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Resolution Games Announces ‘Angry Birds VR’ Online Level Builder, ‘Wonderglade’ For Quest

VRScout

The summer of VR continues with two big announcements from Resolution Games. If you are a big fan of Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs —and why wouldn’t you be—then this is just the kind of news your looking for. Thanks to a new kick-ass update, you now have the power to build and share your own custom levels and challenge other players around the globe. .

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People Have Committed More Than $300,000 for a NASA-Designed Perfume That Smells Like Space

GizModo VR

There are so many things ordinary folk, aka people who are not astronauts, want to know about space. Apparently, what space smells like is one of the burning questions thousands of people ask themselves. Since it’s probable that all those people won’t be able to travel to space in the near future, they’re doing the… Read more.

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Which smart security cams are serious about privacy? We’ve ranked them all

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We look at some of the most popular cameras to see how they stack up in terms of protecting your privacy.

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Researchers Claim Coronavirus Is Airborne in Letter to the WHO, Accuse It of Failing to Convey Risk

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A group of scientists will publish an open letter to the World Health Organization (WHO) in the coming days with an alarming claim: The novel coronavirus is airborne , meaning that it can linger in the air long enough and in enough quantity to infect others. 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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The best meal-planning apps for 2020

Digital Trends

Meal-planning apps help make cooking and shopping easier. Here are the best meal planners for iOS and Android.

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Infosec community debates changing ‘Black Hat’ terminology

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Some argue the term contributes to racial stereotyping.

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Sony's Still Not Sure a Silver and Black Movie Can Work Without Spider-Man

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For a while, Sony’s been struggling to make a Silver and Black movie —that is, a movie starring the dynamic duo of Black Cat and Silver Sable, both supporting Spider-Man characters. According to Gina Prince-Bythewood, who was at one point attached to that film, the company is still struggling. Read more.

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Sony factory in Japan makes a PlayStation 4 every 30 seconds, mostly with robots

Digital Trends

A total of 32 robots are working in the factory in Kisarazu.

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Nintendo Needs to Bring These Apps to Animal Crossing's Nook Phone Right Now

GizModo VR

Animal Crossing: New Horizons may have outsold every other entry in the series and become the quarantine game du jour, but there’s always room for improvement. Because let’s face it, for every good design decision Nintendo makes, there are just as many questionable ones. 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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Epic Games exec says PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X games will look like movies

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Unreal Engine 5's Nanite technology will scale cinema-level assets in real time.

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Harper Collins Is Putting Out a New The Hobbit Audiobook With Andy Serkis

GizModo VR

Andy Serkis made a name for himself as a motion capture actor, and the big franchise that truly proved his talent was Lord of the Rings , where he famously played Gollum. His face, and his voice, are inseparable from Tolkien’s story for fans of Peter Jackson’s films. And for those fans, it’s exciting to know that… Read more.

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Nubia Red Magic 5G review: Hardcore gamer

Digital Trends

Live and breathe mobile gaming? The Red Magic 5G will surely tempt you, but is it really worth your while?

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Netflix's Into the Night Outruns the Sun Long Enough to Get a Second Season

GizModo VR

Netflix’s Into the Night is a point of personal fascination for me, for the sole and entire reason that is absolutely bizarre. A thriller about literally outrunning the sun, it is a weird melange of influences and concepts, including being inspired by a novel (Jacek Dukaj’s The Old Axolotl ) that it does not resemble… 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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Check out Crew Dragon astronauts’ stunning Earth photos captured from ISS

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Doug Hurley's photos show everything from cloud art to sandstorms.

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Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath Kollection is Already $40 on PS4 and Switch, So Add it To Your Kart

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Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath Kollection (PS4) | $40 | Amazon Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath Kollection (Switch) | $40 | Amazon Read more.

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What Comes Next: How tech is helping offices and workplaces reopen

Digital Trends

A look ahead to see what businesses will need to do as we move forward into the next phase of reopening.

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This Star Wars Concept Art Shows Off the Complex Stylings of Enfys Nest's Gang

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When it comes to character designs, Star Wars gets criminals right. 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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How A.I. created that amazing sports highlight reel you can’t stop watching

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Turns out algorithms are pretty good at making them go viral.

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Save Up to 50% On Ghost of the Shell Manga for the Kindle

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Up to 50% off Kodansha’s Ghost in the Shell (Digital) | Amazon Read more.

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PlayStation 5 price apparently not yet finalized, claims survey taker

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The survey assigned a 'random' PlayStation 5 price of 349 British pounds.

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Save $100 on the Dyson AM06 bladeless fan this 4th of July weekend

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Bring a little magic into your space with Dyson's AM06 Bladeless Desk Fan to cool the air in your home or office.

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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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The best cell phone plans of 2020

Digital Trends

We've done the work of sorting through all the best cellular plans offered by each of the major carriers.

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Rocket Lab CEO offers personal video message after failed launch

Digital Trends

Peter Beck apologized and described the mission failure as "a pretty tough day".

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Samsung will reportedly unveil Galaxy Note 20 in early August Unpacked event

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Leaker Ice Universe predicts a price tag of $999.

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How Curiosity is keeping itself entertained on Mars over the long weekend

Digital Trends

No holidays off on the red planet.

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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?