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Snap Spectacles AR Game Has Players Racing To Collect Bananas

VRScout

Sonic the Hedgehog meets Monkey Ball in this hilarious AR experience. Lucas Rizzotto , a popular XR developer who co-founded AR House with fellow developer Aidan Wolf , has taken advantage of Snapchat’s Spectacles AR glasses to create Monke Racing , a hilarious AR game that has users racing against time to collect virtual bananas scattered throughout their real-world environment. .

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Watch Encanto's Charming Cast and Crew In a New Featurette

GizModo VR

Encanto , Disney’s newest film about a family in Colombia granted magical powers from their magical house, looks like it’ll be pretty charming. (That’s something Disney’s trailers are usually good at doing. most of the time.) With the movie just a few weeks away, Disney’s put out a featurette about the making of the… Read more.

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Stunning photo shows SpaceX rocket rising above Florida fog

Digital Trends

SpaceX's most recent rocket launch took place at the weekend in thick fog at Cape Canaveral in Florida, and the resulting imagery is absolutely stunning.

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The Castlevania Studio Almost Made a Marvel Anthology Cartoon

GizModo VR

There’ve been a lot of Marvel cartoons over the decades , and there will continue to be more as its characters spin off into bigger properties. However, we don’t always hear about the Marvel cartoons that don’t happen, of which there’s probably many. But Brad Graeber, CEO of Castlevania creators Powerhouse Animation ,… 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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Typing into the void: The joy of one-sided conversations with K-pop idols

Digital Trends

K-pop fans pay to have one-sided conversations with their favorite artists through specific apps, and I'm one of them. I talked to experts about the appeal.

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Anker PowerHouse II 800 review: A camper’s best friend for the great outdoors

Digital Trends

The Anker PowerHouse II 800 is a big, beefy battery pack that you may want bring on your next camping trip.

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Apple Shows Its Internal Control Freak to States Implementing Digital IDs

GizModo VR

It’s no secret that Apple can be a control freak about, well, pretty much everything. The company’s attitude apparently extends to the states it’s signed contracts with to roll out digital IDs on the Wallet app, even though you would expect governments to push back on that sort of thing. Read more.

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Snoopy is heading to space on NASA’s Artemis I moon mission

Digital Trends

Snoopy will head to space soon for a trip around the moon, but there are good reasons for sticking the popular character on the spacecraft.

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Marvel's New Iron Fist is Here to Shake Up Danny Rand's Life

GizModo VR

The start of November saw Marvel announce that a new Iron Fist would be officially taking the reigns from Danny Rand, who recently gave up his power to save the world. (Starting to see a trend in recent mantle passing.) The new Fist will begin his debut with Iron Fist #1 in February, and is expected to be a big deal.… 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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Returned ISS astronaut quips about what he didn’t miss on Earth

Digital Trends

Astronaut Thomas Pesquet is getting used to being back on Earth after a six-month stay aboard the International Space Station.

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Snap Faces Investor Lawsuit After Apple's Privacy Updates Tank Advertising Revenue

GizModo VR

Snap is facing a lawsuit from one of its shareholders for allegedly exaggerating how well it could adapt to the privacy updates Apple rolled out earlier this year, Reuters reports. Read more.

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Astronomers use new method to discover planet orbiting two stars

Digital Trends

Astronomers have discovered an unusual planet which orbits two stars with a new detection technique using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite telescope.

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Seeing How Squid Game Got Made is Both Relieving and Intense as Hell

GizModo VR

Hwang Dong-hyuk’s Squid Game is a pretty intense show. (How could it not be when it’s about people in Korea getting snatched up to play kids games or die?) A new behind the scenes video shows how scenes from various episodes of the insanely popular Netflix original were filmed, and even while you’re fully aware that… 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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Hubble gets in the festive mood with an image of the Snowman Nebula

Digital Trends

With the holidays approaching, the Hubble Space Telescope is getting into the festive mood with this week's image of the Snowman Nebula.

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Here's How Apple Brought Foundation's Worlds and Cultures to Life

GizModo VR

Though Apple TV+’s long awaited sci-fi series Foundation is perhaps not entirely the adaptation it should be, there’s still an impressive level of work on display. From various planets and starships to different cultures, it can be easy to get caught up in the majesty of everything going on in the story of the… Read more.

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Beats Studio Buds just got a rare price cut for Black Friday

Digital Trends

If you're on the hunt for new wireless earbuds, you should consider Amazon's $20 discount for the Beats Studio Buds, which brings their price down to just $130.

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Why AWE Is Still XR’s Best Conference

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3,000 visitors and 200 exhibitors were live and in-person last week.

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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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This Vizio soundbar Black Friday deal is ridiculous — Only $99!

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If you're looking to amp up your home theater system, you don't want to miss out on this amazing and irresistible Black Friday deal!

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Extended Reality for the UAE and the Gulf

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Did you know that the retail market in UAE is currently valued at over $3 Billion, and is increasing by 53% percent every year? The statistic elucidates the fact that UAE is growing as a retail shopping destination. In addition to shopping, the UAE is also growing as an educational, tourism and entertainment hub for people across the world. Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) (Extended reality; XR when AR and VR are combined) are technologies that can surely help the people involved

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Should you buy a graphics card or PC parts on Black Friday 2021?

Digital Trends

Black Friday sales are legendary, but is it also a good time to buy a graphics card or PC components? Check out our guide to getting the best deals on hardware.

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Australia and New Zealand: Southern Hemisphere’s Paradise

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Australia and New Zealand are considered to be heaven on earth for people on the other side of the world. Known for a combination of cutting-edge technology, sports, quality nutrition and low population, these two remote yet popular nations in the Southern Hemisphere have already created an indelible mark in on the world in many fronts. Despite the mark it has created, there’s always room to make things better, and this holds true for literally anything in the world.

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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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The best Call of Duty: Warzone LAPA loadouts

Digital Trends

The LAPA is the newest SMG added to Call of Duty: Warzone. These are the best builds to use for the new weapon for close-range and all-around engagements.

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10 New Free VR Video games!

VRGames

A lot more totally free VR game titles and activities!! Some are new releases, and many others have been once paid and have not too long ago develop into free. All one-way links are beneath… :00 Intro :18 … source.

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Should you buy a Ring Doorbell on Black Friday 2021?

Digital Trends

Black Friday promises the biggest sales of the year, but is this truly the best time to buy a Ring Video Doorbell?

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Virtual Reality: Skate Avenue AMs | X Video games Minneapolis 2017

VRGames

X Games Minneapolis 2017 Skate Street AMs will air completely on Samsung VR! ? [link] SUBSCRIBE ? [link] X … supply.

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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?