Mon.Mar 08, 2021

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Mark Zuckerberg: Realistic Avatars An Important Part Of Facebook’s VR Future

VRScout

“One of the things that I’m really excited about for future versions is getting eye tracking and face tracking in.” During a recent podcast interview with The Information , Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg shed some additional light on the future of Oculus, teasing everything from future hardware improvements to updates regarding the companies long talked-about AR headset.

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Data Dive: 7 of the Top-10 Mobile Apps Feature AR

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I t’s clear that mobile AR is where the scale is today, given 3 billion global smartphones. As for the portion that’s AR-compatible, the common industry rally cry is that there are 1 billion+ AR-enabled smartphones. That figure applies to ARkit and ARCore-compatible smartphones. But if you pan back to all platforms, such as Snapchat’s Lens Studio and Facebook’s Spark AR, the AR-ready universe is larger (figures below).

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Report: Apple Mixed Reality Headset Coming In 2022, Apple Glass In 2025, AR Contacts in 2030

VRScout

Trusted analyst Ming-Chi Kuo returns with a supposed timeline for Apple’s rumored XR technology. Respected analyst and Apple research expert Ming-Chi Kuo revealed yesterday that the company will be launching its long-rumored mixed reality headset “mid-2021,” according to a report by MacRumors. This followed by a dedicated AR headset in 2025 and AR contact lenses as early as 2030.

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Microsoft is the First Major Tech Company to Host a VR Keynote, and it Went Down Without a Hitch

Road to VR

Last week Microsoft became the first major tech company to host a keynote presentation fully in virtual reality. Despite many moving parts, the company managed to delivery a seamless, immersive presentation that could mark the future of this sort of marketing communication. In the last 20 years, the ‘tech keynote’ has gone from hasty PowerPoint presentations in front of small groups to major multimedia productions that form the cornerstone of many marketing playbooks, often concludin

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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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XR Talks: Defining AR’s Past, Present & Future

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AR continues to hold ample potential… but it’s counterbalanced by the technology’s relatively low traction. Though it has reached meaningful adoption , it’s still in early-adopter phases. And it’s far from the revolutionary and ubiquitous technology that was trumpeted circa-2017. So where are we in AR’s lifecycle and what will the coming year look like?

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Bowling in VR!

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Virtual reality has endless applications, from surgery precision training to fighting zombies in a game! VR holds the power to create immersive and realistic experiences through computer generated simulations and the recreation of a user’s senses. Check out my article here to gain a basis on how the tech works. For my first VR project, I decided to create a bowling game using the Unity game engine for an Oculus quest.

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We Have a Chance to Keep the Tropics Habitable

GizModo VR

If we can hit the most aggressive targets set by the Paris Agreement, we could stave off the worst health impacts for people living in one of the most climate-vulnerable areas on Earth. A study published Monday in Nature Geoscience projects that the tropics will stay habitable to humans if we can keep warming below… Read more.

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Intel to Build Silicon for Fully Homomorphic Encryption: This is Important

Anand Tech

When considering data privacy and protections, there is no data more important than personal data, whether that’s medical, financial, or even social. The discussions around access to our data, or even our metadata, becomes about who knows what, and if my personal data is safe. Today’s announcement between Intel, Microsoft, and DARPA, is a program designed around keeping information safe and encrypted, but still using that data to build better models or provide better statistical anal

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These Slugs Cut Off Their Own Heads When They Want a New Body

GizModo VR

Looking like opened pea pods with a lustrous sheen, the sea slugs Elysia cf. marginata and Elysia atroviridis aren’t your average gastropods. First off, they’re members of sacoglossa, a clade of slugs known for taking the algae from marine plants and integrating the chloroplasts from that algae into their own cells,… 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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Best cheap cordless vacuum deals for March 2021

Digital Trends

Cordless vacuum deals abound, but we've taken on some of that shopping burden to line up the best cheap cordless vacuum deals today.

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5 Reasons to Ditch Gmail for ProtonMail

GizModo VR

You may assume that you have to rely on Google, Apple or Microsoft for fast and free email, but that’s not true. If you want to break away from the big tech giants, there are other options. One of those is ProtonMail. Read more.

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Mars Curiosity rover snaps dreamy images of drifting Martian clouds

Digital Trends

Check out these amazing images of clouds drifting over the surface of Mars, snapped by NASA's long-serving Curiosity rover.

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Mars Rover Landing Site Named After Sci-Fi Legend Octavia Butler

GizModo VR

That magical spot in Jezero crater where NASA’s Perseverance rover made its historic landing last month has been named “Octavia E. Butler Landing” in honor of the late sci-fi author. 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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TikTok has a gun problem, and it’s doing nothing to fix it

Digital Trends

Tiktok is huge. Millions of videos are posted to the platform every day, and as a result, problematic firearm-related content often slips through the cracks.

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What's the Most Climate-Safe Place in the World?

GizModo VR

It is easy to be pessimistic about the future. It is also easy to scientifically verify that pessimism through persuasive papers and charts. It is easier still to lose yourself in bleak visions of fires and floods, food and water shortages, widespread human suffering, violent apocalyptic cults, bad wi-fi, and from… Read more.

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How to share your location on your iPhone or iPad

Digital Trends

Your iPhone is full of useful features, several of which allow you to share your location with friends and family. Here's how to share your location with ease.

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Microsoft's 'Crazy Huge Hack,’ Explained

GizModo VR

Last week, Microsoft announced that the on-premises version of its widely used email and calendaring product Exchange had several previously undisclosed security flaws. These flaws, the company said, were being used by foreign threat actors to hack into the networks of U.S. businesses and governments, primarily to… 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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SpaceX plans to beam its Starlink internet to vehicles, not just homes

Digital Trends

SpaceX wants to beam internet from its Starlink satellites to vehicles on Earth, including aircraft, ships, large trucks, and RVs.

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Atari Says It's Launching a Crypto Casino Based on Its Old Games

GizModo VR

In a move that’s not at all desperate, Atari claims it will be launching an online casino in May. More specifically, an Ethereum blockchain casino built around “Atari-themed games.” Read more.

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What is cloud gaming?

Digital Trends

Cloud gaming has a messaging problem, and we're here to solve it. Here's everything you need to know about cloud gaming, how it works, and if you should buy in.

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The Boox Nova 3 Color Proves Color E Ink Screens Aren't Ready for Tablets Yet

GizModo VR

If the PocketBook InkPad Color was an attempt to bring the benefits of a tablet’s larger screen to e-readers so ebooks like comics and magazines are easier to read, the Boox Nova 3 Color is an attempt to bring the benefits of an E Ink screen to tablets. The results are a more capable and powerful e-reader, but with a… 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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Destiny 2: How to find all 15 Presage clues

Digital Trends

Presage is a new Exotic quest from Destiny 2's Season of the Chosen, and it has some secrets. Here's how to find all 15 Presage clues in Destiny 2.

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Indoor Weed Farms Are Hotboxing the Planet

GizModo VR

As more states legalize weed, commercial production of it is increasing. These growing operations may not just be getting customers high—they may be getting the planet’s temperature higher, too. Read more.

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The best PS4 games you can play right now

Digital Trends

The PlayStation 4 is home to some of the best games, period. Here, we highlight the best games the platform has to offer, from shooter to RPG and puzzle.

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Oprah's Interview With Meghan Markle and Prince Harry Finally Posted Online for Cordcutters

GizModo VR

Oprah Winfrey’s explosive new interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry was all anyone seemed to be talking about online Sunday night, but if you missed the live show on CBS, it seemed you were out of luck. There was no way to watch the interview anywhere after the fact, including the new CBS streaming network,… 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?