Sat.Jul 09, 2022

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This AR Helmet Lets Helicopter Pilots ‘Own The Sky’

VRScout

Pilots can actually see through the body of the aircraft as they fly. International technology company Elbit Systems this week unveiled a helicopter vision suite for military helicopters that uses a combination of augmented reality (AR), machine learning, and artificial intelligence to provide pilots better visibility while in degraded visibility conditions.

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What the EU Digital Markets Act may mean for XR

The Ghost Howls

A few days ago, the European Parliament has passed the law of the Digital Markets Act, which is meant to regulate the power of the American tech giants. It can be a game-changer for the whole digital world, so I thought it was worth sharing my thoughts about what it could mean for XR. Digital Markets Act. The Digital Markets Act is a law that the European Parliament and Commission are discussing since 2020 and has the purpose of limiting the excessive power of the major tech giants like Apple, M

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How ROSE Helped Mastercard Help Shoppers Stand Up to Cancer

ARPost

Mastercard recently partnered with Stand Up to Cancer (SU2C). The partnership is impactful, but it lacked the kind of personally moving component necessary to really help individuals understand what they were doing. To add that special something, they reached out to ROSE. Standing Up to Cancer. From May 1 through July 15, Mastercard will donate one cent for every transaction to SU2C – an organization that helps to fund groundbreaking cancer research.

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Here's How Long A Tesla Model X Battery Will Actually Last

Slashgear

Every EV owner likely wonders how long their car's battery will last before needing to be replaced. Here's what you can expect for the Tesla Model X.

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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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Here are the cosmic targets for James Webb’s Telescope’s first images

Digital Trends

This week will see the release of the first science images from the James Webb Space Telescope, and NASA has announced which objects the images will show.

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NASA’s CAPSTONE satellite maneuver sends spacecraft on its way to lunar orbit

Digital Trends

NASA's CAPSTONE satellite is on its way to orbit around the moon, following a software issue which caused it to lose contact with Earth this week.

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5 Internet Banking Tips You Need To Know To Keep Your Info Safe

Slashgear

Online banking is the most convenient way to manage your money, but it's not without some risks. Here's how to keep your personal information safe.

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Eric Kripke Teases The Boys' "Exciting" Season 4 Plans

GizModo VR

Amazon’s The Boys wrapped its third season a few days ago, and now the raunchy superhero satire is taking a break until season four hits sometime presumably next year. A lot happened throughout the eight-episode season, and the show is shaping up to have a sharply different future from the source material by Garth… Read more.

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The Reason You Won't Be Playing A Red Dead Redemption Remaster Any Time Soon

Slashgear

"Red Dead Redemption" fans remain as loyal as ever, but there's still no remaster of the game and it doesn't look like one will happen anytime soon.

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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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Perseverance rover scoops up a sample from Mars’ Jezero delta

Digital Trends

NASA's Perseverance rover recently starting exploring an area of Mars called the Jezero crater delta, and this week it collected its ninth sample so far.

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How NASA's Audacious Mission To Sample An Asteroid Almost Ended In Bizarre Disaster

Slashgear

The OSIRIS-REx nearly had a catastrophic event after miscalculations about the surface of the asteroid Bennu.

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Spider-Man's Best Cartoon is Now on Netflix

GizModo VR

Spider-Man is, at this point, just a constant force of nature who will outlive us all and possibly the heat death of the universe. While he’s plenty popular across films , comics , and video games , it’s animation—and more specifically, TV animation —where some of his most enduring work lies. Of the many shows to bear his… Read more.

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The Reason Why Max Verstappen Is Annoyed By Netflix's 'Drive To Survive'

Slashgear

Netflix's reality TV series has seemingly drummed up interest in F1, but some drivers indicate it is taking its creative license a bit too far.

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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 Legend: Dragon Ball Fan Film is Cool as Hell

GizModo VR

Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball franchise is insanely popular, thanks in part to Toonami and airing the anime adaptation of both Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z during the 90s. Fandoms are the lifeblood of IP, and Dragon Ball’s fandom has been beating quite strongly more recently, especially with the new theatrical film, … Read more.

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Should Christian Bale’s Dark Knight rise again in a fourth movie?

Digital Trends

Christian Bale's recent admission that he would return to play Batman has sparked conversation about what a fourth Dark Knight movie would look like.

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10 Delightful Twitter Bots to Cleanse Your Timeline of Elon Musk

GizModo VR

If you’re on Twitter, you’ve had your timeline taken over by Elon Musk at some point. This past Wednesday, it was his secret twins with Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis. On Thursday, it was news that his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter was in “serious jeopardy.” Finally, on Friday, Musk finally did what he had been… Read more.

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How to watch the first launch of a new European rocket on Thursday

Digital Trends

This week, the European Space Agency (ESA) will launch its new rocket, the Vega-C, on its first flight. Here's how to watch.

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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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The Unhealthiest Dog Breeds

GizModo VR

Dogs have been humanity’s stalwart companions for tens of thousands of years. Unfortunately, not every dog is as genetically healthy as they deserve to be, thanks largely to our meddling influence. Over the past few centuries, human-guided breeding has split dogs into hundreds of distinct breeds, based on specifically… Read more.

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Between Realities VR Podcast: Season 5 Episode 20 Ft. Benoit Busque of Cloudhead Games & Pistol Whip

Upload VR

In this week’s episode of Between Realties, Alex and Skeeva host Benoit Busque, Senior Game Designer working on Pistol Whip at Cloudhead Games. Benoit gives a look into the design choices of the Pistol Whip and the newest Contracts update. Other topics include the history of Pistol Whip and the power of presence in VR. — Between Realities Links — Merch Store: [link].

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Metallica Joins Stranger Things 4's Fan-Favorite Guitar Solo

GizModo VR

Stranger Things 4 has been the talk of the town throughout the spring and summer, and in particular its needle drops. The first part of the season featured Max (Sadie Sink) being saved from the thrall of big bad Vecna by listening to Kate Bush’s “ Running Up That Hill ,” a scene which helped boost Bush’s song on the… Read more.

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The International Space Station has a new way to dispose of trash

Digital Trends

Even astronauts on the International Space Station have to take out the trash.

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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 8 Coolest Images of Earth NASA Shared in June

GizModo VR

NASA’s Earth Observatory has been presenting us with images of our pale, blue dot since it began in 1999, allowing us to get a birds eye view of what different parts of our planet look like. While Earth Observatory has a ton of photos accumulated by satellites orbiting the planet and astronauts aboard the… Read more.

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Your burning questions about GPUs, answered

Digital Trends

GPUs are essential for any modern PC, so we rounded up the most popular questions you have about graphics cards and answered them.

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Decentraland Guide; Overview, Components, Things To Do & More!

metamandrill

Decentraland is one of the more well-known locations within the metaverse. It's somewhat analogous to vacation destinations in the physical world. But unlike those locations, Decentraland is new and constantly changing. Enjoying everything this virtual landscape has to offer requires a guide's helping hand. And you'll soon discover just that as you learn about Decentraland's [.].

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How to change theme colors in Google Slides

Digital Trends

Maybe you see the perfect theme for your presentation but would prefer to use a specific color scheme. Here’s how to change theme colors in Google Slides.

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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?