VRScout

APRIL 18, 2022

A new era in VR esports may be upon us. Originally released on Oculus Rift headsets back in 2017, Echo Arena has remained one of the most popular VR sports experiences currently available thanks to its straightforward but satisfying multiplayer gameplay and free-to-play price tag. The game has been featured as part of numerous esports competitions over the years, establishing itself as one of the go-to competitive VR experiences.

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AR Insider

APRIL 18, 2022

30 percent of U.S. adults have used AR at least once according to our latest survey. But how often are they using it? We drill into survey sentiments in the latest Behind the Numbers installment. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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VRScout

APRIL 18, 2022

More physics-driven fun is on the way. Earlier today, Stress Level Zero developer Brandon J Laatsch ( Boneworks, Hover Junkers, Duck Season ) offered a small update on the team’s next VR game, codenamed ‘Project 4.’ You know, because it’s their fourth project. Get it? The teaser for @StressLevelZero ’s 4th project is coming in 48 hrs!

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ARPost

APRIL 18, 2022

If you’re a regular ARPost reader, you’ve probably seen us cover annual events like The Polys , the Immerse Global Summit , and the Augmented World Expo. This month, we were invited to cover an event for the very first time – AfroTech World. Here, we’re going to introduce AfroTech, and of course cover what we could catch from the two-day conference, which took place in Virbela.

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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

APRIL 18, 2022

HTC shared a curious tease that reveals a new Vive product which appears to be part of a system leveraging the company’s Vive Trackers for virtual productions. HTC’s Vive brand has been exclusively focused on XR technologies, but late last week the company teased a new Vive product that is likely more tangential to the XR space than part of it.

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AR Insider

APRIL 18, 2022

Welcome back to Spatial Beats, AR Insider's weekly series that features observations and insights of author and futurist Charlie Fink. This week, we look at Meta's Cambria leaks, TikTok's AR platform and Epic's big raise. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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ARVR

APRIL 18, 2022

We often call Instagram AR’s sleeping giant. But a company more deserving of the title may be TikTok. It has exploded as a user-generated media powerhouse, differentiated by high production quality, authenticity, and a use case that engenders deep user engagement. The same factors in TikTok’s UX make it conducive to long sessions of content discovery.

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Slashgear

APRIL 18, 2022

Smart contact lenses are still a novel concept, but a new market analysis report claims that'll change soon, and we may have Google and Samsung to thank.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 18, 2022

Employees at Tesla’s Shanghai factory are reportedly being forced to live at work following a three-week shutdown due to a recent outbreak of Covid-19 cases in China. The company will hand out sleeping bags and mattresses to its employees, who will be made to sleep on the floor while operating in a so-called… 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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Slashgear

APRIL 18, 2022

Vivo has officially introduced its upcoming X80 series smartphones, though only in a couple of teasers on Weibo. Here's what we know about the line so far.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 18, 2022

In the hours following the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, employees at Facebook tasked with preventing “potential offline harm” found themselves under siege by a mob of a different sort. Reports of abusive content from users were flooding in. As one employee put it in an internal forum, many of the flagged posts… Read more.

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Slashgear

APRIL 18, 2022

After you've deleted all the old apps and unused files on your Android device, but your phone still moves too slow, it's time to take a peek at your cache.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 18, 2022

In the fall of 2021, members of the U.S. Congress and hundreds of Western journalists obtained access to a collection of internal Facebook documents. The trove of research reports, proposals, presentations, and employee conversations would form the foundation for dozens of news stories describing Facebook’s own… 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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Slashgear

APRIL 18, 2022

Massive amounts of pieces of space junk float around our planet. One company has a solution for avoiding said space junk as we travel beyond it.

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Digital Trends

APRIL 18, 2022

HP's new foldable laptop is on the way, and it will likely be made with a thin polyimide film. That's the same material used in the original Galaxy Z Fold.

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Slashgear

APRIL 18, 2022

Conceptual design work and the word of some insider sources suggest Apple's next update for iPadOS could change the way we use the tablet.

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Mashable VR

APRIL 18, 2022

Although Fitbit built its reputation on activity trackers , its offerings have since expanded to include smartwatches , smart water bottles , and — the driver of this trial and article — smart scales. The Aria Air, priced at $49.95, is the company’s latest bathroom scale that offers several features that make it easy for existing Fitbit customers in particular to track one more health- and wellness-related metric.

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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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Slashgear

APRIL 18, 2022

The stars have aligned, sort of. From our perspective here on Earth, four big neighboring planets appear to have formed a line, and you can see them now.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 18, 2022

After teasing the feature late last month, Instagram announced on Monday that anyone—verified influencer or otherwise—can tag brands and products in their posts. Read more.

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Slashgear

APRIL 18, 2022

A report suggests that the Department of Homeland Security is actively investigating TikTok for concerns of CSAM material shared through the network.

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Mashable VR

APRIL 18, 2022

Astronomers have used Hubble Space Telescope data to identify a rapidly growing black hole in the early universe that is considered a critical "missing link" between star-forming galaxies and the first supermassive black holes, according to NASA. Until now, the black hole, described as a 'monster' and nicknamed GNz7q, had gone unnoticed in one of the best-studied areas of the night sky, the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey-North field, according to NASA.

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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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Slashgear

APRIL 18, 2022

Nissan made a pair of electric vehicles in the 1970s that were far ahead of their time, bringing a vision of what was to come with EVs of the future.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 18, 2022

Cybersecurity experts representing 30 NATO members are fighting a digital war this week to defend a fictional island country. Though “Berylia” is fake, experts involved hope the lessons learned from the staged attack will better prepare them for the possibility of a Russian attack as war ravages Ukraine. Read more.

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Slashgear

APRIL 18, 2022

We take a look at the hidden GIF-making feature Samsung Galaxy smartphones can use with movies, images, and screen recordings.

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Digital Trends

APRIL 18, 2022

NASA has shared raw footage of SpaceX’s Crew-4 training for their space station mission that’s set to get underway in just a few days from now.

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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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