The Ghost Howls

JUNE 16, 2020

This night I woke up at 3am to participate in HTC Vive’s event on ENGAGE because I read that it was an “HTC VIVE LAUNCH EVENT” and I was super-confident in the launch of the Cosmos XR or at least of the Cosmos Play. Actually, I have been pretty disappointed because there has been no hardware launch , but my lack of sleep has been rewarded by the announcement of a new software platform by HTC and also by HTC publicly showcasing some prototypes I made in the last weeks.

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ARPost

JUNE 19, 2020

OVR Technology, a virtual reality startup, recently introduced the Architecture of Scent platform. It layers real-world scents to a digital space, giving users a truly immersive experience. Whether for gaming, education, or therapy, setting up higher-quality experiences makes the technology more effective for users. We interviewed Aaron Wisniewski, CEO and co-founder of OVR technology, to learn more about its first-of-its-kind scent experience.

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VRScout

JUNE 15, 2020

OVR Technology CEO Aaron Wisniewski provides fascinating insights into the world of olfactory engineering. . We use all of our senses to understand and interpret the world around us. Sensory input— sight, sound, smell, taste and touch— power our most instinctive reactions to the context of our environment. When any one of these does not match up with the others, we begin to subconsciously poke holes in our surroundings, including digital worlds.

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Road to VR

JUNE 19, 2020

Kat VR, the China-based company behind the original Kat Walk VR treadmill Kickstarter in 2015, is bringing its new consumer-focused VR treadmill ‘Kat Walk C’ to the crowdfunding platform on June 21st. The campaign is slated to begin at 10 AM ET ( local time here ) on Sunday, and will end on July 30th. Kat VR hopes to reach at least $100,000 with its campaign.

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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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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 17, 2020

VR events are one of the big trends of virtual reality of the last 3 months. Because of the coronavirus, many physical events have been canceled and so people and companies are finding new ways to organize gatherings. Music has been one of the most impacted sectors by the COVID : most probably there won’t be real concerts until 2021 and that’s a real problem for all artists that want to express themselves.

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VRScout

JUNE 15, 2020

5v5 multiplayer dogfights and a single player campaign confirmed. Fans of 1998’s Star Wars: Rogue Squadron are in for a serious treat! Earlier this morning EA, Lucasfilm, and Motive Studios revealed the next entry in the Star Wars video game universe: Star Wars: Squadrons, an upcoming multiplayer dogfighter in which players engage in high-stakes space combat using an array of recognizable starfighters made famous throughout the films.

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Road to VR

JUNE 15, 2020

Star Wars: Squadrons is an upcoming first-person dog fighter that’s set to release on PC and consoles this fall. As luck would have it, both PSVR and PC VR owners will also be able to play the game when it arrives. The game was first discovered on Friday due to a leak by Xbox.com , and was later formally confirmed by EA a few hours later with the promise of a trailer reveal, scheduled for today.

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 19, 2020

Virtual Reality health simulation with Arch Virtual. ( Image courtesy Arch Virtual. ). The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating the use of virtual reality and augmented reality, experts say, especially in retail, education and health. Taylor Freeman. “The trajectory is clear that this technology is set to become the next ubiquitous computing platform, much like we saw with mobile devices and personal computers,” Taylor Freeman, founder of Axon Park , an extended reality training simulation platf

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ARPost

JUNE 15, 2020

Augmented reality is rapidly becoming more popular. According to Statista research , projects for 2023 place AR technology value at more than 18 billion US dollars, while mobile AR user growth should hit 2.4 billion that same year. Meanwhile, AR is useful in many different fields. For instance, it has entertainment applications, and can also be used for retail, in the medical field, and for manufacturing, among others.

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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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VRScout

JUNE 13, 2020

Snap Inc. goes all-in on AR with improvements to Lens Studio and the Snapchat app. This week Snap Inc. held its annual developer event where it revealed a new camera and a plethora of updates to both Lens Studio and the Snapchat app, further expanding the platforms existing catalog of groundbreaking AR content currently being accessed by over 170 million users on a daily basis.

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Road to VR

JUNE 18, 2020

Pioneering French musician Jean-Michel Jarre is performing live on a virtual stage in social VR platform VRChat this weekend. Jarre, who helped define the electronic music genre starting in the mid-70s, will premiere his so-called ‘Alone Together’ concert on June 21st at 9:15 PM CET ( local time here ). The live performance is slated to last 40 minutes and take place in a virtual environment built by VRrOOm , hosted in VRChat.

