Wed.Nov 10, 2021

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NVIDIA’s New AI-Powered Avatars Are Pretty Incredible

VRScout

NVIDIA’s CEO wants everyone to have a digital twin. During this weeks NVIDIA GTC Conference keynote speech, company CEO Jenson Huang introduced 65 new and updated SDKs that will impact everything from self-driving vehicles and cybersecurity to cloud computing, robotics, and interactive conversational AI avatars. First up is the NVIDIA Omniverse Avatar , a platform that can be used to create real-time conversational AI avatars that are able to see, speak, converse on a wide range of subject

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Web AR: By the Numbers

AR Insider

Though apps rule smartphone usage, could the browser be a better vessel for mobile AR experiences? It scales better and offers less friction than apps, to name a few advantages. We crunch the numbers in the latest report excerpt. The post Web AR: By the Numbers appeared first on AR Insider.

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AWE 2021: my first impressions about AWE and hands-on with Ray-Ban Stories!

The Ghost Howls

Hello everyone from Santa Clara, USA! Today I have had my first day at AWE , so let me tell you how has been my experience here ! I also had a short hands-on session with Ray-Ban Stories, and I want to tell you about it, too… First impressions about AWE. AWE US is one of the most important XR events, and this year it has been the first major XR event coming back to a physical version , so many people joined it because they wanted to hug people and shake hands again.

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Sandbox VR Announces $37M Series B Funding to Expand Out-of-home VR Locations

Road to VR

Out-of-home VR destination Sandbox VR today announced an additional $37 million funding round that the company is using to support its continued expansion. In addition to its dozen worldwide locations, Sandbox VR says it’s working to nearly doubling that. The Series B funding was led by a16z, and includes participation by Alibaba and Craft. According to Crunchbase data, this puts their lifetime outside financing to around $120 million.

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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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Welp, Vizio Now Makes Twice as Much From Advertising as It Does From Selling TVs

GizModo VR

If you thought affordable TV giant Vizio was primarily a hardware company, you’d be wrong. At least in terms of where its money is coming from, Vizio is becoming an advertising firm. Read more.

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Apple Lets You Scan for Evil AirTags That Might Be Hovering Nearby in iOS 15.2 Beta

GizModo VR

Oh look, my AirTag sense is tingling. Laugh if you may, but that might actually be a thing in a future version of iOS, and we would all be safer for it. Read more.

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NBA League Pass Games Return to Quest in ‘Horizon Venues’ This Month

Road to VR

The NBA officially kicked off its 2021-22 regular season in mid-October after having last year’s derailed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Starting this week, Meta (formerly Facebook) is welcoming Quest users back to Horizon Venues for some more courtside action. You’ll be able to catch the first game on November 14th, which features the Golden State Warriors vs. the Charlotte Hornets.

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Nvidia CEO says the metaverse will be ‘larger than the physical world’

Digital Trends

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has some bold claims about the metaverse and what it will look like in the future, but there are still multiple issues to address.

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Facebook Says It Just Can't Keep Up With Oversight Board's Recommendations

GizModo VR

Facebook’s Oversight Board, a group of supposedly independent experts that has the power to intervene and hand down decisions when they feel Facebook has misjudged, is either a nominal check on the social media company’s unending excesses or a feckless exercise in corporate blame-shifting. Either way, Facebook claims… 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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Sponsored Post: Join Supermicro at Supercomputing ‘21 to Learn About the Future of HPC

Anand Tech

Join Supermicro at Supercomputing ‘21 to hear about where HPC is going, modular GPUs, innovations in high-performance storage solutions, and more.

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Disney's Ridiculous Star Wars Hotel Is Sold Out for 4 Months, Despite Ridiculousness

GizModo VR

“Who’d spend $6,000 to stay at Disney’s Star Wars hotel for and LARP for two nights?” we all asked , ready to be cut down by our hubris like Anakin Skywalker slicing his way through younglings. Turns out the answer is a lot of people. Read more.

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EON Global Knowledge Metaverse Webinar

EON Reality

EON Global Knowledge Metaverse Webinar. November 29 & November 30th. EON Reality’s mission to bring the knowledge metaverse to people around the world has been nothing short of successful thus far, yet many new and prospective users are still left with questions. . What is the knowledge metaverse? How is EON Reality developing and distributing it?

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Mark Zuckerberg's First Friend in the Metaverse Is Microsoft

GizModo VR

That company you once knew as Facebook is partnering with enterprise rival Microsoft to integrate its Workplace tool with Teams in a potential foreshadowing of future metaverse collaboration. 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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Amazon’s Wheel of Time producers on balancing gender and the books’ epic timeline

Digital Trends

The producers of Amazon Studios' much-anticipated adaptation of The Wheel of Time saga explain why balance and the books themselves are at the core of the show.

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Jurassic Park: Camp Cretaceous Has Completely Lost Its New Trailer

GizModo VR

If you’re a fan of the Jurassic Park movies and you’re not watching Netflix’s Camp Cretaceous cartoon, you’re really missing out. It’s not a thinly veiled Sesame Street segment to help kids learn Dino Facts, but a Jurassic adventure that pulls no punches for its young characters. It’s also completely canonical with… Read more.

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Apple Watch Series 7 just got a price cut at Amazon for Black Friday

Digital Trends

Today Amazon is offering a $10 discount on the Apple Watch Series 7, marking it down to $390 for an early Black Friday deal.

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Space Station Will Make an Emergency Maneuver After Detection of Threatening Space Junk

GizModo VR

An impromptu “space debris evasion maneuver” has been scheduled to prevent errant space junk from slamming into the International Space Station, in what is becoming an increasingly routine procedure. 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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Kingston XS2000 Portable SSDs Review: USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 Goes Mainstream

Anand Tech

Flash-based portable drives have become popular fast storage options for both content creators and backups-seeking consumers. The advent of high-speed interfaces such as USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10 Gbps) and USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 (20 Gbps) along with Thunderbolt 3 (up to 40 Gbps) have enabled rapid improvements in performance of such portable SSDs over the last few years.

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Greta Thunberg and the Teens Go for Broke in New UN Climate Emergency Petition

GizModo VR

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND — The teens continue to exploit every avenue they have to force the world to come to grips with their future. The latest push came on Wednesday when Greta Thunberg and 13 other kids dropped a petition on United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ doorstep. Their demand: The UN must declare a… Read more.

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Instagram tests Take a Break feature for better time management

Digital Trends

Instagram is testing a new feature called Take a Break that's designed to help you better manage your time on the popular app.

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Watch SpaceX Launch Its Third Crewed Mission to the Space Station

GizModo VR

After a nine-day delay, NASA and SpaceX are preparing to launch the third operational commercial crew mission to the ISS. You can catch the action live right here. 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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I loved Elden Ring once I stopped playing it like a Dark Souls game

Digital Trends

After nine astonishing hours with Elden Ring, I'm learning to love a genre I've always hated.

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Honey Bees ‘Scream’ Like Mammals When Attacked by Giant Hornets

GizModo VR

Unsettling and distinctive sounds made by Asian honey bees during attacks of giant hornets might be an alarm signal for the hive to deploy defensive measures. Read more.

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Apple’s first attempt to delay third-party app store payments fails in court

Digital Trends

Apple's attempt to delay support for third-party payment systems has run into a roadblock, with a federal court dismissing its request for a stay.

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10 Surreal Images of Antarctica's Tiny 'Sandhoppers'

GizModo VR

Antarctica is about more than penguins, seals, and spectacular (but disappearing) glaciers. Even the tiniest organisms at the bottom of the world are pretty stunning. 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?