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VR Steampunk Opera ‘Miranda’ Is Visually Stunning But Needs Improvement

VRScout

Full-body motion capture offers a unique, but flawed live theater experience. This past weekend marked the debut of Miranda , a VR steampunk opera performed live on-stage by a cast of professional actors operating remotely out of Binghamton, NY. In Miranda , one of the city’s wealthiest socialites has been murdered, and it’s up to you to decide who is guilty.

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How Fuse.it Is Reshaping Advertising With Augmented Reality

ARPost

Augmented reality has come a long way over the years. From being expensive and having a reputation of being gimmicky, its applications have become more powerful and widely available to the general public. It has slowly seeped into our daily lives through cute social media filters and immersive games. Still, it has a lot of untapped potential. As long as hurdles are standing in the way of its widespread adoption, we won’t be able to fully harness its immersive power.

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Dynamic VR Film ‘Agence’ Lets You Play God With Tiny AI Creatures

VRScout

Developing a god complex never felt so good. Ever wonder what it may feel like to play god? To exhibit total control over an environment and its inhabitants using a series of god-like abilities? What kind of omnipotent being would you be? Kind and nurturing, or cruel and unforgiving? Available now via Steam and Oculus Rift/Rift S for $2.99, Agence , an interactive VR film developed by Transitional Forms and the National Film Board (NFB) of Canada, offers you the chance to answer these questions

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Sony Patent Reveals VR Controller Design Seemingly Inspired by Valve Index

Road to VR

Sony Interactive Entertainment recently published a patent for a VR motion controller that look suspiciously similar to Valve’s Index controllers, aka ‘Knuckles. The news was first reported by LetsGoDigital (Dutch). All products have patents, although not all patents have products—it’s not clear whether the controller outlined in the 34-page Japanese language document is indeed destined to make its way into a bonafide piece of hardware, or if it’s simply a case of Sony pl

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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 Reaches 1.2 Million AR Effects

AR Insider

Data Dive is AR Insider’s weekly dive into select spatial computing figures. Running Mondays, it includes data points and strategic takeaways. For an indexed library of data, reports, and multimedia, subscribe to ARtillery Pro. B uried in Facebook’s recent Connect 7 Keynote was an AR data nugget. The company has reached 1.2 million AR experiences and lenses that have been created on its Spark AR platform.

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VR Game Release Highlights October 2020

VR Game Critic

October promises to be a strong month for VR, with plenty of games and even a headset release. The all new Oculus Quest 2 standalone VR headset will launch on October 13 and with it a slew of new and popular titles, such as The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners or Rez Infinite. But fear not, PC VR and PSVR owners are in for a very special treat this month with the highly-anticipated release of Star Wars: Squadrons.

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Scientists Created an Enzyme Cocktail That Eats Plastic

GizModo VR

A gross fact of life is that we’re all ingesting plastic. Turtles eat plastic. Birds eat plastic. And one study found that humans eat a credit card worth of plastic each week. Now, scientists have engineered enzymes to eat plastic, too—but that may actually be a good thing. Read more.

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What is Roku? The streaming platform fully explained

Digital Trends

What is Roku? Is it a device or software or a streaming service? And what does it cost? Our full explainer will make you a streaming media expert in minutes.

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For the Last Time, Please Don't Buy the Apple Watch Series 3

GizModo VR

Well, well, well. Despite begging every higher power that I wouldn’t have to write yet another blog about why folks shouldn’t buy the Apple Watch Series 3 anymore, a 9to5 Mac report notes that several Series 3 owners have reported that their watches are randomly rebooting since upgrading to watchOS 7. So here we are… 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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The best vacuums for 2020

Digital Trends

These days, vacuums are better than ever. Whether you're looking for a traditional upright or a robotic counterpart, here are our picks for the best vacuums.

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American Could Get Two Years in Thai Prison for TripAdvisor Review

GizModo VR

Anyone planning a trip to Thailand should be advised to keep their opinions to themselves. Wesley Barnes, an American living in Thailand, found out this month that the Thai defamation laws can be extreme after a negative online review of a resort landed him behind bars. Read more.

