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Carolina Panthers Debut Mixed Reality Panther During Live NFL Game

VRScout

There’s an enormous virtual feline stalking the Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina. This past Sunday the Carolina Panthers took on the New York Jets in their first competitive game of the 2021 season. After an intense back-and-forth, the Panthers managed to bring it home with a 19-14 victory over the Jets. Regardless of the teams’ solid performance, however, all anyone seems to be able to talk about was the virtual big cat prowling throughout the stadium.

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How Do Consumers Feel About the Metaverse?

AR Insider

The term metaverse continues to be a runaway train in the AR and VR sectors and beyond. But beyond industry folks, how do consumers feel? We break down a recent NewZoo poll for metaverse hopes & dreams. The post How Do Consumers Feel About the Metaverse? appeared first on AR Insider.

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Zoom Meetings Heading To VR On Oculus Quest 2 Next Year

VRScout

One of the most popular teleconferencing programs in the world joins Facebook’s new VR co-working platform. Facebook today announced a partnership with Zoom Video Communications to bring the company’s popular teleconferencing software program to Horizon Workrooms , marking a major milestone for the recently released VR co-working platform.

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XSight Social AR App Launches on Product Hunt

ARPost

XSight has just launched its flagship product on Product Hunt. The AR app, which XSight calls “the first augmented reality social mobile app” helps users find people, places, and things of interest to them by layering contextual information over their live camera view. Meet XSight. The XSight team, operating out of Australia and Ukraine, calls their AR app a “PokèmonGo-like social app” analogous to the head-up display in Iron Man’s helmet in Marvel films.

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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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Oculus Quest ‘Space Sense’ Feature Will Alert You When Someone Invades Your Play Area

Road to VR

Oculus Quest just got its v32 software update last month which brought changes to file syncing, friends lists, and a few other things. Now it’s been discovered that within v32 is a video showing off what could be an upcoming feature to Quest’s roomscale Guardian system, which appears to alert you when someone wanders into your play area.

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Zoom Support Coming to Facebook’s VR Meeting App ‘Workrooms’ Starting Next Year

Road to VR

Facebook’s Horizon Workrooms connects both VR and video chat users together in the same space. Although it’s still in beta, the company says that it’s gearing up to integrate Workrooms with popular video chat platform Zoom. Starting in 2022, Workrooms users will be able to join Zoom Meetings and use Zoom Whiteboard from within VR, positioning the platform to connect a much broader userbase to users of the VR productivity app.

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Go Update Your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch Right Now

GizModo VR

The headline says it all, folks. Apple just released an emergency patch to a security flaw that let NSO Group’s horrifying Pegasus spyware infect a target’s Apple devices—including their iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Apple Watches. Read more.

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Oculus Quest Pro Reference Hidden in Latest Software, Mentions Face & Eye Tracking

Road to VR

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke about the idea of a ‘Quest Pro’ headset back in May, saying that it could include sensors for both face and eye tracking. The v32 firmware release for Oculus Quest last month ostensibly confirms that the company is moving forward with the device, as it contains hidden reference to an “Oculus Quest Pro” headset along with text mentioning both eye and face-tracking.

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Google Is Phasing Out the Android Auto App, but the Alternative Is Pretty Good

GizModo VR

I live in the California suburbs, known for their relative un-walkability, exacerbated by the presence of rolling hills and sweltering hot days. I rely on my car to get me and my family places, and I want the least distraction possible when I’m behind the wheel. 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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Nissan employs certified smellers to check the odor of its new cars

Digital Trends

Nissan has revealed it employs odor testers to ensure that its new vehicles smell just right when customers climb inside for the first time.

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Researchers Toilet-Trained Cows in Hopes of Reducing Their Greenhouse Gas Emissions

GizModo VR

Researchers in Germany recently demonstrated that cattle can be toilet trained to reduce some of their climate impact. By having the young cows pee in latrines made of turf, the team of experts in animal behavior and agricultural science stopped the natural production of nitrous oxide from the cow’s urine. Read more.

