VRScout
MAY 19, 2020
American Idol ends its latest season with a virtual bang. This Sunday marked the conclusion of season 18 of American Idol. The long-running singing competition switched to a virtual format this past April as a direct result of the ongoing COVID-19 lockdowns. For the first time in the shows 18-year history, contestants found themselves performing for judges online as opposed to on-stage.
AR Insider
MAY 22, 2020
XR Talks is a series that features the best presentations and educational videos from the XR universe. It includes embedded video, as well as narrative analysis and top takeaways. Speakers’ opinions are their own. A R comes in many flavors. That includes everything from gaming to commerce to enterprise productivity. But the most lucrative form to date has been AR advertising.
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The Ghost Howls
MAY 18, 2020
You all know that Nreal is one of the most interesting AR startups out there, also because it has been able to create the first AR glass that has at least some chances of getting some interest from the average consumers because it is fashionable and light. I tried the device myself during my last trip to Beijing and in my hands-on review , I have highlighted how it is a very interesting device.
ARPost
MAY 22, 2020
ARPost has been following Nreal for a while now, and they just shared a gem that we can’t wait to pass on. The release included several layers of content – some for general users and some for developers. We’ll start with the general public announcements and finish on the developer notes. Let’s dive in. Web XR Support. WebXR, the ability to host XR experiences on websites, will be supported by Nreal.
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.
VRScout
MAY 18, 2020
Accessing PC VR content via your standalone headset just became exponentially easier. This past November, Facebook began rolling out beta access to Oculus Link , a game-changing service that allows standalone users to access high-end PC VR content on their Oculus Quest headsets using a compatible USB-C 3.0 cable. Due to high demand, however, Oculus’ official solution has been extremely difficult to obtain, as have several popular third-party alternatives.
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Road to VR
MAY 22, 2020
In light of the global pandemic, Facebook announced last week it was making way for more productivity and collaboration apps on the Oculus Store to help bridge businesses together in a time of social distancing. Now, Facebook has shown off a concept interface that gives us a peek into what the company calls “the future of augmented workspace.” Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth, Facebook’s VP of AR/VR, showed off the concept yesterday which he says uses a prototype VR headset.
ARPost
MAY 20, 2020
There couldn’t have been a better time for Cuseum to introduce its new augmented reality experience. It brings famous artworks into people’s homes. It gives you an immersive museum experience, without crowds of tourists obscuring your view of the art. Cuseum also published groundbreaking research on the way the brain perceives art. They studied how we perceive art in digital forms and immersive technologies.
VRScout
MAY 20, 2020
New leaks may reveal additional information regarding Apple’s long-rumored AR device. A new report by Jon Prosser of Front Page Tech states that Apple’s long-rumored augmented reality headset will work in-tandem with the iPhone, using the devices processing power to generate AR visuals via the wireless headset, just like the Apple Watch.
AR Insider
MAY 20, 2020
This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. Find out more or contact us to participate here. Authors’ opinions are their own. . VR Training For Complex & Dangerous Scenarios. How to Successfully Implement . by Albert Liu. T he benefits of VR for improving learning outcomes has been clear for some time. Companies across many industries have adopted the technology to train their employees better.
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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.
Road to VR
MAY 22, 2020
Facebook today announced that its Oculus for Business program is finally openly available. The program, which was announced more than a year ago, was slow to roll out as Facebook dealt only with a small number of select partners. Now any business can purchase the $1,000 business-ready version of Quest. The consumer version of Quest (128GB) starts at $500 and is largely designed for gaming and entertainment.
ARPost
MAY 21, 2020
Designing industrial machines is a highly specialized work, where attention to detail is of paramount importance. The smallest flaw can make the final product unsafe to operate or absolutely useless. This is why industrial designers and engineers need to work with computer models and analyze each part of their designs before they move an item to the production phase.
VRScout
MAY 22, 2020
Team-up with friends online for a one-of-a-kind remote location-based experience. Created by the newly launched company Adventure Lab , Dr. Crumb’s School for Disobedient Pets is a live-hosted multiplayer game brings to life the fantasy tabletop role-playing genre in a way only VR can. You are an agent for the Virtual Intelligence Agency (V.I.A.), an underground group that uses VR technology to solve mysteries that the more traditional authorities can’t seem to unravel.
AR Insider
MAY 21, 2020
“Behind the Numbers” is AR Insider’s series that examines strategic takeaways from the original data of its research arm, ARtillery Intelligence. Each post drills down on one topic or chart. Subscribe or login to access the full library of data and reports. H ow do consumers feel about VR? Who’s using it? What devices and apps do they prefer? And what do they want to see next?
