Sat.Nov 13, 2021

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Augmented Reality for Interior Design: Key-Value Propositions Paving the Way for a Revolution

ARPost

When planning to build a new house, people usually leave no stone unturned to give the best of the efforts that they can, and are likely to be least compromising with the design and decor of their home. But for any regular person without much exposure to the design complexities, interior design can be very confusing. Fortunately, some innovative technologies like augmented reality and 3D modeling are now making things easier to choose a design, make customization and come with a well-articulated

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'We Can't Ignore Their Inaction'

GizModo VR

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND — Climate talks have gone into overtime, with negotiators blowing past the Friday official ending. A new draft text that dropped Saturday morning showed that developed and fossil fuel-producing countries continue to be impediments to the action needed. Read more.

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NASA video shows you what it’s like to plunge through Venus’ atmosphere

Digital Trends

NASA has shown what the upcoming DAVINCI mission to Venus will be facing with the release of a video visualization of the probe plunging through the atmosphere.

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Glasgow Climate Pact Has Loopholes So Big an Oil Tanker Could Get Through Them

GizModo VR

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND — The curtain came down on United Nations climate talks a day later than expected. It’s a strange feeling as representatives from countries around the world said they were willing to accept an agreement that they all said sucks. Read more.

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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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Best Black Friday PS5 Game Deals 2021: Cheapest prices today

Digital Trends

PlayStation 5 owners shouldn't miss this year's best Black Friday PS5 game deals, as there are a lot of savings that you can avail to build your gaming library.

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4K monitor Black Friday deals are here — and they don’t disappoint

Digital Trends

If you're looking for 4K monitors, this Black Friday the perfect time to pick one up for a significant discount at major retailers like Amazon and Walmart.

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Apple to Pay Store Workers $30 Million Settlement for Bag Checks That Occurred Off the Clock

GizModo VR

After years of fighting it out in court, Apple Store employees in California will finally get paid for the time the company spent checking their bags for possible stolen products while they were off the clock. The payout: roughly $30 million. Read more.

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Three reasons Apple’s anti-sideloading rant misses the point

Digital Trends

Apple Craig Federighi tackled sideloading at this week's Web Summit 2021 with a misleading rant. Here are three reasons he's wrong.

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Next Week's Arrowverse Crossover Is All Barry Allen's Fault, Again

GizModo VR

For Arrowverse fans, it’s a recurring gag that you can blame Barry Allen constantly changing the timeline for basically anything going wrong. Wake up as a completely different person ? Blame Barry. You’ve got superpowers now and your life’s bad? Blame Barry. The multiverse is in danger ? Blame Barry, even if that’s just… 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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Small, sneaky black hole discovered outside our galaxy using new method

Digital Trends

A new detection method has been used to discover a small black hole outside the Milky Way, paving the way for discovery of hidden black holes within our galaxy.

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Meet the New Shazam, Sister of the Old Shazam

GizModo VR

Since 1939, Billy Batson has been the only one to carry the mantle of the thunder-wielding hero Shazam. Though he’s got a new movie on the horizon, DC Comics has decided that there should be a new hero to carry the title, and that’s where his sister Mary Bromfield comes in. Read more.

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We’re obsessed with these telescope Black Friday deals

Digital Trends

Whether you're a beginner in astronomy or a veteran stargazer, you shouldn't miss the discounts that retailers are offering for telescope Black Friday deals.

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Jared Leto: "JK" on Those Suicide Squad Gifts, But Also "Kiss My Ass"

GizModo VR

Think back to 2016, and you may recall that in the leadup to the original Suicide Squad movie, there was many a story about Jared Leto. The two-time Joker in David Ayer’s film was reported to have sent some pretty messed up “gifts” like anal beads, sticky Playboys, and used condoms. Despite co-stars like Will Smith… 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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Best 85-inch TV Black Friday Deals 2021: Cheapest prices today

Digital Trends

Want to upgrade your home theater with a big-screen TV? These 85-inch TV Black Friday deals are what you need.

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Eternals Writers Talk Character Pairings and (Maybe) a Disney+ Prequel

GizModo VR

Marvel movies live and die on their characters, and Eternals is no exception. With 10 main characters, the new movie is juggling a lot as its heroes try to save the world while also grappling with the things they’ve let happen to it over the centuries. The ageless demigods go through a lot during the film, and while… Read more.

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HP Victus 16 review: A new gaming brand makes its mark

Digital Trends

The Victus 16 does a nice job replacing the Pavilion Gaming 16 as part of HP's new value-oriented gaming line.

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How Do We Know When the Sun Will Die?

GizModo VR

Consider the Sun: hot, massive, and the reason all of this (gestures wildly) is possible. Our local star fuels all life as we know it, providing the energy that sustains everything from the smallest photosynthesizing microorganisms to the largest animals on land and in the seas. 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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Hubble turns on one instrument, others remain in safe mode

Digital Trends

Engineers at NASA are continuing work to fix the troubled Hubble Space Telescope, which is experiencing problems for the second time this year.

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Satisfied Halloween | 360° Virtual Reality Video

VRGames

Participate in in greatest readily available high quality. This 360° video is greatest viewed with the lights off on a mobile device with headphones. What is a 360 online video? A 360 video clip is … source.

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The PS5 and Xbox Series X still haven’t convinced me to ditch my Switch

Digital Trends

Even on the eve of the PS5's and Xbox Series X's anniversary, I'm still more than satisfied with my Switch.

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AWE 2021: Hands-on Lynx-R1 mixed reality headset

The Ghost Howls

At AWE 2021 I have finally been able to try the Lynx-R1 headset and meet its creator Stan Larroque. Lynx-R1. I am pretty sure the Lynx-R1 doesn’t need any introduction from me. It is a VR+MR headset proposed by the startup Lynx that has the peculiarity of being the first standalone headset heavily focused on offering both VR and color passthrough MR.

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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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Even the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3 is discounted for Black Friday

Digital Trends

The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3, a truly unique foldable smartphone, is only $925 at Amazon right now, that's $75 cheaper than the original price of $1,000.

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this vr sport goes too far…

VRGames

THE BOYS Team CHANNEL [link] -Socials- Twitter – [link] Instagram … resource.

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Save $50 on the Fitbit Luxe at Amazon for Black Friday 2021

Digital Trends

The Fitbit Luxe just got a $50 discount on Amazon, making this already affordable wellness tracker only $100 for Black Friday.

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Releases Recap: November 8 – 12

Oculus

This week, we released a bunch of titles and updates across the Oculus Platform. Here’s a rundown of the highlights.

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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?