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The NBA Is Joining The Metaverse

VRScout

Check out the NBA Lane experience in VR via the Horizon Worlds metaverse. Meta today announced that it has partnered with the National Basketball Association (NBA) to bring the NBA Lane experience to its Horizon Worlds VR metaverse in honor of the league’s 75th anniversary, offering you the chance to explore an NBA-themed wonderland complete with various games and activities to complete.

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A Look at the AWE Agenda for This Year

ARPost

The Augmented World Expo (AWE) is returning live and in-person to Santa Clara, California, June 1-3. While sessions will also be available live and as recordings on AWE.LIVE, ARPost will be covering the event from the expo floor. Whether you attend the event on foot, online, or just rely on our coverage, here are just a few of the speakers and events that you can look forward to.

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Meta Teases Footage Of Its New Mixed Reality Headset Project Cambria

VRScout

Mixed reality is going to be huge. Earlier today, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared never-before-seen footage of the company’s new mixed reality headset, codenamed Project Cambria , teasing a full-colored passthrough experience unlike anything we’ve seen yet. In a video posted to Facebook, Zuckerberg can be seen using the mysterious workplace device to access an original mixed reality experience called The World Beyond.

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How We Built ‘The Green Planet AR Experience’

AR Insider

The Green Planet AR Experience was an AR-fueled physical installation inspired by the BBC’s Natural History series. What were the biggest learnings? Its production company Factory 42 breaks it down in our latest guest post. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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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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Meta CEO Teases Project Cambria’s Color Passthrough in New Video

Road to VR

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg talked a bit about the company’s upcoming high-end VR headset Project Cambria today and what it can do. The headset is still basically under wraps, however Zuckerberg showed off a bit of the experience of using the device, giving us a good look at Cambria’s color passthrough function, which allows it do some pretty convincing augmented reality tasks.

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AR & Shopping Collide, Part V: Instagram

ARVR

Shoppability is the new black. There’s a trend towards all things being shoppable. We’re talking buy buttons on everything from YouTube videos to Instagram Stories. This isn’t necessarily a new phenomenon but is one of many trends that’s been Covid-accelerated. Elsewhere?—?and for similar reasons?—?we see a separate trend: visual commerce. This includes product visualization and visual search.

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The Galaxy Z Flip 4 Looks A Lot Like The Previous Generation

Slashgear

Right on the heels of a major leak of the Galaxy Z Fold 4, the new Galaxy Z Flip 4 takes the spotlight with a series of 3D renders that show all angles.

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11 of the best Korean dramas on Netflix

Mashable VR

South Korean dramas are growing increasingly popular, with people everywhere learning to love tropes such as amnesia, childhood best friends, and attractive young CEOs. Fortunately, Netflix has noticed this interest, and now offers a sizeable collection of some of the best K-dramas for you to peruse, featuring everything from romance, to action, to horror and political drama combined Netflix's selection of Korean dramas is a great way to test the waters if you're new to subtitles, or if you aren

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Here's What Makes Japan's Futuristic City So Smart

Slashgear

Smart cities are slowly becoming more than just a futuristic concept, and one such location is already being built in Japan by none other than Toyota.

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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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Christopher Walken Joins Dune: Part 2 as Emperor Shaddam

GizModo VR

The Legendary and Warner Bros. Dune franchise has found its Emperor Shaddam. Deadline reports that Christopher Walken has been cast in Denis Villeneuve’s highly anticipated sequel for the sci-fi series. Read more.

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The World's Biggest Hydrogen-Powered Mining Truck Is A Sight To See

Slashgear

The Anglo American nuGen Hydrogen Mining Truck is an absolute monster of a dump truck made to haul gigantic loads in open-pit mines while running on hydrogen.

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So, What Is Marvel's Phase 4 Actually About?

GizModo VR

In its first 10 years of moviemaking , Marvel Studios established something of a myth that persists to this very day: “In Feige We Trust,” fans would exult, as if a prayer to ward against evil rather than a parasocial relationship with a man worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The idea that Marvel’s movies were all… Read more.

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What's The Difference Between A Black Hole And A Wormhole?

Slashgear

Discovery marks the main difference between black holes and wormholes, with the former being observed by scientists while the latter has yet to be found.

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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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10 Stephen King Remakes, Ranked

GizModo VR

A brand-new take on Stephen King’s 1980 novel Firestarter , previously adapted as a Drew Barrymore film in 1984, arrives in theaters and on Peacock this week , and it struck us just how many TV and movie versions of the prolific author’s popular works have been made. and then re- made. Read more.

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How James Webb's MIRI Will Help Show The Universe In More Detail Than Ever Before

Slashgear

The MIRI instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope has delivered its first fully-focused image and the results are very exciting.

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Report: 'Carbon Bombs' Are Poised to Screw Us Over Big Time

GizModo VR

Oil and gas companies are gearing up to invest in so many new projects that they’ll blow away potential progress to mitigate emissions and stop worst-case climate scenarios, says a new investigation from the Guardian. Read more.

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Anker 777 Thunderbolt 4 Dock Review: Apex 12-In-1 Expansion Solution

Slashgear

Anker is back with a docking station that packs just about every port you could want. Given the size of the market, however, is it worth its hefty price tag?

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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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Tether and Luna's Plunge Could Lead to Global Crypto Regulators: Watchdog

GizModo VR

On Thursday, the chair of an international financial watchdog said that he expects there will be a global cryptocurrency regulatory body within the next year. In light of recent panicked freefall of multiple “stable” coins, we probably need one. Read more.

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Bethesda's Starfield And Redfall Both Hit With Delays

Slashgear

Bethesda's next two major-label video games have been given an official delay, owing to what appears to be the default reasoning for late games in recent years.

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'We Have a Donut': Astronomers React to First Image of Milky Way's Black Hole

GizModo VR

The fuzzy, bright-orange trappings of a cosmic beast that lurks in the heart of our galaxy made quite the impact today on scientists and space nerds alike. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration released its first image the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, known as Sagittarius A*, in another major… Read more.

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What's The Difference Between Mirrorless And DSLR Cameras?

Slashgear

When it comes to professional cameras, most people still immediately think of DSLRs. There's a new contender to consider, however: mirrorless cameras.

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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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The Future of Epcot Is About Human Stories—With a Little Help From Disney Mythology

GizModo VR

There are lots of new things happening at Epcot as part of the ongoing 50th anniversary celebrations at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, and io9 was invited to preview the latest expansions. Read more.

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What's The Difference Between VR And AR?

Slashgear

You've probably heard about VR and AR, but what's the difference between the two? While similar, each technology works in its own unique way.

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The Orville: New Horizons' Latest Trailer Declares 'It Is Good to Be Back'

GizModo VR

Hey, they missed us too! After such a drought of new Orville content, things are finally heating up as the show’s long-awaited return (and debut on Hulu !) rapidly approaches. Today that means a brand-new trailer that gives a glimpse of what to expect from the series’ third season, The Orville: New Horizons. Read more.

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HP Z-Series Serves Up New Laptop Workstations, Displays, And A Thunderbolt Dock For 2022

Slashgear

HP is back with its next update to the Z-series laptop lineup, introducing new ZBook Studio and Fury models alongside an upcoming display and more.

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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?