Thu.Jan 27, 2022

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South Korea Is Building Its Own K-Pop Metaverse

VRScout

The metaverse will supposedly play a central role in the South Korean economy. It’s hard to ignore the growing rise of South Korean media and culture in Western countries. Ever since Psy graced our ears with his now-iconic song ‘Gangnam Style’ in 2012, the popularity of South Korean music, film, and television has skyrocketed in places like the United States.

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Reality Bytes: Amazon, Magic Leap & Google

AR Insider

What are the biggest insights and observations in AR and adjacent sectors this week? Welcome to Reality Bytes, featuring lightning-round video commentary from AR Insider partner, M7 Innovations. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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This VR/AR Art Exhibit Is Environmentally-Friendly

VRScout

Vegas’ latest attraction is an extended reality experience built from upcycled materials. As history has shown us, it’s tough getting people to care about the environment. What should be a universal issue has slowly devolved into a hot-button topic for many. That said, there are still good people out here working to raise awareness around the increasingly troublesome situation we find ourselves in.

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What Can XR Learn from Enterprise SaaS?

AR Insider

Are there lessons from the enterprise software world that can be applied to AR? If so, what do companies like Salesforce, Miro, Trello, and Canva teach us about software pricing and go-to-market strategies? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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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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‘Wanderer’ Review – A Time Traveling Delight That’s Just Shy of Greatness

Road to VR

Wanderer is a VR adventure game that puts you in the shoes of a hapless time traveler who finds himself trapped in an alternate history—one that starts (and possibly ends) in worldwide disaster. Wanderer excels with its smorgasbord of interesting puzzles that do very little hand-holding. Its fun and well-designed set pieces play as an immersive backdrop to an engrossing story, all of which hopefully distract you from its particularly clunky level of object interaction.

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Apple paid a student $100,000 for successfully hacking a Mac

Digital Trends

Apple has just paid over $100,000 to a curious student who attempted to hack the camera on a Mac -- and succeeded. He shared the process in a blog post.

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Dungeons & Dragons & Novels: Revisiting The Halfling's Gem

GizModo VR

When I started the Dungeons & Dragons & Novels series, I wanted to go through all the D&D fiction of yesteryear to see how they held up (or spectacularly fell to pieces). But if I’m being honest with myself, what I really wanted to reread was R.A. Salvatore’s original Icewind Dale trilogy. The Crystal Shard , Streams … Read more.

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Nvidia RTX 3050 prices confirmed and they aren’t pretty

Digital Trends

Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3050 graphics card launches today, and thus the manufacturer's suggested retail price for custom variants of the card has been revealed.

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Los Angeles Is Making Good on Its Promise to Ban Oil and Gas Wells

GizModo VR

Los Angeles is finally turning the page on the city’s oil-coated past. In unanimously approved measures, the Los Angeles City Council voted in favor of banning new oil and gas wells and outlined a plan to phase out those already existing over five years. 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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Can hybrid wireless earbuds fix the lossless audio problem?

Digital Trends

Wireless earbuds are hugely convenient, but they can't reproduce the very best level of audio quality. That's what makes the hybrid Zorloo Zophia so intriguing.

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Amazon Illegally Threatened Workers Over Union Push, U.S. Labor Board Claims

GizModo VR

Amazon warehouse workers in New York are in the middle of a drive to create the company’s first unionized workforce, an effort Amazon has no interest in it succeeding. Though Amazon’s no stranger to fighting union efforts, a new complaint filed by the National Labor Relations Board revealed on Thursday claims the… Read more.

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How The Matrix Resurrections used visual effects to plug in again

Digital Trends

The Matrix Resurrections visual effects supervisor Dan Glass explains how the film used VFX to send audiences back into the franchise's virtual world.

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The Book of Boba Fett's Latest Throwback Is Having a Weird Influence. on Vintage Toys?

GizModo VR

Star Wars loves two things above all: its own history and its own metatextual history with merchandise. Sometimes, these come hand in hand—and what is old isn’t exactly new again, but it does suddenly have more people wanting it for more money. Read more.

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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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James Gunn teases Suicide Squad, Peacemaker, & GotG projects

Digital Trends

Director James Gunn may be the busiest man in comic book movies, and he could be adding a new Suicide Squad spinoff TV show to his workload.

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Apple Could Turn iPhones into Payment Terminals—RIP Square

GizModo VR

Apple is reportedly set to launch a service that would let businesses use their iPhones as payment terminals with no additional hardware—a move that could put pressure on market leader Block (formerly Square). Read more.

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How to set up a Digital Legacy Contact in iOS 15.2

Digital Trends

In these digitally connected times, we store our most precious memories on our smartphones in the cloud, but what happens to that data after you’ve passed on?

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You Won't Be Alone Is a Brutal and Beautiful Fairy Tale

GizModo VR

You Won’t Be Alone is both a poetic fantasy story and a searing investigation of what it means to be human. It’s emotionally wrenching and also frequently gory. Following its premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival , the film debuts in theaters April 1, and anyone looking for a mind-expanding cinematic experience… Read more.

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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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Social media scammers stole a huge amount of money in 2021

Digital Trends

Scammers targeting social media apps such as Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and Twitter stole at least $770 million from victims in 2021.

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Uncovered Star Wars: 1313 Footage Shows Boba Fett's Lost Gaming Greatness

GizModo VR

Boba Fett might be having a rough time as a nascent, Tatooinian crimelord in The Book of Boba Fett , but there’s one thing the ex-bounty hunter was always good at: being a bounty hunter. That would have been the focus of the Star Wars: 1313 , a game that was going to put players in Fett’s boots as he traveled through… Read more.

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Apple reports record revenue despite global chip shortage

Digital Trends

Despite the global chip shortage, Apple has reported record revenue for its most recent quarter, thanks largely to strong sales of the new iPhone 13.

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Watch Out For This Android Malware That Factory Resets Your Phone After Stealing Your Money

GizModo VR

Research published earlier this week shows that a nasty Android banking malware has evolved, bringing with it a number of alarming new features—including the ability to factory reset your device after stealing your money. 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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Garmin Forerunner 955 smartwatch accidentally leaks

Digital Trends

Garmin's highly anticipated Forerunner 955 could be here soon based on a listing on its Australian website that was deleted later.

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Wyze Is Killing Support for Its Original Security Camera

GizModo VR

One of the best deals in the smart home is a deal no more. Wyze, the company behind the affordable WyzeCam security camera, is discontinuing its original WyzeCam V1 on Feb. 1. Read more.

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Long-delayed Universal Control feature for Mac enters beta

Digital Trends

Universal Control is finally available in today’s MacOS and iPadOS updates. The feature lets users seamlessly control their iPad and Mac devices with one input.

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Saga's Return Is Like It Never Left, in the Most Heartbreaking Way

GizModo VR

Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples never intended for Saga to be gone this long. When they announced that the beloved Image Comics series would go on hiatus in 2018 , it was expected to last about a year. Until. it didn’t. And now Saga is back to pick up the pieces it left behind, adding a fascinating twist to one of… Read more.

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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?