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How to record videos of your Oculus Quest passthrough AR app

The Ghost Howls

Recently Facebook has released experimental passthrough APIs for Oculus Quest 2 , letting developers create augmented reality apps for this virtual reality headset. Many developers have started creating experiences of this kind, and of course, they want to share videos about them on social media, but Facebook blocked some months ago all ways of recording passthrough vision.

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Airlines warn risks from 5G are too big to ignore, but is it all hot air?

Digital Trends

Airline industry groups are going to the FCC with dire warnings about the danger of the C-band 5G rollout. We dig into if there's real cause for concern.

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DC's Injustice Movie Finds the Voice Actors Among Us

GizModo VR

We’re big fans of Tom Taylor’s Injustice: Gods Among Us comics, dubbing it the greatest “ Superman goes evil ” story ever written. So by extension, we’re looking forward to WB Animation’s upcoming movie adaptation—especially now that the first details have been released. Read more.

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How to watch two Russian cosmonauts spacewalk outside the ISS this week

Digital Trends

This week, two cosmonauts will venture outside the International Space Station to continue preparing the Nauka module for operations -- here's how to watch.

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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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Blade Director Bassam Tariq Says the New Film Won't Be Boxed in By Marvel's Comics Canon

GizModo VR

Of all the Marvel announcements made at San Diego Comic-Con back in 2019, none were quite as surprising as the news of a new Blade movie starring Mahershala Ali which director Bassam Tariq signed onto a few months later. Read more.

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TikTok/ByteDance Buys PicoVR A Virtual Reality Headset Company

XROM

TikTok parent company ByteDance seems to be looking to one-up Facebook anywhere it can. After taking over the mantle of most-downloaded social media app in the world with TikTok, ByteDance is coming for Facebook’s moonshot, buying up its own virtual reality headset maker called Pico. The deal first reported on by Bloomberg last week was confirmed by the company on Monday, though ByteDance didn’t disclose a price tag for the deal.

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Disappointingly, Wear OS 3 won’t be saving Android smartwatches for a while yet

Digital Trends

Wear OS 3 looked like Google and Samsung's answer to the Apple Watch's dominance, but now it's here, it looks like it comes at the expense of choice.

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Watch the European Space Agency test the parachute for its new Mars rover

Digital Trends

ESA recently released video footage of parachute drop tests for its ExoMars rover, showing how the spacecraft will be slowed as it approaches the red planet.

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Apple HomeKit has both the best and worst installation setups. Here’s why.

Digital Trends

Apple's HomeKit simultaneously has one of the best and one of the worst installation processes, but it also shows the promise of what smart home could be.

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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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See the beautiful galaxy Centaurus A in all its cosmic glory

Digital Trends

A stunning image of the distant galaxy Centaurus A has been captured by the Dark Energy Camera in Chile.

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HP Labor Day Sale 2021: Save on gaming PCs, laptops & monitors

Digital Trends

Take advantage of HP Labor Day deals to enjoy discounts when buying desktop computers, laptops, and accessories like monitors and virtual reality headsets.

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Amazon Echo vs. Apple HomePod: Which has better speakers?

Digital Trends

It can be hard to decide on a smart speaker. In this post, we'll pit Amazon Echo 4th Gen against Apple HomePod.

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