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These Location-Based VR Shipping Containers Are COVID Safe

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UNCONTAINED features advanced haptics and COVID safety protocols to offer a one-of-a-kind LBVR solution. When you think of location-based VR entertainment you probably think of LBVR providers such as The Void , which took interactive entertainment in a new direction by immersing players in big Hollywood franchises like Star Wars , Ghostbusters and Wreck-it Ralph.

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‘Alien: Isolation’ is Free on Epic Games Store Starting Today

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Alien: Isolation (2014) is still an awesome horror experience, even if the Xenomorph-filled game of ‘cat and mouse’ is showing its age when played on modern SteamVR-compatible headsets. Still, you can’t argue with free. As one of the first ‘AAA’ titles to gain VR support back in the olden days (we’re talking 2014 here), Alien: Isolation isn’t only a bit of VR history, but it’s still one of finest horror survival games out there.

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‘1080° Snowboarding’ Creator Developing Game For Quest

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Shred the virtual gnar in this arcade snowboarding experience from Giles Goddard and developer Chuhai Labs. Yesterday’s Oculus Gaming Showcase featured several exciting reveals as well as long-awaited updates on highly-anticipated titles such as Lone Echo II , Star Wars: Tales From The Galaxy’s Edge , and I Expect You To Die 2. Amid all the excitement, Oculus revealed a never-before-seen title for the Oculus Quest, Carve Snowboarding.

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New VR Fitness App VZfit Helps Stay at Home People Stay in Shape

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The gym is closed, but you want to keep exercising and stay in top shape. Now you can do it in a fun and exciting way with VZfit, a VR fitness platform developed by VirZOOM. This immersive platform will help stay-at-home fitness enthusiasts keep up their routine without getting bored and losing motivation. Why a VR Fitness App? Working out from home can become repetitive, boring, and lack expert guidance.

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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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Snapchat, Google, & Verizon Highlight Humanity's Impact on the Environment with AR for Earth Day

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It's Earth Day, which means that nonprofits, individuals, and brands are making a concerted effort to raise awareness of environmental issues and how to change behaviors to reverse impacts of pollution, deforestation, and suburban sprawl, among others. Leading the charge is Snap by stepping up to this challenge by using the augmented reality powers of Snapchat to illustrate problems we face across the planet.

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NASA Generates Oxygen on Mars, Setting Stage for Crewed Missions

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NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has captured much of the world’s attention, but an amazing new experiment, in which the Perseverance rover produced a tiny amount of oxygen, is equally deserving of praise. Read more.

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Top 5 Virtual Reality Challenges?—?From Pricing to Ethical Issues and Health Effects

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Top 5 Virtual Reality Challenges?—?From Pricing to Ethical Issues and Health Effects Even though virtual reality is being used by many companies, educational institutions, and government organizations, it still needs to overcome certain problems. Some of them simply have to do with companies finding a way to implement it into their business plans, while others are more ethical in nature.

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Researchers Take Down Botnet Pretending to Be Millions of People Watching TV

GizModo VR

Fraudsters operate off the assumption that it’s way more profitable to think up byzantine ways to cheat people out of money than it is to just, like, work hard and ask for a promotion occasionally. For instance: an Israeli tech company is currently accused of using a very convoluted method to screw advertisers out of… Read more.

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Space junk animation shows how Earth’s satellites dodge dangerous debris

Digital Trends

Space junk is an increasing problem and poses a threat to active satellites and even human life. Here's what one space agency is doing to deal with it.

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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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In Sci-Fi Short Muse, an Android Finds Good Reason to Rebel

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Kay (Taj Atwal) may be an android , but her moral compass proves stronger than the increasingly unstable artist (Paul Ready) who claims she’s his muse—even though his eerie paintings hint at something far darker lurking behind his methods. That’s the set-up for Muse , a new sci-fi short by Azhur Saleem. Read more.

