Tue.May 10, 2022

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AR Smart Glasses Make Their Way To The Veterinary Office

VRScout

AR technology isn’t helping just human patients. Vet CT, a veterinary technology (“VetTech”) based out of Cambridge, United Kingdom, has partnered with the Pennard Vet Clinic on a trial program demonstrating the practical use-cases of AR technology in the veterinary office. The story was first reported by Business Weekly earlier this week.

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GigXR Partners With ANIMA RES to Scale the “Mediverse”

ARPost

Two giants in the world of XR and 3D medical education are partnering to scale the “mediverse.” We reconnected with GigXR founder David King Lassman and met ANIMA RES co-founders Rodrigo (CIO) and Pablo Olmos (CEO) to learn more about the partnership. Like many great XR initiatives, it may impact you in the near future whether you know it or not. About GigXR and ANIMA RES.

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Case Study: Home Depot Boosts Conversions with Web AR

AR Insider

Picking up where we left off in examining Web AR opportunities and strategies, what are proof points for the technology? To show rather than tell, we dive into a case study from Home Depot's Web AR execution. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Manus Begins Pre-orders for Latest VR Gloves, Quantum Metagloves

Road to VR

VR glove creator Manus has launched pre-orders for its latest device, Quantum Metagloves, an input solution targeted at enterprise users. The Netherlands-based company is looking to offer up more precise finger tracking than not only its past VR gloves, but also optical trackers current used in the industry. Manus launched pre-orders for Quantum Metagloves last week, stating that expected shipping begins sometime in early Q3, which could likely take place in the September timeframe.

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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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Apple Is One Step Closer To Making Foldable Displays

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Apple appears to be working on foldable display technology to integrate with a future device, but a release window hasn't yet been pinpointed.

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Read This Before Downloading A PDF Directly From Google Search Results – It Could Be A Virus

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Researchers warn that phishing scams have skyrocketed over the past year, though the method used to trick victims is one you probably don't expect.

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Lenovo's New Legion 7 Gaming Laptops Pair Brawn with Beauty

GizModo VR

Lenovo is best known for its ThinkPad business laptops, but its Legion series has birthed some of the best gaming systems I’ve used in the past few years. Today, the laptop maker is replacing the old with a new fleet consisting of the Legion 7 and Legion Slim 7, each available with either AMD or Intel (denoted with an… Read more.

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What The Milky Way Smells Like, According To Scientists

Slashgear

Have you ever wondered what space smells like? Astronauts and scientific studies have both shed light on the scent of the universe, and it may be familiar.

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8 Games For the 8-Year-Old Dinosaur Lover in All of Us

GizModo VR

In honor of a dinosaur franchise ( the dinosaur franchise), or perhaps in spite of it, we have found some great dinosaur games. (Two entries that would have made the cut, Primal Quest , and Diesel and Dinosaurs were featured in earlier articles, but just in case you wanted even more content.) Many of these games are not… 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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How Scientists Measure The Quakes Which Shake Mars

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Mars, much like Earth, experiences quakes that can be measured using the right instruments. NASA has such tools on the planet right now monitoring these events.

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The Next Dragon Ball Movie Will Release Outside of Japan This Summer

GizModo VR

Dragon Ball is back at the box office, like it’s never really gone away—and for the first time, Crunchyroll is taking one of its upcoming anime movies and releasing it around the world, instead of just in American theaters. Read more.

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Sharp's Obscure 2022 Flagship Smartphone Has Drool-Worthy Camera Specs

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Sharp reveals another high-end smartphone with Android 12, a decent display, and a high-end set of cameras that'll be available on a very limited scale.

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Intel Just Revealed Its Fastest Laptop CPU Yet, and It's a 16-Core Beast

GizModo VR

Intel released its 12th Gen processors earlier this year in three flavors: H-series for high-performance laptops, P-series for premium ultra-slim devices, and U-series for the most portable laptops and tablets. Those chips accounted for the majority of mainstream products entering the market, but there is one more… 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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Photoshop Update Brings iPad App Closer To Its Desktop Counterpart

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Adobe has released another major update for its Photoshop app, this time bringing some key desktop features to its app for Apple's iPad tablets.

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Peloton Continues to Lose Money, Turns to Wall Street for Help

GizModo VR

Reading about Peloton’s latest struggles is like watching somebody run on a treadmill with their shoelaces tied together. The lurching, stumbling body is still in motion, but the person can barely do enough to stay upright while trying not to fall on their face. Read more.

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Samsung Shows Off The Folding And Sliding Displays Of The Future

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Samsung Display is showcasing its latest flexible display innovations, including ones that can fold multiple times or expand outward when needed.

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The Gaming Shelf Heads to Space, and Brings Back Tabletop News

GizModo VR

May’s first Gaming Shelf is an expanded edition of the usual column , which is incredibly appropriate considering the author we’re spotlighting, Tim Hutchings , has recently published a game that is over 1,200 pages long. In addition to Hutchings’ work, we’ve got a quintet of new releases and a pretty large list of … 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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Why Apple Is Killing The iPod Touch Forever

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With the end of manufacturing for iPod touch, so too does the end of the hardware era of the iPod end forever. Apple's music player is down for the count.

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50-50 Chance We Hit 1.5 Degrees of Warming by *Checks Watch* 2026

GizModo VR

The world’s leading meteorological organization said Monday that there’s a “50:50” chance that we could see warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels by 2026—an incredibly worrying reality check about the runaway pace of climatic changes human beings have created. Read more.

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How To Connect Your Raspberry Pi To Wi-Fi

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The tiny Raspberry Pi is an incredibly versatile computer, but in order to maximize its capabilities, you'll first need to connect it to a Wi-Fi network.

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For the First Time in Decades, Congress Will Hold Public Hearings on UFOs

GizModo VR

UFO sightings are no longer restricted to grainy YouTube videos or alien conspiracy subreddits. A House panel will hold the first congressional hearing on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) in over 50 years to follow up with a Pentagon report that was released last June on U.S. military sightings of unidentifiable… 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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How To Follow Hashtags On Twitter

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Twitter's hashtag functions can be difficult to navigate, but there are some tips and tricks to make it easier.

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Roland's Introducing Three Tiny Music Makers That Put a Portable Studio in Your Pocket

GizModo VR

You can write, record, edit, mix, and publish a song using nothing but a collection of apps on your smartphone, but musicians, even those producing electronic music, like physical instruments with buttons and knobs they can fiddle and perform with. Roland’s new AIRA Compact line is a trio of miniaturized music makers ,… Read more.

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How To Increase Your Privacy On Android By Changing These Settings

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Android is known for snooping on your personal data -- but it doesn't have to be that way. Here's how to boost your privacy settings.

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Despite Its Name, Terra's Stablecoin Value Plummets

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In yet another case of stablecoins being less-than-stable, terraUSD (UST) plunged below its $1 price peg for the first time since its inception. Bloomberg spotted the coin slipping to about 99 cents over the weekend, before plunging to roughly 60 cents on Monday night. As of this writing, Coindesk reports that the UST… 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?