HoloLens

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

In their first head-to-head major contract clash, Microsoft has emerged victorious over Magic Leap, as the US Army has awarded a $480 million contract to the HoloLens maker. Microsoft will provide 100,000 customized HoloLens units to the Army for its Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS), a project intended to provides soldiers with a battlefield heads-up display, although only 2,500 have been slated for delivery within the first two years.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Virtual Desktop (2016) , the app that lets you view and use your desktop computer in VR, is finally making its way to Oculus Go and Gear VR this week. Once Oculus Quest, the company’s upcoming 6DOF headset, launches next year, a version of the app will be available then too. Coming to the Oculus Store on November 29th, the mobile version of Virtual Desktop will let you connect your Oculus mobile headset to your computer via WiFi so you can both stream and interact with any program on you

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The Royal Navy is using AR for a futuristic UI that will promote more efficient ship wide communications. One of the most important roles on a warship – or any ship for that matter – is the role of the bridge watch officer. Their job is to ensure the safe and smooth navigation of the ship by performing tasks such as comparing compasses, checking sounds through an echo sounder, monitoring all bridge activities, and so much more.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Today I decided to take my Oculus Go out of its box again after a lot of time of inactivity. You may wonder why I’m not using it that much and the answer is that currently I’m mostly experimenting with my Vive Focus , so I’ve left its little brother Oculus Go resting in its original box for a lot of time. If you are in my same situation, there are two problems that will haunt you: As soon as you’ll take your Oculus Go out of the box where it has been enclosed for weeks, y

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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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Next Reality AR

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

While a new museum to house the original torch of the Statue of Liberty is under construction on Liberty Island and scheduled to open in May 2019, New York Times readers can now view the sculpture in their own space through augmented reality. Available in the NY Times mobile app for iOS and Android, the latest augmented feature enables readers to anchor the virtual torch in their physical environment after the customary scanning for a horizontal surface via ARKit or ARCore.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Exit Reality provides three of their ‘X Pod’ VR stations to the San Mateo-based entertainment center. Created in hopes of exposing the general public to the latest high-end virtual reality technology, location-based VR entertainment center “Hero Hangout” is set to open its doors for the first time this coming Thursday in San Mateo, California.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

I love Robert Rodriguez. I like his style in directing movies and I like the emotions that he’s able to foster in me thanks to his movies. That’s why when I heard that he was experimenting with VR I was pretty excited, and that’s why when his first movie “The Limit” has been released, I’ve almost bought it immediately.

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Next Reality AR

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

French cosmetics giant L'Oréal isn't wasting any time putting its new subsidiary, ModiFace, to work. On Thursday, the company launched a new tool that enables a photo-realistic augmented reality simulation of nail polish shades and textures to be accurately displayed on a user's fingers in real time. To sample the Virtual Nail Salon tool, iOS device users can download the app via Apple's App Store.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

With middling smartphone sales and a loss of a major portion of its smartphone IP and engineering team to Google last year, HTC appears to be full steam ahead with VR headsets as of late. Now, a trademark filing has surfaced that throws the name ‘Vive Cosmos’ into the mix, possibly pointing to the company’s next VR headset. As first reported by Venture Beat , Dutch tech publication MobielKopen has uncovered a trademark filed with European Union Intellectual Property Office (

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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

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Immersive training has the potential to make a huge impact on Ecuador’s education system. “ActiVaR,” one of the first technical training programs in Latin America, was launched at an event in Quito, Ecuador where 150 participants experienced VR and AR training techniques–many of them for the first time. World Bank GCS Interactive Media Senior Project Manager Jimmy Vainstein called the launching event “a milestone itself.” They partnered with Visyon , a Barcelo

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing Baobab Studios’ Chief Creative Officer Eric Darnell and CEO Maureen Fan regarding the last movie produced by them, that is “Crow: The Legend” “Crow: The Legend” is an animation movie produced by Baobab Studios that narrates the Native American legend of The Crow. It is a high-quality production and features a stellar cast like John Legend, Constance Wu, Oprah Winfrey, Sarah Eagle Heart and other popular names as the voices

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Next Reality AR

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Magic Leap One owners, start your virtual engines, as automotive virtual reality developer RelayCars has published an app to Magic Leap World that lets users customize and test drive a 2019 Kia Stinger. The RelayCars app, which is available as a free download, enables Magic Leap One users to examine a 3D model of the car from various angles in their physical space, modify its color, and view the virtual vehicle driving around the room.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Pimax today announced the end of pre-orders and the beginning of general sales of the Pimax “8K”, “5K” Plus, and “5K” Business Edition (BE) headsets. With a current waiting period of 81 days until Pimax begins shipping the headsets though, the company seems to be blurring the line between pre-orders and official sales. Pimax maintains that Kickstarter orders should be entirely shipped by “mid January to mid-late January.” A chart provided by the company shows that they’ve alrea

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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

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Designer uses VR to design award-winning prototype carry-on bag. When it was released in 2016, Tilt Brush was heralded as VR’s killer app. A tool that has been used to create magnificent virtual paintings—Google even started an artist in residence initiative—much of the program’s hype focused on its ability to create beautiful landscapes and quirky characters.

