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Who said hunting Easter eggs is just for kids? Even those who stopped believing in the Easter bunny’s magic years ago can delight in the mixed reality egg-hunting experience brought to the VRLA crowd by AfterNow, FLARB, and HoloLens. The fun begins as you put on your HoloLens and walk into the pastel forest (built IRL) along with three other users. The forest “comes to life” digitally via the HoloLens—with flowers, butterflies, and even a dragon roaming around as you begin your very important mi

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 16, 2017

Torben Asp at a live performance. (Image courtesy Avination.). If you’re a fan of Torben Asp — and you probably are, as he’s one of OpenSim’s favorite performers — and you live or visit the US east coast, you might now be able to catch him performing live, in person. “The move to the USA is to pursue a real life Torben Asp presence,” he told 3rd Rock Grid program director Zinnia Frenzy in an interview in this month’s HG VisionZ magazine. “It

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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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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 16, 2017

Key OpenSim stats fell this month, as two popular grids — InWorldz and The Adult Grid — opted not to report their total land area or their active users. InWorldz has been the most popular grid every month from 2012 on, and had 5,276 active users last month. However, both their active users and total region numbers have been falling over the course of the past year and, saying that they didn’t want to be unfavorably — and, they said, unfairly — compared to other grid

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