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.
Road to VR
MAY 20, 2020
Studio Syro, an indie VR animation studio, released the first installment of their short film series called Tales from Soda Island yesterday. Built entirely in the Oculus Quill , the series kicks off with one of the most charming VR experiences you’ve probably ever seen. The first episode is called ‘The Multiverse Bakery’, and is now available on Oculus Quest via the Oculus TV app and Quill Theater on Rift.
ARPost
MAY 19, 2020
Promising up-and-coming AR and MR company ThirdEye just announced a partnership with NuEyes to use smart glasses to help the visually impaired. You’d be forgiven for not immediately understanding how smart glasses could help the visually impaired. And, while ARPost has covered ThirdEye for a while now, some readers may not be familiar with NuEyes. So, let’s walk through it from XR company to partnership, to preorder.
VRScout
MAY 16, 2020
Create your own levels, textures, models, and animations using the Alyx Workshop tools suite. Valve this week released a brand new update for Half-Life: Alyx which introduces Steam Workshop support to the AAA VR experience, allowing you to create and share your own custom levels, textures and materials, models, and animations with the HL:A community.
AR Insider
MAY 20, 2020
T hrive Analytics and ARtillery Intelligence today released a new report: VR Usage & Consumer Attitudes, Wave IV. ARtillery Intelligence authored survey questions and a narrative report while Thrive Analytics administered the survey through its established survey engine and ongoing Virtual Reality Monitor research. Highlights include the fact that 19 percent of consumers have used VR, up from 16 percent in last year’s study.
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.
Road to VR
MAY 18, 2020
In honor of Oculus Quest’s first anniversary today, Facebook announced that the popular standalone VR headset is getting a new ‘Playspace Scan’ feature to make its Guardian system capable of detecting objects that could trip you up during gameplay. Guardian, first released on the 2016-era Oculus Rift, lets users define their playspace before jumping into VR, making it less likely to smack walls, or break TVs or furniture.
Slashgear
MAY 21, 2020
There is no telling when the COVID-19 pandemic will really end but, when it does, it will be a very different world. Work alone is undergoing a shift and some tech companies are seeing a drastically different future at least for some kinds of jobs. Facebook, for example, thinks that computing and work will be not only remote but also … Continue reading.
VRScout
MAY 21, 2020
The free open beta includes 4 large-scale maps and support for cross-play with PC. Contractors VR developer Caveman Studio today announced a brand new update to its team-based multiplayer shooter Contractors VR which introduces support for Oculus Quest headsets as part of an ongoing open beta. Oculus Quest users can now download and side-load the competitive mil-sim experience directly onto their standalone headset via Github.
AR Insider
MAY 19, 2020
This post is adapted from ARtillery Intelligence’s report, Lessons From AR Revenue Leaders, Part II: Niantic. It includes some of its data and takeaways. More can be previewed here and subscribe for the full report. A lot can be learned from consumer AR’s early leaders. What are they doing right? How are they engaging users? And how are they making money?
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?
Road to VR
MAY 18, 2020
For many, remote work may be a new long-term reality. In that spirit, Facebook today announced that it will be introducing more collaboration and productivity apps to the Oculus Store for Quest soon. The first productivity apps are said to land on the Oculus Store later this year, including Immersed and Spatial as the company’s flagship examples of full-featured social/collaborative apps specifically targeted at enterprise users.
Slashgear
MAY 16, 2020
In a notice on its website this week, Samsung revealed that it will slowly shut down its Samsung XR apps over the next few months, ultimately shuttering them in late September. Some changes have already taken place — the 360-degree videos are no longer available, for example, and users can no longer purchase premium videos. The company has also suspended … Continue reading.
VRScout
MAY 20, 2020
See what it was like to fight on the front lines of WWI. The first time I experienced Dan Carlin’s War Remains was during the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival. The 12-minute WWI VR experience was unforgettable and beyond intense. To bring that sliver of history to life, the team at MWM used an HTC Vive headset along with a life-sized studio set complete with creaking doors, vibrating floors, artificial heat designed to emulate the feel of nearby explosions, and an actual trench that you physically wal
TechCrunch VR
MAY 18, 2020
Despite a handful of devices and years of sales, Facebook has never shared unit sales of any of their VR headsets. Today, Oculus released a new sales figure as the company reaches the 1 year anniversary of the release of the Quest headset. We didn’t get unit sales but the company did share that they’ve sold $100 million worth of Quest content in the device’s first year — a number that indicates that while the platform is still nascent, a handful of developers are definite
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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