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Last week has been the week of CES 2019 , one of the most important technology exhibition of the year. In the American sin city of Las Vegas, there has been an enormous showcase of every kind of innovative technologies and of course, AR and VR have been part of the show. I have to say that AR and VR have not been the main attractions of the show floor: I hoped for a lot of big news, while actually, we had some big news and then a lot of interesting, but less disruptive, showcases.
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Mk2 partners with Secret Location to create worldwide VR distribution network. As Location-Based and cinematic VR continues to expand in a number of directions, with new cutting-edge arcades popping up all over the place, we’re also seeing some of the more established players in the immersive entertainment space collaborating as they figure out how best to scale and monetize this sector.
Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions
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Co-founded by former CERN engineers who contributed to the ATLAS project at the Large Hadron Collider, CREAL3D is a Switzerland-based startup that’s created an impressive light-field display that’s unlike anything in an AR or VR headset on the market today. At CES last week we saw and wrote about lots of cool stuff. But hidden in the less obvious places we found some pretty compelling bleeding-edge projects that might not be in this year’s upcoming headsets, but surely paints a
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Three new location-based VR experiences now available at the luxurious Las Vegas hotel & casino. The entertainment capital of the world already boasts the MSG Sphere and the world’s longest VR roller coaster , but with the addition of a PlatformaVR arcade later this month, Las Vegas is on track to becoming populated with “virtually” everything in the entertainment sector.
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Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor
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Sense Arena’s portable VR Hockey Training kit was a big hit at CES 2019. A couple of months ago I was fortunate enough to the VR Sports and Entertainment Summit in San Francisco, where I had the opportunity to try out the virtual Hockey training kit from Sense Arena. Having experienced the inuitive VR training solution myself, it comes as no surprise that the company made such a splash at CES 2019 these past few days.
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Speaker: Treion Muller, Chief Strategy Officer at ELB Learning
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Robert Hernandez is a Digital Journalism Professor at USC, and he serves a sort of innovation lab to see how journalists can use emerging technologies.
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Speaker: Micah Eppler, Account Executive for Rehearsal of eLearning Brothers
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