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Halo Infinite In VR Looks Like A Pretty Fun Time

VRScout

A new video shows 343 Industries’ popular first-person shooter game Halo Infinite being played in VR, and the results are pretty incredible. Over the past few days, a Reddit user going by the name of u/Dyortos has been sharing footage of themself playing select levels of the game in VR. One video shows Dyorto driving a Warthog vehicle across Zeta Halo from a first-person perspective.

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Where Do AR Users Get Their Fix?

AR Insider

After examining mobile AR user penetration and demographics last week, we move on to the question of how and in what formats they engage. Apps? web? other channels? We break down the latest survey data. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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The Meta Retail Store Will Feature A ‘First-Of-Its-Kind’ VR Demo

VRScout

Gameplay is broadcasted in real-time to a wall-to-wall curved LED screen. Meta (formerly Facebook) today announced plans to open its first brick-and-mortar retail store on its campus in Burlingame, California. Here visitors will have the chance to go hands-on with a variety of Meta products before purchasing. This includes everything from its lineup of Portal video-calling devices to its Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses.

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Spatial Beats: Are You Ready for Some (VR) Football?

AR Insider

Welcome back to Spatial Beats, AR Insider's weekly series that features observations and insights of author and futurist Charlie Fink. This week, we look at the NFL's VR debut, Coachella's AR play, and Snap doubles down on ARt. 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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‘Elden Ring’ is Getting an Unofficial VR Mod This Week

Road to VR

We’re about to get a chance to come face-to-face with the myriad eldritch horrors that lurk within Elden Ring (2022) , as one of the most well-known names in the VR modding community, Luke Ross, announced the PC version of the game is getting unofficial VR support. Over the past few months, Ross has worked to bring VR support to a host of non-VR games, including GTA V, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Mafia II, Horizon Zero Dawn, and Cyberpunk 2077.

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Meta to Open First Retail Store Including Dedicated Quest 2 Demo Area

Road to VR

Meta announced today plans to open its first ever retail store to give customers a chance to check out the company’s hardware in person. The store will include a dedicated Quest 2 demo area and send participants home with a short mixed reality video to remember their experience. Meta may only have three physical product lines at present, but that’s not stopping the company from opening its first retail store in Burlingame, CA come May 9th.

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The World Reacts To Elon Musk Buying Twitter

Slashgear

Elon Musk's Twitter buy has sent the internet spinning with opinions, worries, and discussions of whether a new social network will benefit from a mass exodus.

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Report: ‘Assassin’s Creed VR’ May Be Called ‘Nexus’, Video Reveals Prototype

Road to VR

It appears Ubisoft’s long-awaited Assassin’s Creed VR title has suffered a pretty serious leak, as footage of the game’s starting menu seems to have found its way online along with a few player impressions. According to information from Reddit user ‘Echiketto’, Ubisoft is calling its upcoming Quest 2 game Assassin’s Creed: Nexus.

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Diablo Immortal Release Date And PC Version Revealed

Slashgear

Diablo Immortal has a release date at long last, alongside a major reveal: There'll be a PC version of this mobile-first title right from the start.

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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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One of the Last Bastions of the Oculus Brand is No More

Road to VR

Alongside the announcement of the company’s first retail store, Meta has begun redirecting visitors of the longstanding Oculus.com website to its new Meta Store. Facebook announced back in late 2021 that it would rebrand itself to Meta and eventually dissolve the Oculus brand. In 2022 the company has steadily taken steps to make this a reality, including rebranding its flagship VR headset, Oculus Quest 2, as Meta Quest 2.

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Google's Pixel Watch Apparently Had An iPhone 4 Moment

Slashgear

A device appearing to be Google's upcoming Pixel Watch appeared in leaked photos from a person who claims to have found the device at a restaurant.

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Elon Musk Proves Yet Again That He's Just Not Very Bright

GizModo VR

Fans of billionaire Elon Musk seem to think he’s the smartest person in the world. But Musk made a comment on Twitter over the weekend that could be his dumbest yet. Admittedly, there’s a lot of competition when you remember this is the guy who predicted in March of 2020 that the pandemic would be over by April 2020. Read more.

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The Reason We Don't Have Solar-Powered Cars Yet

Slashgear

Electric vehicles and solar panels are more popular than ever, so why haven't automakers combined the two technologies? A bit of math reveals the answer.

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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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Watch the splashdown of NASA’s first private ISS mission

Digital Trends

NASA’s first private mission to the ISS has ended successfully after the four-person crew splashed down in a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule near Florida on Monday.

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The Real Reason Blue Origin's Rocket Looks.Like That

Slashgear

If you've seen any of Blue Origin's launches, you've probably noticed the rocket has a.familiar design. Experts say there's a good reason for that.

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What To Expect From the iPhone 14

GizModo VR

Yes, the iPhone 13 recently underwent a minty green refresh , but now is not the time to buy Apple’s current smartphone if you’re hoping to get the best hardware. Apple’s developer conference is just around the corner, and more rumors about what’s on the horizon have sprouted up. If you can hold out another six months… Read more.

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Why Antennagate Was A Complete Disaster For Apple

Slashgear

After the iPhone 4's launch, a discovery was made about the device's cellular connectivity, resulting in events collectively referred to as Antennagate.

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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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Everything you need to know about Elon Musk's Twitter purchase

Mashable VR

Elon Musk is buying Twitter. The CEO of Tesla , SpaceX , Neuralink , and the Boring Company will add another corporate feather to his bejeweled cap, after the social media platform announced Monday, April 25, that it intends to accept the self-described Technoking's approximately $44 billion purchase offer of $54.20 per share. Th reactions were decidedly mixed.

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The Baker Electric: The Story Of The First Commercially Available Electric Car

Slashgear

An electric car company that courts controversy and appeals to the choosiest consumers? It sure does sound like Tesla, doesn't it? But it's not.

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The Batman Is the Better With (the) Adam West

GizModo VR

Whether you loved The Batman or hated it or thought it had some charms but was way, way too obsessed with itself , there’s one thing I hope we can all agree on, and it’s this: The Batman would have been a lot of fun if original 1966 Batman TV series star Adam West had played the role of Bruce Wayne instead of Robert… Read more.

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GM Reveals Its Secret Weapon To Fix Drivers' Two Big Electric Car Frustrations

Slashgear

Tedious recharge times and plummeting range on cold days could be a thing of the past, and GM is making the answer standard on its Ultium-based electric cars.

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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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Meta is Opening a Physical Store to Make You Change Your Mind About the Metaverse

GizModo VR

Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, is opening its first physical retail store next month in an effort to familiarize consumers with virtual reality and the “metaverse.” The “Meta Store” opens on May 9 in Burlingame, California, a city on the San Francisco peninsula near Meta’s reality Labs division. Read more.

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The 10 Coolest Features Of The 2022 Ford Mustang Mach-E

Slashgear

Ford's 2022 Mustang Mach-E is the new standard of luxury electric vehicles. Here's how it stands up to what the manufacturer promised.

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Twitter might actually sell to Elon Musk, report claims

Mashable VR

Elon Musk 's sudden bid to buy Twitter in April may have seemed like a publicity stunt at some point, but now it's getting serious. According to a report by The New York Times , quoting sources with knowledge of the situation, Twitter 's board is nearing a deal to sell itself to Musk. The negotiations, which are in an advanced stage, went into the early hours of Monday, the sources said.

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E Ink Gallery 3 Brings Color ePaper To Foldables And Rollables

Slashgear

E Ink has introduced a new electronic "paper" display that not only sports bright colors, but can also be used on ereaders that fold like actual books.

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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?