Sat.Jan 22, 2022

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Samsung Losing Ground In VR/AR Due To ‘Obsession’ With Foldable Tech

VRScout

Company’s like Apple and Meta are leaving Samsung in the virtual dust. According to a new report by The Korea Herald , Samsung is steadily losing its position within the VR/AR space due to its unhealthy “obsession” with foldable smartphone technology. In 2019 Samsung unveiled its first commercially-available foldable smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy Fold.

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Pennsylvania Police Find Monkeys That Slipped Away After Car Crash on Way to Lab

GizModo VR

Pennsylvania State Police were scouring an area near Danville in the central part of the state on Friday and Saturday in a search for three high-profile subjects. The authorities were clear: The public was not to attempt to look for or get near the subjects on the run. This was not a case of dangerous criminals on the… Read more.

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Solving VR’s ‘infinite walking’ problem with moon boots

Digital Trends

For decades, engineers have been dreaming up creative ways to solve the infinite walking problem in virtual reality. Ekto thinks it has a new one.

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Steve and Sam are Both Captain America Now, Like They Should've Been

GizModo VR

When Sam Wilson was granted the title of Captain America from his longtime friend Steve Rogers during Marvel’s “Marvel NOW!” relaunch in 2015, it was only a matter of time before he would both go back to being the Falcon and get boosted to Cap in the MCU. Now that Captain America 4 is on the horizon, Marvel’s comics… 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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NASA’s gamma-ray burst hunting Swift Observatory in safe mode

Digital Trends

An issue with NASA's Swift Observatory has forced it to suspend science operations and enter safe mode while the team investigates.

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James Webb is ready to settle into its new home: Lagrange Point L2

Digital Trends

Webb is set to arrive at its new home on Monday: A location almost one million miles away called L2, or the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point.

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Hell Yeah, Knives Out for 2022, Baby

GizModo VR

Back in 2019, Rian Johnson released Knives Out , a pretty good murder mystery starring Daniel Craig as the charmingly strange detective Benoit Blanc and a murder’s row of suspects, including Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, and the late Christopher Plummer in one of his final roles. Johnson’s film went on to become a smash… Read more.

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Apple’s mixed-reality headset is running out of time

Digital Trends

Apple’s headset is beset with confusion and uncertainty. With a launch predicted for this year, time is running out for Apple to decide what it wants.

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NASA Has a Zany Plan to Sail to an Asteroid

GizModo VR

NASA wants to propel a shoebox-sized spacecraft to an asteroid using a solar sail, the first deep space mission by the agency to use such a mechanism. 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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Martian dust storm delays next flight of Ingenuity helicopter

Digital Trends

Earth isn't the only place where bad weather affects space flights. The weather on Mars can also be tricky, causing problems for the Ingenuity helicopter.

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Steam Deck and VR: Everything You Need to Know

VRWorld

One of the most anticipated releases of 2022, Steam Deck allows you to play all of your favorite PC games right in your hands. It combines the portability of a Nintendo Switch with the power of a gaming PC. The significant difference between the two systems? The Switch is a closed system, while the Steam Deck is an open PC connecting any hardware type.

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QuietOn 3 vs. Bose Sleepbuds 2: White noise or no noise?

Digital Trends

Is white noise or no noise better at getting you to fall and stay asleep? We've been testing the Bose Sleepbuds 2 and QuietOn 3 sleep earbuds to find out.

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Owatch Wishing You Happy Chinese New Year

Steki Amusement

Owatch wishes you a Happy Spring Festival! Sincerely thank you for your support all the times. Wishing you peace, joy and happiness through the coming year. All the best wishes for you and your family.In the coming days, we will continue to provide you the best quality products and good service. I believe that we will have more cooperation chances in the future.

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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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See the sun flaring thanks to the Solar Dynamics Observatory

Digital Trends

This week, the Sun erupted with a powerful solar flare, and the incident was caught in real-time by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.

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Oculus Quest 2 Top rated Video games and Applications To Clearly show Loved ones and Friends New to VR – 2021 Edition

VRGames

Oculus Quest 2 Referral Website link: Use Link to Get 30$ Activity Keep Credit score: [link] Today we chat about the games … resource.

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Wyze Scale S review: Highly functional and affordable

Digital Trends

The Wyze Scale S is an affordable, easy-to-use smart scale that gives a lot of info for the average user.

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Releases Recap: January 17 – 21

Oculus

This week, we released a bunch of titles and updates across the Quest and Rift Platforms. Here’s a rundown of the highlights.

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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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Godzilla roars to life on TV for Legendary and Apple TV+

Digital Trends

Apple TV+ is developing a live-action series featuring Godzilla and the Titans.

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The Digital Fact Elevator! (HTC Vive Digital Reality)

VRGames

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Cargo Dragon departure from ISS delayed until today due to weather

Digital Trends

The departure of an uncrewed SpaceX Cargo Dragon spacecraft from the ISS, which had been planned for this week, had to be delayed until this weekend.

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What You Need to Know About the Cybersecurity Risks In the Ukraine Conflict

GizModo VR

In case you haven’t heard, Ukraine is in trouble: a spat between Russian and NATO-allied forces involving the country has spurred a territorial dispute with major implications for everybody involved. 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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Assassin's Creed Almost Wound Up Going to Space

GizModo VR

Over the years, Ubisoft’s explored plenty of time periods and locations for the Assassin’s Creed franchise, from ancient Egypt and Greece to the Italian Renaissance and the American and French Revolutions. (Still no Wild West or Japan, though.) The sci-fi conceit of present day characters using a machine to relive the… Read more.

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