Wed.May 25, 2022

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Conduct Your Own Virtual Orchestra In Maestro VR

VRScout

Beat Saber meets Beethoven in this one-of-a-kind music experience. Coming soon to PC VR and the Meta Quest 2, Maestro VR is a unique VR rhythm game that puts you in the shoes of a classically-trained conductor in charge of their own virtual orchestra. Unlike existing VR music games such as Beat Saber and Pistol Whip , Maestro VR features classical symphonies from legendary composers as opposed to high-energy electronic dance music.

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Niantic Launches Lightship VPS

AR Insider

Niantic Lightship empowers developers to build Pokemon Go-like geospatial AR experiences. What are implications for a "real-world metaverse?". This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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NRG Releases Report on VR Technology Consumer Attitudes

ARPost

There are a lot of numbers floating through cyberspace regarding who has sold how many headsets or downloaded how many VR apps , or spent how much money in online marketplaces. These kinds of figures can be important to understanding the VR technology market, but they only tell us so much. “Beyond Reality” is a recent study by the National Research Group (NRG) devoted to AR and VR consumer habits.

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Lynx Secures $4M in Series A Funding, Aims to Become “European Champion of Mixed Reality”

Road to VR

Lynx, the French XR hardware startup known for crowdfunding the Lynx R-1 mixed reality headset , today announced it’s secured $4 million in its Series A round, led by social VR platform Somnium Space. Alongside Somnium Space , participants in the latest funding round also include what Lynx calls early supporters of the company and “other investors involved in the AR/VR field such as ex-Meta and Google engineers.” This brings the company’s total outside funding to $6.8 mi

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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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Case Study: Discovery Wines Captures the Spirit of AR

AR Insider

One of AR's strengths as a marketing medium is to make static packaging come to life. Discovery wines took this to heart to enliven its physical labels. What were the tactics & takeaways? We break it down in the latest Campaign Tracker. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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How To Clear Cookies On iPhone

Slashgear

As with laptops and tablets, web browsing on an iPhone causes it to store. a bunch of cookies over time, but you can clear them out whenever you want.

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Unexpected Update Brings New Content to SteamVR Home

Road to VR

Valve released an update to SteamVR this week that unexpectedly added new content to SteamVR Home. Valve has long been making small but helpful updates to SteamVR, but especially in the last year there hasn’t been a particularly clear signal that the company was putting much work into the platform. That’s why it was surprising to see that with the public launch of the SteamVR 1.22 update this week, the company added a surprise—a brand new photogrammetry environment for SteamVR Home

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Mark Zuckerberg Could Be Facing Major Consequences Due To Facebook Data Breaches

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Mark Zuckerberg himself is a target of a lawsuit for data leaks, privacy, and a series of dangerous decisions allegedly made by the founder of Facebook.

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Jacinda Ardern talks to Stephen Colbert about gun control in New Zealand

Mashable VR

In the aftermath of the Robb Elementary School shooting on Tuesday which left 19 children and two teachers dead, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern spoke to Stephen Colbert about gun control — and the measures her own government took following the 2019 Christchurch massacre which saw 51 people killed. "I can only speak to our experience in New Zealand, but you know when I watch from afar and see events such as those today I think of them not as a politician, I see them just as a mot

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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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Things You Never Knew Your Chromebook Could Do

Slashgear

Chromebooks are inexpensive devices that offer long battery life and Chrome OS. The Google operating system is easy to use but packs some big features.

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Clearview AI Says It's Bringing Facial Recognition to Schools

GizModo VR

Clearview AI, the surveillance firm notoriously known for harvesting some 20 billion face scans off of public social media searches, said it may bring its technology to schools and other private businesses. Read more.

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The Five Hottest Features Of The 2023 Maserati MC20 Cielo

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Maserati has unveiled the 2023 MC20 Cielo, a carbon fiber supercar convertible packing both power and high-tech features, not the least of which is smart glass.

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SteamVR Update Adds Mallorca, A New Photogrammetry Environment

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The latest SteamVR update adds a new photogrammetry environment for users, captured in the village of Fornalutx in Mallorca. Mallorca is an island located in the western Mediterranean sea, off the coast of Spain and part of the Balearic Islands. It’s home to an ancient village called Fornalutx and, as described in this post , Valve has processed a bunch of photogrammetric data to create a SteamVR home environment featuring a path running through the village.

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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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Inside Apple's Crazy Patent For Their New Car

Slashgear

We've been hearing about the Apple Car for years, and it seems it may be close to launch. Recent Apple patents have fueled crazy speculation about the model.

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Joe Biden Wants to Put a Japanese Astronaut on the Moon

GizModo VR

President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida further solidified their plans to send a Japanese astronaut to the upcoming lunar space station, while also affirming the possibility of having a Japanese astronaut walk on the Moon during future Artemis missions. Read more.

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Why You'll Hardly Find Any Porsche 916s On The Road

Slashgear

The futuristic Porsche 916 joined the brand's "Little Rebels" — a collection of five Porsche concept cars that were never made.

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NASA Moves Ahead With Wild Solar Sail Concept

GizModo VR

A project to develop diffractive solar sails has advanced to the third and final phase of NASA’s advanced concepts program. The team behind the project now has two years to further develop this unconventional means of space propulsion. 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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Jeep's Go Topless Weekend Ends In 100 Arrests

Slashgear

The Jeep Go Topless Weekend on Crystal Beach on the Bolivar Peninsula, Texas, included drunk driving, assault, injuries, and over 100 arrests.

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Too many used books? Want to help literacy efforts? Here's what to do.

Mashable VR

As nightstand "To Be Read" piles grow and donation boxes expand, readers are consuming more and more books each year. At the same time, the publishing industry still faces a looming threat to the production of physical books, caused by paper and industry shortages , all while millions of children lack access to books of their own, whether at home or at school and public libraries.

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Google Just Delayed The Launch Of The Pixel Fold.Again

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A new anonymous tip suggests that Google leadership has seen an early iteration of the fabled Pixel Fold and decided to delay the release of the foldable.

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'Sniper Elite 5' suggests not all Nazis were bad. F*ck that garbage.

Mashable VR

Let's be clear: There's no such thing as a "good" Nazi. Never has been. Once I realized that Sniper Elite 5 is OK with you sparing Nazi lives, and in fact gives you tools to help decide who's worth saving, it was hard to focus on anything else. Sniper Elite 5 , out May 26, is the latest in developer Rebellion's enduring series of World War II-set action games.

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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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Fortune 500 Has Just Added Their First Crypto Company

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The Fortune 500 list of America's largest companies revealed that their 68th edition (released in 2022) includes the first crypto company in the list's history.

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Collectors Will Drool Over These Gorgeous Mars Stamps

GizModo VR

The United Nations Postal Administration recently issued six new stamps and three souvenir sheets in celebration of human achievements on Mars. Read more.

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This Is The Secret To Better iPhone And iPad Call Quality

Slashgear

If you own a newer iPad, iPhone, or Mac computer, you have access to a great feature you've probably never heard of, and it only takes a tap to enable it.

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Every Dog Owner Needs a Smart Robotic Laser Guiding Them to Poop That Needs Picked Up

GizModo VR

To avoid the hassle of scooping immediately after letting their dog outside for a potty break, and to ensure that future cleanups don’t miss any deposits, Caleb Olson created a smart system that not only tracks where their pup poops, but also uses a laser to guide them to every last pile. 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?