Sat.Sep 19, 2020

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Facebook To Discontinue Oculus Rift S Beginning 2021

VRScout

You can still buy an Oculus Rift S.for now. It’s been an exciting week for VR! During Facebook Connect this past week, Mark Zuckerberg talked about the future of how AR technology will play an important role in the future of the company that included information on Project Aria. The company also made the official reveal of the Oculus Quest 2 —a lighter, faster, all-in-one VR headset available this October beginning at $299.

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Virtual Tours: The Key to a Successful School Marketing Plan

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While the coronavirus moving education world almost entirely online, schools and colleges alike are finding themselves having to continuously adjust to the ever-changing landscape. As technologies develop, virtual tours are likely to become more interactive, and educational institutions must be sure to take full advantage of this. Virtual tours have become a promising alternative to traditional recruitment activities that can entice new students to enrol, wherever they may be.

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Lego's New Batman 1989 Batwing Is a Work of Art You Can Actually Hang on Your Wall

GizModo VR

Almost a year after it was first revealed, the Lego 1989 Tim Burton Batmobile remains my favorite Lego set of all time. The model is gigantic, packed with fun details, and a beautiful recreation of an iconic vehicle. So I’m glad to see that Lego has given another one of Batman’s wonderful toys the brick treatment with… Read more.

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How the James Webb Space Telescope will look for life around dead stars

Digital Trends

When the James Webb telescope launches, it may be able to find indications of life beyond our planet -- even on planets orbiting dead stars called white dwarfs.

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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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Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 2 Is Proof That You Should Skip First-Gen Tech

GizModo VR

The original Galaxy Fold was the most important phone of 2019. It showed how flexible display tech could create a totally new type of device with the portability of a phone and the big screen and improved multitasking experience of a tablet. However, like a lot of first-gen products—especially something that… Read more.

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First Ransomware-Related Death Reported in Germany After Attack Paralyzes Hospital

GizModo VR

It sounds like something out of a tragic Black Mirror episode: A woman seeking urgent care died this week after an apparently bungled ransomware attack took down a major hospital in Germany, thus forcing paramedics to rush her to another city for treatment, according to several outlets. Read more.

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How to add and customize home screen widgets in iOS 14

Digital Trends

Apple has launched iOS 14, bringing the ability to add widgets to your iPhone's home screen. We explain how to add and customize home screen widgets in iOS 14.

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Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Win an Emmy for Watchmen, Coming One Step Closer to the Broodiest EGOT Ever

GizModo VR

The most prestigious award combination in entertainment, the EGOT—Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony—is an incredible accomplishment for any musician/actor/creator. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are a little closer. Read more.

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How to sell your old Samsung Galaxy (without getting ripped off)

Digital Trends

Thinking about buying a shiny new Galaxy Note 20 Ultra? You'll need to raise some funds. Check out our guide on how to sell your phone for the best price.

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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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Giancarlo Esposito Discusses His Greatest Acting Challenge Yet: A Cartoon Supervillain

GizModo VR

Giancarlo Esposito is a well respected actor. He played Gus Fring on Breaking Bad. He filled up the screen as Moff Gideon on The Mandalorian. But that pales in comparison to the challenge before him now: playing a cartoon villain on DuckTales. Read more.

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How to use Roll20

Digital Trends

Whether you have a dedicated adventuring party or are looking for a group, Roll20 makes playing and GMing TTRPGs like D&D and V:TM easy as defeating a flumph.

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Epic's Latest Filing Says Apple Lied About Fortnite's Popularity Using 'Cherry-Picked' Stats

GizModo VR

There’s a new development in the high-profile game of chicken between Apple and Epic. The Fortnite developer’s latest legal filing claims that Apple “cherry-picked” Google data in its own legal filing earlier this week to support its narrative that Fortnite’s declining popularity is the impetus behind all this drama. Read more.

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Google Home vs. Amazon Echo

Digital Trends

Google's Home speaker and Amazon Echo are two of the most popular smart speakers on the market. Which smart speaker is right for you?

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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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Sony Apologizes For PS5 Pre-Order Clusterfuck And Says More Consoles Will Be Available This Year

GizModo VR

Earlier this week, PS5 pre-orders started up at various retailers around the world at different times and with little warning. This created a giant mess and now Sony has officially apologized for the clusterfuck. Read more.

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Respawn swings banhammer on Apex Legends players exploiting bugs

Digital Trends

Respawn issued one-week bans against Apex Legends players who were taking advantage of exploits, as the developer continues its crackdown against cheaters.

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Saturday's Best Deals: Dyson Hot + Cool Air Purifier, Huckberry Onsen Bath Towels, Beats Solo Pro Headphones, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, USDA Certified Organic CBD Oil, IT Brush Bath, and More

GizModo VR

A Dyson HP01 Pure Hot + Cool desk purifier , sets of Huckberry Onsen Bath Towels , Beats Solo Pro headphones , a 3-month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription , a Dyson Ball vacuum cleaner , a 2-pack of hand sanitizer bottles , some organic USDA certified CBD oil , and IT Brush Bath purifying makeup brush cleaner lead… Read more.

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The best laptops under $1,000 you can buy right now

Digital Trends

Finding a decent laptop is easy, but finding one under $1,000 is tricky. Our picks are here to help you out.

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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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The Ms. Marvel Series for Disney Plus Has a Directing Team, Including Pakistani Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

GizModo VR

Kamala Khan ’s TV debut is in the works, and Disney has assembled a marvelous (ahem) directorial team. Read more.

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Google reportedly working on new Gmail logo, suggesting upcoming changes

Digital Trends

Google is reportedly working on a new logo for Gmail, which may mean that there are upcoming changes as the service moves further away from just sending emails.

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David Harbour Says Hopper Is Going Through a Major Transformation in Stranger Things Season 4

GizModo VR

Think of it less like a return than a resurrection. Read more.

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First major Marvel’s Avengers patch since launch fixes more than 1,000 issues

Digital Trends

The first major patch for Marvel's Avengers since its September 4 launch fixes more than 1,000 issues, including in the game's campaign and multiplayer modes.

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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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What does Unity’s IPO mean for Virtual Production and Filmmaking?

RealVision VR

(image from the Facebook group: Unity Virtual Production and Cinematography). With Unity achieving nearly the same valuation as it’s rival Game engine maker, Epic (13.6mil versus 17.3mil) what does it mean for Film-Game convergence and VirtualProduction ? From my experience over the past year evaluating Virtual Production (VP) in Unity, I’d say it might not be top-most priority.

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Giant weights, liquid air, and beyond: How we’ll store energy in the future

Digital Trends

In order for the world to transition to clean, renewable energy, we first need more ways to store power. Here's an overview of the best methods.

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Three Vibrant Variations of Beats Solo Pro Headphones Are Only $200 Right Now

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Beats Solo Pro Wireless Noise Cancelling Headphones | $200 | Amazon Read more.

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Motorola Razr (2020) vs. Motorola Razr (2019): A battle on a Razr’s edge

Digital Trends

With the Motorola Razr 2020 hitting shelves this fall, we compare it with the Motorola Razr 2019 across six categories to find out which Razr comes out on top.

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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?