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‘Flow Weaver’ Is A Multidimensional VR Escape Room

VRScout

Travel through dimensions, solve puzzles, and use magic to escape back to your world. Developed by Stitch Media in collaboration with Silverstring Media , F low Weaver is an upcoming “multidimensional” VR escape room game that will have you exploring a wide range of fantastical dimensions as you harness your abilities as a “Flow Weaver” to solve unique puzzles and other mystical challenges.

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The AR Location Wars, Part I: Google

AR Insider

A s you likely know, one of AR’s foundational principles is to fuse the digital and physical. The real world is a key part of that formula….and real-world relevance is often defined by location. That same relevance and scarcity are what drive real estate value….location, location, location. Synthesizing these factors, one of AR’s battlegrounds will be in augmenting the world in location-relevant ways.

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Google Arts & Culture Drops AR Synth Exhibit That You Can Play

Next Reality AR

Museum curators typically frowned upon visitors touching paintings, sculptures, and artifacts, but not when those exhibits are displayed in augmented reality. The latest AR exhibit from Google Arts & Culture not only lets you virtually touch the displays but also make your own audio art. Don't Miss: Google Arts & Culture App Lets You Turn Your Home into an AR Museum Featuring the Works of Vermeer The AR Synth web-based AR experience anchors replicas of up to five electronic music machine

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‘Rec Room’ Plus Members Can Now Exchange In-game Tokens for Real Cash

Road to VR

Rec Room wants to create a functional digital economy which would let creators generate content for the social VR app and sell it to others for cash. The studio took a big step late last year by allowing its premium members to to sell their creations for in-game tokens. Now those users can exchange their hard-earned tokens for real cash—with a few caveats.

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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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FIVARS February Edition Showcases Virtual Reality Storytelling

ARPost

The seventh annual Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Storytelling (FIVARS) concluded its Winter session this Tuesday, March 9. The virtual reality film showcase, which was supposed to run from February 19 to March 2, was extended an extra week due to heavy attendance, according to event organizers. While it’s too late to get in on the Winter showcase, ARPost was invited to attend to give you a peek at the festival.

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FIVARS February Edition Showcases Virtual Reality Storytelling

ARPost

The seventh annual Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Storytelling (FIVARS) concluded its Winter session this Tuesday, March 9. The virtual reality film showcase, which was supposed to run from February 19 to March 2, was extended an extra week due to heavy attendance, according to event organizers. While it’s too late to get in on the Winter showcase, ARPost was invited to attend to give you a peek at the festival.

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Basics of Hand Interactions in VR

ARVR

When working with VR , the most common way of interacting with the world is through the players hands. Whether is throwing, climbing, or shooting, we use the hands positional data along with along with inputs via the triggers and buttons to let the player interact with the game. But how do we go about setting that up? What does a hand interaction look like in its most basic sense?

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The Pandemic Fueled a Boom in Empty Ghost Shipping Containers Traveling the High Seas

GizModo VR

In our latest proof that global capitalism is extremely logical and efficient, hundreds of thousands of completely empty shipping containers are being transported overseas amid the pandemic, according to an analysis by Earther. Read more.

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Meet Digit: The ostrich-legged robot that might one day deliver you packages

Digital Trends

Digit, the latest and most advanced bipedal robot from Agility Robotics, has made some huge strides (both literally and figuratively) in the past few years.

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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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Hackers Are Swarming Microsoft Exchange

GizModo VR

Those Microsoft Exchange security flaws you may have heard about are really getting pummeled. If ever there was a time for cybersecurity reporters to trot out metaphors involving phrases like “blood in the water” and maybe “deranged swarm of piranhas,” it might be right now. Read more.

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Makers of that bowling alley drone video reveal hardest flight maneuver

Digital Trends

A 90-second drone shot captured at a bowling alley has wowed even the most experienced pilots. But which move was the hardest to nail?

