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SideQuest Partners With VR Avatar Creator Ready Player Me

VRScout

Bring a custom avatar with you across multiple games and apps on the SideQuest platform. Ready Player Me , a free-to-use 3D avatar creator, today announced a new partnership with VR discoverability platform SideQuest that will allow you to bring a custom virtual avatar with you across multiple games and apps, further expanding the VR metaverse. In order to get started, head to sidequest.com and sign up for a free profile.

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How Will the Metaverse Economy Materialize?

AR Insider

Metanomics: Building The Economy Of The Metaverse. by Theo Priestly. Firstly, the term ‘metanomics,’ in relation to virtual worlds and the economy within, is something Doug Thompson was involved in more than a decade ago and ran a show within Second Life and a series of podcasts with the same name. I’d recommend checking them out because it’s all still relevant to where we’re heading today – I’m using it purely to frame where things are likely to end up in a metaverse context because it’s a cool

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Some of the Best PSVR Games Are 50% Off Right Now During a Huge Summer Sale

Road to VR

Looking for some Summer fun in VR? If you’ve got a PlayStation VR headset then you’re in luck. Sony is hosting a huge sale with more than 200 games discounted, including 50% off of some of its best exclusive titles through September 8th. PSVR might not have the biggest library of VR games, but there’s no arguing that it has many of the best VR games out there, including excellent first and second-party exclusives you won’t find anywhere else.

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Virtual reality games show stunning ability to distraction from pain

Slashgear

Have you ever played a VR game for so long that you lost awareness of the fact you were playing a game at all? Perhaps you went to sit in a virtual chair, only to thump into the ground and remember, in one embarrassing moment, that the reality you perceived wasn’t real. This same effect, it seems, can effectively distract … Continue reading.

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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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The Photos That Show Everything Wrong With Our Current Moment

GizModo VR

The Caldor Fire is California’s latest megafire in a wildfire season from hell. It’s among a number of unchecked blazes, but this one hits slightly different because it’s encroaching on the Lake Tahoe basin. Read more.

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Eavesdroppers Can Hear What Speakers Are Playing By Watching Their Power LEDs Flicker

GizModo VR

Conference calls aren’t going away, and now it seems like it might not be a bad idea to close the blinds if you’re discussing sensitive matters. Researchers from Ben-Gurion University have come up with a way to listen in on a speaker from afar by just monitoring the subtle changes in brightness of its power status LED. Read more.

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The Noctua NH-U12S Redux Cooler Review: Bringing Noctua's Best To a Lower Price

Anand Tech

In today's review, we are taking a look at Noctua's NH-U12S Redux, a price-optimized version of their highly popular NH-U12S tower CPU cooler. The NH-U12S Redux has been redesigned to bring the same kind of Noctua performance, but at a retail price of just $50, making it more affordable to the masses.

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Star Trek Is Celebrating 55 Years With Live Music, Interviews, and News

GizModo VR

In a couple of weeks, Star Trek is celebrating its 55th birthday, and it’s doing so in style with a new event, bringing together icons from across the franchise’s past. and giving us a glimpse of its future. Read more.

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Messenger celebrates its 10th anniversary with new features and a plan to become the ‘connective tissue’ for real-time experiences

TechCrunch VR

To celebrate its ten year anniversary, Messenger today announced a handful of new features: poll games, word effects, contact sharing, and birthday gifting via Facebook Pay. But beyond the fun features, Facebook has been testing a way to add voice and video calls back into the Facebook app, rather than on Messenger. “We are testing audio and video calls within the Facebook app messaging experience so people can make and receive calls regardless of which app they’re using,” a represen

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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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Wasps Are Building Fluorescent Nests, but Why?

GizModo VR

A team of scientists say they’ve come across the first known instance of animals building fluorescent homes. In a new paper, they detail finding nests built by certain wasp species that glow green under exposure to ultraviolet light. What’s more, related wasps in other parts of the world also seem capable of creating… Read more.

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Samsung reveals it can disable stolen TVs remotely

Digital Trends

After Samsung TVs were stolen from one of the company's South African warehouses, the company has revealed it can disable stolen TVs remotely over the internet.

