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Moss: Book II Promises A Bigger And Better VR Adventure

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The highly-anticipated sequel to Polyarc’s charming VR platformer arrives on PSVR this month. It’s hard to talk about the best VR platforming games without mentioning Moss. Originally released on PlayStation VR before heading to PC VR and Meta Quest headsets, the expertly-crafted third-person platformer had players teaming up with the tiny but mighty Quill as they embarked on a magical adventure through a mystical forest filled with mystery and danger.

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Reality Bytes: Magic Leap, TikTok & SXSW

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What are the biggest insights and observations in immersive tech & media 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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POPULATION: ONE’s New Metropolis Map Is Its Biggest Yet

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The cyberpunk-themed environment is bigger than the entire POPULATION: ONE map combined. The popular VR battle royale game POPULATION: ONE has gone through a number of transformations since its launch on Quest and PC VR headsets in 2020. Developer BigBox VR has continued to support the game with new avatars to unlock, weapons to master, and environments to explore, including everything from a western-themed locale to a sprawling fantasy castle.

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5 Trends to Watch in AR Marketing

AR Insider

How does AR continue to transform consumer shopping and brand marketing? Let us count the ways. Contributor David Ripert breaks down five key trends in AR transformation. 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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‘Moss: Book II’ is Coming to PSVR This Month, New Gameplay Here

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If you’re excited to jump back into the storybook world of Moss , you won’t have to wait much longer. In two weeks, you’ll be able go head-first into another adventure with little Quill in the upcoming sequel, Moss: Book II. Coming to PSVR on March 31st from Polyarc , Moss: Book II promises to bring fans of the first a longer experience with more boss fights, and a wider terrain to explore as you and your mouse-pal Quill take on the evil rule of the Arcane.

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Even Heineken thinks its new metaverse 'beer' is a dumb publicity stunt

Mashable VR

Heineken wants to have its metaverse beer and drink it, too. The brewer is the latest company, and second beer manufacturer , to jump on the metaverse bandwagon with its Thursday release of Heineken Silver — a "virtual beer" that the company insists is, yes, as dumb as it sounds. For starters, Heineken is quick to let everyone know, you definitely can't drink whatever this new thing is.

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NASA Is Getting A Huge New Dish For Its Deep Space Network

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With more space missions than ever, each sending back data from distant planets and stars, NASA and its partners are bringing a huge new antenna online.

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Canada's Badass Mountain Hut Officially Too Perilous, Will Be Dismantled

GizModo VR

A historic cabin high up in Canada’s Yoho National Park is now slated for demolition, park officials said, because the rock and soil beneath it is eroding, putting the 100-year-old structure at risk of collapse. Read more.

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Zigma Aerio 300 Smart Air Purifier Review: A Smart Way To Breathe Better

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Zigma has launched a relatively cheap smart air purifier made for space up to around 1500 square feet. Here's what the Aerio 300 has to offer consumers.

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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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NASA unveils its colossal moon rocket in grand display

Mashable VR

NASA paraded its megarocket to the launchpad in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Thursday evening, and not just for a flashy photo-op a la the Oscars red carpet. The U.S. space agency is readying the 5.75 million-pound behemoth for a mission to the moon, known as Artemis I. It's the first in a series of deep space exploration voyages that could lift off as early as May.

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Maserati EV Roadmap Revealed: Goodbye Gasoline By 2030

Slashgear

The official Maserati EV roadmap is revealed with clear plans to remove the gasoline engine from their lineup by 2030, going all electric in the process.

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Unprecedented Cyberattacks Are Crippling Russian Government Websites

GizModo VR

Ever since launching a horrific assault on Ukraine, things haven’t been going particularly well for Russia. The country and its invading horde have been condemned , blacklisted , thwacked by crippling sanctions , droned , blocked , and told to go f**k themselves. Now, to top it all off, Russia appears to also be getting… Read more.

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#TwitchDoBetter Campaign Calls On Twitch To Take More Action Against Hate Raids

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It may seem like Twitch is doing right by marginalized streamers via some new tools it has rolled out, but critics say it needs to address hate raids, too.

