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Why is Augmented Reality Taking Such a Long Time to Gain Popularity?

ARPost

Here’s a thought-provoking statistic: 70% of Snapchat users (almost 130 million) spend three or more minutes a day using augmented reality. At the same time, less than 25% of the participants in a recent survey reported interacting with AR in the past month. AR Is Everywhere, but Users Don’t Notice It. Clearly, many people aren’t even aware that they’re using AR.

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Deadmau5 Shares Mysterious VR Project Being Developed With Unreal Engine

VRScout

Codename #OBERHASLI. In a video posted to Instagram earlier this week, Grammy-nominated DJ/producer Deadmau5 teased a new VR project being developed alongside game art studio Upsurge Studios and game technology studio Geodesic Games using Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. Throughout the 30-second clip we catch a glimpse at what appears to be some sort of futuristic club environment featuring walls of colorful strobe lights and towering video screens.

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Will Google Swirl Unlock AR Advertising’s Next Stage?

AR Insider

“Trendline” is AR Insider’s series that examines trends and events in spatial computing, and their strategic implications. For an indexed library of spatial computing insights, data, reports and multimedia, subscribe to ARtillery PRO. A s AR continues to slog through the trough of disillusionment, one bright spot is advertising. Brand spending on AR ads is on track reach $1.41 billion this year according to ARtillery Intelligence estimates, making this one of the highest-performing AR subsector

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‘Mission To Mars’ Is A Multiplayer Free-Roam VR Experience With A Scientific Twist

VRScout

Work together to survive the harsh conditions of Mars in this 15-minute educational adventure. Location-based entertainment provider SPREE Interactive is launching a brand new multiplayer free-roam experience in which groups of players are tasked with working together to complete a series of challenges in an effort to survive the unforgiving surface of Mars.

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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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Oculus Introduces Group Game Launching & Switching To Stay With Your Party

Road to VR

Oculus has introduced new party features which allow groups of players to launch into the same app together and to move from one app to another. Players can now also create Public Parties to discover players beyond their friends list. Last year, Oculus introduced new social tools to make it easier for developers to create ‘places’ within their applications to make it easier for players to find their friends within a specific app.

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Google’s latest AR dinosaur models bring ‘Jurassic World’ to your living room

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You can finally watch a T-Rex eat your in-laws Continue reading on AR/VR Journey: Augmented & Virtual Reality Magazine ».

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The Technocratic Danger of Al Gore’s New Venture to Track Carbon Pollution in Real-Time

GizModo VR

For the first time ever, the world will have technology to track greenhouse gas emissions in near real-time. That’s the promise of Climate TRACE, a coalition of nine organizations led by former Vice President Al Gore. Read more.

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Launching the #CPUOverload Project: Testing Every x86 Desktop Processor since 2010

Anand Tech

One of the most visited parts of the AnandTech website is our benchmark database, Bench. Over the last decade we've placed as much benchmark data as we can in there for every sample we can get our hands on. As the CPU editor, one of my duties is to maintain the CPU part of Bench, making sure the benchmarks are relevant and the newest components are tested.

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Some Ticks Pee All Over Themselves While They Suck Blood

GizModo VR

Right now, as summer broils the northern hemisphere, countless animals are trying to dump heat. Dogs are panting. Burrowing animals are scurrying underground. Humans are sweating buckets (and we’re extremely good at sweating). But when ticks need to cool off, they really commit. In a blow to the sterling reputation of… 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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These are the best cheap Samsung Galaxy S20 deals for July 2020

Digital Trends

If you're after Samsung Galaxy S20 deals, Galaxy S20+ deals, or Galaxy S20 Ultra deals, we've got them here.

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New Hack Can Trick Power Bricks into Starting Fires

GizModo VR

Your phone’s power brick is typically a relatively innocuous piece of tech, but recently, researchers at a Chinese security firm discovered a way to hack a fast charge power adapter so that when connected to a phone, the power brick can melt the phone or even start a fire. Read more.

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From battlefields to suburban driveways, this is the history of Jeep

Digital Trends

The original Jeep was developed solely to help America win WWII, and it became an icon almost by accident.

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Zack Snyder Considers His Justice League Cut to Be Mostly Standalone

GizModo VR

Changing a movie that’s already been released causes many fascinating challenges. In the case of Zack Snyder’s Justice League , one of those challenges is the fact that other DCEU movies took what happened in the theatrical cut as gospel. So where does that leave the “Snyder Cut”? Snyder himself has a few thoughts. 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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Tamron 70-180mm f/2.8 Di III review: Top-notch telephoto

Digital Trends

A perfect balance of quality, size, and price, Tamron's new telephoto zoom lens is a must-have for Sony shooters.

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What Did People Use Before Google to Search the Web?

GizModo VR

The year is 1997. You’re wearing whatever people wore back then—some kind of jean jacket, I’m guessing—and talking to your friend about your new favorite movie, the recently released Mike Myers vehicle Austin Powers. You’re quoting the movie, and your friend thinks this is hilarious. Then things take a dark turn. “I… Read more.

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Sony PS5: Games, price, specs, release date, and more

Digital Trends

Concrete details about the highly anticipated console are finally public. Here's everything you need to know.

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I Put a Fitness Tracker on My Lazy Dog. It Did Not Go as Planned.

GizModo VR

There are two things you should understand about my dog, Daisy. First, she hates walking. She’ll get excited if you take out the leash, but it’s a farce. She just wants to pop out and then go immediately back inside. This is partly because she doesn’t understand that if you go all the way around a street block, you… 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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The best CarPlay apps

Digital Trends

CarPlay overrides the native infotainment system with a familiar, distraction-free interface and add-on apps.

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Sanctuary Temples in Ancient Greece Had Accessibility Ramps, New Research Suggests

GizModo VR

Ramps at ancient Greek healing temples provided access for people with disabilities, according to new research. If confirmed, this would be the earliest evidence of a society making architectural adjustments to support accessibility. Read more.

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Save $100 on the iPhone 11 at Best Buy when you activate today

Digital Trends

Instantly save $100 when you buy an iPhone 11, 11 Pro, or 11 Pro Max from Best Buy and activate with Verizon.

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Uber's Algorithms Are Being Taken To Court

GizModo VR

The algorithms that underlie most Silicon Valley bigwigs are usually locked up in the name of “protecting trade secrets,” but that’s an excuse that’s starting to wear a little thin in recent months. Maybe it’s because these companies are that much harder to regulate or compete against when we don’t ask them to reveal… 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 anime on Netflix right now

Digital Trends

Netflix has a reputable number of anime shows, filled with variety, excellent stories, and sharp animation.

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McMansions Will Doom Us All

GizModo VR

If you needed another reason to eat the rich, here it is. A new study has concluded that high-income residents in the U.S. emit an average of 25% more greenhouse gas emissions than low-income residents through their energy use. Read more.

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New coronavirus vaccine triggers immune response in early testing

Digital Trends

Preliminary results appear promising, but more testing is needed.

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Our First Detailed Look at Sideshow Collectibles' Life-Sized Baby Yoda Will Melt Your Heart

GizModo VR

The year 2020 will go down in infamy, and centuries from now historians will undoubtedly look back and wonder why, amid all the social turmoil and a bona fide pandemic, humanity was so obsessed with a tiny green puppet. If they stumble across Tested’s first look at Sideshow Collectibles’ life-size the Child , they just… 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?