Thu.Jan 20, 2022

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Skyrim VR Looks Even Better As A Comic Book

VRScout

VR mods bring the popular VR game to life in a whole new light. I know what you’re thinking: “another story about Skyrim ? Really?” Bethesda’s seemingly unkillable fantasy RPG was first released back in 2011 for PC and consoles and has since been ported to every platform known to man, including VR. So what more could we possibly have to talk about?

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Real-World Applications and Benefits of AR Cloud

ARPost

Augmented reality cloud or AR cloud is posed as the next big thing for augmented reality and the experiences it can deliver. It provides users with a more immersive way of engaging with and searching for information. It also has an immense potential to transform businesses for both customers and employees. Simply put, it’s the next big step for augmented reality.

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Sundance 2022 In VR: What To Check Out

VRScout

Another year, another stellar lineup of ground-breaking VR and AR projects. Today marks the start of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, kicking off nine days of incredible films premieres, conversations, and immersive experiences. This year the festival is celebrating the 16th birthday of its New Frontier showcase, which serves to highlight the very best in multimedia storytelling.

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Reality Bytes: Microsoft, Netflix & Nordic Track

AR Insider

What are the biggest insights and observations in AR and adjacent sectors this week? Welcome to Reality Bytes, featuring lightning-round video commentary from AR Insider partner, M7 Innovations. This post 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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The Final Numbers on Quest 2’s Happy Holidays

ARVR

Early signs indicate that Quest 2 had a blowout Q4, most of which came in the gift-heavy holiday period that caps off the quarter. As we’ve examined in the past, Quest 2 is primed for holiday sales due to its aggressive loss-leader pricing that puts Quest 2 in giftable territory. In addition to Q4 last year (Quest 2’s first holiday period), signals following this year’s holiday period point to a sales surge for the device.

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2022 Predictions: AR Ad Revenue Approaches $3 Billion

ARVR

As we enter a new year, it’s time for our annual ritual of synthesizing the lessons from the past twelve months and formulating the outlook for the next twelve. This has been an action-packed year for AR & VR as the world slowly emerges from the grips of a pandemic. Moreover, 2021 was marked by the emergence of metaverse mania. Though it has legitimate principles and promise, the term has been ambiguated through overuse.

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Intel’s Next Gen Bitcoin ASIC called BZM2: Built on 7nm, 137 GigaHash/sec at 2.5 W

Anand Tech

It has been noted in the media that at the upcoming ISSCC conference at the end of February, Intel is set to give a talk entitled ‘Bonanza Mine: An Ultra-Low Voltage Energy Efficient Bitcoin Mining ASIC’ It already has a lot of attention, as it confirms the fact that Intel is working towards blockchain-enabling hardware. Through a number of channels, we’ve been able to acquire more details about this chip ahead of the conference.

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Senate Committee Passes Tech Antitrust Bill That's Making Apple and Google Lose Their Minds

GizModo VR

Legislative efforts to rein in Big Tech’s alleged anti-competitive, self-preferential business practices took a big step forward on Thursday as a bipartisan group of lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee voted overwhelmingly (16-6) in favor of advancing new antitrust legislation. Now, the hotly contested… Read more.

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Elon Musk asked to help Tonga reconnect to the internet

Digital Trends

A New Zealand lawmaker has asked SpaceX chief Elon Musk to help reconnect Tonga to the internet after Saturday's volcanic eruption knocked it offline.

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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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The Book of Boba Fett Is Making Me Feel Real Weird About Attack of the Clones

GizModo VR

It turns out the Tuskens are a complicated people. The native Tatooinians typified as evil savages in the early Star Wars films have been revealed to be so much more, thanks to TV series The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett. While it’s both fantastic and necessary to see cultural depth given to an indigenous… Read more.

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World’s first Wi-Fi 7 demo runs 2.4x faster than Wi-Fi 6

Digital Trends

MediaTek has confirmed it has completed the world's first live demo of Wi-Fi 7 technology, with Wi-Fi 7 products are expected to become available in 2023.

