EON Reality

APRIL 10, 2019

The first batch of VIA University College and EON Reality VR Innovation Academy students have now finished their internships, as part of the VIA Software Engineering degree. This is the first -of-its-kind education wherein EON Reality has collaborated with a local University College to create an accredited Bachelor’s degree (BA Hons). In order to develop the Augmented and Virtual Reality (AVR) industry, there has long been a clear need for the right education offerings.

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VRScout

APRIL 22, 2019

Mainstreaming XR Wearables Starts with Styling for Inclusion. The old adage “seeing is believing” certainly checks out, but to believe in something, an idea, a notion, has one seeing it proven over and over again. I decided to create a photo campaign to make mixed-reality wearables look good and diversity in tech industry marketing a must. It’s what I believe in and what I want to see.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 23, 2019

One of the most interesting people that I have met at Vive Ecosystem Conference has been Naoki Yamaguchi (?? ??), the CVO (Chief Virtual Officer) of Japanese startup Virtual Cast. Virtual Cast is a solution that lets you be a Vtuber , that is a Virtual youtuber. You can put your headset on and see yourself inside a virtual stage. In this virtual stage, you can do your personal show , of whatever type you want: you can speak, dance, teach stuff, play games, etc… Your personal show will be s

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Tech Trends VR

APRIL 30, 2019

How interacting with virtual beings powered by Artificial Intelligence can teach us to become better humans. More businesses across every industry have come to realize that soft skills are far from a “nice to have” and actually essential in order to ensure they have a well-rounded and creative workforce capable of tackling the complex challenges that some with doing business in the digital age.

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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

APRIL 9, 2019

Facebook for the first time will offer a special VR livestream of the keynote presentation at the company’s upcoming F8 2019 developer conference. Users with Oculus Go or Gear VR headsets will be able to watch in VR, but it’s unclear if there will be a VR livestream that’s accessible by Rifters. Facebook will offer a VR livestream for the keynote of its upcoming F8 developer conference which will be held in San Jose, CA on April 30th and May 1st.

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InstaVR

APRIL 5, 2019

How to Add Quizzes (Questions + Answers) to a VR App. InstaVR is a great solution for building VR apps across all major VR headsets. With a combination of Hotspots and our new Analytics feature , you can build in-app quizzes (aka questions & answers), and see in real-time* what answers are given. You can see a completed one scene example app referenced below by clicking here.

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VRScout

APRIL 17, 2019

Take an augmented tour of the structural damages caused by Monday’s fire. While French President Emmanuel Macron hopes to complete the repairs within five years, architectural experts predict it could take decades to fully renovate the historic Notre Dame cathedral after Monday’s devastating fire. Although the bulk of the structure remains intact, nearly the entire roof of the building has been destroyed, leaving a gaping hole above the centuries-old halls for the first time since its initial co

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2019

Today I have been able to have a preview of “Wolves In the Walls” by Fable Studio , and I have been truly AMAZED by it. (Disclaimer: if you go on, you may find mild spoilers). Wolves in the Walls is a storytelling experience by Fable Studio , that talks about the story of an 8yo girl named Lucy that hears strange scratches and wolves’ noises coming from behind the walls of her house.

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Tech Trends VR

APRIL 8, 2019

Why extended Reality (xR) is an Effective Tool for Environmental Health and Safety Training: A Brain Science Analysis. A critical function in nearly all industrial and manufacturing settings is to provide high-quality and effective training in environmental health and safety (EHS). Although one might argue that EHS is not the most exciting or engaging topic, a strong understanding of EHS guidelines and most importantly an ability to ACT quickly and effectively under ANY CONDITIONS, including hig

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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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Road to VR

APRIL 1, 2019

Last week’s teaser reveal of the Valve Index headset came with very little information save for a single picture of the bottom of the headset with a tagline “Upgrade your experience. May 2019.” Now, an apparently leaked Steam product page reveals a new rendering of the headset and a release date of June 15th. Twitter user Wario64 appears to have uncovered an official Steam product page for Valve’s Index headset ; though the page has already been taken down, screenshots re

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Charlie Fink

APRIL 27, 2019

The Tribeca Film Festival's Immersive Arcade delivers the best collection of VR experiences in the world.

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InstaVR

APRIL 23, 2019

How to Use the Oculus Go for Sales & Marketing Presentations. We’ve already established that Virtual Reality (VR) is great for sales and marketing presentations. It’s immersive, interactive and memorable. It transports viewers through sight and sounds in an incomparable way. Now that Oculus Gos are widely being used in B2B and B2C contexts, we wanted to explore more about how to use the headset specifically for these types of presentations.

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VRScout

APRIL 14, 2019

Festival-goers can interact with space-themed AR content before, during, and after performances. Today marks the first weekend of the 2019 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California, and while festival-goers are knee-deep in the festivals usual helping of chart-topping music and A-list celebrities, those visiting the famous Sahara tent are experiencing a much different musical experience.

