VRScout

DECEMBER 6, 2018

These are definitely the VR powers you’re looking for…. It was only a matter of time. In fact, I’m a bit surprised it took this long, but researchers at Virginia Tech have put their brains to good use and come up with a way for ordinary mortals to replicate the telekinetic powers of a Jedi in VR. . The recently developed technique is called “Force Push,” and it gives users the ability to move faraway objects with “Yoda-like calm, nuance, and focus” using an approach for remote object

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 3, 2018

A Road to VR analysis of the latest data from Valve’s Steam Hardware & Software shows that VR users on Steam have not only been growing, but are at their highest point in history. First generation VR hardware may not yet have had its mass adoption moment, but pundits claiming the end is near for VR are overlooking strong evidence against their claims.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Where Thoughts Go is an emotional virtual reality experience developed by Lucas Rizzotto , a very smart XR developer and community member. When I saw his tweets about this application that was about “going in VR and listening to what other people have said”, I thought it was absolutely something I was not interested in. Then, when he gave me a code to try the app, I tried it and I had the same reaction that I had while trying Dear Angelica : (Image by Know Your Meme).

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Yule love this interactive VR experience that gives a new spin to Charles Dickens’ classic tale. Mince Pies might have been out on the supermarket shelves since September, and spare a thought for the poor store clerks who are already sick of having to listen to those Christmas tunes. But you really know that you’re approaching the Holidays’ home stretch when they start bringing out the latest Charles Dickens adaptation.

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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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VRScout

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Using immersive tech for meditation is becoming more popular, but can it make flying in economy feel bearable? Keen to explore the potential of immersive technologies to enhance passenger wellness during long-haul flights, StoryUP has partnered with French-American company Skylights , which has recently utilized cinematic VR as premium passenger entertainment to work towards integrating its Healium content onto their Allosky headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2018

At Oculus Connect 5 , Oculus has announced Casting, an amazing feature that lets you stream the content of an Oculus Go to a smartphone. But how to use it? And is it possible to use it also to stream to PC? Keep reading and you will know that. How to use Casting to stream Oculus Go content to your smartphone. This is the step-by-step guide on how you can use the Casting functionality: Open your Oculus Go companion app (if you have a Go, for sure you have installed it to configure the device.

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Award-winning director creates voice-activated Augmented Reality Experience that boosts children’s confidence. At first glance, Little Red the Inventor is a rather sweet-looking little AR app where you get to help out Little Red Riding Hood as she tries to make her way through the forest, out of trouble, and ultimately to her grandma’s house. But this is a bit more than just the retelling of a classic fairy tale.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Award-winning director creates voice-activated AR experience that boosts a child’s confidence. At first glance, Little Red the Inventor is a rather sweet-looking little AR app where you get to help out Little Red Riding Hood as she tries to make her way through the forest, out of trouble, and ultimately to her grandma’s house. But this is a bit more than just the retelling of a classic fairy tale.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Epic Games is opening its own digital distribution platform in hopes that its industry-leading revenue share split will attract developers. Inaugurating the new Epic Games Store, the company is giving away underwater survival game Subnautica (2018) for free. Subnautica was first developed for PCs, although during its lengthy stint in Early Access on Steam its developer Unknown Worlds Entertainment added preliminary support in 2015 for the Oculus Rift DK2.

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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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DECEMBER 5, 2018

In recent years, many software publishers have tried to sell the business community on remote meetings via VR, but if social media chatter is any indication, it hasn't taken off in a big way just yet. However, for some, the notion of holding remote meetings using augmented reality, a medium in which you're still directly tied to the real world and not closed off in a blindfold-style VR headset, might be the better solution.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Close to Black Friday, Oculus has launched a cool referral program , that lets you give a special code to a friend of yours so that both you and he/she will get discounts and store credit. This is awesome, but actually, at the type of writing, there are three small big problems that I want to warn you about. Oculus Referral Program. Who wants to buy a discounted Go?

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VRScout

DECEMBER 4, 2018

VR is giving prospective students a glimpse of college life without having to travel across the country. When deciding which colleges to apply to, it is hard to know which campus will be the right environment for you if you aren’t able to explore the classrooms and quad. However, thanks to VR tour companies like YouVisit and Campus Tours , as well as VR applications from individual colleges and universities, students can now explore their future colleges without ever having to set a foot on camp

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 7, 2018

It’s no secret that Jaunt is stepping back from VR and re-focusing on AR , although we weren’t sure what the one-time cinematic VR company planned on doing with its recently defunct VR business. Now, it’s come to light that Jaunt is holding a massive online auction, serving up everything from monitors and workstation computers to a wide variety of VR headsets & peripherals.

