Fri.Jul 16, 2021

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How Astronauts Are Using VR & AR Aboard The ISS

VRScout

From maintenance work to physics experiments, XR technology is playing a major role in the operations of the Expedition 65 crew. Thanks to jaw-dropping VR films like Space Explorers: An ISS Experience and educational games such as Mission: ISS , anyone with a VR headset has the ability to experience life aboard the International Space Station. But how exactly is VR & AR technology being used by the astronauts operating within the multinational low orbit space station?

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Virtex Stadium – the First “True” Virtual Reality Stadium for Esports Launches Soon

ARPost

Esports fans, rejoice! Soon, you will not just watch a game from the outside, but be at the very heart of the action thanks to the soon-to-be-launched virtual reality stadium. Virtex Stadium is the result of a dream: the dream of a team of esports organizers and competitors who wanted a more immersive and exciting game experience. They used their VR developing skills to create a new virtual world, where the user is not just a spectator, but a participant.

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Can Advertising Scale in VR? (Yes and No)

AR Insider

O ne of VR’s prospective revenue streams is ad placement. The thought is that its levels of immersion can engender high engagement with various flavors of display ads. That could include billboards in a virtual streetscape or sporting venue. Art imitates life, and all that… This topic has re-emerged over the past few weeks in the wake of Facebook’s experimental ad insertion in Blaston VR.

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HTC VIVE?—?the VR Headsets Launch You Should Not Miss in 2021

ARVR

HTC VIVE?—?the VR Headsets Launch You Should Not Miss in 2021 Yet another pair of remarkable devices has appeared on the VR headsets horizon. HTC has been amongst the tech companies making headlines in the past few months. This had to do primarily with the teasers and assumptions revolving around the new HTC VR headsets, anticipated to be officially announced during the VIVECON 2021 on May 11th and 12th.

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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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A New Heat Wave Will Set Records Across the West This Weekend

GizModo VR

The West can’t catch a break. After a slight reprieve from this week’s extreme heat, which sparked raging wildfires that threatened electricity grids and lit up firenadoes in California , the region is preparing for its fourth scorching heat wave in just five weeks. Read more.

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Company That Aims to Solve the 'Crisis of Toxicity Online' Makes Money From the Daily Caller and Ben Shapiro

GizModo VR

Like just about every other corner of the web, including this one, the Daily Caller’s website is littered with ads. I can count seven on the story I have open while writing this (which, if you’re curious, is a blog heckling the Unicode Consortium daring to add a pregnant man to the impending emoji roster ). There are… Read more.

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Michael Wells:  A Fantastical Journey To Improved Wellness through VR Gaming

VR Fitness

In June 2019, Michael and his friends took a vacation to Florida and while visiting Harry Potter World at Universal Studios, the 265-pound 40+-year-old was asked to sit in the “test chair” to assess whether he could fit on one of the rides. Although it was an embarrassing experience, it was also the motivation Michael needed to lose weight and improve his health.

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Walking Dead Lawsuit Ends in $200 Million Settlement

GizModo VR

Frank Darabont, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind The Shawshank Redemption , was a key figure in bringing The Walking Dead to AMC way back in 2010. A few years later though, the showrunner and executive producer realized he wasn’t be compensated properly for his stake in the show, and a lawsuit was filed. Read more.

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Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 4 will be its most powerful smartwatch yet

Digital Trends

A new leak sheds some light on the powerful new processor of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 before its August 11 launch.

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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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Dungeons & Dragons' Future Is Full of Carnivals and Dragons

GizModo VR

Dungeons & Dragons is a world of imagination, from the vast realms and planes of existence your adventures can take place on , to the characters your parties build over the course of their travels. The next two releases for the game’s Fifth Edition are going to put that imagination to the test—in ways epic enough to… Read more.

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All heart piece locations in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD

Digital Trends

Having more hearts can mean the difference between life and death. See our guide on where to find all the heart pieces in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD.

