Fri.Nov 12, 2021

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AWE 2021: Hands-on with Holoride and its automotive VR fun

The Ghost Howls

Yesterday was my last day at AWE. One of the coolest things that I’ve tried has been Holoride, a system to let passengers in a car enjoy a ride in VR. Holoride. Holoride is a very original startup in the XR ecosystem because it focuses on in-car VR entertainment. The idea is that during a trip the passengers can enjoy a VR experience that follows completely the movement of the car : if the car is going forward, you move forward at exactly its same speed inside VR, if it turns left, you tur

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Sense Arena VR Hockey Training Took Us From Amateur To Pro

VRScout

Well, maybe not a pro… Over the past several years we’ve seen various sports organizations begin to employ immersive technology as part of their player training regiments, whether it be the Los Angeles Dodgers employing VR technology as part of its batting practice regiment or an Australian skeleton racer using VR simulators to prepare for the Winter Olympics.

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Hands-on: Varjo’s Unique Masking Tool Lets You Bring the Real World into VR

Road to VR

Varjo’s XR-3 headset has perhaps the best passthrough view of any MR headset on the market thanks to color cameras that offer a fairly high resolution and a wide field-of-view. But rather than just using the passthrough view for AR (bringing virtual objects into the real world) Varjo has developed a new tool to do the reverse (bringing real objects into the virtual world).

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XR Talks: Jumpstarting the Geo-Spatial Web

AR Insider

Though known best for Pokémon Go, Niantic's true fate may be as an AR platform. Enter Lightship, which turns Pokémon Go’s architecture into a platform on which others can build geospatial AR experiences. We drill into its launch event for this week's XR Talks. The post XR Talks: Jumpstarting the Geo-Spatial Web appeared first on AR Insider.

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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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Watch 7 Minutes of ‘Warhammer: Tempestfall’ Gameplay Ahead of PC VR Launch Next Week

Road to VR

Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Tempestfall , Carbon Studio’s upcoming action-adventure game, just got an extended gameplay video to show off some of its combat, puzzles, and rich environments before its November 17th release on PC VR headsets. Carbon Studio says the video is taken from early in Tempestfall’s campaign, giving you a look at the realm of Death.

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Tech companies are blaming the chip shortage on the maker of your calculator

Digital Trends

Some tech companies are pointing the finger of blame for the chip shortage at Texas Instruments, the maker of both calculators and, importantly, analog chips.

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Iceland Skewers Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse With New Tourism Ad

GizModo VR

Iceland released a new tourism ad on Thursday, poking fun at Facebook’s (sorry, Meta ’s) recent promises for how we’re all going to live in the future. But Iceland’s version of Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t want to sell you on visiting the sci-fi dystopia that we were all warned about for decades. No, Iceland just wants you… Read more.

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Windows 11 is blocking an app that lets you switch browsers to Google Chrome

Digital Trends

Microsoft has blocked an app providing users with a workaround to a URL scheme that forced them to use its Edge browser instead of others like Google Chrome.

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No, a 'Detox' Bath Will Not Reverse Your Covid-19 Vaccine

GizModo VR

Anti-vaxx groups and some doctors are advocating for, among other things, borax baths, NBC News reports , in an effort to “undo” the covid-19 vaccine they’ve already taken. The intended audience for the baths supposedly regrets getting the covid-19 vaccine because they’ve consumed other misinformation. It’s worth… 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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It’s time to normalize wearing an Apple Watch and a traditional watch together

Digital Trends

It's time to normalize double-wristing, or the practice of wearing an Apple Watch on one wrist and a traditional watch on the other. Yes, I'm serious.

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Chloe Gong Reveals Immortal Longings, the First Book in Her All-New Fantasy Trilogy

GizModo VR

Just one year ago, Chloe Gong was a young writer about to release her first book, These Violent Delights. A year later, the Chinese-born New Zealander is still young (she’ll turn 23 in December), but now she’s a best-selling author, with the highly anticipated Our Violent Ends — the sequel to her breakout YA… Read more.

