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JUNE 11, 2022

The highly-anticipated social feature will begin rolling out on Quest 2 headsets soon as part of the v41 update. When Meta (formerly Facebook) launched its Facebook Spaces beta for the Oculus Rift back in 2017, the VR app gave us a glimpse of the future of socializing through VR technology. You and your friends could hang out at your home or in a 360-degree video, draw and play games using your Oculus Touch controllers, broadcast live streams on your Facebook feed and even make video calls , all

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Slashgear

JUNE 11, 2022

There are a few tricks to discern if an image you see on the internet or social media has been altered with Photoshop or other photo-editing programs.

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Mashable VR

JUNE 11, 2022

It's never a bad time to bring some more plants into your life. Taking care of plants can be daunting, but thankfully we can get a little bit of help with technology. In order to help you be your best gardener or plant parent, so we found the best apps to simplify the process. Whether you are starting a windowsill herb garden, buying some indoor plants, or planting a garden in your yard, these apps will help you figure out how to care for your plants and remind you to care for them.

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Slashgear

JUNE 11, 2022

Black holes are not giant vacuums, roaming around, sucking up everything in their paths, and because of gravity, they are something much different.

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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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Mashable VR

JUNE 11, 2022

Sometimes, you want a movie to make you anxious, to really sink its hooks into you and stress you out — but in a fun way! When you're in that mood, you need a thriller. Luckily for you, Prime Video has a solid library of movies that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Whether you want to watch a political thriller or a psychological one, these eight movies are sure to scratch that itch.

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Mashable VR

JUNE 11, 2022

One of the best and worst things about Google Chrome is the amount of browser extensions you can find in the Chrome store. It's the best because it gives users almost limitless ways to improve their Chrome experience, but also it's the worst because you might not know how many great extensions you're missing out on if you never look for them. Chrome extensions can do everything, from totally reorganizing your email inbox to filtering out websites with adult content on them.

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Slashgear

JUNE 11, 2022

This clever Android screen hack will allow you to multi-task on your smartphone or tablet like you would with a desktop computer.

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Mashable VR

JUNE 11, 2022

Step away from the computer. Reclaim your time in the great outdoors. Whether gathering supplies for a day hike or setting up camp for a while, these days savvy hikers are sure to pack their digital backpacks with apps to bring out the best in their treks. Don't forget your gorp, and steer clear of fat bears. Happy trails! Pro tip: These apps are tailor-made for hiking and the outdoors, but even the tech you rely on every day can be useful out in nature.

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Slashgear

JUNE 11, 2022

Do often lose the remote to your TV? If you have an Android TV, you can turn your smartphone into a virtual remote - here's how to do that.

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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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GizModo VR

JUNE 11, 2022

In 1955, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce put together a slide show film titled “People, Products and Progress: 1975" to show off what American industry had in store for the technologies of the future. Read more.

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Slashgear

JUNE 11, 2022

Volvo cars used to have distinct boxy designs, but the automaker made a quick transition away from that in the 1990s. A concept car is credited with the change.

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Mashable VR

JUNE 11, 2022

NASA wants to believe. And maybe it will at the conclusion of the latest study the U.S. government’s space agency is conducting. NASA announced this week that it would start a nine-month study in the fall to research unidentified aerial phenomena (or UAPs), with a focus on figuring out how to collect data and use that data to further understand them going forward.

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Slashgear

JUNE 11, 2022

The Mercedes 220SE from The Hangover may as well be a character all its own - here's what happened to the famous car once filming wrapped.

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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

JUNE 11, 2022

Mesina D. is a 15-year-old from Kailua, Oahu. A few years ago, she visited the shoreline with a relative who pointed several feet into the water. “She said, ‘I used to play volleyball out there,’” Mesina told Earther. “And now it’s just all ocean 20 feet up to where we were.” Read more.

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Upload VR

JUNE 11, 2022

Three new modifiers and time-sensitive missions are coming to Pistol Whip on June 16. The update also includes four new Brawler weapons for melee combat, adding Tonfa , Sai , Kama and Chakram to the weapons case. New modifiers include Reinforced to double the strength of your armor alongside High Velocity and Low Velocity to alter the speed of bullets.

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Mashable VR

JUNE 11, 2022

NASA sent its Perseverance rover to Mars' Jezero Crater to sleuth for past hints of life. While there, the car-sized robot has witnessed hundreds of vigorous dust devils. It turns out the Jezero Crater — a region planetary scientists suspect once teemed with water — is an extremely dynamic, dusty world. "Jezero Crater may be one of the most active sources of dust on the planet," Manuel de la Torre Juarez, a NASA scientist who works on the Perseverance mission, said in a statement.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 11, 2022

With just two movies under his belt, Jordan Peele films are now an event unto themselves. Whether you want some creepy visuals, a wicked sense of humor, or just to see black people in horror movies, the director/writer has garnered a big following )both critically and financially) thanks to Get Out and Us. His third… 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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Mashable VR

JUNE 11, 2022

I'm sick of cooking. Not so long ago, I enjoyed it. Cooking was a welcomed way for me to unwind from my workday and slide into my evening. But lockdown changed things. Work from home meant my home kitchen became less a retreat and more a prison, chaining me to the dogged drudgery of meal prep , cooking, washing dishes, rinse, repeat. I was already using make-your-own meal delivery kits.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 11, 2022

Googling “abortion clinic near me” or “abortion pill” in several U.S. states yields misleading results, according to a new report from the non-profit Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH). Read more.

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Mashable VR

JUNE 11, 2022

Where's my Dimetrodon hive? It's our damn day. Though Jurassic World: Dominion may have.been what it is , there's one thing the film absolutely nailed. Almost 30 years since Steven Spielberg's original, the noble Dimetrodon has finally been given its moment in a Jurassic Park film. We've only ever seen Dimetrodon once in the franchise and it doesn't count, as a mere display version behind glass in Benjamin Lockwood's manor museum in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 11, 2022

Perhaps you recall a movie by the name of Spider-Man: No Way Home from late last year. Little indie darling that it was, it was a pretty big win for the box office to close out 2021, serving as the highest grossing movie of the year and one of the biggest box office films of all time. Unless you’re doing it for a … 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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Ryan Schultz

JUNE 11, 2022

I have a few RyanSchultz.com blogposts simmering on the back burner, but first, a short, snappy post about a great, free Second Life hunt for female avatars, offering a generous variety of clothing, makeup, and skin gifts. The Summer Festival Vibes hunt is one of the monthly hunts held at the venerable and recently redesigned freebie store, the Free Dove.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 11, 2022

Back in 2020, The Old Guard served as a fun, exciting action movie that put character over spectacle and wound up being one of the better movies of that year. A movie about a group of immortal warriors functioning as an black ops team isn’t a premise you do just the one time, doubly so if it’s incredibly successful… Read more.

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Mashable VR

JUNE 11, 2022

What's everybody been watching this week then? We've dug into the latest data from streaming aggregator ReelGood , which pulls viewing figures from streaming sites in the UK and the US, and broken out the top 10 most watched TV shows of the past week. There have been some pretty big releases recently, so as you can probably imagine Obi-Wan Kenobi and Stranger Things are leading the charge, while some previous entries like Barry and Better Call Saul continue to rack up the views.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 11, 2022

Tesla’s cars are notoriously hackable , and a new video demonstrates a way an adept cybercriminal could hope inside your car’s system and take it for a ride if they’re nearby. 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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