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Mortal Kombat review: A victory, but far from flawless

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Warner Bros. Pictures Mortal Kombat reboot raises the bar for the franchise with a great blend of action and mythology, but isn't quite a flawless victory.

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Scientists Look in an Ancient Meteorite and Find Evidence of CO2-Laced Water

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A team of researchers recently took a close look at an ancient meteorite and determined that it contained carbon dioxide-rich water, a discovery that has implications for the theory that water (and thus, life) first arrived on Earth by way of these rocks. Read more.

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Microsoft just made your Windows 10 Taskbar a lot more useful

Digital Trends

Windows 10's newest feature is News and Interests. A part of the Taskbar, it is designed to help you take a glance at all the information that matters most.

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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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iOS 15 Will Reportedly Bring Big Changes to Notifications and the iPad Home Screen

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Earlier this week, Apple added a new M1-powered iPad Pro to its portfolio, and now a new report indicates the company has some big plans for iPadOS. Read more.

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Fortnite challenge: Complete swimming time trial at Weeping Woods or Coral Castle

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Completing the swimming time trial at Weeping Woods or Coral Castle in Fortnite is tricky. Here, we'll show you how to complete the season 6, week 6 challenge.

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Ben Shapiro Finally Manages to Get Wood

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Today in people exhibiting tremendous, just absolutely off-the-charts LDE: Imp-like right-wing pundit Ben Shapiro is asking fellow patriots to go to their local Home Depot and buy a board or something to show their support for voter suppression laws. Read more.

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Awesome ferrofluid-filled speaker visualizes your music with alien-like goop

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What happens when you put magnetic liquid inside a speaker and start playing music? An artist in Korea built his own rig to find out.

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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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It's Time to Kill Earth Day

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Hooray, it’s Earth Day! That one day of the year when we can all come together and celebrate treating our planet with respect. From first-graders to Jeff Bezos, everyone loves a good, ol’ fashion Earth Day. So, I regret to inform you that we must kill Earth Day and replace it with something more urgent. Read more.

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AMD now holds the top 20 CPU slots on PassMark list

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The latest PassMark rankings show that AMD and Intel have switched spots. The onetime value brand holds the performance crown while Intel struggles to keep up.

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YouTubers Succeed In Getting Airbnb Bookings For an Opulent Dollhouse

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YouTubers successfully booked rentals for a dollhouse on Airbnb, they say. In a video posted on March 31st, famed pranksters Josh Pieters and Archie Manners documented the process of photographing and booking a model 18th-century mansion, with a water bottle and credit card blatantly visible for scale. Their… Read more.

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PlayStation Plus Video Pass is in its testing phase, launching in Poland today

Digital Trends

Sony has confirmed PlayStation Plus Video Pass, an addition perk for PS Plus members in Poland. This service is in its testing phase and could launch elsewhere.

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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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Tesla's Autopilot System Is 'Easily' Tricked Into Operating Without Anyone at the Wheel

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Consumer Reports said Thursday its researchers “easily” tricked a Tesla’s Autopilot system into driving without anyone at the wheel. The publication’s worrying demonstration comes as officials continue to investigate a fatal crash in Texas involving a Tesla that authorities believe had no one in the driver’s seat at… Read more.

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NASA’s Mars helicopter nails second, more complex flight on red planet

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Following its historic hover earlier in the week, NASA's Mars helicopter has successfully performed a second, more complex flight on the red planet.

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The Fantastical First 10 Minutes of Netflix's Shadow and Bone Are Here

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The much-anticipated series adaptation of Leigh Bardugo’s Shadow and Bone arrives tomorrow—which is really only a few hours away at this point—but superfans can get a sneak peek at the first 10 minutes right now. Netflix just streamed a cast event that was capped with the big reveal. Read more.

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The rise of smart speakers shows why it matters to have sustainable packaging

Digital Trends

While the gadgets inside of packages are most important, you'll be astounded by the amount of potential waste from the packaging.

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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?