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Meta Announces Big Update For Its VR Avatars

VRScout

These new-and-improved 3D avatars will be available on Meta Quest, Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram. Meta today announced that its lineup of expressive 3D avatars will be getting a major face lift in the form of new facial expressions, assistive devices, and limited edition clothing options. These new-and-improved avatars have already begun rolling out on VR headsets as well as Facebook, Messenger, and—for the first time—Instagram Stories and DM.

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BRCvr to Host Day Long Film Festival of Burning Man Documentaries

ARPost

Big Rock Creative, the outfit that brought Burning Man (i.e. BRCvr – the official virtual Burning Man event) to AltspaceVR last year, is giving us a little something between burns. The company has announced a day-long film festival to take place on Saturday, February 5, from anywhere with internet. See Also: 2021 Burning Man: A Virtual Reality Experience Is Coming Your Way.

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Health Check: XR Venture Funding in 2021

AR Insider

Venture funding can be one health indicator in any sector. On that measure, AR and VR startup funding was up 229 percent year-over-year in 2021 to $3.9 billion. What does this say about industry lifecycle? We jump in. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Evidence Mounts for Apple’s Support of WebXR in Latest iOS Beta

Road to VR

As the most valuable tech company in the world, decisions that Apple makes tend to reverberate throughout the industry. Recent evidence strongly points to Apple planning to support WebXR on Safari and possibly its forthcoming XR headset, which would widen consensus on the standard. WebXR is a web standard designed to make it possible for developers to deliver AR and VR experiences straight from a web browser.

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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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Spatial Beats: Meta, Web3 & M&A

AR Insider

Welcome back to Spatial Beats, AR Insider's weekly series that features observations and insights of author and futurist Charlie Fink. This week, we look at Meta's new supercomputer, M&A action and Scott Galloway riffs on web3. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Interview with Alex Katouzian, Qualcomm SVP: Talking Snapdragon, Microsoft, Nuvia, and Discrete Graphics

Anand Tech

Two driving forces are driving the current technology market: insatiable demand for hardware, and the supply chain shortages making it difficult to produce enough in quantity to fulfil every order. Even with these two forces in action, companies have to push and develop next generation technologies, as no competitor wants to sit on their laurels. That includes Qualcomm, and as part of the Tech Summit in late 2021, I sat down with Alex Katouzian, Qualcomm’s GM of Mobile, Compute, and Infras

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A Reminder Why George Lucas Loved the Star Wars Special Editions

GizModo VR

Even after it became the highest-grossing film of all time, George Lucas still wasn’t completely satisfied with Star Wars. Sure, the filmmaker obviously was happy with much of what’s on screen , but the visuals and scope he had in his mind in when he made the movie in the 1970s didn’t line up with the final product. He… Read more.

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Meta brings 3D avatars to Instagram, rolls out new options for Facebook and Messenger

TechCrunch VR

Meta is bringing its 3D avatars to Instagram and is also rolling out updated avatars to Facebook and Messenger, the company announced on Monday. Users in the United States, Canada and Mexico can now show up as their virtual selves in stickers, feed posts, Facebook profile pictures and more. Today’s update adds Cochlear implants and over-the-ear hearing aids in several colors on all platforms, including VR.

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Astrophysicists Found 1,000 Magnetic Milky Way ‘Strands’

GizModo VR

A new mosaic image taken by the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa has revealed nearly 1,000 multi-light-year-long electron strands at the center of the Milky Way. The strands are huge streaks of cosmic ray particles; though they were discovered nearly 40 years ago, researchers never knew there were so many. 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 to tell if your smartphone has been hacked

Digital Trends

Don't be an unwitting victim of third-party hacks. Here are some of the ways you can recognize if your smartphone has been targeted and what to do about it.

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The Best Horror, Sci-Fi and Fantasy Streaming in February 2022

GizModo VR

Welcome back to io9's Nerd’s Watch, where we pare down the enormous lists of new films and television shows arriving on all your favorite streaming services into the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror titles we think you’ll like most. Read more.