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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak reveals mysterious space venture

Digital Trends

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is to launch a new space company called Privateer Space that he promises will be unlike the others.

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She-Ra Makes the Leap to Amazon for a Live-Action TV Show

GizModo VR

It feels like only yesterday that we said good bye to She-Ra and the Princesses of Power , Netflix and Dreamworks’ excellent animated reboot of the iconic heroine and her friends. And while Prince Adam is off on adventures classic and new on the streamer , Adora and Etheria are taking a leap into a whole new realm.… 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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Zoom Meets Virtual Reality: Announcing Zoom’s Collaboration with Horizon Workrooms

Oculus

We recently launched Horizon Workrooms on Oculus Quest 2. It’s a new way to collaborate remotely across the world, through the power of virtual reality.

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Colin Farrell's Batman Villain Might Get His Own HBO Max Series

GizModo VR

Audiences are still several months away from meeting our new big-screen Batman, Catwoman, Riddler, and Penguin —but one already has a spin-off in the works. Variety reports that Colin Farrell, who plays Oswald Cobblepot aka the Penguin in Matt Reeves’ upcoming The Batman , has been approached to reprise the role in a … Read more.

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Xiaomi unveils smart glasses that it claims could replace the smartphone

Digital Trends

Xiaomi is the latest company to step into the smart glasses space, offering an advanced design that it claims could replace the smartphone.

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What to Know About SpaceX's Inspiration4, the First All-Civilian Mission to Orbit

GizModo VR

To date, every mission to low Earth orbit has included at least one professional, government-employed astronaut. That’s set to change this week as an all-civilian crew prepares to blast off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Read more.

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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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Deathloop review: Live, die, repeat, and look good doing it

Digital Trends

Deathloop fuses Dishonored and Hitman together to create a creative stealth-action game that's eager to take creative gambles.

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YouTube Forces Popular Discord Music Bot to Shut Down

GizModo VR

After news broke two weeks ago that Google-owned YouTube had forced Groovy bot offline , it was widely considered to be only a matter of time before the platform came for the other popular Discord bots that use it to source music. Now, it appears that Rythm ’s number come up: YouTube has reportedly served the bot a… Read more.

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Don’t believe the marketing! Robot chefs aren’t what you think they are

Digital Trends

While multitasking robot chefs may cost too much for the average homeowner, you can still outfit your smart kitchen with a number of useful cooking gadgets.

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How to Stream Your Windows or Mac Desktop to Your Chromebook

GizModo VR

For a lot of people, Chromebooks are all the computer that they need. Aside from some heavy-duty image and video editing, there isn’t much that you can’t do inside a web browser these days. If there are times when you need a full Windows or macOS desktop application running inside Chrome OS, this is pretty easy to set… Read more.

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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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Y: The Last Man season 1 teaches an old apocalypse new tricks

Digital Trends

In FX Networks' Y: The Last Man, the sudden demise of every male mammal on Earth is just the beginning of a fascinating, frightening saga with plenty of twists.

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Updates From The Boys, the Predator Prequel, and More

GizModo VR

Matt Long will return for at least part of Manifest ’s fourth and final season. A taste of what’s in the works for Riverdale , Supergirl , The Walking Dead , and more. Team Archer gets drinks, in the most Archer way. Plus, another tiny little glimpse of Hawkeye ’s Kate Bishop. Spoilers, away! Read more.

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Organizing Your Desk and Work Routines

EON Reality

Organizing Your Desk and Work Routines with Merged XR. The post Organizing Your Desk and Work Routines appeared first on EON Reality.

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50 Countries With the Best Covid-19 Vaccination Rates in the World

GizModo VR

Countries around the world are racing to get their populations vaccinated, with 30% of the globe now protected against serious disease and death from covid-19. But some countries are doing better than others since Gizmodo last checked back in July. Read more.

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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?