VRScout

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Visitors can immerse themselves in the world of Kamigawa using a VR headset. This Friday marks the start of “Magic: The Gathering Virtual Art Exhibition,” an online event during which fans of the popular trading card game can surround themselves in all things MTG. A first for the franchise, the VR art show is being held in honor of the games’ latest set, “Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty.” Upon logging into the event, players can explore a virtual recreation of the fictional world of Kam

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

XR developer platform 8th Wall has just announced a partnership with cross-platform avatar builder Ready Player Me. To be fair, the list of companies compatible with Ready Player Me is growing all the time. However, there are a few things about the two companies that make this partnership particularly special. I Want to Talk About Ready Player Me. To really understand the importance of this announcement, we have to make sure that we’re on the same page regarding Ready Player Me.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Stand out in the metaverse with your very own digital replica. 8th Wall and Ready Player Me are coming together to launch a set of tools that will allow you to build custom, interactive avatars you can use throughout a variety of web-based metaverse experiences. Thanks to these new tools, developers will be able to design WebAR experiences compatible with Ready Player Me avatars using a Ready Player Me sample project that is now available via 8th Wall’s impressive Project Library that is continu

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

To pick up where we left off last week, the metaverse’s key ingredients are being built. But unlike the metaverse itself, these building blocks exist today. For example, they include AR for everything from enterprise productivity to brand marketing. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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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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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Half-Life: Alyx (2020) has been in the wild for a little under two years now, and modders have been busy using it to make cool stuff—just like they did with the original Half-Life (1998). Enter ‘Gunman Contracts’, a multi-chapter mod that scores some serious style points while smartly leveraging Valve’s Source 2 for some John Wick -style action.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

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 February 2022. Some quick qualifications before we get to the data: Paid and free apps are separated.

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Slashgear

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Italdesign teased an all-electric reboot of one of the most iconic cars to ever grace the big screen, now, in the past, and in the future: the DeLorean DMC-12.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Some cute little plants in Antarctica are flourishing in warmer temperatures—an ominous sign for rest of the continent and the world. A study published Monday in Current Biology finds that the continent’s only flowering plants have been growing rapidly in the past decade, thanks to warmer temperatures. Read more.

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Slashgear

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The refreshed 2023 Nissan Z is the automaker's first update of its popular sports car in a decade. Here's everything you can expect in the forthcoming model.

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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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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

There's a beautiful new grouch in the neighborhood. His name is Brett Goldstein. The die-hard Muppets fan who plays Roy Kent, Ted Lasso 's most famous grump, visited Sesame Street to chill in a trash can alongside his "kindred spirit," Oscar the Grouch. On Tuesday, Goldstein tweeted a stunning 16-second clip of the delightful crossover. The snippet shows him and Oscar sitting side-by-side in bins.

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Slashgear

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In the grand scheme of Apple's updates to hardware, it would appear that the next MacBook release will be the sort where changes are largely under the surface.

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Reading Rainbow presenter LeVar Burton appeared on The Daily Show to back up host Trevor Noah's monologue about banned books, pointing out the ridiculousness of many of these bans. With calls for book bans sharply spiking this school year, Noah noted the motive behind these challenges may not entirely be concern for fragile young minds. "[ The request to ban a Michelle Obama biography ] totally gives away the game that this is more about ginning up a culture war than protecting kids," said Noah.

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Slashgear

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Mercedes-Benz's new EQE all-electric sedan gets a new more powerful, more agile relative in the dual-motor, front and rear electric drive AMG EQE.

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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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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Online test takers around the country are reportedly getting tricked into using fake answer sites surreptitiously snitching on them to universities, a sneaky practice some education advocates claim amounts to entrapment. In one case, prolific remote proctoring company Honorlock reportedly had around 12 of these “seed… Read more.

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Slashgear

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Austrian motorcycle and racing car manufacturer KTM teamed with Brabus to create an edition of the KTM 1290 Super Duke R Evo sports bike limited to 154 units.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

A 58-foot-tall wall of water that appeared off Vancouver Island in 2020 is among the largest rogue waves ever recorded, and it’s the very largest in terms of its proportion to surrounding waves, according to scientists. Read more.

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Slashgear

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The latest Xbox Game Pass update for February of 2022 adds a selection of sports and strategy games to the mix, with a few odd surprises for good measure.

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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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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Israeli authorities say it should be probed and U.S. authorities are calling for it to be sanctioned , but EU officials have a different idea for how to handle Pegasus spyware: just ban that s**t entirely. Read more.

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Slashgear

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Amazon Android apps are now available on Windows 11, opening many popular apps and games to users of the popular PC operating system.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In June of last year , Disney Parks in the United States made masks optional in outdoor areas for vaccinated guests. That changed for a while but starting this week, it’ll go back again. Starting February 17, vaccinated guests won’t be forced to wear masks outdoors. Which would make more sense if Disney checked for… Read more.

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Slashgear

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The best part of owning a vehicle is customizing it to meet your needs. That's where Ford's FITS comes in, offering templates for 3D-printed accessories.

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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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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Sea levels on U.S. coastlines are expected to rise an average of 10 to 12 inches by 2050, according to a new report led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). It’s the latest jarring assessment of how climate change is disrupting life as we knew it. Read more.

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Slashgear

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Valve has designed the Steam Deck with future repairs in mind, and while many of the components are easy to access, there's one very big problem.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Paramount Pictures just dropped enough news to fill a whole year’s worth of Hall H Comic-Con panels. Transformers, Star Trek, Sonic, Ninja Turtles, Halo, Quiet Plac e, and more all had significant news revealed during a company investors’ call Tuesday and here’s how it broke down. Read more.

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Slashgear

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Insider reports and rumors of some rather on-point features in the Galaxy Fold 4 may be the key to ending the Galaxy Note series once and for all.

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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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