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Charlie Fink

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Dreamscape Immersive's LA flagship to open with three free roam VR adventures.

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Next Reality AR

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Sony Pictures has tapped the powers of augmented reality as provided by startup 8th Wall & the Amazon Sumerian development platform to help it promote the latest motion picture manifestation of Spider-Man. On Monday, the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse mobile web AR experience was launched for mobile web browsers on iOS and Android devices. Visitors to the special site can summon the Miles Morales version of Spider-Man into their very own plane of existence (assuming that user grants camer

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Now that turkey day has come and gone, holiday shopping season has arrived and we’re tracking the best Windows Mixed Reality Black Friday 2018 deals on the Acer, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Asus, and Samsung Odyssey headsets. The headsets have never been more affordable than now. Windows Mixed Reality Headset Deal Baseline. Knowing the usual price of the headsets means you’ll know a good deal when you see one.

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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

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

An official release for the Oculus Quest is scheduled for 2019. Released back in March of 2016, Virtual Desktop is a handy utility application that allows users the ability to view and access their desktop computer from the comfort of their Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, or WMR headset. Previously available strictly on PC VR headsets, creator Guy Gordin recently revealed that a version of the tool optimized for mobile platforms will launch on the Oculus Go and Samsung Gear VR later this week, with plan

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Cats and VR

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

XSEED Games, the independent-minded publishing brand of Marvelous USA, Inc.,announced that GUNGRAVE VR , the PlayStation®VR for PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system shooter featuring third- and first-person gameplay modes, will be launching in North America digitally and at retail on December 11, 2018 and December 7th 2018 in Europe. GUNGRAVE VR U.N , the standalone episode 2 content which greatly expands on the story and gameplay of GUNGRAVE VR , will also launch on the same day.

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Next Reality AR

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

In a world where augmented reality is becoming the hero of the movie marketing, Universal Studios has decided to use the technology to reinvent the traditional movie trailer, a time-tested tactic of film promotion, in support of the forthcoming Robert Zemeckis film, Welcome to Marwen. Now available in the Apple App Store and on Google Play, the Welcome to Marwen AR app uses ARKit and ARCore to display a scaled-down recreation of a scene from the film, complete with animated 3D characters, and hi

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

AR optics maker WaveOptics has announced a manufacturing partnership with Goertek, one of the VR industry’s leading manufacturers. The deal will enable mass production of WaveOptics’ waveguides for integration into AR headsets which the companies say could be market-ready at a $600 price point in 2019. China-based Goertek is not a widely recognized name within the VR industry but the company has quietly become a key enabler, providing manufacturing services behind some of the most pr

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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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VRScout

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A man in Mexico City turns his first tattoo into a trigger for a prototype AR game. . The impact of AR technology on our daily lives gets greater and greater each day as it finds its place in how we learn, how we perform our jobs, purchase items on the internet, home repairs, stay connected with friends, and entertain ourselves. The technology has even found its way into the tattoo industry, offering a new form of body art brought to life using smart devices.

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Slashgear

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Virtual and augmented reality were hailed to be the next wave of computing, reshaping the way we interact with computers and digital content. So far that hasn’t happened because headsets are mostly beyond anyone’s means and most of the software for VR and AR have mostly been designed with entertainment in mind. Untethered headsets like the Oculus Go and, to … Continue reading.

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Next Reality AR

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Another contestant has emerged in the race to deliver a mainstream augmented reality car navigation system, with Silicon Valley-based Phiar picking up $3 million in seed funding to launch its own artificial intelligence-based mobile app by mid-2019. The Venture Reality (VR) Fund and Norwest Venture Partners led the seed funding round, with Anorak Ventures, Mayfield Fund, Zeno Ventures, Cross Culture Ventures, GFR Fund, Y Combinator, Innolinks Ventures, and Half Court Ventures also participating.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Since the mods that enabled custom songs in Beat Saber are unofficial and community-made, they often break when there is an update to the game, causing custom songs to disappear. This guide will show you how to fix custom songs on Beat Saber after an update along with other mods. If you’ve never installed custom songs in the first place, follow this guide instead.

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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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