VRScout

MARCH 13, 2021

Gorilla Tag, OceanCraft , and War Yards V R are now available via Facebook’s experimental app channel; no sideloading required. Facebook this week added over a dozen new VR games and apps to its experimental App Lab channel, offering Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2 players an easier way of accessing a generous selection of popular indie titles like Gorilla Tag, OceanCraft, and Warplanes: WW1 Fighters just to name a few.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 13, 2021

Cryptoart.wtf , the popular crypto art carbon calculator that allowed us to see the real impact the NFT buying craze is having on our poor planet, is shutting down. Its creator, Memo Akten , stated that he decided to take the site down after information from it was used “as a tool for abuse and harassment.” Read more.

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Digital Trends

MARCH 13, 2021

Image-recognition A.I. can be duped fairly easily with adversarial images designed specifically to confuse them, but that might not be the case for much longer.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 13, 2021

Tiffany Haddish will star in and produce Netflix’s adaptation of Mystery Girl. The Dark Horse comic, created by Paul Tobin , follows Trine, a psychic with no memory of the last 10 years of her life, and only an omniscient voice in her head guiding her. She meets Cooper, a cop, who wants her to help him solve a case… Read more.

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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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Digital Trends

MARCH 13, 2021

NASA’s latest Mars rover — Perseverance — is its most advanced to date, carrying with it a plethora of technology that includes 23 cameras. Here's what they do.

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Digital Trends

MARCH 13, 2021

Researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a very odd planet that seems to be re-growing its atmosphere after having lost it in the past.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 13, 2021

Maybe you missed out on stockpiling the comics that can give some background to WandaVision , or maybe you desperately miss the show and are craving whatever related content you can get. Either way, Marvel’s got your back. Read more.

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Voices of VR

MARCH 13, 2021

SXSW Online is happening March 16-20, and I had a chance to get a sneak peak of the SXSW Online XR world in VRChat and.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 13, 2021

Taking a page from Google’s book, Microsoft is speeding up the release schedule for its Edge browser and will issue updates every four weeks instead of six weeks, the company announced Friday. 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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Digital Trends

MARCH 13, 2021

Hubble paused its operations this week following a software issue. With the issue now resolved, the telescope has begun its scientific operations once more.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 13, 2021

Who’s been messing up everything? It was almost someone else. Read more.

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Digital Trends

MARCH 13, 2021

SpaceX is gearing up for another launch of Starlink satellites, with plans for a launch scheduled early in the morning of Sunday, March 14.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 13, 2021

A Dyson humidifier and fan and a 42-inch Westinghouse Roku TV lead Saturday’s best deals. 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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Digital Trends

MARCH 13, 2021

The Nintendo Switch may have lost some of its appeal in the new console wave, but its finding a new niche.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 13, 2021

Dyson AM10 Humidifier + Fan | $200 | Newegg Read more.

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Digital Trends

MARCH 13, 2021

Astronauts had to be checked for ammonia during a spacewalk outside the ISS, after the toxic chemical could have gotten on their spacesuits.

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Oculus

MARCH 13, 2021

This week, we released several titles and updates across the Oculus Platform. Here’s a rundown of the highlights.

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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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Digital Trends

MARCH 13, 2021

The Perseverance rover is now exploring Mars and its SuperCam was used to snap a close-up image of a rock and to take an audio recording.

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Digital Trends

MARCH 13, 2021

The limited-edition Asus ROG Phone 5 Ultimate is the definitive version of the new gaming smartphone -- and a love letter from Asus to its most hardcore fans.

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Digital Trends

MARCH 13, 2021

It's low cost makes it a rival to the Wyze Robot Vacuum.

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Digital Trends

MARCH 13, 2021

Looking forward to watching UFC Fight Night: Edwards vs. Muhammad tonight? Here's how to do it with ESPN+.

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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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