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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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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2019

Facebook 3D Photos are one of the hot trends of the moment , especially now that is possible to upload them from Facebook website. They could be a great innovative tool to market your AR and VR applications (and even for the non-XR ones) … so let’s see how you can create them for you game directly from your Unity project! What are Facebook 3D Photos?

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TechCrunch VR

APRIL 30, 2019

Matt Miesnieks. Contributor. Matt Miesnieks is CEO and co-founder of 6D.ai. More posts by this contributor. Why the YouTube of AR won’t be YouTube. The product design challenges of AR on smartphones. The martial arts actor Jet Li turned down a role in the Matrix and has been invisible on our screens because he does not want his fighting moves 3D-captured and owned by someone else.

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Road to VR

APRIL 15, 2019

Superhot VR (2017) just celebrated a big milestone. Having sold more than 800,000 units across all supported platforms, developers Superhot Team say the VR title has now generated more revenue than their original hit PC game Superhot (2016). It’s no surprise the unique VR action game has done extremely well for itself. After all, Superhot VR ranked as the number three best-selling PSVR title of 2018 on the US PlayStation Store; on Steam, it was one of the top 12 best-selling VR games of

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Veer

APRIL 23, 2019

The 2nd Sandbox Immersive Festival (SIF), held in conjunction with Qingdao International VR Week 2019 , will take place on 24-30 June 2019! As the official virtual extension partner, VeeR is calling for all talented creators to submit your work and sign up for the Official Selection and Pitching Session now! As the first festival in China dedicated to promote international immersive and interactive media content, SIF 2019 will give you the opportunity to enjoy top immersive projects curated by a

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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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Voices of VR

APRIL 2, 2019

BehaviorMe is using virtual reality to enhance behavior therapy for children and young adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). It’s started by four people including.

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VRScout

APRIL 23, 2019

The future of XR technology is now in the hands of the young and ambitious. Michigan students Michael Zhang and Matthew Kosova successfully hosted over 70+ attendees at their homegrown XR Midwest Conference on April 7, bringing companies like Ford to share VR/AR projects with a nascent but optimistic young audience. Image Credit: XR Midwest Conference.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2019

In this chapter about my experience at VEC , I will give you my hands-on impressions about some gadgets I’ve tried there. Unluckily, I have been so busy with the presentation and the networking, that I have been able only to try only few things… next time I will try to organize my time better! Vive Cosmos. The Vive Cosmos… we are all a bit curious about it (Image by HTC).

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TechCrunch VR

APRIL 13, 2019

Jarno M. Koponen. Contributor. Jarno M. Koponen is working on intelligent systems and human-centered personalization. He currently is product lead at Yle, one of the leading media houses in the Nordics. More posts by this contributor. A new hope: AI for news media. AI on your lock screen. New machine learning technologies, user interfaces and automated content creation techniques are going to expand the personalization of storytelling beyond algorithmically generated news feeds and content recom

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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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Road to VR

APRIL 23, 2019

If you’ve been paying attention to the VR space at all in 2019, you’ve likely noticed the increasing buzz, no doubt thanks to four major VR headsets set to launch over the course of the next few months. Here’s the quick breakdown of what we know. Oculus Quest. Image courtesy Oculus. What is it? Quest is Oculus’ first standalone VR headset that includes 6DOF tracking on the headset and controllers.

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Oculus

APRIL 10, 2019

My name is Chris. When I’m not drawing very professional GDC slides in MS Paint or showing /r/oculus my living room, I’m usually working with.

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NVidia VR

APRIL 2, 2019

After meeting industrial designer Cobus Bothma, you’d be forgiven for assuming he works in the gaming industry or Hollywood. He’s a big proponent of VR, AR and GPU computing. But Bothma is the director of applied research at Kohn Pedersen Fox , a New York-based global architecture firm whose work includes the city’s Museum of Modern Art. Bothma discussed KPF’s latest GPU-powered rendering projects and use of NVIDIA Holodeck , our virtual reality collaboration environment, at the recent GPU Techn

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VRScout

APRIL 21, 2019

‘View in Room’ mode opens up access to Shutterstock’s massive image library in AR. Shutterstock—one of the leading commercial providers of stock photography, footage and music—have officially entered the AR market with ‘View Room’ mode, a new feature on the official Shutterstock customer app that lets you to select any image featured on the Shutterstock platform and view it in a real-world location.

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Speaker: Micah Eppler, Account Executive for Rehearsal of eLearning Brothers

Did you know that companies such as Paychex, 3M, and Honeywell are getting better results by incorporating video-based practice and coaching within their L&D strategy? From sales pitches to soft skills, learners are becoming top performers by applying and validating knowledge transfer using the unique benefits of video. Whether used as a stand-alone application or integrated with a learning platform, video-based practice and coaching platforms give learners the ultimate opportunity to repeatedly

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