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Boston Dynamics’ Stretch robot lands its first gig

Digital Trends

Boston Dynamics' highly versatile Stretch robot has landed its first gig almost a year after it was unveiled, with DHL planning to deploy a number of them soon.

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Your Graphics Card Can Be Used to Track Your Movements on the Web, Researchers Find

GizModo VR

Computer researchers have discovered a new, experimental way to track you across the internet using information culled from your computer or phone’s graphics processing unit. 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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How to watch Super Bowl 2022 in 4K

Digital Trends

Do you want to watch the Super Bowl in the best resolution, preferably 4K? Here's everything you should know and how to watch the game in the highest quality.

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Everything You Need to Know About Halo Before the Halo Show

GizModo VR

Last night we got our first proper extended look at Paramount+’s long-awaited Halo: The Series , the latest in a long line of attempts to bring the Master Chief out of video games and into live-action. But not only is the new show about to be the biggest attempt to do just that, it’s also going to be diving into Halo … Read more.

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Researchers say your GPU could expose private info online

Digital Trends

As if online privacy was not difficult enough to achieve, a team of researchers has now found that users can be tracked just by analyzing their graphics cards.

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NYPD Officer Reportedly Being Investigated Over Fake Vaccine Card Scam That Raked in $1.5 Million

GizModo VR

A New York Police Department officer is reportedly being investigated after Suffolk County prosecutors charged his spouse with allegedly carrying out a $1.5 million scheme to sell fake coronavirus vaccine cards to anti-vaxxers and others looking to dodge work or government mandates. 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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Sony will acquire Destiny creator Bungie for $3.6 billion

Digital Trends

The acquisition comes less than two weeks after Microsoft began the process of acquiring Activision Blizzard.

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Disenchantment's Part 4 Trailer Reveals It's Bad to Be the Queen

GizModo VR

It’s been over a year since we last saw Luci the demon, Elfo the elf, and Bean the newly crowned Queen of Dreamland on Netflix, and things weren’t looking good. Luci had died and gone to heaven. Elfo had been carried away by angry ogres for blinding their prince. And poor Bean had been dragged off to hell by her evil… Read more.

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Stephen King’s The Boogeyman will scare audiences at Hulu

Digital Trends

Yellowjackets breakout star Sophie Thatcher is set to headline a Hulu original film based upon Stephen King's short story, The Boogeyman.

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Harvard Study Finds Link Between Fracking and Premature Deaths

GizModo VR

We know for a fact that fracking sucks for people and literally poisons the area where it occurs. So many of us have seen terrifying videos of rivers and other bodies of water on fire , and reports of seemingly healthy people suddenly plagued with headaches, random nosebleeds, and rashes. Now, a new study has linked… 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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With Bungie purchase, Sony is playing on Microsoft’s level

Digital Trends

Sony proves it's willing to spend lots of money so PlayStation can compete with Microsoft's big Xbox deals.

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A Dungeons & Dragons TV Show Is Coming From Red Notice Director

GizModo VR

Just when you thought having TV shows based on Star Wars , Marvel , DC , The Lord of the Rings , Halo , and about 50 other major franchises wasn’t enough, one of the biggest and baddest is finally rolling its way into the mix. eOne just announced that Rawson Marshall Thurber, the writer and director behind Netflix’s smash… Read more.

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Grab this HP Pavilion gaming PC while it’s only $550

Digital Trends

One of the best gaming PC deals is at HP today, where you can get the HP Pavilion gaming desktop PC for just $550, a savings of $100 from its regular price.

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WoW's Cross-Faction Evolution Is Finally a Chance to Make Love, Not Warcraft

GizModo VR

The story of Warcraft is a story of, well, war. Orcs against humans , Horde against Alliance , time and time again the story of Blizzard’s fantasy saga —told across the classic strategy games and, for the past 18 years , groundbreaking MMORPG World of Warcraft —has turned back to stoking conflict between its two biggest… 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?