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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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Next Reality AR

DECEMBER 7, 2018

This year's holiday shopping season is shaping up to be fertile ground for augmented reality to show its worth, as both Walmart and Target have crafted immersive experiences designed to engage shoppers in the coming weeks. But the marketing similarities end there, because the AR methods used by both companies vary greatly. Don't Miss: Snapchat Ships Amazon Visual Search as Its Next Step Forward in AR Evolution Walmart, with the help of augmented reality developer Zappar and marketing partner Adv

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Slashgear

DECEMBER 5, 2018

On December 11, the first of three virtual reality projects from YouTube and National Geographic will debut on the video platform. Called “The Okavango Experience,” this VR series will take viewers through the Okavango Delta in Africa, following a NatGeo team across 1,500 miles over the course of four months. Each episode is designed to be short and easily consumed … Continue reading.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Microsoft lands $479M contract to put the MR headsets into the hands of soldiers in active combat zones. Mixed reality will be joining the ranks of the U.S. Army thanks to a huge $479 million contract between the legendary military branch and Microsoft. According to a Bloomberg article, Microsoft HoloLens technology will be used to increase the lethality of soldiers by enhancing their ability to detect, decide, and engage the enemy.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Try on an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive and one of the first things you’ll probably notice looking through the lenses are fine concentric circles, creating something many call ‘God Rays’—especially egregious when viewing high contrast scenes. A new Facebook patent has just come to light that aims to mitigate these sorts of visual artifacts with a new hybrid Fresnel lens design.

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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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DECEMBER 5, 2018

One the leading game developers for the PlayStation 4 and Oculus Rift platforms, Insomniac Games, is finally releasing its first major augmented reality title: Seedling for the Magic Leap One. Back in November, we gave our impressions of the game after sampling it at the L.E.A.P. conference in Los Angeles, but the big surprise this month is that Seedling will be Magic Leap's first paid app.

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Voices of VR

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Designing impossible architecture in VR is changing how Andreea Cojocaru designs real buildings, and she’s reveling in the fact that she finally has a tool.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 2, 2018

The interactive VR experience delivers a new spin on Charles Dickens’ classic Christmas tale. While mince pies may have been out on supermarket shelves since September – spare a thought for those poor store clerks, it’s not truly the Holiday season until companies begin breaking out their annual adaptations of the Charles Dicken’s classic, A Christmas Carol. .

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Missed out on Black Friday and Cyber Monday for some of the biggest deals in VR? As a part of Best Buy’s ‘Door Buster’ deal, Black Friday pricing has returned to Oculus Rift + Touch bundle for one day only. The deal, priced at $330 ($70 off MSRP), can be found at BestBuy.com , and likely represents the last time you’ll be able to get this year’s best deal on Oculus Rift.

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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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Next Reality AR

DECEMBER 3, 2018

When computers have vision but people don't, why not have the former help the latter? That's the gist behind the Cognitive Augmented Reality Assistant (CARA), a new HoloLens app developed by the California Institute of Technology. Assisted by the depth sensing capabilities of the HoloLens, the software uses a computer vision algorithm to scan the environment and identify physical objects.

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Charlie Fink

DECEMBER 7, 2018

More great apps, things to do in social VR, as XR momentum builds.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The interactive fabrication system combines AR CAD editing with precise robotic control. In a 2018 research paper entitled RoMA: Interactive Fabrication with Augmented Reality and a Robotic Printer , Huaishu Peng, an information science doctoral student at Cornell University, and his team of primarily MIT and Cornell University-based researchers introduced RoMA, a robotic modeling assistant that utilizes an AR CAD editor to provide an interactive fabrication system operated via a VR headset and

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Insomniac Games, the minds behind Rift titles Edge of Nowhere (2016) , The Unspoken (2017), and upcoming open-world adventure Stormland, today released their first AR experience for Magic Leap One. Dubbed Seedling , the experience is AR headset’s first paid app. Seedling puts you in the shoes of a space cadet tasked with repairing a dying galactic ecosystem with the help of a mysterious field kit.

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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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