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How To Watch NASA’s Artemis I Rocket Launch Live In VR

VRScout

That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for VR. This coming August, NASA will launch its unmanned Orion CM-002 spacecraft out of Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first in a series of test flights for the agencies Artemis program. The goal of the mission is to certify the Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System launch vehicle for crewed flights in the hopes of returning humankind to the moon by 2024.

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Rocket VR Health Enters Newchip Accelerator

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Rocket VR Health announced its participation in Newchip’s global accelerator programme designed to fund, build, and scale startups and companies. The Newchip Seed Accelerator provides Rocket VR Health with industry experts, mentors, and advisors that personally assist with the immersive firm’s global growth, Nik Vassev, COO and Co-Founder of Rocket VR Health, explained in a statement.

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The NBA Is Getting Its Own Open-World AR Game

VRScout

Pokémon GO meets professional basketball in NBA All World. Niantic, the company behind popular location-based AR games such as Pokémon GO and Pikmin Bloom , just announced the latest addition to its “real-world metaverse,” a basketball-themed mobile game called NBA All-World. Similar to the location-based AR games listed above, NBA All-World will have you exploring the real world as you search for sneakers and gear to collect, play 1-on-1 against NBA pros, and participate in a variet

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What’s AR Marketing’s Evolutionary Path?

AR Insider

When it comes to flavors of AR marketing, lenses and virtual try-ons are out of the gate first. But following closely behind is the less-developed but more promising visual search. How will these AR formats coexist and compete for advertising budgets? 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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Why AR/MR for Education?

ARVR

Part 3— An Immersive Transmedia Storytelling Design & Cross-cultural Educational Strategy. Cross-cultural learning and pedagogy that can be enjoyed and understood at a universal, cross-cultural level. Photo by Freepik.com (2021) What is possible for us to sense, understand, articulate, want and imagine? What is possible for us to sense, understand, articulate, want and imagine?

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The Impact of the Metaverse on Education

ARVR

12 min read Buzzy metaverse projects have already sprung up around gaming, socializing, working, and creating, so it’s unsurprising that educators have started to explore ways to bring education into a shared virtual world. Today we will explore the metaverse for education and how you can expect it to be used in the future. Why Use the Metaverse for Educational Purposes?

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Why You Need To Stop Closing Apps On Your Android Phone

Slashgear

As with blowing into Nintendo game cartridges, there's a persistent myth that closing open apps on your Android device will make it work better.

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Meet Educators In VR?—?open community of educators meeting, sharing and collaborating inV

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Meet Educators In VR?—?open community of educators meeting, sharing and collaborating in VR Immersive pioneers revolutionize remote education with interactive experiences in social VR Educators in VR is an open community of educators using, discussing, sharing and learning about VR/AR in education. Daniel Dyboski-Bryant and Lorelle VanFossen founded this community as a means to connect educators, trainers, researchers, organizations, and startups of all fields to share their expertise and learn

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2023 Cadillac Lyriq First Drive: An All-Electric SUV Worth Waiting For

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The Cadillac Lyric isn't just the automaker's first outing of the all-electric Ultium platform, it's a complete reinvention of the company's bland, boring SUVs.

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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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Can VividQ Unlock Holographic AR?

ARVR

The metaverse has taken over as the construct to define our future connected lives. And though it’s still ill-defined, there’s consensus that the next era of computing will involve more graphical dimension. That maps to fully-immersive VR, as well as real-world AR interaction. In both cases, there will be purpose-built tech stacks that develop?—?just like any other computing paradigm.

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Here's How You Can Own The Very First Cadillac Escalade V

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Cadillac is auctioning the very first production Escalade-V (VIN 001) at the 2022 Barrett-Jackson Auction in Las Vegas with proceeds going to a good cause.

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Interhaptics Partners with Saarland University around the Haptic Design Challenges in Virtual…

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Interhaptics Partners with Saarland University around the Haptic Design Challenges in Virtual Reality (VR) Interhaptics and Saarland University ’s HCI Lab and UMTL teams are collaborating to study and better understand the process of designing haptic feedback. Thanks to Interhaptics for Academics , a platform entirely dedicated to research projects, and more particularly to the Haptic Composer, Bruno Fruchard (Postdoctoral Researcher) and Donald Degraen (Researcher Ph.

