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Virtual Pokémon Theme Park Open To The Public For A Limited Time

VRScout

Pikachu dance shows, live battles, and Pokémon-themed carnival games galore. Today marks the start of the Pokémon Virtual Fest , an online-only Pokémon-themed event composed of multiple games, rides, and performances centered around the iconic Japanese franchise. The app is in Japanese, which can make it difficult to navigate at times, but not impossible.

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Is AR Navigation Coming Next from Apple?

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. O ne subsector of AR we continue to bet on is 3D navigation. Sort of a cousin of classic forms of AR that get more airtime, we’re talking about using your smartphone to scan your surroundings, localize itself, then overlay relevant graphics such as direction

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Nreal Light AR Smart Glasses Will Be Bundled With Latest Samsung And LG Smartphones

VRScout

Nreal’s smartphone-powered consumer AR headset finally arrive this month in Korea. Available now for pre-order, the Nreal Light AR smart glasses connect with compatible Android smartphones to bring your favorite apps, such as Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and Google Chrome, to life in augmented reality. Just as important, the headset features a slim, lightweight frame designed to emulate the look of standard sunglasses, allowing you the opportunity to live that future life without constantl

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Nreal AR Glasses to Begin Shipping Next Week to Consumers in Korea

Road to VR

Nreal is getting ready to ship its Nreal Light AR headset to consumers in South Korea. The sunglasses-style AR headset is optionally being bundled with the recently announced Samsung Galaxy Note 20 in that country. As reported by The Verge , Nreal is now taking pre-orders from Korea-based consumers, available through Korean telecom LG Uplus. Light AR will be available in stores there starting August 21st.

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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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Short film festival held in VR on Friday

Hypergrid Business

Discover.film’s virtual cinema. (Image courtesy Discover.film.). Discover.film will be holding its short film festival in virtual reality this Friday on the VRChat virtual reality meeting platform. The event will start at 8 p.m. British time — or noon Pacific, following by a second screening at 1 a.m. British time, or 5 p.m. Pacific. The screenings will take place in a custom-built, discover.film virtual cinema and will showcase the best of the shortlisted films in the running for th

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Use cases of brands applying VR to their business strategies

ARVR

Brands are applying VR to their business strategies, here are six examples, from training to test driving a new car. Continue reading on AR/VR Journey: Augmented & Virtual Reality Magazine ».

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‘Vox Machinae’ Quietly Added New Mechs, Weapons, & Co-op in Updates, Studio Has “Ambitious plans” for the Future

Road to VR

The 2018 early access launch of VR mech game Vox Machinae may feel like a distant memory by now, but it still stands as perhaps the most immersive VR mech game to date. Updates over the last two years have added co-op modes, a helpful cross-platform friends list, gameplay-changing ‘modules’, new mechs, weapons, and more. Developer Space Bullet tells us it isn’t done yet; the studio teases “ambitious plans” for the game’s eventual 1.0 launch and beyond.

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VR Game Release Highlights August 2020

VR Game Critic

The heat is nothing unusual for August, but the worldwide pandemic has brought some changes to the gaming world. Big events are getting cancelled or moving into the digital space, and many releases are being delayed… On the positive side, gaming can still provide entertainment and social interactions we might not be able to have in real life these days.

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How To Use the ARLOOPA App: A Step-by-Step Guide (2020)

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How to easily view Augmented Reality experiences with the ARLOOPA app Continue reading on AR/VR Journey: Augmented & Virtual Reality Magazine ».

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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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One of the Most Timely Novels of the Year Is About Black Women in the 1880s Hunting Zombies

GizModo VR

The world can be utterly bleak nowadays. A government that seems to actively hate health and science, an economy ruled by a handful of lying billionaires, and continued state-sanctioned violence against Black people have ushered in a modern dystopia. But as I finished Deathless Divide , Justina Ireland’s stellar follow… Read more.

