Sat.Jan 01, 2022

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Pokémon Legends: Arceus Commercial Will Take Your Breath (of the Wild) Away

GizModo VR

It’s only a few weeks before Switch players can get their hands on Pokémon Legends: Arceu s. The next big entry in the series is winding back the clock to the Hisui Region before it came to be known as Sinnoh , and tasks players with exploring the area to research the pocket monsters in their natural habitats. Read more.

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How to watch the James Webb Space Telescope deploy its sunshield tomorrow

Digital Trends

The James Webb Space Telescope is still unfolding, and tomorrow will see the tensioning of its sunshield. Here's how to watch live coverage of the event.

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Airbnb Will Hide Guests’ First Names in Oregon Until Bookings Are Confirmed to Fight Discrimination

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Airbnb is taking steps to tackle discrimination from hosts on its platform with a new update for guests who are residents of Oregon. Unfortunately, it seems like people in other states, and around the world, will just have to keep on fighting to be treated fairly on the platform. Read more.

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Smart home trends to look for in 2022

Digital Trends

With a new year comes a new host of smart home innovations, especially as the industry looks to recover from the previous two years.

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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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Peacemaker Rings in 2022 with a Delightfully Stupid Trailer

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What better way to celebrate the start of 2022 than with some violence and a bald eagle? As the clock hit midnight for east coasters, James Gunn dropped a new trailer for Peacemaker , the spinoff of The Suicide Squad starring John Cena’s patriotic antihero. Rather than focusing on the titular character’s conflicted soul Read more.

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Alan Moore's Legendary Miracleman Run is Getting an Omnibus

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For fans of the old superhero Miracleman, the last several years have been tumultuous. Created in 1954 by Mick Anglo and originally named Marvelman, the character’s been lost to time, even after his rights were eventually sold to Marvel back in 2009. It wasn’t clear if or when he’d return to the comics space, but this… Read more.

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From NFTs to the Metaverse, here are 4 video game trends to watch in 2022

Digital Trends

From the Metaverse to NFTs, here are four trends that players can expect to see in the game industry this year.

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Thousands Learn That Extra Money in Their Account Is No Christmas Gift, It’s a $176 Million Bank Error

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Tens of thousands of people in the United Kingdom probably thought they had been especially good this past year when they saw their bank accounts on Christmas Day, all of which had more money than they expected. Alas, Santa Claus doesn’t have enough cash in his reserves to justify the roughly $176 million in payments,… Read more.

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ISS operations extended through 2030

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Discussion continues about what will replace the International Space Station, but the iconic orbiting station won't be going anywhere any time soon.

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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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A Look Back at Betty White's Nerdiest Roles

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2021's been a not terribly great year and taken several talented folks from us, but it threw one final gut punch with the news of Betty White’s death on New Year’s Eve. Just a few weeks ahead of her much publicized 100th birthday, the vaunted actor passed away, leaving behind a pretty lengthy career spanning several… Read more.

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25 Cost-free VR Online games – Hidden Gems of Steam VR!

VRGames

Here’s my list of 25 little recognised VR online games that may have slipped under your radar! You can engage in them making use of any VR established that supports SteamVR. If you have … source.

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Acer Swift 3 16 review: Old school package but decent value

Digital Trends

Stretched due to its 16:9 16.1-inch display but with enough performance and battery life to be compelling.

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Game Design for a New Year’s Aspiration

Building the Metaverse

It’s January 1, and many people are thinking about how they’ll change in the New Year. I’m not a big fan of New Years resolutions. They almost never work. #ngmi Instead, I want to tell you what I’ve done for the last five years, why it worked and continues to work, and some guidance on how to improve your life. Photo I took from the summit of Cayambe (18,996') after dropping >90 lb. over 5 years.

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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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Sport More than | Funny Digital Actuality FAILS

VRGames

Some men and women can scarcely cope with their have fact, now they want to attempt it on Hard? You can enter the planet of VR and go away everything else guiding, but buddies … source.

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Here are some of the scientific highlights from the ISS in 2021

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NASA has released a round-up of some of the biggest scientific discoveries made on the International Space Station in 2021.

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10 Incredible-Looking VR Games We’re Dying To Play In 2022

VRScout

This year is shaping up to be a big one for VR. Here’s what we’re looking forward to most in the coming months. Let’s be honest. There’s never been a better time to be a VR gamer. Between the Meta Quest 2 and PC VR headsets like the Valve Index, we’re currently swimming in a sea of incredible games and apps. 2021 was an especially exciting year with the release of popular titles like Resident Evil 4 VR , Lone Echo II , and After the Fall just to name a few.

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