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Looking at VR in Senior Living Communities for Alzheimer’s Awareness Month

ARPost

November is Alzheimer’s Awareness Month. And, while there are a number of XR apps and platforms out there promising to gauge and improve user cognition, two perennial favorites of ARPost are targeted at those age groups most at risk of experiencing complications due to Alzheimers – residents of senior living communities. Both companies, Rendever and MyndVR are also seeing technological and societal changes that might make their products even more available to the populations that they serv

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Ten XR Trends to Watch in 2022

AR Insider

What will the next year have in store for AR and VR. As we enter 2022, these technologies are on an upswing in key areas like social AR and VR gaming. What will pull ahead? We break it down. The post Ten XR Trends to Watch in 2022 appeared first on AR Insider.

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Learning With ARVR in Higher Education

ARVR

This is an assignment for my Trend Analysis in Educational Technology Continue reading on AR/VR Journey: Augmented & Virtual Reality Magazine ».

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Building the Metaverse Community

Tech Trends VR

By Caspar Thykier, Co-founder and CEO of Zappar. It’s been a week now since the end of AWE, which is enough time to reflect and get a healthy sense of perspective after the euphoria of the first large in-person gathering for the XR community in some time. And I have to say that the afterglow still lingers and the cynicism hasn’t kicked in! Now I should say that the folks in and around XR are an endlessly positive bunch which you would expect for people pioneering a new computing platform: panhan

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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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3D Avatars in the Metaverse: Everything You Need to Know —

ARVR

11 min read With the recent rebranding of Facebook into Meta, the Metaverse is taking the tech world by storm. As you probably already know, a metaverse is the digital reality that combines aspects of social media, online gaming, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and cryptocurrencies to allow users to interact virtually. One of the cool things about the Metaverse is that there will be realistic avatars that will look like their owner or will be able to go through an upgrade (change h

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Microsoft is working on new updates to make Windows 11 faster next year

Digital Trends

Microsoft is promising some big updates in 2022 that will help solve Windows 11 bugs that affect the operating system's performance.

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The Plague Is More Likely Now Thanks to Climate Change

GizModo VR

The risk of the plague spilling over from humans to animals in the western U.S. has increased since 1950 thanks to climate change, a new study has found. Importantly, the research gives valuable insights into how this deadly disease has historically moved and developed in the U.S., which can help us understand more… Read more.

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HDMI ARC and eARC: The one-cable solution for TV audio, fully explained

Digital Trends

If you’re not using HDMI ARC, you should be. This under-appreciated HDMI tech eliminates extra cables, improves audio, and makes it easier to control your gear.

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DogPhone Will Let Dog Use Phone

GizModo VR

So far, 2021 has been a banner year for nonsense words. The metaverse —more of a concept than an actual entity at this point—was embraced as the central initiative of Facebook Meta; NFTs , which are quite literally intangible assets, have taken on a life of their own, and now, DogPhone is here to be exactly what it… Read more.

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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 scariest ghosts in the Ghostbusters movies

Digital Trends

Now that Ghostbusters: Afterlife is in theaters, we're taking a look back at the spookiest and scariest ghosts in the franchise's previous films.

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Feral Hogs Are Causing Irreversible Harm to Salt Marshes

GizModo VR

New research shows that feral hogs are hungry wrecking balls in the Southeast’s salt marshes. Their appetite for mussels could end up undoing a key symbiotic relation that keeps marshland intact, right at a time when coastal ecosystems are coming under increasing pressure from climate change. As if we needed any more… Read more.

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Natasha Liu Bordizzo will play Sabine Wren in Star Wars: Ahsoka

Digital Trends

Another fan-favorite character from Star Wars animation is making the leap to live-action in Ahsoka as Natasha Liu Bordizzo joins the cast as Sabine Wren.

