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On|Metaverse: The lessons I learned organizing a physical event about VR

The Ghost Howls

On Thursday, April 21st, in Italy there has been the first edition of the On|Metaverse Summit , an amazing hybrid event of which I have been a co-organizer. It’s been the first time I worked on such an ambitious conference , so let me tell you something more about it and about the lessons I’ve learned in the process … especially for what concerns the differences between organizing physical and digital/VR events !

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The 2022 Snap Partner Summit: Heavier Than Ever on AR

ARPost

Snap held their 4th annual Partner Summit this Thursday. The event, dedicated to the company’s staff in Ukraine, was produced across real locations in LA – a departure from the previous two partner summits that were created on stages. In addition to being a fit for the AR company, the live venues came in handy for CEO Evan Spiegel’s “one more thing” moment.

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Quest Users Can Now Watch YouTube Together Thanks to ‘Bigscreen’ Update

Road to VR

Bigscreen is putting Meta to shame again, as the VR hangout app just got a serious bump in functionality for Quest users and PC VR users alike. Now VR’s favorite social viewing app includes native YouTube support, so you can watch anything on YouTube with friends and strangers. Bigscreen has now added the version of YouTube you’d expect to find on a console or smart TVs, directly integrated into the VR hangout app.

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Snap Partner Summit Piles on the AR

AR Insider

There's no doubt Snap is all in on AR, which has fueled its revenue growth over the past few years. The latest evidence comes from its Partner Summit, where AR was a central focus. We break it down for this week's XR Talks. 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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Webinar: Manufacturing Leader Describes How Augmented Reality is Closing the Skills Gap, Scaling Expertise, and Attracting the Next-Gen Workforce

ARPost

Press release. New York, New York, April 29, 2022 — For packaging manufacturer IPG, augmented reality (AR) is the answer to the greatest threat to the manufacturing industry today: The industrial skills gap. Like most industrial organizations, IPG has been dealing with talent and labor shortages due to the retirement of its senior technicians, a lack of new recruits, and insufficient training methods for onboarding new hires and upskilling current workers.

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12 best dramas on Netflix for when you want to feel something

Mashable VR

Drama can hit hard and hurt so good. You gotta love that gut-punch of tragedy backed by a swelling orchestral score and how it can be a ruthless rush. Sometimes a tearjerker — that invites us to cry along with the characters — feels better than therapy. Other times, watching a protagonist persevere through hellish hardship can give us the hope that we need to persevere.

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How Are Astronauts Protected From Space Radiation?

Slashgear

Keeping astronauts safe from radiation in space is one of the most important concerns that researchers must address as we head to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.

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The 17 absolute best Netflix original movies ever

Mashable VR

Netflix's movie library might change from day to day, but its original films won't ever leave the platform. From crowd pleasers to Oscar winners — and sometimes both at the same time — Netflix has always loved movies and excelled when it comes to producing originals. We've picked our favorite Netflix movies each year , our favorite scary movies , our favorite Hindi movies , and so much more — but here are the best Netflix original films ever , in release order.

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Ford's F-150 Lightning Electric Truck Is More Powerful Than Promised

Slashgear

Ford F-150 Lightning preorder customers are getting an unexpected surprise, with the all-electric pickup now rated for more horsepower and more load capacity.

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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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Your Smartphone's Selfie Cam Can See a Lot by Capturing Reflections in Your Pupils

GizModo VR

The use of biometrics—measurements of physiological characteristics to identify someone—has made interactions with our mobile devices a lot easier by trading passcodes for face scans and fingerprint readings. But are there other ways our physical interactions with devices can make them easier to use? Researchers in… Read more.

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The Transformation Of The Apple iPod From 2001 To 2022

Slashgear

The iPod revolutionized how we listen to music, and it evolved greatly during its relatively brief history. Here is the most complete story of the technology.

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Think outside the Mac with these great laptops

Mashable VR

Not all laptops are created equal, and if you’re in the market for a new one, doing a solid bit of research beforehand is required. After all, there are a lot of factors to take into account, from technical specs, to budget, to your personal use case. But the fact of the matter is that we all pretty much live our lives around our computers — from Zoom meetings and work assignments during the day to Netflix streaming at night — so it’s key to find a device that’s a g

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Blizzard Sets A Date For Warcraft Mobile Game Reveal

Slashgear

Blizzard's next event will unveil the brand's next major mobile game based in the Warcraft universe. From World of Warcraft to Hearthstone and back again.

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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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Intel: Meteor Lake Chiplet SoC Up and Running

Anand Tech

Alongside Intel’s regular earnings report yesterday , the company also delivered a brief up on the state of one of their most important upcoming products, Meteor Lake. Intel’s first chiplet/tile-based SoC, which completed initial development last year, has now completed power-on testing and more. The news is not unexpected, but for Intel it still marks a notable milestone, and is important proof that both Meteor Lake and the Intel 4 process remain on track.

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Apple's Supply Shortages Are Set To Continue

Slashgear

Delays seem to be continuing to plague Apple's supply lines, making it likely that the company will have issues keeping up with demand throughout the year.

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GeForce Now Adds Native Mac Support, Promises a Better Gaming Experience

GizModo VR

Nvidia’s latest GeForce Now update gives the cloud gaming service native support for Apple’s M1 processor, a feature that should significantly improve the gaming experience on Macs. Read more.

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The 10 Best Features Of The Lucid Air Electric Car

Slashgear

Lucid's Air is giving the Tesla Model S a run for its money -- by besting it in categories including maximum range and vehicular comfort.

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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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Russians Reportedly Turn to Old Soviet-Era Tactics to Watch Western Movies

GizModo VR

If you thought the age of streaming services would put an end to people watching oddly formatted bootleg copies of the newest movie releases, then you’d probably be surprised to see what some Russians have been forced to do to watch Turning Red in theaters. Read more.

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Apple Just Added A Helpful Feature To Its AirTags To Prevent Stalking

Slashgear

Apple's latest software update for their AirTag tracking system changes the way an alert is blasted from a nefariously hidden device, along with alerts.

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Europe Starts Its Own Social Networks

GizModo VR

If you’re among the throng of Twitter-die hards that are more than a bit bummed about a certain South African billionaire’s plans to buy out the social network, you might have flocked to its open-source alternative, Mastodon. As it turns out, the European Union is right there with you; the European Data Protection… Read more.

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Here's Why Tesla Just Recalled 48,000 Model 3s

Slashgear

Tesla just recalled a whole bunch of vehicles because they do not properly display one key bit of information on their displays while driving.

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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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One of Coachella's Stage Sets Had a Very Cool Avatar Connection

GizModo VR

The music scene’s big festival return has come to a close as Coachella wrapped up last weekend. io9 was able to attend through a media pass to catch all the sights and sounds (read our Danny Elfman report here )—which included not only music but also creative sets and installations. Through technology and physical… Read more.

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What Really Happens When A Car Tire Fails

Slashgear

What happens when your car tires fail, and how can you prevent this situation from occurring? How important are tire inflation, damage, and tread wear?

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Comics Creators Come Together to Remember Neal Adams

GizModo VR

It’s only been a few hours since news broke that legendary comic book artist Neal Adams passed away yesterday at the age of 80, but the comic book industry has not marked his death quietly. Writers, artists, and more have flocked to Twitter to praise Adams, his work, his immense influence, and his tireless work on… Read more.

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The Bizarre Samsung Smart Belt That Monitored Your Waist Line

Slashgear

We've seen some weird wearables throughout the years, but some are stranger than others. Here's the story of Samsung's truly bizarre smart belt.

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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?