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Japanese Instrument Manufacturer Korg Teases VR Music-Making App

VRScout

A short video shows VR music production on the Oculus Quest 2. Legendary electronic instrument manufacturer Korg this week unveiled the Korg Gadget-VR , a new music-making app for VR headsets that allows you access to a range of professional synthesizers, electronic keyboards, and software in a virtual studio settings. Image Credit: Korg. The video, released as part of the companies future product preview , shows a user interacting with an assortment of electronic instruments within a dedicated

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Stepping Up Communication and Collaboration With Virtual Reality Technology

ARPost

Technology is now allowing people to gather and process vast amounts of information at a speed beyond our imagination. While we traditionally use keyboard strokes or voice commands to tap into massive data, virtual reality can make us understand information in refreshing ways. Let’s take a look at how VR can enhance communication and collaboration through data visualization, language learning, and the creation of common spaces.

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Wallace & Gromit City-Scale AR Adventure Now Available On Smartphones

VRScout

Become an employee of Spick & Spanners and help the duo “Fix Up” Bristol. Available now on iOS and Android devices, Wallace & Gromit: The Big Fix Up is a narrative-driven interactive experience composed of CG animations, in game phone calls, comic strips, XR portals, and city-scale augmented reality elements that allow you to digitally “Fix Up” the city of Bristol, England.

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‘Bigscreen’ Launches Ad-supported Movies for Free On-demand Viewing

Road to VR

Bigscreen today announced is bringing ad-supported movies to the free social viewing platform, which will allow users to watch select films for free. Bigscreen first brought paid on-demand movie rentals to its virtual cinemas early last year, which was the result of multiple partnerships with movie studios such as Paramount Pictures. Now Bigscreen is bringing free movies hosted by PlutoTV, which much like their streaming TV content, will have intermittent ads sandwiched in between.

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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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Snapchat Raises its Location Game

AR Insider

L ocation technologies continue to play a role in Snapchat’s product evolution. That includes AR, such as Landmarkers and Local Lenses , but it also extends into Snapchat’s broader road map. Like Google , Facebook and others, Snap sees location as a relevance-trigger. Starting with Snap’s broader product evolution beyond AR, the thought is that social interaction is largely tied to the real world (lockdowns aside).

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Best Valentines Day Technology Gifts and Promotion Ideas

ARVR

With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, people are already starting to make romantic plans and buying presents. However, Valentine’s Day is not only for lovers. It is also a great opportunity for companies to show their clients how much they care about them. This is why we collected some of the best techy Valentine’s gifts that are sure to impress your clients while displaying your creativity and technological expertise at the same time.

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DHS Sued Over Its Social Media Surveillance Tactics

GizModo VR

The Department of Homeland Security is being slammed with a new lawsuit after spending just over a year failing to respond to repeated attempts at investigating its long-term data hoovering practices. Read more.

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This game-changing graphene tattoo can continuously monitor your brainwaves

Digital Trends

Brainwave data is almost always captured sporadically or intermittently. But with this innovation, it could be captured continuously.

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Cats Love Catnip Because It Protects Them From Mosquitoes, New Research Suggests

GizModo VR

When exposed to catnip or silver vine, cats engage in some fairly predictable behaviors, such as licking and chewing the leaves, rubbing their heads and faces against the plants, and rolling on the ground. Cats get a real kick out of these plants, but surprising new research points to a more practical purpose than… 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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Apple iPhone 13: Everything we know so far

Digital Trends

The current iPhone may be the iPhone 12, but we're already hearing plenty of rumors about the upcoming iPhone 13 series. Here's everything we know so far.

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What Does Mars Sound Like? The Perseverance Rover Is Going to Find Out

GizModo VR

Nothing on the hills seems to be alive, so the rocky terrain of Mars will be filled with the sounds of solitude when the NASA’s Perseverance rover lands in Jezero Crater next month. One of the rover’s many tasks will be listening to the Martian environment with microphones—the first effort at acoustic data collection… Read more.

