Sun.Nov 07, 2021

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More Than Two Weeks Later, We Still Don’t Know Who Saved the La Palma Dogs

GizModo VR

Rest assured, there are still good people in this world. And they care about dogs, which honestly makes them even better. A group of people claim to have rescued the dogs that were trapped by lava flows from the La Palma volcanic eruption. There’s just one mystery: We have no idea who they are. Read more.

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NASA gears up to launch a spacecraft that will crash into an asteroid

Digital Trends

Most space missions don't intend to crash their spacecraft. But that's just what NASA has in mind for its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission.

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Come Sontar-Have a Spoilery Chat About This Week's Doctor Who

GizModo VR

We’ve not had Sontarans on Doctor Who for a little while, and even when we did, they were more of the comedy variety in the form of Strax rather than the menacing little ankle-biters-with-laser-guns they were when re-introduced with “The Sontaran Stratagem” and “The Poison Sky” over a decade ago. Now they’re back in… Read more.

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Facebook’s ‘meta-existential’ pivot for survival

TechCrunch VR

Jacob Mullins. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jacob Mullins is a managing director at Shasta Ventures, where he has invested in VR/AR since 2016. More posts by this contributor. The top 10 best of VR in 2016. Investment Banking 2.0 Says “Hello World!?”. Facebook is in the fight for its life, but it won’t be the regulatory pressure that will kill it.

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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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Elon Musk Asked Twitter If He Should Sell 10% of His Tesla Stock to Pay Taxes. Twitter Voted Yes

GizModo VR

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, a well-known Twitter addict , thought it would be a grand idea to let the people on the platform decide whether he should pay taxes or not, so he made a poll. Musk asked the Twitterverse whether he should sell 10% of his Tesla stock, saying he was prepared to honor the results of the poll,… Read more.

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Google Sends Assistant’s Personalized Audio News Updates to the Graveyard

GizModo VR

In case you were fond of “Your News Update,” the feature on Google Assistant that created a personalized audio news stream based on the data the company has on you, it’s time to bid it adieu. Google unexpectedly killed it in recent days, so it is no more. Read more.

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This awesome 4K space station tour reveals its enormous size

Digital Trends

A new 4K video tour of the International Space Station takes us through the many modules that make up the enormous orbiting facility.

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Eternals' Director Chloé Zhao Talks Those Two Post-Credits Scenes

GizModo VR

You know the deal by now: Eternals , the latest Marvel movie starring a new batch of emotionally stunted misfits and superpowered weirdos, has two post-credits scenes to tee up both its own sequel and further developments for the MCU at large. Following the Hollywood premiere in late October, director Chloé Zhao talked… Read more.

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Gaze into the Cleopatra’s Eye nebula, captured by Hubble

Digital Trends

A Hubble image recently released by NASA shows a striking blue planetary nebula located in the constellation of Eridanus.

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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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Black Adam Wants to Be PG-13 and Let the Bodies Hit the Floor

GizModo VR

The Black Adam footage revealed at DC Fandome back in October featured a moment where a soldier aims his gun Dwayne Johnson’s hooded antihero. In a flash ( not that one ), Adam grabs the soldier by the throat and quickly electrifies him to the point of being dust. It’s a pretty gnarly moment that feels like a joke when… Read more.

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Google responds to complaints about Pixel 6 fingerprint sensor

Digital Trends

Google has finally acknowledged a troubling issue with the in-screen fingerprint sensor on the Pixel 6, but the company didn’t exactly offer a fix.

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Open Channel: What Did You Think of Thor: Love and Thunder?

GizModo VR

Did you know that Marvel put out two movies this weekend? Yes, there was Eternals , but there was also the movie we all actually care about, Thor: Love and Thunder. Directed once again by Oscar-winning funny man Taika Waititi , the new film has Chris Hemsworth’s musclebound thunder god being replaced by a different … Read more.

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Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ 2.0 update isn’t enough to save it

Digital Trends

The Animal Crossing 2.0 update brings new content and old characters, but it's not enough to warrant a full return.

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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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The Leading Quest 2 Video games Rated…

VRGames

The Top Quest 2 Games Rated… In Todays video I rank the Top/Ideal Quest 2 online games out correct now. From, VRchat & Recroom, to Inhabitants 1, Stride, … supply.

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The smart home hacking scene in Scream is possible, but you’re probably OK

Digital Trends

Smart home hacking is possible but very, very unlikely. There are some steps you can take to stay safe.

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VIRTUAL REALITY TRAINING FOR "BANK OF AMERICA " EMPLOYEES

XROM

Bank of America is planning to have virtual reality headsets in all 4,300 financial centers next year. Bank of America Corp. is implementing virtual reality to help train its branch employees. Charlotte-based BofA is planning to have virtual reality headsets in all 4,300 financial centers next year, said John Jordan , head of The Academy at the bank.

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Check out this ‘magical’ view from the ISS showing countless stars

Digital Trends

A new video shot from the International Space Station points away from Earth to show the "magical" sight of distant stars.

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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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Take a Digital Truth tour of six Real exoplanets (4K, 360° VR experience) | We The Curious

VRGames

What would it be like to stand on the floor of yet another earth? We teamed up with astrophysicists to develop a scientifically correct, VR tour of 6 exoplanets. supply.

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See the mighty James Webb Space Telescope being unboxed in a cleanroom

Digital Trends

A video from the European Space Agency (ESA) shows the James Webb Space Telescope being unboxed from its shipping container and unpacked ahead of its launch.

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Celebrating Two Years of ‘Pistol Whip’

Oculus

In the two blazing years since the launch of our first-of-its-kind action-rhythm FPS, Pistol Whip, we’ve turned the game from a small arcade shooter with.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.11.08): Microsoft Teams gets immersive, Meta may open its stores, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Today I’ll travel to the US to be a speaker at AWE , and I hope to meet you all there. I should be packing my suitcase, but instead, I’m here writing this newsletter so that you can enjoy the roundup of best XR news even this week. Since I’m a bit in a hurry, I won’t be as detailed as usual in my commentary, but in any case, there isn’t that much to comment from this week.

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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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Democratic Senators Assure UN Negotiators Build Back Better Is ‘Very Close’ to Passing

GizModo VR

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND — Several members of Congress arrived at the United Nations climate meeting in Glasgow Saturday, the night after Congress moved a little closer to the finish line of passing some kind of climate action in the form of the Build Back Better Act. Read more.