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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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Winamp is doing NFTs now, and its founder hates it

Mashable VR

Winamp is doing NFTs now, because you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. Announced to widespread derision on Wednesday, Winamp will auction off the media player's original skin as a one-of-one NFT on OpenSea, with bidding to start on May 16 and run until May 22. It then intends to sell 20 more artworks starting from May 23, all of them duplicated around 100 times to create 1997 NFTs in total (a nod to the year the program launched).

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2023 Mercedes EQS SUV Ride-Along: Lithium, Cobalt, And A Whole Lot Of Mud

Slashgear

We take a tour of Mercedes-Benz's new US battery plant, then go for a muddy spin in one of the first EVs it'll supply: the lavish new 2023 EQS SUV.

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Eddie Vedder and.NASA just made a weirdly inspiring rocket music video

Mashable VR

NASA just presented its new megarocket to the world. To acknowledge the completion of the world's most powerful rocket — and the first time the space agency hauled the 322-foot-tall behemoth to its Kennedy Space Center launchpad — NASA collaborated with Pearl Jam rocker Eddie Vedder to make a music video about the looming 2022 launch. It's a soaring rock tune set to an animated montage of the rocket, called the Space Launch System (SLS), blasting into space and orbiting the moon.

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Tile Follows AirTags With New Secret Tracking Alert

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Tile is adding a new Scan and Secure feature that will let users find tracking devices that might have been secretly deployed to track their movement.

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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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Lego's New Back to the Future DeLorean Lets You Build Versions From All Three Movies

GizModo VR

Following up on wonderfully detailed oversized models of vehicular Hollywood royalty like Tim Burton’s Batmobile and Ghostbusters: Afterlife’s Ecto-1 , Lego is taking a second lap on the time-traveling DeLorean from the Back to the Future trilogy with a new set that lets fans build all three versions of Doc and Marty’s… Read more.

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Monaco 2, Stray Gods Headline 2022 Humble Games Lineup

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Humble Games' 2022 roster has some surprises, with the company best-known for charitable bundles leaning into its newer play as a gaming publisher too.

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How a pregnant Ukrainian Instagram influencer was used in a Russian disinformation campaign

Mashable VR

On March 9, Russian forces struck a maternity and children's hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, leaving three dead at the scene and over a dozen injured. Many were horrified by the photos and videos of the aftermath. One photo, in particular, of an injured pregnant woman being carried out on a stretcher captured the sheer brutality of the bombing for everyone watching around the world.

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Nintendo Switch Online Gets Three More Genesis Games, Including Two Treasure Classics

Slashgear

Nintendo has been slowly filling out its classic games on Switch list since it first released the libraries back in 2018, and it's not slowing down yet.

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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 star of NASA's megarocket reveal isn't the big rocket

Mashable VR

They call it the crawler. In a long-anticipated event, NASA will haul its new moon-bound megarocket to a Kennedy Space Center launchpad on March 17. It's a dress rehearsal for the real, fiery show, perhaps this spring or summer when an uncrewed spacecraft blasts off and journeys around the moon. Out in the open Florida air for the first time, the space agency will eventually load the completed 322-foot-tall rocket with super-cold propellant and practice a nail-biting countdown.

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5 Reasons The iPhone SE 5G Is Your No-Brainer Upgrade In 2022

Slashgear

If ever there was a secret weapon in Apple's line-up, the iPhone SE stands a better chance than most hardware to be it. Here's why you should make the upgrade.

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10 Irish Horror Movies for St. Patrick's Day Chills

GizModo VR

It’s St. Patrick’s Day —the holiday where everyone gathers around to drink beer and watch scary movies! OK, we might have added that second part ourselves, but it’s only because we’ve assembled this list of 10 Irish and Irish-made horror movies to add some spooky flair to the usual boozy festivities. And there’s not a … Read more.

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Fast Food's Newest Robot Is Being Tested By Chipotle

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Fears of an eventual uprising aside, the latest AI development, funded by fast-food chain Chipotle, is set to place AI-powered robots in commercial kitchens.

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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?