Mon.Oct 18, 2021

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Oculus Quest 2 App Features The Voices And Art Of St. Jude Patients

VRScout

Ascend to the stars in a space elevator and immerse yourself in a collection of thoughts from real patients at St Jude Hospital. Voices of Inspiration , a new VR game from award-winning creator Lucas Rizzotto ( Where Thoughts Go ) and tech company Z3VR, promises to offer players a unique window into the thoughts and minds of real patients at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

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Why Every Company Needs a Metaverse Strategist

ARPost

The metaverse is coming (some iteration of it is already here) and it’s going to encompass society as we know it. In 2019, Marshmello’s virtual concert on Fortnite saw 10.7 million attendees tune in. In 2020, Travis Scott’s virtual performances on Fortnite saw more than 45 million viewers across 5 shows. In just the last handful of weeks, a collection of Bored Apes sold at Sotheby’s for more than $24 million , Budweiser purchased the web3 domain beer.eth for almost $100,000 , and Tennis supersta

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Does Device Quality Impact AR Satisfaction?

AR Insider

Do newer devices offer more robust AR experiences (e.g. 5G, LiDAR)? And what impact does that ultimately have on the user experience, and users' reported AR satisfaction. We dive into the latest consumer sentiment data for answers. The post Does Device Quality Impact AR Satisfaction? appeared first on AR Insider.

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The 20 Best Rated & Most Popular Quest Games & Apps – October 2021

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 October 2021. Some quick qualifications before we get to the data: Paid and free apps are separated.

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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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Spatial Beats: Magic Leap, Microsoft & HTC

AR Insider

Welcome back to Spatial Beats. New names and old ones round out this week in XR with big funding for Magic Leap, and Sky Mavis,… Continue reading → Spatial Beats: Magic Leap, Microsoft & HTC. The post Spatial Beats: Magic Leap, Microsoft & HTC appeared first on AR Insider.

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Apple Announces M1 Pro & M1 Max: Giant New Arm SoCs with All-Out Performance

Anand Tech

Today’s Apple Mac keynote has been very eventful, with the company announcing a new line-up of MacBook Pro devices, powered by two different new SoCs in Apple’s Silicon line-up: the new M1 Pro and the M1 Max. The M1 Pro and Max both follow-up on last year’s M1, Apple’s first generation Mac silicon that ushered in the beginning of Apple’s journey to replace x86 based chips with their own in-house designs.

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Facebook Announces Its Fake Ad Numbers Are Going to Get Even Faker

GizModo VR

It’s implicitly understood that the roughly $200 billion that folks are expected to spend on digital ads this year in the US will be spent on more than a few phony figures , puffed-up sales pitches , and numbers that are just, well blatantly fake. It’s just a reality in the industry and no one is immune. But some of… Read more.

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TSMC Roadmap Update: 3nm in Q1 2023, 3nm Enhanced in 2024, 2nm in 2025

Anand Tech

TSMC has introduced a brand-new manufacturing technology roughly every two years over the past decade. Yet as the complexity of developing new fabrication processes is compounding, it is getting increasingly difficult to maintain such a cadence. The company has previously acknowledged that it will start producing chips using its N3 (3 nm) node about four months later than the industry is used to (i.e., Q2), and in a recent conference call with analysts, TSMC revealed additional details about its

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Breaking Down The Batman Trailer's Secretive Shadows

GizModo VR

Our latest look at Warner Bros. and DC’s The Batman is here, and it re-introduces us to Robert Pattinson’s angry young vigilante , as well as shining a spotlight on a few more faces barely glimpsed in the original trailer from last year. But what other details can we uncover? Let’s take a closer look. 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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NASA investigating possible issue with Lucy spacecraft hours after launch

Digital Trends

NASA says its engineers are currently investigating a potential issue with its Lucy spacecraft where one of its solar arrays may have failed to lock into place.

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The Story of Marvel Studios' Authors Want to Invert Your Notions About the MCU

GizModo VR

Fans are paying outsized amounts of attention the moment any tidbit of Marvel news breaks, and because the studio puts out so much information about what’s in the pipeline , it can be easy to get the impression you’re getting the full picture. But Tara Bennett and Paul Terry, the co-authors of Abrams’ upcoming The … Read more.

