VRScout

AUGUST 14, 2021

2017’s charmingly odd platforming game Getting Over It is getting an unofficial VR remake for the Oculus Quest and PC VR. For those unfamiliar, Getting Over It was a painfully unforgiving platforming game in which players use a mouse or trackpad to navigate a man named Diogenes up a steep mountain. Similar to the famous Greek philosopher of the same name, the shirtless avatar lives within a large metal cauldron and is controlled using a Yosemite hammer which players use to grip surroundi

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 14, 2021

A few days after it released some new design changes meant to make it more accessible, Twitter is going back to the drawing board, and for a very good reason. The design choices were literally hurting some users’ eyes and giving them headaches. Read more.

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Digital Trends

AUGUST 14, 2021

Helicopter Ingenuity continues zipping around above the Mars surface, recently completing its eleventh flight and taking photos of its rover buddy Perseverance.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 14, 2021

Who would have thought that Kal-El might have appeared in The Suicide Squad ? Well, James Gunn wanted to make this a reality. Gunn reveals Superman was the initial big bad for the film instead of Starro the Conqueror in a new interview. Read more.

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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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Digital Trends

AUGUST 14, 2021

NASA is sending a rotorcraft called Dragonfly to explore Titan, the moon of Saturn, in the hopes of sniffing out signs of life there.

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Digital Trends

AUGUST 14, 2021

Boeing and NASA have announced they are calling off the planned orbital test flight of the Starliner spacecraft, with the craft returning to a Boeing facility.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 14, 2021

Amongst the ongoing turmoil between Scarlett Johansson and Disney over compensation for Black Widow, Emma Stone has signed on for Cruella 2! Read more.

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Digital Trends

AUGUST 14, 2021

Should Tom Hardy's Venom become part of the MCU? Here are some of the reasons why Marvel's favorite symbiote should or shouldn't join the MCU narrative.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 14, 2021

Humanity just can’t catch a break, and it looks like the honeybees in Washington state can’t, either. 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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Digital Trends

AUGUST 14, 2021

Venus has been a hotspot in the solar system this week, as two different missions have captured footage of their flybys of the planet.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 14, 2021

Australian actor Sam Reid has been cast as Lestat in AMC’s Interview with a Vampire show. Read more.

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Digital Trends

AUGUST 14, 2021

VPNs are all too necessary to keep your internet activity private, but not all of them are ideal for Macs. Here are the best VPNs you can get for your Mac.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 14, 2021

After being put on the back burner, the long-awaited Spawn film is back in play. 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

AUGUST 14, 2021

The Lamborghini Countach returns as an 803-horsepower hybrid, with retro styling referencing the original Countach of the 1970s.

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Oculus

AUGUST 14, 2021

This week, we released a bunch of titles and updates across the Oculus Platform. Here’s a rundown of the highlights.

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Digital Trends

AUGUST 14, 2021

The recently-fixed Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning image of the dusty birthplace of stars.

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Digital Trends

AUGUST 14, 2021

After 48 hours with the Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Z Flip 3, I was surprised by how much I ended up liking the Flip.

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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

AUGUST 14, 2021

After 48 hours with the Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Z Flip 3, I was surprised by how much I ended up liking the Flip.

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Digital Trends

AUGUST 14, 2021

Anyone should take pride in their Shiny Pokémon, regardless of how they went about obtaining them.

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Digital Trends

AUGUST 14, 2021

Motivate your children to move without nagging them thanks to this affordable fitness tracker from Fitbit.

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Digital Trends

AUGUST 14, 2021

If your router hasn't been updated in a few years, it could have valuable firmware updates and fixes waiting. Here's how to access them and update your router.

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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

AUGUST 14, 2021

Is it time to update your Wi-Fi password to something more secure? Our guide will run through exactly how to change your router Wi-Fi password the easy way.

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