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Snap Launches Long-Anticipated Custom Landmarkers Tool

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This week, Snap rolled out the long-awaited “Custom Landmarkers” developer tool for creating AR experiences anchored to geographic locations. To showcase the tool, five locations around the world already have their own Custom Landmarkers created through partnerships with early access developers. The Road to Custom Landmarkers. In 2019, Snapchat rolled out the original Landmarkers program consisting of 3D models of 30 highly-photographed locations around the world.

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AR Technology Meets Music At SXSW 2022

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Music metaverse company Ristband is using all the technology at its disposal to revolutionize the live music industry. Attendees from all around the world converged on Austin, TX last week for SXSW 2022. The ten-day event was filled with incredible sessions led by educators and XR industry leaders that touched on everything from the metaverse, NFTs, and music to avatars, fashion, VR/AR, and various other ground-breaking technologies.

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Spatial Beats: Google, Meta & SXSW

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Welcome back to Spatial Beats, AR Insider's weekly series that features observations and insights of author and futurist Charlie Fink. This week, we look at action-packed spatial happenings inside and outside of SXSW. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Final Fantasy Creator Square Enix Gets Serious About AR

VRScout

Could a VR/AR adaptation of the deloved fantasy RPG be on the horizon? The 2022 Game Developer Conference (GDC) began earlier today in San Francisco, California, kicking off five days of industry-shaking announcements, round-table discussions, and various other content centered around video game development. A number of high-profile company’s have already begun teasing a handful of exciting announcements, including United States technology company Qualcomm Technologies, who this week annou

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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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What’s the Sales Outlook for AR Glasses?

AR Insider

What's the projected growth in the slow but promising AR glasses sector? We drill down into unit sales projections in the latest Behind the Numbers installment, including numbers and narrative. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Ghostwire: Tokyo Impressions – Not Your Typical Ghost Story

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Part atmospheric survival horror, part action-adventure thriller, "Ghostwire: Tokyo" puts gamers in a spirit-soaked open-world adventure you might not expect.

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Qualcomm & Square Enix Partner to Create AR Games

Road to VR

Qualcomm and Square Enix today announced a partnership that will see the creation of XR experiences by Square Enix, which includes the Japanese company’s subsidiary studios and intellectual property. Announced at the annual Game Developers Conference (GDC 2022) in San Francisco today, the partnership is said to involve Square Enix’s Advanced Technology Division (ATD), which will be working with the chipmaker to create content for AR glasses.

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Vivo's Upcoming X Note Could Mark The Return Of The Phablets

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An unannounced Vivo phone reportedly made an appearance via an online store. The listing was quickly taken down, but not before the details leaked.

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The 20 Best Rated & Most Popular Quest Games & Apps – March 2022

Road to VR

While Oculus doesn’t offer much publicly in the way of understanding how well individual apps are performing across its VR storefronts, it’s possible to glean some insight by looking at apps relative to each other. Here’s a snapshot of the top 20 Oculus Quest games and apps as of March 2022. Some quick qualifications before we get to the data: Paid and free apps are separated.

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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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Teardown Video Reveals What's Inside The iPhone SE (2022)

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A new iPhone SE 2022 teardown reveals what's inside Apple's latest smartphone, plus it answers one big question: can you use parts from the previous generation?

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FOV Ventures Raises $18 Million to Fund European Metaverse Startups

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FOV Ventures is a newly formed venture capital firm which plans to invest in early-stage metaverse startups. The firm says it has raised an initial $18.1 million as part of its first fund. Founding partners David Haynes and Petri Rajahalme announced this month FOV Ventures , a Finland-based early-stage VC firm through which the duo plans to focus on Europe-based metaverse startups.

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Huge Apple Services Outage Takes Out App Store, iCloud, More

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If you're trying to access an Apple service at the moment and find your attempts are futile, then you aren't alone. A huge outage has hit several core services.

