Road to VR
OCTOBER 15, 2019
It was abundantly clear by earlier this year that Google’s interest in its Android-based Daydream VR platform had withered, but now the company has put the final nail in the coffin by discontinuing the Daydream View headset and confirming that its newest Pixel 4 smartphone isn’t compatible. Google had monstrous ambitions for Daydream at the start.
ARPost
OCTOBER 14, 2019
Superimposing computer-generated images onto a real-world environment isn’t a far-fetched idea. It’s here – although it’s still in its infancy. As more innovators experiment with augmented reality , this burgeoning technology is going to disrupt many industries and change countless lives. AR can do so much more than direct gamers on a Pokemon-catching craze around town.
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VRScout
OCTOBER 16, 2019
Varjo expands its product line-up with two enterprise-focused VR headsets. Yesterday, XR hardware developer Varjo unveiled two new additions to its lineup of human eye-resolution VR & AR products, the VR-2 and VR-2 Pro. Compatible with SteamVR content as well as the OpenVR development platform, these high-resolution VR headsets are capable of 4k rendering per eye, offering users crystal clear visuals that do away with the infamous “screendoor effect.
Next Reality AR
OCTOBER 16, 2019
It might sound odd to call interior decorating exciting, especially if you're not a professional within that industry. But that's exactly what it is when combined with augmented reality. I recently found out just how fun it can be when I downloaded the new Sotheby's Curate app for the Magic Leap One. Don't Miss: 5 Magic Leap Apps You're Probably Missing, Including Star Wars, the Magicverse Matrix, AR Jenga, & More Sotheby's app follows in the footsteps of the mobile versions of the Curate ap
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.
Tech Trends VR
OCTOBER 16, 2019
Madame Tussauds is using Augmented Reality to bring its iconic wax figures to life. For those of us who have always yearned for a time machine so we could experience the most amazing moments in history, immersive technologies are really stepping up to the plate, providing the closest we can get to that without actually cracking the whole space time continuum conundrum.
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VRScout
OCTOBER 13, 2019
The 4-person co-op experience launches exclusively in Japan later this month. Beginning October 26th , Capcom will be offering Tokyo locals the chance to return to the swamps of Lousiana for another lethal encounter with murderous backwoods psychopath, Jack Baker. Available for a limited time exclusively at the Plaza Capcom Ikebukuro VR-X booth in Tokyo, Japan, Biohazard 7: Walkthrough The Fear is a multiperson co-operative arcade experience that will have players working together to escape the
Road to VR
OCTOBER 16, 2019
There’s been no shortage of great VR games in 2019, although 2020 is shaping up to be a pretty significant year in VR gaming too. We rounded up the top titles confirmed for release in 2020, which includes everything from polished indies to big budget ‘AAA’ games coming to a VR headset near you. We’ll be adding to this list along the way to 2020, and keeping it current as official launch dates are announced, so make sure to check back for the latest.
Next Reality AR
OCTOBER 18, 2019
The legal drama surrounding Chinese startup Nreal and Magic Leap continues, and now we finally have an update. For months, Magic Leap's legal team attempted to contact Nreal and its founder, Chi Xu, with little success. But that all changed a few weeks ago. Don't Miss: Magic Leap Claims He Stole Augmented Reality Ideas as an Employee, but Who Is Chi Xu, the Founder of Nreal?
AR Insider
OCTOBER 15, 2019
This post is adapted from ARtillery Intelligence’s latest report, Hearables: Broadening the Definition of AR. It includes some of its data and takeaways. More can be previewed here and subscribe for the full report. Picking up where we left off last week in examining Apple’s hearables strategy, what’s Google’s counterpoint? As we’ve examined , tech giants’ self-serving motivations to future-proof core business can involve market-accelerating investment in emerging t
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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.
VRScout
OCTOBER 15, 2019
RIP Google Daydream (November 2016 – October 2019). Sad news out of New York this morning as Google confirms it has discontinued the production of its Daydream View VR headset and will not be providing VR support for its upcoming Pixel 4, effectively killing the Daydream platform in the process. While speaking to several news outlets following today’s event in New York, Google confirmed that beginning today, they will cease sales of the Daydream View headset and will no longer be integrati
Road to VR
OCTOBER 15, 2019
Infectious Ape, the studio behind Kingspray (2016), today announced that the graffiti simulator is headed to Oculus Quest on October 17th. Originally launched on PC VR via the Oculus Store (Rift) and Steam (Vive, Rift, Index) back in late 2016, Kingspray focuses on realism; it boasts realistic spray, colors, drips, metallics, and plenty of environments to work in.
ARPost
OCTOBER 18, 2019
From a social media group to a non-profit organization fighting for equal rights: this is the story of Women in Immersive Technologies (WiiT). This new organization founded by a group of women working in the extended reality field wants to promote gender equality in the industry. In May 2016, they created a Facebook group. But recently, the founders realized that they can achieve much more than create dialogue on social media.
Next Reality AR
OCTOBER 15, 2019
Big-box retailer Target has been on a bit of an augmented reality advertising shopping spree via Snapchat lately. The latest example, revealed on Tuesday, comes via a pair of Halloween-themed experiences, available in the camera carousel in Snapchat. Don't Miss: Snapchat Is Helping the Music Industry Reinvent Music Videos via Lens Studio The first experience starts on the front-facing camera, where users can wear three virtual costumes, including a witch, a unicorn, and a mermaid.
