Road to VR

MAY 29, 2019

Logitech today revealed the VR Ink ‘Pilot Edition’ , a stylus built for art and design in VR. Built with SteamVR Tracking tech, the stylus works similarly to a typical SteamVR controller, but affords the natural precision that comes with precise finger control. While it works well for drawing in the air, a pressure-sensitive tip also makes it great for drawing (and potentially evening writing) against a physical surface.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2019

Some days ago, I got to know about an interesting VR storytelling project called MetaMovie. It is an experience that mixes Virtual Reality, storytelling, and theater in a quite unique way and I think that you should know about it. VR can make you feel inside a movie , like the main character. In this blog, I have already outlined how this is awesome, since you can really live a story as if it were real, as if it were part of your life: for instance, in The Limit you can have an adrenaline advent

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SpringboardVR

MAY 30, 2019

Available on SpringboardVR as of May 28th, 2019 You’ve been hard at work for the past year and a half in Job Simulator…isn’t it time for a vacation? Get Vacation Simulator Today! Take a break from the grind with Vacation Simulator Arcade. Live on the Marketplace as of May 28th, 2019! Explore the mountains, go to the beach beach, or get lost in the forest!

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2019

Exploring Boston’s past via an AR time machine. If you are familiar with Boston, then you know all about the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway , a stunning strip of land filled with beautiful gardens, promenades, plazas, and fountains that takes you through multiple Boston neighborhoods, from Chinatown all the way to Boston’s North End. Thanks to an incredible partnership between the Greenway Conservancy, Hoverlay and Boston Cyberarts as part of the Conservancy’s 2019 Public Art exhibiti

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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 30, 2019

The studio behind the infectiously cool action game SUPERHOT VR (2017) say the Oculus Quest launch last week has brought them another big helping of success. Superhot Team says in a press statement that on May 21st, Oculus Quest’s launch day, that the studio saw “300% higher sales than their launch on Oculus Rift.” Superhot VR initially came to Rift on December 5th, 2016 as an Oculus Touch launch title.

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Slashgear

MAY 29, 2019

With a new generation of VR headsets seemingly upon us, Logitech has decided to launch a rather interesting accessory for virtual reality: a stylus. Dubbed the VR Ink Pilot Edition, this stylus will allow users write or create either on a 2D surface or in 3D at room scale. The idea, it seems, is to give end users a degree … Continue reading.

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VRScout

MAY 29, 2019

With billions of active monthly users, Facebook is poised to launch the mass-adoption of VR. May 21 st , 2019 will go down in history as an incredible day for VR. Though I would love to let my birthday piggyback on that accomplishment, credit actually goes to Facebook-owned Oculus, which launched its Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift S headsets on that day.

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Road to VR

MAY 31, 2019

Leap Motion, the pioneer in optical hand-tracking, has been acquired by Ultrahaptics, the enterprise-focused immersive haptics company. According to the Wall Street Journal , Ultrahaptics reportedly acquired Leap Motion for approximately $30 million. The company maintains in a company blog post that the acquisition won’t affect support for the Leap Motion community, and that “new and exciting products” are coming down the bend.

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Next Reality AR

MAY 29, 2019

Lions and tigers and bears are just a few of the animals that Google users can now bring into their physical environments. Less than a month after previewing augmented reality capabilities in Search at Google I/O, Google has begun to roll out support for embedding 3D content into mobile search results, which can be viewed in AR on ARCore compatible devices.

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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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TechCrunch VR

MAY 29, 2019

After visiting Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge several months ago to report on how it was built , I came back on the eve of it opening to the public to try out its first marquee attraction: flying the Millennium Falcon. Well, I flew it, and it was good. Real good. This ride is for everyone who dreamed of piloting the Falcon more than they dreamed about holding a lightsaber.

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VRScout

MAY 29, 2019

Varjo aims for ‘Hard AR’ with its developer-focused XR-1 headset. Earlier this morning enterprise VR developer Varjo unveiled the latest addition to its hardware line-up, the XR-1 , a developer-focused VR/AR headset aimed at delivering photorealistic AR visuals so detailed, they’re indistinguishable from real-life. Outfitted with dual 12mpx cameras located on the headsets front plate, the XR-1 is essentially an upgrade to the VR-1, the companies first headset capable of human-eye resolution; onl

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Road to VR

MAY 27, 2019

Oculus Quest—and one of its main launch titles Beat Saber (2018) —has only been out for a week now. A big question until recently was whether users would be able to bring the much beloved mods once only available on PC to the Quest version. This modder found out how: Brian Tate released a video last week showing off his preliminary work, however the custom songs weren’t properly synced with the corresponding blocks.

