Tue.Dec 29, 2020

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Virtual Concerts Need A “Banksy Style” Hijacking Says Electronic Music Pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre

VRScout

A deep dive into VR concerts, what’s happening in the industry, and hopes for the future. As 2020 draws to a close, I continue to search for the next killer app combining music and technology in the context of virtual concerts. Millions of dollars are being spent on one-off productions like in-game concerts hosted in Epic Games’ Fortnite , Tomorrowland’s 2D streaming festival , and clunky live performances in Minecraft just to name a few.

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5 Tips for Buying Quest 2 Accessories to Make Your Life Easier

Road to VR

Oculus Quest 2 has everything you need in the box to get playing an awesome selection of VR games. Once you’ve owned it for a few weeks though, you may be looking to reduce the headset’s inherent pain points with some aftermarket stuff. Here, we’ve rounded up some of the best basic accessories you may want to consider as a long-term VR user. 1 – Upgrade Your Headstrap.

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Magic Leap Made Me Cry, Probably for the Last Time. Here's Why That's the Good News

Next Reality AR

A lot of digital ink has been spilled heaping scorn on Magic Leap. Much of that media schadenfreude was due to what some believed were unmet promises versus some of the early hype around the product. Others just seemed to be rubbed the wrong way by the startup's Apple-esque secrecy and penchant for attempting to coin new terms and frameworks for things that were, mostly, already in play.

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2021 Predictions: Enterprise AR’s Tipping Point Pushes Back

AR Insider

A s we enter a new year, it’s time for our annual ritual of synthesizing the lessons from the past twelve months and formulating the outlook for the next twelve. Notably, when kicking off this thought exercise, we realized that several of the topics look similar to last year. Though there are lots of developments and new insights, the topical containers that house those insights are beginning to coalesce into standard buckets.

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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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You Think Covid-19 Is Bad?

GizModo VR

Experts with the World Health Organization issued a somber warning on Monday: The next pandemic to strike humanity could be even more devastating than covid-19 has been, especially if we don’t learn our lessons this time around. Read more.

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Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman Is a Trash Friend

GizModo VR

Wonder Woman is supposed to be the best of women. This isn’t me starry-eyed about a fictional character and forcing her to be a defender and icon. William Moulton Marston created her to be the best of women. The character, besides being heavily rooted in Marston’s love of bondage, was also rooted in his love for women… Read more.

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Man uses brain-controlled prosthetic robot arms to eat a Twinkie

Digital Trends

A quadriplegic man, who suffered an accident in his teens that left him with minimal movement in his hands, used two prosthetic robot arms to feed himself.

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The 12 Best (And 6 Worst) Genre Movies of 2020

GizModo VR

Here’s how weird 2020 was for movies : Unless you saw something in January or February (like The Invisible Man, Birds of Prey, or Bloodshot ), there’s a good chance you didn’t see a movie in a movie theater for the entire year. A whole year without going to the movies. Frankly, it’s hard to even fathom, even though we… Read more.

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Can’t find a PS5? Xbox Series X is the better long-term choice anyway

Digital Trends

While the PlayStation 5 had immediate appeal, the Xbox Series X feels more and more like the best long-term choice this generation.

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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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Google Is Testing a "Short Video" Carousel That Would Surface Instagram and TikTok Videos

GizModo VR

Google is reportedly testing a new mobile search feature that would surface TikTok and Instagram videos in their own dedicated carousel — the search giant’s apparent answer to a growing appetite for short-form video content. Read more.

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Military nano drones help soldiers map out the battlefield ahead

Digital Trends

This tiny, lightweight drone could be used by the military for intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance.

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The Coolest Gadgets of 2020

GizModo VR

It didn’t feel like it, what with a major pandemic and massive financial crisis, but 2020 was actually an incredible year for gadgets. For companies like Apple and Microsoft, this could have been a landmark year were it not for everything else going on. While the competition for our attention this year was steep,… Read more.

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The best video-editing apps for iOS and Android

Digital Trends

Many smartphones can shoot video up to 4K resolution, but most mobile videos are forgotten. These video editing apps make your footage compelling and memorable.

