Fri.Oct 15, 2021

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SenseGlove Nova Begins Shipping Worldwide

ARPost

SenseGlove, one of the premier manufacturers of haptic and tracking gloves for XR and robotics, announced Wednesday, October 13, that the newest model – SenseGlove Nova – is now shipping worldwide. Here, we’ll take a quick look at the company and a deep dive into everything we know about the new model. Meet SenseGlove. SenseGlove is based in the Netherlands, but the company’s haptic gloves are sold worldwide.

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Quest 2 Anniversary Sale Offers Big Discounts on Top Games

Road to VR

Quest 2 was launched this week one year ago. To celebrate, Oculus has put together five discounted game bundles alongside nearly 30 other Quest games on sale. It’s hard to believe its only been a year since Quest 2 launched, but here we are. The headset first hit the market back in October 2020, and has been going strong ever since. Between then and now the headset has seen a number of major improvements , and Facebook recently introduced a new Quest 2 base model with 128GB , doubling the

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4 Ways XR is Changing the Future of Music

AR Insider

AR and VR are reshaping the entertainment industry. That includes virtual concerts in Fortnite and ways to learn new instruments through AR. Guest author April Miller breaks it down with examples & analysis. The post 4 Ways XR is Changing the Future of Music appeared first on AR Insider.

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Revolutionizing Retail with Augmented Reality

Tech Trends VR

Samsung used Zappar’s Augmented Reality technology to bring customers new experiences in-store with innovative use of WebAR. The world’s biggest brands are now consistently embracing AR technology to enhance their products and engage users with truly interactive experiences. One interesting example of this was Samsung’s recent launch of its new Galaxy Z Fold3 5G, Galaxy Z Flip3 5G, and the new Watch4 series.

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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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Is AR Shopping Cheaper to Produce Than Traditional eCommerce?

ARVR

Immersive shopping is proving to have experiential impact for consumers, and revenue impact for brands. Related to?—?but separate from?—?AR advertising, this is when AR is used as a tool to visualize and contextualize products to engender more informed consumer purchases. This is a subset of AR that we call camera commerce. It comes in a few flavors, including visualizing products on spaces and faces.

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Can Pinterest Pull Ahead in AR Shopping?

ARVR

Immersive shopping is proving to have experiential impact for consumers, and revenue impact for brands. Related to?—?but separate from?—? AR advertising , this is when AR is used as a tool to visualize and contextualize products to engender more informed consumer purchases. This is a subset of AR that we call camera commerce. It comes in a few flavors, including visualizing products on “spaces and faces.

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Ted Cruz, Greg Abbott, and the Magical Thinking About Bitcoin’s Ability to Fix Texas’ Grid

GizModo VR

This week, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said he will make Texas the number one state for bitcoin. What’s more, he espoused the wonders of crypto mining as a way to prop up the state’s flailing electrical grid , a view Cancun-loving Sen. Ted Cruz also shared at a bitcoin mining conference last week. It’s a seductive story:… Read more.

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Microsoft might be building its own version of the Apple M1 chip for Surface

Digital Trends

A recent job posting suggests that Microsoft could be developing its own M1 competitor for next-gen Surface devices, but it's too soon to say for sure.

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This Week's Toy News Has Killer Babies, Killer Doggos, and a Killer Ride

GizModo VR

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the latest and greatest merch news around. This week, Elon Musk forms an unlikely partnership with Mattel to get his cybertruck off the ground, Nerf gets into the fort game, and that gorgeous Gargoyles Goliath gets a much-needed friend. Check it out! Read more.

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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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TSMC to Build Japan's Most Advanced Semiconductor Fab

Anand Tech

Fabs are well-known for being an expensive business to be in, so any time a new fab is slated for construction, it tends to be a big deal – especially amidst the current chip crunch. To that end, TSMC this week has announced plans to build a new, semi-specialized fab in Japan to meet the needs of its local customers. The semiconductor manufacturing facility will focus on mature and specialty fabrication technologies that are used to make chips with long lifecycles for automakers and consum

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New Zealand Lays Off Its Official City Wizard After 23 Years of Loyal Service

GizModo VR

Since 1998, UK-born Ian Brackenbury has been paid a solid $16,000 NZD (roughly 11,300 USD) per year to be the official wizard for the city of Christchurch in New Zealand. Now after slightly more than two decades on the city’s payroll, authorities are officially cutting ties with Brackenbury in an attempt to modernize… Read more.