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One Of America's Biggest Electric Car Charging Networks Just Got A Huge Boost

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Volkswagen has sold a minority stake in its Electrify America subsidiary, paving the way for the massive EV charging network expansion announced in 2021.

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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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The First Tour of Giant AI’s Robot Lab

Robert Scoble

Visiting Giant AI. Visiting Giant AI is like getting a tour of a secret lab that shouldn’t exist run by an eccentric genius. The kind of which we remember from “Back to the Future.” Adrian Kaehler is that genius. . He built the computer vision system for the first autonomous vehicle that later became Waymo. He played a key role in the early development of Magic Leap, an augmented reality company that just won best of show at the industry’s biggest gathering, AWE (for Augmented World Expo).

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Hyundai Ioniq 6 Revealed As Jaw-Dropping Electric Car To Take On Model 3

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Hyundai has taken the wraps off its next electric vehicle, the incredibly sleek and eye-catching Ioniq 6. The model is positioned to compete with Tesla.

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Ruinsmagus Release Date Confirmed: VR Dungeon Crawler Coming In July

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Upcoming VR dungeon crawler, Ruinsmagus, finally has a release date. The gorgeous RPG experience launches on Quest on July 7 and is now listed in the Coming Soon section of the Quest store. The game is also coming to PC on the same day even if Steam listing for the game doesn’t hold a release date just yet. You can, however, download a free demo of the game on the platform.

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How To Charge Your Apple Pencil

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The Apple Pencil is one of the best things that ever happened to the iPad, and though it's not cheap, it is very simple to use once you know what to do with it.

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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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RIP Michiaki Watanabe, the Man Who Defined the Sound of Japanese Superhero TV

GizModo VR

Michiaki “Chumei” Watanabe, the Japanese composer who composed the first six Super Sentai TV series and several other Japanese pop culture classics, has passed away at the age of 96. Read more.

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Xiaomi Flagship With Leica-Branded Cameras Launches On July 4

Slashgear

Xiaomi's next smartphone with Leica-branded cameras should launch the smartphone brand to a higher level in mobile photography power.

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FBI Says People Are Using Deepfakes to Apply to Remote Jobs

GizModo VR

Companies hiring for an open IT position might need to do more than scrutinize how prospective employees react to the question “What is your worst quality?” If the prospective hire sneezes or coughs without moving their lips, their worst quality might be that they’re not actually real. Read more.

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Cadillac's Cheapest Lyriq Electric SUV Has An Unexpected Charging Advantage

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Cadillac's new Lyriq all-electric SUV allows the driver to broaden their potential for adaptation to a wide variety of battery charging situations.

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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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'No Mere Monkey Business:' Bored Ape Maker Accuses Conceptual Artist of Trademark Infringement

GizModo VR

You know the Bored Ape Yacht Club, the popular NFT collection that has enticed the likes of Justin Bieber, Paris Hilton, Jimmy Fallon ? Well, the company behind the collection, Yuga Labs, is suing an artist they believe is trying to devalue the Bored Ape Yacht Club. The first rule of Bored Ape Yacht Club: Do not… Read more.

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The Rarest Cars In Tom Cruise's Collection, Ranked

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Tom Cruise is a race fanatic and has assembled a collection of vehicles made famous by the movies in which he has starred. These are the rarest.

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Dogecoin: Everything you need to know about the cryptocurrency

Mashable VR

We're going to the moon. Some proponents of Dogecoin or DOGE, a cryptocurrency that started as a joke but is now one of the most popular coins around, would have you believe that the sentence above is all you need to know about Dogecoin. In a way, they'd be right. Dogecoin does not require a lot of thinking. Fans of the cryptocurrency often buy it and hodl it (a crypto way of saying "not selling") until.well, until something great happens.

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How To Copy And Paste From One Apple Device To Another

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If you're deep in the Apple ecosystem, transferring files, text, and images between your iPhone, iPad, and Mac is ridiculously easy with the Universal Clipboard.

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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?