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Jump Through Time To Save Humanity In VR Game ‘Wanderer’

VRScout

Explore the moon, hang with Tesla, and perform on stage for thousands in this time-pending puzzle adventure. Calling all time travelers! Wanderer is a VR adventure game that will have you jumping throughout history to prevent the collapse of our civilization. It won’t be easy, however, as every move you make in the past will have a dramatic impact. Will you follow the history books or alter the past in hopes of creating a brighter future?

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Regulators Urge Peloton Tread+ Owners to Stop Using Treadmill 'Immediately,' and Peloton Is Pissed

GizModo VR

In the wake of multiple reports of injuries and at least one death involving Peloton’s Tread+ treadmill, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued an “urgent warning” that the product “poses serious risks” to children’s safety and should not be used in households with small children or pets. Read more.

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Trippy NASA video shows two black holes interacting

Digital Trends

NASA has created a visualization of what happens when two black holes pass one another, showing how the gravity of each warps the accretion disk of the other.

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U.S. Federal Investigators Are Reportedly Looking Into Codecov Security Breach, Undetected for Months

GizModo VR

U.S. federal investigators are purportedly looking into a security breach at Codecov , a platform used to test software code with more 29,000 customers worldwide, Reuters reported on Saturday. The company has confirmed the breach and stated that it went undetected for months. Read more.

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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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Evolving, self-replicating robots are here — but don’t worry about an uprising

Digital Trends

Self-replicating robots are a staple of apocalyptic science fiction movies, but now the idea has made the jump from fiction to reality.

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Robots, rappers, and rasslers: The most bizarre NFT projects yet

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Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have exploded in popularity in the past couple months, which has given rise to a bunch of really, really strange new ideas.

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PlayStation 5 Is Now the Fastest-Selling Console in U.S. History

GizModo VR

Sony’s PlayStation 5 is the fastest-selling gaming console in U.S. history in both unit and dollar sales, according to retail analyst firm The NPD Group. So if you’ve been struggling to get your hands on one since its release last November, scalpers may not be entirely to blame. Read more.

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SpaceX will develop the lander to carry NASA astronauts to the moon

Digital Trends

NASA has selected SpaceX to develop a lander to take humans to the moon's surface, called the human landing system (HLS), in a contract worth $2.89 billion.

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Releases Recap: April 12 – 16

Oculus

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

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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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LAST CHANCE: Tune in to Watch Jake Paul vs Ben Askren Now

Digital Trends

Jake Paul and Ben Askren are still yet to enter the ring for their much-anticipated bout at Triller Fight Club, meaning there’s still time to buy the PPV to tune into the Jake Paul vs Ben Askren live stream. This event is coming courtesy of Triller Fight Club, a new promotion started by the popular […].

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These five binary star systems could potentially host habitable planets

Digital Trends

If you've dreamed of living on an alien world with two suns, researchers identified five double star systems which could potentially host habitable worlds.

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How NASA engineers are fixing the issue grounding Mars helicopter Ingenuity

Digital Trends

Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are working on fixing the issue with Ingenuity which is preventing the craft from going into flight mode.

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SpaceX performs Falcon 9 static fire test ahead of second crew mission to ISS

Digital Trends

SpaceX has performed a static fire test of its Falcon 9 rocket ahead of the second operational flight of the Crew Dragon to the International Space Station.

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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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Arlo Essential Indoor Security Camera Review: When privacy is a priority

Digital Trends

Featuring a shutter that opens and closes, it truly respects your privacy.

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Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 review: Steps in the right direction

Digital Trends

Big gains in performance and battery life make this the best in the line so far.

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No, there isn’t a free Jake Paul vs. Ben Askren live stream

Digital Trends

There's no free Jake Paul vs Ben Askren live stream but it's still simple to watch the match live at home thanks to FITE.tv.

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Watch Jake Paul vs. Ben Askren: How to live stream the fight

Digital Trends

Tonight, YouTuber Jake Paul steps into the ring to box former UFC star Ben Askren. Here's how to watch live.

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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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Watch Jake Paul vs. Ben Askren: How to live stream the fight

Digital Trends

Tonight, YouTuber Jake Paul steps into the ring to box former UFC star Ben Askren. Here's how to watch live.

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