Sat.Feb 20, 2021

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Stop What You’re Doing And Play ‘Gorilla Tag’ On Oculus Quest & SteamVR

VRScout

Use your incredible gorilla strength to parkour up trees and cliffs in this low-fi game of tag. Available now on Oculus Quest/Quest 2 and SteamVR headsets, Gorilla Tag combines fast-paced parkour climbing with unique locomotion mechanics to offer a hilariously entertaining PvP multiplayer experience that will have you screaming “OH OH AHAHAH!” at the top of your lungs as you chase down other gorilla players through a low-fi jungle playground.

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Lynx Reveals First Through-the-lens Footage of R-1 Mixed Reality Headset

Road to VR

French startup Lynx , which is designing a mixed reality headset (capable of both AR and VR), today revealed the first look through its novel optics. The Lynx R-1 headset was first announced last year as a standalone headset centered around passthrough augmented reality. It’s said to include a Snapdragon XR2 processor, eye-tracking, and unique optics which the company calls a “four-fold catadioptric freeform prism.” It’s expected to launch this year , priced under $1,500.

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Entire California School Board Resigns After Chewing Out Parents on Accidental Zoom Broadcast

GizModo VR

It’s hard to believe that almost a year into the pandemic pushing everything virtual, there are people still struggling to get the hang of Zoom. And yet here we are. Read more.

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Mars helicopter Ingenuity checks in from the red planet

Digital Trends

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has shared the first update from Ingenuity, the helicopter which landed on Mars along with the Perseverance rover this week.

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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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Google Fires Another Top Researcher on Its AI Ethics Team

GizModo VR

Google has fired another top artificial intelligence researcher, Margaret Mitchell, in the latest escalation of internal tensions at the company following December’s controversial ouster of Timnit Gebru, a Black AI ethicist. As if the PR fire with Google’s AI ethics team didn’t have enough fuel already. Read more.

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An Artist Used a Drone to Photograph Rarely Seen ICE Detention Centers

GizModo VR

Unfortunately, it’s not hard to find information about the disturbing , unhealthy , and inhumane conditions that immigrants face in ICE detention centers, many of which are privately-owned. It is, however, more complicated to find photos of these detention centers. Access to photographers is often not on the table. Read more.

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FAA investigation finds SpaceX explosion ‘did not endanger the public’

Digital Trends

The FAA has closed its investigation into SpaceX and found that an explosion during testing of the Starship rocket prototype did not put the public in danger.

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Winter Storm Energy Prices in Texas Leave Customers With Astronomical Bills That Can Reach Up to $17,000

GizModo VR

As if freezing for days and living with power outrages weren’t bad enough, some Texans now have to deal with the steep financial consequences from the storm. The latest blow came via the electricity bills, some of which have reached outrageous sums that can reach $5,000 or even $17,000 for just a few days. Read more.

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Every Xbox Series X game that supports ray tracing

Digital Trends

Ray tracing is the standout feature of the Xbox Series X, but unfortunately, not every game supports it. Here's every Xbox Series X game that does.

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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 Louisiana City Struck by Two Hurricanes Last Year Is Suffering in This Week's Deep Freeze

GizModo VR

On Monday night, the temperature in Lake Charles, Louisiana dipped to 14 degrees Fahrenheit (7.8 degrees Celsius), more than 30 degrees Fahrenheit (17.2 degrees Celsius) below average. Hours later, just before the sun rose on Tuesday morning, the city’s power supply abruptly shut off , taking the six local water plants… Read more.

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The best external hard drives for the PS5

Digital Trends

The PS5 may not have room for all your downloads: These are the best compatible SSDs to expand your PS5 storage and manage your game library the speedy way.

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Paul Feig, Charlize Theron, and Kerry Washington Are Taking Us to The School of Good and Evil

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Paul Feig continues on his personal mission to give us gifts in the form of powerful lady team-ups. This time, it’s Kerry Washington and Charlize Theron playing best friends and the Deans of The School of Good and Evil. Read more.

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We’re going to the red planet! All the past, present, and future missions to Mars

Digital Trends

A detailed list of all operational and planned missions to Mars, along with explanations of their objectives.

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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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Onward Rookie Bootcamp Spring Tournament Introduces New Players to Popular Quest Port Game

VR Fitness

The Onward Rookie Bootcamp Spring Tournament kicks off today at noon ET, featuring over a dozen rookie teams that are new to competitive Onward , a popular VR first-person mil-sim from Downpour Interactive that captured over $10 million in revenue on the Quest alone last year. Continue reading on VR Fitness Insider.

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The best movies leaving Amazon Prime at the end of February

Digital Trends

It's a short month, so you only have a limited time to catch these amazing flicks before they depart Amazon Prime!

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Echo Combat Community Offers A Zero-Gravity FPS League

VR Fitness

When plans were announced at Oculus Connect 4 for a first-person shooter style game from Ready At Dawn, the developers of award-winning titles Echo Arena and Lone Echo , fans were thrilled. Echo Combat was released a little over a year later, in November 2018, and an announcement was made a few months later that it would be included in season 3 of the VR League, which was sponsored by Oculus and run by ESL.

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Best cheap Bose headphone deals

Digital Trends

When you're after new headphones, one of the most popular brands to check out is Bose. We scoured the online retailers to locate the best cheap Bose headphones.

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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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J.J. Abrams' Subject to Change Will Be a 'Mind- and Reality-Bending' New Series

GizModo VR

A new J.J. Abrams -created thriller is coming to HBO Max. No, not that one, another one. Read more.

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Harnessing darkness: The race to solve solar power’s greatest problem

Digital Trends

Solar panels can't produce energy when the sun isn't shining. But what if they could? As it turns out, scientists all over the globe are working on the problem.

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Plex Is Experimenting With Apple TV App Integration

GizModo VR

Plex appears to be exploring an integration with Apple’s streaming app. Read more.

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Best Cheap Powerbeats Pro Deals

Digital Trends

Some of the hottest earphones available right now are the Powerbeats Pro from Beats by Dre, and we've hunted down the very best deals on them.

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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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Saturday's Best Deals: Compustar 2-Way Remote Start Kit, Dyson V7 Allergy, Gooloo Car Jump Starter, Kasa Smart Plugs, Corsair Virtuoso Headset, and More

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A 2-way remote start system and a case of Pedroncelli rosé lead Saturday’s best deals. Read more.

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The best dramas on Hulu right now

Digital Trends

Looking for a good drama to keep you entertained? From mind-bending thrillers to ones with comedic tones, Hulu has a variety from which to choose.

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Treat Yourself to a Corsair Virtuoso Gaming Headset

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CORSAIR Virtuoso Headset | $193 | Newegg | Promo code 93XQJ78 Read more.

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Best cheap Beats headphone deals

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We've scoured through deals from online retailers to find the best Beats deals so we can share with you the best cheap Beats headphones available.

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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?