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Stop What You’re Doing And Watch These 5 VR Films

VRScout

The future of storytelling is looking bright. With all this attention on gaming, it’s easy to forget that VR can be a powerful narrative tool in the hands of an experienced filmmaker. The technology offers storytellers the unique opportunity to immerse audiences in ways that would be impossible or considerably more expensive to replicate using conventional film techniques.

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The Real Reason HD-DVD Lost The Format Wars

Slashgear

You may remember the brief presence of HD-DVDs on the market, but what happened to them? The format seemed to disappear as quickly as it arrived.

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We've Found a New Universe, It's the Doctor Strange 2 Spoiler Zone

GizModo VR

Well, it’s finally here. After numerous delays , cryptic trailers , and plenty of teases about who could or couldn’t be showing up, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness arrived in theaters this weekend. It’s going to make a ton of money, as is often the case with MCU movies, and reviews are have been generally… Read more.

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Why Building Rover Opportunity Took A Brutal Toll On The Team

Slashgear

Opportunity was an incredible Mars rover that outlived its mission by years and made many notable discoveries. It was also an immense challenge to build.

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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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Kaiju Thriller Novel Project Nemesis to Receive TV Adaptation

GizModo VR

The last couple of years have delivered us some solid kaiju fun in the form of Ultraman , numerous Godzilla projects from both Japan and the US, and Kaiju No. 8. Whether they’re metaphors for climate change or the atrocities that human beings inflict on one another, or just big ass monsters, watching kaiju wreck… Read more.

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Ms. Marvel's New Promo Teases More of Her New Cosmic Powerset

GizModo VR

There’s a full month left before Ms. Marvel stretches her way over to Disney+ and gives the MCU a different kind of teen spirit. Details on the show have been pretty mum up to now, but a new promo gives us a better look at what Iman Vellani’s Kamala Khan will be capable of in her own TV miniseries. Read more.

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Google Aims To Fix Broken Android App Experiences On Chromebook

Slashgear

Android apps are a popular addition to Chrome OS, but the experience of actually using them is less than great. That may change in the near future.

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Doctor Strange 2 Conjures Up a Big Box Office Debut

GizModo VR

It’s blockbuster movie season again, and that means some pretty big box office opens. After Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Universal’s The Bad Guys managed to hold back Nicholas Cage and vikings for a handful of weeks, here comes Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness doing what all Marvel movies do and making a… Read more.

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The Simple iPhone Hack To Share Photos You Probably Didn't Know About

Slashgear

Most iPhone "hacks" are obvious things everyone already knows, but not this one. TikTok has unearthed a simple shortcut for rapidly sharing images.

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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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A guide to teaching children how to pet dogs

Mashable VR

The bond between children and dogs is a special one. For children , dogs can be anything from playmates and partners in crime to teachers and sources of comfort. But like any new relationship, there's a learning curve. Without a proper understanding of how to interact with dogs, children might inadvertently provoke them, which could lead to a bite or attack or a stressed dog.

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Whatever Happened To The iPod Nano?

Slashgear

The iPod lives on as a touch-based device, but it was once a simple, dedicated audio player that came in multiple flavors, not the least of which was the nano.

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Cartoon Network Wants to Help Modern Animation Be Its Best Self

GizModo VR

Though 2021 was a big year for animation in the west thanks to hits like Arcane and The Mitchells vs. The Machines, 2022 has had a bit of a shaky start for the medium. There’s been some pretty good series and films released thus far, but the larger industry is going through a bit of an upheaval in an effort to ensure… Read more.

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How To Fix When Your iPhone Has No Service

Slashgear

Is iPhone connectivity giving you trouble? There are a few possible ways to fix the problem yourself, and they're all pretty simple to perform.

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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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Joe Rogan lost the top spot on Spotify to a Batman podcast

Mashable VR

Spotify has a new top podcast in the U.S., with the narrative Spotify Original Batman Unburied finally dethroning The Joe Rogan Experience. It makes sense — most people would probably rather listen to Batman than Joe Rogan. According to The Podcast Charts by Spotify, Batman Unburied is now the No. 1 podcast in the U.S., bumping The Joe Rogan Experience to second place.

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Elon Musk plans to quintuple Twitter revenue by 2028

Digital Trends

Prospective Twitter owner Elon Musk believes he can quintuple the company’s revenue by 2028 via various means that include a new subscription tier called "X.".

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The 'Wordle' double-answer glitch returns, thanks to the news

Mashable VR

If you haven't already played today's Wordle , make sure you refresh your browser, or you might get an unintentional reminder of how distressing the news is right now. The New York Times published a note to Wordle players just after midnight Eastern Time today, May 9, asking them to refresh their browsers before they played in order to ensure they have the updated version of today's puzzle.

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BMW shipping cars without advertised Apple and Google features

Digital Trends

The global chip shortage continues to cause problems for automakers to the point where some are shipping vehicles without all of their advertised features.

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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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'SNL' torches the dangerous absurdity of anti-abortion views in a Roe v. Wade cold open

Mashable VR

Saturday Night Live 's inevitable cold open response to the Supreme Court's seemingly looming decision to overturn Roe v. Wade , the landmark court precedent that guarantees a right to abortion, is about as funny as the news itself. The show had to go there, of course, and the sketch hits on a good idea: Highlight the stunning, bald-faced absurdity and evil of a nakedly political decision that's been shoehorned into existence by a Supreme Court led by the conservative views of justices who owe t

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Dust threatens the future of Mars helicopter Ingenuity

Digital Trends

The helicopter has re-established a link with the rover after communications were lost this week. But for how long can the plucky helicopter keep going?

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How To Connect A PS5 Controller To Your iPhone

Slashgear

Sony's DualSense controller is one of the best controllers on the market, and it's also officially supported by Apple. Here's how to use it with an iPhone.

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In honor of the Scarlet Witch, the MCU’s best character

Digital Trends

Wanda Maximoff's journey in the MCU has been full of ups and downs, but she has remained a compelling figure and arguably, the MCU's best character.

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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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Apple Health Instacart-Like Service Was Briefly On The Table

Slashgear

Apple has seen success with its many services, and that may have been the driving force behind an Instacart-like concept it was allegedly exploring.

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Tokyo Vice: The anatomy of organized crime and Sega’s Yakuza

Digital Trends

HBO Max's Tokyo Vice shows a gripping deep dive into organized crime, and it interestingly does so through a similar lens as Sega's Yakuza games.

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Elizabeth Olsen crashes 'SNL' and plunges Benedict Cumberbatch into the multiverse

Mashable VR

Benedict Cumberbatch hosted Saturday Night Live just as his new movie Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness arrives in theaters. To give the occasion a bit of extra oomf , his Strange co-star Elizabeth Olsen showed up to heighten one of the evening's sketches. In "The Understudy," we see SNL 's Chloe Fineman delivering what are largely pitch-perfect impersonations of her fellow cast members.

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Gaming laptops are lying to us, and no one seems to care

Digital Trends

Most gaming PCs are defined by their specs, but not gaming laptops. Even with the same graphics card, some laptops just don't perform the way they should.

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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?