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Scientists Resurrect Extinct Animals Using AR Technology

VRScout

Check out over a dozen legendary animals from the Ice Age era. The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and La Brea Tar Pits have teamed up with researchers from the University of Southern California (USC) to develop a series of scientifically-accurate 3D models of over a dozen animals from the Ice Age, including the enormous Columbian mammoth and terrifying saber-tooth tiger.

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Virtual Reality Reimagines Employee Training Through Xelevate

ARPost

Virtual reality and metaverse are mainly associated with men and gaming. White men are particularly leading the charge in today’s top gaming platforms such as Roblox, Sandbox, and Decentraland. Moreover, males outnumber females when it comes to owning non-fungible tokens (NFTs). According to one survey , 20% of US online male adults own at least one NFT.

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HTC Is Reportedly Working On A Metaverse Smartphone

VRScout

HTC’s VR/AR smartphone could be announced as soon as next month. It appears as though HTC is getting back in the smartphone game after a nearly four-year hiatus. According to a new report by the Taiwanese publication DigiTimes , the company’s VR division, HTC Vive, is working on an all-in-one mobile device with a focus on VR and AR functionality.

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AR and Shopping Collide, Part III: Shopify

AR Insider

After examining Snap and Pinterest in earlier articles in this series, we move on to Shopify. In fact, it's one of the original innovators in the shoppability movement. How is AR joining the mix for peanut butter & chocolate synergies? 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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‘Walkabout Mini Golf’ is Getting First Licensed Course, Based on ’80s Classic ‘LABYRINTH’

Road to VR

Walkabout Mini Golf (2020) consistently ranks among the top games on Quest for good reason. Now developers Mighty Coconut announced they’ve lined up the game’s first licensed DLC for release later this year which is set to bring the world of Jim Henson’s ’80s classic fantasy film LABYRINTH (1986) to life. Mighty Coconut announced the studio has signed a deal with The Jim Henson Company to develop a 36-hole course based on LABYRINTH, which will be released in Summer 2

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VR Arcade Pioneer The VOID is Making a Comeback

Road to VR

Out-of-home VR attractions were among the worst-hit during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, which put many fledgling startups on the ropes. Now, one of the early pioneers in location-based VR entertainment appears to be making good on its comeback after it briefly slipped into the void. As reported by MIXED , it appears pioneering out-of-home VR destination The VOID is getting ready to reopen.

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Polestar O2 Concept Is A Stunning EV Roadster With A Hidden Drone

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Polestar has revealed its second concept car, an all-electric roadster dubbed the Polestar O2, complete with high eco-credentials and a high-flying drone buddy.

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Sailboat Simulator ‘MarineVerse Cup’ Races onto Quest Store

Road to VR

MarineVerse Cup , the VR sailing simulator first launched on Steam early access in 2019, has left App Lab and made its way to the official Quest Store. Billed as “approachable, but authentic,” MarineVerse Cup is a simulator that primarily focused on teaching you the ropes on how to sail two crafts: a dinghy and a small yacht. Once you get the hang of both tutorials, you can take on time trails, mini games, and engage in some daily racing practice via procedurally-generated races, al

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Everything We Know About The 2024 Electric Ram 1500 Pickup

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Everything Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares revealed about the Ram 1500 BEV this week, and more - including early teaser images and the details they divulge.

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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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Watching footage from Ukraine? Here's how to protect your mental health.

Mashable VR

Without warning, there it was in my Twitter feed: video of a Russian missile exploding a Ukrainian administrative building in Kharkiv. Minutes earlier, I'd seen footage of Ukrainians rushing to flee the country's capital via train. The reporter's caption was more haunting than the imagery: "A mother was just briefly separated from her child on the platform and her scream was something I'm not sure I can find words to describe.

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Segway-Ninebot's New E-Scooters: Everything You Need To Know

Slashgear

Segway-Ninebot has big plans for this year and 2023, revealing a huge lineup of electric scooters that'll hit the market starting in the second quarter of 2022.

