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French Eyewear Company Uses Instagram AR Campaign to Launch Innovative Lenses

ARPost

So far, AR marketing has allowed consumers to try on various products and see how they look wearing these. Bollé , a French sports and lifestyle eyewear manufacturer, takes things further. Their Instagram AR campaign does not only allow users to see how they look wearing their new product line, but also see the world through it. Why are these sunglasses so special?

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Quest is Getting a Third-person Spectator View for Casting

Road to VR

The latest update to the Oculus Integration for Unity includes a beta release of a spectator camera capability which will allow developers to show a third-person view to spectators watching on a smartphone or web browser. Today if a friend wants to watch the action going on inside your Quest game, you can cast your first-person view to your smartphone (through the Oculus app), to a TV (with Chromecast), or to a web browser ( through the Casting page ).

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Snap Doubles Down on AR, Part II

AR Insider

A s you may know, Snap recently held its annual Partner Summit, during which it made the splashy “one-more-thing” announcement that it’s launching AR-enabled Spectacles. As we examined at the time, this is a considerable moment in Snap’s AR lifecycle. But the news was so big that it overshadowed several other notable AR announcements and updates. These are more evolutionary than revolutionary — and less prone to headlines — but are key updates in Snap’s AR mix.

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Co-op Zombie Shooter ‘After the Fall’ Trailer Gives a Closer Look at Combat, Enemies

Road to VR

The upcoming co-op VR zombie shooter, After the Fall , is due for a Summer release date on all major VR headsets, and developer Vertigo Games is offering up a closer look at what players can expect in a new trailer. Due to launch sometime this Summer, we’re steadily learning more about the anticipated co-op VR zombie shooter, After the Fall.

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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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Haptics in VR gaming with Alex Meland (Haptics Club #1)

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The Haptics club is an Open community about #Haptics. Founded by members of Unity, Interhaptics , Senseglove , and Nanoport. An event every other week with speakers from various industries and academia. Do you want to listen to the full podcast ? Who is Alex Meland and bHaptics? Alex Meland is a Community Manager at bHaptics , and passionate about the world of haptics. bHaptics is a company that specialized in full-body haptic suits.

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Using Mixed Reality to Enhance the Educational Process

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While technology has become a big part of the educational process, it’s currently limited to things like collaboration tools and electronic texts. In other words, it is only supplementing the didactic methods that have been around for decades. New technology, like mixed reality (MR), provides excellent opportunities to change all of this and revolutionize the entire educational process.

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The Pandemic Might Have Killed Off Some Flu Strains for Good

GizModo VR

Scientists say that two common strains of the seasonal flu have seemingly vanished from circulation, likely due to public health measures like mask-wearing meant to slow the covid-19 pandemic. Though it will take time to confirm the disappearing act, the unexpected good news could make developing next season’s flu… Read more.

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Facebook buys studio behind Roblox-like Crayta gaming platform

TechCrunch VR

Facebook has been making plenty of one-off virtual reality studio acquisitions lately, but today the company announced that they’re buying something with wider ambitions — a Roblox-like game creation platform. Facebook shared that they’re buying Unit 2 Games, which builds a platform called Crayta. Like some other platforms out there, it builds on top of the Unreal Engine and gives users a more simple creation interface teamed with discovery and community features.

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Archaeologists Open Frozen Wooden Box Found on Viking Mountain Pass

GizModo VR

Melting glacial ice along a mountain passageway in Norway has resulted in the discovery of hundreds of ancient artifacts. One of these items, a wooden box with the lid still firmly in place, has finally been opened, revealing its precious contents. 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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#994: Neuro-Rights Initiative: A Human Rights Approach to Preserving Mental Privacy with Rafael Yuste

Voices of VR

Neuroscientist researcher Rafael Yuste started the Columbia University’s Neuro-Rights Initiative to promote an ethical framework to preserve a set of human rights within neuro-technologies. He.

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Ball in God's Court as Utah Governor Declares 'Weekend of Prayer' for Rain

GizModo VR

The West is in drought. You might even call it Biblical given that a drought this fierce hasn’t hit the region in at least 1,200 years. Read more.

