VRScout

MAY 13, 2022

The AirRes Mask can be used to simulate a variety of stressful and high-risk scenarios. A research team working out of the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences in Austria has developed a unique accessory for the Meta Quest 2 VR headset that allows users to interact with the virtual world by simply breathing. The bizarre-looking peripheral can also be used to hinder the user’s breathing in order to simulate “adverse” environmental conditions, such as smoke caused by fire.

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AR Insider

MAY 13, 2022

What were the AR-based highlights at Google's I/O developer conference? We break down the keynote and pull out all the AR components and their strategic takeaways for this week's XR Talks. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Slashgear

MAY 13, 2022

Reports suggest that Apple is in the process of testing USB-C ports on future iPhone devices, signaling the surrender of the final major Lightning hold-out.

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ARVR

MAY 13, 2022

Opportunities in augmented reality are often divided between consumer-based endpoints (think: Snap Lenses) and enterprise productivity (think: Microsoft Hololens). But what about the space between? We’re talking about the less sexy but equally opportune ‘B2B2C’ space. This under-exposed AR sub-segment includes enabling tools that equip businesses to offer AR to their customers.

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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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Slashgear

MAY 13, 2022

Hybrids like the Chevy Volt are appealing cars for the environmentally-minded, but the potential cost of battery replacement could give owners pause.

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Slashgear

MAY 13, 2022

Connecting your Android smartphone to a TV means a bigger screen for gaming, videos, and browsing. It's easy, too, whether you use a cable or do it wirelessly.

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GizModo VR

MAY 13, 2022

A few members of the Obi-Wan Kenobi cast and crew appeared in London, England for a press call, and while the pictures are mostly just two men ( Hayden Christensen and Ewan McGregor ) staring straight ahead and looking drab in comparison to Moses Ingram, we still managed to find a couple gems to we wanted to share. (You… Read more.

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Slashgear

MAY 13, 2022

Following a set of steps that involve sideloading apps and allowing your VR headset to use them, both Discord and Spotify can be utilized in an Oculus Quest 2.

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Mashable VR

MAY 13, 2022

That $44 billion Twitter buyout by Elon Musk? It just became a lot less certain. On Friday, Musk tweeted that the deal has been put "on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users." That calculation comes from Twitter itself, which made the estimate in a SEC filing, dated May 2 (via Reuters ).

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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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Slashgear

MAY 13, 2022

Mercedes owners are urged to check whether their vehicle is affected by a relatively major recall of approximately 290K SUVs sold between 2006 and 2012.

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GizModo VR

MAY 13, 2022

NASA’s Curiosity rover took a photo of a Lovecraftian feature on the surface of Mars last week: a seemingly rectangular and shadowy opening in the planet’s exposed rock that looks as if it leads into the Martian underground. Read more.

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Slashgear

MAY 13, 2022

Iconic auto brand Ferrari has a history of incredible cars. Some, however, stand apart from the rest of the lineup. These are the best of the best.

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GizModo VR

MAY 13, 2022

Here’s something spooky: the day io9 got an email inviting us to debut the new trailer for Joshua Grannell’s 2010 horror-comedy cult classic All About Evil, I just so happened to be wearing my “Peaches Christ Is My Homegirl” sweatshirt—Peaches Christ being Grannell’s horror-loving drag alter ego. The movie gods… Read more.

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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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Slashgear

MAY 13, 2022

Volvo has produced a number of notable station wagons throughout the years, but the V70 R is a charmer that you can still get for cheap these days.

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GizModo VR

MAY 13, 2022

Do Kwon, the founder of the cryptocurrency Luna and the stablecoin TerraUSD, has reportedly been in contact with police after a possible investor in the coin “trespassed” at his home, according to a new report from South Korea’s largest newspaper, The Chosun Ilbo. Crypto News reports the investor lost roughly $1.56… Read more.

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Slashgear

MAY 13, 2022

Those old iPhones in your dresser drawer can do a lot more than sit there and collect dust. Here are the best uses for old iPhones.

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Upload VR

MAY 13, 2022

Resolution Games unveiled a teaser for its next Demeo campaign, titled Curse of the Serpent Lord, which is arriving soon. The new campaign will arrive on June 16, available as a free update on all platforms. It will be the fourth campaign for the game, following on from the initial launch campaign, The Black Sarcophagus , and subsequent expansions, Realm of the Rat King and Roots of Evil.

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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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Slashgear

MAY 13, 2022

Now that Google's revealed their Pixel Buds Pro, you might be wondering if you should consider how they stack up against Apple's AirPods Pro.

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Upload VR

MAY 13, 2022

At Display Week 2022 JDI and Innolux presented compact 3K LCD panels for VR headsets. Japan Display Inc (JDI) is one of the world’s largest display providers, formed 10 years ago as a merger of the LCD manufacturing divisions of Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi. Innolux is Taiwan’s largest LCD producer. Both new displays are roughly 2.27 inch diagonal, with a refresh rate of 90 Hz and resolution of 3240×3240 – equating to 2016 pixels per inch.

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Slashgear

MAY 13, 2022

The iPad added a new dimension to handheld devices while offering popular features of both the iPhone and the iMac. Here is how the iPad has evolved.

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GizModo VR

MAY 13, 2022

Following hot on the heels of leaks from trusted analyst Ming-Chi Kuo that claim Apple will finally be ditching its proprietary Lightning connector for the more widely supported USB-C standard in future iPhones, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman is adding some credibility of his own to the rumor. Earlier today, he reported that… Read more.

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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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Slashgear

MAY 13, 2022

Elon Musk just announced that his acquisition of Twitter has been put on hold, for the moment, owing to one relatively fuzzy reason from the get-go.

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GizModo VR

MAY 13, 2022

It is a strange feeling to get excited about a show I technically don’t care about. Or at least I shouldn’t. Star Trek is a franchise that I’ve never been particularly into, and what I know about it has mainly been gleaned by osmosis during 20 years of covering nerd news. It was just enough to make me consider jumping… Read more.

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Slashgear

MAY 13, 2022

Nintendo is the most iconic company in video gaming, but the brand's history stretches back to a time long before video games had been conceived.

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GizModo VR

MAY 13, 2022

There’s “green energy” and then there’s truly GREEN energy, or rather, blue-green energy. A colorful colony of photosynthetic cyanobacteria, known as blue-green algae, have successfully powered a computer microprocessor for longer than six months, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Energy &… Read more.

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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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