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U.S. Air Force Using VR For Sexual Assault Prevention Training

VRScout

Members of the Air Force will train in intervention skills, victim advocacy, and reporting protocols. Award-winning VR company Moth + Flame is partnering with the United States Air Force to deploy a VR training program for members of the Air Force in sexual assault prevention and response training (SAPR). The program, which was introduced to the Airman at Joint Base Charleston , SC, is broken down into three parts and explores multiple angles of a complex issue.

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How Can 3D Content Unlock Enterprise Value?

AR Insider

Working in 3D Can Make Your Business 33+ Percent More Effective. Applying 3D and AR to manufacturing, marketing, sales & service. by Mariusz Korba. N owadays, we all have phones, tablets, laptops and PCs with immense power, capability and potential at our fingertips. We play games that generate almost life-like experiences enhanced with 3D, Augmented Reality (AR), and Virtual Reality (VR).

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VR Rhythm Shooter ‘Pistol Whip’ Launches Two Free Updates

VRScout

Cloudhead Games expands the ‘Pistolverse’ with a new five-part campaign and a reworked modifier system. Developer Cloudhead Games today launched two new updates for Pistol Whip , introducing new scenes, additional music, and a reworked modifier system to the popular VR rhythm shooter. Available now on major VR headsets, the ‘Smoke & Thunder’ update introduces a five-part story-driven campaign featuring music from artists such as Bones UK and The Heavy.

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My Day in the Immature Metaverse

ARVR

Being There Now Image by David Denton The Metaverse is in its Unconnectedness Era. Breathtaking virtual realities now exist, as isolated universes with little or no access to each other or to the outside world. It is also not clear what exactly counts as a virtual reality, or more properly, a virtual reality platform. What is the ontological status of a multi-player game like Beat Saber , compared to Facebook’s Horizon , which lets people be creators, not simply players in a pre-set activity?

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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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Anti-Vax Nurse Allegedly Injects 8,600 People With Salt Water Instead of Covid-19 Vaccine

GizModo VR

A nurse in Germany has been accused of giving at least 8,600 people saline solution when she was supposed to be administering the covid-19 vaccine, according to a report from the Guardian. The nurse reportedly posted anti-vaccine conspiracy theories on social media around the same time she was working for the Red… Read more.

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Supply Shortage Causes AT&T's Fiber Internet Expansion to Hit a Snag

GizModo VR

The global chip crunch is already affecting multiple sectors including PCs, consoles, and the automotive industry, and now it’s wreaking havoc on AT&T’s fiber-to-the-home plans after the company announced a slowdown in fiber installations affecting around 500,000 homes. Read more.

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The most important personal computers in history, ranked

Digital Trends

Forty years ago this week, the iconic IBM PC made its debut. In honor of this game-changing tech anniversary, we ranked the most important PCs of all time.

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Listen to Charlie Jane Anders Read From Her Inspiring New Book on Writing

GizModo VR

When Charlie Jane Anders was still here at io9—she co-founded the site with Annalee Newitz back in 2008—she wrote several popular posts offering advice and inspiration to both aspiring and veteran authors of sci-fi and fantasy. Those posts gained even more value after she herself became a best-selling fiction author,… Read more.

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Watch Xiaomi’s first video featuring its robotic CyberDog

Digital Trends

Xiaomi's first video showing off its new CyberDog robot reveals even more similarities with Boston Dynamics' Spot robot.

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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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Big Oil’s New 'Clean' Fuel Is Dirtier Than They Say

GizModo VR

New research finds that blue hydrogen, touted by fossil fuel producers as a climate solution, actually has a 20% larger greenhouse gas footprint than just using natural gas. The study , published Thursday in Energy Science & Engineering, gives some important context on a much-hyped new fuel, one that happens to be the … Read more.

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Cosmonaut’s remarkable photo shows unusual view of ISS

Digital Trends

A photo of the International Space Station shared this week by Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy offers an unusual view of the orbiting laboratory.

