Fri.Dec 10, 2021

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‘Among Us’ Is Getting An Official VR Remake

VRScout

The announcement was made during The Game Awards 2021 alongside a handful of other exciting reveals. Last night was The Game Awards 2021, an annual ceremony/marketing event hosted and organized by universally-beloved journalist Geoff Keighley that’s dedicated to honoring the best games of the year while, simultaneously, hyping players on the next wave of must-have titles.

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AR in Smart Manufacturing: How to Make Smart Manufacturing Even Smarter?

ARPost

It’s been a while since AR has become the talk of the town. And this immersive technology, which is the fusion of physical and virtual worlds that blur reality’s lines, is now revolutionizing the manufacturing world. From providing complete visualization to a product even before its prototype is built to being adopted in all the product stages, AR encourages companies in the manufacturing sector to shed their traditional methods.

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XR Talks: Metaverse, Shmetaverse

AR Insider

Like many emerging tech buzzwords, the metaverse is part hype and part substance. This is playfully baked into Ori Inbar's "Metaverse vs. Shmetaverse" construct, which we unpack in this week's XR Talks. The post XR Talks: Metaverse, Shmetaverse appeared first on AR Insider.

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Meta Aims to Further Ratchet Down on Security with Bug Bounty for Quest 2, Portal & Ray-Ban Stories

Road to VR

Meta today announced it’s updating a bug bounty program for its hardware products, something intended to reward anyone outside of the company who reports security vulnerabilities. With some new payout guidelines in place, Meta is ostensibly aiming to highlight its commitment to security following a total rebrand that’s put significant focus on its XR hardware and its vision of the metaverse.

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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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Among Us VR gives the wildly popular game a brand new perspective

Slashgear

One of the biggest surprises during The 2021 Game Awards was the reveal that Among Us is stepping into the realm of virtual reality. Among Us VR was revealed with a brief teaser trailer in the midst of The Game Awards, and though it didn’t show very much, most of us probably have a good enough grasp on the original … Continue reading.

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The transformative power of AR in Real Estate: the take of an industry expert

ARVR

A new AR product has been recently released in collaboration with Bruce Kulpaca , principal broker at Commercial Venture Group (CVG). Bruce felt the need of enhancing the selling experience in his industry, transforming it into something more efficient for both the seller and the buyer by using AR in Real Estate. His will to explore the transformative power of AR in Real Estate led him to us, and we worked together to develop a pilot project and to launch the Ding Dang app about a Real Estate pr

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Forget About Gold: Study Says Investing in Lego Sets Will Earn You More Money

GizModo VR

While some people may consider gold, jewelry, art, wine, or antiques good investments in the long-term, a new study challenges that notion and presents a unique and more lucrative alternative: Lego sets. Read more.

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Open Haptics Ecosystem: unlock a tremendous value for the haptics market

ARVR

By Eric Vezzoli, CEO Interhaptics. Disclaimer I’m opinionated and loud about Haptics. I seek to challenge my views to improve my understanding of the market and technology. If you agree with me, let me know. If you don’t, tell me why I’m wrong and what does not work. I'm also host of the Haptics Club and board member of Haptics Industry Forum. This post does not necessarily reflect the view of these organisations.

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Far-Right Leaders Are Raking In Millions From Bitcoin, New Study Shows

GizModo VR

Even hardcore investors will likely admit that the crypto community tends to attract some pretty scummy personalities; cyber-criminals , con-artists , and Elon Musk , for starters. Now, it looks like we can add white supremacists to that list as well; a new study from the Southern Poverty Law Center probed into the… 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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What is the Soap Opera Effect and how can you disable it on your TV?

Digital Trends

Does your movie or show look too real? That's motion smoothing or video interpolation, aka the Soap Opera Effect. Here's what it is and how to turn it off.

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The Chumboxes That Helped Alex Jones Stay in Business

GizModo VR

For years, Alex Jones, the proprietor of far-right internet hellhole InfoWars, was able to monetize disgusting lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, where a gunman shot and killed 26 people including 20 children before dying by suicide. Jones was particularly obsessed with selling the idea that… Read more.

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What does the metaverse mean for smart homes?

Digital Trends

The metaverse will redefine how people use and interact with the internet and augmented realities. But will it affect smart home tech? Here's what we think.