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Next Reality AR

MAY 30, 2019

With the defending champion Golden State Warriors and Drake's favorite team, the Toronto Raptors, set to face off in the NBA Finals starting Thursday, Snapchat has gifted hoops fans with a pair of augmented reality experiences. For fans in attendance at the games, Snapchat users can scan the banners at each team's arena to access videos highlighting the team's triumphs throughout the season and post-season.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

The latest generation of XR technologies introduces radical new capabilities, from multi-user tracking in massive spaces, to 6DOF standalone headsets, to the ability to track hands, eyes, and lips. HTC’s Alvin Wang Graylin discusses what this means for everything from automotive design to helping children learn about the universe. Alvin Wang Graylin is an industry leader, evangelist and passionate driver of XR technologies, particularly virtual reality.

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VRScout

MAY 26, 2019

Punch and slash your way through a catalog of hit songs from any web browsing device. Although still in its infancy, webVR has already proven a viable solution for providing low-performance interactive VR experiences directly from a web browser. So far the technologies primary use-cases have been simplistic gaming experiences, virtual showrooms, and various other undemanding experiments.

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Road to VR

MAY 30, 2019

GOG is giving away Obduction (2016) , the latest VR puzzler from Cyan, the studio behind iconic ’90s adventure puzzlers Myst (1993) and Riven (1997). To get it, simply log into (or sign up for) your GOG account, and add the game by clicking this link. The game is free to keep, but you have to make sure to add it to your account before June 1st at 10 PM UTC ( local time here ).

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 29, 2019

Brex , the fintech business that’s taken the startup world by storm with its sought-after corporate card tailored for entrepreneurs, is raising millions in Series D funding less than a year after it launched, TechCrunch has learned. Bloomberg reports Brex is raising at a $2 billion valuation, though sources tell TechCrunch the company is still in negotiations with both new and existing investors.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

The latest generation of XR technologies introduces radical new capabilities, from multi-user tracking in massive spaces, to 6DOF standalone headsets, to the ability to track hands, eyes, and lips. HTC’s Alvin Wang Graylin discusses what this means for everything from automotive design to helping children learn about the universe. Alvin Wang Graylin is an industry leader, evangelist and passionate driver of XR technologies, particularly virtual reality.

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VRScout

MAY 28, 2019

Copy text, discover new products, and translate foreign languages automatically. While VR technology may have been absent at this year’s I/O Developer Conference in Mountain View, California, Google did reveal several AR and machine learning-based updates coming soon to Google Lens. Today, those improvements begin rolling out to iOS and ARCore compatible devices, offering users a bounty of helpful features designed to assist them throughout their day-to-day lives.

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Road to VR

MAY 31, 2019

Nintendo today announced that the latest update to Super Smash Bros Ultimate has added a special mode which allows the game to be played with the Switch VR Labo Goggles. Nintendo launched the Switch Labo VR Kit back in April—part of the company’s ‘Labo’ product line which offers built-it-yourself cardboard accessories for Switch. The Labo VR Kit includes a heap of interesting accessories and specially made VR content , but we were quite surprised when the company also added VR

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Charlie Fink

MAY 31, 2019

The 10th edition of the Augmented World Expo (AWE), co-founded by Super Ventures partner Ori Inbar, and executive produced with Tom Emrich and BrainXchange, opens its three day conference and expo on Wednesday, May 29th, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley. Right next door to where the 49ers football team plays. Oh, and Great America amusement park is next door to that.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 27, 2019

Bonus content from our recent episode with Alvin Wang Graylin on the latest generation of XR technologies and what they mean for education. VR Improves Student Concentration. Amazing new #research from #SagaUniversity shared at #VEC2019 showing the efficacy of #VR in #Education. Clear impact on #concentration & #learning from #EEG readings. VR group outscored the control group’s results even when tested a week later.

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VRScout

MAY 30, 2019

One of the most prominent horror series in gaming is now available in VR. After nearly five years of sequels, spin-offs, and endless waves of merchandise, Five Nights At Freddy’s has officially made its way to VR with Five Nights at Freddy’s VR: Help Wanted. Available now on major PC VR headsets via SteamVR and Oculus, Steel Wool Studios VR adaptation of Scottgames’ infamous point-and-click horror series takes players back to the decrepit halls of Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza for another round of haun

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Road to VR

MAY 27, 2019

Last week Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Vice President of Research and Development, Dominic Mallinson, opened up about this thoughts on the future of VR at the Collisson 2019 conference in Toronto. While Mallinson was clear about the company’s commitment to VR going forward, he also said it’s that PSVR 2 will launch at the same time as PS5.

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Charlie Fink

MAY 28, 2019

Streem, an AR startup based in Portland, OR, announced today that it had acquired UK-based computer vision and machine learning startup Selerio, Ltd., which spun out of research from the University of Cambridge and a Google fellowship. At the same time, Streem is announcing the close of an additional round of funding from existing and new strategic investors.

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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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