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MediaTek Announces Dimensity 1100 & 1200 SoCs: A78 on 6nm

Anand Tech

Today MediaTek announced two new top-end SoCs in the form of the new Dimensity 1100 and Dimensity 1200. The two new designs are a follow-up to last year’s Dimensity 1000 SoC which marked the company’s return to the high-end in 2020, with a relatively solid SoC design.

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Mysterious 'Jetpack Guy' Could Actually Be This Weird Mannequin Drone

GizModo VR

Bizarre, ongoing sightings of what appears to be a man flying a jetpack at high altitudes have understandably baffled the public. The sightings, which started last August, have involved multiple commercial airline pilots and have all taken place at incredibly high elevations— up to 6,000 feet in the air. People… 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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The Last of Us Part II: How to avoid killing dogs

Digital Trends

The Last of Us Part II is brutally violent, and some of the enemies happen to be dogs. You can sneak by them instead of killing them though, with these tips.

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I Miss the Game Boy Camera, My First Digital Camera

GizModo VR

Unless you grew up in a time after cameraphones arrived, there’s a very good chance your first digital camera was a weird Game Boy accessory. The Game Boy Camera was definitely my first digital snapper, and while its technical capabilities were extremely limited, it still managed to excel at other things, like making… Read more.

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My predictions for virtual reality in 2021

The Ghost Howls

Let’s be honest: no one made correct predictions for 2020. The global pandemic has changed the rules for everything, and the situation is so confusing and so rapidly evolving that any prediction for 2021 is completely unreliable, too. But hey, let me play this game anyway, so here you are my predictions for virtual reality in 2021 based on the trends and the anticipations that we had at the end of 2020!

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Scientists Have Finally Made Quieter Velcro

GizModo VR

Velcro is great when you need to open stuff fast or with ease, but Velcro is not so great when you’re trying to discreetly open your shoulder bag to grab your headphones. Researchers from Wageningen University in the Netherlands have come up with a new design for Velcro , inspired by mushrooms, that doesn’t shred… 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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Samsung Galaxy S21 Plus vs. Galaxy S20 Plus: What did Samsung add to the Plus?

Digital Trends

The Samsung Galaxy S21 Plus is the bigger brother of the newly announced S21, adding a bigger screen and battery. But is it better than last year's S20 Plus?

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How to Take Your Messages With You When Leaving Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp

GizModo VR

The latest WhatsApp privacy kerfuffle once again has us wondering whether it’s a good idea to be giving so much of our data to a company with Facebook’s track record. Read more.

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Control tips and tricks

Digital Trends

Puzzles, combat, and everything in between; getting started in Control is trickier than it seems. Here are 10 Control tips and tricks to get you started.

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Jack Ma Re-Emerges From Wherever He Was for the Last Few Months

GizModo VR

Jack Ma, the billionaire co-founder and former chairman of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, has re-emerged from wherever he’s been since late October 2020, when he ceased public appearances amid a government crackdown on tech firms. 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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How to watch SpaceX launch its first Starlink mission of 2021

Digital Trends

SpaceX is targeting Wednesday, January 20 for its first Starlink mission of 2021. Here's how you can watch it live online.

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NASA Considers Second ‘Hotfire’ Test of Megarocket After Unexpected Shutdown

GizModo VR

The recent hotfire test of NASA’s next-gen megarocket was supposed to go for eight minutes, but it lasted just 67 seconds. The space agency has an explanation for the premature shutdown, saying everything’s swell, but a second test remains a distinct possibility. Read more.

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The best weapons in Call of Duty: Warzone

Digital Trends

It's not easy to come out on top in Call of Duty: Warzone, but having the best weapons can certainly increase your odds. These are the best weapons in Warzone.

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White House Website Finally Supports Dark Mode

GizModo VR

Like many Americans, I’m processing some unfamiliar emotions today, but I believe that I’m genuinely thrilled about the new White House website. The site allows visitors to toggle font sizes. It includes an Easter Egg in the HTML with a job posting for coders. And, perhaps most thrillingly, it supports dark mode. 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?