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U.S. Workers Are Realizing Life's More Than Just a Job

GizModo VR

If you’re the type of person who finds fulfillment and meaning from your job and can’t shut up about it at the bar, congrats, but it seems you’re among a dwindling minority. At least that’s the sense from a recent massive Pew survey which found a 7% decline in U.S. adults who said they derive meaning and purpose in… Read more.

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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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EON Reality and NEST Expand XR Partnership Around Gulf Cooperation Council

EON Reality

The latest expansion makes EON Reality’s Kuwaiti partner its GCC headquarters. IRVINE, CA, November 19, 2021 – EON Reality, the global leader in Augmented and Virtual Reality-based knowledge and skills tra nsfer for industry and education, announces a new partnership with the National Company for Educational Services and Training (NEST), which is a fully owned subsidiary of the National Technology Enterprises Company (NTEC) in Kuwait, to expand their existing partnership into a new agreement tha

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Celebrate Star Wars' Most Infamous Holiday Any Day With This Cookbook

GizModo VR

George Lucas once told Mark Hamill , “If I could find every copy of that holiday special, I’d smash them with a hammer.” Lucus was referring to, of course, the legendarily awful Star Wars Holiday Special , which aired once in 1978 and has never been seen in an official capacity since. If he had, then I would have been… Read more.

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DDR6 is already in the works, and it’s four times as fast as DDR4

Digital Trends

Samsung has confirmed that it has begun the development stages for the next generation of memory, which includes both DDR6 and GDDR7.

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A Man's Seizures Turned Out to Be Caused by Dead Tapeworms in His Brain

GizModo VR

Coming down with seizures would be a scary experience no matter what, but for one unfortunate man, that experience was compounded by the discovery that dead tapeworm cysts lodged in his brain for decades were the root cause. Thankfully, his seizures were treated successfully, and the man seems to have made a recovery… Read more.

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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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Gender, Reddit, and books: Where The Wheel of Time cast found inspiration

Digital Trends

The Wheel of Time saga unfolds across 12,000 pages, but Robert Jordan's books aren't the only place the cast of Amazon Studios' adaptation found inspiration.

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Your Ghostbusters: Afterlife Spoiler Zone Is Creeping This Way

GizModo VR

Though it’s been over five years since Paul Feig’s reboot of Ghostbusters , it’s been 32 years since audiences first spent time in a world where Peter Venkman, Ray Stanz, Egon Spengler, and Winston Zeddemore existed. That changes today as Jason Reitman’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife finally hits theaters. Read more.

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Apple’s car-building division reportedly focusing on autonomous driving

Digital Trends

Apple's car-building division hopes to release a fully autonomous electric vehicle by 2025, according to a recent report.

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A Quarter of U.S. Roads Could Be Regularly Flooded in 30 Years

GizModo VR

The U.S. recently passed a $1 trillion bipartisan spending bill aimed at improving and repairing the country’s decaying infrastructure, but a new report on flooding risks resulting from climate change warns even more investment might be needed. Read more.

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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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New Windows 11 bug leaves some apps unable to update or repair

Digital Trends

Microsoft has acknowledged a new Windows 11 bug where some apps are unable to be updated or repaired.

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Android May Soon Translate iMessage Reactions Into Emoji for Green Bubbles

GizModo VR

If you have an Android phone, you’re probably used to seeing a line from an iPhone-using friend or family member that they’ve “emphasized” your previous message. What does that even mean? In iMessage speak, that’s a double exclamation mark, or the ? emoji. Read more.

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PSA: Buy your video game console gifts early. They will sell out

Digital Trends

Don't wait until the last minute to buy a PS5 or Xbox Series X this year -- unless you love holiday disappointment.

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Netflix's Cowboy Bebop Finally Debuts Its Radical Edward

GizModo VR

Cowboy Bebop fans have been waiting for the live-action Netflix adaptation to reveal the fourth member of the Bebop crew (well, fifth if you count Ein the Data Dog). It took until today, the day Cowboy Bebop premieres on Netflix, for the streamer to do so, but it has finally announced newcomer Eden Perkins has nabbed… Read more.

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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?