Sat.Aug 29, 2020

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‘Škoda Time Machine’ Oculus Quest App Takes You Through 100 Years Of Auto History

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The educational automobile app comes with plans for its own 3D printable steering wheel. Originally founded in 1895, Czech automobile manufacturer Škoda Auto has celebrated numerous milestones throughout its long history. In celebration of its historic 125th anniversary, the company turned to the Prague-based digital marketing experts at Brainz Studios to create Škoda Time Machine , a VR time machine designed to transport you 100 years in the past, back to where it all began for the iconic manuf

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Top 10 Movies that Got Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Right

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Looking for recommendations on what to corona-binge while you’re staying indoors to avoid the virus? Here are some of our team’s picks for great movies that feature augmented reality and virtual reality in their stories and include great examples of use cases for AR/VR (by order of release): 1. Predator | 1987 | Action/Sci-fi | 1h 47m Heat scanners and weapon systems as part of a helmet-mounted display (HMD)?

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Seeing Hurricane Katrina in 2020 Vision

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I thought I understood time until 2020. There are regularly days when I am not sure which day of the week it is until it’s time to go to bed. Then there are weeks where I’m not sure what year it is. This week, as we neared the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, when I saw the devastation from Hurricane Laura , I could… Read more.

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Sony to explore releasing more first-party PlayStation games to PC

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It is one of the strategic key points in Sony's Corporate Report 2020.

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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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Google Failed to Remove Misleading Ads About Voting By Mail Because of a Technicality. Blegh.

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Google reportedly took five days to review misleading ads from an organization that echoes the president’s crock about voting by mail, and then declined to take them down essentially because of a technicality. Read more.

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Marvel Made Fortnite Canon and I Have Lost My Entire Mind

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Trying to make sense of comics continuity at the best of times requires offering up a tiny little part of your brain to be smushed to gooey smithereens in the mortar and pestle of comic book publishing tomfoolery. But friends, I fear trying to make sense of Marvel’s newest tango with the world of Fortnite has done… Read more.

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Japanese startup reveals videos of flying car’s first manned test flight

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SkyDrive's test flight for the SD-03 flying car lasted for about four minutes.

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Let's Celebrate That Cobra Kai Is Now on Netflix

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As great as the Karate Kid sequel show Cobra Kai is—let’s face it, it got buried on YouTube. Sure, everyone watches and uses YouTube, but most of them don’t pay to watch its original content. Now the show has made the move to Netflix and it feels like a coming-out party. Audiences from all over can finally see what… Read more.

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How to Set Up Dual Monitors in Windows 10

Digital Trends

Expanding your virtual desktop across multiple screens can improve both your work and play, substantially.

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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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South Korea Holds Off Imposing Maximum Social Distancing Measures As Cases Surge

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South Korea, one of the world’s leading examples for novel coronavirus containment, is struggling with a recent surge of thousands of infections of the virus. Some in the country are calling for a version of a tried-and-true solution practiced all around the world: restrictive social distancing measures. Read more.

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The best texting games for 2020

Digital Trends

Can't get together with your friends or family? Connect over the phone with these fun (and funny) challenges.

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The REFACE App Has Turned Me Into Narcissus

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If you’ve ever wanted to know what your face would look like carelessly pasted over Jason Momoa or Cardi B’s bone structure, a new app will let you do that. REFACE maps and plasters your face onto another, an innovation that surely had noble intentions but has instead served to create some truly eldritch horrors.… Read more.

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SpaceX plans two Falcon 9 missions in on one day in closest-ever launches

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In a packed weekend, it could perform a Starship hop test as well.

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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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Feeling Nostalgic, Apple Will Bring Back Its Classic iPod ‘Music Quiz’ Game on iOS 14

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Remember the days when the iPod had a Click Wheel? If you said yes, then you probably felt like I did when Macaulay Culkin tweeted that he was 40 this week. All jokes aside, Apple is apparently having a nostalgic moment as well, and acting on it. Read more.

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How to change your background in Zoom

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Your boss doesn't need to see your messy home office. Hide it with a virtual background. Here's how to do it.

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Nicolas Cage Will Play an Alcoholic Dragon in Hiding in Amazon's Highfire Adaptation

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If there’s anyone who can pull that off, it’s Nicolas Cage. Read more.

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The best turntables under $200

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Getting into vinyl doesn't mean breaking the bank on a pricey turntable. Check out these bargain-priced decks.

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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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Ayo Edebiri Will Replace Jenny Slate as Missy on Big Mouth

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Putting its money where its big mouth is, Netflix has followed through on recasting Jenny Slate in Big Mouth. Read more.

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How Westworld’s visual effects looked into the future to earn an Emmy nomination

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A future version of Los Angeles is brought to life in season 3 of the HBO series.

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Get Even More Keys to Mash With Razer's Pro Gaming Keypads, On Sale At Amazon

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Razer Tartarus Pro Gaming Keypad (Black) | $80 | Amazon Razer Tartarus Pro Gaming Keypad (White) | $90 | Amazon Read more.

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Epic’s battle against Apple faces its first real test of customer loyalty

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Avengers storm the game, but iOS and Android customers are left out.

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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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Catch Up on the God of War in the Latest Title for Only $14

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God of War (PlayStation Hits) | $14 | Amazon Read more.

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ByteDance reportedly receives $20 billion offer for TikTok from rival Triller

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It is looking to buy TikTok's assets in several countries.

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These Wireless Charging Earbuds Are Impulse Buy Price at SideDeal and Available Today Only

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B’PODS+ Wireless Charging Earbuds with Charging Case | $15 | SideDeal Read more.

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Smart toothbrushes are expensive. Quip’s model is proof why you don’t need them

Digital Trends

The Quip Smart Brush packs a lot of features into a low price point.

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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?