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Beeple Sends Crypto-Art Prices ?? With $69 Million NFT Sale

GizModo VR

“It’s hard to be like, ‘Oh man, I hope it doesn’t flop!’” artist Mike Winkelmann aka Beeple chortled at the kickoff of his “Christie’s Closing Party” Clubhouse session this morning, about an hour before his Christie’s sale would close with the staggering bid of $69,346,250—making it the third most valuable sale by a… Read more.

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Netflix test indicates crackdown on password sharing

Digital Trends

Netflix has always known that some of its account holders share their passwords, but up to now it’s refrained from tackling the issue head-on. That could be about to change, however, as the video-streaming giant is currently experimenting with a message that tells people to create their own Netflix account if they’re not living in […].

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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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Listen to Lasers Zapping Rocks on Mars in Perseverance’s Latest Dispatch

GizModo VR

Unprecedented audio recordings taken by NASA’s Perseverance rover are transporting us to the surface of the Red Planet, allowing us to hear the sound of a gentle alien breeze, and the click-clicking of lasers zapping a Martian rock. Read more.

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How to back up your Android smartphone

Digital Trends

Backing up your Android phone regularly is a wise move, in case it's lost or damaged. Our guide will walk you through a variety of ways to back up your device.

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Extraordinary Fossil Captures Nesting Oviraptor Dinosaur Alongside Unhatched Offspring

GizModo VR

Paleontologists in China have unearthed the fossil of an oviraptorosaur sitting on a nest of eggs. By itself that’s an amazing and rare discovery, but this fossil is unique in that the eggs still preserve evidence of the unhatched progeny inside. Read more.

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What was inside the space station pallet jettisoned into space on Thursday?

Digital Trends

The International Space Station has to occasionally jettison various items as it orbits Earth 250 miles up. So what was in the pallet jettisoned on Thursday?

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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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Wildlife Officials Warn Contaminated Aquarium Moss Balls May Unleash a Zebra Mussel Plague

GizModo VR

Balls of moss commonly found in aquariums are threatening to push the zebra mussel invasion further across the U.S., wildlife officials are warning. Contaminated moss balls have been found in pet stores in 21 states in recent weeks, and both officials and the pet supply industry are scrambling to contain the problem… Read more.

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The Razer Blade 15 (2021) Review: Amped Up With Ampere

Anand Tech

The original Razer Blade tested the laptop waters for a company more known for gaming peripherals such as keyboards and mice, but the Blade lineup has transformed into a complete gaming laptop suite. Today we are taking a look at our first Razer Blade laptop in a couple of generations, and for 2021, Razer has refreshed with the latest NVIDIA Ampere-based laptop GPUs which should bring about a nice bump in performance at all resolutions.

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'Underwater Roombas' Help Start Cleanup of Decades-Old Toxic Waste Dump Along California Coast

GizModo VR

A research vessel launched this week is on an urgent mission to map out damage from a long-overlooked crisis on the ocean floor, and they’re putting robots to work to help. Read more.

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The best root apps for rooted Android phones and tablets

Digital Trends

Here are some of the best apps for rooted Android devices, letting you do things with and to your Android phone that you couldn't have done before rooting it.

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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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Google Maps Will Let You Draw Missing Roads

GizModo VR

Google Maps is great—except when it’s not. Missing roads, incorrect street names, closed-down bridges, and more can really put a hamper on your travels. And by “put a hamper on your travels,” I mean it’ll throw you into a blind rage as you stomp on the gas while you try to figure out where the hell you need to go when… Read more.

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HP Omen 30L Gaming Desktop review: A gorgeous glass house

Digital Trends

HP's beautiful new gaming desktop looks amazing with its minimalist design aesthetic. But how does it perform? Is this the gaming desktop everyone should buy?

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A Common Yeast May Cause Trouble For Crohn’s Patients

GizModo VR

A fungal yeast found in cheese and other foods may wreak havoc in the guts of people with Crohn’s disease, according to new findings. In study published Thursday, researchers have found evidence that Crohn’s patients are more likely to carry that yeast than people without the disease, and that this yeast is linked… Read more.

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The best 8K TVs for 2021

Digital Trends

The latest 2021 8K TVs are only just making their debut, but here's an early look at the models you can buy now and the models we're eagerly anticipating.

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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?