Sat.Jun 26, 2021

article thumbnail

Soar Through The Sky In This Multisensory VR Wingsuit Sim

VRScout

The co-founder of location-based entertainment company The VOID returns with a new wingsuit VR experience. Jumping out of an aircraft and soaring past mountains like a flying squirrel looks like an incredible experience. It’s also an incredibly dangerous one and not everyone was made for that type of ‘X-Games’ lifestyle. Thankfully, VR technology allows us to partake in new activities that would otherwise be too difficult or dangerous to experience in real-life.

article thumbnail

Ron Desantis Signs a Bill That Mandates Cities Keep Using Fossil Fuels

GizModo VR

Florida just took a huge step backward in the clean energy revolution. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a piece of legislation into law earlier this week that requires Florida cities and towns to keep using fossil fuels and could strangle their ability to set clean energy goals and mandates. Read more.

Florida 145
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Here’s what a trend-analyzing A.I. thinks will be the next big thing in tech

Digital Trends

The "technology intelligence engine" uses A.I. to sift through hundreds of millions of documents online, then uses all that information to spot trends.

Trends 129
article thumbnail

Google's Search Engine Will Now Warn You When It Doesn't Have a Reliable Answer

GizModo VR

Google said Friday it will notify people when they look up breaking news or other “rapidly evolving” issues that their search results may be unreliable. It’s one of several fact-checking measures the tech giant has incorporated in recent years to curb the spread of misinformation and provide important context to… Read more.

Google 116
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Could there be underground lakes on Mars’s southern pole?

Digital Trends

A new study suggests that there could be large subsurface lakes on Mars, though it seems to be too cold for liquid water to exist in the area.

Study 86

More Trending

article thumbnail

How to clear the cache on your Xbox One console

Digital Trends

If your Xbox One is experiencing crashes or freezing, you could have cache issues. Here's how to easily clear your cache, even if you can't reach the settings!

How To 77
article thumbnail

New Shazam for Birds Will Identify That Chirping for You

GizModo VR

I was recently creeping through a clearing of downed trees in a wooded Brooklyn park with my iPhone in hand. Birds were singing everywhere, but through the din, I was recording a peculiar song: It was almost certainly the slurred, metallic whistle of a Bicknell’s thrush. Though a plain-looking, brown-speckled bird,… Read more.

article thumbnail

Eufy SoloCam E40 Review: The anti-subscription security camera

Digital Trends

You'll have one less thing to worry about paying for on a monthly basis with the new Eufy security camera.

93
article thumbnail

F9 Actress Jordana Brewster Reflects on the Failures of The Faculty Film

GizModo VR

Unfortunately, riding the wave of Scream and subsequent teen horror film successes’ doomed The Faculty to failure. With a poorly timed Christmas release, the film became an unexpected flop. Read more.

Filming 98
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Hubble has a computer problem and it’s proving difficult to fix

Digital Trends

The Hubble Space Telescope is experiencing a computer problem and is not collecting scientific data. Engineers are working on a fix, but it's proving difficult.

Data 72
article thumbnail

Lego Returns to The Mandalorian With 3 New Vehicle Sets

GizModo VR

The Mandalorian ’s second season gave us plenty of big moments , and plenty of iconic Star Wars vehicles to boot. The latest round of Lego sets based on the show celebrate that with vehicles big and small that let you recreate the return of Boba Fett , the fall of Moff Gideon, and more in bricky form. Read more.

98
article thumbnail

Fortnite challenge guide: Place alien light communication device on mountaintops

Digital Trends

Stuck finding where to place alien light communication devices in Fortnite? In this guide, we'll show you all the spots to place devices for the challenge.

How To 69
article thumbnail

The Handmaid's Tale Sequel, The Testaments Has Big Plans for Aunt Lydia

GizModo VR

Ann Dowd is one of the best, underrated actresses working right now. She has experience with every genre but is often cast as cold and stoic characters—much like her role as Aunt Lydia in Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Read more.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Fortnite challenge guide: Collect cat food

Digital Trends

Fortnite season 7, week 3 features a challenge for collecting cat food. In this guide, we'll show you all the cat food locations to finish this challenge.

How To 68
article thumbnail

Doctor Who's Jodie Whittaker Is a Pro at Keeping On-Set Secrets

GizModo VR

The rumor mill is spinning , and word on the street is Jodie Whitaker exiting her role as the 13th Doctor on Doctor Who. Either way, the actress is keeping quiet on the subject. Read more.

article thumbnail

Astronauts deploy a second new solar array for the International Space Station

Digital Trends

Astronauts are making progress on upgrading the power system for the International Space Station, completing a spacewalk to install a second new solar array.

67
article thumbnail

Tesla Recalls Nearly 300,000 Cars in China Over Cruise Control Safety Issues

GizModo VR

Tesla has already chalked up plenty of bad press in China this year, with officials scrutinizing its handling of customer data and protests claiming that Chinese customer complaints are going ignored. The electric car manufacturer added another controversy to the list this weekend: China’s market regulator says Tesla… Read more.

China 98
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Everything we know about Metroid Dread

Digital Trends

This is going to be a major entry in the classic Nintendo series, so read up on everything we know about Metroid Dread before Samus makes her return this year.

Gaming 64
article thumbnail

Anya Taylor Joy Thought She Would Never Work Again After The Witch

GizModo VR

Many celebrities despise watching themselves on the big screen, and actress Anya Taylor Joy is one of those celebrities. Read more.

Filming 105
article thumbnail

Everything we know about The Outer Worlds 2

Digital Trends

There isn't much to go on just yet, but we can make a few guesses on the details. For now, here's everything we know, and suspect, about The Outer Worlds 2. .

article thumbnail

'Rasputin' Played by Electric Toothbrushes, a PS2 Controller, and Other Gadgets Is My New Jam

GizModo VR

If, unlike me, you don’t spend an embarrassing number of hours scrolling through TikTok each week, you may be wondering why the campy disco hit “Rasputin” is climbing the charts more than four decades after its original release. Boney M.’s ‘70s ode to “Russia’s greatest love machine” is having one hell of a moment,… Read more.

article thumbnail

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?

article thumbnail

Everything we know about Forza Horizon 5

Digital Trends

Forza Horizon 5 is coming in November 2021: Here's what we know about the open-world racing game, the beautiful Mexican location, new game modes, and more.

Gaming 61
article thumbnail

Releases Recap: June 21 – 25

Oculus

This week, we released a bunch of titles and updates across the Oculus Platform. Here’s a rundown of the highlights.

Oculus 33
article thumbnail

Virgin Galactic cleared to fly space tourists on SpaceShipTwo

Digital Trends

The age of space tourism is almost here. Virgin Galactic has been cleared to fly paying customers on its suborbital spaceplane, the SpaceShipTwo.

Tourism 63
article thumbnail

Fortnite season 7, week 3 challenges and how to complete them

Digital Trends

Fortnite's season 7, week 3 challenges are live and they're a bit more complex than you might be used to. Here, we go over all of them and how to complete them.

How To 59
article thumbnail

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?