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.
VRScout
OCTOBER 14, 2019
Free immersive pop-up blends AR technology with classic opera. Available now for a limited time at the Wale Millenium Centre in Cardiff, Wales, A Vixen’s Tale is a location-based mixed reality experience that blends physical objects, AR visuals, and operatic sounds to envelop visitors in a unique narrative experience inspired by the Leoš Janá?ek’s opera The Cunning Little Vixen.
Road to VR
OCTOBER 14, 2019
Ginza Sony Park, the Japanese tech giant’s Tokyo-based hub for Sony brand promotion, is now playing host to a new Ghostbusters -themed multiplayer experience using a newly revealed Sony AR headset prototype. According to the demo video (linked below), the unnamed “R&D prototype” looks to include both 6DOF head-tracking as well as hand-tracking, and appear to be a standalone unit similar to Microsoft HoloLens.
ARPost
OCTOBER 16, 2019
Greenlight Insights , a company specializing in XR technology market intelligence and organizer of xRS Week , together with Adlens , a company developing adaptive lenses, recently released a study on optics in XR. The paper looks at optical issues in XR and the solutions companies are developing to solve them. It also looks at how and when these developments are likely to impact the XR technology market. “ The optical interface holds the key to unlocking the potential of AR to come into ar
Next Reality AR
OCTOBER 14, 2019
Dark mode themes for mobile apps are all the rage these days, but YouTube is taking that a bit literally with its latest augmented reality experience. On Monday, to promote the release of Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, which debuts in US theaters on Friday, Disney released a virtual makeup try-on experience through YouTube. Don't Miss: Marvel Expands Roster of Avengers Playmoji for Pixel Playground Ahead of 'Avengers: Endgame' Disney tapped makeup artist Promise Phan, whose YouTube channel has am
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.
VRScout
OCTOBER 17, 2019
WITHIN’s new reading-activated adventure offers a fresh take on the haunted house experience. Arriving just in time for the Halloween season, Willowcrest Manor — the sixth and latest AR storybook experience available on WITHIN’s Wonderscope app, takes readers on a spooky adventure during which they’ll play the role of a not-so-friendly ghost tasked with scaring a pair of young intruders away from a mysterious treasure hidden within a haunted manor.
Road to VR
OCTOBER 15, 2019
Camouflaj, the studio behind PlayStation VR exclusive Marvel’s Iron Man VR , recently confirmed that the high-flying super hero adventure is coming to PSVR on February 28th, 2020. The game tosses you into the boots of Tony Stark where you fend off attacks from the mysterious anti-corporate hacktivist Ghost, the game’s main nemesis who wants to dismantle Stark’s empire by using his own technology against him. “In our game, Ghost is a great foil for Tony Stark—she not only
The Ghost Howls
OCTOBER 17, 2019
I’ve just had my first day in Nanchang, China. I’m here to attend the WCVRI , a very big event about Virtual Reality in China, where I am exhibiting HitMotion: Reloaded , the mixed reality fitness game of my agency New Technology Walkers ( contact us if you need some VR development!). Our booth at the exhibition… isn’t it cool? And since I’m here, of course I’m spending also some time to try some cool stuff before the exhibition starts on the 19 th (after that, I will be forced to st
Next Reality AR
OCTOBER 17, 2019
The Halloween season is the perfect time for telling scary stories, but augmented reality is here to bring the tradition of frightening children to the modern age. On Thursday, app developer Within released "Willowcrest Manor," the sixth story for its Wonderscope mobile AR app for iPhones and iPads supporting ARKit (namely iPhone 6S or newer, 2017 iPad or newer, and iPad Pro running iOS 11 or later).
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?
VRScout
OCTOBER 16, 2019
High-resolution 3D scans now allow us to explore the remains of this unfortunate vessel. 360 years ago, a Dutch smuggler ship called the “Melckmeyd” (“Milkmaid”) was traveling illegally up the coast of Iceland when it was caught in the middle of a ferocious storm that would end up sending the craft to the bottom of the North Atlantic.
Road to VR
OCTOBER 16, 2019
Though HTC touts Vive Cosmos as its best PC VR headset yet, the headset is getting tanked so far in online customer reviews, making it far and away the lowest rated HTC headset by that metric yet. While Oculus also ran into some less than stellar customer reviews when it launched the Rift S earlier this year, making it the lowest rated Oculus headset on Amazon at 3.7 of 5 stars , Vive Cosmos is truly taking a beating by comparison.
ARPost
OCTOBER 15, 2019
XR technology has a way of livening up any space – even if that space was already pretty lively. When the XR festival VRHAM! (Virtual Reality & Arts Festival Hamburg) wanted to liven up Hamburg this summer, they turned to Spanish artist MAGOZ for AR experiences. See Also: drew label. Debuts Augmented Reality App and Street Art To Famous LA Landmarks.
Next Reality AR
OCTOBER 18, 2019
What if you could combine the fun of Halloween with the process of learning? Well, if you were wise enough to have already snagged a Magic Leap One device, we have good news: the app you're looking for is here, and it's called Zombie Math. Don't Miss: Magic Leap Lawsuit vs. Nreal Takes Major Step Forward After Legal Team Scours the Planet in Search of Elusive Founder Available as a free app in the Magic Leap World app store, Zombie Math was developed by Jeff Paries, a principal software engineer
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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