VRScout

APRIL 5, 2022

Bring real objects into the metaverse using this easy-to-use app. Earlier this week Epic Games launched a limited beta for its new 3D scanning app RealityScan. Using a standard smartphone device, users can easily scan and digitize real-world objects to use in their virtual objects. Similar to RealityCapture, Epic’s 3D photogrammetry software for Windows, RealityScan can be used to easily create hyper-realistic 3D models, minus the need for a beefy PC.

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ARPost

APRIL 5, 2022

Ninety-seven percent of the respondents acknowledge the importance of data in the metaverse; Source: Bright Data. Everyone’s talking about the metaverse. Tech giants are in a race to integrate into this new parallel world even as questions of data security surface. While the concept isn’t new, the business landscape has only recently been looking at the potential of the metaverse outside the gaming world.

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VRScout

APRIL 5, 2022

Learn how to fingerspell your name while practicing the ASL alphabet. Snap Inc. today revealed its new ASL Alphabet Lens for the Snapchat app. Available now on iOS and Android, this nifty Lens uses AR technology to guide you through the basics of the American Sign Language Alphabet while testing your knowledge in several gamified experiences. You can also learn how to “fingerspell” your name using Snap’s hand tracking technology.

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AR Insider

APRIL 5, 2022

The biggest question on everyone's mind in the AR world is what will Apple do? AR proponents eagerly await as clues continue to trickle out of Cupertino. We examine the latest evidence in this week's report excerpt. This post 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

APRIL 5, 2022

A whopping four years after its opening chapter, Moss: Book II is finally here to continue the story of Quill, a tiny adventurer destined for an epic journey. While the game doesn’t think too far outside the box compared to the original Moss , developer Polyarc has refined the best parts of the game to deliver a satisfying direct continuation of Quill’s story.

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Road to VR

APRIL 5, 2022

Little Cities was first announced back in late 2021, showing off what appeared to be pint-sized VR version of popular city simulator Cities: Skylines (2015)— only a few months before the very franchise announced the creation of its own official VR adaptation called Cities VR. Bad timing aside, we went hands-on with Little Cities before its April 21st release on the Quest platform to see if it offered up all of the expected charm of managing our own tiny diorama village in VR.

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Slashgear

APRIL 5, 2022

Millions of people around the world know the name Alexa, but what about the origin story of the voice of Amazon's own smart assistant?

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Mashable VR

APRIL 5, 2022

Twitter is finally giving in. The social media giant announced Tuesday that, yes, it's actually for real working on an edit button that it plans to start testing in the "coming months." And no, it hastened to add, this move has nothing to do with Elon Musk. "yes, we’ve been working on an edit feature since last year," wrote the company. "no, we didn’t get the idea from a poll".

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Slashgear

APRIL 5, 2022

Microsoft has some big changes for Windows 11, not the least of which is the return of grouping in the Start Menu, not to mention File Explorer tabs.

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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

APRIL 5, 2022

Recent research out of India raises concerns over the transmission risks of a harmful and hard-to-kill fungal infection. The study found drug-resistant strains of Candida auris on apples that had been treated with fungicides. The findings suggest that apples and other fruits dosed with these chemicals can… Read more.

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Slashgear

APRIL 5, 2022

NASA plans to send a spacecraft off to investigate an asteroid, but first, it has to make sure the vessel can handle the burdens of launch and space.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 5, 2022

When I want to watch something, I have no idea where to start. Do I plop down at the TV and use the remote to look for something? Or do I whip out my phone and paw through my folder of apps and figure it out from there? But what if there was a third way? Read more.

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Slashgear

APRIL 5, 2022

Though climate change concerns haven't been alleviated, scientists say there's still time for governments around the world to mobilize and cap global warming.

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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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Mashable VR

APRIL 5, 2022

No, you're not reading it wrong: Meta says it's worried about the future of privacy. The company, formerly known as Facebook , made that uncharacteristic pronouncement Monday in response to a lengthy independent report the company itself commissioned to examine its end-to-end encryption (E2EE) plans for Messenger and Instagram direct messages (reportedly rolling out as default end-to-end encryption in 2023 ).

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Slashgear

APRIL 5, 2022

Apple has officially announced its WWDC 2022 event, revealing the date and all of the things developers can expect. The conference will once again be online.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 5, 2022

Warhammer 40,000 is home to lots of strange and peculiar factions, beyond the realm of its poster-child Imperial zealots in the Space Marines. There’s haughty Space Elves of both the standard and goth varieties, there’s hive mind Xenomorph knockoffs, there’s Space Orks (not to be confused with regular old Orcs ), and… Read more.

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Slashgear

APRIL 5, 2022

New research using old Kepler Space Telescope data uncovered a brand new planet that might otherwise have gone completely unnoticed.

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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

APRIL 5, 2022

Star Trek: Picard is going out with a hell of a bang. Paramount has confirmed that the third and now officially final season of the series will culminate with guest appearances from The Next Generation legends: Jean-Luc is getting the Enterprise -D band back together, at last! Read more.

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Slashgear

APRIL 5, 2022

The OnePlus Nord CE 2 Lite has made another appearance, this time in a leak that includes one surprising detail: it looks like a rebranded Realme handset.

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Mashable VR

APRIL 5, 2022

Marcel the Shell is back, and he's on a mission. The pocket-sized (but don't leave him in there) hero of Jenny Slate and Dean Fleisher Camp's viral 2010 video will star in a feature film directed by Camp in which Marcel embarks on a search to find his family. The trailer finds Marcel (voiced once again by Slate) is living comfortably with his grandma Connie (Isabella Rossellini) when an Airbnb customer finds and decides to make a film about them.

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Slashgear

APRIL 5, 2022

It looks like Apple may soon switch its App Store subscription model, allowing developers to automatically charge customers higher rates on an opt-out basis.

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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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Mashable VR

APRIL 5, 2022

Tax Day snuck up on you? You’re not alone if filing your taxes ranks somewhere between going through your backlog of unread emails and organizing your sock drawer on your list of life’s big priorities, but even with the April 18 deadline looming for most of us, there’s no reason to freak out just yet. You can get your taxes done in minutes — like while you are waiting for your food delivery — with Cash App Taxes.

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Slashgear

APRIL 5, 2022

Peloton has finally released Guide, the fitness accessory we first saw in November. Will having a camera watch you exercise help keep you accountable?

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Mashable VR

APRIL 5, 2022

Sick of toll booths? Google Maps has your back. In a blog post on Tuesday, Google announced a handful of small new features that could actually make a nice difference for those who use Maps for their driving commutes. First, Google will roll out tollbooth tracking for navigation in the U.S., Japan, India, and Indonesia this month. When you want to go somewhere, toll roads will be flagged and you’ll get an estimate of how much the toll will cost.

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Slashgear

APRIL 5, 2022

A new iPhone 14 Pro Max leak indicates Apple will make a big change to the model's display, at least when compared with the current iPhone 13 version.

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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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