VRScout

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The company’s acquisition could be a major step forward for the metaverse, NFTs, and the digital fashion industry. Nike today announced the purchase of RTFKT Studios, a leading metaverse fashion house best known for its lineup of high-end digital clothing. Since 2020, the company has employed a variety of cutting-edge technologies such as NFTs, crypto, blockchains, and AR technology to establish a one-of-a-kind brand that blends the physical and digital worlds.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 13, 2021

It’s hard to believe it, but it has been a year since Lens Fest 2020. This annual event is when Snap reaches out to the developer community. That includes Snapchat lens creators as well as those who create experiences for other apps and websites using Snap’s camera API, camera kit. Last year, the Lens Fest saw major updates to Snap’s creator software, Lens Studio, as well as a focus on creating lenses with social impact.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Reality Labs will be handing out free Quest 2 accessories in celebration of the festivities. Meta (formerly Facebook) recently announced the company’s first-ever Quest Day , a new annual holiday dedicated entirely to the Meta Quest. The festivities will take place virtually via an official livestream that kicks-off tomorrow at 9am PT. While it’s not clear exactly what Meta has in store, the company promises an entertaining morning filled with “with drops, inventions, and giveaw

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Snap rolled out several new Lens Studio updates at its recent Lens Fest. But among the announcements was a new set of figures for lens use and creation. We dive in for this week's data dive. The post Snap Lens Fest: the Data Dive appeared first on AR Insider.

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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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Road to VR

DECEMBER 13, 2021

HTC is doing a week-long holiday sale starting today that is bringing deep discounts to many of its PC VR headsets, as well as accessories such as the Vive Wireless Adapter and Deluxe Audio Strap. The promo is in effect starting today, and goes until December 19th (or until supplies sell out). We’ve listed prices in US dollars below, however you’ll find similar savings across both EU and UK regional sites.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Puzzling Places (2021), the VR puzzle game that takes highly-detailed and realistic room scans and breaks them into jigsaw puzzles, is finally set to launch on PSVR tomorrow, December 14th. Created by Realities.io , Puzzling Places brings a myriad of objects and places to life with the use of a photogrammetry, a technique that takes high-resolution photos and constructs them into a 3D model.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 13, 2021

One of AR’s anticipated use cases is indoor wayfinding. Google has begun to innovate in this area as a new feature of its Live View AR navigation. Startups like ARway (acquired by NexTech*) and Dent Reality (raised $3.4 million last week) are likewise pushing things forward. As background, AR wayfinding is as challenging as it is promising. When Apple launched ARkit in 2007, several concept videos emerged on YouTube showing AR’s potential to guide customers through airports and shopping malls.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The clock may be running out for notorious Israeli surveillance for hire company NSO Group. Sources told Bloomberg that the company’s cumbersome mixture of unpaid debts and growing international scrutiny have made NSO a bloated pariah and is forcing its leadership to consider shutting down its Pegasus spyware unit. S… Read more.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Traditionally in shopping, there’s been a delineation between products that are conducive to ecommerce versus in-store. The former includes discretionary items and commodities, while the latter leans towards jewelry, designer clothing and high ticket items like cars & couches. Of course there are exceptions in categories like clothing, and the lines continue to blur.

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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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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Roughly 40% of new covid-19 cases in London consist of the recently discovered omicron variant, according to UK Health Secretary Sajid Javid, who made the starling claim on Monday. The news comes as the British public is urged to get coronavirus booster vaccines to help shore up protection against a disease that has… Read more.

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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In constant pursuit of Moore's Law, Intel continues to study and create new improvements in various areas of computing. The company revealed its findings.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 13, 2021

There’s nothing like sitting through a series of presentations about all the ways one of the most imperiled glaciers on Earth to get the blood flowing. Read more.

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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The House of Dumbledore is under siege and Grindelwald has a sinister new face in the first trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore.

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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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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The Analogue Pocket was revealed to the world back in October of 2019 , and more than a year after preorders opened in August 2020, the portable console is finally here. It’s been a long wait for one of the most anticipated handhelds since the Nintendo Switch, and for those lucky enough to be getting their preordered… Read more.

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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Turn off notifications and stop the spam with these simple instructions for every version of the platform, from the latest Android 11 to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Apple just announced a new Android app called Tracker Detect , making good on its promise to extend the ability to identify nearby AirTags and Find My trackers to Android users so that they can tell whether or not they’re being unexpectedly surveilled. Read more.

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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 13, 2021

HDMI 2.1 is supposed to encompass a vast array of next-gen display features, but it doesn't. And that could be a big problem for monitors and TVs going forward.

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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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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 13, 2021

It is the year of the microchip, and while the prevailing discussion revolves around shortages , advances in chipmaking techniques promise to revolutionize our gadgets. Read more.

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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Remote work doesn't have to mean dealing with distractions, give Industrious' dedicated workspaces a try -- perfect for individuals, teams, and enterprises!

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 13, 2021

With space stations performing impromptu backflips, rockets careening out of control, billionaires going into space like they just don’t care, and space junk threatening to cause disaster nearly every week, 2021 will go down as one of the more memorable years in space. Read more.

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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Scientists believe that an eye disorder experienced by astronauts during long stays aboard the ISS may be solved by a high-tech sleeping bag.

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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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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 13, 2021

If the rumors are true, all Spider-Man movies become one later this week. That’s when Spider-Man: No Way Home hits theaters and it might see not one, not two, but three Spider-Men sharing the screen. And even if it doesn’t, we know it will feature villains who have fought three different Spider-Men. Since this week is… Read more.

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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Converting your beloved vinyl records from wax to digital is a great way to preserve them and take them on the go. Here's how to do it.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 13, 2021

We haven’t heard many details about the iPhone SE 3 except that it will arrive early next year with 5G support, but that hasn’t stopped analysts at JP Morgan from making one hell of a prediction about its success. Read more.

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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The tenth-generation Amazon Kindle, an affordable e-book reader with all the necessary features, is available from Amazon for just $55 after a $35 discount.

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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?

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