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Disney Researchers build off an idea from 2011 to develop a new way to puppeteer digital characters in augmented reality. In 2011, a Disney Researcher named Karl Willis developed the idea of a ‘ MotionBeam ’, which gives users the ability to have an AR interaction via a digital beam created by a handheld projector. A newly published report by Disney explores the recent work from a team of Disney researchers made up of Raphael Anderegg, LoÏc Ciccone, and Robert W.
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Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions
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Samsung Odyssey+ is the company’s latest VR headset, and while it launched just a few weeks ago for $500, the Korean tech giant is throwing it on sale this Black Friday at a 40% discount. The deal is set to start online at Samsung.com on November 18th, slashing the headset to just $300, controllers included. As a hardware refresh of last year’s Windows VR headset Odyssey HMD , there’s a few notable changes in the latest version.
Now that its first developer conference is in the rearview mirror, Magic Leap continues to nurture its content development community, this time with an assist from strategic investor and retail partner AT&T. After accepting submissions through Oct. 26, Magic Leap held its first Mixed Reality Hackathon in San Francisco over the weekend, with winners announced on Sunday.
I had the pleasure to talk with Jim R. Ivon, the CEO of Labrodex , an indie game studio that is working an interesting action VR game called Scraper: First Strike. I talked with him about the game and the hurdles of being an indie VR developer. Doesn’t this sound cool to you? Well, then keep reading… Hello Jim, nice to meet you! Tell me what “Scraper: First Strike” is and make my readers fall in love with it.
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A house fire is a sickening reality, but when it’s finally time to clean up and tally losses, that’s where fire investigators come in. Now, forensic investigation firm Donan and 3D scanning company Matterport are partnering to bring fire investigators the tools to make highly detailed photogrammetry scans so they can review the situation from afar through a VR headset, desktop client, or mobile app.
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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Two of EON Reality’s top VR Innovation Academy graduates from Eastern Iowa Community College presented and demonstrated their latest project at the National Science Foundation’s most recent Advanced Technological Education event in Washington, D.C. Adam Burke and Levin Leesemann were given the opportunity to show off their Water INTENsE AR app — a multi-year project funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation — to the hundreds of administrators and teachers in attendance during a post
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Speaker: Treion Muller, Chief Strategy Officer at ELB Learning
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Speaker: Micah Eppler, Account Executive for Rehearsal of eLearning Brothers
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