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VR Shooter ‘Finger Gun’ Is A Childhood Dream Come True

VRScout

Use your bare hands to battle waves of “robot-like extraterrestrial creatures” in this western-themed VR game. Originally announced back in November 2020, Finger Gun is a wave-based first-person shooter coming soon to Meta Quest headsets. Yes, I know what you’re thinking: “Ugh, another wave-based shooter?” But here’s what’s interesting about Finger Gun.

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Can XR and DevOps Modernize Customer Support?

AR Insider

AR continues to prove its value in enterprise settings, such as remote assistance and customer support. But when combined with DevOps, it can really shine. April Miller breaks it down through the lens of Microsoft and Re'Flekt's collaboration. The post Can XR and DevOps Modernize Customer Support? appeared first on AR Insider.

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Forever 21 Joins The Metaverse With ‘Roblox’ Shopping World

VRScout

Compete against other stores in hopes of being crowned the ‘Top Shop’ in Forever 21 Shop World. The metaverse company Virtual Brand Group is partnering with popular fashion company Forever 21 to create a unique experience that will let you operate your own Forever 21 store inside of Roblox. In Forever 21 Shop City, you’ll be encouraged to bring the vogue by designing your own fashion business through an unprecedented amount of customization options available through Roblox’s “Tycoon”

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‘Demeo’ 2022 Roadmap Promises PC Edition, New Adventures, PvP Mode & More

Road to VR

Demeo (2021) , the co-op VR dungeoning board game, is getting a lot of love in 2022 from Resolution Games. Alongside the release of its latest adventure, The Roots of Evil , the developers today revealed a roadmap that promises to bring a bunch of new content to the game over the course of next year, including a flatscreen edition for PC, a new PvP mode, a social hub environment, and two new adventures.

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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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Reality Bytes: Meta, Tinder & the Matrix

AR Insider

What are the biggest insights and observations in AR and adjacent sectors this week? Welcome to Reality Bytes, featuring lightning-round video commentary from AR Insider partner, M7 Innovations. The post Reality Bytes: Meta, Tinder & the Matrix appeared first on AR Insider.

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In the Future, Amazon's Ring Doorbell Might Use Biometric Data to Surveil Neighborhoods

GizModo VR

I’ve always wondered when smell-o-vision would make its debut in the gadget world, but I didn’t imagine that Amazon would be the company to make it happen. Given that fact, you might not be surprised to learn that its actual implementation sounds a little problematic, to say the least. Read more.

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How to connect headphones to a TV

Digital Trends

Whether you're trying to go wireless or just want to get your favorite wired headphones hooked up, our guide will get you paired and connected in no time.

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Apple Reportedly Wants to Make All Of Its Own Chips

GizModo VR

Apple may be one of Silicon Valley’s most secretive companies but its plans to move all component production in-house has been well established. Already on track to remove Intel and AMD chips from Macs, Apple is now reportedly working to replace wireless components supplied by Broadcom and Skyworks Solutions for its… Read more.

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This Week In XR: Meta Avatars For The Metaverse, $7 Million For Jadu’s Mirrorverse, ManageXR Gets $4 Million Seed

Charlie Fink

The avatar and its associated “backpack” of digital assets, currency, etc. will be your most valuable asset in the Metaverse.

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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 Lord of the Rings Cast Reunites for a Clever Anniversary Rap

GizModo VR

Star Wars ? Indiana Jones ? The Godfather ? Back to the Future ? Stephen Colbert says screw ‘em. To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring , the Late Show host decided to declare Peter Jackson’s trilogy as the best of all time. And he did it in as unique a way as… Read more.

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Instagram boss highlights three new features, including Profile Embeds

Digital Trends

Instagram chief Adam Mosseri popped up online on Thursday to highlight several new features that have just landed on the popular social networking platform.

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Nobody Knew The Book of Boba Fett Existed Until The Mandalorian Announced It

GizModo VR

It’s very possible no one hates spoilers more than the Disney corporation. Between its Marvel and Star Wars franchises, perhaps no other company goes further out of its way to prevent information about its upcoming projects from getting into the hands of the public, either by forcing workers to sign intimidating… Read more.

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NASA sets new launch date for Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft

Digital Trends

NASA has announced a new launch window for the second orbital test flight of Boeing’s beleaguered Starliner CST-100 spacecraft.

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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 Power Rangers Will Finally Face Godzilla in a Brilliant Comic Crossover

GizModo VR

IDW Publishing is a master of bringing two beloved franchises together in comics form. It’s created crossovers between Batman and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles , G.I. Joe and Street Fighter, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Doctor Who, and Transformers with. pretty much everybody. Which is why I am shocked— … Read more.

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This futuristic haptic vest should make virtual reality feel more realistic

Digital Trends

Skinetic is a new haptic vest that should make virtual reality experiences feel a lot more realistic. .

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Latest Science on Omicron: Vaccine Effectiveness, How It Multiplies, and More

GizModo VR

The covid-19 pandemic is once again resurging throughout the U.S. and elsewhere, and while now we have many more tools available against the viral illness than we did last winter—namely, a full armada of preventive vaccines and soon-to-debut treatments —the emergence of the Omicron variant around Thanksgiving tossed a… Read more.

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End of an era as Airbus delivers its final A380 superjumbo

Digital Trends

It’s the end of an era for the largest passenger jet in the world after Airbus delivered the final A380 to Emirates this week.

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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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A Cheaper Apple Display Might Finally Be On the Way

GizModo VR

Apple is on track to complete its two-year transition to custom silicon, but the company’s Mac Pro (the cheese grater-looking desktop) still runs on a combination of Intel and AMD chips. Given that the Pro is Apple’s most powerful, capable computer, it seems like an overhaul with Apple silicon is just about due. Read more.

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First renders of the Xiaomi 12 reveal compact design, triple rear cameras

Digital Trends

Here are the first renders of the Xiaomi 12, a compact flagship from the company that's likely to be announced on December 28, 2021.

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Rogue One Remembered: A Timeline For Its 5 Year Anniversary

GizModo VR

On December 16, 2016, the first standalone Star Wars film was released. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story told the tale of the people who valiantly stole the plans for the first Death Star—a tale that ended with all of them dying. Of course, most fans didn’t know that until the end of the movie, but it was a bold move in a… Read more.

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This new M.2 SSD cooler lowers temperatures by up to 25 degrees Celsius

Digital Trends

Some of the most powerful SSDs tend to heat up quite a lot, but ElecGear seems to have found a solution with this M.2 SSD cooler.

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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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The Fictional Characters and TV Shows We Lost in 2021

GizModo VR

Every look back at the year behind us is filled with sad moments as much as it is joyful ones , and 2021 was no exception. The real world was up-and-down enough , and yet we also had to say some fictional farewells too—whether it was favourite shows coming to their end (naturally or before their time), or losing some of … Read more.

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LG’s new UltraFine OLED Pro monitors include hardware-based calibration

Digital Trends

LG's latest UltraFine OLED Pro monitors come with a detachable screen calibration tool and bundled software to ensure color accuracy.

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Can r/WallStreetBets Make Reddit the Next GameStop?

GizModo VR

Members of the now-infamous “meme stock” vigilante subreddit r/WallStreetBets may have found their ultimate target—the mothership itself. The subreddit has been filled with users discussing the prospect of deploying some of the same successful tactics used to pump the stocks of GameStop and AMC earlier this year and… Read more.

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The best open-world games on PC

Digital Trends

Open-world games stand as some of the most popular on the market. If you're looking for your next time sink, here are ten of the best open-world games on PC.

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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?