Thu.Apr 08, 2021

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Goodwill And Accenture Are Using VR To Help Former Prisoners

VRScout

Project Overcome looks to help the recently-incarcerated prepare for today’s workforce using VR technology. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, more than 10,000 incarcerated individuals are released from state and federal prison every week. That tallies up to over 650,000 ex-prisoners per year. One of the biggest challenges is transitioning these individuals—some of whom incarcerated for over 10 years—back into a society where they can reenter today’s workforce.

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VR Mindfulness: Is Immersive Technology The Next ‘Big Thing’ in Workplace Well-Being?

ARPost

The idea of ‘workplace well-being’ is increasingly recognized as a top priority for employers, spurred on by the growing body of evidence correlating employee well-being with retention and performance. In essence, well-being initiatives are methods by which staff physical and mental health is protected, allowing them to perform to the best of their ability.

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‘Swarm’ Review: A Comically Over-The-Top VR Arcade Shooter

VRScout

Spider-Man meets John Wick in this high-flying arcade adventure from developer Greensky Games. Available now on Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift headsets, Swarm is a vibrant, fast-paced VR arcade shooter tailor-made for the VR format. Whereas many VR games focus on replicating popular game mechanics and perpetuating tired cliches, Swarm does its very best to offer you a fresh take on the VR arcade genre.

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Hulu, Coinbase, Ray-Ban & Captain Morgan Unlock Advertising Gold with Interactive AR Ads

Next Reality AR

We've reached the point in the trajectory of augmented reality's growth where AR advertising experiences are becoming commonplace tactics rather than rare experiments. Some of the more impressive examples of AR ads to emerge recently come from Hulu, Coinbase and Ray-Ban via Snapchat, along with a web-based AR experience from Captain Morgan built with the 8th Wall Web platform.

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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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Reality Bytes: Clubhouse, Hummer & AR Glasses Galore

AR Insider

W hat are the biggest insights and observations in AR and adjacent sectors this week? Welcome to Reality Bytes , featuring lightning-round commentary from AR Insider partner M7 Innovations. Founder Matt Maher lends his insights from the trenches of AR experience creation. We continue the narrative this week with Maher’s look at Clubhouse’s monetization, AR glasses galore, and the latest driving features from Hummer.

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Will Desktop AR Boost Online Shopping?

AR Insider

A Fashionista’s Experience with Desktop AR. by Natasha Sethi. O nline stores, especially in fashion, are more prevalent than ever. The change in lifestyle and restrictions caused by COVID-19 have boosted online fashion and e-commerce in general. People can now shop for most anything they need from the convenience of home. But even though comfort levels with online shopping have been elevated over the past year, some longstanding issues persist.

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‘Alvo’ to Bring ‘CS:GO’ Style Action to PSVR Next Week, Quest & Steam Versions to Follow

Road to VR

Alvo , the long-awaited team VR shooter ostensibly modeled after Valve’s CS:GO , is officially headed to PSVR on PS4 and PS5 on next week. The game, which was announced back in 2017 , initially aimed to launch in 2018. The wait is almost over for PSVR owners though, as the game is headed to PS consoles on April 13th, 2021. Alvo is set to launch on PSVR for $40, however for the first two weeks after launch the game will benefit from a 25% introductory PS+ discount.

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How PBR Is Changing The Retail Game

ARVR

As any retailer or product marketer knows, it’s nearly impossible to sell a product?—?big or small?—?without a photograph. Product images allow the prospective purchaser to garner details such as size, attractiveness, functionality, and more in a visual way that simply can’t be communicated by words alone. Given the current trend of online versus in-person shopping, every retailer is looking for an edge when it comes to e-Commerce.

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70,000 SSNs, 600,000 Credit Card Records Leaked After Stolen-Data Hub Gets Hacked

GizModo VR

Until recently, the carding store Swarmshop was a popular, illicit online market where cybercriminals could go to sell and purchase stolen credit card and banking data. However, the store’s luck may have run out—and it may have taken a little of your luck with 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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Online gambler wins 3-year legal battle for massive payout

Digital Trends

An online gambler who won the jackpot on a blackjack app was told by the firm it wouldn't pay as the win was the result of a software error. So he went to court.

