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‘Beat Saber’ Announces Billie Eilish Music Pack

VRScout

Beat Saber is back with yet another downloadable music pack, this time featuring the music of the GRAMMY award-winning singer-songwriter Billie Eilish. Available later this month on major VR headsets, the Billie Eilish music pack includes ten tracks from both her 2019 debut album, WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? , as well as her latest sophomore release, Happier Than Ever.

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The Trends and Takeaways From the WebXR Business Summit

ARPost

The WebXR Business Summit took place this Tuesday, September 14, in the familiar “meta-multiverse.” Put on by the same outfit that presents the Poly Awards , the summit featured dozens of industry experts in 20 talks over eight hours and streamed on several 2D social media sites as well as Hubs, ENGAGE, AltspaceVR, and other immersive environments. Topics covered in the marathon session included everything from economics to ethics.

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Long Defunct ‘Half-Life 2’ VR Mod Sees New Signs of Life

Road to VR

Many years before the release of Half-Life: Alyx , a group of fans built a rudimentary Half-Life 2 VR mod which allowed the game to be played with early VR headset development kits. Unfortunately the mod eventually lost compatibility with newer hardware as the first consumer VR headsets began to hit the market. In 2017 the project was seemingly reignited with ambitions to not just update it for the latest headsets, but to remaster the game for VR more broadly; unfortunately that effort never c

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XR Talks: Bringing Discipline to Metaverse Mania

AR Insider

During 2021's metaverse mania -- the runaway use of the latest spatial buzzword -- one voice of reason has been VC and essayist Matthew Ball. We unravel his latest insights on this week's XR Talks. The post XR Talks: Bringing Discipline to Metaverse Mania appeared first on AR Insider.

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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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‘Larcenauts’ to Get New Character, Map, & Payload Mode in September Update

Road to VR

Impulse Gear today announced that its VR hero shooter Larcenauts (2021) is getting another free content update soon. The studio hasn’t said much for now, however the update is called ‘The Zarius Heist’, and will bring to the game a new hero, map, payload objective mode, and private lobbies. Launched back in June, the 6v6 multiplayer shooter already includes eight playable ‘specialists’, three gameplay modes, and four levels.

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Meet the most influential Hispanic people in the world of tech

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To celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month and shine a light on the Hispanic community, we rounded up this list of influential Hispanic people in the world of tech.

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Epik Was Warned About a Large Security Flaw Before Its Data Leaked

GizModo VR

Epik, the controversial web registrar that frequently comes under fire for hosting far-right groups and individuals, has had an immense amount of its data spilled onto the internet in recent days. The deluge, which reportedly consists of some 180 gigabytes of user registration and domain information, payment history,… Read more.

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Best of Everything

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Spending your hard-earned money on a shiny new piece of tech gear is never easy. There are often hundreds of choices; knowing what to look for is a challenge; and the web is full of junky guides and ads that make choosing a new product harder than it needs to be. You want the best […].

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Firefighters Rush to Wrap Sequoias in Foil as Wildfire Nears

GizModo VR

The Giant Forest in Sequoia National Park is a wash of green and brown hues and undulating textures. But amidst that familiar landscape, something new has appeared. 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 secrets behind Apple’s M1 chip just got exposed for open-sourcing

Digital Trends

Apple’s M1 chip turned the industry upside last fall, and now a new PDF that reverse-engineers the chip could lead to an open-source M1 variant sprouting up.

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Own Two Cats? Scientists Need Your Help

GizModo VR

Feline lovers with furry families can now put their communication skills to the test. Scientists in California are hoping to recruit volunteers who own exactly two cats for their experiment, which will primarily involve just watching some cat videos. The hope is that this research will reveal how well the typical… Read more.

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Apple October 2021 event: M1X MacBook Pro, AirPods 3, and more

Digital Trends

Apple omitted a lot from its California Streaming show. It’s almost certainly got another event on tap this year. Here’s everything we expect to see.

