Fri.Jan 14, 2022

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AR Smart Glasses for Enterprise and Consumers: A Conversation With Vuzix’s Paul Travers

ARPost

By now, you’ve probably seen that Vuzix released two new AR smart glasses at CES – one for enterprise and one dipping its toes in the consumer side of the pool. As the dust of these announcements was settling, we had a video call with Vuzix President and CEO, Paul Travers, about what this and other news means for Vuzix and the larger AR industry.

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Fight A Mixed Reality Mech In Saber City, Coming To Quest & iPhone

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Turn your living room into a mixed reality arena with this unique VR/AR experience. This week we caught our first glimpse of Saber City , an upcoming VR game for Quest that utilizes Passthrough technology to immerse players in a mixed reality arena. Here they’ll use a variety of weaponry to battle virtual mechs controlled in AR using a compatible iPhone device.

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XR Talks: Qualcomm Accelerates AR’s Next Era

AR Insider

Qualcomm's chips are the gold standard in XR processing. And it recently doubled down on this positioning by moving up the stack with a developer kit. We examine its recent Snapdragon Spaces SDK launch for this week's XR Talks. The post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Epic Games Awarded Grants to 31 XR Projects in 2021 Through the $100M MegaGrants Fund

Road to VR

Since 2019 Epic Games (well known as the creators of Unreal Engine & Fortnite ) has run the Epic MegaGrants program, a $100 million fund to financially support projects built with Unreal Engine. In 2021 the program awarded grants to 31 XR projects. Epic recently recapped the complete list of MegaGrant recipients in 2021 , comprising a whopping 390 individual projects, each of which received a grant from the program of up to $500,000.

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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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Sadly, 'Covid Dick' Is Real

GizModo VR

It seems we can add sexual dysfunction to the long list of unexpected and unpleasant effects of the coronavirus. Thankfully, this doesn’t appear to be a common occurrence, and there are some potential remedies that those afflicted can try. Read more.

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Chevron Is Hiring Journalists for Its ‘Newsroom’

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Calling all climate journalists: Your dream job awaits, courtesy of Chevron. The oil giant is looking to hire people with journalistic experience to build out a “newsroom”—quotes around that word included in the job posting—to help spread propaganda the good news about Chevron. Read more.

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Nvidia reportedly halts production of RTX 3090 Ti graphics card

Digital Trends

Nvidia just recently announced its new powerhouse of a graphics card, the RTX 3090 Ti. However, it now seems that the production of the GPU may be on hold.

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Spotify Will Never Do Anything About Joe Rogan

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Wildly popular podcaster Joe Rogan is just asking questions. The wrong questions, and an awful lot of them—especially when it comes to the coronavirus pandemic. He’s discouraged young people from getting vaccinated , promoted theories that unsupported covid treatment ivermectin isn’t in broader use to protect vaccine… Read more.

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Timothy Olyphant returns to FX for new Justified miniseries

Digital Trends

U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens will be back in a new miniseries, Justified: City Primeval, with Timothy Olyphant set to reprise his role from the original series.

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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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The Past of Locke & Key Comes To Life In This Gorgeous New Collection

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Where Locke & Key goes in the future? Only the upcoming third season of Netflix’s show knows for now. But where it all began is bring brought together in a brand new collection and io9 has your exclusive first look. Read more.

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Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 series leak spoils all the surprises

Digital Trends

While the Galaxy Tab S8 and Tab S8+ are your regular flagship tablet affair, the Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra takes things to the extreme with a giant 14.6-inch display.

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Belle Is a Sumptuous, Unflinchingly Optimistic View of Our Digital Future

GizModo VR

It’s hard not to be pessimistic about the internet these days. From big tech companies’ capitalistic stranglehold on its structure to toxic online harassment , from adjacent ideas like the depressingly corporate metaverse trend to NFTs burning away the planet in the name of some ugly cartoon apes —it all feels like the… Read more.

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A hospitable metaverse requires the basic building blocks of virtual life

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Steve Alexander. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Steve Alexander is SVP and CTO of Ciena , a networking systems and software company that works with operators and content providers across the globe. Meta’s stated mission is to seamlessly connect disparate environments like work, social media and gaming so it can allow people to effectively live and work in the virtual space.

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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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Facebook Patented a Mechanical Eyeball

GizModo VR

It’s well known at this point that the company previously known as Facebook is spending billions of dollars in resources to transport as many of its users as possible out of the real world and plop them into an avatar -filled metaverse. What’s less talked about though are the ways Meta is simultaneously adding … Read more.

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The best smart home security products at CES 2022

Digital Trends

CES 2022 saw many smart home security announcements, including video doorbells from major brands, new all-in-one solutions, and long-awaited compatibility!

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How The Book of Boba Fett Evolved Star Wars' View of the Tuskens

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The Book of Boba Fett ’s second episode , “The Tribes of Tatooine,” not only shows a new side to the iconic character , but allows for a fresh perspective on the Tusken Raiders. The nomadic people of Tatooine have always been heavily influenced by Indigenous cultures, but the latest Star Wars series is taking them beyond… Read more.

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A glass-backed iPad Pro to likely stay a pipe dream for now

Digital Trends

Worried about fragility, Apple has reportedly canceled plans of a glass rear panel on the 2022 iPad Pro refresh, but there's still hope for MagSafe.

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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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315,000-Gallon Diesel Spill Kills Thousands of Animals in Louisiana

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A decades-old pipeline spilled 315,000 gallons (1.2 million liters) of diesel into an environmentally sensitive area in Louisiana last month, killing thousands of animals, the AP reported Thursday. The spill happened a little over a year after a safety inspection found that the pipeline was severely corroded—but the… Read more.

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Apple’s mixed-reality headset could be delayed yet again

Digital Trends

Apple’s mixed-reality headset looks to be one of its most exciting products ever, but it’s apparently been delayed again, this time potentially until 2023.

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Microsoft Office’s ‘Woke’ Spellchecker Is Perfectly Fine and Will Cause Nobody to Freak Out

GizModo VR

In case you’d missed it, Microsoft Office has a “wokeness” editor that will flag your writing if it contains insensitive phrases. Welcome to the dumb culture wars, Office settings. Read more.

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Intel Core i5 12400F vs. AMD Ryzen 5 5600X: Affordable CPUs, compared

Digital Trends

The Intel Core i5-12400F and AMD RX 5600X are two of the most affordable mid-range processors of their generations, but the Intel chip is far more affordable.

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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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Newly Discovered Tarantula Lurks Inside Bamboo

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Researchers have described a new species and genus of tarantula in Thailand. The jumbo spiders nest inside of bamboo stalks, in a behavior never documented before in tarantulas. Read more.

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Xiaomi’s 120W Hypercharge is the fastest ever, but is it safe?

Digital Trends

Xiaomi reaches 120W with a combination of revamped charging structure, dual-cell battery, MTW, Mi-FC, and graphene-based battery technology, but is it safe?

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How to Keep Your Browser From Sucking Up All Your RAM

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You probably use your web browser of choice for a variety of tasks: using the internet, obviously, but also watching videos, collaborating in docs, building spreadsheets, and more. That means your browser can very quickly start taking up a significant amount of your system’s resources, especially if your open tabs… Read more.

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God of War PC performance guide: The best settings for high FPS

Digital Trends

God of War PC's port is finally here, and it looks great. To get the optimal performance, we tested the game to find the best settings for God of War PC.

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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?