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Samsung's Upgraded Smart Tracker Can Help You Find Your Keys Using AR

GizModo VR

On Thursday, Samsung announced plans to launch an upgraded version of its Galaxy SmartTag smart trackers, the aptly named SmartTag+, globally on April 16 with a U.S. rollout expected sometime “in the coming weeks.” Read more.

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Model train set looks like the real thing in this GoPro video

Digital Trends

Take one GoPro camera, a model train, and a railroad super-obsessive, and what do you have? A remarkably realistic train ride, that's what.

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Shell Is Back, Baby :(

GizModo VR

After more than a year of covid-19 lockdowns, there’s—dare I say—a feeling of hope in the air. Yes, things are far from over, but millions of people are getting vaccinated and it’s starting to seem like there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. Well, sorry to ruin things slightly, but oil companies are also starting… 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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Elon Musk’s Neuralink posts video of a monkey playing Pong with its mind

Digital Trends

Elon Musk’s Neuralink company has released a video showing a monkey named Pager playing Pong, apparently using only his mind.

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Bolsonaro Oversaw a Connecticut-Sized Chunk of Deforestation in the Amazon Last Year

GizModo VR

Last year was a bad one around the world—but especially, it seems, in the Amazon rainforest. Deforestation in the Amazon rocketed up 17% last year, due in large part to increased logging, agriculture, mining, and wildfires, new data published Wednesday shows. Read more.

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How to program an RCA universal remote

Digital Trends

Before you can reap the benefits of controlling your entire home theater setup from an RCA universal remote, you need to set it up. Here's the easiest way.

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Spotify Will Use Your Voice To Pummel You With Ads

GizModo VR

For just under a year now, we’ve been seeing Spotify make acquisition after acquisition and product update after product update in order to establish a foothold in the ad-targeting space. Now, the company’s embarking on a new dataset for this purpose: your voice. 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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AMD Issues Updated Speculative Spectre Security Status: Predictive Store Forwarding

Anand Tech

The mention of Spectre and Meltdown is enough to send chills down any InfoSec spine. A number of these batches of security vulnerabilities deal with speculative execution, and how a processor might leak data while executing code in a speculative manner. This week AMD has pre-empted the security space by detailing a potential security concerns regarding its new Zen 3-based Predictive Store Forwarding feature designed to improve code performance by predicting dependencies between loads and stores.

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This $47,500 Watch Contains a Tiny Moon

GizModo VR

Lunaphiles, rejoice! Arnold & Son , a luxury watchmaker that traces its origins back to the creator of the first ship’s clock, has released a unique watch that shows the phases of the moon in a unique way. The trick? They almost magically rotate a marble-sized moon right inside the movement, something that only a few… Read more.

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5 things you didn’t know your Google Assistant smart speaker could do

Digital Trends

Google Assistant smart speakers have a lot of features you might not know about, like the ability to listen for breaking glass.

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Scientists Finally Figured Out a Way to Make Natural Cyan-Blue Food Coloring

GizModo VR

Using pigments found in red cabbage, an international team of scientists has created a natural blue food colorant that could eventually replace synthetic versions. 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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The best Ethernet cables for the PS4

Digital Trends

Save yourself the frustration of lag and unreliable connections in your online games by investing in one of the best Ethernet cables you can get for the PS4.

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Biden Orders DOJ to Come Up With a Way of Regulating Untraceable Gun Kits

GizModo VR

Joe Biden’s administration made its first move on gun control on Thursday, issuing executive actions for the Department of Justice to develop rules regarding so-called “ghost guns” and attachments that turn high-powered pistols into rifles, as well as write model legislation to keep volatile individuals away from… Read more.

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Fortnite challenge guide: Shockwave wildlife using a shockwave grenade or bow

Digital Trends

Having trouble shockwaving wildlife in Fortnite? In this guide, we walk you through how to acquire the shockwave grenade and bow to complete the challenge.

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Spider-Man Movies Will Stream on Netflix First Thanks to New Sony Deal

GizModo VR

For the past few months, every studio has been figuring out how to balance theatrical movies with growing streaming services. Warner Bros. has one strategy, Disney another , and Paramount yet another. Now Sony has its own strategy and it’s got the biggest name recognition possible: Netflix. 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?