Fri.May 28, 2021

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‘Rec Room’ CEO Talks About The Impact Of VR Subscriptions

VRScout

CEO and Co-Founder Nick Fajt lends his thoughts on premium app subscriptions and exclusive VR content. Last month Facebook announced the launch of premium app subscriptions on the Oculus Quest, offering users the chance to unlock exclusive VR content from select developers by paying a monthly fee. We’ve already seen several VR games and apps take advantage of this new service, including FitXR, Tribe XR, TRIPP, vSpatial, and VZfit just to name a few.

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XR Talks: Snap Doubles Down on AR… Again

AR Insider

A s you’ve likely heard, Snap held its annual Partner Summit last week, during which it made the splashy “one-more-thing” announcement that it’s launching AR-enabled Spectacles. As we examined at the time, this is a considerable moment in Snap’s AR lifecycle. But the news was so big that it overshadowed several other notable AR announcements and updates.

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MIKE HIGHLIGHTS // VR Engineer?—?Alex Silkin

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MIKE HIGHLIGHTS // VR Engineer?—?Alex Silkin Alex Silkin is the Co-Founder and CTO at Survios. He has been working in VR development since 2012, prior to the release of the first modern VR consumer headset, the Oculus Rift. His primary focus has been player facing systems, such as motion controller mechanics, VR avatar embodiment and user interface.

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Black Panther Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates Wants Better for Creators Bringing These Stories to Life

GizModo VR

With Black Panther #25 bringing Ta-Nehisi Coates’ run on the Marvel comic—which transformed Wakanda into a time-traveling, intergalactic empire—to a close, the writer’s moving on to tell the next chapter of another comics icon’s story, with Warner Bros.’ upcoming Superman movie about a Black Kal-El. Though Coates is… Read more.

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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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6 of the Top 7 Mobile Apps in April Feature AR

ARVR

It’s clear that mobile AR is where the scale is today, given 3 billion+ global smartphones. As for the portion that’s AR-compatible, the common industry rally cry is that there are 1 billion+ AR-enabled smartphones. That figure applies to ARkit and ARCore-compatible smartphones. But if you pan back to all platforms, such as Snapchat’s Lens Studio and Facebook’s Spark AR, the AR-ready universe is larger.

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Sponsored Post: Now On Sale - MPG CORELIQUID K360 & MSI Z590 Gaming Force

Anand Tech

Intel's 11th generation of Core processors have finally hit the market. If you're looking to upgrade your gaming rig, now is the perfect time to do so. And MSI has the perfect combo with which to do so.

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Tesla Cars Will Now Spy on You to Make Sure You Don’t Autopilot Yourself Into a PR Disaster

GizModo VR

In an effort to assuage fears about the dangers inherent in its autopilot system, Tesla has announced that the in-cabin cameras in its Model 3 and Y vehicles will now monitor drivers for “attentiveness” while the feature is turned on, TechCrunch reports. Read more.

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Smart homes can save you money, but it goes beyond just monitoring electricity

Digital Trends

Power X is a startup out of New York that proposes to turn your hot water heater into a 'battery' by using its stored heat energy more efficiently.

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Iran Bans Crypto Mining After Months of Blackouts

GizModo VR

Iran banned bitcoin mining this week, after four months of continuous blackouts partially due to what officials say is a huge energy suck from illegal mining. Read more.

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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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These are our favorite new Android 12 features so far

Digital Trends

The Android 12 beta is here, finally giving us a good look at what Android 12 will eventually look like. Here are our favorite Android 12 features so far.

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The 15 Best Milky Way Photos of 2021

GizModo VR

The winners of the 2021 Milky Way Photographer of the Year have been announced, and they’re providing some of the best views of our galaxy that we’ve ever seen. Read more.

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6 things you didn’t know you could do in Microsoft Word

Digital Trends

We've done the digging and discovered six things that you probably didn't know you could do in Microsoft Word.

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Russia’s New Arctic Oil Development Is a Nightmare

GizModo VR

Russia’s national oil company has begun construction on a massive project in the Arctic that officials say will produce 25 million tons of oil each year by 2024. The new operation is possible only because the Arctic is now traversable in places and at times it previously wasn’t, due to sea ice levels plummeting as the… Read more.

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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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ForeVR Bowl Looks to Bring the Excitement of Bowling to Virtual Reality

VR Fitness

With the way the world has been over the past year, there’s a good chance that you may have not been to the bowling alley in quite some time. Fortunately, the bowling experience is one that will soon be able to be had on a VR headset near you thanks to a new game that is soon releasing. Continue reading on VR Fitness Insider.

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Twitter Says No More Blue Checkmarks for You

GizModo VR

Well, that was fun while it lasted. Just a little over a week after reviving its public verification process for the first time in almost four years, Twitter has already pulled the plug. Read more.

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Apple AirPlay 2: Here’s everything you need to know

Digital Trends

Airplay 2 is available on a growing list of devices. We explain what it is, how it's different from its predecessor, and how to take advantage of it.

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If You’re Reading This, You’re Not Welcome on the Elizabeth Holmes Jury

GizModo VR

On Thursday, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes filed a 112-question survey for potential jurors for her fraud trial, which is set to begin in August. Presumably, it seeks to weed out people who would love to take time off work to watch this thing. Read more.

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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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2022 AirPods Pro might include fitness tracking features

Digital Trends

The next version of Apple's AirPods Pro could include fitness tracking sensors. If true, it could create a fitness device alternative to the Apple Watch.

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U.S. Soldiers Accidentally Leaked Nuclear Weapons Secrets Online: Report

GizModo VR

U.S. soldiers stationed at various bases in Europe accidentally exposed sensitive data related to America’s nuclear weapons stockpile via poorly secured flashcard apps they were using to memorize said secrets, according to a stunning new report. Read more.

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Tivoli Model One Digital Gen 2 hands-on review: Small changes, big difference

Digital Trends

Tivoli Audio's first attempt to convert their famous Model One tabletop radio into a streaming music speaker didn't go well. Is the second time a charm?

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Backpedaling, WhatsApp Says It Won't Lobotomize Accounts That Refuse Privacy Policy Update

GizModo VR

WhatsApp initially threatened to revoke core functions for users that refused to accept its controversial new privacy policy, only to walk back the severity of those consequences earlier this month amid international backlash , and now, it’s doing away with them altogether (for the time being, at least). Read more.

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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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How to watch Nvidia’s Computex 2021 keynote and what to expect

Digital Trends

Nvidia will be kicking off Computex with a keynote on June 1 local time. With rumors of a GeForce RTX 3080 Ti heating up, we'll show you how to watch.

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Minnesota Offers Most Minnesotan Prizes Ever During Vaccine Drive

GizModo VR

The governor of Minnesota has announced his state is offering free fishing licenses, free tickets to the State Fair, and plenty more to the first 100,000 residents who get vaccinated for covid-19 between now and June 30. The complete list of freebies is the most Minnesotan thing you’ve ever seen, don’tcha know. Read more.

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How to watch AMD’s Computex 2021 keynote and what to expect

Digital Trends

AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su is scheduled to kick off Computex this year with a keynote focused on RDNA 2 and Zen 3, and we'll show you how to watch it live.

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Amazon, MGM, and the Price of Entertainment

GizModo VR

If all goes according to Amazon and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ’s plans, the web service giant will soon acquire the legacy film studio in an $8.45 billion deal that will add thousands of movies and television shows to the tech company’s portfolio of content available to stream to 200 million Prime subscribers. Taken at face… Read more.

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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?