Sat.May 29, 2021

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‘Army Of The Dead’ VR Game Has You Battling Zombies In A Taco Truck

VRScout

Zack Snyder’s latest zombie flick gets its own location-based VR experience featuring a motorized taco truck. Here’s the deal: Las Vegas is crawling with zombies. In order to prevent a global pandemic, the United States government has stacked thousands of shipping containers around the neon capital of the world, forming a makeshift prison for the hordes of undead now occupying the desert oasis.

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Mark Wahlberg and Antione Fuqua Were Blindsided by Paramount+ News

GizModo VR

Studios are p **g off a lot of folks. Most of them were blindsided by studios who decided to dump their content onto streaming services without a heads up. Read more.

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Hubble captures a wonky galaxy being pulled out of shape

Digital Trends

Most galaxies, like our own Milky Way, tend to be symmetrical. However, sometimes a dramatic event can happen to a galaxy and pull it into an asymmetric shape.

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Plastic Waste from Burning Ship Buries Sri Lanka's Coastline

GizModo VR

Tonnes of plastic waste from a burning container ship is washing ashore in Sri Lanka in what’s likely the nation’s worst beach pollution crisis to date, a senior environmental official told AFP on Saturday. Read more.

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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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Curiosity captures shimmering, iridescent ‘mother of pearl’ clouds on Mars

Digital Trends

Mars rover Curiosity has been cloud hunting, and it had captured some stunning and intriguing images of clouds in a usually cloudless sky.

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Absurd new ‘third eye’ wearable watches the world so you can stare at your phone

Digital Trends

Minwook Paeng wants to put a cyclops-like extra eye in the center of your forehead. Why? To make a point about our unhealthy relationship with technology.

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You'll Have to Wait Until June for Apple's Paid Podcast Subscription Service

GizModo VR

Apple’s pushing back the launch of its podcast subscription marketplace until June to ensure it’s “delivering the best experience for creator and listeners,” according to a company email to podcasters obtained by 9to5Mac. Apparently, its new service still needs a few tweaks before it’s ready to see the light of day. Read more.

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VREvolution.gg Launches VR Esports League Platform with Population: One Tournament

VR Fitness

VREvolution officially launches their VR esports league platform today at noon PDT/3 pm EDT with a 3-division Population: One tournament featuring solo competition. BigBox VR’s Population: One quickly rose to the ranks of the premier battle royale game in immersive reality following its October 2020 launch. Continue reading on VR Fitness Insider.

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A Major Study on How Sperm Move Has Been Retracted

GizModo VR

A study that claimed to overturn our understanding of how sperm moves has now been retracted. The research had suggested that sperm cells propel themselves forward through complex spins that created an optical illusion of them only swishing their tails back and forth under a microscope. The authors now agree that… 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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HTC Vive Pro 2 vs. Vive Pro

Digital Trends

Vive has updated its Pro VR headset with a new generation that comes with more comfort features and better specs. Here's how it compare to the original model.

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John Krasinski Has His Notes READY for A Quiet Place 3

GizModo VR

John Krasinski never thought A Quiet Place , would have a sequel because the actor/director didn’t think he could pull it off. Read more.

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Enormous sky survey creates the most accurate map yet of universe’s dark matter

Digital Trends

A project called the Dark Energy Survey has observed more than 226 million galaxies to help unravel the mystery of dark matter.

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Robert Palmer Watkins Gets Recurring Role On The Walking Dead: World Beyond

GizModo VR

Actor Robert Palmer Watkins has landed a recurring role in The Walking Dead universe. 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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HP Envy 14 (2021) review: Great laptop, but tread lightly

Digital Trends

The HP Envy 14 is a great laptop for productivity users, but its display holds it back for creative types.

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How is the Water – Swim With the Fishes, In The Best Way Possible.

VRPlayin

Dolphins, swim with the dolphins. I mean have you ever wondered How is the water where dolphins swim? The thing is we’re running a VR arcade/experience center. People who make great, potentially great, and not-so-great experiences come to us. Some we provide feedback for, and maybe later we bring them to you. Others, fall in love with and break our bank to get them to you… and lastly, some we love so much that despite not being able to provide them to you because there is a global pa

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Bartesian Home Bar Review: Bring the bar to your home

Digital Trends

The Bartesian makes a bunch of craft cocktails and some are quite fancy. Is it as good as an actual bartender?

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Releases Recap: May 24 – 28

Oculus

This week, we released several titles and updates across the Oculus Platform. Here’s a rundown of the highlights.

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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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How to watch the SpaceX resupply mission to the ISS this week

Digital Trends

This week, a SpaceX Cargo Dragon will launch on a resupply mission to the International Space Station, and we've got the details on how you can watch it live.

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Years Later, Venmo Finally Gives Users the Option to Make Friends List Private

GizModo VR

Two weeks after Buzzfeed News purportedly found President Joe Biden’s Venmo account using the app’s search tool and public friends feature, promptly setting off cybersecurity and national security alarm bells, Venmo has given users the ability to make their friends list private. Read more.

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Watch Cruella: How to stream the movie on Disney+ NOW

Digital Trends

Keen to check out the latest Disney movie, Cruella? Here's how to stream it on Disney+ right now.

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Apple MacBook Pro and Dell XPS 13 prices cut for Memorial Day

Digital Trends

Score a Dell XPS 13 Touch Laptop or a MacBook Pro at Memorial Day Sale prices!

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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?