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Why vaping can mean more — not less — stress

Mashable VR

Within minutes of your first puff on a nicotine vape, you may have felt less stressed, more focused, and oddly like you had just aced a test. You felt good. Sadly, nicotine can make a great first impression — but then the mind games take over fast. Skip vaping for a few hours and you might be spiraling. A quick vape hit levels you out, but skip another few hours, and you’re back to feeling like crap.

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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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Some Pixel 6 Owners Are About To Get Faster 5G

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It looks like some Pixel 6 owners will be able to make better use of their phones' 5G capabilities thanks to new Verizon C-band network support.

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Want to increase your mindfulness? Try social media.

Mashable VR

March Mindfulness is a Mashable series that explores the intersection of meditation practice and technology. Because even in 2022, March doesn't have to be madness. The internet is full of wonders, and it's equally full of horrors. Being online too much can be a detriment to our mental health , but the internet also provides a wide array of resources that can help us make positive changes in our lives.

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Nintendo Wii And DSi Shop Channels Reportedly Taken Offline Without Warning

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Nintendo fans were recently surprised to find the Wii and DSi shop channels are no longer accessible. It's not clear whether this change was made on purpose.

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Russians are downloading Wikipedia en masse as possible ban looms

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Russia's military invasion of Ukraine is now entering its fourth week with no end in sight. Thanks to Russian President Vladimir Putin 's actions, the country has largely been cut off from the West as a result – whether it be through sanctions and boycotts or Russia itself cracking down on its citizens' access to information from the rest of the world.

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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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Google Search's Best Privacy Feature Will Arrive On Android Any Day Now

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Android users are finally getting access to Google Search's quick delete privacy feature, the one that first arrived on iOS several months ago.

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AMD Releases Milan-X CPUs With 3D V-Cache: EPYC 7003 Up to 64 Cores and 768 MB L3 Cache

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There's been a lot of focus on how both Intel and AMD are planning for the future in packaging their dies to increase overall performance and mitigate higher manufacturing costs. For AMD, that next step has been V-cache, an additional L3 cache (SRAM) chiplet that's designed to be 3D die stacked on top of an existing Zen 3 chiplet, tripling the total about of L3 cache available.

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Why You May Not Be Able To Rent Or Purchase Movies Through The Apple TV App

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The reason why you can't access Apple TV on your Smart TV may have something to do with the TV itself -- specifically, what kind of Smart TV it is.

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The First Marvel Comic Just Sold for Over $2 Million

GizModo VR

When you talk about the all-time most valuable comics, a few instantly come to mind. Superman’s first appearance in 1938's Action Comics #1 , Batman’s first appearance in 1939's Detective Comics #27, and Spider-Man’s first appearance in 1962's Amazing Fantasy #15 are probably the most well-known. But a lesser-known but… 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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TikTok Is Stunned By This Goldfish Who Knows How To Drive

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When it comes to the internet, many of us may feel like we've already seen it all, and then some. But have you ever seen a goldfish drive a tank on wheels?

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Russia officially bans Facebook and Instagram

Mashable VR

If at first you don't succeed, get some court orders and try suppressing the free flow of information again. That appears to be the thinking of the Russian government, which on Monday, March 21, officially banned Facebook and Instagram from the country for what amounts to failing to police discussion of Russia's ongoing and deadly invasion of Ukraine.

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Most Medical Debt Is Getting Wiped From Americans' Credit Reports

GizModo VR

Medical debt is an albatross hung around the necks of Americans—but some relief is on the way. Over the weekend, three of the country’s major credit reporting agencies announced they would soon remove most medical debt from their calculation of credit reports, along with other reforms. The decision was preceded by a… Read more.

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Elon Musk's new master plan includes scaling Tesla to 'extreme size'

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In 2006, Elon Musk revealed his " master plan " for Tesla, a long-term strategy on how the Tesla CEO envisions the company developing over the next decade or so. Roughly 10 years later, he revealed the second part of the master plan. And now, another five years on, he's working on the third instalment. This third part of Musk's master plan hasn't yet been revealed in full, but on Monday, he shared some hints on what it will look like.

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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?