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A capacitor exploding in extreme slow motion looks like something from outer space

Mashable VR

Will YouTube duo The Slow Mo Guys ever run out of stuff to blow up in extreme slow motion? The answer, it would appear, is no. They've already done levitating apples , paint cans , and giant water balloons , and in the video above they turn their attention to capacitors, running a high charge through them and watching the explosive results back at 187,000 frames per second.

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Galaxy S22 Ultra Stress Test Backs Up Durability Claims

Slashgear

JerryRigEverything is back with another stress test, this time putting Samsung's newly launched Galaxy S22 Ultra smartphone up against a variety of hazards.

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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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Ukraine's everyday heroes are owning social media

Mashable VR

On the first day of their 2022 invasion of Ukraine , Russian forces sweeping north from the illegally-annexed Crimea peninsula took one of their first targets, the tiny port of Henichesk. They told residents it was a training exercise. Eventually one of those residents, an older woman in a white hat and puffy black jacket, walked up to a number of Russian soldiers carrying AK-74Ms.

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Epic Games Just Bought Bandcamp

Slashgear

Epic Games, creator of Unreal Engine and Fortnite, just acquired the indie music platform known as Bandcamp. Here's what they suggest comes next.

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Daisy Edgar-Jones and Jimmy Fallon taste test British and American snacks

Mashable VR

If you've ever tuned in to one of James Corden's monologues, you'll know that British versus American culture can frequently be a source of great confusion and rage. But those differences can be embraced, too. In the clip above from The Tonight Show , Daisy Edgar-Jones and Jimmy Fallon shared a wholesome taste-testing experience of British and American snacks, with the Normal People star introducing the host to Hula-Hoops and Quavers (two British crisp staples) before Fallon gave Edgar-Jones her

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12 Hidden iMessage Features You Need To Know About

Slashgear

Impress your friends and family, and make your texting life much easier, with these handy iMessage hacks that add effects, pin messages, and 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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You can do a wheelie on Segway’s high-octane $4,000 e-scooter

Mashable VR

If the word "XtremeX" doesn't come to mind when you think of an e-scooter, think again, people!! Segway has unveiled a new souped-up electric scooter that can get up to 43.5 mph and accelerate to 30 mph in 4.2 seconds flat. For context, that's really freaking fast: The maximum allowed e-scooter speed from rentals like Bird or Spin on the streets of Los Angeles is 15 mph.

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Google Pixel Watch Is Coming And It Could Launch With Pixel 6a

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Google's next major device release looks to be the Pixel Watch, a wearable smart device that'll likely launch alongside the price-conscious Pixel 6a.

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The 2022 Paralympics viewing experience will be the most accessible yet. Here's what that means.

Mashable VR

The Winter 2022 Paralympics in Beijing are set to be the " most inclusive " viewing experience in the Games' history, featuring enhanced tools for viewing live sports and engaging with Paralympic content online. And with the Games being aired in coveted primetime slots , the accessibility of these events is especially important. But what does that entail for the viewers themselves?

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Here's How NASA's New GOES-T Satellite Will Help With Weather Forecasts

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NASA has launched a new satellite for observing Earth, called GOES-T. Here's what the mission hopes to accomplish and how it will do so.

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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 enable hands-free voice search in Google Chrome

Digital Trends

Chrome's hands-free voice search may be gone, but you can still do voice searches in it. And you can enable hands-free search on mobile. Here's how to do it.

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How The Apple Newton's Failure Led To The iPhone

Slashgear

Recounting how the original Apple Newton MessagePad paved the way for one of the most popular and game-changing pieces of technology ever made: The iPhone.

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NASA offers the chance to ‘fly your name around the moon’

Digital Trends

If becoming an astronaut is no longer part of your career plan but you still love to dream of traveling to space, then how about sending your name instead?

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Thermacell Now Has A Smart Mosquito Control System For Your Whole Yard

Slashgear

Thermacell created a full yard installation smart mosquito repellant system that works with Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa, ready to roll in 2022.

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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?