Sat.Aug 07, 2021

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Tips & Tricks For Playing ‘STRIDE’ On Oculus Quest

VRScout

Dominate the rooftops with these useful tips & tricks for Joy Way’s action-packed VR parkour game. Available now on Oculus Quest & Oculus Quest 2, STRIDE is a fast-paced VR arcade action game that has you scaling vertigo-inducing rooftops while battling endless waves of faceless enemies using a combination of brutal gunplay and vicious hand-to-hand combat.

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Facebook’s ‘droidlet’ A.I. could take speech recognition to a whole new level

Digital Trends

Today's natural language recognition systems -- like Siri and Alexa -- are still somewhat limited in what they can understand. Facebook thinks it can do better.

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Astronauts Give Us a Delightful Look at What the Olympics Would Be Like in Space

GizModo VR

Recently, we finally got to see an Olympics that everyone can get behind. At these Games, there was no pandemic , no blistering heat , and no threat of a tropical storm. There were, unfortunately, few spectators. This isn’t a reference to the cursed Tokyo 2020 Olympics, but rather the makeshift, unofficial “Space… Read more.

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Boeing is working on fixing its troubled Starliner capsule

Digital Trends

After canceling the planned test flight of its new crew capsule, the Starliner, Boeing says it is working on fixing the issue which led to the cancellation.

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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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Wildfires Continue to Rage Across Greece, Cutting Island in Half and Forcing Thousands to Flee

GizModo VR

Flames tore through residential areas and threatened historic sites as wildfires burned across Greece for a fifth day on Saturday, a scene so apocalyptic that one local official described it as “a biblical catastrophe,” the Associated Press reports. Read more.

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Google Is Signing Out Free Hangouts Users on Mobile, Gets Closer to Finally Killing the Thing

GizModo VR

It’s been nearly an entire year since we started talking about how Google Hangouts was officially set to disappear. Since then, it seems like we’ve been repeating the same thing every few months, only for Hangouts to stubbornly persist living. If apps could talk, Hangouts would probably declare, “what is dead may… Read more.

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This black hole is creating enormous glowing X-ray rings

Digital Trends

Astronomers using the Chandra X-ray Observatory are investigating an unusual black hole which is surrounded by enormous X-ray rings.

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FCC Finally Debuts an Up-to-Date Mobile Broadband Map of the U.S.

GizModo VR

The Federal Communications Commission has finally released an up-to-date mobile broadband coverage map , giving consumers a long-needed tool to find out what kind of cellular coverage they can expect in any given area across the U.S. Read more.

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Perseverance rover has problems collecting its first Mars sample

Digital Trends

NASA had aimed to collect its first sample of Martian rock using the Perseverance rover yesterday, but the sampling attempt didn't go as planned.

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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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Stranger Things: Are Spin-Off Series the Future of the Upside Down?

GizModo VR

Stranger Things creators/showrunner duo Matt and Ross Duffer always envisioned their supernatural horror show would have at least five seasons. While the two haven’t confirmed if season five is the last, the show’s executive producer Shawn Levy is on the record saying they do have an endgame plan in place. Read more.

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No, there’s no free UFC 265 live stream — you need to pay

Digital Trends

Looking for a free UFC 265 live stream? There isn't one but there is a cheap offer from ESPN+ so you can watch it live tonight.

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How Jungle Cruise Producers Built a Cinematic World for a Theme Park Ride

GizModo VR

With a $90 million dollar opening weekend, Jungle Cruise has set the standard for the theme park ride to movie pipeline. Read more.

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UFC 265 Live Stream: Watch Lewis vs Ganes on ESPN+

Digital Trends

Wondering how to watch the UFC 265 Live stream? You'll need to sign up for ESPN+. Here's how to save on your subscription.

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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 Rock and Kevin Feige Spoke About the MCU This One Time.

GizModo VR

There was a moment in time we all thought Dwayne “The Rock Johnson” would join the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Read more.

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A Pokemon Unite bug prevents Gengar’s Hex from damaging enemies

Digital Trends

Pokemon Unite's new bug, which comes with the August 4 patch, severely damages one of Gengar's best moves.

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Netflix's Addams Family Spin-off Wednesday Adds Comedian Luis Guzman as Gomez Addams

GizModo VR

Comedian Luis Guzman is Gomez Addams in the Netflix Addams Family spin-off series, Wednesday. Read more.

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Level Lock review: A continuation of smart meets stylish

Digital Trends

Level's third smart lock doesn't deviate much, boasting an elegant design that looks like a normal lock.

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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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Releases Recap: August 2 – 6

Oculus

This week, we released a bunch of titles and updates across the Oculus Platform. Here’s a rundown of the highlights.

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NASA’s Juno spacecraft, in orbit around Jupiter, is 10 years old this week

Digital Trends

This week marked a special birthday celebration for Juno, NASA's spacecraft which is currently in orbit around Jupiter.

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VR World’s Guide to SD Card Storage

VRWorld

SD cards exist in three different form factors these days. There is the standard SD card designed in 1999, then we got the Mini-SD card which made its debut in 2003 and the Micro-SD card which appeared in 2004. These three form factors have been with us all this time and even though their design remained the same, a lot has changed in terms of performance and reliability.

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