VRScout
APRIL 10, 2022
One of the biggest banking institutions in America predicts that the metaverse will be a $13 trillion industry by 2030. The global financial institution Mastercard is preparing for the metaverse economy through 15 trademarks applications that would position them as the biggest payment facilitator for a virtual world powered by crypto, fintech (financial technology), and all metaverse eCommerce technologies. .
The Ghost Howls
APRIL 10, 2022
I know you weren’t expecting my newsletter for today, but since I’m going to have a very busy next week, I’ve anticipated the release of my roundup! This afternoon I’m flying to Paris to then go to Laval to attend Laval Virtual, one of the oldest events about virtual reality, where I’ll be as an attendee , a virtual speaker (about the game HitMotion: Reloaded), a host of the AWE Nite Florence (featuring great speakers like Charlie Fink… ), and also as a.
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Slashgear
APRIL 10, 2022
A new report claims Apple's next big iOS release will include references to the company's mixed reality headsets, indicating they're not far from launch.
Digital Trends
APRIL 10, 2022
Digital transistors have been the backbone of computing for much of the modern era, but Mythic A.I. makes a compelling case that analog chips may be the future.
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.
Slashgear
APRIL 10, 2022
Android smartphones come in many flavors, which is why it can tricky to figure out how to change their voicemail passwords. Here are three methods to try.
Virtual Reality Pulse brings together the best content for VR professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Slashgear
APRIL 10, 2022
Samsung dominates the foldables space, but the market is heating up. A new leak suggests OnePlus is next to launch a foldable, but it may look very familiar.
GizModo VR
APRIL 10, 2022
Throughout the first season of Dana Terrace’s The Owl House , it was clear that protagonist Luz Noceda’s biggest strength was her kindness and creativity. While she had trouble fitting in at school in the human world, her love of fantasy and magic YA books have served her well in the world of the Boiling Isles. Not… Read more.
Slashgear
APRIL 10, 2022
Mercedes has launched a new software center focused on bringing its MB.OS vehicle operating system to the market within the next couple of years.
GizModo VR
APRIL 10, 2022
Japanese animator and director Makoto Shinkai had been a name in the animation space for decades thanks to works like She and Her Cat and Voices of a Distant Star. But it was 2016's Your Name , and 2019's Weathering With You , that helped turn international viewers onto his filmography. His next movie Suzume no Tojimari … Read more.
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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.
Mashable VR
APRIL 10, 2022
Welcome to Saul's world, Walt and Jesse. For five seasons, Better Call Saul methodically teased out the complex backstory of Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk). In the show's sixth and final season, which starts airing April 18, we may finally understand the full, complicated picture of the good-ish-guy-turned-bad-ish-guy lawyer we first met on Breaking Bad.
GizModo VR
APRIL 10, 2022
The Fast & Furious franchise has a surprising legacy of superheroes being in their films, whether that’s Vin Diesel as Groot , or the more recent addition of John “Peacemaker” Cena that came with last year’s F9. (This is to say nothing of the real superhero in the cast, which is Tyrese Gibson as a cop in Morbius.) Next… Read more.
Mashable VR
APRIL 10, 2022
Imagine this Facebook post: an overly exposed image of Ryan Gosling during his Drive era with a person with bangs superimposed behind him. Neon text reads: "SHUT TF UP. I just wanna brood and listen to the 1983 New Wave Hit EYES WITHOUT A FACE By Billy Idol." It took Natalie Dober just a couple of minutes to slap this meme together and, like any good shitpost , if you think about it too long, it's no longer funny.
Digital Trends
APRIL 10, 2022
In what appears to be the first incident of its kind, cops recently pulled over a self-driving car with no one inside it. A video shows what happened next.
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.
Mashable VR
APRIL 10, 2022
On April 9, Nicolas Cage — man, myth, and legend — took to Reddit ahead of his hotly anticipated, semi-biographical film The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent to give us a refreshingly wholesome look at his life and career. Reddit. From reflections on the movies he'd preserve for all time and the best character in all of media , to favorite insects and pasta shapes, the conversation spanned just about everything.
GizModo VR
APRIL 10, 2022
In the depths of covid-19 pandemic, a person in dire straits turned to the last people that would hear them out: the Federal Trade Commission. Read more.
Mashable VR
APRIL 10, 2022
Elon Musk — Twitter's most " passionate believer and intense critic " — is forcing himself back onto our Twitter feeds to offer up suggested fixes for the social media site, not long after becoming a powerful decision-making voice for the company. Tweet may have been deleted. In a series of tweets posted on April 9 and 10, Musk shared a plethora of tweaks he'd like to see the site implement, including an automatic verification checkmark for Twitter Blue subscribers and an end to ads.
Digital Trends
APRIL 10, 2022
New Twitter shareholder Elon Musk has suggested turning Twitter's HQ into a homeless shelter, with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos backing the idea.
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.
Mashable VR
APRIL 10, 2022
Elon Musk's stint on Twitter's board of directors has ended before it even began. The SpaceX and Tesla CEO has scrapped plans to buff his resumé with a seat on Twitter's board, though his status as the company's biggest shareholder will still give him some influence over the platform. The change in plans was announced by Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal on Sunday night.
Digital Trends
APRIL 10, 2022
Vin Diesel announces that Captain Marvel star Brie Larson will have a role in Fast and Furious 10, and he also welcomes her to 'the family.'.
Mashable VR
APRIL 10, 2022
"There were sketches I'd never do again but then they'd always seemed right." Ambulance actor Jake Gyllenhaal channeled his inner Celine Dion for his first Saturday Night Light hosting gig since 2007. Sure, the world looks a little different from the last time Gyllenhaal hosted, but it's all coming back to him now.
Slashgear
APRIL 10, 2022
Vivo is about to officially announce its next foldable phone, but it looks like a series of images showing the X Fold in all its glory have already hit Twitter.
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?
Mashable VR
APRIL 10, 2022
Oh did you think smashing that heart on Instagram would lead to the hot hookup of your fantasies? Spoiler: It probably won't. Saturday Night Live calls out desperation Insta Likes and Follows on "Why'd You Like It?," a uncomfortably relatable gameshow calling us all out (unless you're smart enough to keep your heart-clicks quiet ).
Digital Trends
APRIL 10, 2022
Breaking Bad stars Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul will both reprise their iconic roles for the final season of Better Call Saul on AMC.
Mashable VR
APRIL 10, 2022
If you struggle to find the focus to accomplish whatever task is at hand, you may want to explore using audio as a way to help you concentrate. Now, we're not suggesting listening to catchy pop tunes, but some sounds can be beneficial if you need to work or study. Certain types of music are very effective at helping you block out distracting noises.
Digital Trends
APRIL 10, 2022
The image from the Hubble Space Telescope shared this week shows a serpentine galaxy with winding, snake-like spiral arms.
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?
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