VRScout

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Somnium’s PC VR headset allows you to program its sensors and buttons to meet your individual needs. At the beginning of the year, social VR platform Somnium Space began teasing a new VR headset with a unique modular design. During the first-ever Somnium Space Connect event, Artur Sychov, CEO of Somnium Space, gave us a more detailed look at a combination standalone/PC VR headset centered around an open source community-driven software ecosystem.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Do you feel safe in the metaverse ? Chances are, if you’ve even thought about XR safety, it’s because you’ve already had a negative experience in an immersive environment. Fortunately, there’s an organization out there working on protecting and improving XR safety – from before you buy the headset to after you’ve taken it off. It’s called XRSI.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Tech revolutions have taught us that the most impact comes from behind the scenes. This will apply to the metaverse, as unsung heroes will be the infrastructure builders. That's where Mawari comes in, which we examine in the latest interview. The post Building the Metaverse’s Infrastructure: Mawari Integrates into AWS Wavelength appeared first on AR Insider.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Recently, anyone, even a non-regular user of social media, has come across the term metaverse. This term actually existed even before but was brought to the forefront when Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that Facebook will now be known as Meta. Zuckerberg’s vision of the metaverse is an online virtual world that we can access and have experiences in using Virtual and Augmented Reality headsets.

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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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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 22, 2021

At the end of September, an ornithological bombshell 54 years in the making finally dropped: The ivory-billed woodpecker, a symbol of southern biodiversity and the largest woodpecker in the U.S., was to be removed from the endangered species list. The reason? Extinction. Read more.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the web-hosting service that powers, well, most everything online suffered its third outage this month on Wednesday morning, bringing giant chunks of the web crashing down with it. Services like Coinbase , Slack , and the Epic Games store have all had user reports pouring in since roughly 7 am… Read more.

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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 22, 2021

When we look back on 2021, a lot of us think it's been kind of a dull year for advancement and innovation when it comes to smart home gadgets, but has it?

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Americans don’t trust the companies whose products are used by billions of people each day—but some mega-firms are better than others at convincing customers that they aren’t awful. Read more.

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Anand Tech

DECEMBER 22, 2021

There are many column inches detailing Qualcomm’s design wins and marketing strategy, however to paint it all with a broad brush, it has often boiled down to ‘where can we stick our advanced wireless technology?’ The company has had great success with smartphones, cornering a large chunk of US market and sizeable numbers worldwide, and in the last few years has pivoted to new markets, such as automotive and virtual reality, but also tried to reinvigorate existing markets, such

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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.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 22, 2021

An international collaboration of astronomers is reporting on the discovery of between 70 and 170 rogue planets, in what is an unprecedented scientific achievement. Read more.

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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Alexa devices in your home have microphones to listen to what you say and cameras to record you. Use caution.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Turns out the excuse of “my dog ate my homework” can be used by multibillion dollar corporations as well as grade schoolers. The LA Times reported Wednesday that a company owned by Halliburton is making wild excuses about evidence in its involvement in fixing a gas leak, in what may be an attempt to deflect blame for… Read more.

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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Kaspersky's VPN Secure Connection should be your online security blanket for home or business.

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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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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss tease a cheeky John Wick connection in The Matrix Resurrections. We’re getting a triple-load of Peacemaker when it arrives in early January 2022. Plus, the new Critical Role animated series is coming sooner than planned, and get a look at Batwoman ’s take on Poison Ivy. Spoilers, away! Read more.

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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Who says you need to go to a mall to see Santa? Why not chat with Kris Kringle from your cozy home, using a smart speaker or digital assistant device.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Federal regulators want to know whether or not Tesla’s in-car video game system is distracting drivers. In a statement sent to Gizmodo, the National Highway Safety Administration (NHTSA) confirmed it’s launching a formal investigation into the company’s “Passenger Play” feature which some drivers have reportedly used… Read more.

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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Check out NASA’s wonderfully cinematic trailer for the James Webb Space Telescope mission, which is set to launch this weekend.

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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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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 22, 2021

For years, the Israeli spyware vendor NSO Group has sparked fear and fascination throughout the international community via its hacking tools—the likes of which have been sold to authoritarian governments throughout the world and used against journalists, activists, politicians, and anybody else unfortunate enough to… Read more.

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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Marvel's magical hero is in deep trouble, and Doctor Stephen Strange is going to need some backup from the Scarlet Witch in the Multiverse of Madness.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Utilities in Florida, it seems, have been extra busy this year writing laws that advance their interests and slow climate action. According to emails obtained by the Miami Herald and Floodlight , the state’s biggest utility, Florida Power and Light, directly drafted a bill that would restrict rights for rooftop solar… Read more.

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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Adam McKay's end-of-the-world satire Don't Look Up manages to walk the fine line between potent social commentary and comedy with help from an impressive cast.

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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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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Anyone who’s dealt with a suspended account on Twitch, Twitter, or any other platform can attest to the dizzying feats required to get those accounts back—that is, if you’re lucky enough to even get them back in the first place. Unless you manage to get some sort of media attention , victims of this issue are typically… Read more.

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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Apple has just dropped a new video highlighting 10 useful tips to help you get the most out of your iPhone, whichever one you have.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Here’s how you know things are getting bad with the coronavirus again: when massive movie studios start pushing back their films instead of attempting to make as much money as possible as quickly as possible. It’s not for the audience’s safety, of course—it’s for the box office’s safety, in that by postponing the film… Read more.

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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The New MacBook Pro’s notch is certainly divisive, but there’s one app that can make it much more useful with support for custom buttons and shortcuts.

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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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