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This Wifi-Enabled Space Toilet for Cats Turned Me Into a Kitty Garbage Man, As God Intended

GizModo VR

If you want most of the companionship that comes with a dog with less of the work, cats are great. They sleep most of the time , and a lot of the rest they’re inclined to spend by themselves. Walks are purely an optional affectation for the feline-obsessed, as is outdoor time (which many pet experts don’t recommend).… Read more.

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Why Steam Deck doesn’t stack up to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate on Android

Digital Trends

The Steam Deck is a solution searching for a problem when the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and the Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 can give most gamers a better experience.

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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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Officials Pull ‘Emergency Lever’ as Lake Powell Plunges Toward Dangerous New Low

GizModo VR

The latest megadrought alarm bell just went off in the West. The Bureau of Reclamation began emergency water releases from reservoirs upstream in the Colorado River this week in an effort to keep Lake Powell, the country’s second-largest reservoir, full enough to continue to generate hydroelectric power. Read more.

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We can’t believe how cheap the Apple Watch Series 6 is today

Digital Trends

Grab this opportunity to buy the Apple Watch Series 6 for much cheaper than usual, as Amazon is selling the 40mm, GPS version of the wearable device at $70 off.

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GM Warns Bolt Owners to Avoid Unattended Charging or Parking Their EVs Inside

GizModo VR

The dependability of Chevy’s Bolt EV may have just taken another hit following a recent warning from GM asking Bolt owners to refrain from charging their cars while unattended or parking their EVs inside. Read more.

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EON-XR 9.1 Application Examples

EON Reality

EON XR 9.1 Product and Application Examples. From Physical to Digital. An XR educational content platform, a no-code creation tool, and a cross-device experience. The post EON-XR 9.1 Application Examples appeared first on EON Reality.

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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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Cannabis Genomes Suggest the Plant Originated in East Asia

GizModo VR

A team of researchers just examined 110 different marijuana genomes to figure out the origin of the plant. Their findings put the genesis of Cannabis sativa in northwest China. Read more.

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How to change Siri’s voice on the Apple HomePod

Digital Trends

Siri has more voice options than ever, but it's not always clear how to change the voice on your HomePod. Here's how you can do it easily using the Home app.

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Researchers Have Created a Dissolvable Pacemaker

GizModo VR

While you might be more familiar with permanent pacemakers, temporary versions of the device are sometimes needed after open-heart surgery, heart attacks, or overdoses. The problem is these devices can cause infections, become dislodged, or introduce other complications like scarring during removal. But now,… Read more.

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What is QLED TV? The quantum dot-based display tech fully explained

Digital Trends

QLED TVs use quantum dot technology to improve brightness and color. We'll discuss exactly what that means and how QLED compares to other options.

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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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FAA Orders Airlines to Inspect Thousands of Boeing 737 Jets Due to Fear of Switch Failures

GizModo VR

Boeing’s had a rough go of it lately: After two crashes of its 737 Max jetliners in 2018 and 2019 resulted in a cumulative 346 deaths, the entire line was grounded for months and subsequent investigations showed the manufacturer rushed out the craft with shoddy software and without sufficient oversight from … Read more.

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How to play multiplayer in Monster Hunter Stories 2

Digital Trends

While Monster Hunter Stories 2 is primarily a solo endeavor, there is a bit of multiplayer gaming built-in. Here's how to unlock multiplayer and what to expect.

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Hubble Space Telescope Is Back

GizModo VR

NASA was able to bring Hubble Space Telescope’s backup payload computer online, according to a Twitter post from the telescope’s social media team. The announcement will bring a sigh of relief to space lovers, following a month of anxiety over whether the aging technology could be resuscitated at all after it slipped… Read more.

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Microsoft warns Windows users of another unpatched printing vulnerability

Digital Trends

Microsoft is raising awareness of a new, unpatched printing vulnerability in Windows 10, requiring physical access to a Windows PC for hackers to leverage.

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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?