Fri.Feb 11, 2022

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VR Kiteboarding Is Your Next Big Obsession

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A free demo of Neon Kite is available now on the Meta Quest. I love extreme sports as much as the next adrenaline junkie, but I’ve never been brave enough to try kiteboarding. For those unfamiliar, kiteboarding is an extreme sport in which a rider harnesses the power of the wind using a special kite to travel over water, snow, or sand. Experienced “kiters” are capable of catching serious air, the highest recorded jump being an incredible 93 feet.

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Bring on the Tingles This Valentine’s Day With AR Technology and Lively Greeting Cards

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Still undecided whether to send a paper-based or digital greeting card this Valentine’s Day? Impress your loved one by sending both. Plynth , an AR technology company that produces marketing materials for creators and marketers, created Lively Greeting Cards. The company launched the platform in hopes of helping the general public discover the wonders of AR technology.

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Snap Q4 Earnings: The AR Highlight Reel

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Not only is AR attributed for Snap's ongoing revenue growth (and the first quarter of profitability), but it was mentioned enough in its Q4 earnings call to practically make a drinking game. We have the highlight reel for this week's XR Talks. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Intel Is Making Custom Blockchain Chips

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Intel has its eye on blockchain technology with a new blockchain accelerator chip that'll ship in the year 2022 for cryptocurrency mining and related tech.

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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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Netflix Is Removing Its Marvel Shows Next Month

GizModo VR

The long saga of the union—and separation —of Marvel and Netflix’s shared superhero streaming ambitions is reaching a peculiar end , it seems. Quietly, Netflix has revealed that all six of its original Marvel streaming series will join a rare handful of Netflix Originals to leave the service, and it’s not sure yet if,… Read more.

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A Hacker Group Has Been Framing People for Crimes They Didn't Commit

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For at least a decade, a shadowy hacker group has been targeting people throughout India, sometimes using its digital powers to plant fabricated evidence of criminal activity on their devices. That phony evidence has, in turn, often provided a pretext for the victims’ arrest. Read more.

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Smart #1 Prototype Is A Compact Electric SUV With One Frustrating Detail

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The next generation in electric vehicles from Smart was shown in a special camouflaged version of the vehicle called Smart #1.

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The 15 best international movies on Netflix

Mashable VR

Netflix's offerings extend far beyond the big-budget blockbusters of Hollywood. They might not be the first movies that pop up on your trending section, but the streaming giant has an excellent range from around the world — and we've rounded up the best of them below. (In this case, we're defining "international" as anything that wasn't made in the U.S.).

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Tag Heuer Keeps Making Expensive Smartwatches, But Is Anyone Buying?

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TAG Heuer has another new collection of costly smartwatches for sale - will anyone buy these watches with features not all that different from the competition?

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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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Webb Space Telescope Captures Selfie as It Aligns Its Gold Mirrors

GizModo VR

The commissioning phase of the $10 billion Webb Space Telescope continues to be on track, as mission specialists told reporters today. Read more.

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The New BlackBerry Phone Is Apparently Dead Again

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After years of rumors and reports of the return of the BlackBerry brand, it would appear that the end of the BlackBerry smartphone is at hand, yet again.

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Crypto 'romance scammers' stole $139 million from victims in 2021

Mashable VR

Even scammers are looking for love, and that's very much a problem. That's the takeaway from an equally detailed and depressing warning from the Federal Trade Commission documenting skyrocketing incidents of so-called romance scams. The report , released the Thursday ahead of Valentine's Day, notes that the specific type of online confidence scheme is on a dramatic rise, and that cryptocurrency is at least partially to blame.

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It's Google+ All Over Again

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Another one bites the dust as Google is killing off one of the last remnants of its social network in favor of a slightly different service called Spaces.

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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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Big Tech Sold Out on Its Promise of an Open Internet

GizModo VR

2021 was a bad PR year for Big Tech. Lawmakers , advocates, and scholars filled pages of books and held hours of hearing exalting what they viewed as an industry being strangled by a handful of players using anti-competitive practices to solidify their position as kings. Ironically, those exact same tactics were… Read more.

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Parents Left Waiting As Pfizer Delays Vaccine Push For Kids Under 5

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Pfizer delays seeking authorization for vaccinations against COVID-19 for children under the age of 5. This is for Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 (Comirnaty).

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Fart Horn Recall Affects Half a Million Teslas

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U.S. federal highway regulators have decided they will no longer let speeding Teslas blast booming fart noises at people. Gaze upon the government working as intended. Read more.

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The Most Memorable Space Shuttle Missions Ever

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NASA's iconic Space Shuttle program has been filled with scientific triumphs - and human tragedy.

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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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New Black Adam, The Flash, and Aquaman 2 Footage Debuts in Heroic DC Trailer

GizModo VR

The biggest movie trailer of the week drops Sunday night during a major sporting event. But that event isn’t the Super Bowl —and the trailer isn’t for one movie. It’s for four. Read more.

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Corsair K70 RGB PRO Keyboard Serves Up 'Tournament-Grade' Features

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The Corsair K70 RGB PRO has the lights and the keys necessary to enter a gaming tournament, to fool your opponents into thinking you're all about the flash.

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Blade Runner Will Live On as a New TV Series From Ridley Scott

GizModo VR

After Denis Villeneuve’s foray into the neo-noir future of Blade Runner seemingly petered out at the box office , the future of the franchise seemed dire. But now, the show must go on—and Blade Runner has found a new home, a new format, and a familiar talent behind the scenes. Read more.

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Advance Wars 1 + 2 Re-Boot Camp Finally Has A New Release Date

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Advance Wars 1 + 2 Re-Boot Camp has a new lease on life - or at least a new date for excited gamers to look forward to for its release on Nintendo Switch.

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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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More Evidence That People Eat More When They Sleep Less

GizModo VR

Getting a better night’s sleep may help you cut down on calories, a new trial this week has shown. The randomized, controlled study found that overweight people who often underslept consumed fewer calories over a two-week period after undergoing a course of sleep training. The findings suggest that a healthy sleep… Read more.

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Tom Holland live calling Timothée Chalamet on the radio is adorably entertaining

Mashable VR

We don't know what it is, but there's always something a bit surreal about watching random famous people calling up their famous friends for a chat on the phone. That's essentially what happens in the BBC Radio One game "Stand Up, Sit Down," which sees Spider-Man: No Way Home star Tom Holland and DJ Greg James taking turns to call people in their contact lists and predict whether they're – you guessed it – standing up or sitting down at the time of the call.

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The U.S. Is Pumping $5 Billion Into EV Charging Stations

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The U.S. Department of Energy announced it will invest about $5 billion into a nationwide electric vehicle charging network, in hopes of making electric vehicle charging “accessible to all Americans” to encourage more people to trade gas-guzzling cars for electric. Read more.

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Sleep tight with a major mattress upgrade during Casper’s Presidents' Day sale

Mashable VR

TL;DR: Save up to $595 on mattresses and 10% on everything else at Casper with code PRESDAY22 through Feb. 22. It’s about to be Presidents' Day, and that means it’s time to save money on mattresses. (We don’t make the rules, we just live by them.) Casper is here to help the rule-followers among us with their sitewide sale running Feb. 10-22.

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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?