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The EVGA Z590 Dark Motherboard Review: For Extreme Enthusiasts

Anand Tech

Getting the most out of Intel's Core i9-11900K primarily relies on two main factors: premium cooling for the chip itself, and a solid motherboard acting as the foundation. And while motherboard manufacturers such as EVGA can't do anything about the former, they have quite a bit of experience with the latter. Today we're taking a look at EVGA's Z590 Dark motherboard, which is putting EVGA's experience to the test as one of a small handful of LGA1200 motherboards geared for ext

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Recurring Water Vapor Potentially Found on Europa—but Just on One Side

GizModo VR

The icy surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa appears to be continually feeding its thin atmosphere with water vapor, according to Hubble observations made from 1999 to 2015. Read more.

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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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Early Dell Black Friday Deals 2021: Save on gaming laptops, monitors and more!

Digital Trends

You can enjoy savings when buying monitors and laptops from Dell through its early Black Friday deals, featuring products such as the Dell XPS 13 and Dell G15.

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Instacart's Embattled Gig Workers Are Going On a Nationwide Strike

GizModo VR

Protesting what they characterize as low wages and a lack of consistent communication from corporate, gig workers on the grocery delivery app Instacart are poised to begin a nationwide work stoppage on Saturday. Read more.

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Marvel’s Eternals go monster hunting in first official clip

Digital Trends

In the distant past, three of Marvel's Eternals take on their foes, the Deviants, in a first-look clip from the next big-screen adventure in the MCU.

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Netflix Has Fired a Pregnant Organizer of the Trans Employee Walkout

GizModo VR

The Dave Chappelle-induced meltdown at Netflix continued apace on Friday after reports emerged that the company had fired a pregnant leader of its transgender employee resource group who had played an instrumental role in organizing an upcoming Oct. 20 work stoppage. Read more.

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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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G.Skill Unveils Premium Trident Z5 and Z5 RGB DDR5 Memory, Up To DDR5-6400 CL36

Anand Tech

With memory manufacturers clamoring over themselves to push out DDR5 in time for the upcoming launch of Intel's Alder Lake processors, G.Skill has unveiled its latest premium Trident Z5 kits. The latest Trident kits are based on Samsung's new DDR5 memory chips and range in speed from DDR5-5600 to DDR5-6400, with latencies of either CL36 or CL40.

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After Woman's Tumor Unexpectedly Shrinks, Her Doctors Wonder If CBD Oil Played a Role

GizModo VR

Doctors in the UK say they’ve come across an unusual case of cancer recovery: A woman in her 80s whose lung cancer began to shrink without any conventional treatment, after she started taking daily doses of CBD/THC oil. Though it’s far from clear that the oil actually affected her tumor, the doctors argue that… Read more.

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Is Alder Lake good at gaming? Intel says developers need ‘careful planning’

Digital Trends

A new developer guide from Intel shows how game devs can take advantage of its hybrid architecture. And it reveals some key details about the upcoming range.

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Doctor Who's Trailer Promises a Dramatic End to Jodie Whittaker's Final Run

GizModo VR

The end is in sight for Jodie Whittaker ’s groundbreaking run as the title star of the Doctor Who —but it’s not time to bid farewell just yet. We’ve got quite a fight to get through first! Read more.

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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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Wild rumors claim an unlikely feature is coming to the new MacBook Pros

Digital Trends

Rumors about a notch on the new MacBooks are flooding the internet, but do they hold any water? We don’t think so, and here’s why. There’s no FaceID.

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Let Kingo's Finger Guns Point the Way to a Spate of Eternals Goodness

GizModo VR

Sometimes it seems like millennia have passed since Marvel Studios first announced that the little-known Eternals would star in their own movie. But that movie is finally less than a month away, right around the proverbial corner—yet there’s still hyping to be done. There’s a new clip to check out, an extremely… Read more.

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Switch Online + Expansion Pack’s pricing gives the service too much credit

Digital Trends

Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack customers have to fork over $50 and forget the company's online track record.

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Revisit Day of the Dead for a Reminder That Sometimes Zombies Deserve to Win

GizModo VR

Today marks the debut of Day of the Dead , a new Syfy TV series that takes inspiration from George A. Romero’s 1985 zombie classic of the same name. At this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, the show’s creators explained that the series—set during the first 24 hours of a zombie apocalypse —will pay homage to the film but will… Read 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?