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AR Valentine’s Day Experiences From Blippar, Viber, and Snapchat

ARPost

Rakuten Viber, Snapchat, and Blippar all have fun AR opportunities to celebrate Valentine’s Day this year. While you might not use or be able to access all of these experiences, there’s bound to be one that will liven up your holiday and help you share it with loved ones. Celebrating With Snap. Snapchat hasn’t clued us in on any big plans – but that’s okay, it’s been a busy week for them.

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Snap Q4 Earnings, Part II: The Data Dive

AR Insider

This sheer volume of AR attribution in Snap's Q4 earnings caused us to break our analysis into two parts. After Friday's XR talks on earnings call quotes, we switch gears to break down all the Q4 data points and milestones. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.02.14): SteamVR headsets go beyond 3M, body-tracking leaked for Quest SDK, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Happy San Valentine’s Day everyone! We are all in love with XR, so this is our day… and I also wish you celebrate it with other meaty humans that you love. So much love and hugs from me: I send you good vibes, hoping for your bright future! Remember that I root for you. Top news of the week. (Image by Valve). Steam VR headsets reach an all-time high.

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Spatial Beats: Meta, Microsoft & Apple

AR Insider

Welcome back to Spatial Beats, AR Insider's weekly series that features observations and insights of author and futurist Charlie Fink. This week, we look at Meta's ongoing challenges, Microsoft's Quest 3 fate and the latest Apple glasses rumors. This post 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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VR Giants Is An Asymmetrical VR Game All About Friendship

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Play as an enormous stone giant in VR or a pint-sized hero on a desktop PC. VR Giants is a new cooperative experience in which you and another player work together as a pair in order to solve a wide variety of complex puzzles. But here’s the twist: one player is in VR while the other interacts via a standard desktop PC, otherwise referred to as ‘asymmetrical co-op.’ The player in VR takes on the role of the towering Goliath while the desktop plays the dwarf, David.

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Scientists Just Gave An Ominous Warning About Artificial Intelligence

Slashgear

An OpenAI scientist recently claimed some artificial intelligence may be "slightly" conscious, kicking off a firestorm of controversy among experts.

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Apple Filings Show Three New Macs Are on the Horizon

GizModo VR

Apple will likely release refreshed iPhone and iPad models at its rumored event next month , and now newly unearthed paperwork suggests they could be joined by Macs. Read more.

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Horizon Forbidden West Review

Slashgear

Nearly five years after hit "Horizon Zero Dawn" arrived on PlayStation, Guerrilla is back with "Horizon Forbidden West" -- and it's everything we'd hoped for.

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PSA: Today's 'Wordle' solution depends on which site you use

Mashable VR

No, you're not going mad. The splintering of Wordle has arrived. As the clock hit midnight around the world on Feb. 14 and a new Wordle refreshed itself on browsers everywhere, players discovered that for the first time, that day's answer wasn't the same word for everyone. (Don't worry — I won't spoil the solution until the end of the post.). Tweet may have been deleted.

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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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Nintendo, You Cowards, Make This Valentine's Joke Real

Slashgear

Nintendo revealed a selection of photos of what appear to be delicious Switch controller chocolates for Valentine's Day 2022. Then they dropped the bad news.

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Missouri Prosecutor Ignores Governor’s Call to Go After Journalist for ‘Hacking’

GizModo VR

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson’s wacky but chilling public persecution of a journalist he accused of “hacking” a state education website has thankfully been put to an end. Despite all the ruckus, apparently Parson still does not know what hacking actually means. Read more.

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Biohybrid Fish Made With Human Cells For Medical Research

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Researchers have created biohybrid fish with human cardiac cells to better understand the heart and ultimately build better artificial heart replacements.

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Astronomers Find 'Weird' Stars Covered in Burned-Up Helium

GizModo VR

Over 10,000 light-years from Earth, two mega-hot stars are changing what astronomers know about stellar evolution and how the gassy balls can be constructed. The stars are unique for their exotic surface composition: They are cocooned in carbon and oxygen, the ashen remains of helium burning. 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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2022 LG CineBeam 4K Projectors Don't Need Much Space Or A Dark Room

Slashgear

LG is back with two new CineBeam laser projector models packing high peak brightness, including one that can be placed very close to a wall or screen.

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A Staggering Amount of Amazon Rainforest Disappeared Last Month

GizModo VR

The number of trees cut down in the Brazilian section of the Amazon rainforest in January was five times greater than the same period last year, according to satellite imagery data from Brazil’s space research agency, INPE. Read more.

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Don't Blame SpaceX For The Rocket About To Crash Into The Moon

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It turns out the space object destined to crash into the moon is related to a Chinese rocket launch, not the DSCOVR mission as first claimed.

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The Academy Awards Revives the Best Popular Film Award, But Worse

GizModo VR

Back in 2018, the Academy Awards announced a new Oscar, to be given to the Best Popular Film of the year. The idea was to recognize the blockbusters that typically dominate the box office but never manage to make it to the Best Picture category. It didn’t go over wel l, and now, it’s getting worse. 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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Mercedes-AMG SL Receives The Manhart Black-And-Gold Treatment

Slashgear

The Manhart SL 800 R iteration of the 2022 Mercedes-AMG SL was revealed in a smooth set of colors and an all-wheel drivetrain (with Manhart Concave One wheels.).

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Possible Globs of Melted Nuclear Fuel Photographed Inside Damaged Fukushima Reactor

GizModo VR

Images captured by a remotely operated probe appear to show mounds of melted nuclear fuel at the bottom of a Fukushima reactor core that experienced a meltdown 11 years ago. Read more.

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Polaris Program Taps SpaceX To Set New Starship And Dragon Records

Slashgear

Jared Isaacman announced Polaris Program with an aim to "ultimately culminate in the first flight of SpaceX's Starship with humans on board.".

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New Leak Suggests Most Users Funding Canada's 'Freedom Convoy' Reside in U.S.

GizModo VR

A data set leaked by an unknown hacker appears to show that Americans comprise a vast majority of the users donating to Canada’s “Freedom Convoy” protest via the website GiveSendGo, a Christian-oriented platform that’s raised more than $8.3 million to support the movement in opposition to public health measures… 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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Experts Warn Fake Windows 11 Installer Is Using Malware To Steal Info

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If you're planning on updating your PC, make sure you only follow official methods, as there's new malware in the wild pretending to be a Windows 11 installer.

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The ‘Doomsday’ Seed Vault Is Taking in New Samples

GizModo VR

A remote seed vault on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen is receiving new deposits this week from gene banks in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania. Nicknamed the ‘Doomsday Vault,’ the depository is opened only a few times a year for seed withdrawals and deposits; it will be sealed again on February 18. Read more.

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The 10 Fastest Production Cars In The World Right Now

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While the bar is ever-increasing, these 10 cars are the fastest vehicles, according to the manufacturers' websites, currently available for sale today.

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American Southwest Is Experiencing Its Worst Megadrought Since 800 AD

GizModo VR

The brutal American Southwest megadrought responsible for conjuring up these horrific images of dried-up lakes and reservoirs is officially one of the worst prolonged droughts in recorded human history, one built largely on the backs of human-induced climate change. 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?