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Report: Valve Developing Standalone SteamVR Headset

VRScout

Valve’s next hardware release could be an all-in-one VR headset according to new reports circulating the web. According to several bits of information discovered in Valve’s SteamVR code, it appears as though the company is currently in the development of a new VR headset. Unlike the Valve Index, the company’s premium PC VR headset, the “Deckard,” as it’s referred to in the notes, is a wireless standalone VR headset capable of operating without the need of a de

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Where Do AR and NFTs Intersect?

AR Insider

AR could be the optimal vessel for NFTs. while NFTs serve as an AR killer app. How will this play out? Guest author Anne McKinnon breaks down 3 lessons from creating AR on the blockchain. The post Where Do AR and NFTs Intersect? appeared first on AR Insider.

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Virtual Try-On Is Reinventing How You Shop Online

ARPost

Virtual try-on is a game-changer and makes it possible for consumers to have a more personalized and realistic shopping experience , even when they’re shopping online. It utilizes augmented reality and a front-facing camera, thus allowing shoppers to virtually try on products, from eyewear and hats to cosmetics. But is it just a novelty, or does it have actual potential to drive sales and deliver a top-notch customer experience?

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HTC is Holding a Vive Product Event Just Ahead of Facebook Connect

Road to VR

HTC is gearing up to hold what seems to be a new product unveiling on October 14th, or just ahead of Facebook Connect on the 28th of that month. The company says we’ll be hearing about some “big news in a small package.” HTC announced the event on Twitter, saying it will take place on October 14th at 11 AM ET ( local time here ) in the company’s online event space, which is hosted by social VR platform Engage. 10.14.21 [link] #gowiththeflow pic.twitter.com/TaidAkicJo. 

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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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Are Ray-Ban Stories AR Training Wheels?

ARVR

As you’ve likely heard by now, Facebook and Ray-Ban last week unveiled their long-awaited smart glasses. The operative term is “smart” versus “AR” as there is no optical system that projects visuals. However there are elements of, and foundations for, audio AR experiences. This aligns to some degree with our pre-launch speculation around Facebook’s lite AR approach, but Facebook went even “lighter” than we predicted.

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Rethinking Jewish cultural heritage using VR: Exposit client first-hand experience

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Historical Reference The Jewish people have always been an integral part of Belarusian history. At the beginning of the 20th century, up to 60% of the total urban population of Belarus were Jews, who made a great contribution to Belarusian culture and the development of Belarusian society. The Second World War, the Holocaust, mass emigration, and Soviet ideology had a devastating effect on the culture of Belarusian Jews: Jewish heritage and its role in the history of Belarus and Europe still rem

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YouTube Announces Total Ban on Anti-Vaccine Videos

GizModo VR

Everyone, please dramatically slow clap: YouTube says it will finally ban videos that lie about the effectiveness or nonexistent dangers of any vaccine—not just clips focused on covid-19 vaccines—and it has terminated the accounts of prominent antivaxxers like Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Children’s Health Defense Fund and… Read more.

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How an AR Technology Can Connect Students to Museums for Global Discovery-Based Learning

AffinityVr

Imagine if you were a student and there could be a way to interact with your choice of art or artifact in any museum in the world for discovery-based learning in your classroom or home, no matter where you were in the world. Your school, teacher, or parent could just use the equipment they probably [.]. The post How an AR Technology Can Connect Students to Museums for Global Discovery-Based Learning appeared first on Virtual Reality Augmented Reality Technology Latest News.

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A Giant Eagle Named Kodiak Is on the Loose in Pittsburgh

GizModo VR

Officials with the National Aviary in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, are imploring the public to report sightings of a Steller’s sea eagle, which escaped from its enclosure this past Saturday. Multiple sightings have been reported, but the bird has so far managed to evade capture. 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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5 organizations taking the lead on virtual workspaces

AffinityVr

As the dust starts to settle on the recent economic disruption, researchers the world over are shifting their focus towards the more benign effects of the pandemic. Multiple studies conducted recently point towards the increased productivity achieved by organisations operating on the work-from-home model. As the benefits of working remotely stack up against traditional offices, [.].