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ASRock Industrial 4X4 BOX-V1000M Ryzen Mini-PC Review: Finding Zen In The Small Things

Anand Tech

The miniaturization trend triggered by the ultra-compact form factor NUCs from Intel has emerged as a key driver in the growth of the PC market. Processor power efficiency is of paramount importance in this space, and AMD had been caught napping when the NUCs began to take flight. The introduction of the Zen microarchitecture in the Ryzen processors has scripted a remarkable turnaround for AMD.

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Why Are VR Headsets So Bulky?

GizModo VR

Show me someone who looks cool in a VR headset, and I’ll show you a dork with no aesthetic sense. Largely, this has to do with their bulk: as consumer tech continues to shrink, they stubbornly remain massive, looking less like portals into hyper-real alternate dimensions and more like large futuristic sea animals… 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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Goodbye, Split Toning — full Color Grading is coming to Lightroom

Digital Trends

Adobe Lightroom's Split Toning tool will soon be replaced by advanced Color Grading options that are derived from the company's video software.

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A Distant Blue Star Hosts One of the Most Extreme Exoplanets Known to Science

GizModo VR

The newly deployed CHEOPS space telescope has completed its first observations of an exoplanet, uncovering some fascinating new details about an ultra-hot Jupiter known as WASP-189b. Read more.

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Yet Another Gaming Accessory with RGB: Uninterruptible Power Supply!

Anand Tech

Just when you thought there was a gaming version of everything, with shiny flashing LEDs – we’ve seen storage SSDs, M.2 drives, fans, speakers, chairs, keyboards, headsets, mice, even backpacks, there’s still one that you are missing. Enter the Schneider Electric APC Back-UPS Pro Gaming UPS. A UPS, or Uninterruptable Power Supply, enables whatever is plugged into it to keep functioning during a power outage, as well as help smooth out power delivery in areas that might suffer f

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The Oceans Are Turning Into a Layer Cake

GizModo VR

The oceans are facing a host of maladies, from acidification to sea level rise. Turning them into a ginormous liquid layer cake may sound comparatively benign (and delicious). But while Earther is decidedly pro-cake, this is in fact a bad situation. 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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The best iPadOS 14 tips and tricks

Digital Trends

iPadOS 14 is a major upgrade for Apple's tablet, with many new enhancements. We show you how to take advantage of some of its high-profile features.

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The FDA Approved Prescription Opioids Without Critical Safety Data, Study Says

GizModo VR

The Food and Drug Administration has been lax in how it’s approved prescription opioid treatments dating back to the late 1990s, according to a new study out Monday. The study found that the FDA has routinely approved new opioid drugs or new formulations of existing drugs on the basis of limited evidence from clinical… Read more.

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NASA still puzzled by source of space station air leak

Digital Trends

A NASA official has said it's still searching for the source of an air leak on the space station following a second attempt to pinpoint it over the weekend.

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Roku Chases the Best Free Streaming Service With Mobile Support

GizModo VR

Roku has announced the launch of a dedicated mobile app for The Roku Channel, the company’s longtime hub for free and streamable content that’ll be familiar to folks with Roku devices. But rather than limit the app to Roku users alone, The Roku Channel will be available to even users without physical Roku devices.… 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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Dell Catches A Tiger Lake For The XPS 13 And XPS 13 2-in-1

Anand Tech

With Intel’s launch of their latest 11th generation Core products , code-named Tiger Lake, it is time for the fall refresh from Intel’s customers, and one of the first out of the gate is Dell who is refreshing the XPS 13 and XPS 13 2-in-1 to utilize the newest processor. Last year, the XPS 13 7390 2-in-1 was one of the first on the market with Intel’s first properly launched 10 nm laptop parts, with the XPS 13 9300 showing up a bit later on.

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Google Takes an Apple Approach to Android Apps, Will Require 30% Cut of Play Store Revenue

GizModo VR

After some confusion—and after watching Apple take heat over its iOS App Store policies—Google is clarifying how and when it plans to take its cut of paid apps in the Google Play Store. Read more.

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How to back up your iPhone

Digital Trends

Backing up an iPhone is just great practice for reinstalling iOS or recovering lost photos. Here's how to back up your iPhone using Finder, iTunes, and iCloud.

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Uber Gets to Stay in London, For Now

GizModo VR

Uber got itself out of another pickle today, after a judge restored its license to operate in London for the next 18 months. Uber is terribly sorry, Uber f *d up, and Uber will do better next time. Sounds familiar. 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?