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Amazon Lets You “Try On” Shoes Before You Buy Using AR

VRScout

Virtual Try-On for Shoes currently supports a wide range of popular footwear brands. This past week, the multinational technology company and eCommerce platform Amazon announced a new interactive shopping experience that allows you to “try on” shoes before you purchase using a mobile device. Virtual Try-On for Shoes uses AR technology to project virtual footwear over your feet in real-time, allowing you to inspect your potential purchase from a multitude of angles just like you would

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How NASA Is Building A Spacecraft To Visit Jupiter's Moon Europa

Slashgear

One of the most exciting targets for future missions isn't a planet, but a moon. NASA is building a spacecraft that'll be able to visit Europa.

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Meta hit with 8 lawsuits for 'exploiting young people for profit'

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A law firm just slammed Meta with eight lawsuits in various states, claiming Facebook and Instagram are detrimental to young people's mental health. The firm, Beasley Allen, released a statement saying that Meta not only "exploits young people for profit," but purposefully made its platforms psychologically addictive and failed to protect its users.

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The BMW EV Concept That You Couldn't Buy

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Though modern BMWs are sleek and stylish with a focus on luxury, that wasn't always the case. The automaker's first EV was a tiny car no one could buy.

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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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Heart-wrenching photos from 2022 March For Our Lives

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Following the devastating elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas — just one in a string of mass shootings that recently occurred in the United States — thousands of people marched throughout the country in support of gun control on Saturday. The events were organized by March For Our Lives, a movement that originated in 2018 after the Parkland, Florida school shooting.

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How to Fight Fox News With Labyrinthine Online Ad Markets

GizModo VR

Let’s say you’re a reasonable person who’s reasonably angry with Fox News’ handling of the news. Maybe it’s the way its hosts actively spewed dangerous lies at the heigh of the COVID-19 pandemic, or the way they continue to shamelessly spin the story of the January 6 insurrection. Either way, you’re mad, and you want… Read more.

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Diablo 4 Release Window Narrows As The Necromancer Joins Roster

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Though we still don't know exactly when the game will be released, Blizzard has revealed a general timeframe for when fans can expect to get "Diablo 4.".

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Squid Game's Season 2 Teaser Promises Old Faces and a New Game

GizModo VR

Squid Game was arguably the show for Netflix during 2021, and after being repeatedly coy about whether or not there’d be a follow up, the streamer re-confirmed that the hit series is coming back for season two, and offered a teaser to get you excited. Read more.

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Hollow Knight: Silksong Reappears With An Xbox Game Pass Surprise

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Fans have been waiting years for more about Hollow Knight: Silksong, and with the 2022 Xbox Showcase, we finally learned some new information about the game.

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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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Blockbuster Starfield trailer shows off ship combat, 1,000 explorable planets

Digital Trends

The new Starfield trailer shows gameplay, character customization, ship creation, and how big the game actually is with over 100 solar systems to explore.

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Here's Our First Look At Starfield Gameplay

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Bethesda has given "Starfield" fans a long look at gameplay from the upcoming science-fiction title, which has had its launch date pushed to 2023.

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Billy Kametz, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure and Promare Voice Actor, Passes Away at 35

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Billy Kametz, an anime and video game voice actor, has passed away at the age of 35. Kametz, whose credits include voicing Josuke Higashikata in the English dub of Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure : Diamond is Unbreakable and Galo Thymos in Studio Trigger’s hit anime film Promare, was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer back… Read more.

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Overwatch 2 Early Access Release Date Revealed With Free-To-Play Twist

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During the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase, Blizzard revealed when players will be able to download "Overwatch 2" in early access as a free-to-play title.

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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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Gary Oldman Nearly Voiced General Grievous, Star Wars' Worst-Booked Prequel Baddie

GizModo VR

Part of the fun of Star Wars can be seeing well-known actors suddenly show up in one of its many movies or shows. Maybe they’re there as important characters, like we got with Sam Jackson or Ming-Na Wen , maybe they’re there as “wait, they’re in this?” cameos, like Zach Braff or Forest Whitaker. Either way, it’s always… Read more.

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Minecraft Legends Serves Up An Action Strategy Makeover

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"Minecraft Legends" will have players defend the Overworld against a Piglin invasion from the Nether that threatens to consume its voxel art landscape.

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Kamen Rider Black Sun's First Look Teases a Darker Hero's Journey

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Since 1971, Shotaro Ishinmori’s Kamen Rider franchise has been one of the most popular icons of both Japanese culture and the entire tokusatsu genre. Of the many shows that bare the franchise’s name, it’s 1987's Kamen Rider Black that shook things up. With the franchise now 50 years old, and other Rider stuff in the… Read more.

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Forza Motorsport Shows Off Gameplay And Graphics Deep Dive

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Microsoft has taken the wraps off its next "Forza Motorsport" installment, teasing new features, enhancements, and gorgeous racing environments.

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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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Tesla inches closer to recall as NHTSA probes autopilot software

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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced Thursday that it will significantly expand its investigation of Tesla's autopilot system, which could potentially see more than 800,000 vehicles recalled, according to a report from the New York Times. The nation's top auto-safety agency moved forward with plans to upgrade its Preliminary Evaluation, which started last August, into an Engineering Analysis, which is the next step in a possible recall of hundreds of thousands of Tesla ve

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10 U.S. Government Scandals You Probably Forgot About

GizModo VR

Ah, the U.S. federal government! When properly funded and run, it can efficiently dole out money for public goods like healthcare, roads and highways, college educations, and other indispensable amenities that average Americans relies on. It makes laws, regulates industries, and helps to maintains social order, all… Read more.

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11 of the weirdest DALL-E-generated images on the internet

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Despite the existential horrors that come from the ever-increasing wealth of knowledge gained by Artificial Intelligence —they sure do know how to create art. And now, the internet is making the most of this technology to generate some epically weird images with the help of Dall-E Mini. Named after the surrealist artist himself, Salvador Dali, DALL-E uses artificial intelligence to create images based on the text you write (no matter how weird).

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The best wireless speakers for 2022

Digital Trends

How do you choose the wireless speaker that's best for you? Our picks offer great sound and flexible connectivity options, each geared for different needs.

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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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10 iPhone settings to save your precious time

Mashable VR

Your iPhone already saves you a ton of time with its marvellous multitasking functionality, removing the need for a separate camera, calculator, GPS unit, and more, but we've got ways to save you even more valuable time. Here are ten handy hacks, tips, and tricks that will improve your efficiency when using your Apple smartphone. SEE ALSO: Best headphones for iPhone owners: Think outside the (AirPods) box. 1.

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The best smart kitchen appliances for 2022

Digital Trends

Looking to add a little automation to your cooking and cleanup? These seven smart kitchen appliances are sure to enhance your next round of meal prep.

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Google to pay $118 million settlement in pay equity case

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Google agreed to pay $118 million to settle a long-running pay-equity case, according to the plaintiffs' law firms Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP and Altshuler Berzon LLP. The gender discrimination suit, Ellis v. Google , had been pending since 2017. The settlement covers around 15,500 women employees with over 200 job titles in California since September 2013.

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What is creating these incredibly bright radio flashes?

Digital Trends

Exceedingly brief but incredibly bright, the strange phenomenon of Fast Radio Bursts continues to puzzle scientists.

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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?