve a Kindle, so Grab The Paperwhite Edition for $100

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Kindle Paperwhite | $100 | Amazon Read more.

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Meet the MIT artist who builds with fungus and paints with swarms of drones

Digital Trends

He's every bit as eccentric as you might imagine.

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Catch 'Em All And Then Some By Grabbing Retro Pokemon Titles From Woot!

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Video Game Blowout | Woot! 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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3 Apple deals you can’t afford to miss this weekend

Digital Trends

We've scoured Amazon and found the AirPods Pro, iPad Mini, and MacBook Air on sale starting from just $234.

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FDA Grants Emergency Authorization for Covid-19 Plasma Treatments Because Science Schmience

GizModo VR

The Food and Drug and Administration has issued an emergency use authorization for convalescent blood plasma as an experimental treatment for covid-19 patients. And President Donald Trump, per his usual M.O., found a way to put himself at the center of the announcement—no doubt in a bid to drum up some good press on… Read more.

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These kids’ 3-ply face masks only cost $0.45 (and they’re in stock)

Digital Trends

Dallas-based Honest PPE has three-ply kids' masks ready to be ordered and shipped for only 45 cents each.

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Apple backs down, won’t force WordPress app to offer in-app purchases

Digital Trends

It apologized for the 'confusion'.

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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?