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Slashgear

JUNE 15, 2020

The past five months have seen a lot of sudden changes to how we interact with each other both socially and professionally. There has been an increase in the use of the Internet and computing devices, including smartphones, for work and to keep in touch with friends and families. HTC, however, notes that all these sudden innovations still make humans … Continue reading.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 19, 2020

In light of rising covid-19 cases , the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, Governor Gavin Newsom of California on Thursday announced that the state would require all residents to wear face masks or coverings in public and in situations deemed high-risk. The reasoning was simple. Apparently, too many people are… 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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VRScout

JUNE 18, 2020

Keep a look out for virtual billboards advertising your favorite products. Thanks in large part to the growing demand for social and mobile gaming, in-game advertising is on a monumental rise. The ability to seamlessly integrate real-world promotional content into an interactive game experience—whether it be an in-game billboard, commercial, or cutscene—offers advertisers the chance to showcase specific products and services in a less intrusive manner that doesn’t break the pla

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Road to VR

JUNE 16, 2020

HTC today announced the Vive XR Suite, a bundle of five enterprise-focused VR applications which are unified under a single login. The company has tapped the likes of VRChat , Museum of Other Realities , and ENGAGE to offer businesses a range of VR services to choose from. HTC is trying to seize the moment (as much of the world remains on lockdown) to make VR-based remote education, meetings, and socializing the new norm.

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Digital Trends

JUNE 17, 2020

Smartwatches make life easier by sending alerts right on your wrist. Many also provide fitness-tracking features, so now is a great time to pick one up for cheap. With so many models available, you can find a deal on one almost all of the time.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 19, 2020

Our solar system is an undeniably fascinating place, featuring an assortment of celestial oddities and wonders. Between the planets, moons, comets, and asteroids, there’s no shortage of places for us to explore. Slowly but very surely, we’re finding all sorts of incredible—and sometimes unexplainable—phenomena. 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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VRScout

JUNE 17, 2020

Battle waves of forsaken souls across the procedurally generated levels of heaven and hell. Released back in 2018 for SteamVR headsets, Sólfar Studios ‘ VR rogue-lite shooter In Death made a surprise appearance during yesterday’s UploadVR Summer Showcase in the form of In Death: Unchained. For those unfamiliar with the highly-addicting fantasy combat game, In Death has you battling endless waves of forsaken souls, fallen angels, and horrifying demons in high-stakes ranged combat acro

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Road to VR

JUNE 16, 2020

Star Wars: Squadrons is EA’s upcoming dogfighting game from a galaxy far far away, and it’s going to include VR support when it launches on consoles and PC in the fall. If you were hoping for an immersive in-cockpit cluster of virtual controls to poke at, you may be a bit disappointed though. According to its Steam listing , the game is set to support Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and Valve Index, although it only lists support for traditional gamepad, or keyboard and mouse on PC.

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Digital Trends

JUNE 17, 2020

As much as we love Fitbits, they're rather expensive. If all you want is a simple activity tracker, however, then check out these great cheap Fitbit alternatives.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 18, 2020

Big Oil has spent decades perfecting the art of lying and pursuing a strategy to divide the public so it can continue its polluting ways. It’s been a successful model that has run into a brick wall that is the new climate movement. 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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JUNE 16, 2020

One of the more frequent rumors in recent weeks has been that AMD would have some new Ryzen 3000 processors to launch. Today AMD is announcing three new processors into the Ryzen 3000 family, each with the XT name, offering higher frequencies and further filling out the their CPU product stack. Each of these processors will be available on shelves in primary regions on July 7 th.

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Road to VR

JUNE 16, 2020

Hulu’s dedicated VR app will no longer be supported on a number of headsets starting tomorrow, June 17th, the company says. According to its list of supported devices , the premium video streaming service will quietly be discontinuing its VR apps on PSVR, Oculus Go, and all Microsoft Windows Mixed Reality headsets. The only remaining supported VR headsets are Oculus Rift and, strangely enough, Samsung Gear VR.

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Digital Trends

JUNE 17, 2020

Waze and Google Maps are among the most popular travel navigation apps. We help you decide which one is best.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 17, 2020

Video chat service Zoom will finally add end-to-end encryption to calls placed by users on the free version of its service, weeks after announcing it would only be available to premium users who shelled out for the privilege. Read more.

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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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