VRScout

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Everyones favorite astrophysicist is ‘the Voice of the Universe’ in this VR wellness experience for Quest. In 2014, The US National Library of Medicine published a report that outlined how the benefits of having a daily meditation routine can actually reduce anxiety symptoms, improve stress reactivity, and boost your coping mechanisms. Available now on Quest and Quest 2 headsets, Maloka is a calming VR experience that gamifies the meditation experience to help you create a personaliz

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Web AR has a specific set of attributes that drive its value as an immersive medium. So how can brand marketers work with those realities and lean into web AR's unique capabilities? We examine the ways. The post What are Top Web AR Tactics? Part II appeared first on AR Insider.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The first official Quest Day featured everything from VR pet accessories to Quest-based cooking utensils. Today was Meta’s first-ever Quest Day, an annual celebration of all things Meta Quest. As part of the festivities, Meta took to Instagram Live throughout the day to hand out a variety of free goodies to those tuning in. Unfortunately, these products were available on a first come first serve basis, which means they’re already long-gone.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 14, 2021

11 min read In 2016, Pokemon Go took the world by storm and showed the growing demand for AR gaming. The hype around Pokemon Go showed that augmented reality could be of interest to a wider audience, including those who usually do not play mobile games. Other companies tried to repeat the success of Pokemon Go and release similar games with location, such as Jurassic World Alive or Harry Potter: Wizards Unite.

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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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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In recent months, you may have come across a phrase growing in popularity: Web3. You might be wondering what it is, what it will mean for the future, and how exactly the third-generation internet differs from the first two. Let’s cut to the chase: For Web3 evangelists, it’s a revolution; for skeptics, it’s an… Read more.

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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Samsung and IBM revealed new breakthroughs in their collaboration to produce a new semiconductor design. The future chips may be ultra-efficient and fast.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In the buildup to the Fantastic Four’s 60th anniversary this year, the classic team’s actually been alive, well, and prominently featured throughout some of Marvel’s notable comics. Though Marvel could have closed the year out by simply doubling down on boosting the team’s profiles within its core comics universe, the… Read more.

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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 14, 2021

A NASA probe has “touched” the sun, making it the first human-made object to do so in a feat described by the agency as “one giant leap for solar science.”.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The dino-killing asteroid smashed into an unfortunate spot and at the deadliest possible angle , and as a group of scientists have now concluded, it also struck Earth at a sensitive time of year—at least for animals living in the northern hemisphere. Read more.

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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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Anand Tech

DECEMBER 14, 2021

At the recent Qualcomm Snapdragon Tech Summit, the company announced its new flagship smartphone processor, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. Replacing the Snapdragon 888, this new chip is set to be in a number of high performance flagship smartphones in 2022. The new chip is Qualcomm’s first to use Arm v9 as well as Samsung’s 4nm process node technology.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The U.S. Library of Congress handles a lot of things, including running the National Film Registry , which “selects 25 films each year showcasing the range and diversity of American film heritage” to “ensure the survival, conservation and increased public availability of America’s film heritage to increase awareness… Read more.

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Anand Tech

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Seagate's Application Platform (AP) series of servers have targeted the market segments requiring tightly coupled storage and compute capabilities. The currently available SKUs - The Exos AP series with HDDs, and Nytro AP series with SSDs - are all based on Intel CPUs. That is changing today with the introduction of the Seagate Exos AP 5U84 based on the AMD EPYC Embedded 7292P processor.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 14, 2021

While 2021 was a year we spent revisiting some old favorites (and old new favorites ), it was also a year of exciting discoveries, bringing new movies, TV series, and unforgettable characters into our lives. Here are seven projects and people that brightened up our nerdy lives in 2021. Read more.

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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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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Microsoft recently announced that it's rebranding Xbox Game Pass for PC as PC Game Pass. The name is far from the main issue with the PC subscription service.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 14, 2021

If you owned a Game Boy, there’s a good chance the Game Boy Camera was your first digital camera. It was cheap, it was easy to use, and the 2-bit pixelated images it captured had an undeniable charm. For the first time in nearly 23 years there’s finally going to be an easy way to get those digital pics onto other… Read more.

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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 14, 2021

How realistic are the experiences of the astronomers in Netflix film Don't Look Up? We talked to the film's science consultant, Dr. Amy Mainzer, to find out.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Viscose rayon is often billed as a more sustainable fabric. But a new investigation shows that one of its most popular purveyors is contributing to deforestation in Indonesia. Read more.

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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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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Apple's new Tracker Detect app lets Android users detect AirTags on their person, but it's still not as good as the automatic scanning you'll find on iPhones.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Pretty much everyone agrees Pacific Rim: Uprising wasn’t very good , but that wasn’t the sequel we were supposed to get. Guillermo del Toro , who directed the original, had signed aboard, written a script, and was getting ready to shoot the film when various studio shenanigans put it on hold. But del Toro, for the first… Read more.

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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 14, 2021

A space tourist on the International Space Station has shared a video showing how astronauts go to the bathroom in microgravity conditions.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 14, 2021

No, you’re not a trillionaire. But you’d be forgiven for soiling your trousers when you took a peek at the price of your favorite cryptocurrency investments on CoinMarketCap on Tuesday afternoon. Read more.

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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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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Dell has unveiled Project Pari, a completely wireless webcam that magnetizes to a screen to mimic eye contact on video calls.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Gadget makers are slowly grappling with the electronic waste created by their products, and now it looks like a more sustainable future is on the horizon. Dell’s Concept Luna aims to make the company’s laptops more environmentally friendly, and in the process will also make them more repairable. While Dell hasn’t… Read more.

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Digital Trends

DECEMBER 14, 2021

As the year draws to a close, the Digital Trends Editorial team wants to look back and highlight our favorite products of 2021. Here's the cream of the crop!

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 14, 2021

By the standards of Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, Doctor Strange and Spider-Man teaming up in Spider-Man: No Way Home is somewhat unexpected. But the idea of the two frequent Avengers hanging out and getting into trouble with one another makes quite a bit of sense over in the world of Marvel comics, where they’ve both… Read more.

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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?

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