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Industrial Metaverse: The Factory of the Future

ARPost

In the modern marketplace, manufacturing is deemed to be the most complex industry. As the pace of change accelerates, it demands the adoption of highly sophisticated, novel digital technologies. Right now, the word metaverse is being tossed around like the word internet back in the 1990s. Although it may sound like a hypothetical concept, the metaverse is a souped-up version of augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality.

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VR Shooter Gambit! Lets You Fight Baddies With A Defibrillator

VRScout

Charge up your ‘Gun Fever’ bar to unleash hell upon your foes using a variety of insane weaponry. Gambit! is an outrageous-looking VR shooter that has you joining a group of unstable mercenaries on a mission gone horribly, terribly wrong. The only way to escape with your life is to blast your way through multiple waves of ruthless bounty hunters who are looking to make a fast buck by bringing all of you in.

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Cooking Simulator VR Coming To Quest 2 On July 28

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Cooking Simulator VR is coming to Meta Quest 2, releasing next week on July 28. Following on from the PC VR release last year, the Quest 2 version will be available for $24.99 on the Oculus Store — original Quest not supported. The PC VR version won Steam’s VR Game of the Year award last year , and in our review we called it “a frantic celebration of VR realism and chaos.” ?.

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Sega Channel Was A Revolutionary Technology Ahead Of Its Time

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Released in 1994, the cable-provided Sega Channel served as the ultimate precursor to modern-day game streaming.

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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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The Rock Just Wowed Comic-Con With a New Black Adam Trailer

GizModo VR

Black Adam is DC’s next big superhero release so there was no way a star as big and connected to his fans as Dwayne Johnson was not going to show up at San Diego Comic-Con and bring something special. What he brought, besides a good chunk of his cast, was a brand new trailer for the October 21 release that dug a bit… Read more.

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The New Sandman Trailer Sweeps Through San Diego Comic-Con

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There have been numerous casting announcements for the Netflix adaption of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman leading up to San Diego Comic Con, and with each new addition the hype has only grown. From Gwendoline Christie’s Satan to Mark Hamil as Merv Pumpkinhead, and Thomas Sturridge’s haunting Dream/Morpheus, the cast is… Read more.

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How to watch SpaceX’s next Starlink launch tomorrow

Digital Trends

SpaceX is having a busy few days -- having just beat its record for number of launches per year, the company is performing yet another launch tomorrow.

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Marvel Just Announced Phase 5 Release Dates

GizModo VR

Kevin Feige, after teasing Marvel fans during Cinema Con , has officially revealed Phase 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe at San Diego Comic-Con. We’ve known that something big was in the pipeline for a while , so while this isn’t a surprise, it’s always interesting to see the full plan laid out and speculate about… Read more.

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DC debuts new Black Adam and Shazam! Fury of the Gods trailers

Digital Trends

At San Diego Comic-Con, DC showed off the latest trailers to Shazam! Fury of the Gods with Zachary Levi and Black Adam with Dwayne The Rock Johnson.

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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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She-Hulk Smashes Into a New Trailer

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Marvel’s She-Hulk is set to premiere later this year, and is aiming to take a more comedic tone than the other Disney+ properties, the trailers billing the new show as a kind of sitcom with some superheroing thrown in. Tatiana Maslany stars as Jennifer Walters, Bruce Banner’s cousin, an attorney who just wants to do… Read more.

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Here’s what the James Webb Space Telescope will set its sights on next

Digital Trends

Now that the James Webb Space Telescope has sent back its first images of deep space, you might be wondering what's coming next. Here's the scoop!

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Ant-Man 3: Quantumania First Look Has Plenty of Mania, Bill Murray. and MODOK?! [Updated]

GizModo VR

After Black Panther: Wakanda Forever , Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is the next on the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s docket, so it should be no surprise the studio had something to show from the movie at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. Unfortunately, while it’s not coming online, we got to see it—which means we got… Read more.

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SpaceX breaks its record for number of launches per year

Digital Trends

SpaceX hit an impressive milestone with its 32nd mission of 2022, which broke its record for launches achieved in one calendar year.

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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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Marvel Just Screened the First Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Footage [Updated]

GizModo VR

It’s easy to forget that four years ago James Gunn was fired from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. The whole situation was messy—but as a result, when the filmmaker took the stage in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con 2022 to reveal the first footage from the long-awaited, highly anticipated sequel, it was more than just a… Read more.

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James Webb might have spotted the most distant galaxy ever observed

Digital Trends

The James Webb Space Telescope has another feather in its cap - the potential discovery of the most distant galaxy ever observed.

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Fantastic Four Will Lead Marvel's Phase 6, Alongside 2 New Avengers Movies

GizModo VR

Although we don’t have any details on cast or crew, we do have a few new dates to report for the long-anticipated new Fantastic Four film. At the Marvel theatrical panel during San Diego Comic-Con it was revealed that Fantastic Four will release in theaters on November 8, 2024. Read more.

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How to use Camouflage to hide distractions on your Google Pixel photos

Digital Trends

Google Pixel's advanced image processing brings dramatic improvements to smartphone photography. But when a subtler touch is needed, Camouflage saves the day.

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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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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever's First Teaser Is Here

GizModo VR

Just how could the MCU continue to expand the world of Wakanda after the tragic passing of Chadwick Boseman? We just got a taste, as Marvel took to San Diego Comic-Con to give us a look at Ryan Coogler’s daunting Black Panther sequel. Read more.

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Wordle destroyed my marriage for 20 minutes

Digital Trends

Every now and then a husband — particularly one of the nerd variety — can inadvertently do something really dumb. This was one of those times.

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The Most Awesome Cosplay of San Diego Comic-Con 2022, Day 2

GizModo VR

The past few years we’ve had to make do with putting on a little show ourselves when it comes to geeky con cosplay, but at last: San Diego Comic-Con is back in person this year, and so are the wonderful costumes! After scouring the floor on for some great cosplay, we managed to find even more for day two! Read more.

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Why doesn’t Jupiter have big, beautiful rings like Saturn does?

Digital Trends

Jupiter does have rings, but they are so faint they are often invisible. Now researchers have a theory about why.

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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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Shudder's Queer for Fear Looks Thoughtful and Wildly Entertaining

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You can’t be too surprised, considering the fact that Shudder previously made the excellent Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror , but the streamer’s latest documentary series looks like it’ll be a must-watch. Executive produced by Bryan Fuller (Hannibal) , Queer for Fear examines the horror genre through an LGBTQ+… Read more.

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Mars Express orbiter snaps an image of Mars’s ‘Grand Canyon’

Digital Trends

The sights of Mars are many and marvelous, and the Mars Express orbiter recently captured one of the planet's wonders: the Valles Marineris canyon system.

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Star Trek: Lower Decks' Season 3 Trailer Sets Up a Bold, Bonkers Heist

GizModo VR

When we last left the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos on Lower Decks , things were looking a little rough for them. Captain Freeman got arrested for a war crime she didn’t commit—and now, as we head into season 3, Mariner, Boimler, and the gang have got to find a way to prove her innocence. while p **g off as little of… Read more.

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4 simple reasons I’ll never give up Windows for good

Digital Trends

From windows management to gaming to the Edge browser, Windows 11 is a powerhouse and nothing Mac offers can keep me from going back.

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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?