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5 Predictions for the Near Future From Bill Gates

GizModo VR

Bill Gates, the cofounder of Microsoft who left the company’s board in 2020, wrote an end-of-the-year note on Thursday filled with reflections on the pandemic and the year 2021. But Gates also included some predictions for the future, and they could give some indication of where tech companies are looking for the next… 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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We now know what the self-driving Apple Car might look like

Digital Trends

Several rumors point to Apple possibly working on a self-driving car to one day rival Tesla. A British car leasing-company revealed what the car may look like.

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Mercedes Beats Tesla to Hands-Free Driving

GizModo VR

One of the world’s leading luxury car brands just won regulatory approval from the German government to operate a hands-free, autonomous driving system on public roads, a feat that marks a significant stepping stone along the long, and so far winding road toward self-driving cars. That car company was not Tesla.… Read more.

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XR for Business - 2021 in Review

XR for Business Podcast

Alan is back in the podcasting saddle — alongside his partner in life and business Julie Smithson, plus colleague and marketing expert Alex Colgan — to take a look back at the last year of happenings in the XR metaverse. 2021 was quite a strange year, but there were several promising updates in the XR industry to make 2022 something to look forward to, and our panel discusses just a few; NFTs, Facebook, the Metaverse, and much more.

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The Witcher Season 2 Is a Bigger, Better, and Witchier Witcher

GizModo VR

When Netflix’s adaptation of Andrzej Sapkowski’s Polish fantasy novels —spurred to global renown by the beloved video game adaptations by CD Projekt Red—landed this time two years ago, it catapulted itself to acclaim sometimes in spite of itself. Its second season shows signs of a show that saw that acclaim as a… 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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XR for Business - 2021 in Review

XR for Business Podcast

Alan is back in the podcasting saddle — alongside his partner in life and business Julie Smithson, plus colleague and marketing expert Alex Colgan — to take a look back at the last year of happenings in the XR metaverse. 2021 was quite a strange year, but there were several promising updates in the XR industry to make 2022 something to look forward to, and our panel discusses just a few; NFTs, Facebook, the Metaverse, and much more.

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BBC's Ghosts Is Returning for a Fourth Series of Haunted Shenanigans

GizModo VR

When the BBC’s Ghosts first began, the show’s living protagonists Alison and Mike planned to renovate the dilapidated palatial estate they’d inherited into the sort of charming bed and breakfast people would pay good money to visit. The couple’s plan was a good one, and likely would have worked out, were it not for… Read more.

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XR for Business - 2021 in Review

XR for Business Podcast

Alan is back in the podcasting saddle — alongside his partner in life and business Julie Smithson, plus colleague and marketing expert Alex Colgan — to take a look back at the last year of happenings in the XR metaverse. 2021 was quite a strange year, but there were several promising updates in the XR industry to make 2022 something to look forward to, and our panel discusses just a few; NFTs, Facebook, the Metaverse, and much more.

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Ransomware Jerks Helped Cause the Cream Cheese Shortage

GizModo VR

Following attacks on our hospitals , municipal governments , and fuel supplies , hackers have finally gone too far: They f *d with America’s cream cheese. 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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How to remap the Bixby button on your Samsung device

Digital Trends

Not a fan of Bixby? You can remap the dedicated button on select Samsung phones to launch another app or even Google Assistant. We show you how.

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120-Million-Year-Old Footprints Reveal a Scary-Fast Dinosaur

GizModo VR

Paleontologists in Spain have analyzed two sets of fossilized dinosaur footprints and calculated the animals’ speeds at the times the prints were made. The team found the dinosaurs that made the prints could move at nearly 28 miles per hour, a speed that equals that of the world’s fastest humans. Read more.

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Smart weights are the key to WFH — workouts from home

Digital Trends

Smart weights are the key to working out from home without breaking the bank or finding a large amount of space to move around.

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12 PC Cases That Shouldn't Work but Somehow Do

GizModo VR

Some PC builders consider the case to be nothing more than a necessary utility for organizing components. Buy the cheapest black rectangle that can house a CPU and GPU without running into thermal troubles and be on your way. Others, however, see them as a blank canvas for expressing ideas and interests. These folks… 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?