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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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New U.S. Dietary Guidelines Ignore Scientists' Advice on Alcohol Limits

GizModo VR

The newest dietary guidelines from the U.S. federal government are out, and there are some surprising omissions. While the guidelines continue to emphasize the value of a balanced diet rich in fruits and vegetables, they don’t recommend that American men substantially cut down on alcohol—contrary to the advice… Read more.

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Intel Alder Lake-S leak: New hybrid 10nm architecture features 16 cores

Digital Trends

An early engineering prototype of Intel's 12th Gen Alder Lake desktop processor revealed that Intel will be migrating to a big.LITTLE CPU design.

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India Weighs 18% Tax on Bitcoin After Legalization of Cryptocurrencies

GizModo VR

The government of India is considering an 18% tax on all bitcoin transactions, according to a new report from the Times of India. It’s not clear whether the proposed goods and services tax (GST) would apply to other cryptocurrencies like ether, the second largest after bitcoin. Read more.

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Boeing’s troubled 737 Max plane resumes commercial service in U.S.

Digital Trends

The re-certified Boeing 737 Max took its first U.S. commercial flight in nearly two years on Tuesday following two fatal crashes that killed 346 people.

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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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Netscape Makes Baffling Appearance in Brexit Trade Deal

GizModo VR

It’s been four years since the laborious process of pulling the UK out of the European Union began, and one would expect the language in the final deal to be thoroughly considered. But if a section of the 1,246-page agreement regarding encryption standards for transferring DNA is any indication, this package might be… Read more.

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I can’t take my eyes off my email inbox. So I turned it into a to-do app

Digital Trends

My task manager was always overflowing, but my email inbox was clean and organized, so I decided to start using my inbox as a task manager. Here's how.

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Great Britain Set a Wind Energy Milestone

GizModo VR

The United Kingdom, birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, is now home to the wind energy revolution that’s reaching a new crescendo. Great Britain hit a major milestone late last week when wind farms generated more than half of the island’s energy needs. Read more.

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ASRock DeskMini H470 Review: A No-Frills LGA 1200 mini-PC Platform

Anand Tech

The mini-STX form-factor was introduced by Intel in 2015 to provide additional options in the burgeoning small form-factor (SFF) PC space. Since then, vendors such as ASRock, ECS, and MSI have been releasing new products based on the mSTX form-factor – and not just for Intel platforms, but AMD as well. As a result, while it’s still a small part of an overall much larger market, mSTX has seen increasing traction as the smallest form factor to still be able to accept socketed CPUs.

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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 Gaming Keyboard for Wannabe Esports Athletes

GizModo VR

There are plenty of (very justifiable) tropes when discussing video games, but the one that I can’t let go of when I’m thinking of PC gaming is the keyboard being mightier than the sword. It can make or break your gaming experience. And there are so many mechanical gaming keyboards available that choosing the right… Read more.

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A 2020 XR Year-In-Review, with MetaVRse' Alan & Julie Smithson, and Alex Colgan

XR for Business Podcast

2020's been a hell of a year, huh? Not just in XR, but for everyone around the world. But the COVID-19 pandemic and the year's other trials have definitely left their mark on the Metaverse (and MetaVRse), for good and ill. Alan chats with Julie, and VP of Marketing Alex Colgan, about all the biggest changes the XR sector saw this year in our 150th broadcast.

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Cryptocurrency Exchange Coinbase Reportedly Paid Women and People of Color Like S**t

GizModo VR

The cryptocurrency exchange startup Coinbase consistently paid women and people of color less than other employees performing similar jobs, new data from the New York Times has found, exposing a glaring pay gap that’s large even by the tech industry’s miserable standards. Read more.

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A 2020 XR Year-In-Review, with MetaVRse' Alan & Julie Smithson, and Alex Colgan

XR for Business Podcast

2020's been a hell of a year, huh? Not just in XR, but for everyone around the world. But the COVID-19 pandemic and the year's other trials have definitely left their mark on the Metaverse (and MetaVRse), for good and ill. Alan chats with Julie, and VP of Marketing Alex Colgan, about all the biggest changes the XR sector saw this year in our 150th broadcast.

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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?