Sun.Jun 21, 2020

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Powertrain Systems Online AR and VR Lesson

EON Reality

In this lesson developed by University for Business and Technology, students are now learning how powertrain systems work up close in AR and VR. This lesson uses a variety of features on the AVR Platform, including recorded instruction, interactive animation and quizzes. This powertrain systems lesson in AR and VR modes demonstrates the concept of how ever moving component is critical to the engine’s success.

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Jaws Screenwriter Carl Gottlieb Reflects on the Suddenly Relevant Legacy of the Mayor From Jaws

GizModo VR

I feel like I’ve thought more about the mayor from Jaws more in the past three months than I have in the entire rest of my life, multiplied several times over. Out of all the major pop culture figures people have referenced as they’ve struggled to deal with the ongoing global pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus,… Read more.

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Amazon Prime Day 2020: When is it, and what can we expect?

Digital Trends

Prime Day 2020 won't arrive until July, but that doesn't mean we can't start getting into the spirit now.

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An All Too Quiet Place

GizModo VR

When I log off work today at six, I’ll shuffle over to my window where I’ll anxiously check the time over and over again. For the next hour, I’ll wait, listening to the quiet music of New York during lockdown: birds chirping, trucks wheezing in the distance, a tinkering wind chime. Finally, at seven, the horrible… Read more.

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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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A state of unrest: How working from home is screwing up sleep, and how to fix it

Digital Trends

It's not just you. Sleep is a struggle for millions of people during coronavirus.

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NASA is making ‘fetch’ happen with its Mars sample collection rover

Digital Trends

It will collect the samples of martian rock bagged by Perseverance.

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Samsung Blu-Ray Players Are Getting Stuck in Endless Startup Loops and We Don't Know Why

GizModo VR

If your Samsung Blu-ray player randomly started going on the fritz, you’re not alone. This week, thousands of users reported experiencing bugs that rendered their devices useless, and what’s causing the issue remains unknown. Read more.

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These are the best cheap Apple TV deals and sales for June 2020

Digital Trends

These Apple TV deals will make the Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD a little lighter on the old bank account.

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This Trailer for The King's Man Takes Super Spy Action to the Early 20th Century

GizModo VR

When shadowy masterminds threaten to descend the world into chaos, the Kingsman steps in. Even if his agency was only ust created. It’s prequel time. 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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Outdoor security camera scorecard: Favorite cameras compared

Digital Trends

How do outdoor security cameras compare in features? We've compared popular options in a camera royale.

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Watch David Tennant and Jodie Whittaker Judge a Doctor Who Cosplay Contest

GizModo VR

Only one catch: the cosplays were made in a day, with only household items. I guess that’s two catches. Read more.

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Amazon’s Dash Wand shopping device is about to lose its magic

Digital Trends

The online shopping giant will end support for the device next month.

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Pre-order The Art of the Last of Us Part II, Releasing Tuesday, At 30% Off

GizModo VR

The Art of the Last of Us Part II | $28 | Amazon 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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Feast your eyes on Hubble’s latest entrancing images of two planetary nebulae

Digital Trends

The Butterfly Nebula and the Jewel Bug Nebula are unusually dusty.

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After A Year In Court, Magic Leap’s Case Against Nreal Has Been Dismissed

VRScout

US Courts says Magic Leap has failed to state their claims against Nreal. Back in June of 2019, Magic Leap filed a lawsuit against Nreal claiming the company stole technology and design that belonging to the Florida-based AR company. Magic Leap accused Nreal founder and former Magic Leap employee Chi Xu of “blatant copying” and taking a “free ride on Magic Leap’s business, image, and confidential information,” with the Nreal glasses.

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The best Google Pixel 3a cases and covers

Digital Trends

The Pixel 3a is an excellent midrange Android phone. Keep it safe with one of the best Google Pixel 3a cases.

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TikTok Teens and K-Pop Fans Just Trolled Trump in the Best Way Possible

GizModo VR

A few days ago, President Donald Trump boasted on Twitter that almost a million people had requested tickets for his campaign rally, the first one he’s held in months due to the coronavirus pandemic, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. However, the reality was that only a few thousand showed up, leaving the president speaking to a… 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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Nintendo starts helping Pokémon Sword and Shield players who buy wrong DLC

Digital Trends

Players may contact customer support if they purchase the wrong Expansion Pass.

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Trump Says 'Kung Flu' Is a Hoax, Calls for Slowing Down Coronavirus Testing

GizModo VR

On Saturday, President Donald Trump held his first re-election campaign rally since states nationwide issued shelter-in-place orders and mandated restrictions on crowd sizes to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. To everyone’s surprise, the event was largely successful and critics applauded the president’s… Read more.

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Spotify apparently exploring addition of music videos to Now Playing screen

Digital Trends

A Video tab was spotted in the Now Playing screen.

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Upcoming Batman, Suicide Squad games possibly leaked by domain registrations

Digital Trends

The next Batman game may be titled Gotham Knights.

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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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Tesla’s wacky Cybertruck has already become a museum piece

Digital Trends

The electric pick-up, which is yet to go into production, is on show in L.A.

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Game-changing sidegrade for Apex Legends’ Lifeline confirmed by Respawn

Digital Trends

Her drone will gain a new ability.

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A refreshed iMac and MacBook Pro said to be first in line for Apple’s own chips

Digital Trends

A mysterious redesigned MacBook is also said to be in the works.

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HDR is a mess, and porn isn’t going to save us this time

Digital Trends

Getting the best possible TV picture quality should be easy. But with five kinds of HDR, it's just a mess.

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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?