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Waymo’s self-driving cars can’t get enough of one dead-end street

Digital Trends

Waymo's autonomous cars keep showing up in a dead-end street in a quiet part of San Francisco, causing residents there to wonder what on earth is going on.

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Russian Film Crew Returns to Earth Safely After 12 Days of Shooting on the ISS

GizModo VR

The Russian film crew that traveled to the International Space Station to film scenes for the first movie shot partially in space returned to Earth safely on Sunday. The milestone will potentially give Russian film industry a small win over Hollywood , which also aims to shoot a movie on the ISS featuring Tom Cruise in… 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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All the latest Black Friday deals, news, and more — shop today, save now!

Digital Trends

We've rounded up the latest Black Friday news, including Black Friday dates rumors for retailers, the best offers you can shop today, and more, right here.

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Netflix’s Squid Game, Which Cost $21.4 Million to Make, Will Reportedly Generate $900 Million in Value

GizModo VR

A look at Netflix’s show data, which is normally held under lock and key and not available to the public, has provided a new information on what the success of South Korean drama Squid Game means to the company. In short, buckets and buckets of money and lots of people sticking around until the end. Read more.

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Why Apple finally killed the Touch Bar on the MacBook Pro

Digital Trends

With the release of the new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro, Apple decided to get rid of the highly controversial Touch Bar. Here's why.

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Why the New MacBook Pro Won't Be a Great Gaming Laptop

GizModo VR

Apple just took the wraps off its redesigned MacBook Pros featuring new custom M1 Pro and M1 Max chips. And while I can’t help but be impressed by Apple’s lofty performance claims, folks are now wondering if this means the new MacBook Pros are suddenly good gaming laptops now. We haven’t used the new Pros so it’s too… 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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How to watch Google’s Pixel 6 event tomorrow; Pixel 6 and 6 Pro expected

Digital Trends

Google is launching the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro on October 19 during its Fall Launch event. Here's how to join in in the fun.

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macOS Monterey Is Finally Rolling Out on Oct. 25

GizModo VR

macOS Monterey finally has a release date: During Apple’s Mac event on Monday, the company announced that Monterey—also known as macOS 12—will be available on Monday, Oct. 25. Read more.

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The Apple 2021 Fall Mac Event Live Blog 10am PT (17:00 UTC)

Anand Tech

Following last month’s announcement event of Apple’s newest iPhone and iPad line-ups, today we’re seeing Apple hold its second fall event, where we expect the company to talk about all new things Mac. Last year’s event was a historic one, with Apple introducing the M1 chip and new powered Mac devices, marking the company’s move away from x86 chips from Intel, taking instead their own future in their hands with their own custom Arm silicon.

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Where to Watch Dune (All of Them)

GizModo VR

The spice must flow, and flow it will when Denis Villeneuve ’s long-awaited adaptation of sci-fi grandmaster Frank Herbert’s Dune arrives in the U.S. on October 22. But Villeneuve’s movie isn’t the only Dune available to check out—there’s a cult classic movie adaptation from 1984, two well-regarded miniseries that… 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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Leaked Beats Fit Pro: Are they the new Powerbeats Pro?

Digital Trends

An internal version of Apple's iPhone software appears to have revealed the Beats Fit Pro, an unannounced set of workout-friendly true wireless earbuds.

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Facebook Is Looking for 10,000 People Who Don’t Hate Facebook

GizModo VR

If you’re based out of Europe and don’t, uh, already hate Facebook , then boy oh boy does the company have the perfect job for you. On Sunday, the company announced that it plans to create 10,000 “high-skilled jobs” across the EU to help build out Facebook’s plans for the “metaverse.” Read more.

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The MacBook Pro has an ugly notch — and there’s one big reason why

Digital Trends

I can’t quite believe it, but Apple’s MacBook Pro 14 and MacBook Pro 16 have a notch. Yet there’s one big reason why Apple made this seemingly crazy decision.

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After Dune, You’ll Never Think About Water the Same Way Again

GizModo VR

The latest iteration of Dune , set to hit theaters October 22, will serve as a potent reminder of our troubled relationship with water, particularly as we manage the catastrophic effects of climate change and increasingly venture out into space. 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?