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Hot Wheels-Inspired VR Game Stunt Track Builder Out Now

VRScout

Build your own over-the-top stunt tracks with realistic toy-car physics. Available now on Quest and PC VR headsets, Stunt Track Builder is a new VR game for Quest and PC VR headsets that lets you relive those fond childhood memories of building intricate stunt tracks for your favorite toy cars. Brought to us by developer Lemon Chihuahua, the Hot Wheels inspired-game offers access to a wide range of tracks to build with, from straightaways and turns to boost pads and loop the loops.

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Apple Will Reportedly Be Requiring Covid-19 Boosters for Its Store and Corporate Workers

GizModo VR

Apple now considers covid-19 booster shots to be an important element in protecting its workers and will be purportedly requiring employees to show proof that they’ve gotten the additional dose to access its premises, according to an internal email seen by the Verge. Read more.

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Should gaming embrace NFT? Both sides of the debate weigh in

Digital Trends

What are NFTs, and would games really benefit from their inclusion? We spoke to advocates on both sides of the NFT discussion.

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Across the Spider-Verse is Bringing More Animation Styles with Its Spiders

GizModo VR

Of the many highlights of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse , its art styles were the among them. While Miles Morales (Shameik Moore), Peter B. Parker (Jake Johnson), and Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld) were in traditional 3D, the other Spiders had their own distinct visual styles. Peni Parker (Kimiko Glenn) was done in… 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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K-pop NFTs are here, but I’m not convinced they’re worth it

Digital Trends

Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, are the latest piece of merchandise the dedicated K-pop fan can buy. But is it really worth it, and what do you really get?

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How Summit Engine Powered Remote CES

Charlie Fink

Websummit is licensing the app it made for its own mega conferences.

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Leonardo DiCaprio, Huge Star Wars Nerd, Couldn't Get Jonah Hill to Love The Mandalorian

GizModo VR

If you’re a nerd, then no doubt you’ve tried to get a friend to like something as much as you do. It’s a crap shoot as to whether or not it will work, especially if it’s something as popular (and disjointed ) as Star Wars. Recent years have been all over the place for George Lucas’ sci-fi franchise, and even when… Read more.

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Roborock S7 Max vs. Ecovacs Deebot X1

Digital Trends

Roborock and Ecovacs are changing the game with the announcement of two new flagship robot vacuums, the S7 MaxV Ultra and Deebot X1 Omni. Let's compare both.

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Preventing ENEMIES in Virtual Fact! – Blade & Sorcery

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Initial VR movie for my channel, taking part in some Blade and Sorcery, a super exciting VR battle sandbox recreation. This is a rather diverse type of online video so allow me know … source.

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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 dramatic and beautiful flame nebula in Orion

Digital Trends

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a spectacular pair of images showing the dramatic Flame Nebula as seen by a radio telescope.

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I Played Just about every VR Recreation Ever made in Just one Movie!

VRGames

Title is correct, I fundamentally performed Every single VR / Digital Actuality activity EVERmade in A person Video… Next Channel: … supply.

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How Wordle and Wordle! teamed up for charity

Digital Trends

One is a massively popular word game. The other has the same name and landed on the app store five years ago. Here's how they teamed up for charity.

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The top 10 best racing games on PC

Digital Trends

Whether you're looking for a bonafide racing sim or an action-packed street racing adventure, these ten racing games are some of the best you'll find on PC.

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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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NASA raises issue of dwindling astronaut numbers

Digital Trends

As NASA looks toward expanding its crewed trips to space, the agency has voiced concerns over a possible lack of astronauts to help fulfill the missions.

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How to watch SpaceX Cargo Dragon depart from ISS this week

Digital Trends

This week, a SpaceX Cargo Dragon craft will depart from the International Space Station (ISS) carrying supplies and scientific experiments back to Earth.

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Everything we know about Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League

Digital Trends

Rocksteady hasn't lost their touch. We took on this suicide mission for you to get the details you need to know about Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.

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Get the COVID-19 booster shot, Apple reportedly tells staff

Digital Trends

Apple has reportedly told its store and corporate employees to get the COVID-19 booster shot when eligible or face frequent tests for the virus.

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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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This weird exoplanet is shaped like a rugby ball

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Exoplanets come in many sizes, and sometimes they also come in unusual shapes - like this planet the shape of a rugby ball.

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With Mario Kart 9 rumors swirling, we need these 4 features

Digital Trends

With the rumor mill going wild over Mario Kart 9, we listed our top four karting must-haves.

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Citizen scientists help discover a Jupiter-like planet 379 light-years away

Digital Trends

Citizen scientists have helped comb through data from a NASA telescope to identify a gas giant planet located 379 light-years away.

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