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Philips Hue smart light app revamped, adds geofencing capabilities

Digital Trends

A rework of the Philips Hue app adds new features for Hue lighting, including the ability to add geofencing capabilities to lights to avoid scheduling problems.

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Traffic Deaths Soared in 2020 and Experts Blame Risky Road Behavior During Pandemic

GizModo VR

Traffic deaths in the U.S. surged in 2020 to the highest level since 2007 and experts in the U.S. government believe they know why. Despite driving fewer miles during the covid-19 pandemic, Americans involved in car crashes were taking more risks, including everything from not wearing their seatbelts to driving drunk. 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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7 things you didn’t know you could do in Gmail

Digital Trends

There's much more to Gmail than just sending and receiving email. If you rely on Gmail every day, these tips will make your life much easier.

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Frightened Terns Abandon 1,500 Eggs After a Rogue Drone Crash-Landed on Nesting Island

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Roughly 1,500 elegant tern eggs were abandoned at a southern California nesting island after a rogue drone crash-landed and scared off thousands of birds, the Orange County Register and New York Times reported this week. Read more.

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AMD Super Resolution is coming to the Xbox Series X. Here’s why that matters

Digital Trends

Microsoft's Xbox Series X is about to get better graphics performance with confirmed support for AMD's DLSS competitor called FidelityFX Super Resolution.

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Into the Spider-Verse 2 Recruits Issa Rae as Spider-Woman

GizModo VR

We don’t know what the sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is actually going to be called yet, but its first new cast member has just been revealed. It’s Issa Rae, best known for creating and starring in the HBO show Insecure , who’ll be voicing Jessica Drew, aka, Spider-Woman. The Hollywood Reporter broke the… 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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Computex 2021: GIGABYTE Server Updates MZ72-HB0 For Dual Socket 3rd Gen EPYC

Anand Tech

During Computex 2021 in Taipei, although the event is all-digital due to the Coronavirus pandemic, GIGABYTE Server has showcased its newly revised MZ72-HBO dual-socket motherboard with support for AMD's 3rd generation EPYC 7003 processors. The GIGABYTE Server MZ72-HBO boasts support for up to 128 cores and 256 threads (64c/128t per socket), dual 10 GbE Base-T Ethernet, up to 4 TB of DDR4-3200 memory, and five full-length PCIe 4.0 slots.

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FDA Approves 'Game Changer' Weight Loss Drug, Likely First in a New Era of Obesity Treatment

GizModo VR

On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration approved a new injectable medication for treating obesity—one shown to help people lose a significant amount of weight in clinical trials when taken regularly. The drug, called Wegovy, may just signal a new era in obesity treatment. Read more.

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People waited overnight at Best Buy for the RTX 3080 Ti and still didn’t get it

Digital Trends

Nvidia's latest release, the RTX 3080 Ti, sold out immediately after launch. Over 200 people queued outside of Best Buy to try to buy the card in person.

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TikTok Quietly Tweaks Privacy Policy to Collect Your Biometric Data

GizModo VR

TikTok quietly updated its privacy policy earlier this week in a way that allows the company to automatically collect extensive data on users in the United States—including data about their faces and their voice. 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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How to install a portable air conditioner

Digital Trends

Installing a portable AC can be a bit of a pain, but with our how-to guide and a sliver of patience, you'll have your new appliance up and running in no time.

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Ok, This Is Clearly Not the Classified Alien Report We’re Looking For

GizModo VR

For anyone naive enough to believe the forthcoming congressionally-ordered report on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) observed by U.S. military personnel in recent years would shed some light on the issue, you’re probably about to be let down big time. Reports on Friday, citing people familiar with the inquiry,… Read more.

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Riot Games bans esports team TSM from using new name after crypto deal

Digital Trends

Esports team TSM signed a $210 million deal with cryptocurrency company FTX to change its name to TSM FTX, breaking Riot Games' sponsorship rules.

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Paleontologists Study 9,000-Year-Old Aurochs Bones and Wonder if the Beasts Were Tamed

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For some 9,000 years, the bones of three aurochs—huge, extinct ancestors of modern cattle—languished at the bottom of a cave in northwestern Spain. A team of paleontologists have now genetically sampled the Mesolithic remains, which were found in the 1990s near a human skeleton, and they believe that the DNA could… 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?