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Best CPUs for Workstations: August 2020

Anand Tech

Sometimes choosing a CPU is hard. So we've got you covered. In our CPU Guides, we give you our pick of some of the best processors available, supplying data from our reviews. Our Best CPUs for Workstations guide mostly covers workstation processors available to consumers, although some server products cover both segments. As we have moved through 2020, there comes a time when the high-end desktop market slows down a bit and everyone can sit on some new hardware for a while, knowing that they

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National Review, Daily Caller Help Publicize Lies About Former Kamala Harris Staffer

GizModo VR

According to leading conservative columnists, Twitter has hired Nick Pacilio, a former staffer for Sen. Kamala Harris, to decide which of President Trump’s tweets deserve to be fact-checked and which should be labeled for the public as “potentially misleading.” That’s news to Pacilio. Read more.

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Microsoft’s Surface Duo goes on sale today for $1,400. Was it worth the wait?

Digital Trends

The Surface Duo is Microsoft's first Android-powered device -- and a barbaric yawp for the power of innovation.

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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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Avatar: The Last Airbender’s Creators Just Left the Live-Action Netflix Adaptation

GizModo VR

Leaves from the vine. Avatar: The Last Airbender co-creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko have announced they will no longer be involved in the live-action adaptation due to a lack of support from Netflix. The series could still happen, but both creators said it would not represent the show they wanted… Read more.

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Echo Combat Flamingo League Announces Partnership with VAL and VRFI

VR Fitness

The Echo Combat Flamingo League announced today a partnership with the Virtual Athletics League (VAL) and VR Fitness Insider that will include participation in the upcoming VR Fitness Summit as well as sponsorship for Echo Combat Flamingo League Season 2 that will include a cash prize pool. Continue reading on VR Fitness Insider.

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Famed SETI Observatory Wrecked After Cable Breaks

GizModo VR

The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico is currently out of commission after a thick support cable fell onto the dish, creating a large gash. It’s yet another setback for the beloved science facility, which hasn’t fully recovered from the devastation of Hurricane Maria. Read more.

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Best Prime Day Laptop Deals 2020: What to expect

Digital Trends

If it's time for a new computer, here's everything you need to know about this year's Prime Day laptop deals.

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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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Sweet-Smelling Locust Pheromone Could Be Key to Stopping Their Swarms

GizModo VR

Scientists have identified the pheromone responsible for turning individual locusts into the swarming variety. They also found a way to “turn off” locusts’ ability to respond to this pheromone, in a breakthrough that could lead to new control strategies for preventing the spread of these voracious and extremely… Read more.

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A.I. can tell if you’re a good surgeon just by scanning your brain

Digital Trends

It accurately predicts a surgeon’s certification scores.

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Florida Sheriff Bans Masks As State's Covid-19 Death Toll Breaks New Daily Record

GizModo VR

Billy Woods, the sheriff of central Florida’s Marion County, banned masks for all deputies and visitors to the sheriff’s office starting Tuesday, according to a new report from the Ocala Star Banner —a strange decision to make in the middle of a pandemic that’s still wildly out of control. Read more.

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Best Labor Day Sales 2020: What Deals To Expect

Digital Trends

Labor Day 2020 is right around the corner, and that can only mean one thing: Labor Day sales.

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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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See Blade Runner 2049 Bridge the Gap to Its Iconic Predessor in This Stunning Concept Art

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Blade Runner ’s jaw-dropping aesthetic runs deep in the modernized world of Denis Villeneuve’s follow-up, Blade Runner 2049 , making for one of the most gorgeous sci-fi movies in recent memory. Now, a new book wants to dive into the art that helped envision that world, and its parallels to the original film. Read more.

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The best 14-inch laptops for 2020

Digital Trends

If you're looking for the best 14-inch laptops, we have top choices for gaming, business, budget, and more.

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This Case Gives Your Phone Robotic Legs So It Can Crawl to a Wireless Charging Pad

GizModo VR

By now our brains are all wired with smartphone battery anxiety, and panic starts to set in when power drops below 50%. In one of the more bizarre ways to keep those stresses at bay, a team of researchers have developed a new smartphone case with a set of tiny robotic legs that allow a phone to crawl to a wireless… Read more.

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Master Facebook Messenger with these helpful tips and tricks

Digital Trends

Facebook Messenger is a great way to keep in touch, but it’s easy to miss some of the less-obvious features.

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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?