VRScout

MAY 18, 2022

Google Maps is getting a major upgrade. During Google’s 2-hour long 2022 I/O event last week, the company made a number of exciting announcements, including the reveal of a new mid-tier phone as well as a pair of AR glasses capable of translating multiple languages in real-time. . Google also revealed world-scale AR experiences for Google Maps that will greatly improve the Street View experience on your mobile device, changing the way you view the world while wearing a pair of Google’s AR

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MAY 18, 2022

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and there are plenty of XR applications and outfits that deserve highlighting. We’ve teased out a couple of projects and products that deserve a closer look. Hit the Mind Gym in Virbela. Virbela is an enterprise-first solution focusing on remote work and events through the use of shared or custom virtual campus spaces.

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AR Insider

MAY 18, 2022

The term killer app is thrown around a lot. But real killer apps have a few common qualities, including utilities that have inherently-frequent usage, and major addressable markets. We examine in light of AR. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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VRScout

MAY 18, 2022

There’s never been a better time to be a tabletop gamer. Originally released on Meta Quest and PC VR headsets back in 2021, Demeo is an addicting VR dungeon crawler with an old-school vibe. Brought to us by developer Resolution Games, the turn-based multiplayer experience has you teaming up with friends to battle hordes of monstrous creatures throughout a variety of underground labyrinths.

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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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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2022

Apple is a notorious black box when it comes to internal projects, although sometimes details based on supply chain rumors shed a sliver of light on what might be happening with the company’s AR/VR headset behind closed doors. Much less common coming from Apple are direct internal leaks, however a report from The Information alleges that 10 people on Apple’s mixed reality headset project team have detailed some of the past design challenges and possible direction the headset may take movin

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Slashgear

MAY 18, 2022

Neuralink promises to revolutionize how humans interact with technology -- and provide massive benefits to those with disabilities.

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GizModo VR

MAY 18, 2022

Well, this is awkward. One of Apple’s highest-profile return-to-office detractors reportedly landed a new gig at Alphabet’s DeepMind, marking the latest drama over Big Tech’s remote work scuffles. That move, ironically, comes right around the same time Apple decided to walk back its most recent return-to-office push Read more.

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Slashgear

MAY 18, 2022

Bentley's CEO has revealed some key specs for the luxury automaker's upcoming first electric vehicle, including blistering speeds and a price to match.

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GizModo VR

MAY 18, 2022

A legislative commission in Utah has given the green light to study several strategies to help with the worryingly low levels of water in the Great Salt Lake—including potentially building a pipeline to carry water over land from the Pacific Ocean. The study to determine “the feasibility and cost of piping water from… Read more.

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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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Slashgear

MAY 18, 2022

Apple's latest commercial focuses on privacy and assures iPhone and iPad users that their data won't be collected in secret and sold to the highest bidder.

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GizModo VR

MAY 18, 2022

Martin “pharma bro” Shkreli has apparently been released early from a federal prison in Pennsylvania as revealed in a tweet from friend Edmund Sullivan who picked him up. Shkreli will now serve time in a U.S. Bureau of Prisons halfway house at a secret location in New York. Read more.

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Slashgear

MAY 18, 2022

Honda's first all-electric SUV for the US has been shown off for the first time, with the 2024 Prologue promising style to go with its GM Ultium platform.

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GizModo VR

MAY 18, 2022

In the time that has passed since the Battle of Starcourt, the friendships that make up the heart of Stranger Things have been spread apart, thanks to that season three cliffhanger. We’ll pick up with the characters six months after the events of last season, even though it’s been three years since audiences have been… Read more.

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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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Slashgear

MAY 18, 2022

In addition to its Time Machine system backup feature, Apple also makes it possible for Mac users to backup files and data to their iCloud accounts.

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GizModo VR

MAY 18, 2022

If you managed to score tickets to this year’s Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim, California, next week, I sincerely hope you also managed to save up some galactic credits. Besides actual Star Wars news , the amount of exclusive merchandise that will be available to you there, and there alone, is simply staggering—so… Read more.

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Slashgear

MAY 18, 2022

NASA JPL's Mars Curiosity rover has uncovered an interesting "doorway" in the Gale Crater, but is there a simpler explanation for this anomaly?

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GizModo VR

MAY 18, 2022

Scientists dosed the first patient this week in a small clinical trial of an experimental cancer treatment—one that relies on a novel kind of ally. The treatment uses a virus engineered to selectively kill cancer cells, while also amplifying the body’s immune response to the cancer. The hope is that this therapy can… Read more.

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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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Slashgear

MAY 18, 2022

We take the ability to video chat with anyone in the world for granted, but it wasn't that long ago the technology seemed as magical as it is useful.

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GizModo VR

MAY 18, 2022

File sharing pioneer Napster is getting a second chance at life, this time, on the blockchain. That’s right, nothing quite screams, “Web3 futurism” like a stumbling, hallowed out 23-year-old internet company. Read more.

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Slashgear

MAY 18, 2022

The Land Rover Defender is one of the most popular vehicles Land Rover has ever made, so why was it banned from sale in the United States?

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GizModo VR

MAY 18, 2022

The average person suffering from long covid didn’t have a severe infection to begin with, a new report suggests. The study, an examination of private insurance claims, found that three-fourths of diagnosed long covid patients were not hospitalized for covid-19. Additionally, the researchers found that patients were… Read more.

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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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Slashgear

MAY 18, 2022

Sony LinkBuds S earbuds combine some of the best features from past releases with a familiar design and three color options right out the gate.

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GizModo VR

MAY 18, 2022

First announced back in 2017, then delayed and delayed again thanks to the pandemic, The Bob’s Burgers Movie —an animated musical based on the long-running Fox series created by Loren Bouchard —is almost in theaters. Ahead of the movie’s May 27 debut, io9 attended a press conference featuring its cast and crew. Read more.

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Slashgear

MAY 18, 2022

Internet Explorer is at its absolute final end, with Microsoft bidding farewell to not only feature updates but security updates as well.

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GizModo VR

MAY 18, 2022

Alongside 150 full time employees Netflix axed Tuesday, dozens of contract writers were shown the door. Bitter tweets flooded in after the job cuts were announced. Many of those writers were part of Netflix’s large-scale diversity communications initiatives, and they said that the struggling streaming giant had left… Read more.

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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?

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