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Timothée Chalamet's Wonka Prequel Just Bagged a Factory-Load of Stars

GizModo VR

There’s no golden ticket needed for Warner Bros. The studio is finally going ahead with its origin story for Roald Dahl’s mysterious, marvelous confectionary king in Wonka , which is celebrating the beginning of production by casting what feels like half of England in the process. Read more.

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5 Organizations taking the lead on Virtual Reality Workspaces

AffinityVr

As the dust starts to settle on the recent economic disruption, researchers the world over are shifting their focus towards the more benign effects of the pandemic. Multiple studies conducted recently point towards the increased productivity achieved by organisations operating on the work-from-home model. As the benefits of working remotely stack up against traditional offices, [.].

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You Can Theoretically Book the Scream House as an AirBnb This Halloween

GizModo VR

Got plans for late October? Then forget about them, because the house from Wes Craven ’s original meta-horror film Scream —you know, the house from which the call comes from inside—will be up to rent as an Airbnb. Amazingly, it will only cost guests a frankly ridiculous $5 a night. The catch, of course, is that there… 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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The YouTube/NBCUniversal flap is why you need an over-the-air antenna

Digital Trends

The latest fight between the owner of TV channels and the owner of a service that distributes them shows why you should have an over-the-air antenna as backup.

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PlantLife Is the Purest Social Platform I've Ever Tried

GizModo VR

I’m not a fan of most major social platforms. Reddit’s always been too militaristic about free speech for my taste; TikTok is full of stomach-churning viral trends, Twitter’s riddled with hate speech , and Facebook is, well, Facebook. So when I first heard about PlantLife —a plant-centric social platform that rolled… Read more.

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The best outdoor TVs for your backyard

Digital Trends

If your backyard patio is the staple of the neighborhood, you'll want an excellent outdoor TV to entertain all your friends and family. Here are five we love.

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Meet the Magical Family Members of Disney's Encanto

GizModo VR

Encanto , Disney’s upcoming animated feature from co-directors Byron Howard and Jared Bush, tells the story of the one member of the Madrigal family who, for some unknown reason, isn’t born with a magical gift. Marisol—voiced by Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s Stephanie Beatriz—knows there’s something inside her that makes her… 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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Withings smart ScanWatch Horizon looks just like a desirable diver’s watch

Digital Trends

The Withings ScanWatch Horizon adopts the popular diver's watch style and the same health tech as the original ScanWatch to make a highly desirable smartwatch.

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Disney's New Encanto Trailer Is Pure, Heartfelt Chaos

GizModo VR

When we got our last look at Disney’s upcoming movie Encanto , we met the Madrigals, the magical house that gave the intergenerational Colombian family their unique superpowers, and Mirabel ( Brooklyn 99 's Stephanie Beatriz), the lone Madrigal member who never received a gift. It looked great, but somewhat… Read more.

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Apple’s iPhone 13 and iPad Mini are facing more display and touch problems

Digital Trends

Buyers of Apple's new iPhone 13 and iPad Mini have reported display and touchscreen problems just a week after launch.

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Netflix Has Acquired Its First Video Game Studio

GizModo VR

Forging ahead with its bizarre plans to expand into the video game space, Netflix has reportedly acquired Night School Studio , an indie game developer that will mark the first acquisition of its kind for the streaming platform. 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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NASA’s Mars helicopter decided not to take its 14th flight

Digital Trends

NASA's Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, was about to take a flight with a difference when it spotted an anomaly that caused it to abandon the effort.

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Big Changes Coming to Google Search Will Help You Find Things You Can't Put Into Words

GizModo VR

Google search is without a doubt the easiest way to find answers quickly, but it can also spur new questions. Sometimes those questions are sparked by a random autocomplete suggestion, but the company just announced changes to its search engine that will help you find answers to questions you didn’t ask. Read more.

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Intel processors could adopt one of the best Apple and iPhone features

Digital Trends

A new rumor suggests that Intel is taking pointers from Apple with its M1 and iPhone chips, which could enable software desktops have never seen before.

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Sony Just Made More Affordable Versions of Its Best Headphones and Earbuds

GizModo VR

Sony’s headphones and earbuds have long been some of the best you can buy, and its latest devices, the WH-1000XM4 wireless headphones and WF-1000XM4 wireless earbuds , offer incredible audio and industry-leading active noise cancellation —for a price. For those looking to spend a little less cash, Sony’s introducing… 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?