Next Reality AR

AUGUST 22, 2018

Just in time for Women's Equality Day on Aug. 26, Treasury Wine Estates is breaking out a line of wines with augmented reality experiences that pay tribute to historically famous women. When scanned with the Living Wine Labels app for iOS or Android, the emBRAZEN wine labels become animated within the app's camera view. Three wines are available, with artist Celia Cruz featured on the Chardonnay, journalist Nellie Bly covered on the Cabernet Sauvignon, and entertainer Josephine Baker spotlighted

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Road to VR

AUGUST 22, 2018

When it comes to VR headsets aiming for ultra-wide fields of view, three devices dominate the discussion: Pimax “8K” , VRgineers XTAL , and StarVR One. Having recently had the opportunity to get a thorough hands-on with each, the one that stands out currently as the most complete and market-ready headset is the new StarVR One. It’s worth noting here at the top that all three headsets are targeting different use-cases and run a wide range of prices.

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VRScout

AUGUST 18, 2018

FundamentalVR’s low-cost simulation education could take the medical field by storm. For the past 150 years, surgeons across the globe have been trained in a seemingly tried and true manner. Today’s leading medical professionals honed their craft through classroom instruction, cadaver based learning, and observation–rather than participation–in the operating room.

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Tech Trends VR

AUGUST 22, 2018

. These coding school graduates are showing off some cool immersive tech applications. Fullstack Academy is one of the nations top coding schools which so far has helped over 1,000 people enter the field of software development. And many of those technology jobs these days involve working with Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality applications; something Fullstack is supporting through its Y Combinator-backed immersive software engineering program.

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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

AUGUST 24, 2018

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but augmented reality is giving the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum the ability to add a few more poignant real words to its exhibits. The museum is testing a mobile app that will enable visitors to see more information about the victims and survivors of the Holocaust in the camera view of their smartphone.

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VRScout

AUGUST 22, 2018

A dedicated group of Trekkies look to immortalize the shows infamous vessel via an interactive virtual tour. Kirk or Picard? It’s a question that’s haunted Stark Trek fans for years, destroying countless friendships in the process. Regardless of where your allegiance may lie, there’s no denying the absolute triumph of television that was Stark Trek: The Next Generation.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 20, 2018

The Gamescom has not begun yet, but it has already been exciting. Today, the day before the start of the kermesse, NVIDIA has organized the event in which the new GTX 11 graphics cards should have been announced. Thanks to my friend Fabio Mosca, CTO di AnotheReality , I got to knew about how to participate in the event. I arrived there one hour before the start time, but I already found a huge line of people excited to attend this very important launch.

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Next Reality AR

AUGUST 24, 2018

Despite the rise of music streaming, the experience of immersing oneself in the artwork and lyrics of old school albums is alive again, as sales of vinyl records and CDs have outpaced digital downloads for the first time since 2011. Now, the latest album from Amsterdam-based Necessary Explosion evolves this experience through augmented reality. While playing the 11-track album, SOS, on their record players, listeners can view augmented reality sculptures spin on top of the record through an iOS

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Road to VR

AUGUST 20, 2018

Based on the company’s ‘Turing’ GPU architecture, NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX cards include hardware support for the new VirtualLink connector, a standard designed for next-gen VR headsets. Announced last month , VirtualLink is a connection standard designed specifically for VR headsets, which is backed by a consortium of major players in VR space, including NVIDIA, AMD, Valve, Microsoft, and Oculus.

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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

AUGUST 23, 2018

Dive deep into the infamous ship’s fascinating history with Titanic VR. The golden rule for creating compelling VR content is that you should allow people to experience something that would be either impossible or too dangerous, expensive and/or difficult to do in real life. Placing you in a lifeboat in 1912 to witness the RMS Titanic sinking into the cold dark waters of the Atlantic, then letting you explore the wreck which now lies 12,500 feet below the surface, it’s safe to say Titanic

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2018

Welcome to my post about the second day I’ve spent here at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany (you can read the summary of the previous ones here and here ). Today has been another interesting day: it has started with us running to try to enter the Cyberpunk 2077 booth (but with no luck) and has finished playing with an Oculus Go. So, here you are what I did today.