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Ready for Google Glass, Round Two?

GizModo VR

With every tech giant from Apple to Microsoft to Amazon rumored to be developing a pair of augmented reality glasses or mixed reality headset, we’ve been wondering whether Google was planning to wade back into consumer headsets. After all, the company gave AR a shot a decade ago and still hasn’t quite recovered from… Read more.

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Babysense Cloud smart mattress monitors your baby’s sleep

Digital Trends

Babysense has announced its new Cloud smart mattress that can track when your baby is about to wake up, has trouble sleeping, or needs to be changed.

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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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Have You Welcomed Little Archie Into Your Heart?

GizModo VR

The Riverdale incarnation of Archie Comics is so popular, it can be tough sometimes to remember that the original Archie rarely if ever dealt with serial killers , ritual sacrifice , and whatever the hell this was. This means there’s a good chance that you—like me—have been sleeping on the adventures of the even more… Read more.

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AMD employee explains why the RX 6500 XT performs so poorly

Digital Trends

AMD's new Radeon RX 6500 XT has largely been deemed underwhelming. An AMD employee explained why the new GPU is performing so poorly.

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Webb Space Telescope’s Mirrors Are Fully Deployed

GizModo VR

The Webb Space Telescope completed its complex mirror deployment this week, and the observatory is getting tantalizingly close to completing its journey to L2, where it will orbit the Sun a million miles away from Earth. Read more.

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#1044: Preview of Sundance New Frontier 2022 with Chief Curator Shari Frilot

Voices of VR

The Sundance New Frontier 2022 selection of 15 immersive stories is available starting today until January 30th, and I had a chance to speak with.

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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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Samsung Teases Its Next Phone, the Second Coming of the Galaxy Note

GizModo VR

We’re still waiting for the full details of Samsung’s next Unpacked event, which will take place next month. But there’s good news for anyone who’s been missing the company’s Galaxy Note: Samsung just teased its return, though it will be a different device than what you might expect. Read more.

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Critical Mac update fixes Safari bug that leaks user data

Digital Trends

A critical bug has been discovered in Safari that could leak user personal data. The good news is a fix is fast on its way. Here’s what you need to know.

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The Batman Movie Is Waaaaaaaaaaay Too Long

GizModo VR

The complaint that blockbuster movies nowadays are too long has been a standard gripe for awhile now, and so common that it’s become stale and annoying on its own. I want to acknowledge that I know this, and agree with this sentiment, and yet I am utterly powerless not to say Matt Reeves and Robert Pattinson ’s… Read more.

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Next-gen AirPods could let others override your ANC

Digital Trends

A recently spotted patent application shows that your next AirPods could be smart enough to know when your noise cancellation should be turned off.

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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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Doctors Used Bacteria-Killing Viruses to Take Down an Incurable Superbug

GizModo VR

The enemy of our bacterial enemy can indeed be our friend. In a new case report, doctors say they were able to treat their patient’s long-festering, drug-resistant infection with the help of specially grown bacteriophages—viruses that infect bacteria. Large-scale clinical trials will likely be needed for these… Read more.

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Joshua Jackson to star in Fatal Attraction series on Paramount+

Digital Trends

Paramount+ has lined up The Affair star Joshua Jackson to headline the upcoming reimagining of the classic 1980s thriller Fatal Attraction as a TV series.

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We Should Turn Big Box Stores Into Solar Farms

GizModo VR

Walmart, Target, Home Depot, and other box stores are home to acres and acres of sweet, flat rooftop space. That veritable sheet metal prairie is ripe for many uses, but there may be none better than as solar farms. Read more.

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Dell slashed $1,000 off this Alienware laptop today!

Digital Trends

This amazing Alienware m15 R4 is only going for $1,500, down from $2,500, an amazing offer you should grab while it lasts!

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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?