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Biden's Cybersecurity Summit Will Gather Very Important People to Solve America's Hacking Problem

GizModo VR

President Joe Biden and other White House officials plan to meet with a cadre of business, tech, education leaders and others on Wednesday to discuss a pretty pressing issue: How exactly to keep America from getting hacked so much. Read more.

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Watch EON Reality Chairman Discuss the Knowledge Metaverse in Asian Leadership Conference Webinar

EON Reality

As a part of the knowledge metaverse global kickoff tour , EON Reality Chairman and Founder Dan Lejerskar was featured on the Asian Leadership Conference ‘s latest webinar to discuss the recent explosion of multiple facets of the metaverse. The hour-long live discussion was hosted by Professor Kim Hyung-suk of Konkuk University and also included Cho Ik-hwan, Vice President of SK Telecom, Metaverse Service & Tech Development Group.

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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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Popular Keyboard Software Can Be Used to Exploit Your PC

GizModo VR

Keyboard customization software, particularly from mainstream keyboard brands, is already a bit of a racket. Most are either too bloated for daily use or ask you to sign up for an account before you can configure anything. Razer and SteelSeries both offer software like this for their lineups of gaming peripherals and… Read more.

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Fitbit Charge 5 adds sweat-based stress sensor, rounded design

Digital Trends

Google-owned Fitbit today announced the Charge 5 with a new sweat-based stress sensor, premium content, and a sleek design complete with a colorful display.

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Cancelation of NASA Spacewalk Is Literally a Pain in the Neck

GizModo VR

NASA had to postpone a scheduled spacewalk to install new solar arrays outside the International Space Station after one of its astronauts complained of a pinched nerve in his neck. Read more.

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Snag a mini projector for cheap with this deal at Best Buy

Digital Trends

It might finally be time to invest in a projector for your living room, as Best Buy is selling the Vankyo Leisure 3 mini projector at a very affordable price.

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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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Thandiwe Newton Knows Her Solo: A Star Wars Story Character's Death Was Bad

GizModo VR

Solo is not the most well-respected of Star Wars movies, but there’s one moment that felt especially egregious: the weird, confusing sacrifice of Val, played by Thandiwe Newton. Read more.

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10 games like RuneScape to play right now

Digital Trends

If you loved the adventure, connections, and addictive gameplay this game had, but need a fresh experience, here are 10 games like RuneScape to play right now.

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Hidden Cameras Reveal Arizona’s Daring Plan to Save Its Wildlife From Drought

GizModo VR

In the Southwest, if you happen across a tank of water in the desert, don’t disturb it. The tanks are meant for bears, deer, birds, and other wildlife—and they’re more in need of the water than ever this year amid the megadrought. Read more.

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Samsung Galaxy S21 FE image leaks, confirming specs

Digital Trends

Samsung accidentally leaked an image of Galaxy S21 FE, and a recent Google Play Console listing confirmed some much-rumored specs.

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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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This Touchscreen Coffee Table Makes Digital Board Games a Blast

GizModo VR

My family loves board games, to the point where we recently had to expand our basement shelving to accommodate our growing collection. I’ve been playing them for decades, and it’s why I’ve been skeptical of Arcade1Up’s new Infinity Game Table, which is a touchscreen coffee table that delivers digital versions of… Read more.

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Ghost of Tsushima: Iki Island all animal sanctuary locations

Digital Trends

There are nine animal sanctuaries in Ghost of Tsushima's DLC for each animal type: cats, deer, and monkeys. Here's where you can find them and what to do there.

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Nia DaCosta's Candyman Is a Haunting Fairytale Trapped in a Horror Franchise

GizModo VR

Though director Nia DaCosta’s Candyman is the latest chapter in an iconic, decades-long slasher franchise, the movie is also one of the many recent studio projects trying to transmute the real-world horrors of anti-Black racism into a thrilling story meant to capture imaginations. Like its contemporaries, this feature… Read more.

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Google Docs to finally borrow one of the best features from Gmail

Digital Trends

Google is updating its Docs service with a new Smart Reply feature for comment replies. It's designed to help you compose comments with extra confidence.

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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?