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Large Landslide Hits Highway in India, Leaves at Least 13 Dead

GizModo VR

At least 13 people are dead, 14 are injured and more than 40 could still be trapped in the debris after a landslide slammed into a highway in northern India Wednesday. Read more.

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Amazon is handing out Sony noise-canceling headphones for practically nothing

Digital Trends

If you're planning to buy noise-canceling headphones, take advantage of Amazon's discounts for the Sony WH-CH710N and Sony WH-XB900N for up to $100 in savings.

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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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Just Two Robots Hanging Out on Mars

GizModo VR

The Ingenuity helicopter was imaging a dune-covered region of Jezero Crater on its 11th flight on Mars when the Perseverance rover was caught in the frame of its camera. Depending on how you see the craft, it either looks like an errant rock formation trying to fit in amid the Martian landscape or a deer in the… Read more.

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Fortnite challenge guide: Damage Doctor Slone

Digital Trends

One of the hardest Fortnite challenges for season 7, week 10 is for damaging Doctor Slone. In this guide, we'll show you how to complete the challenge.

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Indian Rocket Carrying Earth-Monitoring Satellite Fails to Reach Orbit

GizModo VR

India’s space agency says an unknown technical glitch prevented the upper stage of its GSLV-F10 rocket from igniting, in what is a frustrating setback for the burgeoning space power. Read more.

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Fortnite challenge guide: Use the Grab-itron to deliver a tractor to Hayseed’s Farm

Digital Trends

Having trouble delivering a tractor to Hayseed's Farm in Fortnite? Here's how to use the Grab-itron or saucer's abductor beam to complete the challenge.

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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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Star Trek Creator Gene Roddenberry's Archives Are Being Digitized (for NFTs and More)

GizModo VR

Gene Roddenberry’s personal archives are a treasure trove of insight into the early eras of making a science fiction legend in Star Trek. Now, those archives are being comprehensively digitized on an unprecedented scale—with the hopes of doing some interesting things with the material. Read more.

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Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3 vs. iPhone 12 Pro Max

Digital Trends

Can't decide whether to invest in a new Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3 or pick up the Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max? We compare both phones to help you decide.

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Scientists Have Discovered a Hotspot of Denisovan Ancestors

GizModo VR

A demographic study shows that the Ayta Magbukun—a Philippine ethnic group—has the highest known level of Denisovan ancestry in the world. The finding shows that the history of archaic and modern humans living on the islands of southeast Asia during the Pleistocene is more complex than we imagined. Read more.

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HONOR Announces Magic 3 Series: With Snapdragon & Google, A new Start

Anand Tech

Today, we see HONOR announce the company’s new flagship Magic 3 series of devices. The new Magic 3 series consists of 3 new phones, the “regular” Magic 3, the Magic 3 Pro, and the Magic 3 Pro+.

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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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In Gaia's New Trailer, the Earth's First God Wakes From Her Slumber to Kill

GizModo VR

In director Jaco Bouwer’s Gaia , which premiered at this year’s SXSW Film Festival , there is something ancient, powerful, and unimaginably dangerous living deep in the Tsitsikamma forest of South Africa. While all of the movie’s characters have a certain degree of reverence for nature when you first meet them, none of… Read more.

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The Magic’s back at Honor, as brand returns with its Magic 3 series smartphones

Digital Trends

Now independent from Huawei, Honor has launched the flagship Magic 3 smartphone series, complete with the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus chip.

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Shell Has to Pay $111 Million for 1970 Oil Spill That Turned Rain Black

GizModo VR

After a 13-year legal battle, Shell agreed on Wednesday to pay $111 million (45.9 billion naira) to a Nigerian community for damages caused by its crude oil spill more than five decades ago. Read more.

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This Week In XR: Is There A Cure For Metaverse Mania?

Charlie Fink

Everyone is talking about something nobody knows.

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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?