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Chevron CEO: ‘Let Them Plant Trees’

GizModo VR

In an interview with CNBC that aired Wednesday, Mike Wirth, the CEO of Chevron, said that it would not invest in renewable energy, instead allowing its shareholders to use money earned from the company and “let them plant trees.” Glad he came right out and said it! 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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The OnLogic Helix HX500 Review: A Rugged Fanless 35W mini-PC

Anand Tech

The emergence of edge computing as a paradigm has expanded the market for industrial PCs over the last few years. Traditionally an 'industrial PC' was built with a focus on reliable operation in a rugged environment - the emphasis on computing performance being secondary to the utility. This has changed recently with the need to process more data at the edge.

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Elon Musk, the Man Who Almost Never Meets Deadlines, Says Starlink Will Come Out of Beta Phase Next Month

GizModo VR

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Friday announced that Starlink, the company’s satellite internet service, will come out of its public beta phase in October. While that would be exciting news, we’re taking it with a grain a salt. It is Musk, after all, the man that has become infamous for missing deadlines over the years. Read more.

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How much storage do you need on your new iPhone 13? Here’s how to decide

Digital Trends

Apple's newest iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro come in a gargantuan 1TB size, but you don't need that much storage. Here's how to figure out what size to get.

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Smarter In-Car Cameras Can Detect Every Dumb Thing You're Doing While Driving

GizModo VR

Several automakers offer features where a camera inside a vehicle monitors the driver and sets off alerts when it detects them starting to fall asleep, but researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute have developed an even smarter in-car camera system that can figure out exactly what a driver is doing, potentially… 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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How to use the BIOS

Digital Trends

The BIOS or UEFI is an interface you can use to examine core settings on your PC and make important boot changes. Here's how to access it and what you can do.

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Ted Lasso Is an Unexpected Masterclass in Environmental Storytelling

GizModo VR

Recent research suggests that people who aren’t interested in entertainment that is explicitly “environmental” will avoid it, whether it’s because they disagree with its perspective or because they’re just seeking entertainment. Which is why we need a lot more shows like Ted Lasso. Read more.

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Deathloop PC system requirements: Can your PC play Deathloop?

Digital Trends

Is your PC going to be able to handle running Deathloop with the best settings? With the right guns and frame rate, keeping Juliana off your back is a cinch.

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Internal Facebook Documents Show How Badly It Fumbled the Fight Against Anti-Vaxxers: Report

GizModo VR

The Wall Street Journal has had something of a banner week tearing down Facebook. Its series on a trove of internal company documents obtained by the paper has unveiled Facebook’s secret system for treating certain users as above the rules , company research showing how harmful Instagram is for young girls, how the… 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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Verizon is offering the iPhone 13 Pro totally free to new and existing customers

Digital Trends

Verizon is giving away the Apple iPhone 13 Pro, for free, to new and existing customers. There are a ton of cases and screen protectors on sale too!

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How One Doctor Who Fan Brought Color to the Show's Classic Era

GizModo VR

Doctor Who has been on TV long enough to transition through so many evolutions of the medium and survived in spite of some shoddy archiving techniques in the process. So much of what remains of the show’s earliest years is, of course, still in black and white—and while the BBC itself has made attempts to colorize Who ’s… Read more.

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This DIY, triple-monitor PC is a portable all-in-one unlike any you’ve ever seen

Digital Trends

Built by a DIY YouTuber, this triple-monitor all-in-one PC can be carried like a briefcase, and it is glorious.

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A Lost Boys Reboot Is in the Works With Quiet Place and It Stars

GizModo VR

Sharpen up those stakes and fill your bathtubs with garlic. The Lost Boys are coming back. Noah Jupe, one of the stars of A Quiet Place , and Jaeden Martell, star of It and Knives Out , have been tapped to star in a modern day remake of the 1987 vampire hit which starred Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Patric, Corey Haim, and… 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?