Fri.Sep 11, 2020

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BFI London Film Festival Announces Showcase for Immersive Media

ARPost

Last week, the British Film Institute announced that this year’s London Film Festival will be offered virtually, including a dedicated showcase for immersive media. BFI also announced the schedule for the showcase, featuring the musical experience “All Kinds of Limbo.”. The “Expanded Strand”. “Out of necessity sometimes comes innovation and we’re hugely excited to present our LFF Expanded plan for 2020,” XR Programmer Ulrich Schrauth said in a press release shared with ARPost. “ Shifting the ful

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The MetaMovie review: Theater meets Virtual Reality in a fun adventure

The Ghost Howls

Yesterday at the Venice VR Expanded festival , I finally managed to try “The MetaMovie”, an experience of improvisational theater in VR. I already talked about this project many months ago, when I interviewed its creator Jason Moore and was intrigued by this project, and now I’ve finally been able to experience it. I have to warn you that this article is a bit personal for me.

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Our Predictions For Facebook Connect: What We Hope To See!

VRScout

Facebook’s annual developer conference kicks-off September 16th exclusively online. Oculus Connect 7—now referred to as Facebook Connect —is just around the corner and rumors surrounding the annual developer conference are swirling! New hardware, major software releases, updates on long-rumored projects; the list goes on. With speculation running rampant on the web, we thought we’d share some of our own predictions for the upcoming September 16th event, including potentia

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XR Talks: Shaping the Future of Commerce, Part III

AR Insider

XR Talks is a series that features the best presentations and educational videos from the XR universe. It includes embedded video, narrative analysis and top takeaways. Speakers’ opinions are their own. For a full library of indexed and educational media, subscribe to ARtillery PRO. A dvertising continues to be a bright spot in AR’s otherwise-challenged early days.

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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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Retail Business Students Are Starting Their Careers With Virtual Reality Certification

ARVR

Today, we live in a time where the virtual world is ruling the real world, and it won’t be wrong to claim that virtual reality has taken over the real world. When we talk about the VO, it’s not the gaming area and its use cases; rather, it has become a part of the curriculum and emerged as a popular career option. Virtual reality experts are in great demand, and individuals are actively seeking professional certification in this field.

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Best Augmented Reality Mobile Apps for the Self-Isolating Gamer

ARVR

Still stuck at home? Yea we feel ya… But staying indoors can be a great opportunity for you to try out some AR mobile games that you always wanted to play (but never had the time)! We compiled a list of some exciting (and nostalgic) AR apps that you can try for FREE now. If you are looking for a new game to download, consider picking any of these games for a new and immersive gaming experience!

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Where Do We Go From Here?

GizModo VR

After Sen. Ed Markey won his primary in Massachusetts earlier this month, he had a message : “The age of incrementalism is over.” Read more.

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How to block text messages on iOS and Android

Digital Trends

A smartphone keeps you in contact with the rest of the world, but not all text messages are desirable. Here's how to block text messages in iOS and Android.

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Amazon Has an Exploding Product Problem

GizModo VR

While it’s no secret that Amazon has a history of hosting unsafe products from third-party sellers on its platform, a recent CNN investigation found that the company’s own AmazonBasics line might be just as hazardous based on customer reviews. 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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Amateur astronomer discovers huge asteroid that will cruise past Earth

Digital Trends

An amateur astronomer has discovered a huge asteroid headed near Earth. But there's no need to panic, as it will miss our planet by 25 million miles.

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Let's Talk About Death, Baby.in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

GizModo VR

Death is one of the few things that unites everyone. Whether we fear it for ourselves or for our loved ones, odds are you think about death every day. That’s why it’s such a powerful tool in storytelling. The death, or potential death, of a character can instantly put everyone on the same emotional level. It’s… Read more.

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Here’s when The Mandalorian season 2 trailer might be released

Digital Trends

The trailer for season 2 of The Mandalorian has to premiere at some point soon, but when will it happen? Here's when you might expect to see it.

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Pentagon Official Warns About Chinese Drones Without Explaining Specific Security Risks (Again)

GizModo VR

Ellen Lord, the top official at the Pentagon in charge of acquiring new technology, appeared on a virtual panel Thursday to discuss the threat posed to the U.S. by small drones made by Chinese companies like DJI. And while it might seem self-evident to many people within the national security establishment that a… 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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Cyborg-style smart contact lenses promise to correct vision problems

Digital Trends

An artificial iris embedded in a smart contact lens features a tunable lens aperture, built-in RF antenna, and integrated, low-power LCD screen.

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Amazon Japan to Pay Nearly $19 Million to Suppliers, Seems Pretty Okay With It

GizModo VR

Amazon Japan will pay around 1,400 suppliers a collective 2 billion yen, or about $18.85 million, for pushing the costs of discounts onto suppliers, the Japan Times reported yesterday. If you’re excited that Amazon had to cough up a couple million, so is Amazon, which arguably got off very easy. Read more.

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How to run ChromeOS in VirtualBox

Digital Trends

Curious about ChromeOS, but not ready to buy a Chromebook? Here's how you can get Google's operating system running in a virtual machine on Windows PCs.

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Mining Firm CEO Resigns After Razing an Australian Indigenous Site

GizModo VR

Three executives from the mining company that detonated a 46,000-year-old Indigenous Australian heritage site to expand an iron ore mine—and later insisted that it did nothing wrong —are leaving the company. 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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What is Airbnb? What to know before becoming a guest or host

Digital Trends

What is Airbnb? Part of the ‘sharing economy,' Airbnb offers you someone's home to stay in instead of a hotel, and allows for a variety of hosting options.

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Ewan McGregor Says the Obi-Wan Show Is a Limited Series

GizModo VR

Another iconic hero returns for Screen 5. The writers behind The Conjuring have written an Omen prequel. Batwoman casts a mysterious new figure, while Creepshow adds to its roster. The cast and crew of Supernatural prepare to say goodbye. Plus, Amazon teases Billy Butcher’s between-seasons antics on The Boys , and… Read more.

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The best Mac mice for 2020

Digital Trends

Seeking the best mouse for your Mac? With so many options to choose from, we're here to help you narrow down the perfect mouse for you, no matter what you need.

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Funky Discrepancy Deepens Dark Matter Mystery

GizModo VR

New research, in which empirical data failed to jibe with theoretical calculations, shows just how much physicists still have to learn about dark matter. 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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Synology Introduces DS1621xs+ - First Desktop x86 DSM NAS with Native 10GbE

Anand Tech

Synology is one of the top-tier vendors in the commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) network-attached storage (NAS) market for SOHOs, SMBs, and SMEs, with QNAP being the other major player. While QNAP has a wide variety of hardware platforms to choose from in each market segment, Synology has been big on segmentation - restricting Xeon CPUs and native 10GbE to their rackmount offerings.

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Inbred Cougars in Southern California Are Sprouting Crooked Tails

GizModo VR

Researchers have spotted physical abnormalities associated with a lack of genetic diversity in cougars living in the Santa Monica Mountains of southern California, including kinked tails and, in one male, only one descended testicle. Read more.

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How to tell if your smartphone battery needs to be replaced

Digital Trends

Those tiny lithium-ion powerhouses in your smartphone have a limited life span. Here's how to determine when to replace your smartphone battery.

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Denis Villeneuve Explains Why Dune Had to Be Filmed in the Real World

GizModo VR

When Denis Villeneuve was asked to direct an adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune , he had two requirements. One was that he wanted to divide the book into two movies —the other was that he wanted it to be as real as possible. 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?