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Next Reality AR

AUGUST 23, 2018

One of the primary marketing tactics used by Magic Leap in promoting the Magic Leap One was selling early adopters on the "magic" contained within the device. On Thursday, some of that magic was uncovered as the Magic Leap One was completely disassembled by repair engineers, revealing the delicate innards of the device and detailing how it delivers its augmented reality experiences.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 20, 2018

Back a Oculus Connect last year, the company teased an upcoming Oculus exclusive game developed Respawn Entertainment, the studio behind Titanfall and Titanfall 2 , which has since been acquired by EA. The title, which has yet to see a formal announcement, appears to be poised for FPS action when it launches in 2019. While VR is certainly suited to doing more than just shooters, it seems that Respawn Entertainment’s upcoming VR game is going to stay true to the studio’s speciality, a

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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

AUGUST 21, 2018

A scientific program is utilizing VR technology to help recent amputees accept prosthetic limbs. According to research , approximately 60-80% of amputees experience a case of “phantom limb syndrome” at some point following their amputation. An uncomfortable, sometimes painful case, those affected feel as though they still have control of their “ghost” limb and may even experience sensations such as itching, twitches, and the desire to gesture.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 21, 2018

The Gamescom has officially begun, at least for us of the press. It’s strange for me to say the word “press”: I still feel like a random guy that writes random words about his passion on a public website, but ehi, for someone I’m a member of the media. And for sure I won’t try to convince them of the contrary… I was quite scared of taking part in such a great exhibition, but actually, things went pretty well.

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Next Reality AR

AUGUST 23, 2018

It looks like Snapchat is becoming the MTV of augmented reality. On Thursday, Ariana Grande, with her new album Sweetner, joined Drake and Nicki Minaj and other artists who are pushing new releases through Snapchat's Shoppable AR e-commerce platform. Available in the Snapchat app for iOS or Android via the Lens carousel (or through this Snapcode), Grande fans are treated to a front-facing camera AR effect of the artist's trademark animal ears and a face mask, as well as a snippet of her song "Br

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Tech Trends VR

AUGUST 20, 2018

AltspaceVR brings out new tools to make it easy for anybody to make and share their own personalized virtual environments. Recently unveiled updates to Microsoft’s social VR platform will allow anyone to build customizable VR spaces. The two new world-building kits are based on Altspace’s most popular environments: Campfire and Alien World / Origin but Microsoft says they’re aiming to release more kits soon, as well as allowing for more customization options.

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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

AUGUST 23, 2018

Walmart looks to stay a head of the technology curve with a one-of-a-kind VR shopping experience. To say Walmart has been exploring the possibilities of VR and AR technology in their stores would be a considerable understatement. The company is currently utilizing VR simulations to train employees for stressful scenarios such as Black Friday , as well as employing Spacee ’s Post Mobile AR technology to create an interactive in-store display that substitutes real products with AR replicants.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 23, 2018

Today has been my last day at Gamescom. It has been a long and interesting ride, where I tried cool innovative virtual reality hardware and I met awesome people. It has been really tiresome, but I loved it. This is the summary of this last day, that has been full of surprises. (If you haven’t read the summaries of the other days, you can find them here , here and here ).

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Next Reality AR

AUGUST 23, 2018

Although the Magic Leap One: Creators Edition is currently officially available in only six US cities, those living outside of Magic Leap's designed US cities now have a roundabout way to order the device. Residents in over 110 countries can now place an order for a Magic Leap One through a third party, namely, New York City-based Big Apple Buddy. Billed as a shopping concierge, the New York-based company charges customers for the cost of the item ordered, shipping via DHL or FedEx, and a servic

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Road to VR

AUGUST 21, 2018

Ray tracing simulates the way that light bounces around a scene and interacts with objects before entering our eyes to create the image of the world around us. It’s the kind of CGI rendering approach used in blockbuster movie graphics, and the same technology that allows architects to create truly photorealistic images of buildings which haven’t yet been built.

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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

AUGUST 19, 2018

Aptly named, Machine to be Another, is a creative VR experience which allows you to see and feel what it is like to be another person. As the age old saying goes, before you judge someone, walk a mile in their shoes. The Machine to Be Another aims to bring this particular ideaology to life by allowing users to step into the body of someone of a different religion, sexuality, race or physical ability to gain a better sense of empathy and understanding.

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Cats and VR

AUGUST 21, 2018

"We want you take off the gear and still feel unsettled." -Lisa Whalen CEO of SpectreVision I would say that Lisa Whalen is just doing her best to hype up the upcoming SpectreVision psychological horror title but then the nightmares keep coming back. Never has a game demo seeped into my psyche so much that I now dream using the layouts and elements presented in the demo.

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Next Reality AR

AUGUST 21, 2018

As Android device partners ship new products, Google has been diligent in its efforts to ensure that users can enjoy ARCore apps once they boot up their new toys. On Monday, Google updated its ARCore Supported Devices page to include the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 and Galaxy Tab S4, the Sony Xperia ZX2 line of handsets, and the Nokia 6.1 Plus. Video: Since launching ARCore 1.0 to 13 devices in February, Google has extended support to more than 60 Android devices in the US and five models in China, as

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Road to VR

AUGUST 20, 2018

After months of rumors, NVIDIA’s latest gaming-focused GPUs have been revealed. Today the company took the wraps off the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, 2080, and 2070. Starting at $500, the cards are set to begin shipping in September. The GeForce RTX cards are based on what NVIDIA calls its new ‘Turing’ architecture, which is built to accelerate real-time ray-tracing operations to bring more realistic lighting and shading to games.

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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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