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Technics EAH-AZ60 review: Shockingly good sound and silence

Digital Trends

They offer superb sound and noise cancellation, plus tons of features, at a lower price than other rival buds.

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AMC CEO Proudly Declares That the Company Now Accepts Various Cryptocurrencies as Online Payment

GizModo VR

AMC, one of the biggest memestocks of them all, is embracing another meme power player: cryptocurrency. And its CEO is really excited about it. 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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EON Reality and Ngee Ann Polytechnic Partner for Latest EON-XR Delivery

EON Reality

The partnership includes new EON-XR solutions for Ngee Ann Polytechnic students and faculty. IRVINE, CA, November 11, 2021 – EON Reality, the global leader in Augmented and Virtual Reality-based knowledge and skills transfer for industry and education, announces a new partnership with Ngee Ann Polytechnic in Singapore to bring a campus-wide EON-XR delivery to the institution.

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These Amazonian Birds Are Shrinking Because of Climate Change

GizModo VR

Four decades of data about bird species in remote parts of the Amazon rainforest indicate the animals’ body sizes and wing lengths have changed. These changes—smaller total body mass and longer wingspan—correspond with a 40-year trend of increasingly hot and dry conditions during the rainforest’s drier season. Read more.

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Mediatek’s Dimensity 2000 chip may have shattered AnTuTu benchmark record

Digital Trends

If the Mediatek Dimensity 2000 benchmarks are indeed correct, then Qualcomm should get ready for a battle because there's a new flagship processor in town.

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Warped and Faded Celebrates a Cult Film Series That's 'Broadcast From Another Dimension'

GizModo VR

Warped and Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Film Archive , written by Lars Nilsen and others and edited by Kier-La Janisse , is so many different books in one. But if you’re a cult movie fan , a lover of outsider cinema , or someone interested in film collecting and film history, it’s essential reading. 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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How to downgrade from Windows 11 to Windows 10

Digital Trends

If you don't like Windows 11, you can downgrade back to Windows 10 in a few simple steps. Here's how.

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Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving' Beta Appears to Have Caused Its First Major Crash

GizModo VR

A new complaint filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) details what appears to be the first major crash involving a Tesla using the Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta. The crash report, viewed by The Verge, comes just one week after the company was forced to recall 11,704 vehicles Over an FSD-… Read more.

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Intel’s Alder Lake laptops CPUs could outperform AMD’s top processor by 35%

Digital Trends

Ever since its release, Intel Alder Lake has been dominating various benchmarks, including those for laptops. This time, Intel Core i7-12700H has been tested.

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12 Marvel TV Series Highlighted on Disney+ Day

GizModo VR

When Marvel Studios has news, it usually doesn’t just have one bit to offer. It likes to overwhelm you with an avalanche of stuff , making it difficult to process it all. For Phase 3, it did a huge event at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood, CA. For Phase 4, it was in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con. Today, for Disney+… 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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Hurry – You can get a Disney+ subscription for ONLY $2 today

Digital Trends

If you've never signed up for Disney+, or if your membership has already expired, you should take advantage of this offer for one month of Disney+ for just $2.

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Marvel's Moon Knight Lifts the Lid on Oscar Isaac's Caped Avenger

GizModo VR

As part of today’s Disney+ Day celebrations , Marvel Studio’s continued tease of what’s to come in its plans for the streaming service has given us an early look at Oscar Isaac preparing to step into the suit of Marc Spector, aka Moon Knight, in his own standalone streaming series. Read more.

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Instagram will now pay creators $35,000 to use Reels in challenge to Tik-Tok

Digital Trends

Instagram is finally paying people to share Reels on their platform, with some reporting offers as high as $35,000.

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Instagram Just Throwing Cash at Reels Creators at This Point

GizModo VR

“Why would I ever use Instagram Reels ?” you might be wondering. Well, Instagram has a question of its own: Do you like money? Are you interested in. being rich? 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?